Notices by Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to), page 4

@mattblaze
Back when we used Alexa, ours was set not to reply to our commands. A normal exchange went,

"Alexa, play Springsteen"
<Springsteen starts playing>
End of interaction

Then I stayed at a friend's house for a week, and their Alexa was programmed to reply, "Okay, playing Bruce Springsteen" before playing the music

Within a day or two, I found myself saying 'please' and 'thank you' to their Alexa

The robots are doing their level best instill civility in us. Undoubtedly for Reasons

@lauren
The fallout was inevitable but I didn't see this coming

I thought Giuliani (who surely has as much dirt on Trump as Musk does) would turn on Trump after Trump let him go bankrupt and stiffed him hundreds of thousands in legal fees. But Rudy kept quiet

And so I considered it likely that Musk and Trump would tacitly agree to a similar detente. Gotta be a case of Mutually Assured Destruction, no?

In any case, I'm pleasantly surprised

Not enough popcorn in the world for the Elon and Trump show

@glennf
I have one of these and bought another as a gift. I could not love them more

Flongs forever!

So if a teacher is anti-semitic, it's diversity of viewpoint and academic freedom

If a student says stop killing Palestinians, it's grounds for expulsion

Got it

* * *

REP TAKANO: Does refusing to hire a Holocaust denier as a member of Harvard's history department count as an ideological litmus test?

McMAHON: I believe there should be diversity of viewpoints relative to teachings and opinions on campuses

@davew
I'm right there with you. I finished the first season out of stubbornness rather than enjoyment. Haven't felt a need to check out S2

@adriano
Well, damn. That ruins what is otherwise a provocative cartoon

Further googling suggests someone used a meme generator. And wow, to my untrained eye those formulae are indistinguishable from the correct ones

[I'm not saying they're correct. I'm saying they look correct to someone who can visually match general structure and chemical symbols, but who otherwise nearly failed high school chem and has no memory of what the specific interior lines represent. This shit is so dangerous]

texted from a friend, authorship unknown

I really want to believe in ranked choice voting. In theory it should give us candidates like Elizabeth Warren

In practice it gave New York City Eric Adams, and it's about to give them Andrew Fucking Cuomo

“If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have resigned,” Mr. Cuomo said

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/nyregion/cuomo-resignation-governor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.LE2r.Jjho51Z6Nzul

I generally don't boost images without alt text and I almost never recommend things written on substack

But holy shit, this piece is likely the best horror story you'll read this year. No matter how anti-LLM you are, this will bring home how it's so much worse than you already know

I should probably add a trigger warning: if you've ever been in an abusive relationship with someone who understood the value of a deeply "empathic" apology, this will be a gut punch

https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina?r=i691&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

@inthehands
At first I thought this was satire but I realize you just typo'd 2025

I feel certain that @kjhealy already has one of these in his office

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/01/pico-mac-nano-tiny-original-macintosh-replica/

Lol. Sure. I'll get right on that

Also, Lucy lost her football. Politico thinks Charlie Brown should buy her a new one

Taken by my friend Derek Tearne in New Zealand last night. Strong possibility we'll have a good show in the northern hemisphere tonight

Aurora With Moonbow

#aurora

@TonyStark
[aside to my new followers who may have no idea how anti-Trump I am? I am extremely, virulently anti-Trump]

I find this same strategy can be effective with conspiracy theorists: Don't go to their left, go their right

I forgot whose tweet or toot this was, but someone suggested that in response to,

"The moon landing was faked"

come back with,

"Wait, you believe the moon it real?!"

It's easier to recognize someone else's absurdity and can sometimes lead to self-reflection

@TonyStark
I have found that the way to be persuasive on this is not to tell them that they're wrong, but rather to insist that they're right

"None of us voted for this"

"Au contraire, I voted for this. He campaigned on it, and it's what I want, and I hope it continues. If it isn't what you want, you should have voted for the Black lady. I hope he runs again so that I can vote for it again"

I find it's much more effective to let them judge me than it is to ask them to judge themselves

@TheBreadmonkey
A propos of this, spouse and I have been rewatching _The Crown_

We're now at the start of S3 and still no Elizabeth and I'm utterly confused, waiting for her to show up

I finally mention this to spouse who says, "Honey, we're watching Downton Abbey"

@annmlipton
Wasn't David Tepper advocating for this more than a decade ago?

My boss' take at the time was, "Tepper's right but I'm not crazy enough to say it publicly."

#Via Tim Hannan / timhannan
June 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM

"ICE is now posing as the electric company to get access to people’s houses."

https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_e949f7c5-d339-4546-804c-cbb3c970af38.html

News orgs need to update their dictionaries. Autocorrect is apparently changing it to BASELESS when surely they mean to say BATSHIT

[Not sure who looks worse in this story. Trump apparently didn't discover until 2025 that Biden was executed under his watch in 2020. But Jake Tapper wrote a whole ass book about Biden's mental decline and missed this stunning detail]

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-shares-joe-biden-executed-conspiracy-2079445