Wandering Adventure Party

uh-ohhhhh!!! https://www.billboard.com/pro/gema-ai-music-copyright-case-open-ai-chatgpt-song-lyrics/

as a man and a father who lost his career in midlife, I can tell you 1) it sucks ass, I feel like shit, and I thought men were supposed to express their feelings??, and 2) I don't blame women, I blame capitalism, put that in your shitty magazine, Conde Nast.

@peter Were there any hashtags?

it's kind of weird that a product that promises that it has layer upon layer upon layer of redundancy built into it all actually depends on DynamoDB in us-east-1. i'm not an engineer, but that seems pretty fucked up. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

it's genuinely funny that huge swaths of the internet went down today and Mastodon is just sitting here like a cockroach nibbling on an old sandwich like nothing happened.

@peter Wow.

@peter He's a collaborator and has been the whole time. He was so excited when they decided to non-renew Colbert's contact that it was disgusting. Pretending to be appalled while mentally calculating how it would help him.

as a formerly-conservative guy who now has some progressive opinions, i have a few thoughts on the last couple years of assassinations and assassination attempts.

imo a lot of the Mastodon reply-guy situation is explained by the over-representation of 1) men 2) who are older 3) and work in software/engineering 4) and are Dutch/German.just a perfect storm of people who will go on for far too long answering questions they were not actually asked.

one of the (many) problems with telling people who've lost their careers in middle age to just retrain is that you can't live on an entry-level salary anymore. people in their 20s are supposed to have roommates and parent subsidies. you enter a new career in your 40s and you're expected to deal with all the financial obligations of middle age with a salary that doesn't even cover the rent.

gonna be a lot more of this going around. hell of a way to learn bash.