Nostr notes by Matt May

Rep Scott Perry (MAGA-PA) is on CNN claiming Iran is going to pay ...

2026-03-20T02:29:14+01:00

Rep Scott Perry (MAGA-PA) is on CNN claiming Iran is going to pay US the $200B for the war, and that there's no way for other countries to buy oil from Iran because their internet is out

HE IS ON THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE

If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian ...

2026-03-17T04:09:04+01:00

If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke

Guess Maduro's check didn't clear

2025-11-29T16:44:02+01:00

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Guess Maduro's check didn't clear

It was me. I donated half my “a nickel for every time my ...

2025-11-20T15:20:00+01:00

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It was me. I donated half my “a nickel for every time my accessibility bugs got pushed off to the next release” fund.

Hey, remember when Oracle shot up 30%+ on OpenAI DC plans, making ...

2025-11-12T22:54:17+01:00

Hey, remember when Oracle shot up 30%+ on OpenAI DC plans, making Larry Ellison the richest prick in the world for a few days?

Well, it’s 2 months later and they’ve given up all that and more. To hell with them.

All this capitulation and humiliation of the Dems, plus a ban on ...

2025-11-11T15:28:06+01:00

All this capitulation and humiliation of the Dems, plus a ban on full-spectrum hemp products and permission for senators to enrich themselves suing the DoJ over Jack Smith of all fucking things, and that’ll get the US going again until…

January. When all this starts over again.

First pained expression from Bruno Fernandes. His scowls give me ...

2025-10-19T17:55:14+02:00

First pained expression from Bruno Fernandes. His scowls give me life. #LFC

TIL there's about 100yd of beach in my town that's ...

2025-10-15T00:14:08+02:00

TIL there's about 100yd of beach in my town that's privately owned. Found it out because a woman walked up to us, asserted it's hers, with no signage, and said we'd get a $1000 ticket for trespassing. Turned around.

Two clicks later: oh, she's MAGA. Of course she is.

Another deserved loss. Wirtz is almost useless on the ball, ...

2025-10-04T20:45:37+02:00

Another deserved loss. Wirtz is almost useless on the ball, Salah's lost his form, and Isak hasn't started to find his.

Meanwhile, Caicedo has gone from the player we were glad we lost to Chelsea, to the player we tried to get 3 of last summer, apparently unsuccessfully.

#LFC

When you want the war in Gaza to be over, but only so you can win ...

2025-09-29T20:44:16+02:00

When you want the war in Gaza to be over, but only so you can win the Nobel Peace Prize and/or carve out some sweet waterfront property for yourself in the process
https://journa.host/@w7voa/115289040174462329

Told my wife I was going for a bike ride. Told her it wasn't ...

2025-09-08T02:39:34+02:00

Told my wife I was going for a bike ride. Told her it wasn't going to be an hour-long one.

Technically true. It was 1:07.

Trump is visibly bummed that the brown guy won over the blond ...

2025-09-07T23:34:03+02:00

Trump is visibly bummed that the brown guy won over the blond guy. Good.

I guess it's called "Freed From Desire" by Gala + ...

2025-07-13T23:22:19+02:00

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I guess it's called "Freed From Desire" by Gala + Diplo.

something something coals to Newcastle?

2025-06-07T02:05:36+02:00

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something something coals to Newcastle?

Okay, so India and Pakistan are on the brink of war, Israel is ...

2025-05-07T02:11:10+02:00

Okay, so India and Pakistan are on the brink of war, Israel is planning to annex Gaza, Ukraine is launching drones on Moscow. Surely an ideal time to force the nations of the world to dance like trained monkeys for discounted tariffs

No, it was the whiparound show so probably Nico Cantor and some ...

2025-05-02T02:26:31+02:00

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No, it was the whiparound show so probably Nico Cantor and some random former player.

The Paramount+ hosts almost came to blows over the Garnacho ...

2025-05-02T01:21:03+02:00

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The Paramount+ hosts almost came to blows over the Garnacho handball.

I guess she felt bad for a while ...

