Matt Jordan

@muhkayoh
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I write books, screenplays, comics, music, and code. Software dev by day, late-blooming visual artist/animator by night, music all the time. He/him. Winston Salem, NC, USA. #fedi22

Capitalists go after unions by giving department heads incentive bonuses. As soon as a foreman makes more money if they keep costs down, the workers are in jeopardy.

This has functionally destroyed the art department in film. Production designers get more work if they come under budget, and over time, they have come to embrace AI, cutting roles and making people wear multiple hats.

JD Vance is pretending that "crazy cat ladies" was a one-time mistake.

It wasn't. He said it over and over.

He's not sorry he said it. He's just a liar. My two-minute take on his appearance on "The View."

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ig9QOBTwZCA?si=Uk2nq6AHkFnLp2wv

JD Vance is haunted by "cat ladies" on The View

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Donald Trump and company are some true failblazers. #uspol

There is a new feature in Mastodon 4.6 that allows you to create "collections", which are groups of accounts similar to Bluesky starter packs.

We are putting together some collections for "Planetary Science", "Planetary Science (People)", and "Open Science (Earth and Planetary)".

If you want to be added to any of these, please make sure that the box "Feature me in discovery experiences" is checked in your "Privacy and Reach" account settings!

While I know they aren't bad to have in your home, I don't want arachnid flatmates. But putting them out in the cold will kill them. So I gather up spiders I find in my home and pop them through the letterboxes of my neighbours.
Most politicians spend an election year doing popular things. Trump is doing the opposite because he’s not trying to win voters back. His goal is to weaken institutions and our resolve so he can sabotage the midterms.

New: you're not nuts, your autocorrect has been quietly poisoned by AI.

Also, Snowden fronts for the FSB, a burglary suspect successfully fled in a Waymo, ads in New York must now label AI-generated "synthetic performers", this week's infosec arguments, and more:

https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts/cybersecurity-16-161223878

If it hasn't already been done, I'm coining the word guillionaire.

A guillionaire is a person so obscenely wealthy that they risk being dragged to the guillotine and then having their ill gotten wealth redistributed to those who need it.

I miss Web 1.0. You click a link, you get to the website, you read the content. What a concept.

I'm getting burnt out on all my moderation actions being against fucking AI. Like, I never thought I'd say it, but I miss suspending Nazis and bigots—at least they were real people who would give up after a while—these LLMs just go on and on, and they don't give a shit if they're suspended or rejected.

#FuckLLMs (but also #FuckNazis and #FuckBigots)