Notices by counternotions (counternotions@mastodon.social)

Can alternative facts square the circle?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-story-behind-indianas-1897-vote-to-change-the-value-of-pi/

@WarnerCrocker Agressive?

By what year will OpenAI declare itself to be a new-gen advertising company?

“The internet wouldn’t be the same without the Like button”

https://apnews.com/article/like-button-facebook-history-book-89d00e73c7c6da500b06e251d44b858c

Not sure why Spotify is waiting to get EU to investigate Apple on this scandal.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/spotify-plays-whack-a-mole-with-fake-podcasts-selling-drugs-scamming-users/

I bet you can’t name any of the six countries wherein iPhone’s market share is over 90%.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-market-share-by-country

Narrative violation, DeepSeek edition via China.

https://archive.is/hTs9z

The future that never was.
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What does it mean to call oneself a “technologist” in a résumé, profile, etc?

(Is it a profession, affliction, predilection…what the heck does a technologist do?)

I’ll believe AGI has arrived when the NYTimes stops spelling the initialism as A.G.I., if it’s all the same to you.
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Happy Days Are Here Again.

https://archive.is/eoCK8
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“Money is always there, but the pockets change.”

—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

@WarnerCrocker I remain hopeful about the HoloLens version too.

Satya Nadella’s Majorana quantum processor announcement sounds hopeful but I’m going to wait for the “Microsoft Windows Quantum 32 Home Single Language 64-qbits™” edition if it’s all the same.

Hmm…sounds to me like they discovered time travel at Microsoft and/or Fortune.
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Meanwhile in crypto la la land
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How would you even explain to your kids what this was all about?
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Et tu, Wall Street Journal?!
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In related news, National Institute of Standards and Technology is considering a switch for Public Office Retention Index from Scaramucci to Ramaswamy, sources say.

So the biggest U.S. news item on the eve of the most pregnant regime change in a century is about the unbanning of a video sharing app that apparently collects data on and shapes political sentiment among American citizens by America’s #1 rival in the world?

(What’s in ACT II?)