Notices by Paul-Gabriel Wiener (wearshats@realsocial.life), page 2

@Antiqueight I want to meet you, too!! And Worldcon sounds fantastic!

Unfortunately, I'll be on my couch in NYC.

Just accidentally came up with a new tagline for Highlander (the original movie):

Old Man Yells At MacLeod

The Associated Press has a survey up asking what readers think about the use of "AI" in journalism.

https://www.research.net/r/F9HCG6J

#AI #journalism #news

I need to better curate my feed. Or possibly just quit.

Right now, it's a mix of:
Some neat random stuff
A mixed bag of jokes
Nice people blogging their days
BS politics from people who wouldn't know nuance if it smacked them upside the head and who have zero tolerance for other views
Some stuff I agree with but which was already obvious
Stuff that's not relevant to my interests

I do not have the spoons or patience left. I do not have anything worth saying.

I hate feeling bitter, angry, and burnt out.

Danish PM on the news talking about Ukraine says that we cannot allow other countries to just come in and redraw national boundaries to their own whim at the expense of human lives.

Ma'am, you are aware you're European, right?

The great North American deciduous phone tree.

Slept over 12 hours. Crashed. Stumbled through the day. Slept another 9 hours. Rested. Slept another 9 hours. It's halfway through the day and I'm imploding. Lying down isn't enough. I can't pass out but it really feels like I need to. Watching cartoons is too mentally taxing. I'm short of breath. Can't think. Can't move. I'm just totally fucked.

@bmacDonald94 Still tragic, but no. The mayor of Mexico City was killed, not their president.

I finally did it. I used an LLM. A couple of months ago, MS added its Copilot to Windows. I turned it off. But the latest update shoved it back in my face and tried to get me to let it use my data. So I asked it a question: How do I get rid of Copilot? It suggested I uninstall it like any other program, but MS removed that option. But Copilot went on to tell me the exact registry key to change to block it from loading, and now it's gone.

US Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a new rule requiring hospitals to electronically report cases of respiratory illness such as COVID-19 on a weekly basis, even in the absence of a declared public health emergency.

Public comments on whether to adopt this policy are open.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/02/2024-07567/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-and-the-childrens-health-insurance-program-hospital-inpatient

#COVID #CovidIsNotOver

@JessTheUnstill In theory (if not in actual practice) if you are incarcerated for murder, you are entitled to food, clothing, shelter, exercise, education, and health care. Because those are human rights and while you're in the custody of the state, it's our responsibility to provide those for you. Anything less would be cruel and unusual, and therefore unconstitutional. And yet, if you're a law-abiding citizen on the outside, you're on your own. It pisses me off.

@futurebird Better yet... We weren't supposed to have a standing military in the first place. Washington warned us. It's hugely expensive and it's a constant temptation to use military force in unnecessary wars instead of soft power. For generations, we had the US militias (now known as the National Guard) as our sole military (and the sole purpose of the 2nd Amendment). Now we spend more on our military than the next 10 countries combined, and most of those are allies.

I am just not coping.

@imtheq Well, nothing to be done about sleep deprivation. Not really up to company today. But thanks. If only someone could knock some sense through my sister's thick skull... *sigh* I'm just clocking out.

If you're in the US and are disabled and care about COVID safety, the PBS Newshour would like to hear from you.

This is their survey: https://pbsnewshour.formstack.com/forms/covid_isolation

It doesn't look like much, and it's not linked on their website. I wish there was a better option to verify that it's not a scam, but here's the tweet from their official account: https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/1778808320041550061

#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #disability #disabled #CDC

@futurebird @drj Still amazes me that Myst was written in Hypercard.

It occurs to me that the real way to celebrate Easter is you seal yourself up in a cave all weekend and no one tries to talk to you, but when they come to check on you three days later you're just gone with no forwarding address.

This is the corollary to my theory that the real way to celebrate Passover is everyone gets up in the morning, you have 15 minutes to pack, you pile into the car, you go on a long road trip with no map, seeing where the road takes you, and you're only allowed to eat fast food.

Let me see if I've got this right:

There were many names for the islands. But the Chinese called them Nippon/Nihon ("sun origin") because it's east of them.

Italian merchants wrote down the Indonesian pronunciation of the Chinese name as Gaipan, which became Japan in English.

When a 1943 Batman movie villain said "Actually, I prefer to be called Nipponese," there was a pause for the audience to boo. Because we'd been asked to correct it and didn't want to.

So we still call Nippon "Japan."