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djfiander

@djfiander@code4lib.social

UX Web Services Librarian at a large Canadian university. Reader, cyclist, text-based lifeform.

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charliejane, to StarTrek
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I was thinking about the end of that one episode where Spock mind-melds with Kirk and makes him forget his dead android girlfriend. And... what if that happens at the end of every adventure, and we only see it one time?

What if Spock mind-wipes Kirk every time they come back to the ship? Maybe this is how Kirk stays so chipper and able to go blow up another god-computer. He literally can't remember all the shit he's dealt with before.

djfiander,
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@charliejane just imagine Spock's therapy sessions, though

shadowspar, to random
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little alarming when the elevator you're in gets a spam call about fraudulent charges to its credit card 🤔

djfiander,
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@shadowspar they're watching you

djfiander, to random
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The problem with cars today is that computers are too cheap.

djfiander, to random
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"For example, one-time payment, a two-piece suit, a three-ring circus, a four-leaf clover, a five-star hotel, the seven seas, a figure eight, on cloud nine, a top-ten list...."

djfiander, to random
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"Note: the audience [of a document] often perceives the relationship of elements [of that document] differently that is perceived by the organization."

O, RLY?

djfiander, to random
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"In August 2023, Business Insider referred to Donald Trump as the Spiders Georg of world leaders, as his indictments on 91 felony counts yield the statistic that the mean number of felony charges per U.S. president is two." -- wikipedia.

djfiander, to random
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Facebook just showed me an ad for "Fancy Therapy Services".

Do I get champagne?

mattblaze, to random
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Trump's been practically daring the judge in his hush money trial to lock him up for contempt. He may be hoping to campaign on it as an example of the "witch hunt" he's facing.

But I suspect a night or two in a holding cell at Central Booking (adjacent to the courthouse) might serve as a serious reality check for him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/nyregion/trump-trial-hush-money-prison.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk0.X13m.7K-8eyTNNnFK&smid=url-share

djfiander,
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@mattblaze Does he even understand that in downtown NY, the only people who would show up for that would be cheering the perp walk?

djfiander, to random
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Hmm... Rules that require a minimum number of candidates (historically 50) are a barrier to entry into the political process and do harm our favourite "joke/art project" parties, but the also stop the lunatic fringe, like the Christian Heritage Party of Canada.

Tough call.

jessamyn, to random
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I got my petition to put my name on the ballot as a Justice of the Peace as an independent. This is a position I've held within the town since 2013. JPs can marry people and serve on the Board of Civil Authority (to run elections) and the Board of Abatement (for hearings on tax/water bills)

Usually the parties put forward candidates. I've always run as a Democrat because it was easier. Now I've decided to get all thirty signatures because I'm honestly not a Democrat and I think it will be okay.

djfiander,
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@jessamyn In Canada, a long time ago, there was a registered national party called the Nude Garden Party.

djfiander,
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@adr @jessamyn @dsalo "Not to be confused with Republican In Name Only" 😔

djfiander,
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@jessamyn The good news is that the rules that killed the Nude Garden Party and the original Rhinos were overturned in the early 2000s, so the NGP, like the Rhinos, could return. https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/nude-garden-party-stripped-of-its-political-status-today-in-history

djfiander, to random
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We cultivate meaningful relationships with infernal partners.

djfiander, to random
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The American Revolution is closer to today than it is to Gutenberg's invention of movable type printing. (by almost ninety years).

platypus, to random
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I know what they mean but “the last ILS you’ll ever need” just makes me think DEATH.

djfiander,
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@platypus "The last suit you'll ever wear" -- Men in Black.

charliejane, to random
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What Women Want is an utterly bizarre film, and it's hard to believe it became a smash hit just a quarter century ago. Mel Gibson gains the power to hear all women's thoughts, and uses it to... commit plagiarism and become a better corporate shark.

My newsletter: https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/is-what-women-want-mel-gibsons-creepiest-movie/

djfiander,
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@charliejane I saw it in the theatre with my partner at the time. It is truly bizarre. Perhaps the whole thing was a huge troll to get Mel to become a better person (which obviously failed).

metatextual irony at its best.

djfiander, to random
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This is not at all dangerous

djfiander, to random
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@mwichary A friend recently shared "Typerwriter Mysteries" on Facebook, from your IA collection of typewriter related materials.

It mentions The Journal of Artistic Typing. Did you ever find any copies of the journal in a library?

djfiander,
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@mwichary That's what I suspected. According to the US copyright registry (also on IA), the journal existed for at least two volumes, but it's not the kind of things libraries would have collected, or kept for very long if they had.

djfiander,
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@mwichary No, I was just curious about the content. Not to the level of asking family to dig through old files. Thanks.

djfiander, to random
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How did Buddhists manage to meditate for thousands of years before they were able to subscribe to a smartphone meditation app?

dsalo, to random
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I want to do a content analysis of hype followers in the LIS literature. I need to pick phenomena where the bubble has burst and it's clear there was never any there there.

From the world outside libraries, I've got Second Life, MOOCs, and NFTs. Anybody got ideas for phenomena internal to libraries?

(Not hype-y enough or too substantive: IRs, FRBR, linked data, DH, third places. I'm talking TOTALLY bankrupt here.)

djfiander,
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@dsalo ebooks 🤣

djfiander,
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@thatandromeda @dsalo QR codes both are and are not 100% hype.

Just think about the library technologist that put a QR code in his email signature, thereby completely missing the point.

birv2, to emacs
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Question for some friends: what's the best way to import a long markdown file INTO an already existing org file and have it look like the rest of the org file? Background is that I'm working on building out One Big Org File and want to import my running daily notes from Obsidian into the org file. I've found ways to convert markdown to org, but don't know how to actually place it in the org file. Thanks!

djfiander,
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@birv2 @simoninireland I know that Org has ways to find headings, but I'm not really familiar with that part. If the converted markdown is in a buffer, then you can use insert-buffer (interactive) or insert-buffer-substring (in lisp programs) to insert the buffer holding the new content into the org file at point.

edbilodeau, to random
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“When she got the results, she expected to see a strong correlation between someone who prefers a look-at-me exhaust system and narcissism, but that wasn't the case. "We found that it was sadism and psychopathy was predicting who wants to modify their mufflers, who feels more connected to their vehicle, and they think loud cars are really cool.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/loud-car-study-psychology-1.7177688

djfiander,
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@edbilodeau she must live near me, since I seen to live in street racing central.

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