Sunday Noticeboard
Today’s noticeboard is brought to you by the woke nightmare that is Google.
From basic searches to its new AI history-correction device, Google is junk. Like Jay Bhattacharya, I pine for a time nearly 20 years ago when Google was a solid go-to:
I'm trying to remember the exact year I realized that @Google search had become unusable. 2017? 2018?
— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) February 24, 2024
Certainly useless by 2020, when Google became a propaganda arm of the CDC.
Nowadays I use @brave search. It's better than 2024 Google, but I really miss 2005 Google.
Click that link for numerous informative comments.
Note: the illustration for this post was created using ChatGPT. I asked it to “please show a sad man's reaction to lame search engine results”, and ChatGPT – without prompting – decided to include Google.
Clever.
Beach clean-up a small price to pay to see fun return to Sydney
Scenes of garbage left on beaches by Christmas Day revellers have spawned outrage, but Tim Blair reckons Sydneysiders could learn a thing or two from the partying backpackers.
Heated holy rollers are making the children cry
Thousands of Australian schoolchildren still suffer climate trauma thanks to doomy teachers, academics, politicians and the media, yet none of their apocalyptic predictions ever come true, and worse still, they never apologised, writes Tim Blair.
McDonald Trump has his foes in panic mode
Serving fries at McDonald’s and poking fun at Kamala Harris’s claims to have worked there is just one of the many ways Donald Trump continues to connect with regular people and defy his delusional critics, writes Tim Blair.
Friday Noticeboard
Today’s noticeboard is brought to you by a daring public experiment. In Sydney this week, intrepid social engineers attempted to discover what happens when you combine feminism, comedy and an audience of sad wokens.
Surely No Such Damning Evidence Exists
To those who describe incoming governor-general Sam Mostyn as a lifelong activist hack whose unimpressive record can’t help but cheapen her office, I say: show me the proof.
Wednesday Noticeboard
Today’s noticeboard is brought to you by J.K. Rowling’s finest literary achievement.