Notices by Laurie Voss (seldo@alpaca.gold), page 3

Lotta people in my mentions who need some face punching today.

And if all else fails, punch them in the face.

Happy Pride.

The democrats should propose a bill that nobody convicted of a felony can run for president and watch the GOP squirm as to why a felon should be unable to vote but eligible to run for president.

Apple refusing to call anything in #WWDC keynote "AI" and instead calling it all "ML" is warming my heart.

I'm a great trans ally because I will completely forget what your deadname was within seconds of you telling me your new one. I will also forget what your new name is a few seconds later but I don't think that should detract from my excellent allyship.

It is extremely techbro that there is a focus on the world-ending potential of AI when the much closer and demonstrable risk is that marginalized groups become victims of automated discrimination and the reason is because tech bros aren't going to be personally affected by that.

Today's entry in #OneThousandYearsOfWomen is Margery Kempe, an extremely Christian woman who went gunning for sainthood by going on pilgrimages and demonstrating what she considered to be a variety of miraculous abilities. She then wrote what is considered to be the first autobiography in the English language about her adventures, giving us great insight into her life and times and the fact that she was just absolutely hands-down the worst travel companion you could ever possibly imagine.

"Just use your heat vision! Vaporize them from a mile away!" I yell at the tv for the thousandth time.

The thing about Titans is that Superboy exists and could resolve every problem in seconds if he tried even a little bit, but he doesn't.

This whole show is about everyone having incredibly intense daddy issues.

@StevenBarnhart @mekkaokereke has been talking about it a lot but basically: open, vicious racist harassment and inadequate moderation.

The difference between Mastodon and Bluesky may end up being that Mastodon as a community is not sure it wants to be Twitter and isn't sure it wants all these Twitter refugees while Bluesky is positive that it wants both of those things.

@mattl people are SO STRESSED about having to pick a server, I absolutely do not understand it, I believe they find it difficult but I find it impossible to fathom why.

The clear message I am getting from Bluesky is that black people felt unsafe on mastodon. Black Twitter was a huge part of what made it special, and it's been notably absent on mastodon. I will be sad if mastodon loses to a less-open alternative because it couldn't figure out how to be welcoming to everyone.

What's that you say? Bluesky crossed a few hundred thousand users and immediately started having moderation issues? You don't say! Who could have possibly predicted? etc.

Elon Musk reports that the largest metaphor ever constructed has exploded 2 minutes after launch.

Free ML project idea: train on famous singers, write parody songs, call it Weird A.I. Yankovic.

Apple keeps emailing me saying I would save money on my current subscriptions by bundling into Apple One and this... is not true. Surely they know that.

@mentallyalex @Pineywoozle @helplessduck @isaacs @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak nobody asked, but yes that's exactly what debugging is like for me ?

@mentallyalex @Pineywoozle @helplessduck @isaacs @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak yeah doing data viz for a living is kind of cheating when my brain does all the viz automatically! I'm mostly just drawing pictures from my head.