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Grizzlysgrowls

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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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@infinitesoleil @bookstodon Originally read the CW as "This review contains spiders." 🙂

So, bets on how long till someone uses that?

jeffjarvis, to random
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Prof. @davekarpf gives Marc Andreessen's freshman writing seminar essay thorough feedback:

Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/why-cant-our-tech-billionaires-learn?r=evw8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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@jeffjarvis @davekarpf First thing of which this reminded me: All the Nobel prize winners who won for something they did in their 20s, then spent the rest of their lives Being The Expert.

It is possible he was an iconoclast or a maverick when he was younger. Now of course, he's not Sticking it to the Man. He is The Man.

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

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    @SwiftOnSecurity Reminds me a bit of the Pope, who is only infallible when speaking Ex-Cathedra, but otherwise speaks as a knowledgeable senior bishop.

    BonnettsBooks, to Sexism
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    10/17/23 Open 6-9p. No open containers, please.

    Now that Monday has been cast out, here are 2 books to help exorcise other evils. One supposes that "demons" are really aliens and we should seek to communicate, rather than expel them. The other seems to presume that only women can be demon-possessed. Maybe that's why Stephen King's famous fictional Fury was "Christine", instead of Carson.


    @bookstodon

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    @BonnettsBooks @bookstodon Wouldn't Henry (as in Ford) be more appropriate? Who else would possess a car?

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    @BonnettsBooks @SteveClough @bookstodon Could go with Edsel. That's the name of a car. 🙂

    j_bertolotti, to random
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    @pluralistic is a constant source of quotable sentences, but I think my new favourite is:
    "Geometry hates cars. You can't bargain with geometry."
    (from https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/care-work/ )

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    @j_bertolotti @pluralistic Actually, Gravity and cars don't get along very well either.

    VeryBadLlama, to random
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    someone told me today that young people can't afford homes because we spend all our money on "toys like boats and ATVs" and now I am desperate to meet the one Millennial Hell-Child commuting from their basement apartment in a speedboat and giving us all a bad name

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    @AbandonedAmerica @VeryBadLlama I listen to a number of podcasts from financial pundits, and while I don't agree with them on everything, they say the reasons people aren't buying houses are high prices, low supply, and high interest rates.

    Not a lot of frivolous millenials in that bunch -- though it's likely some own boats and ATVs.

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    @AbandonedAmerica @VeryBadLlama I was puzzling over why the disinformation folks do what they do the other day. Came down to a critter I could call an "Attention Mosquito" or "Attention Leech." EDIT: "Attention Tick."

    They push lies, not because they believe any of it, but rather because they need attention and are of no interest on their own. They grab for importance by getting people with trusted opinions to respond to them. Then the response is the news, and their name is attached.

    futurism, to random

    Their Parents Were Family Influencers, Now Their Kids Hate Them https://t.co/pWqKFG8cKE

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    @futurism Shouldn't do that to your kids.

    That's why you have cats. They'll never know anyway.

    w7voa, to random
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    “This afternoon, President Biden conducted an interview with Scott Pelley, which will air this Sunday on CBS’ 60 Minutes.” - White House

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    @w7voa First time I read this, I wondered "Who is this Scott Pelley and why is he so important the President wanted to interview him?" 🙂

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What if ghosts are just the same whiny entitled people who won't shut up in real life?

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    @RickiTarr Their bodies die, their souls go where souls go, their annoying qualities go on forever.

    TootTropiques, to bookstodon
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    "I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them."

    --John Le Carré, 'A Murder of Quality', still contemporary after 6 decades

    @bookstodon

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    @TootTropiques @bookstodon Someone smarter than me, a long long time ago pointed out that the difference between comedy and tragedy is w you stop writing.

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    @tiago @robin @academicchatter We also don't know how soon Bluesky is liable to be bought by That Other Fella.

    WagesOf, to random
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    I've realized that I have no role models or heroes left. Today will probably not go well.

