It’s a bit sad when I consider that one of the kindest things humanity could do for the earth and all the things existing on earth, would be to develop virtual reality to the point that humans no long need to act upon and harm the earth to achieve all of the freedoms, experiences and luxuries we so desperately seek. I picture the Matrix, but instead of the outerworld being dreadfully decayed and infested with mechanical design, it is green and flourishing with life.
Question is, how many resources would be required to devise of , build and power such a matrix? Think it could be possible and sustainable?
anyone else bothered by the slow disapearance of websites for kids and the integration of children into sites meant for adults. as a kid i spent most of my time online on websites like girlsgogames, club penguin, barbie.com, moshi monsters, etc. etc. now 7 year olds just use tiktok.
Yeah. And it’s so annoying that instead of creating sites for children, there’s a new fashion of making existing sites more kids-friendly, like YouTube… There’s a YouTube Kids, so why banning comments from YouTube under content for kids, like animations? So ridiculous.
Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience.
I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.
thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me
ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video
The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.
This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.
“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.
If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?
I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“
i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!
it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.
INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.
tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …
My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.
people on tumblr are starting to develop a 4chan-esque internet tough guy complex about posting here, which is very funny given that this is the smol bean superwholock feels website
Rasprostranjena zabluda početkom dvadeset prvog veka bilo je uverenje da su nove tehnologije, koje su se svakodnevno pojavljivale, po svojoj prirodi neutralne.
Svaka ljudska tvorevina otrgnuta je iz polja ideja i donesena na ovaj svet putem mudrijaške partenogeneze.
Ali svaka tehnologija je ujedno i produkt javnih i tajnih stremljenja svojih tvoraca. Internet nije bio neutralno okruženje namenjeno slobodi govora.
Bio je nešto drugo, rezultat mešanja paranoičnog načina razmišljanja iz vremena Hladnog rata i nerazrađenih ideja svojstvenih San Francisku i okolini, kao što je ona da put do prosvetljenja vodi preko ekološkog sintetičkog lanela i organski gajenog voća.
Internet je bio loša ideologija koju su stvorili nemarni ljudi.
Internet je bio nabacana gomila ideologija, javnih i tajnih, koje su odražavale sistem društvenih vrednosti njegovih mnogobrojnih tvoraca. Neki od njih su verovali u slobodu izražavanja. Neki su se plašili Rusa. Neki su verovali jedino u novac.
Čitav sistem je bio osmišljen s jednom jedinom svrhom, a to je da se maksimizuje kolina sranja koja ljudi kuckaju na svojim kompjuterima i telefonima. Što veća izukrštanost, to veća zarada. Bio je to feudalizam u službi brendova, a zasnivao se na pdsticanju ljudskih bića da zadovolje svoje najniže porive.
Mesto na kome složeni sistemi pružaju mentalno obolelima isto onoliko prostora za izražavanje kolko i uračunljivim pripadnicima društva, bez obzira na štetu koju će naneti sebi ili drugima. Mesto na kome složeni sistemi omogućavaju uništavanje ljudskih bića, pri čemu je jedino bitno da to donosi zaradu Guglu i Fejsbuku.
Na veliku žalost onih koji su stvarali internet zadojeni idejama Ajn Rend i lošom naučnom fantastikom, pokazalo se da je slobodan protok ideja nemoguć u žamoru čiji ogroman deo čini blebetanje najobičnijih budala.
Kako urazumiti one koji razglabaju o ljudskom dostajanstvu koristeći mašine koje su napravili robovi u Kini? Kako urazumiti one kojima je Tviter osnovno sredstvo izražavanja?
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i think it is very depressing that like every aesthetic people try to emulate are of people doing things but they themselves are incapable of being somebody that does things… the mall goth 2005 aesthetic revived in 2022 but nobody goes to the mall to be annoying and weird and nobody lets themselves be cringe… the cottagecore aesthetic but nobody knows how to raise gardens or live self sufficiently … the dark academia aesthetic but nobody actually reads books…. The obsession of looking like you are a type of person who does something without actually doing anything … the Instagram effect
