A search engine that was actually "green" or "interested in being sustainable" would not deploy any LLM shit. And not make it the default.

Offloading the responsibility of not triggering synthetic text extruders when wanting to search the web is deeply cynical.

@nprofile1q... is not a sustainable or green choice for a search engine and in their push for LLMs also destroying the meaning of search and the web itself.

Unless they change course maybe find a better search engine.

OpenAI wanting the US government to take 5% is not "democratization" or something, it's a bailout. OpenAI can't get the money from private investors or the stock market and needs the hole in their budget filled so they are trying to take US tax dollars.

"I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Google’s latest climate report, but holy hell, I did not expect this.

The company’s total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025."

GenAI is gonna kill us and the planet

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat

Do other fediverse admins with open but approval-based signups also see an increase in fake account applications that just copy some random bio from a different account from a different server?

A few thoughts on why people say shit like "I know AI's generate falsehoods but here's some slop" based on a few interactions at work.

https://tante.cc/2026/06/30/trying-to-manufacture-permission/

Cool that after every other store was turned into a Burger Place now we get a metric fuckton of Chinese Noodle Places in Berlin. But could someone please bring a good Ramen place to Wedding please?