Notices by Tracy Chou (triketora@mastodon.social)

random little fun fact: kamala harris and tim walz are both 60 this year, which means it's their chinese zodiac year and they're both dragons. we got a double dragon ticket here, v lucky 🐉🐉

i think we should stop giving our ai bots female names (alexa, siri) and give them names from the old white boys club (john, james, chad) in honor of how overconfident and annoying they are even when they’re completely wrong or making stuff up

human beats ai to win ai contest https://petapixel.com/2024/06/12/photographer-disqualified-from-ai-image-contest-after-winning-with-real-photo/

just want to share my dragon cny themed zoom background with you all, literally everyone i get on a call with asks me if it’s real or not, yes it is! 🐉

the next big opportunity: social networking for your pets. look at how cute these birds are! calling their friends on facetime! https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/21/parrots-talking-video-calls/

@aral @sk_02 we used to run a prosumer freemium saas biz with block party on twitter and were in discussions with enterprise for bulk sales until elon. will likely follow a similar model for privacy party but it’s still early days.

the browser extension implementation means we don’t store any of your social data, everything is running locally in your browser. so you don’t have to worry about us selling or compromising your data, we don’t have it!

PRIVACY PARTY is now available for firefox 🦊 it’s never been easier to clean up your social media privacy - just a couple minutes and the extension does everything for you. why wouldn’t you?

(ok maybe if your posts from a decade ago are as pure as travis kelce’s… leave the squirles for the enjoyment of posterity)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-party/

the thing about being a founder is you keep thinking, i just need to get to that next milestone {launch the product, close the round, close the hire} and then things will be good… but it’s always a new set of bigger problems waiting for you once you get there 🫨

the main impact of llms on my life so far is that i have to wade through the crap they’ve generated

psa for job applicants, using chatgpt to write your essay responses does not help your chances of interview, bc guess what everyone else submitted the same essay 🙃

if anyone is thinking about making a job switch in the new year… block party is hiring!

roles open:
* software engineer
* product designer
* product manager
* chief of staff
* growth marketing manager

block-party.breezy.hr

hopefully self promo is not prohibited on mastodon, sorry am still learning my way around…