Day after the midterm election, I saw a house with all sorts of menacing horror figures out front from Halloween, now proudly holding a very large American flag. It sure did send a message, lol.

No, but only because I’ve helped run a website recently and you underestimate just how much wasted traffic is from scrapper bots. On our limited bandwidth, it was practically a DDOS attack all the time.

They’re fine. We talk about cooking before class on occasion and my students tend to be pretty on top of that, and baking. This is especially true of women who take care of their siblings. Honestly, it’s on par for the age, but there is one more unique aspect and that’s reliance on Tiktok or IG for recipes.

That means that I’ll sometimes run into people who love cooking but they’re often making what’s popular at the time. But… my cohort, millennials, aren’t too different in using our online recipes. They’re just a little less… creative, compared to what you see on Tiktok. Plus, video format is trash for cooking, but that’s my own opinion.

Probably not too far off at this rate… I’m watching billboards light up from people’s headlights. It’s only a matter of time.

I’ve only seen this second hand since I don’t browse X, but given images of Malfoid and Anakin Skywalker, sometimes together, were making the rounds pre-election, my guess is they have the same rational. Given I figure Anakin is a more obvious “wronged guy getting his due,” I think they’re repurposing villains as a weird conservative anti-hero twist against a lib establishment that took what they deserve? They do love a good persecution fetish.

But there’s definitely a sex thing with Malfoid, too. The original probably was a sex thing to begin with, but these conservatives probably find the child-like appearance attractive in a sort of pedophilic way. I see versions of her based on the first few movies Malfoy and it’s pretty gross, though the older versions couldn’t possibly be older that 18 either.

Suffice to say it all feels… a bit psychotic. Lots of revenge fantasy sex stuff on X, I gather.

Believe it or not, the colors were reversed or kinda random for a long time actually. Dems were red, GoP blue. Iirc, that didn’t shift until 2000, lol.

My work email is a .edu, and so most of ours are just social media phishing attempts with fake IG and Tiktok links. But why I’m the world would you use .edu for those?

You wanna target .edu, do a quick check on our publicly accessible faculty pages and pretend to be us. I swear, we’ve got like zero protection against that, lol.

I admit, I’m tempted to read the AI answer when I search something; but holy crap is it a patronizing waste of time. Just now I was searching about a game and the long page of AI answer essentially boiled down to “kill stuff to get stronger,” like brah, I know, I’m trying to look up exact formulas here, you piece of shit.

My questions are never answered by it, and when it tries, it’s wrong even with follow up info. Man I really could live without it, lol.

Edit: oh, and this is a relatively new game but on both Google and Bing indexes, the first page and a half are clearly AI generated. Same boilerplate nothingburger answers. No surprise the search AI isn’t good, it’s regurgitating other AI answers. MAN I could live without it.

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