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mrcompletely

@mrcompletely@heads.social

He/him. Tyler IRL. If you've seen this handle elsewhere yeah that's probably me. Moderator at https://heads.social Mastodon instance, admin at https://Jerrybase.com

#PDX #oregon #PNW #software #dev #deadhead #gratefuldead #bluegrass #jazz #phish #psychedelic #artist #DigitalArt #painting #mandalas #nba #nature

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euronews, to random
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World’s first AI tour guide is helping visitors on the Danish island of Fanø
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/05/22/worlds-first-ai-tour-guide-is-helping-visitors-on-the-danish-island-of-fano?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Sci-Tech @sci

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@euronews @sci so far almost 30% of the visitors have survived the experience! Pretty good for AI really

verge, to random
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Humane is looking for a buyer after the AI Pin’s underwhelming debut https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24162185/humane-seeking-acquisition-rumor-ai-pin

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@verge 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭

mrcompletely,
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@godzero @verge "no one will give us hundreds of dollars for the product, so give us millions for the company" is a pretty unique value proposition

mrcompletely, to nba
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Hm. Not totally sure these numbers reflect the action on the floor

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My overall feeling watching this game after that Minnesota/Denver series

"you are not serious people" gif

mrcompletely, to nba
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Neither of these teams knows how to close a game but Boston has been terrible at it longer so they have experience on their side. If they employed a head coach that might help #nba

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@caravan oh it's very entertaining! I'm having fun. Tbqh I'm testing the Boston fans on the hashtag to see if any of the dimwits have showed up yet

bsletten, to BillyStrings
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Billy Strings learned an important lesson tonight. They had a bit more time for set 1 and he asked the audience if they wanted to hear anything special. He noticed a little girl in the front row and asked her what she wanted their all strings bluegrass band to do. Her answer: Cher’s “Believe”.

mrcompletely,
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@frykitty @bsletten Billy will 100% deliver on this. First, because he promised and he is a young gentleman. Second, because it will rip. Third, and most importantly, because it will be fucking hilarious

4CPcomics, to random
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Can't believe I missed the 50th anniversary of one of the top 10 events of all time!

5/19/74 Portland, OR

mrcompletely,
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@4CPcomics no. The keyword being "dense." I also love the way they avoid falling into familiar themes or ideas

mrcompletely,
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@4CPcomics it's all corners all the time like that tron light cycle game

mrcompletely,
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@caravan @4CPcomics best looking box set they've made. Gorgeous piece

mrcompletely,
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@caravan @4CPcomics it's so nice looking we keeping it sitting out as decor, the only thing of its type that isn't in storage or up on top of the office bookshelves

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@caravan @4CPcomics especially when you live in the PNW

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@caravan @4CPcomics missed that one, never even knew they did it

mrcompletely,
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@thesizzler @caravan @4CPcomics christ, you could trade that for a Bear piece

mrcompletely, to nba
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Tight game but being played on the Pacers' terms. If the Celtics actually had a coach he'd be mad about that. Too bad #nba

mrcompletely,
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@drewphish incredible 😂😭

crumbler, to random

A few more words about the OpenAI / Scarlett Johansson situation https://www.platformer.news/platform-sales-tax-california-sb1327-glazer/

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@crumbler "the other actress is from Canada, I met her at camp, you wouldn't know her"

wobs, to random
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I gave Gibbon the old graduate school try, and with the same course of action that I secured my terminal ABD, I did not finish. His verbosity and the ridiculousness of his discussion of early Christianity broke me.

Getting my head back on straight with Ursula Le Guin.

“The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” back on the shelf at the neighborhood little library.
Text from the back cover of "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Text reads: URSULA K. LE GUIN'S GROUNDBREAKING WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION- WINNER OF THE HUGO AND NEBULA AWARDS A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants' gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters... Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of science fiction.
Cover of the book "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin, 50th Anniversary Edition. The design is split into light and dark halves with the title text spanning both sides.

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@wobs now that's a good book! Gibbon is useless from a modern perspective, while Ursula gains force and depth over time. With a clearer perspective of age I now believe she's the single most important SF writer in the history of the genre.

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@wobs Ursula loves you and wants you to be happy

reading history can be hard enough without archaic prose and even more archaic ideas

bourgwick, to Seattle
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50 years ago today, the & the wall of sound in , including one of their longest standalone jams. the 2nd of 3 shows with more than half of the forthcoming “from the mars hotel.” more wonderful photos by crew member richie pechner. spring ’74, show #5. https://archive.org/details/gd74-05-21.sbd.belkin.2597.sbefail.shnf [1/4]

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@bourgwick an astonishing pair of images! This second one with rigging still underway is incredible

mrcompletely, to random
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Fwiw, anyone freaking out about the insane/idiotic/abuse enabling upcoming windows "feature" aka OS level spyware on an immediate/practical basis should realize you'd have to buy one of the new "copilot plus" line of machines to even have the hardware to run the stupid thing. It's not about to be enabled on whatever you're using now. Yes, there are lots of reasons to be mad at MS over this, all those things are valid, I don't wish to debate how bad this is (it's very bad), just a point of fact.

BigJackBrass, to RPG
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Currently reading this history of the music hall, the British counterpart of vaudeville and precursor to variety. My favourite RPGs tend to be things like "Call of Cthulhu" and "Forgotten Futures" with a strong Victorian to Georgian (George V, that is) tone and history, but I often feel that the popular culture of the time is ignored when it should be a vital part of the world and the characters. NPCs ought to be playing records, going to the pictures, whistling the latest hits, referencing movie stars and stage actors, encouraging the PCs to read a new novel they're enamoured with—or recommending they avoid one they dislike.

A few sentences here and there, a name dropped, an encounter when shopping for sheet music or looking at the posters advertising coming acts… it doesn't take much to add to a great deal of flavour to the world and make it feel alive, rather than like those cheap cartoons where the only people moving or even present in a scene are the PCS.

Scene from the movie "Bullshot". The titular hero is attempting to fend off the advances of an attractive woman who is wearing a very revealing dress and has just put a jazz record on the gramophone. Caption: "Is this seemly, Mrs. Platt-Higgins? Playing popular music and your husband only ten years dead?"
Photograph taken in London in 1910. A figure wearing a straw boater is standing, partly obscured by an ornate lamppost, reading one of several advertising posters pasted along a wall. They include one for "The Sins of London" at the Lyceum; Madame Sarah Bernhardt and a number of other acts appearing at The London Coliseum, Charing Cross; and a travel poster advertising Blackpool by very sensibly not showing the town, but going for a painting of a smiling woman beside the sea instead.

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@BigJackBrass you'd love this book. The best background for flavor and color in the urban Victorian era I've ever read. I got it dirt cheap used. A+ world builder fodder

brianvastag, to music
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Wow, tickets for Dead & Company at The Sphere in Vegas next week are as low as $100 on stub hub. Tempting.

I'm not a huge Deadhead, more Deadhead adjacent, but I once ate a taco with Billy Kruetzmann and his wife so feel a special kinship.

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@brianvastag fwiw, my friends who are, let's say, casual dead & co fans at best def think the Sphere is worth a go. Not just the visuals - the sound is by all accounts the best anyone has ever heard. So that's neat

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@brianvastag not every seat, but I think a majority in some sections have them. Apparently pretty great during drums and space

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