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It is way worse than I thought from the title and bot summary. I thought maybe they mistranslated a word like “activist” but no:

The issue, which was first reported by 404media, affected users with the word “Palestinian” written in English on their profile, the Palestinian flag emoji and the word “alhamdulillah” written in Arabic. When auto-translated to English the phrase read: “Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom.”

It was literally just alhamdulillah that got this weird sentence added to it!

After the first video, Instagram resolved the issue. The auto-translation now reads: “Thank God”. A spokesperson for Meta told Guardian Australia the issue had been fixed earlier this week.

It’s just… always been my main browser.

Babelfish was so impressive in its day. Felt like living in the future.

Hey have you ever been to https://www.neocities.org? It’s reminiscent of geocities and kind of cool.

:) yeah it was cool.

Sorry if I sounded disagreeable, I didn’t mean to be. I was just taking a trip down memory lane.

I have to admit if it comes to anything in my field I mostly find good content through discussion groups too.

But for me, in terms of personal interests and some other stuff, the 90s internet was full of static lists of links, even webrings etc. It was great because most people I knew irl who were my age weren’t online. I could only add people from other countries on Friendster because my flatmates refused to use it and my friends didn’t know what it was!

During that time, we would find interesting web pages through people and/or specific interests.

I beg to differ, during that time I found most of my interesting content through AltaVista and its weird cousin HastaLaVista, and aggregators like Portal of Evil (though, bad example, I seem to recall PoE was pretty much the same time as google).

According to this Ted talk (at about 8:15) Amazon tried a resume filtering AI but discovered it was filtering out women.