Notices by Matt May (mattmay@mstdn.social), page 2

@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

If you’re having a day where you feel like you’re bad at your job and maybe you’re just phoning it in, just think to yourself: at least I don’t work in the naming department at Microsoft.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113166497420667804

“This fffffffformer president” 😂 #Debate #USPol

More evidence that at the heart of most of the big cons of this era (crypto, AGI cheerleaders _and_ doomers), and some of the shorter ones (nudify apps, looksmaxxing, Jordan Peterson, bro-casters), are 2000s-era pickup artists.

PUAs are the pied pipers of the incel-industrial complex.
https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113092318125996522

@mathaetaes @mekkaokereke My wife's Fox News uncle brought this up matter-of-factly the other night at his wife's birthday dinner. This is day 3/3 together and the entire rest of the party cannot wait to get away from him.

Worst Scoxit ever. #SCOHUN #MastodonFC

@pluralistic e-label experiments are not a recent phenomenon. I worked at an online grocer in 1998, and brick-and-mortar stores were already experimenting with it. They were even looking at changing prices as you reached for an item. Looking at how keen you were to buy it, then making you negotiate for price by gesturing toward the item, or pulling away.

Once consumer-goods merchandisers crossed over from B&M to ecommerce, it was already game over.

Last week Grammarly laid off 23% of its workforce. Not because they’re losing money, but just because they want to pivot to AI. They even explicitly told their own laid-off employees that “this is not a cost-cutting exercise.”

It’s such an incredible fuck-you that it stands out from the others.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company-restructuring/

Have you ever thought about why there aren't AI tax prep companies coming out of the woodwork? Perfect application: drudgery! Legible rules! Expensive human experts!

It's because they (rightly) expect that enough of their customers would get in trouble from bad advice that they'd be sued out of existence, if not indicted themselves.

That's how it should be with all AI apps. Be accountable for what you claim your model does, or don't ship it.