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Last Notes npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton There's an epidemic of professional burrito assemblers who seemingly have never eaten a burrito. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton ICE being given an additional $45 billion to subject anyone they decide is illegal to endless suffering. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Rewatching Episode III in 2024 is wild. When I saw that movie I thought it was some terribly-written garbage but the entire "rise of fascism" plot has played out so stunningly identically that I have no choice but to hand it to George Lucas. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton @nprofile…48vs I hadn't really considered the prison slavery loophole but you're right, that's exactly what's going to happen. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Okay obviously mass deportation is awful and racist but if I'm being honest I'm increasingly uncomfortable with taking the position that deporting immigrants is bad because we have industries that rely on being able to exploit their illegal immigration status to pay them below what our laws dictate is our definition of a living wage. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton The trailer for Captain America: Brave New World looks surprisingly enticing but I feel like it might hit too different now to watch a story about a PoC suddenly thrust into the position of representing America because an old white man stepped down trying to take on a president whose two personality traits are that he's extremely angry all the time and very, very red. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton If I ever see one of those people wearing a "your body my choice" shirt near my wife or daughter I'm going to prison. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton The autocomplete interview? npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the reason Elon Musk gives off such creepy incel vibes is that he has, in fact, never actually had sex. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton The thing that I find so fascinating about Trump is that he really and truly cannot help himself. His advisors are telling him to stop with the personal attacks, and he says he can't because he hates anyone who runs against him, as a person. So he has no choice but to be mean, it's who he is. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton 270 is not the goal. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Honestly at this point just sell a red cap that says "Make America Normal Again" in the Kamala shop and see what happens. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Fuck unity by the way, if we win I'm flying a "Trump Lost LOL" flag and telling my neighbors to lick taints. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton "Can the democrats keep up this momentum for an election cycle!?" npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton This November, you have the power to make Elon Musk waste 180 million dollars. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton lol npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton lol lose mad bitch npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton It really shouldn't surprise me at this point but I am still stunned that the same people who said masks were uncomfortable and looked stupid and that I was in a cult for wearing one are walking around on television with maxi pads taped to the sides of their faces. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton They're already putting that fucking photo on t-shirts I'm sure. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Apple's new Passwords app is basically too shitty for me to replace 1Password with it, but too good for NOBODY to replace 1Password with it, which will ensure that 1Password loses a whole bunch of revenue to the point where the product begins to suffer, prices increase, and broken features are added in a desperate move to standout, thereby ruining it for me. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton #LOMO npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton @npub1src…fms4 Yeah, exactly. He's courting conservatives because a good enough chunk of progressives have bowed out of the election. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton I dont know how we reached a point as a society where a man can stand in front of a crowd with this picture behind him and utter the phrase "the difference is striking" without being driven out of the village by someone playing a flute or something but we've taken a wrong turn somewhere. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton loser shit npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Used to be that if a giant bridge collapsed, you'd be able to hop on Twitter and read all about it, the rescue efforts, what happened, all as information was being uncovered. It was the place to go for a major news story, people would be tweeting new info and it would all be gathered under the heading 'Francis Scott Key Bridge'... npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton I'm not saying Go is the worst programming language I've ever used, but it's possible that the worst code I've ever read is written in it. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton There was a time when people thought this guy was going to take us to Mars and it turns out he literally can't even install Windows. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Can't help but notice all the "The Marvels tanked because it requires too much homework, a movie and two shows!" are kinda weirdly silent about Deadpool 3 requiring 2 seasons of Loki and 13 X-men films. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton All that OpenAI did was match the prompt text to its stolen video corpus to find an existing video that matched the prompt. Then it ruined it enough to be no longer violating copyright, and then they bragged about it. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton "How did AI video generation get so good in only a year?!?!" npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton I really think all these tech companies are going to be in rough shape when the other shoe drops. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Ugh, god. I'm sure there's not going to be any problem with the fact that Plex is leaning even harder into a business where you can buy and rent movies in direct competition with the thing that most of their user base is using their product for. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton 100% accurate, this is precisely what will happen npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton lol oh my god is this real? we should have taken trump off the ballot 3 years ago, so long losers npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Now that Threads is testing federation, the "debates" are starting back up. