🔗 Kagi, search tips
Just 16 companies are responsible for the majority of the SEO enshittified websites that fill your search results with crap. You can use the Ublacklist extension to block them from appearing in Google or, better yet, use Kagi which can natively exclude them. https://codeberg.org/bbbhltz/16CompaniesFilters
Better Internet Searches | Linkage
I’ve been using Kagi on and off for a while now. I’ve been pretty hardcore about it lately though; it’s so much better than Google and they give you complete control over the results you see when you search for something.
Anyway, really good post by Lou Plummer. He also posted his blocklist for Kagi too if you partake.
Ohio Senate passes bill to change marijuana law
The weed here is already overpriced garbage compared to Michigan. I guess they just wanna see all of the business go back there again O.o
I’ve been disconnecting and playing a lot of retro indie games lately.
Faves so far have been:
Annnd looking at Deltarune: Chapters 1 & 2 after I finish Sea of Stars. I think there’s a new chapter coming out sometime this year?
Definitely lots of good 90s style games coming out in the last few years!
Sea of Stars is like a mix between Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG but it’s definitely not a ripoff of anything. Super cool story line and beautiful pixel art.
Aggelos is a Metroidvania that reminds me of Zelda 2: Link’s Adventure and shares sidescroller RPG elements from two underrated classics - Dragon View and Actraiser. My absolute favorite thing about it is that your character actually changes appearance when you unlock each new sword and armor. The super technical maneuvers and combos you need to use are fucking infuriating at times but it’s becoming one of my all time favorites.
Dusk is reminiscent of all the classic shooters like Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem/Shadow Warrior, Rise of the Triad, etc. Definitely brings a lot of its own mechanics and style to the table but it feels super nostalgic if you used to play old school shooters.
I’m always looking for modern retro stuff that looks good on the OLED Switch! Let me know if you have any suggestions 😋
Found on Reddit
Is Intel in trouble? How struggling chipmaker’s financial issues may impact Ohio factories
Everyone hyped this up so much and now Intel is falling way behind schedule and generally doing terrible as a company lol things come to Ohio to die 💁
Just paid off the last of my credit card debt. I’ve been so stressed about it for so long I don’t think my nervous system has caught up to reality yet 😅 still feels like I have all these pointless bills that are going to wipe me out every couple weeks.
Stellantis Introduces Pop-Up Ads in Vehicles, Sparking Outrage Among Owners
Here’s some stupid news that isn’t related to politics: pop up ads are coming to a vehicle near you! (It’s a Jeep thing)
Spider update
I haven’t posted a whole heck of a lot about my pinktoe tarantula since I got it.
I’ve been working six days a week for what feels like an eternity, but I finally got a couple days off and I was able to hang out with the little guy for a bit.
I mist the enclosure with a spray bottle every couple of days and he cant resist drinking water off of the screen. He comes running every time he hears me.
edit: video quality is kinda janky, here’s a better upload on bsky
Generic post about wanderlust
I regret that I haven’t traveled much so far. I’ve never been outside the United States. Hell, I’ve never even been to a blue state before. That didn’t even dawn on me until I started thinking about it just now.
There is so much awesome culture around the world but for most Americans, we act like this is the only place you ever need to be. Rootin' tootin', cowboy hat wearin', gun shootin', in god we trust ‘Merica. It’s the only place in the world that blue eyed, blonde haired, white baby Jesus really cares about.
I want to go to Europe, and China, and South America. Even just Canada would be a nice little trip. It’s like the USA if the USA didn’t have a parasitic brain worm.
I hope I can get my shit together enough to see more of the world before I get too old.
Faith in karma
I’m not religious, but I have to believe some kind of karma exists out there. Even if it’s just the consequences of a few billionaires' shitty actions.
Even the most gullible, brainwashed conservatives will eventually have to realize how bad they’re being fucked by their daddy in chief. You can only suck up to a bully so much before you realize it’s not benefiting you in any way anymore.
Or maybe they’re all just masochists, I don’t know.
Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI
Idk man, the more ‘merica tries to ban stuff from China the more I want to use it. Currently learning Mandarin and surfing Xaiohongshu daily 🤷
Russia is building an electronic registry of LGBTQ+ citizens
…the Orwellian plan has been in discussion since last year after Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the so-called “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist organization” at the urging of President Vladimir Putin.
In the US, state department employees are already being ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by the end of the day.
At this rate I don’t think we’re too far off from what Russia is doing here.
I used to like reading the news...
I’m a huge fan of RSS. It gives you complete control over how you get the news. It’s a perpetually updated stream of information hand-curated by you. It’s a neat little hobby coming up with the ultimate personalized news feed. No two are alike.
Lately, it’s been pretty depressing opening up my reader. Of course there are always indie blogs and other websites that post about non-political stuff or niche topics. But if you want any news at all, you’re stuck scrolling through miles of articles about all the things Donald Trump is destroying across the country on a daily basis. He just does so much so fast, it’s hard to look away.
I miss when the news was boring.
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
Every few days I see something that makes me think we are living in the dumbest possible timeline.
Ohio AG Dave Yost to Costco: Drop your diversity programs or else
Such blatant racism and homophobia. Shit like this is going on across the entire country. We are a fucking joke on the world stage.
Ohio Republicans want to make major changes to marijuana law approved by voters
Conservatives are full of great ideas lol I have no problem going back to Michigan for cheaper, higher quality weed 🤷
I don’t even know what to say lol
Denmark to pump $2bn into Arctic security as Trump eyes Greenland
Copenhagen announced on Monday that it will pump an additional 14.6 billion Danish crowns ($2.05bn) into security. The announcement came as the European country resists demands from United States President Donald Trump to hand over control of Greenland.
I sure hope there would be mass protests from our military if they were ever ordered to do something as fucking stupid as invading an ally.
What is DeepSeek and why is it disrupting the AI sector?
New AI from China is cheaper and more efficient than ChatGPT and actually open source.
The company has attracted attention in global AI circles after writing in a paper last month that the training of DeepSeek-V3 required less than $6 million worth of computing power from Nvidia H800 chips.
It’s hard to stick up for American companies like OpenAI when they burn through tens of billions in funding, aren’t actually open source and then completely changed their business model from non-profit to for-profit.