2025-04-29T22:33:49+02:00

I guess she felt bad for a while

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/29/entertainment/lily-allen-katy-perry-apology-scli-intl/index.html

In case anyone was wondering about Kagi: I've been paying for ...

2025-04-18T21:16:06+02:00

In case anyone was wondering about Kagi: I've been paying for it for a month now, and I'm sticking with it. I like the privacy and lack of ads, and the search results have been at least as good as Google or DDG. You don't get AI results unless your search ends in a question mark. And if you do pay extra for Kagi Assistant (which I do, for model research), it updates its models RAPIDLY. Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash, o4 mini, GPT 4.1, and Llama 4 have all been added/updated this month alone.

I'm writing a note here: huge success

2025-04-17T05:57:53+02:00

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I'm writing a note here: huge success

Whomstsoever among us didn't shed a tear when our belly fruit ...

2025-04-17T03:27:28+02:00

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Whomstsoever among us didn't shed a tear when our belly fruit paid its first tax

also nobody plays baseball anymore, we literally pay billions of ...

2025-04-17T03:24:07+02:00

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also nobody plays baseball anymore, we literally pay billions of dollars a year to have people do it for us instead

There are like 8 more important reasons to be infuriated about ...

2025-04-17T03:17:08+02:00

There are like 8 more important reasons to be infuriated about this, but choosing the most petty:

MOTHERFUCKER THERE IS AN ENTIRE NETFLIX SERIES ABOUT AUTISTIC PEOPLE DATING

THEY'VE DONE FIVE SEASONS ACROSS TWO CONTINENTS

BUT YOU CAN'T DO THE GRIFT UNLESS YOU CAN CARICATURE THEM, CAN YOU

FIFA: it's very simple, you see. You just take your mandatory ...

2025-04-17T02:54:30+02:00

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FIFA: it's very simple, you see. You just take your mandatory five weeks of summer holiday to shuttle across 12 venues by safe, efficient rail service, celebrating your beloved club football with your compatriots

Americans:
#MastodonFC #FediFC

Just got an invite from FIFA: Buy a 20-ticket pack to the Club ...

2025-04-17T02:42:01+02:00

Just got an invite from FIFA:
Buy a 20-ticket pack to the Club World Cup this summer, and attend ALL 20 games (split across TWELVE venues in the US), and I'll be entitled to one ticket to the men's World Cup final in 2026.

Just ballparking it, let's say $2k in travel/hotel per venue, plus at least $200 a ticket, and ostensibly having nothing else to do for a month. $44k of club soccer games for the privilege of paying, what, $5k+ for the final? Wild shit.
#FediFC #MastodonFC

I remember my school had 2 green lefty scissors in each class, ...

2025-04-17T02:25:29+02:00

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I remember my school had 2 green lefty scissors in each class, and lefthanded kids had these little plastic pen holders.

Turns out one of our counselors was a lefty. :)

ngl, I kind of want this Canes-Habs game to end regulation tied, ...

2025-04-17T01:54:30+02:00

ngl, I kind of want this Canes-Habs game to end regulation tied, just to see the on-ice playoff celebration happen while the game is still on. #NHL #HNOM

Speedrunning the Judge Boasberg criminal contempt thing: Normally ...

2025-04-17T01:04:13+02:00

Speedrunning the Judge Boasberg criminal contempt thing:

Normally he’d ask DoJ to prosecute, but obviously that’s not going to happen, so he’d appoint his own attorney to prosecute. But criminal contempt is pardonable.

Which leaves _civil_ contempt, for which he could jail an officer of the court… but the US Marshals would enforce it, and they report to POTUS. So he might need a sheriff or city cop to jail them. And if not, the court system is basically cooked.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/president-defies-judges-orders-contempt-rcna201455

I think it's a two-part answer. First, role models. I'm ...

2025-04-16T23:54:44+02:00

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I think it's a two-part answer. First, role models. I'm not sure how much Einstein specifically played a role, but lefties in baseball (e.g. Babe Ruth) were popular because they had more success hitting/pitching to righties, so that became a visible benefit. (Today, 40% of at-bats are lefty!)

