saillecaia.bsky.social
Independent Scholar, Urban Studies MA, and MLIS Student with passion for public space, democracy, craft cocktails, and macro photography.
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I don't have any great work arounds but I am 3 weeks into a project that 2 years ago would have taken me at worst a few hours with search and now it's a deeply aggravating trial and error project.
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In any case, the implications of the destruction of reliable search is much bigger than me and it has huge implications for the research process moving forward.
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I don't want to waste time figuring out if the summary is actually correct when I could skip the summary and just read the article (also this is what abstracts are for).
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I do not want this, I need to be able to find the articles related to my research project so I can know this subject. I do not want to outsource my ability to understand a subject area.
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It's maddening and now it's rapidly becoming usable. Last week Google started to push its full AI at me to try to get me to use it to summarize everything I am searching. So instead of searching and reading articles I could just let it summarize an idea for me.
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Ie putting things in quotes, using terms like and or as part of the search process no longer improves your results. This change is because Google now uses generative AI in their search process and every search makes it have worse results.
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If you use Google search or scholar you may have noticed that using boolean operators have stopped working.
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Literally from last week to this week I watched the results on Google Scholar decline. Last week I searched some terms and got a page worth of vaguely related results this week, I got 5 entries deep before my results were basically unrelated.
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He kind of did at the very last minute. But poorly. I actually did have Cuomo canvassers come to my door, but after I voted which means they had bad lists. I also got a dozen calls and texts, but again after I voted, their lists and targeting were bad.
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I am probably not explaining it well, but yes, I largely agree. I don't really tough on crime as policy, but rather vibes. Which Cuomo said as much in the campaign trail. Mamdani acting otherwise may be alienating.
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This mismatch in left policy vs core voters for the Democratic Party poses a significant challenge if those policies are going to win. I think it probably starts with not assuming they're as popular as people think they are even if polling provides a contradictory view.
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This may also be true for women voters. My instinct is this is about media habits and media ecosystem. If people watch a lot of local news they'll see a lot of crime. So regardless of actual stats, people are convinced that crime is terrible. Therefore tough on crime is effective messaging.
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I think people who are leftist/ progressive often have a hard time grappling with the fact that Black and Hispanic voters often don't agree with them policy wise. I imagine tough on crime actually resonates for those communities, as has often historically been the case.
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One way to sink this bill is to pound vulnerable Republicans on the Medicaid cuts. Here's a good option-
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To me the much more interesting thing to explore is: how is it that crime is dropping my record amounts to historic lows with a headcount that is actually lower than it's been in decades.
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*Geena
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This is the only one I remember having. I don't think I have watched this movie since I was a teenager. But I had a serious crush on Gina Davis because of this movie
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They really do not want progressive values to gain a stronger foothold.
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Really going hard for those eugenics values. Without a Department of Education or Civil Rights Lawyers at DOJ I wonder how many other states will jump in on this.