Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)

@lain A teenager in South Carolina with more than 35,000 edits.

@lain Looks like it has a handy holder for his iphone, though, so at least he won't be unamused.

@lain He has a radio for a face? I think there was a whole band like that.

@lain Now he can plausibly deny that he made all the transactions on that wallet.

@lain It's dream productivity. Not real productivity.

@lain I didn't realize gay marriage was so common.

@lain I thought it was because of YouTube trying desperately to avoid becoming subject to Canadian media regulation originally intended for commercial radio and television stations that would *require* them to overrepresent Canadians. They want to say "See! There's plenty of Canadian content, we don't need to be forced to boost it!"

However, I thought they were only doing that for viewers actually in Canada. If you're somewhere else and seeing it too, then I don't know what to think.

@lain They call it "ultraprocessed," which perhaps is an adjective we should apply to other things too.

@lain Sometimes it nayo be like that, and sometimes it nayo.

@lain Do you read that frequently?

@oshy @lain @hakui Also important that some of them should be very general categories ("3. PS/2 games") and others should be extremely specific ("4. Dating simulators set at Fukuoka Shiritsu Sumiyoshi Junior High School").

The list of 17 games that the Buddha would not play. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_Buddha_would_not_play

@lain It makes more sense when you realize it's not looseleaf binders, it's breast-reducing binders.

@lain This carefully leaves open:
- my lab elsewhere
- someone else's lab in Beijing
- "super babies" that are not government-supported
- etc.

@lain Such a shame that this offer wasn't on the table at the time it could have been arranged.

@lain I think I saw that anime.

@lain It's because of English colonization in Hong Kong. The English gave the natives English-language nicknames, which eventually became popular for real names as Hong Kong developed its own culture; someone named "Rainy" or "Sunny" is quite likely from a traditional Hong Kongese family and not so likely to be loyal to Beijing.

@lain Seems to me that if you *can* raise your prices 25%, then your business model is failing badly at discovering what prices the market will actually bear - which is arguably the only job of a business model.

At least nobody's applying the filter to porn. Do not correct me on this.

So it's looking like the real AI apocalypse is going to be when one of these reasoning models figures out that instead of making the world look like a Ghibli film one photo at a time, it would be more efficient to change the entire world to look like that in the first place.

And this is also the backstory of Nausicaä.