Second, supporting technology: lefty scissors didn't appear until 1967(!), so once schools started adding them, kids could choose tools that fit them, and teachers could find their correct hand.

It’s going to start with a 150% tariff on staring into the void

2025-04-16T23:15:15+02:00

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It’s going to start with a 150% tariff on staring into the void

BREAKING: Stock markets are down on news that water is wet ...

2025-04-16T22:08:43+02:00

BREAKING: Stock markets are down on news that water is wet

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/economy/fed-chair-jerome-powell-tariffs/index.html

The money from my tax filing hasn't come out of my account, ...

2025-04-16T19:45:43+02:00

The money from my tax filing hasn't come out of my account, forcing me to wonder whether the EFT declined, which will result in a 2% fine on a significant amount of money, or if the IRS is just no longer competent to effect this transfer. On balance, I'm suspecting the latter. But they'll probably fine me anyway.

If they wanted to stay employed, they should have updated their ...

2025-04-16T18:59:38+02:00

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If they wanted to stay employed, they should have updated their skills and become metermen, tbh

Making Attorneys Get Attorneys ...

2025-04-16T18:57:10+02:00

Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
https://journa.host/@w7voa/114348608656167950

More evidence Zuck is a sociopath: he suggested blowing away ...

2025-04-16T18:11:44+02:00

More evidence Zuck is a sociopath: he suggested blowing away everybody’s FB friends lists as a way to increase engagement. In 2022.

https://www.theverge.com/news/649246/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-friends-wipe-reset-meta-antitrust-trial

Fun fact: many of the arguments over the autism “epidemic” ...

2025-04-16T00:29:21+02:00

Fun fact: many of the arguments over the autism “epidemic” are the same leveled against lefthandedness over the years. Broadly, that something is wrong with “them” and “they” need to be socialized (i.e., stigmatized/punished) to be more like “us.”

It turns out that 12% of us are just lefties and once we stopped fucking with them everything leveled out.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114344267099731324

“[O]ne expert witness for Meta describes that the influence of ...

2025-04-15T22:01:40+02:00

“[O]ne expert witness for Meta describes that the influence of a single book in LLM pretraining ‘adjusted its performance by less than 0.06% on industry standard benchmarks, a meaningless change no different from noise.’”

“Adjusted” is a head fake. Each book IMPROVED performance by .06%. IOW, for every 1666 books, Llama improved by 100%. And they stole 7 million.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/meta-ai-lawsuit

That quiet dude at work who’s been posting racist shit on 4chan ...

2025-04-15T19:17:15+02:00

That quiet dude at work who’s been posting racist shit on 4chan pseudonymously for years is having himself a day, boy howdy
https://journa.host/@w7voa/114343089826941968

The sooner the court system realizes the location of the prison ...

2025-04-15T18:01:51+02:00

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The sooner the court system realizes the location of the prison is meant to make it difficult FOR THEM TO ACCESS THE PLAINTIFFS, the better.

Oh right, most of TLOU2 is in Seattle! Wonder if it'll feel ...

2025-04-15T02:32:57+02:00

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Oh right, most of TLOU2 is in Seattle! Wonder if it'll feel as home-like to me as the game did.

I'm waiting until it's dark. :D

2025-04-15T02:31:48+02:00

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I'm waiting until it's dark. :D

I love how people were POSITIVE Ellie had to be recast for season ...

2025-04-15T02:12:54+02:00

I love how people were POSITIVE Ellie had to be recast for season 2 of The Last of Us, because Bella Ramsey couldn't possibly pull off a portrayal of a 19-year-old.

She was 20 when TLOU S2 was filmed.

Galaxy brain: England should have a Ham League and a Ton League. ...

2025-04-14T21:06:57+02:00

Galaxy brain: England should have a Ham League and a Ton League. Just teams with names that end in either "ham" or "ton."

Birmingham
Fulham
Gillingham
Nottingham Forest
Rotherham
Tottenham Hotspur
West Ham
Wrexham

Aston Villa
Brighton
Bolton
Burton
Charlton
Everton
Luton
Leyton Orient
Northampton
Preston
Southampton
Wolves

Obviously, the winners should play each other for a ton of ham.

