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Cake day: January 3rd, 2026

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  • I just prefer it to search engines these days. Chatgpt will give you good basic answers with direct links to citations.

    Most search engines just produce endless commercial spam. I can instruct chatgpt to basically be Google scholar on steroids and get highly relevant academic results, which I then go read. “Based on highly regarded scientific literature like nature, please find me links regarding …” Works great! In you need, “no summaries, no conjecture. I don’t want your thoughts about this. I just want highly cited links/literature. Please act like a good search engine chat GPT.” And it generally does pretty great, minimizing me having to wade through shit-tons of SEO garbage.

    I’m not having much discussion with it, except for fun/novelty.


  • I’m finding it difficult to curate my feed. Blocking subs is tedious. Having to go into the settings and manually type each out. Is there an easier way? Or like on bsky where I can block keywords? Which is pretty great. I just don’t really care for the x/twitter/bsky/mastodon style (basically like shuffled diary entries, just a lot of redundant content and exhausting reposts). I like the digg/Reddit style, like lemmy, with subs, comment sections and articles… I’ve actually been using digg somewhat. The latest redesign isn’t bad.

    I much rather discuss science and tech and my other interests rather than politics.

    Thanks for the warm welcome counterfactual.