Footage of #KevinMcCarthy in the House Speaker's office reacting to his latest defeat 👀⤵️
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Kevin's constituents can't see him embarrassing himself because there are widespread power outages in-and-around Bakersfield. So, he's got that going for him.
OK, but what if instead of what we did last year, we do the exact opposite? Hear me out: we lay-low for NYE, we *all* wear a mask inside public spaces for a few weeks, and we get our COVID-19 booster. Just a thought.
At a technical level, the way that searchbot crawling directives are issued by Mastodon instances leave *a lot* of room for interpretation. Moreover, they're *very* permissive by default. These screenshots show that at the server- and individual-level, bots are getting the red carpet treatment. There's a big flashing sign that says "Welcome! If you've made it this far, scrape whatever TF you want except these two folders." That's the setting for *every* major server I looked at.
Every. One.
Case in point: I was looking for an example of off-the-shelf AI as a tool for next-gen trolling, and I remembered Liking a Mastodon post earlier today, but I couldn't find it. I searched Google for "chatGPT 240 characters reply guy" 💥 Result #1 (https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio/109604772058225263)
Note that the options menu is disabled, meaning that sign-in is required to get a link to the original post－and yet, Google has it indexed and ready for discovery by anyone in the world. Within 9 hours.
The reality: learning loss and long-term disability will become increasingly common as the prevalence of long COVID rises.
Just because the CDC isn't reporting cases accurately－ and the press isn't holding them to account－ that doesn't mean people aren't getting sick.
The silver lining: vaccines work. Fewer people are dying of COVID-19.
Kinda nuts how countries around the world just sort of decided that COVID was over and said, "Fcuk it, we can live with this."