Notices by T. Austin Brown (austinb@esq.social)

@futurebird @meena @VirginiaHolloway @EverydayMoggie I didn’t realize that almonds were worse than chicken.

Since I am on a personal over sharing kick... my mother is a grade F creep and I’m glad I cut off contact nearly 20 years ago. I won’t say more on the subject.

In the “every futuristic dystopia is a reframing of how the world currently works” category:

RE: https://aus.social/@AndyPerfors/109645356708938353

One day, after I'm done with my dissertation, fully settled in my career in public service and academia, and probably retired, I want to write a book (using all non-confidential information) about what it was like being an under-resourced solo and small firm litigator. #law

This post brought to you by a well-off pro se litigant threatening to report me to the ethics committee because I tried to have the sheriff enforce a judgment after a trial she lost after illegally locking my client out of a lease.
It's an entirely frivolous claim, and I'm not afraid of the attorney grievance committee, but it's just unpleasant at a time that I'm trying to grow into a new role.

Why in 2024 does Microsoft outlook (and other email apps, as well, but MS is the business fave) default to showing anything but the actual address from which an email came? Why do I have to click on an email to see that it’s not from [american bank], but actually from wehack4u[at] gmail.co.jp ?

I really don’t care about the name of the person emailing me, just the domain. #infosec

@emilygorcenski the thought just occurred to me that confronting an editor about the absurdities in an AI generated article is just doing their work for them for free. You become an unpaid fact checker. I don't know what the solution would be, but I don't want to be involved in them replacing real, paid writers with volunteer fact checkers.

@tiffanycli are you watching Only Murders too?

@inthehands @gulovsen @lisamelton Agreed. One of my peeves with the presidential system and the media is that, for the majority of people, people who want to go in the voting booth every 4 years, pick who gives them a good feeling, then have their government work, the president is a lightning rod for their disappointment. Meanwhile, there's 20% of the country who has well-funded prosperity gospel propaganda funneled at them 16h per day. They vote every damn time, even if they don't know why.

Just too cute tonight. #catsofmastodon #cats