Notices by Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)

As I do my (US) taxes again ...

Any politician who wants to talk about government deficits are unserious assclowns if they don't put as their top two priorities:

Make it super duper easy for most normal folks to pay the right amount of taxes

Make it super duper likely people and companies who cheat on their taxes get caught

Hey, this 1994 Plymouth Voyager that Jess bought for $100,000 a couple years ago? Well now JessAI printed 150,000 JessAI bills, and gave Jess 100,000 of them in exchange for the keys to the van. "Jess" and "JessAI" believe that "JessAI" is worth $150,000, and thus "Jess" is worth $100,000. Meanwhile the only thing we actually own is this 1994 Plymouth Voyager.

@GossiTheDog

I'm always kinda curious just how many systems would break if you tried setting your username or password to include 💩

That was an impressive new level of wake up bleary, even for me.

Trying to take my pills, I get some water in my mouth. Something distracts me for a moment, then I go back to taking my pills, forget I already had a mouth full of water, and pour more water in my mouth, overflowing and dumping water all over myself. Well, it sure did wake me up quickly I guess...

@Researchbuzz I remember a study a while back of a study about hotel housecleaning staff. One sample was the control, and the other received some coaching about how their physical labor jobs WERE fitness exercise and helping them to be more healthy and in shape. It turns out by the end of the study, the group that received coaching statistically improved on health markers just by beginning to view their work as fitness.

Fantasy artists creating "evil" races that don't just look like exaggerated racial stereotypes
Challenge Level: impossible

Priorities: multiple day battery life
Track steps and heart rate and sleep and set a timer
Able to check the weather

That's about it really

Anyways, does anyone have strong opinions on a smart watch that works with Android?

Am I seeing it right that it's just a regular analog watch with a little digital window in it?
@dan @irene @keira_reckons

So, we're to the literally masked thugs black bagging people in the street in broad daylight stage of fascism. Good to know.

https://youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY?feature=shared

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3llayvzabtk23

Edit: Video shows multiple people in black jackets and hoodies and face masks approaching a Turkish woman in a headscarf on the street, arguing with her briefly, then cuffing her and leading her away to their SUV.

BlueSky skeet is a statement from Tufts University confirming that one of their graduate students was detained by immigration authorities and her lawyer can not get in contact with her.

Hey you.

Go take your meds and/or drink some water and/or go stand outside and get some fresh air for a few minutes. Your body and brain will thank you.

Congratulations?
@dalias @jornane

@dalias Sure, but even stuff that isn't a subscription now could always become enshittified into a subscription later.

Because you know they all will. Eventually.

When you're considering purchasing a new product or service and you have to think: do I stick with a company that already spies on every other aspect of my life and give them even more of my personal data, or do I go with a whole NEW company who can then spy on my life and get a bunch of my personal data?

Confession: I regularly think that the Girl Scout Cookie box says Tagalog and not Tagalong

@mekkaokereke Racists will eagerly hand their fortunes, their rights and their freedoms to an authoritarian so long as the people who they don't like end up even worse.

I hate how techbros have completely polluted the term crypto and AI, fucking over anyone who actually is talking about cryptography and legit machine learning and neural network use cases.

I mean, doctor has long been one of the standard paths to an upper middle class or petite boug life. In fact, doctor salary has comparatively gotten worse with hospitals demanding even more patients per day, insurance reimbursement dropping, hospital administration and shareholders slurping up a bigger and bigger chunk of the money, and having to do more and more unpaid work for pre-authorization and fighting insurance companies to actually cover the healthcare their patients need.

But you are right. What sort of kid who likes computers actually dreams of building tech that spies on people and sells them ads? They want to make games. Or make even better computers. Or fun apps that let them do things with their friends. But instead, ever since at least the dot com boom, the whole field has just become one of the dwindling pathways for someone to actually make a decent salary.

@cwicseolfor @oxtyped

It takes a much more dedicated Tesla buyer to want to buy one despite being sneered at by others, a potential of vandalism, and needing to cross a picket / protest line just to get to the dealership. Plenty of folks will just be like ... I'll try the Toyota or Chevy or BMW dealership instead.

@TheGreatLlama @hannu_ikonen