Notices by Ellen Shapiro (designatednerd@mastodon.social)

#uspol I didn't think we'd get to "The president is openly suggesting ethnic cleansing in order to distract from the richest man in the world illegally trying to rip up half the government" in two weeks, but here we are.

Getting towards the end of Michael Collins’ autobiography, and this is basically him doing “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”, but alone on the far side of the moon

Congratulations to Jimmy Carter for outliving one of the people who wrote his obituary by a full decade.

Summarizing the lyrics of national anthems in one sentence is fun

🇺🇸: Our flag is awesome and you cannot destroy it or us

🇨🇦: We really, really, REALLY love Canada

🇫🇷: Fellow citizens, gather your arms to murder the invaders

🇬🇧: We would like god to help out the richest man in the country

Like, I get this decision from a number of perspectives. But if you've publicly, explicitly, and repeatedly said you're not gonna do something, then don't fucking do it.

Goddamn it Joe, you moron. [gift link] https://wapo.st/3ZuSKRL

Good news! I am now restocked on bottle openers so processing is back down to normal on these fine specimens: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1815218960/the-compiler-is-unable-to-type-check

#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.