Notices by Matt May (mattmay@mstdn.social)

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

From @Zitron:
"Outside of NVIDIA, nobody is making any profit off of generative AI, and once that narrative fully takes hold, I fear a cascade of events that gores a hole in the side of the stock market and leads to tens of thousands of people losing their jobs."

Tens? I'll take the over.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/optimistic-cowardice/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter&attribution_id=67ddd6269396620001dcf1f0&attribution_type=post

@aardrian Can you feed their spiders garbage or something when they come for metadata?

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

@jesse_saenz I just found out about it myself. I'm upgrading because I'm an infojunkie/sucker

@jesse_saenz Pro now streams up to 1080p, including the live race feed and driver cams. Premium upgrades the stream to 4K HDR, and 6 simultaneous devices.

https://www.reddit.com/r/F1TV/comments/1j403xr/f1_tv_pro_and_premium_resolution_details_per/?rdt=35471

Remember back in the first Trump admin when him saying anything live during trading hours caused the markets to tank? And the networks bravely responded by hiding the ticker whenever he did? Bet we're going back to that pretty soon.

There are some serious reasons why you still need to be 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 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*

In less than 30 years this has gone from an average Onion article to a marked improvement on the White House's understanding of geopolitics

https://theonion.com/perky-canada-has-own-government-laws-1819563891/

Updated to reflect current practice

Total US stock market losses on Black Monday in 1987: ~$500 billion

$NVDA losses today: ~$500 billion

https://23.social/@thomasfricke/113901586461127473

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.

Ostentatious displays of wealth really do change over time. Today I saw a couple on a first date, and the guy was showing off the expiration date on his eggs.

@skinnylatte @roland I'm wishing for a Yemeni restaurant in Seattle. My wife studied Arabic there. Had scrambled eggs à la fireball in Sana'a back in 2008.

Will somebody please show Trump a proportional map of the world before we invade Greenland?

I wish this wasn't a serious request.

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

@dalias I'd say it activated young, mostly white male voters, but only the ones who, you know, can read. I think Joe Rogan did more of the heavy lifting.

But all told, that still doesn't account for 7 million fewer voters showing up for Harris. That didn't come out of either the Twitter dingleberries or podcast listeners.

The worst part of this is that Elmo's influence on the election was probably nil, but since none of them understand correlation vs. causation/post hoc fallacy, he's going to have an outsized influence on GOP politics just by showing up and acting like a dick.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-republicans-stuck-election-2024-1235173757/

Hi all, it's me, An Old. Quick election reminders:

- If you are in line before the polls officially close, STAY IN LINE. You are entitled to cast your vote.
- DO NOT TRUST calls/texts/posts/TikToks from now until Weds. Deepfakes will be rampant.

Classic scams:
"your voting location has moved"
"your group votes on Weds" <- old Jim Crow shit
"have your payment ready" <- poll taxes are illegal

Vote! No later than Tuesday, even by mail! Demand a provisional ballot if anything goes wrong!
#USPol