Recommended talk from @martinandree about why #bigtech must go:
Recommended talk from @martinandree about why #bigtech must go:
Now we have to wait for the samples page to be updated, then we'll know how small it is :)
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/mars-rock-samples/
#sizematters :)
He rambles on and on about how he has The Biggest Crowds in History! And as he rambles, the cameraman pans to show all the empty seats and the people walking out. And walking out. And walking out.
“mastodon.social has over 2 million users … I think it's safe to say the the mastodon codebase is tuned for mastodon.social”
https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/
I keep getting asked why I’m working on the Small Web – which is tuned for instances of one (not two or two million).
This is why.
(It’s also why I was advising a certain someone to limit the size of his instance… until my advice was no longer compatible with their plans/welcome.)
Mark Hamill is awesome
"It's not a trip to Chicago without a visit to The Wieners Circle.
#SizeMatters
"As we said, were in the United Center last night for the last couple hours of Tuesday’s programming at the DNC, and it was outstanding.
We got to make our own AI-enhanced Kamala crowd size, by aiming our iPhone at the crowd." (See photo below.)
~ Evan Hurst
"This week will be gutting for Trump...he is about to face something he never has in his nine years in politics. The Democrats’ convention will cement that he is no longer the main character."
~ Tim Miller as quoted by Greg Dworkin
"His former press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, told the Democratic convention tonight that when the cameras are off, 'Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement dwellers.' Grisham endorsed Harris, saying: 'I love my country more than my party. Kamala Harris tells the truth. She respects the American people and she has my vote.'”
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Wisconsin #DNC #crowds #SizeMatters
/4
"But it also meant that Trump, who is obsessed with crowd sizes, would have to see not one but two packed sports arenas of supporters cheer wildly for her nomination.
He also had to contend with former loyalists and supporters joining the Democratic convention."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Wisconsin #DNC #crowds #SizeMatters
/3
"Harris joined the crowd virtually from a rally she and Walz were holding at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Last month the Republicans held their own national convention in that venue, and for Harris to accept her nomination in the same place was an acknowledgement of how important Wisconsin will be in this election."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Wisconsin #DNC #crowds #SizeMatters
/2
"As a nostalgia act, Trump risks being constantly upstaged by the hot new thing. In recent public appearances, he’s repeatedly overstated the size of crowds at his rally, while also falsely suggesting that Kamala Harris is drawing small crowds."
"Trump in 2024 is both an older candidate and a more tired one. His current campaign is a rerun rather than a burst of originality. Symptomatic of this tiredness is his repeated deployment of old talking points and nicknames and his nursing of grudges from his 2020 election defeat…."
~ Jeet Heer
#KamalaHarris #Trump #crowds #SizeMatters
/11
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-biden-nostalgia-trap/
God with more commentary about how supremely size matters to Mr. Trump.
nipperdan comments on Trump's fixation on how Kamala's (crowds) are bigger than his, and his willingness to … "invent" … to explain the disparity.
"Donald Trump is down so bad that his campaign is bringing back Republican dirty tricks from 20 years ago.
Kamala Harris is packing arenas and rising in the polls while Trump whines about crowd sizes during incoherent press conferences and in insane Truth Social posts."
~ Stephen Robinson
#KamalaHarris #Trump #crowds #SizeMatters
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/swiftboating-vance-walz-military-record
"Jesus Christ, just google 'how reflections work on a curved surface,' you absolute turnips."
~ Gary Legum
#KamalaHarris #Trump #crowds #SizeMatters
/7
https://www.wonkette.com/p/giant-kamala-harris-crowds-sending
"That should have been the end of the story, right?
Wrong! On Sunday, Trump posted a rant on Truth Social in which he claimed that Harris and Walz were resorting to AI to make it appear that their crowd sizes were larger than Trump's."
"The trolls should have spent more time in high school science classes than playing multi-player fantasy games online. But I digress.
The trolls immediately concluded that the images of the crowds were generated by AI autofill in Photoshop. That claim was immediately and unequivocally rebutted when video from major media outlets panned the crowd and Air Force 2 in a single shot, proving the crowds were real—not AI-generated images."
"On Saturday, MAGA internet trolls began analyzing the 'reflections' on the body and engines of Air Force 2 and could not see reflected images of the crowd. The trolls could not see the reflected images because they were examining curved surfaces that reflected light and images from directly beneath the plane—where no one was standing."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#KamalaHarris #Trump #crowds #SizeMatters
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/this-aint-no-honeymoon-its-a-movement
"As the Harris-Walz team soars (polls are already showing Kamala taking the lead), Trump is cracking up.
His ego can’t take it. He is freaking out that his opponent — a Black woman — has more energy and momentum behind her than he has."
~ Robert Reich