Notices by Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)

@benroyce Drudge was always a great source for news in the ‘90s, then went completely right-wing bonkers, and then maybe realized he was bonkers and dialed it back again

He still leans too heavily on conservative sources (WSJ, Daily Mail, Mirror), but I usually learn something new and interesting when I check out his page 🤷🏼

@FlashMobOfOne I would guess he had much more than $2M to lose

If you still have a burner Twitter account, go check out the “For You” feed

Mine is FULL of Black men explaining why no one should vote for Kamala Harris

It’s amazing. I check Twitter often for work, and it’s usually the same old same old

ALL of these fellows today are new. I’ve never seen them before

#Twitter #Ratfucking #ElonMusk #KamalaHarris

@atzanteol @nicholas_saunders @jeffowski @ariaflame @dogpile They might not have stopped “learning math” but they definitely declined in their ability to do basic arithmetic calculations

@rhempel @TheConversationUS @folklore (tho some people might say 11:59:59 am because it’s second to noon)

@rhempel @TheConversationUS @folklore What’s a clock’s favorite time of day?

6:30, hands down!

@br00t4c It’s amazing that most of us weren’t nearly cynical *enough* about the Supreme Court

We don’t know yet how Trump’s conviction will impact the November election

We can be pretty sure of 2 things, though

1) Tomorrow, the RNC will report Trump’s biggest fundraising day ever, the media will run with that story, and no one will follow up if/when official election filings contradict it

2) A GOP-sponsored poll will show that Trump's conviction will not lose him any votes, and the media will run with that too

"There’s standard Silicon Valley hubris in the ‘move fast and break things’ mold, and then there’s whatever this is

"Trying to steamroll one of the most famous movie stars alive, one who is notably not afraid to take Disney to court (and win), and then lying to everyone about it ... well that’s another level altogether.”

from @brianmerchant

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-is-sam-altman-so-obsessed-with

#AI #OpenAI #SamAltman #Movies #Her LLMs

@WorMP3 @BeAware @TengoHipo Just FYI, they’re not announcing a search engine at their event tomorrow, just the multimodal assistant probably

@ryanc And the argument is based around the claim that it would be too expensive and difficult to add a NB category?

@ryanc TIL that the UK doesn’t recognize nonbinary gender :(

I honestly can’t think of a legitimate reason why the government needs to even track gender at all

Good luck to you!

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/being-non-binary-uk-today

"Saying this looks like garbage would be an insult to garbage.”

TCL prepares to release "the first AI-powered love story”

https://www.engadget.com/tcls-first-original-movie-is-an-absurd-looking-ai-generated-love-story-154142740.html

#AI #TV #RomComs #TCL #Movies

@toxy @seraph Correct. I think the meme is a hoax

@oliphant @oblomov @thisismissem @seraph

That is my question too. Based on the explained behavior, it should be the other way around

So, I’m gonna say that this claim is BS:

"a URL that appears to be "netflix.com" will actually redirect to "netflitwitter.com" when clicked”

I went thru the trouble of dredging up my burner account and Twitter links to netflix dot com definitely go to netflix dot com 🤷🏼

Seems like misinformation

I shouldn’t be surprised at all, but it’s amazing how little coverage Alexander Smirnov has gotten

This story seems like Watergate on steroids

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/company-paying-fbi-informant-trump-connections

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/14/a-third-tie-between-trump-world-and-alexander-smirnov/

#AlexanderSmirnov #Trump #Ratfucking #Watergate

@tokyo_0 somewhat related, I tried to get our PTA to install an air quality monitor at our elementary school so admin and parents could make informed decisions during heavy wildfire smoke (indoor recess etc)

It was about 50-50 but eventually got voted down bc people didn’t want the info public, I guess so parents wouldn’t have cause to scream “AQI is 300 on campus right now—why isn’t school closed!!” at admin or secretary

I would bet that’s part of it — liability/accountability

POETRY!

#DadJokes

If you didn’t order them last fall, you’ve got until Friday to order your 8 free COVID tests from the Postal Service

Program is shutting down on March 8 😞

https://www.cnet.com/health/youve-got-until-march-8-to-order-free-covid-19-tests-from-usps/

#COVID #COVID19 #CovidTests #USPS #PandemicIsNotOver

Mastodon PROTIP:

When someone posts a gift article to a paywalled site, you need to click on the text *URL* to get the correct gift link

The (default) link preview in Mastodon uses the canonical URL without the gift tags that bypass the paywall

#Mastodon #Paywall #Gifts #Links