Notices by Stefan Edward Jones (stefanejones@dice.camp)

If you have a personal Google Account, Google is making the "Gemini" AI default on.

Pardon my language, but fuck that noise.

Go to https://gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off ("learn about my choices").

@pluralistic

I'm trying to picture Trump era iron lungs.

You need to have subscription to them to keep working, although some models are free as long as the occupant and their visitors watch the advertising feed that plays on its built-in flat screens.

"Kennedy's Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine."

https://t.co/tLxzlwI09j

@TonyJWells @bruces @pluralistic The Elf on the Shelf is NOT TO BE TRUSTED.

@bruces @pluralistic

He knows when you are sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows when you are taking
An unauthorized pee break

I made my first dumpster diving score in many months!

Two . . . litter baskets. Clean and undamaged.

The tall black one could be used as a hamper.

In 1987-1988 I worked for a computer supply place called Logicsoft. They went horribly bankrupt. I was hired by the bank to help liquidate inventory. I ended up with a dozen heavy duty rubber-ish office trash bins. I *still have six of them* (employed as recyclable sorting bins) after 36 years.

2/ . . . and private contractors. Essentially, people driving their own cars to drop off parcels.

The landscaping around the facility is nice. Wide berm, pedestrian sidewalk, grassy strip with trees, bicyclist sidewalk.

Even on business days I hardly run into anyone. Not a place for humans.

3/ So, I'm walking along this grassy strip and notice . . . water bottles.

There is remarkably little litter around there; there is no one to drop it.

Except for water bottles. *Full of pee.*

The Amazon drivers are too busy to stop, so they pee in bottles. And toss them on the boss's lawn.

1/ Got in my "steps" today walking Daphne through a office/industrial park area. Very light traffic on a Sunday afternoon, so the road noise was minimal so I could hear my podcasts.

One long stretch was occupied by a huge Amazon warehouse / transport facility. It dispatches both Amazon trucks . . .

@pluralistic

Amazon warehouse observation:

https://dice.camp/@StefanEJones/113540770742471547

With cake-baking marathon over, and a birthday non-celebrated, I skipped shaving, going to eat breakfast at McDonald's, and drive to the coast and let my dog run around on the beach.

Spent a few hours on Oregon's coast, in Seaside. A modest resort town.

It was bustling. Folks getting in beach time while the weather is still good.

@MicheleV_AK I was at this very spot last September!

This is the salmon sculpture seen at right of center, from the other side:

@adam You've probably been offered one already, but if you want a Bluesky invite so you can post there, just give a holler.

@adam Bluesky is another Twitter alternative. Currently a much saner place than X.

If you want to give it a try:

https://bsky.app

Invite code to start an account:
bsky-social-ld2gr-fysdw