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freemancrouch

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Retired Texas public school Computer Science, English and Math classroom teacher. Blue dotter, beatnik potter, word person, friend of monsters, but not fascist monsters. He/him/they. Content may involve tubas.

"Belief system" is an oxymoron.

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freemancrouch, to random
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Att'n.

Raise one for Roger Corman.

I loved his movies as a kid and later, when I went all cinephile and stuff, I loved them even more.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/roger-corman-dead-producer-independent-b-movie-1235999591/

Theblueone, to random
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same energy

freemancrouch,
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@Theblueone heh bravo!

waxbanks, to random
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watched THE BATMAN again and it’s much better than i initially thought—pattinson is fine, kravitz fine, everyone else is excellent (dano as Riddler is wild, keoghan would’ve been a great Joker). way too fucking mopey, 30-45 minutes too fucking long…but a strong pass at a ‘dark knight detective’ movie. if it had any sense of fun at all it could’ve been great. but it does not, and is not.

freemancrouch,
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@mrcompletely @waxbanks Hard agree. Sly, campy Batman was literally the best Batman, but I fear the current overlords of media trying to hit that tone again would be a disaster.

gutenberg_org, (edited ) to books
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French cartoonist and writer George du Maurier was born in 1834.

He became a member of staff at the British satirical magazine Punch in 1865, drawing two cartoons a week. His deteriorating eyesight caused du Maurier to reduce his involvement with Punch in 1891 and settle in Hampstead, where he wrote three novels: Peter Ibbetson (1891); Trilby (1894) and The Marthian (posthumously in 1898) via @wikipedia

Books by George du Maurier at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4661

freemancrouch,
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@gutenberg_org @wikipedia Fun fact. He was also the father of novelist Daphne du Maurier.

freemancrouch,
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@gutenberg_org ah, quite so. good catch!

kitoconnell, to random
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There are people on this internet who claim that Beyonce's new music doesn't sound like country music. Racism is wild. What else could it be???

freemancrouch,
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@kitoconnell @AlexanderVI I think your ears are correct. I just listened to Texas Hold 'Em, and whoa! Beyonce and a bunch of swell pickers channelling Lyle Lovett is a 24-Karat Good Idea.

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The stylish, unknown & extremely rare SEGA AI COMPUTER (1986) promised natural language processing and "artificial intelligence" via its Prolog interpreter.

We're making available today, for the first time ever: system roms, game cards, tapes recordings, scans, photos, MAME driver & more: https://smspower.org/SegaAI

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freemancrouch,
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@ocornut @flockofnazguls A little additional historic background. About that time there was a big Japanese AI bubble with the government turning on the money faucets on "knowledge based" systems. This has got to be from that line of thinking.

ottaross, (edited ) to random
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I was an always-on watch wearer through my teen and early-adult yrs, even sleeping with it on. I gave up on wearing watches around 2005 prob, only starting again in 2021 with a smartwatch, which has been fantastic.

As tooted earlier, that watch died prematurely on Jan 1, so I've been resurrecting some old, (approaching vintage-status) watches that have sat gathering dust.

Remember 'Indiglo' the big new illumination thing in the '90s? I put in a battery and new band on this Timex.

freemancrouch,
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@ottaross Kudos! I bet this little guy is a real pleasure.

Viss, to random
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spotted on imgur.
something i figured @foone might appreciate

freemancrouch,
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@Viss @foone @ottaross this kind of shakes me up AND amuses the hell out of me. Data cable comedy is a rare and precious thing.

freemancrouch, to random
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Welp. This article is a tone-setting deal, characterizing AI's potentially murderous mistakes as wacky shenanigans, and not mentioning truly dangerous or exploitive use cases at all. Call me a humorless scold, , but this is not remotely good.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/27/artificial-intelligence-hallucinations/

Theblueone, to guitar
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Guitar of the Day #guitar

freemancrouch,
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@Theblueone this lad makes me think of https://jamestrussart.com Trussart's patina guitars. I got to pat on some at SXSW maybe 15 years ago? Lovely damn things. I see he's still a going concern.

freemancrouch, to random
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My God. What kind of disturbing, dark comedy science fiction novel are we living in.

