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kingtor

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I’m just zis guy, you know? (I can pass for an old white man, but please don't hold that against me.)

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those of us who know better.

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kentbrew, to Kauai
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Aurora visible in Kaua'i County, HI-- oh, wait, no, it's a hibiscus flower. Sorry, carry on with your skywatching!

kingtor,
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@kentbrew @soaproot is it an orchid?

thomasfuchs, to random
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“We can’t possibly accept a juror who has bias after watching the criminal do crimes for 40 years and not getting prosecuted for it”

kingtor,
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@thomasfuchs that's the way jury selection is. We can also not accept any juror who we suspect will ignore jury instructions given by the court. In short, we only want jurors who will decide the case the way the Court wants them to.

serpicojam, to detroit
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People: down by two at home halfway through the third period in a must-win game is not the time to throw the octopus onto the ice. Or is it? Who knows!

kingtor,
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@JJKrawczyk @serpicojam the only thing worse that going home smelling of octopus is still having the source of the smell

mattblaze, to random
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I just found out X/Twitter unilaterally "verified" my old and dormant account there ("because you're an influential user"), now making me look like I'm an idiot who's voluntarily paying Musk eight bucks or whatever it is a month.

A free gift of defamation.

kingtor,
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@mattblaze curious if you've gone back to look at it? I have not looked at any of the Twitter accounts I abandoned but did not delete, but I heard a rumor awhile ago that musk was threatening to delete unused accounts

ai6yr, (edited ) to cycling

Commuted via bicycle for the first time in a very long time (albeit... a short distance <1 mile, from my temporary residence back to home). But will still check it off as "commuted by bicycle to work" (albeit... work from home, LOL).

kingtor,
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@ai6yr so if you work from home and you get on a stationary bike between waking up and starting to work, is that bicycle commuting?

shoq, to random
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You omitted the most ruinous SCOTUS outcome of them all. The one we don’t talk about much anymore because we’ve normalized an intolerable situation that changed everything and makes future change to our national character, laws and and norms exceedingly difficult going forward: the odious and completely ill-founded Citizens United ruling. We were all totally fucked the minute that came down. All because a few ideologues didn’t want to have a coronation.

https://mastodon.social/deck/@hankg@friendica.myportal.social/112011284876442468

kingtor,
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@shoq Citizens United wasn't nearly as bad as Bush v. Gore which the Court shouldn’t’ve even heard.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Anyone else occasionally have to search their own posts to make sure they haven't already made that joke before?

kingtor,
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@Mrfunkedude Perhaps I should....

thomasfuchs, to random
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1970s stereo equipment showing moving VU meters

kingtor,
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@thomasfuchs None of our cassette decks are working anymore.... :( I don't have the same nostalgia for cassette that some do, but do have a rather large library of cassettes...

georgetakei, to random

Liz Cheney has seen the darkness. Now she sees the light.

kingtor,
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@georgetakei I don't know about that. She has seen a light, but not sure if it's "the" light. Yes, a reasonable Republican is better than most of them, but she makes no bones about her Conservative (with a capital C) politics. It's sad that the bar is so low that she has become something of a hero to Democratic voters.

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@LeeFromVT @georgetakei Praise? Sure. I just want to keep it in perspective.

serpicojam, to detroit
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I hope Mickey Redmond understands that he can never retire from broadcasting.

kingtor,
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@serpicojam also that he must crack immortality

mattblaze, to photography
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59th Street Bridge, NYC, 2019.

Also known as the Queensborough Bridge and, more officially, the Ed Koch Bridge. Whatever you call it, it's groovy.

Excessive pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131/

kingtor,
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@mattblaze I don't get the controversy unless it's something like toning Ansel Adams' photos. I don't use a one-size-fits all processing for anything but snapshots, so why would I treat black-and-white the same? (And speaking of Adams, his camera choice, lens, exposure, film stock, and dark room process were thoroughly customized to the photograph.

luis_in_brief, to random
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Reminder: using other people's work without consent or permission is something we as humans do all the time, and can be ethical in many contexts. Please don't buy into the copyright maximalist position that every use must require permission.

