Oh I'm pretty sure the admins have banned me site-wide since I called them out for doxing a trans coworker to the mods of a far-right UK subreddit, I have a laundry list of ridiculous bans including joking about a dog shooting another dog in the same post as Garry Tan's name, I'm not defending Reddit.
Its just that last time I went to r/bannedFromReddit it was AA cesspit.
What's funny is the AI bubble has exposed how bullshit the economy is in general, like GDP is really just a measure of how fast money moves, which Nvidia, Microsoft & AI companies shovelling money through a circular economy counts as growth, even if they lose money doing it.
why would someone in the ruling party actually defect at this stage, with 3 years until the next GE
Its upto 3 years so an election could be called much sooner.
If the politician actually has values and they want to work in a party that aligns with those values
If an MP just saw Labour's vote get crushed in local elections jumping ship now might keep them their seat.
(Edit) Being in the ruling party doesn't get you shit if you aren't one of the ones that sets the direction of that party.
why would the greens accept the defection
Greens are struggling to find good candidates, they keep having to step down not because of bad politics but because they've done some bad posts or similar. Defectors have been in the public eye for a while and so are likely scandal free.
There's also a lot of knowledge that you get about how to/how not to run a parliamentary party when you have more than 1 MP in parliament.
Google has been getting worse since before AI, it's because it's advantage stemmed from indexing the public web, but as the web turned into a half a dozen walled gardens it lost that edge.
It's losing customers to AI so it's trying to clone their features, pretty, but it's been trying this with just regurgitating Wikipedia for a while.
I don't know for sure but I suspect internally the incompetent middle management layer are pushing AI usage as a metric and forcing engineers to ruin their best product because management don't know the value of Google (because they are by and large morons who use AI).
The AI usage can be avoided with other search engines but the walled garden problem is here to stay, on a closed Internet search is always going to suck.
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