Notices by Ellen Shapiro (designatednerd@mastodon.social)

#uspol Republican AGs suing (again) to get abortion pills pulled from the market saying the quiet part loud https://abovethelaw.com/2024/10/gop-attorney-general-teen-pregnancy-abortion/

This will definitely lead to way more "This is now a subreddit entirely about John Oliver marrying a cabbage" protests https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests

Oof, this is pretty brutal review of the Apple Intelligence™ betas: “In the preview I’m using, Apple Intelligence does an uncomfortable amount of making things up. This usually happens on low-stakes information such as summaries of alerts from apps — but it feels weird nonetheless to see fabrications and misinterpretations of your life appear on your lock screen, inbox and other core parts of your iPhone.”

[gift link] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/09/iphone-16-apple-intelligence-ai-event-2024/

@inthehands @marcoarment attempting to encode messy, broken human systems in ways that computers can understand and reliably reproduce was a mistake

@NeoNacho I’m gonna have to disagree with you there. The statement is pretty clear the endorsement is more about “She’s not Trump, and he is a menace to everything and everyone” than any policy agreements.

At this point I care a lot more about getting people who weren’t already gonna vote for Harris to vote for Harris than I do about whether she accepts or rejects (or in all likelihood, never says a word about) this endorsement

Technically #uspol but this is a great article about Tim Walz and the American concept of masculinity. [gift link] https://wapo.st/3SHDAVg

#uspol I really do not get the (mostly Republican) fever dream that if Biden doesn’t run, he would somehow be replaced by Michelle Obama, who has repeatedly (and understandably!) said she wants no part of it.

@inthehands @airspeedswift I can tell you from experience that this works best when the photographer is a solid foot taller than the hiker, and also the hiker is very slow.

@airspeedswift This is also what it's like visiting art galleries with my dad and stepmom.

Shout out to the hotel above a gay bar that left a zillion earplugs strewn about, so I shoved a few in my bag. Coming in extra handy with a group of drunk ass college kids next door to us tonight at what does not seem like a drunk ass college kid hotel.

@agiletortoise "Many people also, eventually, die." 👏

I should just change my title to "Resetter of Package Caches”

I'm going to start using Force Unwrap and Find Out as my no-cuss-words replacement for FAFO.

@inthehands @griotspeak @stefan in my experience you really need a nail gun to hold GraphQL schemas in place.

#uspol I’m sure Trump and his crew will appeal this verdict until the heat death of the universe, but man it's nice to finally see a (criminal) jury say "Yeah dude, that's a bunch of bullshit.”

As I was flying back from London, I got some iMessages from my wife with pics that didn’t download because I was on plane WiFi, and then a message that says “Call me as soon as you can.”

I turned my cell service back on at ORD with trepidation, but apparently we just used all the good karma we’ve accumulated for about the last decade.

Somehow, our house is in one piece and nobody got hurt.

I think this is the most British possible way to say “this bathroom sometimes floods”

Hello my name is senior dev, my pronouns are it/depends

@inthehands ha, Northridge?

West coast 5.0: Everyone rolls over and goes back to bed

East coast 5.0: Public plea from the police to stop calling 911 to tell them there was an earthquake unless something actually happened because of it