Notices by Julie Webgirl (juliewebgirl@mstdn.social)

Costco is rationing motor oil.

So there's that.

@elfin

Yeah the priority for oil is gas and deisel (which is like $7.50/gal. Jumped a lot last week. .25 in one day.

@feld @elfin @josh

And the restaurants pay through the nose for doordash even when the customer isn't getting doordash delivery. 🤬

Gonna start chipping away at them very soon.

Training the customers is, as always, the hard part.

THAT'S why it was like that.

When I hear "flash flood" I think of massive amounts of rain. But this started as an avalanche sliding into a lake basically emptying the lake that then followed the creek/river path to obliterate everything.

When we talk about glaciers melting, it's always accompanied by a visual of a big chunk of ice falling into the ocean.

I've never seen it shown as a glacier go down as an avalanche into a lake.

So...

This is what the White House suggests to Congress:

That they should not create a regulatory agency for AI.

And that states should not regulate AI.

Cool. Cool.

Holy shit 😱

Seen by my daughter driving to an event this morning:

A car on its side + 3 other cars and a semi truck with a trailer.

Then just in the past hour coming home:

Somewhere between Lacey & Seattle:

While sitting in traffic for upcoming crash:

"Strange rigor deer" on the side of I-5 😳

"Upcoming crash":

Pickup and camper upside down in the ditch

A few hundred feet further, a car with bashed in rear end with no apparent car doing the...

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Mobile popup windows should NEVER completely cover the screen. Leave 5% on all sides so it's obvious what's just happened and make the damn "x" (to close the pop-up) in the upper right corner with excellent contrast.

#DesignWithJulie

Can't log in to my T-Mobile account to chat with support to tell them I have no phone signal, no SMS, and only one of the two routers has WiFi but no calling with Wi-Fi available on it...

Because...

It's sending my phone an SMS.

ANYONE WANNA FIGHT OVER WHAT A BAD FUCKING IDEA 2FA IS???

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Found chat on their website without logging in.

Here's how that started.

ANYONE WANNA FIGHT ABOUT HOW FUCKING STUPID AI SUPPORT IS???

I expected to hear about some new clusterfuck at the Bite of Seattle after the past 2 years of failures because of different out of town companies taking over.

I was *NOT* expecting a mass shooting! 😱

"...We have some *really profoundly scary* technology at Oracle, and we wanted to make sure that it was available for the effort. Let's just say that, OK?"

The lead-in to that:
"There's a few things that we did, that I really can't talk about, to be honest, because, to advance the agenda for the Israeli... military, but our teams did a lot..."

~Safra Catz, Oracle's Executive Chair

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbECCCyuCy3/

#gardening #Seattle

@dantheclamman
UGH!! This is why I won't replace my 2020 phone with anything but another 2020 phone.

I really hope phone sales plummet because of this.

Well well. I'm impressed. Haven't been impressed with Wired in a long time.

Here's the 2 story with paywalls removed:
1)
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine

https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-jim-dolan-surveillance-machine/

2)
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities

https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-celebrity-database-surveillance/

No more Flock cameras in Los Angeles. 😱

https://abc7.com/post/lapd-ending-agreement-surveillance-company-flock-safety/19483200/

The new commemorative 250th "Patriot Passport" has some new features, according to Marco Rubio:

https://youtu.be/MPUwm86eYFE

✓ when you flip the pages the image in the corner moves...

Uh... you mean like we drew when we were 8. Really?

✓ a "certificate of authenticity"

Uh... isn't that kinda built into the passport itself because it's a... passport?

HERE'S MY FAVORITE:

✓ QR codes

Uh... that just gives me warm fuzzies all over

(You guys do know I'm fluent in sarcasm right?)

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...They take you to (secure, I'm sure 🙄🙄) videos of whatever the picture is.

***PSA*** We all know to look at the URL when we scan a QR code before hitting "open" & we make sure it's https not http and that the domain is a legitimate domain where you'd expect it to take you, right?? i.e. if you click on a QR code for Julio's Taco Truck, that QR code URL better say https://juliostacotruck.com or you don't go there.

✓ you'll be able to get a passport online using the camera on your device...

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...
Uh... Your camera that's unique from every other camera? That one? So now when a pic you post, even when it has the metadata removed, STILL is forensically unique and will now be tied to your identity in ye olde profile in ye giant database.

But he says that's not ready yet. Their AIslop didn't end up working right maybe?

All of this is brought to you by the National Design Studio.

Yep, NDS, formed by an Executive order, who have registered .gov domains, made them live...
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(ON PRIVATE SERVERS) with tracking, then when that was discovered, has redirected them to the real real sites.

The Drey Dossier has been researching this. Start here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/thedreydossier/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its

Her database of all these sus domains is on GitHub.

rant/ Why doesn't anybody have their own damn site?? /rant

And then at the end of Rubio's little presentation, he jokes "I am going to sell Ambassador Bulloz's for $50. We'll start with a $50 bid..."

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Doctors in Congo say they're ill-equipped to handle the ebola outbreak after Trump cut funds.

It's all about the data, the DNA, the AI diagnosis, the treatments, etc. that come from it.

If you think that sounds like a conspiracy "theory" instead of a straight up conspiracy, you're not listening hard enough.

Take 27min & watch this DreyDossier...

No really

"Why was the CEO of the world's largest DNA sequencing co. on the official delegation to Beijing last week?"

https://substack.com/@thedreydossier/note/p-198486500?r=n55qz