Notices by Fred Coppersmith (unrealfred@mastodon.online)

So just to refresh—overall, generative AI is:

- built and maintained unethically;
- extremely bad for the environment;
- putting people out of work;
- driving up costs;
- almost always bad at what it's asked to do

Mass deportation as a housing shortage solution is simply vile.

https://aftermath.site/nanowrimo-ai-statement-controversy

Old enough to remember when you paid money to *not* see ads.

In October, I’ll be flying internationally for the first time since early 2020 and I’m not unconcerned about it. Any recommendations or tips, Covid-protection-wise?

“Layaway Lady Lay” #BuyNowPayLaterASong #HashTagGames

“I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down Payment” #BuyNowPayLaterASong #HashTagGames

I think anyone hoping a Paramount/Warners merger would result in a combined, cheaper streaming platform with all the same content really has not been paying attention.

I am often a little dumbfounded by the #movies that millennials, just a few years younger than me, seem to love. (Space Jam? Hook?!) But in the spirit of spooky season understanding, I am watching Hocus Pocus for the first time.

Roger Ebert, who gave the movie one star, wrote that watching it was “like attending a party you weren't invited to, and where you don't know anybody, and they're all in on a joke but won't explain it to you.”

Hocus AND Pocus? In THIS economy?!

The man who famously suspended an account for giving out the “assassination coordinates” of whichever airport his private jet was at now plans to remove Twitter’s last remaining tool against stalking and laughs at his customers who think maybe that’s a bad thing.

If you’re vaccinated and get #Covid, it *probably* won’t kill you, but it can still:

- feel like the worst flu you’ve had for weeks at a time
- lead to debilitating long-Covid
- weaken your immune system in ways we don’t yet fully understand
- worsen other health conditions…which then kill you

Okay, but the question is: does Threads have legs?