Notices by Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io), page 3

@technomancy what are monads then, the equivalent of battletoads?

A few days later, my friend's dad called me, and apologized that she had asked me that, and re-invited me to Thanksgiving, and said that I was 100% right, that I was welcome, and that his own mother was not, and that she could come only on two conditions:

1) If I allowed her to come. It was my call.
2) If she said anything ignorant during dinner, he would put her in the car, and drive her back to the nursing home, and she could eat her turkey on a paper plate alone.

I accepted.

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You want to fight fascism, but the call is literally coming from inside the house. Not a figurative house. A real house. Your house.

Trust me, I do understand that some families are tough, and confronting your family is challenging. I get it. Sincerely I do. It's difficult. I'm not asking you to fight.

But don't pretend that you don't know who's voting for Trump, and don't you dare pretend that Black strangers that you've never helped, didn't do enough to protect you from your own family.

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You can wear a mask.

You can unionize your workplace, starting with some basic organizer training.

You can talk to your neighbors.

You can get involved in politics, either as a candidate or to help build our chances in the future.

You can help people flee who want to flee.

You can donate to organizations that are already doing the work.

You can check in on your friends.

You can start a bookclub around No Shortcuts.

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In 2016, resistance meant defiance. This time it means sabotage.

That’s the meta-lesson that emerges from me reading this piece from @jaykuo and The Big Picture. The essay is mostly about strategy for D politicians, but that that larger lesson there? That’s for all of us.

Not just defiance. Sabotage.

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-resistance-democrats-senate-lawfare

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Solid Men In Black look from two kids just now. One of them flashed me in the face with a light and said, you don’t remember giving us candy, we just got here” so yeah, that’s a good enough gag that I’ll play along.

i’m the ghost of luddite futures (smashing machines to foil who would use them against people)

i want an internet that emerges from social relations and centers your position and perspective (and autonomy and privacy) and then i want to use it to share pig poop balls dubstep remix dot wav

These little green bees are sweat bees. They're called that because they love salt & might come get some from you if you're sweaty.

They're solitary, sting but not very hard, and most of them nest in bare patches of dirt next to plants.

Plant flowers & leave some bare spots!

#VOTEearly!!

Via Kyle Griffin:

More than 1,100,000 Georgians have already voted — in less than four days of early voting. #Georgia

Non-programmers tend to think that •syntax• is the hard part of programming, but it’s not. The hard part is dealing with unambiguous communication, watching a machine do •exactly what you told it to do• — no matter how wrong you were, or how little sense it makes, or how small the mistake. Nothing makes one feel as stupid as writing code! It’s sorcerer’s apprentice all day every day: fallibility come to life.

Computers make our imaginary ideas talk back to us, and our ideas surprise us.

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@mattly my hope (lol) here is that clicking View regenerates a new set. I hope….

I was going to post "if nanowrimo is so good why didn't they make a picowrimo". But then I looked it up and there is a picowrimo and has been for years https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@The4thCircle/113244704230142319

Wearing a fanciful little dress every day for Frocktober

Updated! They added more games they find icky because of LGBTQIA+ and otherwise "woke" content, we're now at 765 games you can bug bigots by buying :0 🌈

@stonebear @mattly To me account security in shared environments is like hygiene. When one person's security stinks, it affects others. To me the real rudeness is in doubling down on bad hygiene when told that your security stinks.

Supply chain security in OSS is already a hot mess, and doesn't need even more worrying about impersonation just because someone *wants* to have poorer security to show a computer who's the boss.

“Enterprise Philosophy and The First Wave of AI – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”

https://stratechery.com/2024/enterprise-philosophy-and-the-first-wave-of-ai/

> Benioff isn't talking about making _employees_ more productive, but rather _companies_; the verb that applies to employees is "augmented", which sounds much nicer than "replaced"; the ultimate goal is stated as well: business results.

Reading this article will definitely spike your blood pressure. But it's key to understanding why the AI Bubble is likely to last a long while.

Analysts and investors truly believe:

1. That "AI" agents will reach human performance
2. That they'll be able to displace the workforce en masse
3. Huge profits will follow, despite all the mass unemployment and unrest

Each of these is implausible on its own. Together they're a fantasy. But it shows why they're willing to lose billions upon billions in the short run: it'll let them get rid of the rest of us from the economy

There's a site that sells "custom AI books" and ya ya AI bad but I put in "It is an undisputed fact that I have a small Richard Nixon living inside my body: The true story of how he got there and what he has planned" and HOW DO I NOT BUY THIS BOOK