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ArthurCopeland4

@ArthurCopeland4@mastodon.social

Too many books, movies, baseball games, and pastries. And not enough time.

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Daojoan, to random
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We all have biases. Every single one of us.

They're shortcuts, heuristics, and rules of thumb that help us navigate a complex world. Our brains are wired for them.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-bias-trap

ArthurCopeland4,
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@Daojoan Reminds me of a Joan Didion quote from The White Album:

We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

whitequark, to random
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please tell me the most obscure joke you know

(feel free to explain or not explain it, depending on what you find more amusing to think of me reading it)

ArthurCopeland4,
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@whitequark

The time traveler crawled out from under his malfunctioning machine. He looked relieved as he said to himself, “This should be easy. It’s 1750 B.C. and I’m in Ur, but all I need is some quality copper.”

ArthurCopeland4, to Cats
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Marshmellow fell asleep while washing.
So adorable.

nyquildotorg, to random
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Reading about Post Malone and Michael Bay's collab on a film about an 18-wheeler from heaven going back in time to England in the middle ages to defeat hordes of demonic zombies took me from eye-roll to "huh. I kinda want to see that..." in record time.

ArthurCopeland4,
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@nyquildotorg

Not sure. Add Bruce Campbell and I’m all in!

ArthurCopeland4,
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@nyquildotorg

Yeah, the phrase “new IP universe” made me want to burn the whole thing down.

Zombies, medieval, 18-wheeler.

It’s like Bey and Malone are bragging about a successful game of Mad Libs.

arstechnica, to random
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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000

Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/you-can-now-buy-a-flame-throwing-robot-dog-for-under-10000/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ArthurCopeland4,
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@arstechnica

“If flamethrower-wielding robot dogs are outlawed, only outlaws will have flamethrower-wielding robot dogs.”

Just as the founding fathers intended.

annaleen, to random
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Experiencing a strange craving for a Ding Dong

ArthurCopeland4,
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@annaleen

That happened to me last week, and since my wife was out of town and I lacked adult supervision . . .

The Ding-Dongs were better than I remember. I was pleasantly surprised. The Twinkies, however, were salvageable only with coffee as an ersatz tiramisu.

ArthurCopeland4,
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@annaleen

I only know of the homemade spiral Pinwheel cookies. I didn’t know about the Nabisco marshmallow cookies until I went searching.

Which do you mean?

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QasimRashid, to random
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It’s cool how schools can’t punish pro-Nazi students because of the First Amendment but can mass arrest and suspend anti-war students because what First Amendment?🤔

A headline that says 108 pro Palestine students have been arrested and suspended for protesting the siege on Gaza.

ArthurCopeland4,
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@QasimRashid

The first story refers to a government school district that has to respect the first amendment.

The second story refers to Columbia University, a private institution that does not have the same restrictions.

Conflating them as “schools” is misleading your followers. And yeah, Columbia should sure as hell do better.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Well, I've read two Trevanians in the past two days and may be about to read my first Ian Fleming, so I suppose it's safe to say I'm Having a Moment.

ArthurCopeland4,
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@lilithsaintcrow

I’m really curious, which Fleming?

Was a teenage boy years ago and read them all. Only “The Spy Who Loved Me” has really stuck with me. Tight little action/noir if I remember it right. The short stories were pretty good too.

Hope your muse is good to you!

Funwithphotos, to random
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Breaking: Polling expert Sir John Curtice has argued that another independence referendum WILL happen - because "the Union is in trouble".
'Making the case for the Union means explaining why Brexit is to Scotland's advantage. Good luck with that!’ he said.

ArthurCopeland4,
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@sophiarose @Indyposterboy @Funwithphotos

Spain’s stance changed with its government several years ago.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1NP25O/

Tinido, to fantasy German
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Reading a high stakes-fantasy trilogy over the last weeks has my nerves really wrecked. I need something cozy now. Any sugestion?

#fantasy #cozy

Nach der High Stakes-Fantasy-Trilogie brauch ich jetzt echt was cozies. Habt Ihr Vorschläge?
#Lesen #bookstodon
@bookstodon @lesekreis

ArthurCopeland4,
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@Tinido @bookstodon @lesekreis
Travis Baldree’s low-stakes cozy fantasy: “Legends & Lattes” and “Bookshops & Bonedust” if you haven’t already.