And yes, this is about AI, and no, I am unsure whether AI scraping is ethical. But we cannot let distaste for AI chip away at the small space we've painstakingly carved out for fair, ethical, permissionless use.

kingtor,
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@luis_in_brief In music, at least in my awareness, there’s been a focus on intent of the composer/songwriter/producers, which is why no one with half a brain will ever write down “I wanted to use [specific song] in this spot, but we couldn’t afford it—can you do something like that?” That’s also tricky for an objective judgement (just ask any sports referee how they determine the intent of a player when deciding on a penalty), but not as tricky/impossible as it is to determine the intent of AI.

GottaLaff, to random
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Bob Knight, college basketball coach, dies at 83 https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/01/coach-bob-knight-dead/

kingtor,
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@GottaLaff I don't mean to be insensitive, but how is it possible he didn't die of a heart attack years ago? He must've actually been able to let that type A++ personality go when he retired.

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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kingtor,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat they're not (all) dead yet!

GottaLaff, to MIguns
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Amen.

Via Scott Linnen:

There’s something deeply cynical about asking God to solve a problem that you’re not willing to solve yourself. That’s not “prayer.” That’s perpetrating a fiendish con to cover your profit off the assault rifle body count.

Aaron Rupar:

New House Mike Johnson offers prayers in response to the latest horrible mass . Can't believe nobody has thought of that before.

kingtor,
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@Helderweb @GottaLaff they may not be capable of coherent thought, but at least they have the prayers half of the cliché down

StillIRise1963, to random
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I had to look up wtf a cornhole tournament is.

kingtor,
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@StillIRise1963 this might be the metaphor I was looking for to describe electoral politics....

protonmail, to privacy
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We thought Google hit rock bottom with .

Its new beta feature on Google Files for called “Smart Search" is the trap door.

This creepy new feature on by default & scans every file on your phone. Why is this bad? Because it could potentially ruin your life. (1/3)

kingtor,
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@protonmail don't actually see that setting in my phone, but this did inspire me to look at some other settings and turn off some "features"

GottaLaff, to random
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Awww. Rudolph Isley, co-founder of R&B stalwarts the Isley Brothers, dies at 84 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-10-12/rudolph-isley-cofounder-brothers-shout-twist-dies

kingtor,
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@GottaLaff such a legend! Rock out in peace.

bikepedantic, to random
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The new head of an org that is long dead to me over an issue that I no longer have a firsthand stake in - yet still care deeply about - reached out.

I could politely let the past live in the past, or I could give in to my worst impulses and deploy the flaming sword of righteousness.

WTF are we kidding i unleashed the sword hours ago.

kingtor,
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@bikepedantic highly recommend. Helps me channel my anger etc

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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I miss K-Mart.

kingtor,
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@BlackAzizAnansi you could decorate your house in blue lights...

mattblaze, to random
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Reminder about Mastodon "private" messages. Aside from not being end-end-encrypted (and so visible to instance administrators), they CC anyone @-mentioned ANYWHERE in the body of the message (not just those listed at the start).

They are now called "private mentions" rather than "private messages", but if you don't fully understand the semantics, this behavior may be unexpected and/or cause unpleasant side effects.

kingtor,
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@sspopovich @mattblaze @VE2UWY Rename it and you'll turn the bug into a feature. Problem solved. Of course, the utility of this feature completely evades me, so I'm at a complete loss as to what the name should be. "Not-Really-Private Mentions" may be honest, but a feature?

georgetakei, to random

Trump knows exactly what he’s doing when he eggs on his rabid base that this “political hack judge” in New York is “unhinged” and “must be stopped.” He hides behind the First Amendment, but he’s a mob boss, and he knows from experience that there are dangerous elements in his MAGA base. People will take things into their own hands when he demands, “WE NEED JUSTICE IN OUR COUNTRY!” Trump must be kept from issuing threats to witnesses and court officials ahead of his trials.

kingtor,
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@georgetakei ...just as mob bosses have traditionally hidden behind the American Dream.

thomasfuchs, to astrophotography
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A somewhat popular artistic style in is emulating a tilt-shift lens, like in my monochrome image of the Andromeda Galaxy here.

Obviously it’s a post-processing thing, everything at astronomical distances is actually infinity focus with a telescope or photographic lens.

kingtor,
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@thomasfuchs when I worked at Panavision I was surprised to find out infinity is checked on their lenses before every rental using a collimator. Even more surprised just now to learn that collimator is not based on the word column.

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@thomasfuchs the guys who did it a dozen or two times a day made it look pretty easy. ;)

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