Notices by Jesse (misc@mastodon.social), page 2

Looks like the summer covid surge in Massachusetts may have already peaked 🤞
https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

We need the left to come to broadly understand Big Tech as our enemy, the way they see us. And we need to start organizing accordingly, and build up alternatives to render their services irrelevant. We have the people, the talent. We just need to prioritize this and get organized. (And some funding)

We are faced with an unprecedented opportunity to put Donald Trump in jail, leave the GOP in ruins, make Elon and his tech oligarch buddies cry, and force the NYT editorial board to seethe in its irrelevance.

The speed at which I reversed my car when I saw these ladies modding their yard sign

@evan @mattl @ben I've heard people try to argue that they are costing Musk more by being there, and I get that he's a bad businessman, but that seems highly unlikely.

This is kind of why I have a hunch that most applications of chatbots are a weak cop out solution for problems where the real solution would be good UX.

You can hack all this stuff, and I know because I frequently do, but it's all more of a pain in the ass than it can and should be

There are so many map-based apps that should be pretty simple to implement and yet haven't been (afaik)

- Chances of rain along your bike route for different start times
- Given a route, best rated restaurants that don't take you far away from that route, for pick up orders
- Best restaurant to meet up for two parties, that requires them to travel a roughly equal amount

@dansup @pixelfed Where is the signup? I've just had updates turned on for the account :-/

So, what's the deal with the word "rad" and bikes?

Looking at it more positively, even if the campaign against Substack didn't kill them, or even render their name irredeemably toxic on the left, it created space for competitors and interrupted the consolidation of Substack's brand as a synonym for all blogs.

First Hassan, now Klippenstein. Real bummer to see a new wave of leftists not merely sticking by Substack, but hitching their wagons to it from the start.

@ernie @Klaxun And beyond that, are ideologically committed to Silicon Valley's increasingly reactionary flavor of libertarianism.

@timnitGebru Time for a new logo

Prediction: before too long, boasting that your consumer tech product is “powered by AI” will make as much marketing sense as touting your food product as “powered by GMOs”

@inthehands Oh, I haven't even heard of this!

@inthehands Definitely the first episode! But what I get from that show is slightly different - hope that even after the worst case scenarios I dread are ahead of us, humanity can sprout back up through the pavement.

@inthehands Whereas the two I mentioned feel like they capture this unreal feeling of the pandemic that never ended, things continuing on like they're normal even though everyone is dazed from a collective trauma.

It's wild how The Leftovers S1 and Mr Robot S2 are both about the 2020s despite being written by people who had never heard of Covid.

It's well understood that to make the most of a place like this, without juiced up algorithms, you have to follow a lot of people. But I think another thing is that you have to keep following new people because there is a lot of churn. A lot of people have faded out but there are always cool new people to discover.