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton The news makes up lies, social media amplifies misinformation, and searching the internet only produces AI-generated nonsense. There's no place to turn to determine what's real. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton What the fuck is going on at OpenAI? https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-president-greg-brockman-quits-sam-altman-ceo-ousted-2023-11 npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton How long ago did Google just altogether disable the feature in search where adding a "+" before a term means that term is required to be in a result? npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton God the internet sucks now. Google any question and the top 10 results are all just endless AI blabbering, it's like how every essay written in high school started with "Since the dawn of time, mankind has wanted to..." npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Employees: We like working in the same homes where we sleep. There's no commute, it's very convenient. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton lol not Google straight up admitting nobody can get any work done in an office, why the fuck ya'll having everyone come into the office to take 90 minute lunches npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Just added 2 pizzas to a doordash cart for pizza and movie night for my family of 4. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Nothing should surprise me anymore but the right-wing media's stance of "black people should like Trump now because he's a criminal like them" has managed to do just that. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Between subpoenas for content, storage costs, and a desire to distance himself from the Twitter brand I think there's a not-small chance Musk deletes all data pre-X rebranding, perhaps with the caveat that it's only for non-premium users (so he's not affected). npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMHCw3RqulY npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Hands down the funniest defense of Google I saw after making fun of the African country query thing yesterday was someone trying to legitimately say that the letter K and the letter k are different LETTERS (not just different characters) and therefore there are no African countries that start with a "k" since that's lower case and thus the response is correct. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K": npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton The opening scene from 1995's The Net is meant to establish that Sandra Bullock's character is a nerdy hermit recluse who never leaves, orders food to be delivered from computers, has everything shipped to her door, and talks to people online instead of in the real world. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Wow this is awesome! Marvel's historically abused VFX crew has voted to unionize. https://www.vulture.com/2023/08/vfx-workers-vote-to-unionize-at-marvel-for-the-first-time.html npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton lol good lord how much is Linda Yaccarino getting paid to put up with this shit npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton I've officially reached a point where I no longer listen to music to enjoy it but exclusively to evaluate it for appropriateness as Dungeons and Dragons campaign background music. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton I want so badly to switch from Chromium (Brave) to Firefox but the way it handles too-many tabs is still, in 2023, so much worse than how Chrome-based browsers do it. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton @npub1xzm…eykm I have left my facebook, instagram and twitter handles all activated all for the same reason, to reserve my name. Hell, I have my name reserved on gab, cohost, truth.social, post.news, and spoutible, all for the same reason. Bluesky too. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton @npub1xzm…eykm I mean, you know why, right? npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton @npub1xzm…eykm Well for me the point is to make sure I have my name reserved over there. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Threads isn't real for me until there's a Web UI and a (free) API I can use to post with in order to leverage my various automations. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Unless I'm using it wrong (very possible), there is no Home tab that shows you the people you're following. No custom feeds, no lists, no way for your follow graph to have any effect. Following someone, seemingly, does nothing other than boosting their feelgoods. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Here are two things that are true at the same time. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton @npub1ddp…2tax oh sorry I wasn't clear. I'm referring to like how many posts can be in a self-created thread (how many replies you have have to your own post, essentially). Not like all of the replies overall. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Oh wow so apparently Tweet threads are now limited to 25 messages per thread. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Elon's liking tweets that portray #Twitter not working as a good thing, including Jack posting a touch grass meme. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Oh holy fuck even once you're rate limited it's only read. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton @npub1lj7…zczx I can't read it because I hit my daily limit an hour ago. Can you post a screenshot and therefore not drive traffic to the site that's trying to bring back advertisers? 🤣 npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton lol you won't even be able to read viral tweet threads or the replies. The people paying to have their replies boosted are going to looooove this. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Fediverse: The fediverse's strength is that it's built on a completely open protocol so anyone can implement it. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton @npub1xzm…eykm here ya go https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton Is it too much to hope that enough food and drink companies put rainbows on their products for June that these assholes just starve to death? npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton @npub1lsl…9c2x This is really neat... but am I dumb or does the blue eyeball button never do anything? I've tried two different devices and three different browsers... and sometimes I get yelled at by the boss for not looking at more details via that button. npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton A positively dystopian Google I/O this year, great work all around everyone npub1v9v7mv2f7trz8982l2pysfps9ltaa4rf7wujf3tdzvcvsgyz06sszj43qk Rod Hilton I love all the young folks having a reason to tune into their first utter sham congressional hearing to discover was a disgraceful waste of time they all are.
