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Art from Rick Rowley of #SecondLife.

Podcaster off and on since 2007, DJ on Second Life since 2009.

Desideratan Universalist, for the moment.

“Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils

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appassionato, to books
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The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media

Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks. The people who built and maintained these dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond.

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Grizzlysgrowls,
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@appassionato @bookstodon Wow, gotta read this one. Except I was there the first time (American Tune BBS was me). I should get a copy to show somebody's grandkids, though.

ronsboy67, to linguistics
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A question prompted by "Crime Wave at Blandings", the first story in "Lord Emsworth and Others, which I currently . PGW has Lord Emsworth saying "dooce" a lot. In my quasi-literate ignorance, that seems like an Americanism, the sort of thing PGW might have picked from living there. Would a very English Earl of the era have said "deuce" as "dooce" , or would he have been more like to say /djuːs/ ? @bookstodon

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@ronsboy67 @ancientsounds @bookstodon That's interesting. In the US, it seems broadcasting simply grabbed folks from the Midwest, and with a little moderation the general midwestern accent came to be accepted as "no accent."

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@ronsboy67 @ancientsounds @bookstodon Back in the 1970s I was doing Shakespeare with an "imagist" theatre group. The director contended that the Midwestern US accent was very close to the speech of Shakespeare's time, accent-wise.

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@ronsboy67 @ancientsounds @bookstodon Not sure how Seamas was supposed to have known that, but he was kinda old... I was a teenager at the time. 🙂

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@ancientsounds @ronsboy67 @bookstodon I suppose one could argue that Seamas was right in a "spiritual" sense. Shakespeare wrote much of it for the Groundlings, and at least in the US we sound like the Groundlings of today.

RickiTarr, to random
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If You're a man who is 30+

What is the historical time period You're obsessed with?

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@RickiTarr I would be hard put to say I'm "obsessed" with a particular period.

Right now I'm listening to two podcasts about the early history of England, one on WW I, one on WWII, one on the early Christian church, one on the history of the Papacy, and one on ancient Roman history and such. Well one on the Western empire and one on the Eastern I finished a while ago.

So, which historical time period? How about "the past?"

appassionato, to books
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The Collapse of Complex Societies

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future.

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Grizzlysgrowls,
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@curmudgeonaf @appassionato @bookstodon The other day I heard a translated quote from Marx: "History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, then as a farce."

ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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Meanwhile in #Paris..... having been subjected to a #bedbug infestation & a #sewage problem in the #Seine, now the #Olympics organisers are picking a fight with Paris' riverside #book stalls that they want to absent themselves from the banks while the opening ceremony as their stock boxes are apparently a security risk...

How this will play out for the Paris mayor & Olympics management remains to be seen

@bookstodon

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@paul_ipv6 @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon They could make it a lot safer by not allowing any people.

wonderofscience, to random
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A 360º view from the surface of Mars captured by Perseverance Rover.

Image Credit: NASA​/​JPL-Caltech​/​ASU​/​MSSS
Source: https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25640/mastcam-zs-first-360-degree-panorama/

video/mp4

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@wonderofscience "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids..."

Grizzlysgrowls, to random
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Hey @AbandonedAmerica I finally found your podcast! Listening to the one from 01/23/2023 about the church. You sound nothing like your typing makes you sound. 🙂

MsHearthWitch, to food
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Spent the afternoon in the kitchen making 10 more pizzas for the freezer!

5 ham and pineapple
5 with prosciutto, olives, onion and sundried tomatoes

My back is killing me now, but it'll be worth it! It is cheaper than buying the dairy free pizzas (plus those are also meat-free and gluten free which I do not want).

Takes about 1 hr resting time (for the dough to rise) and about 1 hr to par bake the crusts, then prep ingredients, assemble and wrap.

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@MsHearthWitch So, basically... easy as pie?

🙂

w7voa, to random
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As we prepare to turn the clocks back in most of North America tomorrow night, a reminder from AP that we are leaving “daylight saving time” although it seems most everybody calls it “daylight savings time.”

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@w7voa I need to call my bank and cash in all that daylight I saved. What's it selling for lately?

wedistribute, to pebble

It's a sad time for the social network formerly known as T2, but not all hope is lost.

https://wedistribute.org/2023/11/pebble-shuts-down-but-starts-a-mastodon-instance/

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@wedistribute I still have two Pebble watches. Not the same, but I did like the name.

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@wedistribute Only reason I ever bought a was they bought . I figured they'd bought it to learn how to make a decent smartwatch, not just a fitness watch.

They hadn't. Or at least they didn't learn.

Gave the Fitbit to my sister, who works out and such.

davidho, to random
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Did capitalism write this?

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@davidho Given the impact of the last World War, it could mean America could be Great Again?

grammargirl, to random
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Happy first day of to all who celebrate.

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@grammargirl I think needs something like an Advent calendar.

Deus, (edited ) to animals
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I have no idea what’s the breed of this dog but we just call it ‘Zo Ui’ (Zo Dog). Alert, great friend (of course), no manicure or pedicure needed, zero-maintenance cost, will eat whatever the family eats, walks for miles with you when you go hunting or for a stroll in the jungle. If tired, will lie down on the leaves (stomach side up), takes rest and then catch up with you (as this guy did). Most of all, super curious.

I ask for the ‘breed’ because they’re not the same stray dogs we find in Indian cities - has this typical curly tail, is short, and the ‘real’ ones have this brown coat.

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@Deus Maybe what they call a Yeller dog? The original breed of Dog?

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@Deus Well, that's a good accomplishment. I'd always understood Pariah as something of an insult, but there's likely more going on there than I'd know about. "Indie dog" sounds better. Plus now you should get him a leather hat, jacket, and whip. 🙂

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@Deus I must admit I'd be tempted to get a Rafeiro do Alentejo, the breed of that dog that lived 31 years. Not a universal characteristic of the breed, but I'm sorely tired of outliving dogs. Lovely dog, too.

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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Mike Diamond (Mike D) and Adam Yauch (MCA) back when the Beastie Boys were a hardcore punk band, 1983

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@historyofpunkrock Didn't the Beastie Boys just come out with an album of covers of Sinatra hits? 🙂

VeryBadLlama, to random
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begging dudes like this to realize that no-fault divorce and equal pay laws are the only reason that they don’t know what coffee tastes like when it’s sweetened with antifreeze

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@VeryBadLlama Might want to try Ancestry.com. My research there took me back to an ancestor named Borgia. 🙂

futurism, to random

Scientists Puzzled by Sudden, Super-Loud Rumble Inside Mars https://t.co/CDsJTA0plx

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@futurism The ship left behind by the invading aliens has awakened. I blame Elon Musk.

JenLucPiquant, to random

Stunning Images Reveal Rogue Planets of the Orion Nebula https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stunning-images-reveal-rogue-planets-of-the-orion-nebula/

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@JenLucPiquant Wasn't that a movie title back in the 1950s?

thekenyeung, to random
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Meta, X and Google have shifted away from news, signaling the start of what The Atlantic's Executive Editor Adrienne LaFrance calls the "post-social web."

Semafor's Editor in Chief Ben Smith says publishers are finding platforms like @Flipboard more important in the absence of Big Tech.

“People do like having lots of sources of information, but they don’t want to be nosing around a postapocalyptic wasteland to find them,” Smith remarked.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/technology/news-social-media-traffic.html

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@thekenyeung @Flipboard MAN that Smith quote is brilliant.

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@Flipboard @thekenyeung That's the one, of course. Thanks.

David "Grizzly" Smith

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