You’re right that putting people in bubbles is probably one way some of these things get worse. If all you see is toxic, toxic is the norm, now you’re always toxic.

Maybe they can tricked.

Although really what we’re talking about is the algorithm that currently exists being focused on highlighting terrible people doing terrible things. Can we turn that same algorithm around and use it for good?

Interesting article and I think it really highlights how toxic some parts of the Internet are. My only issue is the conclusion,

A social media ban for under-16s might prevent young boys seeing endless content that treats women with contempt and hate. Boys at this age are very susceptible to the cool and funny framing of what is, in reality, relentless misogyny. A ban might not fix the problem, but it would help. If society can’t stop it, it can show it disapproves.

Emphasis mine. Having grown up in a different era I can confirm that boys of a wide variety of ages, including much older “boys”, can also be scumbags. Even if we had the perfect technology to ban under-16s from social media, once they hit 16 they’d still be exposed to it, still become terrible people, and the author of this article, although a but older, would still see it. I don’t know if that really is a better world, just a slightly delayed one.

I don’t know the solution, but I remember reading once that some online game would put all the reported and abusive players into a special category where they would be forced to play only with each other. Maybe we can do that in this case.

Oh absolutely. There are laws the restrict cigarette advertising as an example.

I just doubt you could 100% eliminate/make illegal all types of advertising for private business.

Brad Goodman is voiced by…

We’re all fine the way we are.

That’s the man!

Within the US, the states of Maine, Vermont, Alaska & Hawaii all have a ban billboards. The general logic behind it is, “They ugly, nature pretty.” So as long as you live somewhere where “nature pretty” fits, you can probably argue based on that logic.

However no matter how far you stretch that argument, it probably only goes as far as public goods. Once we get into private business I don’t think you’ll have much luck.

As you walk into your nearest grocery store the outside might be covered in ads. Buy Pepsi. Buy Coke. Half off generic cola!

You pop into your local diner and the placemats have advertisements for a dozen local mechanics.

But who is the man?

I like this better than not arguing or debating.

I think you can absolutely have a good argument or debate online, but you have to be doing so in good faith, as does the person you’re discussing a topic with.

Trolls of course are not. Learning to not feed them is sometimes difficult. But if you ignore/block them you’ll be just fine.

I would love to ask and learn more about alien society and government. On Earth we have ~200 recognized countries with a wide variety of different (or similar) governments and even more different societies with all sorts of unique quirks.

Do they have a similar setup on their planet? Planets? Were they historically ever similar to our own? How long is their recorded history?

Basically if they’re visiting us, they’ve already proven they have better technology than we do, what else do they have that’s better? Or for that matter what do we have that’s better?

Not knowing the episode?

Oh, you better believe that’s a paddlin’.

Got him!

Correct!

Burns had them cut.

This is one substitute you’re not going to screw with!

Correct!

That’s no Johnny Unitas.

♪ If you like refund adjustments and the music I play ♪

Correct! You may collect your points from Ralph.

That is Gabbo on the box, but perhaps he also appears in a future episode…

I want to highlight what I found to be an important part of the article and why this hack is important.

The journalist wrote on their own blog,

At this year’s South Dakota International Hot Dog Eating Championship

And they include zero sources (because it is a lie).

But the Google Gemini response was,

According to the reporting on the 2026 South Dakota International Hot Dog Eating Championship

(Bolding done by Gemini)

The “reporting” here is just some dudes blog, but the AI does not make it clear that the source is just some dudes blog.

When you use Wikipedia, it has a link to a citation. If something sounds odd, you can read the citation. It’s far from perfect, but there is a chain of accountability.

Ideally these AI services would outline how many sources they are pulling from, which sources, and a trust rating of those sources.

There can only be one truly great music festival of a lifetime and it’s the “US Festival.”

Correct! (I also wasn’t sure if people would catch that.)

controller support

The mod Controlify works great, although I agree natively with that level of support would be fantastic.

Remember-- there’s nothing that says you can’t be a Simpson and a success.

Unless you’re a man. Correct!