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Turning off AI in Google search

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a robot with a crossed out symbol superimposed

If you don't like how much slower Google search is with AI results, find them useless most of the time, and want to limit the climate damage potential of AI, here’s how to use Google as your primary search engine in Chrome with AI turned off:

  1. Click this link chrome://settings/searchEngines to go the search engine settings page.

  2. Click the Add button.

  3. Enter these values:
    • Google (no AI)
    • withoutai
    • https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+-art1f1c141 

  4. Click Save.

  5. Find your new no AI search engine in the list and click the  icon and choose Make default.
So what's this actually doing? The -art1f1c141 tells Google to not include search results that include that (non) word and this has the side effect of suppressing AI results and also certain other instant results. I've chosen an arbitrary string that (as of the time I wrote this) does not appear in any Google or Bing search results. So excluding that string won't affect the search.

Searching for "time in Antarctica" would normally show the time directly, but with the negative clause it won't. To get that result, just remove the -art1f1c141 in the query. To make that a bit easier, edit the Google search engine and change the shortcut to just g. Then to search google without disabling AI just type g and a space.

These same instructions work in Edge except start at edge://settings/searchEngines in step 1.


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feels less brittle than the use-web-results-tab thingy I was doing before
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https://mltshp.com/p/1QG8V “always be aware of your ad’s surroundings”

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mltshp.com/p/1QG8V “always be aware of your ad’s surroundings”



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It Never Rains In Southern California

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If people wrote me letters they'd say, "rx, quit with this poetry shit. We don't even know what you're talking about. We want gambling stories. Stay in your lane."

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One night, while scouting the Las Vegas Hilton, I see him sitting at the bar playing video poker.  I haven’t seen him since he quit his job at the Monte Carlo.  I am overwhelmed with gratitude.  I want to thank him for changing my life.  My mom encouraged me to be a card counter, but he gave me the idea of gambling as a profession.  I approach him. He instantly smiles.

“Hi,” I say.

“Well hi,” he says, beaming.

“Do you remember me?”

“No. Should I?”

“I used to work with you at the Monte Carlo.  You quit your job to play blackjack and poker.”

“You’re not working?” he says.

It takes a few seconds before I realize he thinks I’m a hooker. Who else would approach him like I just approached him? It’s one-o-clock in the morning at the fucking Las Vegas Hilton.

I’m dejected but I continue…

“I play blackjack for a living now, too.  I got the idea from you!” 

I’m so excited to tell him this. It's out of character but I want him to know.

“There aren’t any good games anymore,” he says.

Now, I’m crushed.

He doesn't think there are good games. My team is already pulling in a million dollars this year.

He asks for my number. I don’t want to give it to him. But he changed my life.

I give him my number, hoping he never calls. 

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Bluesky Launches RSS Feeds

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Bluesky, the Twitter alternative backed by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, has released its new RSS feeds. openrss.org reports: The link to a user's RSS feed is quite lengthy, making it not so easy to remember, and you can't really tell which user's profile an RSS feed is for just by looking at it. Here's the RSS feed link for Bluesky's CEO Jay Graber, for example: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo/rss. But thankfully, this doesn't matter much, because they're embedded on each user's profile on the Bluesky website. This makes each user's RSS feed automatically discoverable by any RSS reader app. You can simply copy and paste the link to a user's profile into the app, and it will find the user's RSS feed for you automatically. Some RSS apps will even allow you to get a Bluesky user's RSS feed simply by typing their username in the search. This setup also works well with RSS browser extensions. So if you're using one with RSS detection, it will automatically detect a user's RSS feed after visiting their Bluesky profile in your browser.

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