And I’m another vote for Malka Older’s recent duo.

slcw, (edited ) to Florida
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The insane quack hired to be 's is telling parents to send their children to school in the midst of a outbreak. These are the consequences of voting for far-right ideologues. . Elections have consequences.

https://uinterview.com/news/as-florida-suffers-a-measles-outbreak-desantis-surgeon-general-faces-backlash-for-telling-parents-to-send-unvaccinated-kids-to-school/

ArthurCopeland4,
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@slcw
I actually live in Florida and have to deal with the results of policies these schmucks install. Can’t stand these guys. However . . .

Given that Surgeon General Ladapo is African-American (literally born in Nigeria), perhaps call him something other than “witch doctor” because honestly it smacks of racism. I don’t want this guy to have any room to claim the moral high ground, since his policy choices will end with dead children.

Calling him a “quack” I think is the better option.

ArthurCopeland4,
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@slcw No problem, I didn’t think that was your intention. Cheers.

LinuxAndYarn, (edited ) to random
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Reading in bed after midnight is perfectly normal but carries some risk, such as waking your spouse when you bust out giggling at an Easter egg shout-out to @marthawells

"I found myself humming under my breath--the second aria from Murderbot."

-- The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by @older

ArthurCopeland4,
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@LinuxAndYarn @marthawells @older Yes! This! I so want a Murderbot opera now!

gummyarts, to MLB
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Joey Votto, Toronto Blue Jays

ArthurCopeland4,
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@rootcompute @gummyarts
As a Reds fan, I am both happy and sad. Hope he has a great year!

ArthurCopeland4, to animals
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Marshmellow’s so tired of the paparazzi.

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effinbirds, to random
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Hope you're watching the football game with someone cool.

ArthurCopeland4,
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@effinbirds

New tourism slogan for Vegas just dropped!

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    @lilithsaintcrow
    Seems a good moment to thank you for the Bannon and Clare books. Truly enjoyed them and immediately re-read the first when I was done with the third! Didn’t even know about them until 2021.

    Daojoan, to random
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    Billionaire celebrities like Musk and Bezos could literally tweet “water is wet” and some asshole would shove it on a Canva template quote tile and one million idiots would repost it with “WISDOM 🙏”

    That’s the state of the web.

    That right there.

    ArthurCopeland4,
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    @Daojoan They would do the same if the tweet was “water isn’t wet.” You’d get a million idiots arguing that water gets stuff wet but isn’t wet itself.

    grimalkina, to random
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    A thing I wrote in a recent draft:

    "...on the team side, the reality of team practices that claim to be autonomous at large organizations is that supposed independence of action is frequently sustained by senior members or managers “protecting” their teams from external dependencies and taking on the work of advocacy as individual responsibility (Moe et al., 2019; Hicks, et al 2023)."

    I think this is a big point with large psychological implications although software journals, alas, did not

    ArthurCopeland4,
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    @grimalkina
    This makes me think of the sap in Office Space whose job is to “take the specs from the customers and give them to the (software) engineers.”

    The movie makes him look a fool (“what would you say it is you do here”) and he may personally be ineffectual, but he’s not organizationally wrong. He also seems psychologically damaged by serving as a buffer for who knows how many years.

    rasterweb, to art
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    One more print today… something you never wanted to see on your Mac.

    ArthurCopeland4,
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    @rasterweb

    grammargirl, (edited ) to movies
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    I just got an interesting question about text on menus.

    It bothers the questioner when things aren't capitalized on menus or there's no punctuation.

    I think they want me to say menus should follow standard English rules, but I've never been able to get worked up about menus. The "errors" or pretentious formatting are all just part of the restaurant experience to me.

    What do you think about text styling on menus?

    ArthurCopeland4,
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    @grammargirl
    Did graphic design for many years and have helped a restaurant-owner friend with his menu layout. Voted “Anything Goes” because holy crap, menus!

    Menus are a cavalcade of competing needs and priorities. Max info, min space, legibility, clarity of content, user limitations, lighting, “specials”, branding, etc.

    Have pity on the menu designer. Unless it’s a complete disaster, know they suffered too.

    I’d rather do a 64-page annual report than another front & back menu.

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    @lilithsaintcrow
    You’re forced to make coffee before you’ve had coffee. Messed up universe.

    mattmaison, to MLB
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    The Northwoods Baseball Radio Network

    "Northwoods Baseball Sleep Radio is a full-length fake baseball game. There is no yelling, no loud commercials, no weird volume spikes. Fans call it 'baseball radio ASMR'."

    https://www.sleepbaseball.com/


    @ baseball@a.gup.pe @baseball

    ArthurCopeland4,
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    @mattmaison @baseball

    Highly recommended.

    “It’s a perfect night for baseball.”
    — Wally McCarthy

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