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David Todd McCarty
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Writer. Journalist. Raconteur. I live in Cape May, New Jersey, USA, where I write about politics, culture, science, history, religion and travel. I hate bullies no matter what side they’re on. I'm kind, until you push me. Three kids. Seven grands. Grand Poobah of AI Haters. Phillies. Eagles. Liverpool. Pizzaiolo Extraordinaire. Publisher of four @medium pubs: Ellemeno, Rome, Hopping Frog Studios, and A Bit Dodgy. Signal: dtm.13

It seems to me that appetizers in restaurants used to be small, cheaper dishes. Like if an entree was $20, the appetizer would be like $5-6. Now, an appetizer is $25 and the entree is also $30. I can’t eat like that any more. Who eats an appetizer, and an entree? It’s just two entrees.

#Dining #Food

Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble, gobble.

#Thanksgiving

All this fucking artificial intelligence and my iPad can’t autocorrect a lower case i sitting by itself? Let’s assume I always mean fuck rather than duck and never intend to type a single lowercase letter i. Wouldn’t that be the more logical assumption?

Ted Kazinsky wasn’t very effective, but maybe he wasn’t entirely wrong.

#Autocorrect #AI #Luddite

I think other people should be able to suggest corrections for typos on our posts. Crowdsource it. You get a notice and you accept or reject it. You could also turn it off per post to prevent spam.

Apparently, after raising a billion dollars in donations, the Democrats are going to lose the election unless I give them $20 to fund the operation, the night before the election.

Mussolini tried banning pasta and he ended up hanging from a lamppost. You want to stop Americans from eating Cheez-Its and Capt Crunch? Good luck with that.

Here’s a question: Signal is a nonprofit. The app is free. They don’t allow advertising and they don’t sell your data. So how can they afford to exist at all? Where is their revenue coming from? #Signal

In all fairness, I haven’t watched hockey in years so I’m fairly ignorant, but it’s coming back to me. After watching a few Flyers games already, I don’t see our goaltending as being the major problem that some talk about. We’re missing too many shots, some of them just bad luck. I see then getting considerably better. #NHL #Flyers

nostr:npub1w3pqn9v66wkfg26scz03z5r04hu3yh4pufks2q34jh0kfszvynnq68pa78 nostr:npub174tr94vmsgf9ldj6n9zd42jtmmajfnjw0tp9us5eewrtfm30w6pstacfav Do we really still think saying “hell” is swearing? Or “damn”?

When he starts calling Trump a motherfucker, let me know.

On the other hand, Sam Elliot did say “fucking” in that recent commercial. So, that’s nice.

I don’t want AI to help me do anything. If anything, I want it to allow the technology I’m using to do a better job of delivering what it promises. #AI

Am I the only one that tries to keep subject’s heads in the frame of videos I’m watching? Mentally? I’m constantly trying to reframe shots.

The only person responsible for Matthew Perry’s death is Matthew Perry. He was an adult. He knew what he was taking.

It’s hot. Too hot to be mowing, especially after being sick for a few days with a fever. My wife asked me this morning if I wanted to go to the beach tomorrow. I think not.

She did say it was more than 10° cooler there, but I can’t imagine wanting to sit in the sun right now.

She might be trying to finally do me in.

Why do political campaigns insist on pretending that the candidate is emailing or texting you? Like they’re sitting down and writing emails. Aren’t you annoyed by the obvious deception? It’s not the candidate and it’s not a celebrity surrogate. It’s some college intern named Patrick.

I made baguettes with leftover pizza dough. They burned on the bottom. I was warned that my pizza steel might do that. Need to use my baguette tray next time. I’ll let you know if they were edible. #baking #bread #foodie

If Charlemagne Tha God got together with Megan Thee Stallion, what do you suppose their kid would be named?

I’ve been involved in marketing since I was 19. There’s really not much difference these days between marketing and journalism. The media just makes shit up and calls it news. Those are opinions, not facts.

Political journalists pretend to be neutral and objective while simultaneously driving the narrative. They aren’t reporting on the news, they’re making it. People believe what they read, not the other way around.

It’s pretty disturbing. #journalism #media

There is a YouTube channel, that’s constantly being presented to me as a “reel,” that features a large breasted woman, shirtless in overalls, doing various chores. The titilation, if you’ll forgive the pun, is that at some point she’s liable to pop out. It’s like it was made for 12 year old boys.

I’m just flabbergasted that this exists and is being constantly pushed to me. This one has 6 million views.

I don’t think I can watch the debate. I’m not investing any emotional energy into that shitshow.