Notices by Ethan Marcotte (beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com), page 3

Current status: https://bukk.it/wizard-immacausearuckus.jpg

please calm down, Website I Ordered Some Socks From

i love personal website redesign projects, they concentrate the highest number of crippling insecurities over the longest period of time possible

tfw you’re not a climber but you suddenly land on the highest shelf you’ve ever reached, and you’re not sure what the fuck happens next

#CatsOfMastodon

you first, asshole

@hbuchel i just made the noise my cats make before they hurl

@baldur Oh Baldur, this is just so, so sharp. Gonna be thinking about this the rest of the day. Thank you.

(And I hope you know how downright humbled I feel, after seeing you closed with such an expansive endorsement of my little book. Thank you so much, Baldur — that really means a lot 💜)

“Amazon has launched a new ‘one-click to quit the union’ tool, and they’re relentlessly pushing it to every worker in their Coventry warehouse. […] If a worker scans the QR code and clicks the link, Amazon’s software automatically generates a letter from the worker and then emails it to the trade union, ending their membership.”

A legal challenge to some gnarly union-busting tactics that Amazon’s deployed in one of its UK warehouses, on the cusp of a union vote: https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/05/02/legal-challenge-to-amazon-uks-new-one-click-to-quit-the-union-tool/

@eaton oh *hell* yes

@eaton ohhhhhh *fascinating*

🦊

wrote up how i’m blocking “artificial intelligence” bots from accessing my website, with some copy-and-paste code that should (🤞🏻) stay up-to-date whenever i update my blocklist https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/blockin-bots/

“Though it seemed completely automated, [Amazon’s] Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.” https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

[removes glasses; pinches bridge of nose; sighs until the heat death of the universe]

@eaton —WHAT

You’d think “it’s easier for many phones to render PUBG than modern websites” would be an industry-wide wake-up call, but. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/modern-web-bloat-means-some-entry-level-phones-cant-run-simple-web-pages-and-load-times-are-high-for-pcs-some-sites-run-worse-than-pubg

@anildash oh my goodness, anil

i can think of no finer compliment, and from no finer source

💜💜💜

🦊

Hey, I made us a little playlist: nineteen quotes about “artificial intelligence”, spanning a few hundred years. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/generative/

@eaton omg

@eaton i HAVE decided karlach is the closest i’ll ever get to seeing gideon nav in a videogame ☠️😎💜

”Veterans who should be respected for the incredible contributions to our industry have been approached by high-profile production houses being like, ’Can you paint over this Midjourney image? Oh, and we’ll pay you half.’” — https://disconnect.blog/how-artists-are-fighting-generative-ai/

@eaton @danhon eaton after the fifth time i had my entire party just immediately YEETED off said precipice by various skellingtons

i decided i’d had enough