It’s already gotten much harder for me to Google good sources of information that goes against the mainstream capitalist ideals compared to a few years ago
It’s not just AI, the US state will also greatly expand their control on the flow of information as they continue to increase the need to suppress workers domestically and internationally
Use Yandex. I’m not joking, I have started to get better results on it and the image search is genuinely much better, in particular the reverse image search is waaaaay better.
quick yandex vs google test:
i searched “soviet union”
google gave me a state department history link on the first page of google
yandex didn’t give me that same link until the 4th page
The CIA and other financial institutions already read books from leftist authors to find stats that they need to conceal -
Super Imperialism — Michael Hudson
"Politicians in charge of national statistics encourage popular misunderstanding, but my statistical analysis tells a different story from what is widely believed. A few years ago I sought to update my calculations on the impact of U.S. military spending and foreign aid on the balance of payments. But the Commerce Department had changed Table 5 of its balance-of-payments report, dealing with foreign aid and other government programs, in a way that no longer reveals the extent to which foreign aid programs generate a transfer of dollars from foreign countries to the United States. I phoned the statistical division responsible for collecting these statistics, and in due course reached the technician responsible for the numbers. “We used to publish that data,” he explained, “but some joker published a report showing that the United States actually made money off the countries we were aiding. It caused such a stir that we changed the accounting format so that nobody can embarrass us like that again.”
I realized that I was the joker who was responsible for the present-day statistical concealment."
"Well, I thought that this was going to be a warning to other countries. And indeed, there was a very quick Spanish translation and Japanese translation. But the main purchases, as we’ve talked about a year ago, were the CIA and the Defense Department.
Immediately Herman Kahn hired me to the Hudson Institute and gave a very large grant for me to explain to the government how imperialism was working. And the U.S. government used this as a how-to-do-it book."
Lol, I’m convinced a similar thing happened in my city. The local police department used to share the raw data from their “Community Survey”, including the age of people who responded to their survey. Someone posted the police’s official report to reddit a few years ago, and I shared a few comments pointing out that the raw data showed that less than 20% of their responses came from people 30 years or younger. There were literally more responses from people 70 years and older than people 30 years or younger. The average age of respondents was in the 60’s,… And that’s not to mention the survey gets sent out to homeowners. Of course, this survey showed that people wanted more police, that they feel safe around police, and that they see crime on the rise, but the pigs didn’t want people to know this opinion survey was filled out overwhelmingly by geriatric landowners. The years since I pointed it that out on reddit (which people in my city know the police browse), they don’t make that raw data available.
Google doesn’t even want to help you find information anymore. 5 times a fucking day the thing gets pissed off that I’m rephrasing my searches, and makes me click the captcha box. It just wants you to click ads, buy shit, and fuck off- not find out information for free.
The antitrust case against Google right now is going to be huge. The actual chance of them losing isnt high, even though they should, but just the existence of the lawsuit is going to make them tamp down on their anticompetitive behavior until the smoke clears. Last time this happened, it happened to Microsoft. That’s when we GOT Google in the first place, and a lot of other new kids on the block. We could see some actually amazing search tools appear in a few years because of this, especially if they actually lose
It’s already gotten much harder for me to Google good sources of information that goes against the mainstream capitalist ideals compared to a few years ago
It’s not just AI, the US state will also greatly expand their control on the flow of information as they continue to increase the need to suppress workers domestically and internationally
Use Yandex. I’m not joking, I have started to get better results on it and the image search is genuinely much better, in particular the reverse image search is waaaaay better.
quick yandex vs google test:
i searched “soviet union”
google gave me a state department history link on the first page of google
yandex didn’t give me that same link until the 4th page
also good for finding pirated pdfs when libgen fails
I already do
I should try switching over to it as my main search engine though. I’ve never tried their image or video search
Can’t speak for video but even the interface for reverse image search is just massively and obviously better when you try it. Both finding the source and “similar images”
That’s beautiful
Image reverse search definitely took a big step down when Google consolidated a bunch of image/camera shit into Google Lens
Thanks!
The CIA and other financial institutions already read books from leftist authors to find stats that they need to conceal - Super Imperialism — Michael Hudson
"Politicians in charge of national statistics encourage popular misunderstanding, but my statistical analysis tells a different story from what is widely believed. A few years ago I sought to update my calculations on the impact of U.S. military spending and foreign aid on the balance of payments. But the Commerce Department had changed Table 5 of its balance-of-payments report, dealing with foreign aid and other government programs, in a way that no longer reveals the extent to which foreign aid programs generate a transfer of dollars from foreign countries to the United States. I phoned the statistical division responsible for collecting these statistics, and in due course reached the technician responsible for the numbers. “We used to publish that data,” he explained, “but some joker published a report showing that the United States actually made money off the countries we were aiding. It caused such a stir that we changed the accounting format so that nobody can embarrass us like that again.”
I realized that I was the joker who was responsible for the present-day statistical concealment."
https://medium.com/@davi./super-imperialism-f7e92ba1f4f0
And:
"Well, I thought that this was going to be a warning to other countries. And indeed, there was a very quick Spanish translation and Japanese translation. But the main purchases, as we’ve talked about a year ago, were the CIA and the Defense Department.
Immediately Herman Kahn hired me to the Hudson Institute and gave a very large grant for me to explain to the government how imperialism was working. And the U.S. government used this as a how-to-do-it book."
https://michael-hudson.com/2021/10/we-make-the-rules/
Jesus fucking christ
Lol, I’m convinced a similar thing happened in my city. The local police department used to share the raw data from their “Community Survey”, including the age of people who responded to their survey. Someone posted the police’s official report to reddit a few years ago, and I shared a few comments pointing out that the raw data showed that less than 20% of their responses came from people 30 years or younger. There were literally more responses from people 70 years and older than people 30 years or younger. The average age of respondents was in the 60’s,… And that’s not to mention the survey gets sent out to homeowners. Of course, this survey showed that people wanted more police, that they feel safe around police, and that they see crime on the rise, but the pigs didn’t want people to know this opinion survey was filled out overwhelmingly by geriatric landowners. The years since I pointed it that out on reddit (which people in my city know the police browse), they don’t make that raw data available.
Google doesn’t even want to help you find information anymore. 5 times a fucking day the thing gets pissed off that I’m rephrasing my searches, and makes me click the captcha box. It just wants you to click ads, buy shit, and fuck off- not find out information for free.
The antitrust case against Google right now is going to be huge. The actual chance of them losing isnt high, even though they should, but just the existence of the lawsuit is going to make them tamp down on their anticompetitive behavior until the smoke clears. Last time this happened, it happened to Microsoft. That’s when we GOT Google in the first place, and a lot of other new kids on the block. We could see some actually amazing search tools appear in a few years because of this, especially if they actually lose
Try startpage.com as a proxy to Google, it’s really nice
Ooh interesting, I made it default for a lil try