#MastodonFC #FediFC

Think this one's the cheapest: Orbit Reader 20 notetaker, ...

2025-04-14T08:30:43+02:00

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Think this one's the cheapest: Orbit Reader 20 notetaker, $800. It can read text files off SD cards, or be used as a portable display for desktop or mobile devices over USB/Bluetooth. (I think the Humanware equivalent is >$2k.)

https://www.orbitresearch.com/product/orbit-reader-20/

In honor of Microsoft's 50th birthday, I'm releasing a ...

2025-04-05T01:50:19+02:00

In honor of Microsoft's 50th birthday, I'm releasing a 50GB update that hangs at 5%, requires 2 reboots, and only adds CoPilot to an app you never use

It could be, but I doubt this lot's ability to be that ...

2025-04-03T19:11:03+02:00

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It could be, but I doubt this lot's ability to be that clever.

I think it's weird that only Singapore is subject to 10%, but they don't do tariffs and the US actually has a trade surplus with them. Which apparently are the two criteria for the lowest rate.

So like how many milliseconds did it take for shippers in Asia to ...

2025-04-03T17:21:18+02:00

So like how many milliseconds did it take for shippers in Asia to realize they can just ship through Singapore and then it's only 10%?

guys what if we burned down all the pretty forests so we could ...

2025-03-31T02:13:15+02:00

guys

what if we burned down all the pretty forests so we could have glasses that make it look like we're walking through a pretty forest instead of an apocalyptic hellscape? sounds like a million dollar idea, hmu

Hard to fathom how badly we've fucked US-Canada relations. It ...

2025-03-30T18:58:25+02:00

Hard to fathom how badly we've fucked US-Canada relations. It used to be easier to trade with the US _than between provinces_. That'll be ancient history. Even Quebec's separatist party is lining up with the rest of Canada.

These changes are structural, and will long outlast MAGA. We have awakened a fierce nationalism in Canada that there's no smoothing over.

The main thing I like about the Fediverse is that I can post ...

2025-03-26T17:30:36+01:00

The main thing I like about the Fediverse is that I can post something that mentions ADHD and not be haunted by ADHD ads and Reels and scams and whatever the fuck until the end of days

ha! But no, one was a MBP and the other was my Daylight DC-1, the ...

2025-03-26T04:14:15+01:00

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ha! But no, one was a MBP and the other was my Daylight DC-1, the e-ink tablet. They don't do repairs so it's a $729 brick. 😭

Hadn't broken a display in 20 years. Now I've done 2 in 3 ...

2025-03-25T17:59:11+01:00

Hadn't broken a display in 20 years. Now I've done 2 in 3 months. Naturally they're the 2 most expensive I've owned, $1800 total in damage.

TIL this year the "rivalry" between the San Diego Padres ...

2025-03-19T01:56:48+01:00

TIL this year the "rivalry" between the San Diego Padres and the Seattle Mariners, nicknamed the Vedder Cup because he's the only thing we have in common, now features an actual cup designed by Eddie Vedder. One of the tiebreakers is exit velocity... because EV.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/sports/vedder-cup-becomes-official-in-2025-when-padres-face-mariners/3779115/

I mean, they're going to be the number one international tour ...

2025-03-17T21:49:45+01:00

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I mean, they're going to be the number one international tour this year _and_ next

Imagine an authoritarian takes over the UK, and they decide to ...

2025-03-16T04:57:14+01:00

Imagine an authoritarian takes over the UK, and they decide to destroy the BBC. Like, take it off the air, internationally, without warning. That’d never happen.

That’s what Trump just did to the Voice of America.

You don’t eliminate your world-renowned news(/propaganda) network in order to increase your global power and influence.

You do it to empower somebody else.

"I never thought they would eat my face," said a leader ...

