Notices by gay 420 (jepyang@wandering.shop)

wow this study says that using ai even briefly will negatively affects your reasoning skills and ability to know when you’re wrong about things. wild that so many people are using it wrong, when i use ai i actually get smarter.

big shout out to george rr martin for getting a case of writers block so bad that he hasn’t had time to have a take on trans people

i’m not even a helmet absolutist, that rant is for a different thread, but in terms of bike safety helmets are actually kinda low on my list (with some important exceptions).

but selling safety equipment, and then showing the women in your ads using that equipment unsafely so they look hotter? awful.

fuuuck

i just got advertised a helmet company, and the model in the ad is wearing their helmet incorrectly

i click through to their profile and its even worse than i thought, they have multiple ads with different models wearing their helmets unsafely, and it’s only ever women they show doing it for what are pretty clearly fashion/style reasons

this makes me so angry

anyway.

a bike helmet should cover your forehead. it’s there to protect your head, your forehead is part of your head, the helmet can’t protect something it’s not covering. if it’s not covering your forehead, it is tilted too far back and also might need size adjustments. there are also additional risks related to ill-fitting helmets and brain injuries; any helmet worn incorrectly is ill-fitting.

@wilpercy @skinnylatte @SRDas pretty normal for hawaii tbh lol

@forestine anti anyone who wants a 3 days a week hobby

you must do your hobby every day

my parents’ generation’s values: you shouldn’t discuss money, politics, or religion in polite company

my generation’s values: you absolutely need to know where people stand on politics; it’s rude to talk about how often you wash your sheets or towels

oh yeah this is also why the full version of “mrs robinson” isn’t in the movie or on the soundtrack album—they hadn’t finished writing it yet

here’s one i just learned today: the graduate was adapted from a novel? and the author wrote a sequel? 40+ years later??

anyway apparently the sequel sucks but i did really enjoy the review quote, "a bit of fluff sure to satisfy those clamoring for a graduate sequel."

i can’t tell if it’s just a simple sincere review saying “not bad!” or if it’s deeply scathing sarcasm on the idea that anyone gives a crap about a sequel to the graduate after 40 years

paul simon said “hey i have this song i’ve been working on, it’s about nostalgia, mrs roosevelt, joe dimaggio” and mike nichols said “it’s about mrs robinson now”

i think it’s really funny that mike nichols commissioned simon and garfunkel to write new music for the graduate, and then while he was waiting for them to complete it he started scoring the film using their existing music and decided he liked it so much he called them up and said scratch that i’ll just use your old stuff.

as an artist, that would either feel like a slap in the face (all that work gone to waste) or the biggest relief ever (hadn’t actually started yet), no in-between

@forestine @mattly yeah i’m not quite clear on what this part means?

“have witnessed a lot of those techniques used in tech companies I’ve worked for or who have tried to recruit me, so it’s also possible I’m inoculated against some of what they’re trying to do”

techniques that BoC uses or that cults use (or both)? and likewise, “what they’re trying to do”, is the “they” cults or BoC or both?

i’m three minutes in and this fuckin rules

ok finally giving inferno a listen today

literally just wandering around my house tidying and muttering “fucking shit, wow, goddam”

the production on this is absolutely immaculate, and given it’s BOC i’m talking about, that says a lot

goddammit

this is really good

i’m only about halfway and im not giving it the closest listen (doing housework) but this already feels at least on par with campfire headphase or tomorrow’s harvest

2/3 of the way through and i cannot say i understand the criticism that it’s too much like their older work??

to me it feels like they took my favorite parts of tomorrow’s harvest (which are largely the parts that sound the least like their early work) and turned that vibe into a whole album

idk, perceiving music is weird

i found out my iphone deadnames me in a very specific scenario. (i have changed my name everywhere in their system i have access to.) the apple service rep’s best idea is to try updating my phone to the newest firmware to see if the problem resolves itself.

tbh i think i’d rather have a transphobic phone than deal with liquid glass.

i was originally thinking about FOSS and how if you got a significant portion of anti-AI open-source contributors organized and striking any project that accepts LLM-based code, you’d probably actually get some policies changed.

and it occurred to me that it is both kind of an odd situation (labor organizing against “ai” instead of against a specific boss) and far more than just programmers are affected by it.