Notices by Rod Hilton (rodhilton@mastodon.social), page 10

@Gargron here ya go https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign

Slack. This is not a "call me hand". I don't want to tell anyone to call me. Phones don't even look like this any more.

This is a "right on hand" or a "take it easy hand" or a "hang loose hand" but very much not a call me hand.

Stop adding an additional meaning to me appropriating surf culture appropriating Hawaiian culture

If I wanted to slackmoji someone to call me you know what I'd use? The fucking phone emoji

#GoogleIO revealed the two weirdest features as a pair.

1. Give a short summary and Google will draft an e-mail for you based on it. You can even click "elaborate" and it will make the e-mail longer.

2. When opening an e-mail, Gmail can summarize the entire thing for you so you don't have to read all of it.

Does everyone realize how fucking bizarre this is?

Both people in the conversation want to work with directness and brevity, and Google is doing textual steganography in the middle.

I'm a remote work zealot but even I chortle at the idea of Amazon workers protesting return-to-office mandates by doing a walkout.

What are you walking out of, your living room?

A massive grift got interrupted while all the pieces were moving into place.

The crypto/NFT guys all seem to be the same people hyping AI.

They had set up a way to pay for things digitally, a way to con people into paying for digital art, and were in the midst of rolling out a way to generate digital art in limitless quantities.

It was a 3-piece chess move to blast them into limitless wealth, but the crypto and NFT market collapsed just before checkmate.

No wonder they're so mad.

Trying to wedge your 7,000-employee layoff into the narrative around A.I. fear so you can hire folks back in 6 months at a reduced salary they'll accept because they think they're competing with a robot is some lame shit. Just admit nobody knows what IBM does in this space anymore and you're downsizing as a result.

The notion that the company that built Deep Blue in 1997 and Watson in 2011 is only now going to pivot to AI in 2023 at the cost of 7k jobs is laughable.

"ActivityPub is just like e-mail" well guess what, gmail silently dropping e-mails sent from another e-mail server because the admins disagree is the worst thing about it.

The notion of even trying to deal with it as a user is utterly absurd. I'm supposed to find an instance that DOESN'T defederate? That's posted on a server-by-server basis, there's no tool that's like "here's everyone I follow, find me an instance where I can continue following them all"

What a stupid thing.

The constant-threats-to-defederate thing is going to kill this place, seriously.

Defederating an instance is an extreme measure and it should only be taken in extreme circumstances.

Finding out I might stop getting posts from people I explicitly follow because they happen to be on an instance being defederated by mine all because a bunch of admins I don't know got in a spat over a user I don't follow is just about the most annoying value proposition imaginable.

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/110317006852580015

3 months ago: "signing up and joining an instance SHOULD be difficult, we don't need to do anything to attract Twitter users!"

now: "why are all the Twitter users joining Bluesky instead of the fediverssseeeeee"

I'm sorry but this is just the funniest shit ever.

These losers were mad that celebs had checkmarks and they didn't. Now they can buy the same checkmark and they're mad that the celebs won't.

Democrat: people should stop shitting their pants

GOP: (immediately fills own pants with shit) don't tell me what to do, libs

LOL apparently Elon and some Goons were just on a Spaces talking about how they're going to remove the author_is_republican and author_is_democrat stuff from the code.

Except, as I've tried to point out, it was specifically added FOR the release of the code, they're brand new.

So they added it JUST so they could publicly announce they were removing it.

https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/110119957216400698

Today I posted about "Twitter's collapse" in the future tense and got a bunch of replies misinterpreting it as present tense, saying Twitter hasn't collapsed and I was wrong.

So I edited it to make it clear I was talking about the future and immediately got a bunch of replies saying Twitter has already collapsed and I was wrong.

@thomasfuchs

I keep thinking there's nothing else #Elon can do or say that would surprise me but yesterday the CEO of Twitter publicly stated, in a Tweet, that #Twitter is a poor tool for communicating.

I keep thinking about how when I was at Twitter all the rage was trying to get people to "hire Twitter" for different jobs and the actual CEO is here admitting that Twitter sucks for talking to people compared to videoconferencing, a service Twitter doesn't offer.

Hard to think of a movie that aged more poorly than "Bowling for Columbine"

Once you know that the reason Klebold and Harris shot up their school was that they were neo-nazis targeting minorities and girls, the whole movie and Michael Moore's sympathy for them play out very differently.

Of particular note is the scene where serial sexual abuser Marilyn Manson highroads the audience and Moore talking about how he'd have prevented Columbine by sitting down with those kids and listening to them.

Keep at it everyone, he's losing faith in humanity and might just go to Mars by himself.

There's just one channel now and the only person who can post in it is Elon. You can do slackmoji reactions, but only ?, ? , and ?

Have the weekend you deserve https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/26/23615841/twitter-blue-esther-crawford-layoffs

A whole bunch of DMs I deleted months ago are restored on Twitter, great job everyone.