Notices by Peter (peter@thepit.social)

it's pretty funny that the new "artificial intelligence" thinking machine we're all supposed to use **doesn't understand how numbers work** what an incredible fuck up.

the frustrating thing about the business management classes in my degree is they assume that subject matter expertise is not important, and I'm old enough to know that's not true.

hell yeah. https://www.euronews.com/travel/2025/01/16/want-to-move-to-spain-in-2025-beware-of-new-property-tax-anti-tourism-protests-and-airbnb

this is pretty interesting. group of Spanish civil society orgs are all leaving X/Facebook together and moving to the fediverse. I don’t know how many **people** this really is, but. https://vamonosjuntas.org/about

at least 10,000 structures burned so far. https://apnews.com/article/southern-california-wildfires-la-e0e735996e4cf0bfa95bb12af0d54896

attention denizens of thepit.social!! we are defederating from Threads.net. if this makes you mad, tell us why and we might change our minds. but as it stands, our rationale is basically the same as Kevin's in the linked post: changes to the Threads.net moderation policy are intended to **specifically discriminate** against certain groups, and as a rule, we don't federate with instances that do that kind of thing. frankly, it is their loss, we are much cooler.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113792479397874522

the ban hammer comes down on January 15, 2025. everyone get your affairs in order.

i will accept your congratulations for this decision, but all complaints and angry letters should be sent to @ebooksyearn.

feeling pretty good about our choices at the moment. @ebooksyearn

@alrs lmao how much do you think reporters make.

i backed this thing on Kickstarter. not sure what i'm gonna do with it yet, but looks neat. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulscircuit/pilet-opensource-modular-portable-mini-computer?ref=ksr_email_backer_backer_confirmation

way back in the day, i bought one of the very first "netbooks" before they were called that. i think it ran Fedora. it was **tiny** lol. i edited a book on it. i have always loved tiny PCs, hope i can do something fun with this one.

ah, it was one of these guys. mindblowingly tiny at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC

excited to find out if home insurance remains a viable business in the US.

our staff, executive team, and board of directors here at thepit.social are keeping a close eye on this. speaking for myself, i don't actually see very much interesting content coming out of Threads anyway, so it wouldn't be a huge loss if we had to cut them off from the valuable and compelling posts we here at thepit.social produce every day. https://hj.9fs.net/khm/p/1736268861.996377

hm, i agree with these grounds and it makes me think we should defederate sooner rather than later. he's right, for any other random instance with a ToS like this, i would probably pull the trigger. https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113792479397874522

lol one of the movie theaters near me has “boob showings” where new mothers can bring their babies to see a film. love it!

huh wow, seems like only yesterday that Biden was giving $8 billion in weapons to the country that deliberately murdered three of José Andres’s charity org workers wait that WAS yesterday.

I feel like I am making bad choices.

I’ve been poking around about a different career for like 10yrs now and I can tell you that literally **everyone** will tell you “don’t get into my line of work, we are fucked” but you gotta do **something**

but maybe that something turns out to be the wrong thing 🤷♂️

@Infoseepage it was me, i did it.