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mattmay

@mattmay@mstdn.social

Washington state, USA.

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mattmay, to random
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What's blowing me away about this Google AI search thing is that they 100% red-teamed this internally, found a bunch of bullshit like we're finding, and somebody decided to ship it anyway.

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What are people using for coding in website repos on macOS these days? VSCode?

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Them: can you show me your tech stack
Me: uh, sure

mattmay, to random
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Weโ€™re gonna need a longer alphabet
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112474500218446778

mattmay, to random
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So I'm reading How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr. It covers the 19th- to early 20th-century practice of farming guano to fertilize fields. They had ships covering the oceans literally scraping bird and bat feces up for farmers to use on their crops, while also claiming almost a hundred islands as American territories in the process.

American colonialism is LITERALLY batshit.

mattmay, to random
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WHOMST among us has not gone to an auction intending to pick up a cheap laptop, and then got it, and three other just like it, and then what the hell, letโ€™s get those 11 iMacs too ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

mattmay,
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@Luke Tomorrow. Picking them up in the morning.

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Itโ€™s always amazing to me that basically every single piece of electronics I interact with is now more powerful than what operated the space shuttle

except my Android TV which is apparently powered by a series of hamsters attached to strings and pulleys

mattmay, to random
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Aurora posts on Facebook have now descended into โ€œthis is what it looked like on my phone, anything more vibrant is faking itโ€ and now posting photos is a lot less fun.

My favorite part is people complaining about โ€œsaturationโ€ without knowing what it is.

timbray, to photography
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Humming-butt. We are blessed in that our back porch is regularly visited by these cheeky little flying jewels. I have tried to photograph them for some years and failed. I have just finished improving the technology and itโ€™s good enough now, but have still not captured one in flight or looking at me. Summer project!

mattmay,
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@timbray Good luck. I know exactly how much it cost me to go from "captured in flight" to "wings appear motionless" and I'd have done it again anyway.

simon, to random
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Here's a brilliant neologism: "slop", for text generated entirely by LLMs and published, unwanted, on the Internet

> Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

Source: https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1787472784106639418

mattmay,
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@simon although slop + unrequested mail โžก๏ธ slurmโ€ฆ

mattmay, to random
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You'll forgive me for not giving a single solitary fraction of a fuck about the Met Gala

mattmay, to random
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Alexi Lalas wants to know why Ryan Reynolds isnโ€™t investing in American soccer.

Try HEโ€™S NOT FUCKING AMERICAN, Alexi.

https://apple.news/ABvgT8ISgSzWzeFXaIPWU7A

mattmay, to random
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checks into Sea-Tac on Swarm

"It's your 183rd time here"
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mattmay, to random
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Literally everything Tesla is doing right now suggests they're fucked. Killing off the new-products team, the govt relations team, Supercharger development, betting the farm on robotaxis, showy trips to sidle up to authoritarian regimes.

Not "hardcore." Fucked.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145133/tesla-layoffs-supercharger-team-elon-musk-hard-core

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I saw someone I once respected get red-pilled by this. They even tried pulling me through the funnel, with zero success. I watched in horror as they fell fully into the cult, and I had to cut them loose. It was awful. Still is.
https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/112356118704078159

mattmay, to random
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Trumpโ€™s argument appears to be โ€œyou wonโ€™t believe what this ONE WEIRD TRICK we found in a previous decision allows us to doโ€

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Still trying to identify exactly when I went from โ€œearly adopterโ€ to โ€œnever sign-upperโ€.

mattmay,
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@aardrian Letโ€™s backtrack. Do you remember the first time you wanted people to get off your lawn? It could be around then.

mattmay,
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@aardrian Okay, so maybe early-adopter was just a phase.

mattmay,
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@aardrian YOLO Adrian must have been a wild man.

mattmay, to random
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Latest newsletter dropped:
โ€œNobody should be trying to raise trillions of dollars without their sole, explicit goal being an end to global poverty, homelessness, preventable disease, etc. The fact that itโ€™s happening over some matrix math that does cool parlor tricks should tell you all you need to know about late-stage capitalism.โ€

https://buttondown.email/practicaltips/archive/the-dancing-bear-part-1/

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    mattmay,
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    @divya was it a Chevy SS?

    mattmay, to random
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    In case youโ€™re wondering about the Fallout series player-vs.-non-player viewing differences, hereโ€™s our experience so far:

    Me (completed most Fallout 3+ games including DLC): pretty highly entertained 2 episodes in

    Partner (never played): TRANSFIXED

    mattmay, to photography
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    Male Annaโ€™s hummingbird.

    mattmay, to photography
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    Okay, folks. Wish me luck. I'm about to go in to have my photo portfolio juried so I can join a gallery cooperative. Might end up being a professional by the end of the night.

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