2025-03-13T21:25:35+01:00

"I never thought they would eat my face," said a leader of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

https://stocks.apple.com/AtVQxvX2mQfOG0NS4eiS9iQ

worked for a Fortune 100 company most of my career, can confirm

2025-03-13T21:13:52+01:00

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worked for a Fortune 100 company most of my career, can confirm

Me asking probing questions at conference booths: "So, what ...

2025-03-13T18:53:01+01:00

Me asking probing questions at conference booths: "So, what does *finger quotes* 'Google' do?"

Why worry about ethics when you can just spend a few million ...

2025-03-13T17:37:36+01:00

Why worry about ethics when you can just spend a few million electing a stooge who'll change the laws for you
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114156035583897687

Adobe is down 11% today after an earnings beat. Why? They ...

2025-03-13T16:01:49+01:00

Adobe is down 11% today after an earnings beat.

Why? They aren't convincing investors their pivot to AI is going to result in big jumps in future income.

Adobe is a bellwether: among the first tech companies to announce earnings each quarter.

They're not alone. Buckle up.

TSLA now down another 3% after hours. Which is like getting fired ...

2025-03-11T00:59:34+01:00

TSLA now down another 3% after hours. Which is like getting fired on your day off.

Hey, who wants to catch a falling knife?

2025-03-10T22:33:03+01:00

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Hey, who wants to catch a falling knife?

TSLA down 15%+ today. I’m waiting for Cathie Wood to make some ...

2025-03-10T21:45:45+01:00

TSLA down 15%+ today. I’m waiting for Cathie Wood to make some pronouncement about how it’s a buying opportunity, and like every other analyst laughing their asses off. Like UBS who reiterated their Sell rating today.

https://stocks.apple.com/AqYgJ3wAYQbyTmYP3Cr4F2g

GWAR:

2025-03-08T22:48:38+01:00

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GWAR:

What gear you should get based on the music you want to learn to ...

2025-03-08T22:40:56+01:00

What gear you should get based on the music you want to learn to play:
Green Day: Les Paul Jr. - Epiphone, $500 and up; Gibson, $2k+
Jimi Hendrix: Stratocaster - price points from $150-infinity
Nine Inch Nails: Les Paul Custom, Fender Jazzmaster, a dozen MIDI synths (one for destroying), Ableton Live workstation, and three racks full of processing hardware - $800k plus nuclear silo or similar thematic storage unit/studio

I have no idea how an Amazon boycott would actually make a dent. ...

2025-03-07T19:33:16+01:00

I have no idea how an Amazon boycott would actually make a dent. Their profits now come ~60% from AWS and another 10% from ads. So a retail boycott doesn't hit them like it does, say, Target, which is basically all retail.

Of course, I live in Washington state, so unless I want to stop paying state/local taxes, I'm already subsidizing them probably hundreds to thousands a year in terms of corporate welfare.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/07/business/amazon-economic-blackout

Like seriously, Paulina Borsook wrote about this in Cyberselfish ...

2025-03-07T03:31:03+01:00

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Like seriously, Paulina Borsook wrote about this in Cyberselfish back in 2000, and the pathway from those fedora guys and Burning Man dorks to today's manifesto-dribbling VCs, crypto grifters and TESCREAL shitstains is a straight fucking line.

http://www.cyberselfish.com/

Counterpoint: this isn't "billionaire-ish," it's ...

2025-03-07T03:18:36+01:00

Counterpoint: this isn't "billionaire-ish," it's just the same basic-ass libertarian psychobabble they've been pushing since they pivoted from gun nuts and "sovereign citizens" to Usenet neckbeards in the 90s

https://newrepublic.com/article/192279/jeff-bezos-washington-post-billionaire-idea-freedom

I feel like insurance ad agencies are looking for customers to ...

2025-03-07T02:39:57+01:00

I feel like insurance ad agencies are looking for customers to go: "Hey, honey, we need new car insurance. What's the name of that company with all the TV characters I want to punch in the fucking face?"

tbh if I'm going to spend $700 to see paid performers spin ...

2025-03-07T00:15:24+01:00

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tbh if I'm going to spend $700 to see paid performers spin fairy tales, I'm spending it a block north of the Marriott

I went exhibit only this year. Life's too short.