Nazi billionaire is sputtering because can't get his chatbot software trained up to pump out the party line of lies: "Unfortunately the Internet (on which it is trained) is overrun with woke nonsense," sez Nazi billionaire.

Here's wishing continued confusion, dismay and humiliation to Nazi billionaire.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/23/grok-ai-elon-musk-x-woke-bias/

freemancrouch,
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@hankg I'm hoping against hope that the technical limits of training up a large neural net is just completely incompatible with the ever shifting, grudge-du-jour ad hockery that is the right wing "belief system." I don't know enough of the last 20 years of AI to make an informed call on that angle.

My sense of wingnut human nature, though, is that there will never be a Nazi chatbot that doesn't spout rank heresy to someone; fomenting schisms is one of their big hobbies.

freemancrouch,
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@goatsarah @hankg Some will, some individuals absolutely will, and do. But some of this is a perfect storm of organizations and institutions -- think tanks, media companies, PACs and what have you, that must justify their existence. I'm pessimistic about them getting beaten back, say, to where they were in 1960.

Theblueone, to random
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It's 3:36 AM here in NYC and once again I find myself awake, drinking a cup of black instant coffee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiPUv4kXzvw

freemancrouch,
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@Theblueone Funny. I was playing Wee Small Hours on this horn out of this book on the music stand a few days ago. I'll have to go listen to Francis, now.

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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SPEWED FROM INTERGALACTIC SPACE
to clutch the planet Earth in its...
TERROR TENTACLES!

Space Amoeba/Yog: Monster From Space (1970) is a Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda.

"A space probe is infiltrated by alien beings and then crashes on a remote Pacific atoll."

freemancrouch,
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@TheSpaceshipper @flockofnazguls Any movie by Honda gets a favorite and a boost from this account. It's in the bylaws somewhere. Kudos!

freemancrouch, to random
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My God, this is a sign of the end times. George Will lowering the boom on the house Republicans without one particle of the habitual, oleaginous bothsidism that he almost always uses when he writes this sort of thing.

The Republic is in a very strange place.

https://wapo.st/46uJQ7Z

Sheril, to random
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I feel seen 📚

freemancrouch,
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@Sheril @inkican "Finish every book you pick up" doesn't seem to be on here. Hmmmm. I'll be darn.

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freemancrouch,
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@Theblueone I was very crazy about this book some years ago, and I imagine it will bear rereading.

freemancrouch,
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@Theblueone A good canon, to my way of thinking. You might dig this. It is a little anthology of fellows comparable (and contrastable) to Yamamoto.

jd, to random
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If we look for it, we can still find sanity out in the wild.
(Spotted near Cobourg, Ontario)

freemancrouch,
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@jd @andymoose Now THIS is my kind of kook with a manifesto neatly lettered on his truck.

Nickiquote, to random
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Here’s a thing: if I just say “Elvis Costello”, what song pops into your head first?

freemancrouch,
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@Nickiquote @flockofnazguls Allison. Years ago, Allision was, quite accidentally, the first tune I played in my new car, which was a Miata. I'm all about serendipity, so that stuck as the car's name.

Sheril, to random
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While in LA for an event, I stumbled into a magical place 📚 https://www.lastbookstorela.com

Looking down on The Last Bookstore
Rare book room at The Last Bookstore
Art installation at The Last Bookstore

freemancrouch,
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@Sheril @sshann This is amazing -- And it's like four blocks from the Biltmore. This is the makings of a pilgrimage.

dgar, (edited ) to random
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One Two Three Four!
I declare a meme war!
Do NOT neglect your !!

freemancrouch,
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@dgar A deep cut; still relevant, alas.

Theblueone, to guitar
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Guitar of the Day #guitar

freemancrouch,
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@Theblueone Indeed! Secretly a T type with jazz semiotics? This is a movement waiting to happen, amirite?

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