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ArthurCopeland4

@ArthurCopeland4@mastodon.social

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

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parismarx, to OpenAI
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Kevin Roose so desperately wants to live in the futures tech companies are selling that he’ll eagerly do their PR for them and buy into whatever illusions of intelligence they put in front of him so he can trick himself into believing they’ll actually be realized this time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/technology/ai-chatgpt-her-movie.html

#openai #ai #chatgpt #gpt4o

ArthurCopeland4,
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@paezha @parismarx @Lazarou

They live in Canada, you wouldn’t know them.

Edit: this joke works better among Americans, but since you actually live in Canada, never mind.

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.”

JonBaker, to random
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I like to think if I ever meet someone super duper famous I’m going to pretend to recognize them from something really fucking weird/obscure

Like if I ever meet Mark Hammill, that’s not Luke Skywalker (what’s a Star War?), but omg it’s Cock Knocker from Jay and Silent Bob

ArthurCopeland4,
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@JonBaker

My old boss said when she met Morgan Freeman she told him, “I loved you as Easy Reader.”

I’d forgotten he was on Electric Company. That was the early 1970s!

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

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.

ArthurCopeland4,
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@nyquildotorg

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

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

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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?

Nach der High Stakes-Fantasy-Trilogie brauch ich jetzt echt was cozies. Habt Ihr Vorschläge?

@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.

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

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ArthurCopeland4, to random
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Thinking of Hunter S. Thompson on this long-awaited day.

ArthurCopeland4, to baseball
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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 148 9/9:
Rarity: 57
IMMACULATE!
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Play at:
https://immaculategrid.com
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Speed grid today. Even used a current player, which is odd for me.

ArthurCopeland4, to baseball
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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 146 9/9:
Rarity: 35
IMMACULATE!
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Play at:
https://immaculategrid.com
@immaculategrid x @Baseball
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Okay, I’m proud of this one!

8 of 9 played 3B for the Cincinnati Reds!
6 were the main starter at 3B for a full season.

ArthurCopeland4, to baseball
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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 145 9/9:
Rarity: 61
IMMACULATE!
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Play at:
https://immaculategrid.com
@immaculategrid x @Baseball
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Just some fast fun favorites today.

ArthurCopeland4, to baseball
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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 140 9/9:
Rarity: 3
IMMACULATE!
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Play at:
https://immaculategrid.com
@immaculategrid x @Baseball
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Today’s theme is Reds prospects!

ArthurCopeland4, to baseball
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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 137 8/9:
Rarity: 107
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Play at:
https://immaculategrid.com
@immaculategrid x @Baseball
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Well that went horribly wrong! Much like when I learned Nolan Ryan never won a Cy Young Award.

ArthurCopeland4, to baseball
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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 116 9/9:
Rarity: 64
IMMACULATE!
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Not too bad. Perfectly acceptable.

ArthurCopeland4, to Football
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🏈 Immaculate Grid 1 9/9:
Rarity: 61
IMMACULATE!
🟩🟩🟩
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Play at:
https://immaculategrid.com/football
@immaculategrid x @pfref

So yeah, had to try it. I was a football obsessed little kid in the 1970s and still collect OLD football cards. It show in my selections. As a U of Miami family, George Mira really did seem obvious to me. God I’m old.

Also, apparently some other site already grabbed the obvious name “immaculate gridiron” — that’s disappointing.

ArthurCopeland4, to random
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Just noticed the box for Astros/Nationals today had a correct rate of only 35%! That’s the lowest I’ve ever noticed.

The most frequent correct answer was Will Harris at 18%

I’d bet a large number of people conflated the careers of Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer! They both starred with the Tigers and are now Mets. In between, Verlander was an Astro and Scherzer was a National.

More than ever I want to know the most frequently wrong answer!

ArthurCopeland4, to baseball
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Immaculate Grid 98 8/9:

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We’ll just my absolutely most embarrassing screwup yet playing this game. If I’d just stopped to think for a second.

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