Notices by Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io), page 2

waking up with the heady feelings of hope and possibility that we now have enough positive incentive to actually win this thing

Here’s one where the artist paints Kamala onto a dollar bill in time lapse, using the classic Obama hope gaze

We are living in an absolutely different universe than we were last week. So…

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNuQgLJE/

WILD

The ActBlue fundraising total for yesterday FINALLY puts us back in line with the peak energy single-day of 2020, AND ECLIPSES IT, a month and a half earlier in the cycle

https://observablehq.com/@rdmurphy/actblue-ticker-tracker

Harris set the one day campaign donation record and collected all the delegates she needs to win the nomination

Starting to think there was a lot more to all of this than just the New York Times thumbing the scales

https://apnews.com/live/biden-trump-election-campaign-updates?taid=669eb7f2e491b3000172e4d0&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

This is somewhat to be expected, but you would only know about this if you're actually engaged with TikTok, the bleeding edge culture laboratory carefully maintained by an opaque algorithm, and with the dying gasps of Twitter

The MOMENT maneuvering on behalf of Harris began, something strange happened among both leftists AND young people

It was as if everyone kind of looked at each other, grinned, shrugged, and said “why not? this could ACTUALLY work”

Despair was replaced by possibility.

Kamala Harris has raised, in half a day, almost $50m per ActBlue. The biggest fundraising day of the whole cycle

Engagement is now translating into action, as a viable path forward becomes clear

https://x.com/actblue/status/1815198823771165179

I guess I offended a sentient dog with this, but I stand by the analysis
😂

Energy is a necessary precursor to victory

But perhaps the part that has me most hopeful right now is that tiktok is EXPLODING with Kamala memes from real creators

You can't buy the zeitgeist at any price, and she's just got it

@selenalarson and when you look at the polling…

It’s democracy working!

SO MANY PEOPLE WANT NEITHER TRUMP NOR BIDEN

now they can… have that?

Look, this is the most engaging Democratic politics has been since 2008

It’s not inevitable that it translates to final victory, but what an opportunity

One thing the LLM is very useful to address is modifying structured data.

In chatGPT’s case, you can hand it a CSV, then it will write Python to modify it according to your parameters, and you can inspect the Python to decide if it’s appropriate

To preempt the obsessive pearl clutching, yes, you will have to audit the final output closely, and no the process is not perfect

But the WAYS in which it is not perfect are close to how the Isaac Asimov robot stories predicted, it’s uncanny

Asimov, it seems, was a poor steward of his fandom and abusive of women so I am always cautious not to valorize this prominent first mover

Still, as a child, I read his robot stuff obsessively, wherein he described the challenges we would face in machines that would sort of think, but not really have common sense. The illusion of reason stamped on a semi-autonomous actor.

A robot interpreting a careless directive literally, with ensuing hijinx, was a recurring formula Asimov perfected

@mattly that's SMART

When I left Fastly they suggested I was still subject until some period of time elapsed, I wonder how this works

A short story about a layoff.

https://redeem-tomorrow.com/layoff

Dem strategists in the texts and emails:

“This is the most consequential election of our lives. We must support Biden or an apocalyptic wasteland awaits us”

Biden:

“I will treat this election with the same gravity as a Little League Baseball game”

“the stakes of this election are so incredibly consequential that we have to go through the process with a guy who is obviously not up to the task of campaigning” is such a fucking bizarre position to me, but a mainstay of the discourse on here

“The right has fully compromised the judiciary”

me: ✅

“The right will use executive and judicial powers to destroy abortion access and ramp up oppression, especially of racial minorities.”

me: yes correct

“An empowered right will end protest in this country”

me: indubitably

“In light of these dangers we MUST stay the course with a guy who can barely do public appearances, and anyone who says otherwise has been manipulated by the New York Times, Enemy of the People”

me: …what

Joe Biden has a problem now

Which is exemplified as I’m seeing video of him with food on his jacket for an on-camera appearance.

I don’t actually know if it’s real. And it will take time to sort it out. It actually smells like an op to me.

But because Biden is unable to maintain the sort of campaign schedule that would constantly demonstrate his presence and vitality, he is super vulnerable to information warfare. The residue of this stuff ossifies fast.

@Elucidating @mattly and more practically where are we going to draw that line about what is “politics”

Folks living with highly politicized identities have whole worlds demarcated by political actions, are they supposed to muffle their whole shit?

@mattly I think that is plenty fair, and I can relate to the necessity completely

and simultaneously my position is that the appropriate curation is the follow/unfollow button