Notices by GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)

Gentle reminder: IT IS NOT A FUCKING "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" IN ANY POSSIBLE FUCKING WAY THAT PHRASE HAS BEEN USED BETWEEN 1930 AND 2010.

Wait. No, wait . . .

. . . Was that ungentle?

I have not used Uber in over a decade, but I know they're thinking of me, cuz they send me an email every 30 days telling me that they will be deleting my account in 30 more days.

I love the GOP umbrage over the fact that no one believes that McConnell is alive.

When you lie *every* day about *every* thing, you could be standing outside at noon in broad daylight and say "the sky is blue", and nobody will believe you.

Because the past exists.

Reminder: It's July 4th, the day when we celebrate revolution.

Honest to God, if you've never been to the National Mall on July 4th, you have no idea how anemic this one is.

If buying doesn't create ownership, then pirating doesn't destroy it.

These fuckin' headlines.

"Far-left extends victory streak into Denver"

Far-left? Far-left?!?

Only billionaires think fair wages, reasonable healthcare, decent schools, and viable housing support are "far left" issues.

Ya know, if you *try* to see the horrific sexism in the geek trades, I guarantee that you will see it.

Honest to God, these women are not making this shit up. They're not exaggerating. They're not lying. They're not overly sensitive.

It's fucking real, and it's fucking endemic, and if you're a guy in the geek trades, you need to open your fucking eyes and see it for what it is.

Reminder: These people aren't stupid, they're corrupt. They aren't ignorant, they're conniving. They aren't mistaken, they're lying.

Okay, I forgot to charge my phone: is the Epstein War over or is it on again?

I don't have any friends here who are telling me that mastodon would be great if only it had many more participants.

By contrast, I have *many* friends who tell me that they routinely encounter hatred and abuse and feel there's nothing that mastodon does that could help them. My Black friends, my female friends, my LGBQTIA+ friends, it's a pretty consistent report they give me that they just don't feel safe here.

I haven't made a detailed study, but as far as I can make out, the safety of our under-represented participants seems like the biggest problem.

I mean, who is saying that, and why?

I don't understand why "growth" is mastodon's "biggest problem".

Anyway, setting aside the ethical, environmental, exploitative, and efficacy issues, setting aside the ethical, environmental, exploitative, and efficacy issues is the exact fucking problem.

@Gargron Udabomb!

@Gargron It's hard to resist the notion that, at some point, "class" will always out.

Wife & daughter off to a brewery w/a designated driver.

She says, "C'mon, it's just 6 to 9, how much trouble could we really get in to?"

Dear reader, one helluva lot.

Soon I will be free to revel in my own Sunday night bacchanalia: eating deviled eggs, drinking beer, & playing Oxygen Not Included and/or Stalker 2.

I'll have to pace myself, cuz when they get home, there's every chance that one or both of them want to party the night away.

Always worrisome when *I* have to be the stable one.

@bmacDonald94 Baldwin is one of the writers who most greatly changed *my* world.

Above all else, he taught me that it was possible to be angry and kind at the same time.

The question isn't "What's in the program?"

The question isn't even "What's in the person?"

The question is "How can we create a world in which every human's lived experience is already one containing safety and trust?"

And I don't believe the answer to that question lies in making more cheap simulacra.