Notices by Peter (peter@thepit.social), page 5

they don't have accounts on Telegram or Truth Social, why the hell are they still on X???

leave X and let them rage about partisan this or that. who cares? Musk declared himself and his platform partisan, just leave. it's two thirds bots now anyway.

people who don't have X accounts can't fully see what's posted there anyway. it's not even an open platform anymore. there's TONS of legitimate reasons to stop using it for public communications.

@jenniferplusplus i think the snark i'm seeing is directed mostly at the execs (or should be). anything like this is 100% a system failure, right?? execs take credit for the good stuff that happens, they should take blame for the bad.

for some reason the images of Israelis destroying Palestinians’ food affect me more than the bombing. food and sharing food are so fundamental to being human. it’s just incredibly, intensely cruel and inhuman.

fucking finally, at least **someone** is starting the conversation. https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-justices-impeachment-aoc-1919728

@mattly I don’t recall this being a big problem until the attackers could reliably and anonymously collect the ransom, so maybe the real problem is cryptocurrency.

@johnonolan @jcrabapple … whereas AI is attracting a bunch of libertarian billionaires, sci-fi zealots, and crypto grifters 😂

my take is that conversations with strangers on social media is a terrible, weird idea that dates from like 2006 and honestly no one should be doing that. if you want to broadcast, do that. should Mastodon have a broadcast mode? sure, why not! but i have **never**, **not once**, enjoyed the “conversation” when one of my posts have gone “viral” because anonymous strangers are stupid and mean, so I mute it. I’m a cis-het white guy and i **hate** interacting with randos!

people really need to interrogate what social media is for. do you want to gather together a like-minded group of affirming, interesting people to share ideas with? you can totally do that! do you want to cast a wide net and try to connect with millions of strangers to influence as many people as possible? you can do that too, but fyi, it has some downsides!

fwiw this isn’t just about the last guy, @mmasnick did the same thing, and so did @Popehat

people get on Mastodon to be influencers, they get annoyed by the number of dipshit reply-guys, plus there is no algorithm to give them that dopamine shot, then they leave, saying everyone here is insufferable. but really, it’s just not a good place to get dopamine from anonymous passive strangers. it’s a group chat with a handful of far-too-engaged weirdos. if that’s not what you’re into, go with god.

i agree with this take on AI from the latest Garbage Day. they are running out of time. https://www.garbageday.email/p/coolness-just-scarcity

something i've said for a long time is that American politicians think of cities in extractive or colonial terms: they exist as spaces for work and leisure that you **go to**, not spaces that you **live in**

every day, a city is occupied by people from the suburbs who use the resources, and cities should be grateful for this and arrange themselves to serve the needs of their colonial "masters."

guys, we gotta shitpost to save the internet. https://mastodon.social/@lzg/112494197616020167

damn, that is brutal. https://infosec.exchange/@chrismerkel/112495797916386580

lmao are we doing another round of this??

Israel is going to say "whoopsie, sorry" about the WCK atrocity, but it will accomplish what they set out to do, which is discourage international aid orgs from working in Gaza. it's an implicit future death threat directed at anyone who would dare extend help to the starving people of Gaza. war crime. collective punishment. ethnic cleansing. https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update

weird how a speaker at a major conservative political conference calling for the end of democracy and the establishment of a theocratic authoritarian state is something i have to read about in goofy little niche websites and social media accounts because i can't find it in, like, the pages of a newspaper whose catchphrase is "Democracy Dies in Darkness."

@forteller @qag @syklemil here’s a couple I snapped last summer. it’s lovely.

anyone who says "i need $7 trillion to make my technology a reality" isn't a business person, they are a religious fanatic or a supervillain, or both. i think it is going to become increasingly clear in retrospect that ousting Sam Altman from OpenAI was the right move and Microsoft et al. fucked up by putting him back.