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MissingThePt, 13 days ago to random

Breaking: Donald Trump seen passing note to Michael Cohen during recess in trial.

MissingThePt, 3 months ago to random

Behind every successful woman is a man who made her so much money.

dangillmor, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

When I use generative "AI" it invariably contains mistakes. That's just reality at the moment.

So when I see company after company adding AI to every product in sight, I now assume that all of those products are "creating" flawed results, by design.

This is crazy. (Google search is, maybe not coincidentally, crappier than ever.)

We need a whole genre of products that don't contain AI. Maybe they, too, are irredeemably flawed, but at least we'll know the mistakes aren't a design decision.

dougdougdoug, 5 months ago to threads

I for one am happy to see #Threads actually joining the #Fediverse. #Federation is the great hope for social media and even the Web generally. It needs to be welcomed. Too many people are trying #Mastodon and abandoning it for #Bluesky or Threads or going back to X because they’re finding more engagement there. Adding the ability to interact with the huge #Meta base could keep people here. I just hope Threads doesn’t keep slow-rolling it.

flexghost, 6 months ago to random

Guided her 275 million followers to Vote.org

Urges her fans to register to vote and to learn about the issues

She’s the catalyst for over 35,000 new voters to register on Vote.org after national voter registration day

I can’t name a single one of her songs, but I’m a Taylor Swift fan

robpegoraro.com, 7 months ago to bluesky

https://robpegoraro.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/contrails-intersecting-in-sky.jpgAs the ongoing flight from Twitter has continued, it’s been heartening to see so many familiar names show up on Bluesky, the Twitter alternative that comes closest to replicating what I liked about Twitter when it wasn’t run by a shitposting billionaire with a toxic social-media diet and a victimhood complex.

At least, I think those are familiar names. But because Bluesky’s only equivalent of Twitter’s now-ruined verification system is changing DNS settings to set your domain name as your handle there, I can’t assume that somebody popping up on Bluesky with a username, profile picture and bio matching their Twitter self is actually the same person.

As the newsroom saying goes, “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”

My first move in those cases is to check the Twitter profile of the person whom I think has jumped into the Bluesky escape pod. If their Twitter display name, bio or pinned tweet shows a Bluesky handle, I’m all set. If it doesn’t, I’ll search their tweets for “bluesky” or “bsky” (the latter being part of a standard Bluesky handle).

If that doesn’t work but I’ve already confirmed that this person is on Mastodon, I’ll check their profile on that federated social network for a Bluesky mention. If that doesn’t yield any confirmation, I’ll check the person’s Web page, blog or author profile.

My last resort is to see who follows this person on Bluesky. And sometimes that works: After seeing somebody who appeared to be the staffer for my Congressman who offers informed and sarcastic commentary on House politics on Twitter surface on Bluesky without mentioning that on the site that Elon Musk has renamed to “X,” I checked the guy’s followers list on Bluesky and saw that my tech-savvy Rep. Don Beyer (D.-Va.) was among them. That seemed good enough for me.

But if you want to make it easy for potential followers on Bluesky, don’t make them do all that research. Tell people how to find you there in some public and obvious way, whether it’s a tweet, an update to your Twitter profile, or an edit to whatever corner of the Web you can rewrite at will. And on that note: Yes, I really am robpegoraro.com on Bluesky.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/10/19/no-checkmark-no-domain-name-no-problem-other-ways-to-verify-your-bluesky-self/

#Bluesky #BlueskyDomainNameHandle #BlueskyIdentity #BlueskyUser #bsky #socialMediaVerification #TwitterVerification

IceCubesApp, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

It’s your time to shine: if you could fix (not add) one thing in Ice Cubes, what would it be.

jacksantucci, 7 months ago to random

https://www.voteguy.com/2023/09/30/for-me-voting-system-implies-the-wrong-question/

briankrebs, 8 months ago to random

Went to get a Covid booster yesterday at Walgreens after my wife made us 5:30 pm and 5:45 appointments for a shot. Showed up on time, only to be told they didn't have me in their system.

30 minutes later, it dawned on them that maybe I'd never filled a prescription through their system before. Turns out, even though my wife had filled out all the right forms, they had a pile more forms for me and proceeded to ask me a bunch of personal health info in front of a long line.

15 minutes later, and 45 min after my "appointment" they were still registering me in Walgreen's system. I left because we also had a dinner reservation a few minutes after that.

Hard to believe they're only just figuring this out. Nobody is going to bother at Walgreens if it's this hard.

Andres4NY, 10 months ago to random

I boosted this last night, but I'm doing it again because it was so interesting (albeit long): https://fosstodon.org/@tcely/110705153826062120

Click through to start the video at 1:13:00 or so (to skip right to the RCV problems).

I'm now a fan of #STAR #voting. The part where Alameda County screwed up their #RCV counts and actually seated the wrong candidate, discovering their fuck up a month later is just.. wow.

dougdougdoug, 10 months ago to oregon

Great that #Oregon voters will have an opportunity to adopt #RankedChoiceVoting for local and statewide primary and general elections in 2024. One thing I'm afraid they're overlooking: The Presidential electors chosen by #RCV need to be freed up to vote for their assigned candidate OR a different candidate, perhaps one chosen by their assigned candidate. Otherwise OR voters would fear that voting for a third-party candidate would deprive their preferred major-party candidate of electoral votes.