In the park,
the tall trees are waving
in the morning breeze.
I wave back
only to realize they are waving
at the person behind me.
It's been more than a year since I gave up on Google Search (I switched to Kagi.com and never looked back). I don't miss it. It had gotten terrible. It's gotten worse since, thanks to AI (of course):
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/#coprophagic-ai
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My bank called me with an alert for unusual activity.
I was buying a salad.
If the gender binary was a real thing, why would it need so much enforcement?
A NASA astronaut has captured an electrifying image of Earth from space, featuring a gigantic, jellyfish-shaped "sprite" of red lightning shooting upwards above a thunderstorm in North America. The rare phenomenon is still poorly understood, despite being studied for more than 30 years.
Image credit: NASA/ISS/Nichole Ayers