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Google does it again (Stop using it, please)
google ^ | 6/22/18 | Celerity

Posted on 06/22/2018 8:15:54 AM PDT by Celerity

"By writing black female protagonists into science fiction, and bringing her acute appraisal of real-world power structures to bear on the imaginary worlds she created, Butler became an early pillar of the subgenre and aesthetic known as Afrofuturism. (Kara Walker cites her as an inspiration; and, as Hilton Als has pointed out, Butler is the “dominant artistic force” in Beyoncé’s visual album “Lemonade.”) In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Kellyanne Conway made a strong case for George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” when she used the phrase “alternative facts” and sent the novel to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list. Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” also experienced a resurgence in sales, and its TV adaptation on Hulu inspired protest costumes. But for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler’s novel and its sequel may be unmatched."

"The Donner Administration has written off science, but a more immediate threat lurks: a violent movement is being whipped up by a new Presidential candidate, Andrew Steele Jarret, a Texas senator and religious zealot who is running on a platform to “make American great again.”

(Excerpt) Read more at octaviabutler.org ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: google; maga; octavia; scifi
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To: robroys woman

>>personally, I like duckduckgo.com.

plus, they have a bang-search for freerepublic built in.

“!freep duckduckgo” :)


21 posted on 06/22/2018 9:02:03 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~u/base)
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To: robroys woman

I use duckduckgo but don’t like the search results it gives me as much as what Google gives me.

However, I plan on continuing to use duckduckgo and put up with it.


22 posted on 06/22/2018 9:04:38 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Celerity

If anybody asks me, I recommend Slimjet as a browser with the AdBlockPlus, ReaderView, and Ghostery add-ons and DuckDuckGo for searches. Google sucks.


23 posted on 06/22/2018 9:09:00 AM PDT by upchuck (As we head to the midterms, please (re)read Confessions of Congressman X - tinyurl.com/congressmanx)
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To: T-Bone Texan
So all it is is Kill White People P0rn for those who get off on killing white people, and can read.

Actually there is a whole "kill all white people" science fiction sub-genre. But for the reason you noted there was not a best-seller among them. :-)
24 posted on 06/22/2018 9:13:03 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: cgbg
“Second rate” is a big strong—her novels are good imho, but Google’s attempt to idolize her is way over the top for sure.

I can't decide which is more dangerous, violence inducing and hateful...
Fake News?
Fake history?
Fake "ancestry.com" glorious feel good crap about African greatness that never was and never can be?

25 posted on 06/22/2018 9:16:23 AM PDT by publius911 (CA-the perfect storm of a criminally inept Legislature)
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To: Celerity

From your link:

Scholarship Fund

The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship enables writers of color to attend one of the Clarion writing workshops, where Octavia got her start. Visit the fund page for more info.

That’s racist.


26 posted on 06/22/2018 9:28:02 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Celerity

Use Google, just avoid clicking on any of their links to sites which are marked as ads (word “ad” appearing in a small square). The same company’s site without the ad link will appear later down in the search results.

Use them, but starve them of their ad dollars.


27 posted on 06/22/2018 9:39:56 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: cgbg
her novels are good imho

Common mistake.
I would rather have an "I like it" as that IS your opinion humble or not, and as adults we can decide "good" for ourselves.

28 posted on 06/22/2018 9:40:46 AM PDT by publius911 (CA-the perfect storm of a criminally inept Legislature)
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To: z3n

Does any search engine usefully index Free Republic any more? Google and Duck sure don’t.


29 posted on 06/22/2018 9:44:15 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Celerity
I was going to put up a post asking everybody the same thing... AVOID GOOGLE I read an article awhile back about how Liberals are destroying our republic by not accepting Trumps legitimate election and thought this question "Why are democrats trying to destroy our democracy" might direct me back to it... I was floored when I got Googles results... Last search I ever make there. Here is side by side comparison of Google and Duck Duck Go for that question. (Yes, I know we are a Republic, but that is how I remembered the article titled)

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30 posted on 06/22/2018 9:51:23 AM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: AzNASCARfan
Try this again, I had a clickable link that would enlarge in my preview... This is probably going to screw up anybody looking at this post with a phone... Sorry.
31 posted on 06/22/2018 10:02:04 AM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: z3n
We did a little search comparison here on FR after the topic came up about Google’s anti-eurocentric search results and we found that duckduckgo was giving very very similar search results.

I can't say this for ALL alternate search engines but startpage (I use) completes your search using google. They just hide that its you from the googlers. It should come as no surprise that you would get similar results.

32 posted on 06/22/2018 10:03:14 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Apparently I voted demoncrat for 40 years. They all wore 'R' jerseys! 'R'atpublicans!)
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"By writing black female protagonists into science fiction and bringing her acute appraisal of real-world power structures to bear on the imaginary worlds she created, Butler became ...

Hold it right there. Octavia Butler is black. Science fiction was created by whites. This is cultural appropriation.

33 posted on 06/22/2018 10:11:46 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: z3n

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo


34 posted on 06/22/2018 10:18:38 AM PDT by deport
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To: Celerity

What’s Google?


35 posted on 06/22/2018 10:56:19 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Celerity

Big Internet needs to be broken up. I’m not a huge fan of antitrust, but this might be a really good use for it.


36 posted on 06/22/2018 10:57:19 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Celerity

Most annoying is RETRO-afroism:

Black Vikings, black leprachauns, black knights, black cowboys, etc.


37 posted on 06/22/2018 10:59:40 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: upchuck

If Slimjet blocks all adds why AdBlockPlus?
And I use ReminderFox. I’m going to try Slimjet for a bit. Need to get ReminderFox hooked up to it if possible.


38 posted on 06/22/2018 12:42:50 PM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
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To: marktwain

I recall her worst, which she allowed to be published once, and then refused that it ever be published again, because it was so bad.


Title? I didn’t know that and it increases my respect for her. Not every author recognizes their own stinkers. The best of the best produce them, from time to time.

I read her plots as more sociological dystopian than hatred of western civilization. Look at the present Deep State situation. It pervades everything, including what we currently acknowledge as western civilization. I can see an outsider (which is how I’d characterize Butler in her time) looking for ways to *overcome*.

Heinlein, who was a patriot,could be quite biting when writing about political constructs.


39 posted on 06/22/2018 1:06:47 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: reformedliberal

The book is “Survivor”

https://www.amazon.com/Survivor-Doubleday-Science-Fiction-Octavia/dp/0385133855

Butler considered it really, really, bad.

I agree with her. It was filled with idea after idea that was simply not believable.

Good science fiction takes one big, difficult to believe thing, (such as faster than light drive, or reliable ESP) and builds a whole world or storyline from it.

But being confronted by unbelievable thing after unbelievable thing, after unbelievable thing just converts science fiction into a series of “miracles”.


40 posted on 06/22/2018 1:20:43 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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