Notices by Dan Sinker (dansinker@omfg.town), page 2

@will @benbrown @mathowie well great, then I'll start by saying "I just feel generally unemployable" is perhaps the most relatable thing I've ever heard anyone say and I had to sit for a minute and stare off into the middle distance after I read it.

@will @benbrown @mathowie yeah I feel that, except replace "early stage startup" with "short-term fun project that brings in modest money" which is great, but also sort of draining long-term and offers very little stability which mostly is fine but long-run probably less so.

If you outsourced the TV channel on gas pumps to a large language model and generative video would anyone notice or care

@dell what did he do now

Every few years people re-learn the same lesson about Brendan Eich and it would probably be more efficient if they just remembered instead. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/business/media/ai-chatbots-right-wing-conservative.html

Both kids schools on lockdown right now.

Parents outside the US: I hope you never have to know this particular form of hell.

A couple weeks ago I made these "TRYING" patches and put them on sale and then before I knew it I'd sold out of 200 in less than a day and now there are more available!

Yours for eight bucks. https://shop.dansinker.com/products/trying-patch

@natematias @danhon @ryanrandall @jessamyn @darius probably also worth asking what communication and connections we *lose* by not having QT-like functionality.

@danhon @ryanrandall @jessamyn @darius @natematias the funny thing about QTs is there seems to just be a religious conviction that they are a vehicle for harassment, but like... is there any data to back that up?

@danhon @ryanrandall @jessamyn @darius @natematias I'm being serious! It just seems like on Mastodon there's this inherent understanding that QTs == bad and, well, could someone point me to the data that backs that up?

@darius @danhon oh that is... a very good solution?

Newsrooms should not spin up instances for their reporters partially because this is too new to dedicate strapped staff to, partially because layoffs mean reporters would lose their timelines bc you can't migrate posts, partially because newsrooms are *already* not great at social media policies, and mostly because the problem it ostensibly solves, verification, can be done by just sticking rel=me into author pages and letting reporters self-verify super easily wherever they set up shop here.

@jeffjarvis there are a lot of ethical obligations newsrooms *should* see but don't, I'd put the fediverse pretty low down on that list tbh.

The best advice I have for anyone just coming here is to replace the location of the Twitter app on your phone with Mastodon and let your own muscle memory force you into adapting.

The GPT chatbot is fun for jokey poems and things but also it's legit amazing for learning. I pasted code I'd written in, asked it to clean it up and it wrote better, cleaner, and FUNCTIONING code. Then, I asked it to explain what changes it made and why that was better and it stepped me through it all. Unreal.

Will entirely change how I approach coding projects. No more random Google searches and copying stuff I don't understand out of Substack.

@danhon *coughs*

*whispers* most people don't care about decentralization and governance models, they just want someplace to hang out that's not a hassle.

There's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.

If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.