Notices by Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone), page 9

There’s no male birth control pill yet but I would argue the guy in line behind me at Disneyland explaining Dr. Strange’s vital role in the Marvel Universe to his friend is as close as you can get without a prescription

two screenshots worth of good news

I heard the Olympics are holding the surfing event in French Polynesia instead of Paris to get way better waves, but I just learned they’re surfing the Teahupo'o outer break which is one of the gnarliest waves on the planet.

I’m legit worried about surfer safety and there’s definitely a non-zero chance someone might accidentally die in the event.

We should name our heat waves after oil companies, in alphabetical order like hurricanes or tornadoes. So you’d say the western US is currently suffering from heat wave: Shell Oil this week.

I can already tell this is the stupidest tech news post of the year and it’s only July.

Who in the cinnamon toast fuck wanted AI assistants to have equal footing with human employees? Who would think that’s a forward looking visionary thing to do and not the most dystopian shit imaginable to have Slackbot be your working peer at an onboarding session.

https://lattice.com/blog/leading-the-way-in-responsible-ai-employment

I’m at the Supreme Court building looking around for the Venmo QR code so I can send money to justices to get them to change laws I dislike

for me personally, the washington post died in darkness of their own paywall since I haven't been able to read a single article there in almost a year

"you should pay for journalism, matt!" boy do I, and I have had a WP account in the past, but credit cards expire and I don't visit them often enough to make it worth it. I pay for the NYT because even logged out I can read most of it and the upside of paying is I get more services like their cooking archives.

I would welcome a "liberal bubble" single online subscription for say $20/mo where I could get unlimited reading of the NYT, Washington Post, the LA Times, and I dunno, I guess a Chicago paper and the SF Chronicle.

@annika this is so good I’m mad that I can’t fave it because I just realized it’s already faved and I must have done it when you first posted it

New blog post: what do you do with 170,000 photos long term that only you have access to when all your friends and family are in those shots and might want to browse them someday? https://a.wholelottanothing.org/when-convenience-becomes-a-liability/

I've just been informed the Norwegian phrase for speed bump also describes me to a T

I just ripped a mp3 using a YouTube downloader of some random guy's video copy of a song because the Compact Disc I bought at Amoeba Records on Haight in 2001 that I used the Burn button in iTunes in 2003 to save to my computer and later on used iTunes Match which promised I could listen to all my music forever in the cloud today shows up in my library as unavailable in my country.

It's 2024 and you have to tap into 30 years of l33t hax0r warez knowledge just to add music to your iMovie clip.

I watch a ton of YouTube and my personal rule is any recommendations that include Joe Rogan are channels I instantly block forever.

What’s wild is I have to block a few new channels every week as it seems there are hundreds of channels with Joe Rogan clips all with names that include “JRE” and the YT algorithm really, really wants me to see some Joe Rogan flat earth bullshit now matter how much I avoid it all.

Each day, someone is born that didn’t know the internet classic™ way to keep your hotel room’s blackout curtains together using the pants holder thingy on a hotel clothes hanger

hello Louisville! (for less than 24hrs)

I went down the Tesla Cybertruck review rabbithole on YouTube last night and my lord what a piece of shit car that was rushed to market.

I had no idea the Cybertruck is only legal to sell in the US because it fails international pedestrian safety standards and is banned in Europe.

It’s wild they charged their first customers over $100k for it but it’ll start selling in the $70k range in a couple months, screwing over thousands of early adopters.

Elon Musk sure steps on a lot of rakes.

Sharks, I’m here today to pitch my new movie streaming service that is going to revolutionize film by adding A.I. to all your favorites. Imagine seeing movies you love but made even better.

Today I’m asking for $200M to help launch and for that you’ll get one percent of the company.

Ouch. Two friends on opposite coasts that are the most covid safe/avoidant people I know both caught their first covid this week. Be safe out there folks.

The 2nd place GOP candidate for president out there celebrating the genocide of civilians.

She was always as bad as Trump.