Notices by Laurie Voss (seldo@alpaca.gold), page 4

There are 5,000 political articles about the Trump indictment all of which have the same three (3) facts to cover but damned if they aren't all trying to spin those out into 2,000 words each.

ML cannot do any of these things.

Big week for the stock photographer who decided to take pictures of every retail bank's store front.

A thing about Mastodon that I didn't realize I'd missed from pre-algorithm Twitter is the sheer randomness of the content. No longer honed to be hyper-engaging (usually by being scary or enraging) I now see weird experiments, fun scientific papers, random shitposts. Of course it's not all exactly in my wheelhouse, but that makes it simultaneously more *interesting* while being less *addictive*. The whole experience feels a lot healthier for my brain.

Stripe is powering the anti-trans hate group Gays Against Groomer's donation page. Tell them to knock it off and stop profiting from discrimination.

"Woke mind virus" is how billionaires describe the idea that you should give even the tiniest bit of a shit about how your actions will affect other people.

? No one's slick like Elon
? Such a dick like Elon
? Destroys value incredibly quick like Elon
? Like all billionaires, he is quite irritating
? But none quite so much as Elon

An interesting thing I learned from Eleanor Roosevelt's biography is that Hitler used the USA's treatment of black people as justification for his treatment of Jews, and this was widely regarded *in the USA* as a reasonable point and a reason to stay out of the war: "we would have to stop mistreatment of black people".

If you don't see a connection between a rise in union organizing and corporate america laying people off for no economic reason then it's because you're trying not to see it.

Gonna launch web 3.1 for workgroups

Does anybody have a use for the domain gaygeeks.org? I think I'm going to let it expire.

I keep getting confused as to why people are acting all confused about how Mastodon works. It works like Twitter used to work! And then I realize: Twitter hasn't worked like this for 10+ years, a lot of people don't remember when Twitter was like Mastodon is now.

So can democrats in the house vote for a Republican house speaker? Like can we force them to pick a centrist? https://www.axios.com/2023/01/02/mccarthy-speaker-vote-rule-changes

@btanderson I mean they could just be nutbags with no coherent agenda.

Tesla is now legally barred in California from calling its cars "full self driving" because they can't. https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/New-California-law-effectively-bans-Tesla-from-17672908.php