As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
Knowing that “punk” was basically a synonym for “faggot” has me fucked up. Imagine the alternate timeline where they switched places and we have genres like “faggot rock” and “cyberfaggot”.
Tons more at the source!
I just read that Donald Trump and his circus took down a website called reproductiverights.gov
This was a website to help women learn about their reproductive rights in the US and to find health care.
This is absolutely disgusting so I’ll share in this post some resources in case you need them:
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn
this was under a puppet history video
yall look at this shit ad*be is tryna pull now on ppl who have outdated software:
(note for context: i’m all for piracy, but in this case my copy of CS6 was downloaded years ago when they were giving it away to students. i got it totally legally.)
I'm late to this convo but it's alarming that the definition of misogyny has been watered down so far that people will position 'misogyny' and 'sex trafficking women' as separate things, as if the latter isn't an expression of the former. confining misogyny to 'inconsequential' slights, lesser, unimportant internet wank, while treating the violence harming women as this clouded, unnamed mystery without rhyme or reason has done irreparable damage to discussions of misogyny among online leftists. from denying the patriarchal role marginalized men play within their own communities, to branding the violence against gnc women as a sign that men are oppressed for being masculine, to framing feminism and the trans rights movement as inherently antithetical each other, to the ridiculous notion that misogyny is the least serious form of oppression, it's like basic feminist points have completely flown out of the fucking window. if not anything else please love and care for the women in your life beyond quirky posts about your favorite female fictional characters #feminism
Thank you @whitephobic-cyclonus for this I owe you my life
“X bodily fluid is just filtered blood!” buddy I hate to break it to you but ALL of the fluids in your body are filtered blood. Your circulatory system is how water gets around your body. It all comes out of the blood (or lymph, which is just filtered blood).
These fuckers are content to watch us die.
This bullshit is going to condemn our species to extinction unless we find a way to depose these sociopaths.
#cop28 #copOut #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange