Notices by Richard Littler (richard_littler@mastodon.social), page 2

This is absolutely wretched. It's like throwing a party and only inviting disposable plastic cutlery. It's like desperately needing the approval of your toothbrush and refrigerator. It reeks of dejection and cringing loneliness.

#AI

Man sets fire to building, punches two people, steals a car, all the while shouting that he loves kittens.
Man: "You get arrested nowadays just for saying you like kittens."

Musk again claiming that free speech is under attack. The usual distortion of liberal values. Plus it's a straw man argument. X hasn't been charged with 'exercising free speech', it's been charged with refusing to name a legal representative and, under EU law, deceiving its users, failing transparency requirements, and is being investigated for disseminating disinformation & *illegal* hate speech...

#twitter #X #ElonFuckingMusk

Just noticed my Twit-X account has haemorrhaged another 300-400 followers in the past few days. This is in addition to a further 1000 or so in the past few months. Another exodus underway?

@Concretism Yes, Masto seems the safer option, although BSky's imitation of Masto's decentralised format might hold off some of the nonsense that befell Twitter

Social media engagement comparison:

I posted the same tweet, at the same time, on...

TWITTER/X (with 32k followers):
22 RTs; 120 Likes; 6 comments

MASTODON: (with 14k followers):
260 RTs; 373 Likes; 30 comments

BLUESKY: (with 4k followers):
61 RTs; 6QTs; 389 Likes; 21 comments

The BBIC have called it...

#ElonMusk #twitter #X

I mean...

The evening sky. And now I understand why J.M.W. Turner liked visiting the Swiss lakes to paint.

It's crazy that someone can accuse you of copyright infringement, yet offer zero detail about the nature of that infringement, and it's up to you to guess what the accusation may refer to and then defend yourself accordingly.

Yes, it may be a case of AI/bots scouring the internet for matches, but then why did Sony not make a claim against the original, untouched sample, which is also on YouTube, on the library's own channel?

#ModernLifeIsRubbish

And then I pointed out that the license clearly stipulates that the library's samples are for personal use only, and not to be used under any circumstances for commercial projects.
Suddenly, Sony withdrew their claim without explanation. Huh. Could it have been *they*, not me, who used the sample unlawfully?

🧵 I won my YouTube dispute with Sony Music Entertainment after they claimed I infringed the copyright of one of their artists. They rejected my first appeal, even though I offered evidence that I'd written/performed/recorded the music myself.
I guessed that my track's background atmosphere audio sample might be the contentious element, so I demonstrated that it was from a Creative Commons audio library which offers free audio samples.

Must be so hard for Americans. I mean, how *does* one choose between a highly competent, successful prosecutor/politician... and a narcissistic, geriatric, diaper-wearing, traitorous sexual predator with multiple felonies to his name, and the cognitive competence of dogshit, whose presidency would be a serious security threat to all countries that aren't run by malignant autocrats?

The only act I would have gone to #Glastonbury for this year. #SleafordMods.
In this age of ostentatious live shows with props & multiple costume changes, you have to admire their stagecraft: Jason W. randomly cawing like a gibbon/kookaburra throughout with a bottle of water held over his head, and his pants half down, full of tics, and angrily screaming 'fuck off, you cunts', while Andrew dances in the background like a mashed Magnum P.I. ZZ Top Bez.

I popped over to LinkedIn, so you don't have to.
Yes, it's still like a scientology convention.

How on earth can it be 43 years since I first saw Raiders of the Lost Ark?
"I belong in a museum..."

Them: "Hi, how are you today?"
Me: "Fine."*

*Easier to say 'fine' than 'I feel like I'm living in a time in which mass psychosis is ravaging at least half the population; like I'm a passenger in a car being driven at 120mph toward a cliff edge by an unhinged driver who has never driven before but, in his derangement, a) believes he's Cowboy Jesus riding a tamed dinosaur, and b) has convinced other demented passengers of this, and they are now willing to shred and eat anyone who opposes him.'

If humans were the result of intelligent design, we'd be able to detach our arms when we go to bed. They just get in the way. It's like sharing the bed with two insomniac geese.

I entered random words/phrases from a load of #LinkedIn posts into an online text shuffler, clicked shuffle a couple of times, then picked a random office image from a free image library. And now I'm pretty sure that many of the sponsored posts must be bots. Either that or I should go into business consultancy myself.

I've had to take a break from reading a dense volume about the #history of the Roman Empire. More accurate chapter titles might be: Chap. 1: Men Being Dicks. Chap 2: More From Those Men Being Dicks. Chap 3: The Dick Men Fight Other Dick Men. Chap 4: Women's Roles in... Nope. More Men Being Dicks.