2025-03-07T00:09:50+01:00

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I went exhibit only this year. Life's too short.

Lazio gets two reds in the last 20 minutes, including kicking a ...

2025-03-06T23:00:43+01:00

Lazio gets two reds in the last 20 minutes, including kicking a guy in the face, then beats Viktoria Plzeň 2-1 on a buzzer beater. Just like they drew it up.
#FediFC #UEL

Dear Canadians: Do yourselves a favor and keep up your boycotts, ...

2025-03-06T21:33:13+01:00

Dear Canadians:

Do yourselves a favor and keep up your boycotts, Buy Canadian initiatives and interprovincial trade agreements. He's going to pull this shit as long as he's in office. Take care of yourselves in the meantime.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-trade-war-deal-1.7476311

Tariffs to Mexico suspended. Kinda. We think. Because this is a ...

2025-03-06T18:01:53+01:00

Tariffs to Mexico suspended. Kinda. We think. Because this is a ~vibes~based presidency.

The VP is rarely seen and even more rarely heard in Oval Office ...

2025-02-28T21:24:47+01:00

The VP is rarely seen and even more rarely heard in Oval Office meetings like that. When they do speak, it’s all pleasantries.

Vance was there to pick a fight in public, with daddy watching.

So, okay, don't buy anything tomorrow. But how about instead, ...

2025-02-27T21:02:22+01:00

So, okay, don't buy anything tomorrow. But how about instead, you do something that's free?

Go check out a physical book that you may have bought. Walk around in a park. See what events your city or town is putting on.

They won't miss you for a day. But showing them they're not essential to our lives would scare the shit out of them.

This feels like a market manipulation play. Markets trend ...

2025-02-27T18:29:34+01:00

This feels like a market manipulation play. Markets trend downward on news like this, because they'll tank if they go into effect.

If you happen to know it's a lie, you could make tons of money scooping up assets as they're sold. A perk of being in the Trump group chat.

I really hope someone is watching admin insider trades and seeing who's buying the dips at times like this.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5299291/trump-tariffs-infrastructure-week

What’s the Bluesky equivalent of the fail whale? Failsky? ...

2025-02-26T22:40:28+01:00

What’s the Bluesky equivalent of the fail whale? Failsky? Skyfall?

Here's what I'm working on today: Lágrimaby Francisco ...

2025-02-19T18:52:38+01:00

Here's what I'm working on today: Lágrimaby Francisco Tárrega. An absolute beast of a guitar composer (and the author of the Nokia ringtone! It's in his Gran vals.)

https://youtu.be/lyBE4s7tbAw?si=8M9AD7aBeIfRK-BL

There are some serious reasons why you still need to stay on Meta ...

2025-02-17T18:30:55+01:00

There are some serious reasons why you still need to stay on Meta platforms: it's your last link to family members, or your support system, or you live in a small town.

I wrote about how to stay on while limiting Meta's ability to surveil you or use your information against you.

tl;dr Boring users, who don't generate clicks or behavioral data, are unprofitable users.

https://buttondown.com/practicaltips/archive/how-to-grey-rock-meta/

I gotta say, nothing would destroy OpenAI faster than Elmo taking ...

2025-02-13T17:41:50+01:00

I gotta say, nothing would destroy OpenAI faster than Elmo taking it over. If they wanted to work for him, he’d have bought them out to work at xAI, but all he’s managed to recruit are marginal edgelord types. The best talent will flee because they saw what he did with Twitter, Altman would return to garden-variety VC fuckery, and whoever’s left will turn GPT-5 into Grok. He might as well set that $100B on fire.

In other words, I’m all for it. *eats popcorn*

Waiting for Trump to inevitably turn on the straight white women ...

2025-02-12T17:54:16+01:00

Waiting for Trump to inevitably turn on the straight white women who voted for him, or a third party, or stayed home.

Hooooo, the line to speak to a manager is going to be looooooong

Feels like we're weeks away from US+Canada being called ...

2025-02-08T05:56:58+01:00

Feels like we're weeks away from US+Canada being called "Greater America."

