[This post is more opinion-heavy and aimlessly self-promoting than feels appropriate for Lesswrong. I wrote this post for my site, Eukaryote Writes Blog, to show off that I now have a substack. But it had all these other observations about the state of the internet and advice woven in, and THOSE seemed more at home on Lesswrong, and I'm a busy woman with a lot of pictures of fish to review, so I'm just going to copy it over as posted without laboriously extricating the self-advertisement. Sorry if it's weird that it's there!]

Eukaryote Writes Blog is now syndicating to Substack. I have no plans for paygating content at the time, and new and old posts will continue to be available at EukaryoteWritesBlog.com. Call this an experiment and a reaching-out. If you’re reading this on Substack, hi! Thanks for joining me.

I really don’t like [...]

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Outline:

(02:01) Hey, the internet is getting weird these days

(02:24) Generative AI

(03:47) Search engines

(04:33) Censorship

(07:15) Survival tips

(08:02) USE MULTIPLE SEARCH ENGINES

(09:15) USE FIREFOX AS YOUR BROWSER

(11:11) READ BLOGS? GET AN RSS READER

(12:43) FIND SOME PEOPLE YOU TRUST.

(13:49) PAY FOR THINGS YOU LIKE TO INCENTIVIZE THEIR EXISTENCE.

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