Notices by Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network), page 3

This WP stuff would be hilarious to watch if it wasn't involving the software that powers ~40% of all websites.

You can always tell when rich white dudes are having a midlife crisis. Matt needs to get a goddamn hobby, something expensive and time consuming that is otherwise harmless. Molecular gastronomy or stratospheric bungee jumping maybe.

https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113277490070161595

@Chrisdowney @peachfront @freediverx @mekkaokereke @PJ_Evans it’s not a 4th amendment violation under the “we want your stuff” principle of US jurisprudence.

We should yank the tax exempt status from all churches, I think. https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/113058282842855027

@tchambers I suspect this kind of traffic bankruptcy will progress like many other bankruptcies -- slowly, and then extremely quickly.

@deathkitten @mekkaokereke I’ve stopped shopping places (including Target) because of this “security” nonsense. Half of what they’re worried about is BS and the other half is their own fault for not actually staffing the stores. (Most of the shrink happens at the self checkout you have to use because there’s nobody working a register. What a surprise…)

@inthehands So, accurate simulations then?

@lauren if Google is creating the answer rather than just passing through someone else’s answer then I don’t see how 230 can, or should, apply.

@wrosecrans @lauren on the one hand AI generated work is non-copyrightable at the moment, but it’s a much tougher argument to say “the output which we created after applying large amounts of transformative compute is really the same as the source it came from”. That kinda implies that copyright passes through transformation, and that has a *lot* of (frankly bad) implications.

@davidgerard "price discovery for bitcoin happens on an exchange that admitted a few months ago to being a criminal conspiracy" is... something that hadn't registered. I am gonna be happy to have found this quote the next time my husband (who has a CFA and frankly ought to know better) boggles at the current price of bitcoin.

@cstross When I was a young man I thought Warhammer 40K was a cynical, satirical, dystopian view of the future seen through a UK lens. Now that I'm older I know that Warhammer 40K is an overly optimistic, rose-tinted utopian view of the future when seen through a UK lens.

@cstross This is the thing that gives people who don't cheat the hardest time wrapping their heads around. It's *never* just one time, it's the one time you noticed.

I was curious how well the plastic bag bans would work. The answer, apparently, is "really well".

I know I've also 95% switched to using reusable bags, which is great except at recycling time. How long you need to use those to make them worth the cost to manufacture's fuzzy for me but I assume once you hit the 4 or 5 year mark they're definitely a win over one-use paper bags.

https://gizmodo.com/billions-of-plastic-bags-avoided-since-new-bans-report-1851192044

The most interesting news from CES 2024 so far is the fact that CES still exists.

@mekkaokereke I suspect what'd happen is just they'd run the queue a little differently. This isn't unique to Atlanta restaurants -- a *lot* of restaurants, and bakeries, have utterly abysmal line/counter management. Running the line properly doesn't actually take more work, it just takes some thought and training.

This is, I admit, a thing I find infuriating in many places. Proper line management isn't hard, if you give it a little attention. Sadly most don't.