If you're not familiar with the term "irredentism," it's a good time to brush up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irredentism

Radio ad: did you know some people have as many as A DOZEN ...

2025-02-07T01:50:12+01:00

Radio ad: did you know some people have as many as A DOZEN devices connected to wifi

Me: lmfao I'll take the over

If Taylor beats Beyoncé for Album of the Year _again_ I am ...

2025-02-03T02:07:42+01:00

If Taylor beats Beyoncé for Album of the Year _again_ I am boycotting music.

Not just any label, or service. Boycotting any tones made by musical instruments.

Today I spoke with someone close to the US Digital Service, now ...

2025-01-25T01:59:13+01:00

Today I spoke with someone close to the US Digital Service, now DOGE, who said employees were required to describe their role/achievements/what’s remarkable about them; what they would cut if they were asked to reduce 30%; and their _opinion of DOGE_. Engineers were also given a Tesla/X-style snap coding challenge.

People are terrified about blowback, so this stuff will be trickling out. But folks who passed up on tech $ to work for the feds are now having their loyalty to 47/Elon questioned.

A couple of accessibility folks I know are looking at this ...

2025-01-23T01:59:35+01:00

A couple of accessibility folks I know are looking at this “DEIA” ban and sputtering, “but that’s not legal! Accessibility is the law!”

THAT’S NOT THE POINT. Tons of this stuff is illegal. In a functioning democracy, this would all get knocked down.

~but that’s not what we have right now~ and THAT is the point.

Wow, the Texans are really beating the shit out of the Texans ...

2025-01-19T00:28:09+01:00

Wow, the Texans are really beating the shit out of the Texans right now. #NFL

So Meta’s “chief diversity officer” is apparently now their ...

2025-01-14T01:37:09+01:00

So Meta’s “chief diversity officer” is apparently now their “VP of accessibility and engagement,” despite having no recognizable experience in accessibility. So, despite having apparently everything but employee resource groups cut out of her portfolio, at least they can point to a diversity exec.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall in that demotion meeting. Guess just firing her like everyone else would have been too on the nose. Instead, she gets accessibility as an office toy.

Okay, Mastodon, I need you to pick a new (or old but worthwhile) ...

2024-11-27T01:39:50+01:00

Okay, Mastodon, I need you to pick a new (or old but worthwhile) video game for me.

Faves: Fallout, Skyrim, Far Cry; I liked Just Cause 3/4 more than I ought to have.

Recents: Ghost of Tsushima, Starfield, Death Stranding, Horizon Forbidden West.

I have Game Pass Ultimate. Any ideas?
#VideoGames

It's a shareholder activist campaign. Especially cowardly of ...

2024-11-26T19:10:24+01:00

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It's a shareholder activist campaign. Especially cowardly of Walmart to do this after the election. Feels like they just put their finger in the wind.

See this? This is why nobody trusts you just because you wear a ...

2024-11-26T00:47:01+01:00

See this? This is why nobody trusts you just because you wear a blue bracelet, or a paperclip, or post a sign that says "you are safe here."

Trust that is given in advance of trustworthy behavior is foolishness. There is no shortcut to earning it.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/politics/nancy-mace-transgender-rights-comments/index.html

It's adorable how you all seem to think DoJ isn't going ...

2024-11-21T18:16:29+01:00

It's adorable how you all seem to think DoJ isn't going to change its position on breaking up Google by April.

Seattle City Light just updated the estimated power restoration ...

2024-11-21T04:33:07+01:00

Seattle City Light just updated the estimated power restoration for the ~20k customers still cut off to midnight THURSDAY.

Great, now we've got a tornado warning. Should be coming ...

2024-11-21T01:32:20+01:00

Great, now we've got a tornado warning. Should be coming through in 3 minutes.

The top 4 seeds (including Panama) have byes to the ...

2024-09-10T23:20:26+02:00

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The top 4 seeds (including Panama) have byes to the quarterfinals.

Fortunately for us it's not an anniversary that's a ...

2024-09-10T21:31:36+02:00

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Fortunately for us it's not an anniversary that's a multiple of 5.