Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@mcc For this second thing, yes, it's been real for several months or years now, and while it can't be excised it can be disabled.

Go to preferences, then to "search", then under "Address bar", disable search suggestions from sponsors. You can also search within preferences for "sponsor" to hit the other ad-related settings.

@quirk Sometimes you get "The Godfather Part II," and sometimes you get "New Coke."

If you have to change your behavior to conform to any computer software program, then the program is not artificial intelligence, only artificial like the rest of any software library. This is another reason why today's "AI" is nothing more than the currently popular digital snake oil cure-all tonic expiring in the 19th Century.

I'd say ask the "AI," but you'd have to do more fact-checking on its answers than an ill-informed essay on lunar eclipses, defeating the whole purpose of asking it.

Friends, please remind your less computer-literate friends:

Despite what the email promises, your friends haven't won a Microsoft Apple UN lottery for commemorative Trump coins to spend watching lolita use breakthrough superfoods to add three inches to their tactical flashlights.

"We're sorry, but this site requires JavaScript to operate." as the only page content.

Did everyone and their mother forget how to make a blog CMS serve bog standard HTML pages beautified by CSS versions that finally became actually worth a crap back when logo floor reflections were cool?