Notices by D. B. Stuck (mywoolymastadon@toot.community)

@SnowshadowII

Anyone else see that commercial for LLM (AI) where the boss at the table asks an employee to summarize a report? The employee scoots his rolling chair out of the room and has AI summarize the report he never read. He then gives a fabulous summary.

It came out last year and anyone seeing it knows the underlying message was, these workers are not necessary.

The overt message was we make your work life so easy & let's lead these sheeple to the AI treadmill.

@georgetakei

He sounds more and more like the crazy uncle from Thanksgiving who spouts off unreal nonsense.

Someone should feed him carbs and put him in bed for a nap.

People who voted for him should be forced to wear t-shirts with his blather printed all over them. No, wait. They already do don't they?

@anna_lillith

I'm going to blame Barnes & Noble in the US as partially to blame for this mess we're in now too.

Yes, at the moment Amazon is the evil empire but it wasn't long ago that B&N bought up good competitors that had club models and low priced books. They then shut them down and raised book prices. (In the 90s I could visit many brick & mortar stores and buy a new book for less than the cover price.)
#Books

@Snowshadow @maleve

Yep. Reporting honestly is why I too like Reuters and AP. When trump banned AP from the White House everyone knew why.

@jcrabapple @vmstan @protonprivacy

That was my thought exactly. Or heck, even copy and paste.

@tek @nyquildotorg

About eight years ago I read that the majority of younger people were using YouTube as their search engine for information. I found that horrific.

There's a crazy amount of bad info on YouTube.

I can only imagine how much worse AI is in getting you a synopsis without understanding the context.

@bmacDonald94 @deepmud

Hahaha. If you dig deeper you may find that not all Universalist Unitarian churches practice the same. Different congregations will come up with rituals and traditions that suit them and them alone. One old church in Chicago uses an anvil as symbology simply because the founding members were blacksmiths.

What little I know is that they all like to think for themselves and explore the possibilities.

A reminder to all who may have Visa, AmEx, or Master Card gift cards now and in the future. Often you'll wind up with a small balance on them that doesn't make it worthwhile to make a purchase with it online or in a store. Something like US$1.60 or less.

Go to Wikipedia, Archive.org, your local animal shelter, or just about any worthwhile nonprofit and donate that odd amount on their web page.

#donations #nonprofit #giving #Holidays #Christmas #Kwanza

I'd join this motorcycle gang.

@aburtch @WarnerCrocker

He constantly proves he's a bad politician every day doesn't he?

@BeAware

In Twitter and within the browser there was Twitter decks. You could make a deck to follow an account(s). It generated columns and each colum would put a new post at top when it happened. For me it was not that intuitive. Then again I could never figure out Twitter lists as easily as I did on Mastodon.

Decks was really good at keeping you up to date with a hashtag as it happened.

Had friends in the path of a couple of hurricanes and it was nice getting a live updates for the area.

@dragonfrog @BeAware @whalecoiner

Excellent to know! Thanks!

I like it in Tusky that you can scroll up easily. It's the only app I scroll up and prefer it that way. It's like keeping up with current stuff and not going down a rabbit hole of a time line.

@BeAware @whalecoiner

You just listed the apps I've never tried. LOL.

@BeAware @whalecoiner

Which apps are you using. I'm not seeing this in Tusky.

@whalecoiner

Sometimes you don't want to be the reply guy within a post that has sparked something within you. I've quoted a post a time or two because of that.

Someone's going through something and they don't need my story to pile on their thread. I'll make a short supportive comment and a boost. Then I will screenshot the item and put my feelings into my own time line with that screen shot.

If there's a better way to do this, I'd like to learn.

#SilentSunday #BloomScrolling

#FediAFamousPerson #HashtagGames

Alan Parsons GitHub

#FediAFamousPerson #HashtagGames

Zach Galafanastadon

#WrongWaysToComplain #HashtagGames

To your Drill Sargeant.

@jsit @bacteriostat

Few people interact with the Fediverse beyond a phone app.

I wish the Whitehouse had their own instance and they took full control of their messaging.

If your instance has blocked threads there are ways to download a backup of things and move yourself to another instance.

Whatever the case I'd never migrate to threads. It's only going to become another FB/Instagram clone in time. Bots and false actors everywhere.