Carl (He/Him)

So I've been a science teacher, museum guide, freelance writer, software dev, software product manager, network admin, and for a long time now a business trainer. And I run SFF conventions.
Member: #tootfinder.

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2026-01-25 01:34:56 UTC

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@nprofile…p227 @nprofile…xu3y Change your search engine to noai.duckduckgo.com. It isn't perfect, but it's enormously better. It even tries to screen AI results out.

2025-12-20 16:03:40 UTC

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@nprofile…t03n No, to the event. It's a normal metaphor to compare things that happen in the real world to events in fiction.

2025-11-05 01:03:08 UTC

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@nprofile…06an There are (I would assume) other reasons to vote. Other offices? Judges? Voter initiatives?

2025-10-28 13:34:28 UTC

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@nprofile…lwff @nprofile…kwf8 @nprofile…lkry It's so disappointing. Krauss is a prominent scientist and his earlier popular stuff is very good. (I am not qualified to judge his physics work, but physicists seem to respect it.) Now ... MAGA? Really?

2025-10-14 10:21:20 UTC

@nprofile…8eua I have to wonder if LIGO picked up any gravity waves.

2025-06-23 01:37:09 UTC

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@nprofile…8dg9 Burger King is operating in Russia in 2025?

2025-04-06 13:58:41 UTC

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@nprofile…xm42 I just went into Vivaldi (Chromium-based privacy-emphasis browser) and dumped all cookies. Still no AI slop.

2025-04-06 13:41:08 UTC

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@nprofile…xm42 I turned it off once. It stayed off.
It's on by default because that's what their customers want. I obviously don't want it either, but we are not the majority.

2025-04-06 13:33:21 UTC

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@nprofile…xm42 You can turn off AI in DDG. I did, and I never see any AI slop.

2025-03-18 02:33:56 UTC

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@nprofile…em33 General Rogers' page has been restored. Light still seems to work, sometimes.