Notices by Reay Jespersen (reay@mastodon.social), page 3

@madcollector The PlayStation controllers have always felt the most practical and ergonomically comfortable to me.

@dansup It’ll be interesting to see which U.S. politicians voting against these kinds of regulations will personally benefit from this and who, when the country finally gets on board with these kinds of regulations, will claim — against every shred of abundant media coverage — that they’ve been pushing for this kind of change for years.

Because it’s gonna be more than a few.

@killyourfm Jesus, they’ve already made an album with the new drummer?

Proliferation, thy name is Foos.

Turns out she has a friend who just moved into the country who's looking for his first car, so he's looking for something used.

Well, damn if this doesn't fit the bill on that score REALLY well.

Gave her my number and hope to hear back. This may, MAY, be a really simple sale. 😀

We're looking at selling our second, OLD car.

I washed it up and parked it outside work for some nice lighting in a non-descript area, and as I'm taking some pics of it to post online, the lady I parked near rolled down her window and asked how much I wanted for it.

Um... what? Like... really?

1/2

@vaurora I’m always amused at still having multiple choice questions for quizzes I need to do occasionally for work, some of which are made painfully obvious because they really don’t want you to fail stuff so basic.

It sometimes feels like:

A coworker has had their foot caught under the wheel of a one-ton power lifting equipment device. Do you:

? Get back to work.

? Scream.

? Take your scheduled break.

? Help them.

@RobertMaguire Of course debt can be cancelled.

I cover something for you and don’t care if get that money back again. There, debt has been cancelled.

Yes, this is on an astronomically larger scale, but a) it absolutely can still be done, and b) not doing it will continue a brutal cycle of students creating debt whose unconscionable interest keeps them struggling to pay it off for sometimes *decades*.

THAT is Owens’s preferred option. ??

@stux It’s interesting to me that the idea of an ICC exists, but that leaders can just opt to not pay attention to it.

Kinda… defeats the purpose, no?

@Mrfunkedude I'm reading it in the present. ?

@georgetakei Land of the free.

@Mrfunkedude Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

@Mrfunkedude @That_One_Guy I came to this same conclusion for similar reasons a couple of years back: https://www.reayjespersen.com/blog-1/2021/01/19/finding-the-path-to-the-sincerity-of-an-art/

@That_One_Guy @Extra_Special_Carbon @Mrfunkedude

I suspect semantics in their breakdown. (E.g, they don’t “sell” the data because it still belongs to Google. They don’t “share” it because that implies no financial transaction has taken place, etc.)

I believe it’s about 90% of Google’s income these days is obtained from ad sales. That certainly isn’t from not selling access to unparalleled volumes of user data. There’s a reason they track and log the constant minutiae of what their users do.

@That_One_Guy @Extra_Special_Carbon @Mrfunkedude I was a longtime Android/Google guy, but have lately been going more Apple over privacy issues.

With either Google or Apple, everything you do all the time is known to the companies, so in either case users need to be okay with that. But Apple keeps that info in-house (almost entirely), while Google’s long-time business model is letting anyone who pays them tap into that data to target ads.

For me, the less widespread my data is, the better.

Up at 5:30 this morning to attend my daughter’s first city-wide school robotics competition because I a) want to support her in everything she loves doing, and b) want to make nice with robots for when the uprising happens.