Notices by Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)

AI is dogshit. And the more contact people have with AI, the more they'll realize it's dogshit and turn against it as tacky. The only reason anyone's doing any of it is because billionaires and multinationals are telling them "AI is the future!" and cramming it into everything

Even with all this they still can't get *most* people to give it more than a passing glance. Because people can instinctively recognize that it's dogshit, that it's useless insipid vapid bullshit with no intrinsic value

@justine Speaking from someone who has made mobile phones, I understand why this falls down every time. Every step in the process involves business relationships that themselves are tied to Android or Apple.

We do at least have LineageOS, which while still structurally Android is pretty darn far removed from it.

@stevebenen "Tommy, what's happening with them sausages?"
"Five minutes, Turkish!"
"...?! It was two minutes five minutes ago!"

@heidilifeldman I always remember this exchange between my uncle and my grandfather, who was a WWII veteran.
"I don't know how y'all pulled through, daddy."
"At the time, we didn't know if we would."

It only looks like a heroic story after someone makes it so. Until then, it's a lot of people not sure what tomorrow will bring.

@briellebouquet I'm sure people did. There's art of people breaking down trying to make ends meet in the depression.

@briellebouquet It's not published anywhere, but I remember my uncle pulling some Greatest Generation reverence with my grandfather and saying to him "I don't know how y'all won out, daddy."

Grandaddy shot him down fast. "At the time, we didn't know if we would."

So, yeah, people were afraid.

@BathysphereHat a good sample can evoke decades of history in my mind. It's amazing.

@MousyAesthete unfortunately, I get the feeling it's the first of many.

I'm not on HRT or any similar medical interventions, and I'm decades past being legally a child, but the Skrmetti decision today has been extremely dehumanizing to read and consider. I am decidedly not okay.

@ajroach42 In the PWHL, I'm with the Minnesota Frost but I might change that to Seattle now that they have a team. AFL football, Adelaide Crows, but it's not because of anything in particular. Cricket, West Indies, Perth Scorchers, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and my feelings on England flip-flop.

Also, I recommend "Things You Missed That You Never Planned On Watching" by Jomboy Media every week.

@koosli @ajroach42 @stibbons Oh are they now? They had some disastrously unwatchably bad seasons and I stopped following closely, and then my partners got really into a bunch of other sports and following stuff as a family got really important to me.

@epilanthanomai @ajroach42 @emily @montag They do, but the question was specifically about "organized" streaming rather than following individual leagues.

I *did* try to get ARD on New Ellijay TV, but there were too many questions about rights-to-likeness at the time.

@hotsoup @ajroach42 First off, I used to run a curling team, and yeah, curling is a ton of fun to watch and play.

Secondly, another cheap thing to follow because it's free on Youtube...disc golf!

@koosli @ajroach42 @stibbons I'm with the Adelaide Crows, so I'll start watching again when they're bearable to watch.

I love AFL football. Great sport. Played it once. Had no clue what I was doing. Didn't care.

@ajroach42 @emily @montag The organized broadcasts center around the major events and tournaments. The next major roller derby event is the World Cup, being held in Innsbruck, Austria, July 3-6. 1 team per country, plus "borderless" teams like Team Black Diaspora, Team Indigenous, and Jewish Roller Derby. Streaming package here:
https://rollerderbyworldcup.live/

@b4ux1t3 @ajroach42 I know a guy who's kid plays it in north Georgia. Apparently the GAA, the governing body of the sport, has been trying to establish it here.

It's a great sport. Absolutely mad. An equal mix of hockey and lacrosse with some soccer and football scoring rules.

And I hear ties in the championship game aren't settled by overtime...they're settled by repeating the game next week.

@ajroach42 @emma The PWHL, which is the premier women's hockey league, is free to watch on Youtube. Their season just concluded, so it'll be like 6 months before it's back on live. But I recommend it highly. I prefer it to NHL hockey for a lot of reasons.

@ajroach42 @nobody They also have a lot of content on Youtube.

@ajroach42 @Charles I've been a subscriber for over a decade. Cricket takes time to "get", but the big secret is to just vibe and let it make sense in its own time.

Soon you'll be saying "smashed that googly over midwicket" as if these words aren't inherently silly.

@ajroach42 @Charles I mostly follow the national teams, and within that it's usually West Indies (I used to live near Miami and there are a lot of Caribbeans there). That does mean I'm largely waiting for better days. In the Australian Big Bash, it's the Perth Scorchers. In the IPL, it's Royal Challengers Bengaluru. No major reason; I just know people in those places and you gotta pick a side. But really, cricket is most fun to me when there's a big test on and I have all day in the pub.