Notices by Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social), page 2

A friend just told me he and his elderly parents have COVID. Another reminder that it is still very present. Definitely vindicates my choice to mask up while shopping.

Love the ease of #Christmas decorations for the house on the right. #Wellington #WhanganuiaTara #Aotearoa #NZ

Been on Mastodon seven years, and this is the post I get the most reactions from. Found the level then! 😁

https://mastodon.social/@jackyan/113641932626013110

Guessing this is the USA where you need to make these disclaimers? #Ikea

This is an awesome thread from @chu on words in Cantonese and Mandarin that have no direct English equivalent.

https://climatejustice.social/@chu/113572242925848019 #language

In Flash Gordon, Mongo has a whole planet named for him.

@madeindex Must be worth millions! 😁

@madeindex This does give me an ego trip on how we must be perceived as a company. No money, but great trip …

@madeindex Only inasmuch as there is a recession … so you would think some professional journalism would be the order of the day.

One international publication—I won’t say whom—said they declined to run a review about the #Autocade Yearbook because the owners see us as a competitor.
We have maybe a hundredth of their annual revenue and Autocade contributes about a hundredth of that … so are we a competitor or is this another case of a big company stepping on a little independent to make life hard?
This is not just a foreign thing—the local newspaper does this to us as well.
Both times their own journalists told me …

@kityates Took them a while but glad they are doing it. Weʼre small fry in comparison but thought this was obvious over a year ago (having observed the decline for a period before that)—and we removed our Twitter gadgets from our pages in 2021, since even then it was obvious where things were heading.

https://lucire.com/insider/20230905/time-to-disconnect-from-x-the-site-formerly-known-as-twitter/

Don’t really know what this means, but I guess it’s to do with a broken promise somewhere. Sounds pretty serious that it’s destroying objects. #Signal

@JdeBP @kpfssport I would pay to see a 2020s Automan. I wonder who they could cast.

Looking forward to seeing this “AI” house of cards fall, as it inevitably will.

https://mastodon.ie/@FSonder/113045184194744090

@tchambers Thank you for sharing this! Great to have a small sense of the atmosphere there!

In my blog
Enforcing long-held laws: #Google is a monopolist, violating Sherman Act s. 2

https://jackyan.com/blog/2024/08/enforcing-long-held-laws-google-is-a-monopolist-violating-sherman-act-s-2/ #law #competition #antitrust #ShermanAct

Channel 9 in Australia gives them two places in this #Olympics table—a bit greedy!

@liztai I never could!

Official statistics: 85,600 New Zealand citizens have left the country, YTD May 2024. #Luxit

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/521778/record-numbers-leaving-new-zealand-with-more-departing-in-may-than-arriving-statsnz #Aotearoa #NZ

The US fascists really have nothing.

https://mas.to/@sarahc/112832351369687262