Notices by Josh Davis (guerillaontologist@social.coop)

The idiots are in charge...and they've taken over the schools. GenAI is a scourge, and anyone pushing it in an institutional setting should be shown the door immediately.

Frankly glad I don't have kids, because if I did I'd be homeschooling them for sure, between this and our govt's refusal to adequately ventilate schools and classrooms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZT5NulzUVM

@derek score!

@ntnsndr Trust me bro, it's different this time! 😂

@cwebber I really thought the clip-art comic style was gonna catch-on after GYWO got popular, but David is really the only one that seems to have really make use of that particular "medium".

You've heard of POSIWID? Meet POPIWID: the Purpose Of a Party Is What It Does.

@aral @Rusty @adnan
"Oops! Accidentally paid our CEO $6 million a year"

@derek As always, no solution without simply reducing consumption. We don't do that and we're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titantic.

What's the opposite of a silver lining?

"They argue that rewilding productive farmland or forestry in industrialised nations that have low levels of biodiversity may do more harm than good on a planetary scale.

"Exploratory analysis by the team suggests that reclaiming typical UK cropland for nature may be five times more damaging for global biodiversity than the benefit it provides local species, due to the displacement of production to more biodiverse regions."

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1072994

@kaia Logging sports are dope. One of the benefits of living in a rural area is getting to go see them live at the community college.

@kaia And if you think this is cool, check out Springboard event.

@cwebber @puppygirlhornypost2
I'd assume LLM generated text, and they probably have a number of different boilerplate posts for different demographics (or at least they would if I were running this scam 😤). It would be easy enough to look for trans flags or they/them pronouns (or conservative hashtags and American flags) in profiles and sort people into their probable demographics that way, to better tailor the messaging.

Our org has been getting some pretty tailored phishing emails too 😕

This was #Caturday in New Orleans.

Duffel Blog gets a 10/10 for this headline 🤣

Make The UK Pre-Roman Again

https://www.sciencealert.com/iron-age-dna-reveals-women-dominated-pre-roman-britain

@Mitsu I live around a bunch and they've never attacked anything (except each other). Flap your arms around if they give you any trouble and they'll flee like overgrown chickens. You got this.

@kaia @david
I was thinking they were probably some of them Babblefish from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Oh look, it's someone who remembers how to do politics!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/20/clinical-trial-by-ordeal/#spoiled-his-brand-new-rattle

@ntnsndr
See here:
Golden rule : the investment theory of party competition and the logic of money-driven political systems by Thomas Ferguson

https://archive.org/details/goldenruleinvest00ferg/

"Soon after the ACA was passed, Democrats started calling it ‘universal healthcare.’ If it weren’t for the 30% – 40% of claims that don’t get paid because there is no entity with the power to make insurance companies do so, they might have an argument. What is particularly galling about the effort is that the long history of predatory behavior by the insurance industry was available to anyone who cared to look."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/rob-urie-politics-by-other-means-health-insurance-industry-edition.html

Hot take: Self-care is a neoliberal concept. Care is something you do for others (or they do for you), but our society demands that all things - including care - be made the responsibility of each individual to do for themselves. Feeling burnt out? Depressed? Run down? It's your own fault for not doing enough self-care!