    Grizzlysgrowls,
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    @WagesOf "Who'll be my role model,
    Now that my role model is gone, gone..."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Y'all remember the Wild West that was the early internet? So, after Napster got shut down, file sharing didn't stop, you know what it did? That's right kids, let's say it all together: DECENTRALIZED! This protected those sites from being sued and shut down. It's interesting to once again be moving around in decentralized networks again 20+ years later. The past and the future are colliding in such interesting ways.

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    @WagesOf @screambiogenesis @patmadigan @RickiTarr Never played LORD, though I did hear about it. Something Trade Wars-ish seems likely more attractive.

    For that matter, since these actually -aren't- BBSes or constrained by doors... Maybe a federated version of the online Diplomacy? I liked TT Diplomacy, and the online system tempted me, but I never quite did it.

    In any case, the same -sorts- of games with a bit more modern tech and ActivityPub use, that'd be interesting.

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    @philip_cardella @derpoltergeist @wordstitcher @hawksquill @bookstodon

    I think there's some confusion between Mother-in-law the lady, and mother-in-law the apartment (usually).

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    @philip_cardella @derpoltergeist @wordstitcher @hawksquill @bookstodon Yup. US (I think) it's a mother-in-law something-or-other, not by itself. Sometimes apartment, sometimes a small house. Anyway, I guessed from the comments about missing words.

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    @philip_cardella @ukaunz @bookstodon @derpoltergeist @wordstitcher @hawksquill A while ago I'd heard about a zoning concept in California of an ADU (Auxilliary Dwelling Unit). Basically it's a rule that allows an add-on residence that can be a tiny house, as long as it meets some standards and it's in addition to a "regular" residence.

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    @ukaunz @bookstodon @derpoltergeist @philip_cardella @wordstitcher @hawksquill I have always heard the term referring to an apartment within the house, sometimes an apartment over a garage.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    A Hindsight Question!

    What is something you loved or enjoyed when you were younger, that isn't so great now that you're older?

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    @bytebro @RickiTarr Oooh, that reminded me of one, "The Sillmarillion." Started out good, that's a whole lotta book.

    I think I finished it, but I could never do it again. Maybe as an Audible book, if I needed something to help me sleep for a couple months.

    jwilker, to bookstodon
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    Grab a cup of coffee and settle in with the first book in the Grand Human Empire series! Free for a limited time!

    A rip-roaring found family adventure with snarky droids, evil empires and everyday folks with spaceships
    @bookstodon

    https://geni.us/GHE1-others

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    @jwilker @bookstodon Okay, I got one. We'll see. I usually stick to my Kindle Unlimited.

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    @jwilker @bookstodon True enough. I used to record books for .com, and I still try to keep any eye out for my old friends' new books.

    Oh, and I did narrate one Audible book (Prince Martin Wins His Sword by Brandon Hale). Lovely book, lovely author, but I tired of edit after edit after edit. I probably should have kept on with it. (sigh)

    <Ob_Plug>

    https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Martin-Wins-His-Sword/dp/B07C4GCJVN/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1695918945&sr=1-1-9e67e56a-6f64-441f-a281-df67fc737124

    Wow! Just did a search on my name... and now Amazon has two of my podcast books, too. Just... wow.

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    @jwilker @bookstodon I think the reason Amazon has (only) two of my podcast books is they're grabbing them from , who bought Podiobooks.com. And most of my Podiobooks didn't have me as Author, because I wasn't, I was the Narrator. Oh, well. The rest are still on my podcast website, if you dig back a few years.

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    @llewelly @SallyStrange @bookstodon I used to go to clubs for karaoke. I kind of miss it, but I'm a bit too broke these days.

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    @eivind @bookstodon It's seemed to me for a long time that Europeanization is really Romanization.

    Europe has been perpetuating the errors of Rome since they first saw them. Rome -is- civilization, to Europe, and to America. We are still making their mistakes.

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