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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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enantiomer, to random
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that's my Emotional Support Altoids Tin Full of Q-Tips

mrcompletely,
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@enantiomer hey I also have an emotional support altoids tin but it's full of altoids with LSD on them

theverge, to random
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Google targets filmmakers with Veo, its new generative AI video model
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156255/google-veo-ai-generated-video-model-openai-sora-io?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The Creators Issue @the

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@theverge @the don't want that

LostReflector, to random
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THANK YOU!! this is one of the two major traffic frustrations I have living in Massachusetts where everyone thinks they are being helpful and friendly but are actually slowing things down by trying to do this ALL. THE. TIME.

mrcompletely,
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@LostReflector you'd hate portland driving so much

mrcompletely,
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@LostReflector yeah PDX area driving is 75% people who defer FAR too much and cause all kinds of trouble (obvious zipper merges wrecked by early mergers, this XKCD thing, etc) and 25% east coast and LA people enraged by the foolishness and driving twice as crazy to make up for it

One of the absolutely truest sketches in all of Portlandia, what I refer to now as a "Portland Standoff"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpdQvuAnqM

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@LostReflector that is fairly rare here, I think everyone just turns right and then U turns

enantiomer, to random
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locked into a time machine that moves forward at 1 second per second

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@enantiomer ugh. The worst

mrcompletely,
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@enantiomer what isn't? 🤷

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@enantiomer nailed it

kjhealy, to random
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This continues to hold up well.

mrcompletely,
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@kjhealy "there is no scientific consensus on what 'consciousness' is or if it really exists, so all of these positions are unproven beliefs posing as rationalism" isn't great meme fodder, it's true

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@Zamfr @kjhealy It isn't, though. The upper left is essentially atheism applied to consciousness ("X does not exist"). The summary I put forward is agnosticism in the same context ("we don't know enough about X to say, and it may not be provable either way with available means"). The situation is somewhat like those around theories of dark matter and energy. Their ontological status is simply unproven at this time. The upper left quadrant is just as belief-based as any. There's just no evidence.

JamesGleick, to random
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One is so often reminded of Stringer Bell. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112436640655210112

mrcompletely,
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@JamesGleick that was an iconic moment immediately but who could have imagined it would be quite this evergreen

arstechnica, to random
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Biden administration slaps 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs

Tariffs on EV batteries are being tripled as well.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/biden-administration-slaps-100-tariffs-on-chinese-evs/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

mrcompletely,
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@tob @arstechnica why? I'd love to hear the case made plainly and not in government gibberish. I promise I'm not trying to argue. I just would like to hear the reasoning.

mangrovevalley, to random
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5/14/70. Kirkwood, MO. Inspired acoustic & electric sets. The back half is smoldering with standout takes on High Time, the first-played Attics of My Life, and a very hot New Speedway Boogie with a blazing mid-song Nobody’s Fault jam. My notes & soundboard tape: https://open.substack.com/pub/zencowpoke/p/grateful-deadmeramec-community-college?r=7iwom&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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@mangrovevalley certainly my fav electric new speedway

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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When the prosecution rests in the Manhattan case, I plan to read the transcripts so far looking for evidence that supports the elements of particular crimes.

This is my thing: Reading trial transcripts. My job was reading trial transcripts looking for appealable errors.

Shall I tell you my favorite moment in a transcript?

The defendant (yes, my client) walked in to court with baggy pants. The judge (a woman) was offended and angry. She thought the defendant was disrespecting her.

1/

mrcompletely,
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@guyjantic @Teri_Kanefield yep the culture wars over sagged pants go back a long way, and critiques of them (among many things) are often proxies for racism or at best cultural ignorance and associated bias. And the dress codes in court and other official settings are imo a type of discriminatory barrier and should be updated and loosened. "Professionalism" is far too often simply code for exclusion.

That said, you can't show your draws in court. Come on man! "when keeping it real goes wrong"

CultureDesk, (edited ) to books
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Until high school, Kate Feiffer believed that her mother Judy's novel, "A Hot Property," was about real estate. Then a boyfriend plucked the book from the shelves, started reading passages aloud, and revealed it was a piece of 1970s erotica. From then until just a few years ago, Kate considered "A Hot Property" to be her literary Waterloo — the book she'd hoped to conquer but never been able to. But after her mother's death, she picked up the novel and — between bouts of screaming and cringing — found something more thoughtful and reflective than she was expecting. Here's what she wrote for LitHub.

https://flip.it/cbERa2

@bookstodon

mrcompletely,
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@SarahSingsank @CultureDesk @bookstodon the book or the review?

mrcompletely, to jazz
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As a young fella just getting into in the late eighties my first impressions of David Sanborn were that he was corny and overly smooth, in an unhip bag I didn't dig with guys like Metheny and the Breckers. Then he blew my fucking mind with the Night Music show and I've respected him ever since. There was almost no really cool weird music on TV in 1988-90 except that show, and man, Night was legit!!! Nick Cave, Bongwater, Pere Ubu, Miles Davis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EryYTq-voz0&list=PLpR40se-_3M8QnHhIReAR-s-wTJCOJGBg

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I stand by the Breckers/Metheny take though 👎

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@kilroy_was_here me the split second I hear that twee-ass tone of his:

https://youtu.be/8V_hCqO6UQs?si=sRF685Ixkop3He-v

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@MarkRDavid I've heard of it but have yet to see it, I'm sure I'll get a chance to eventually

mrcompletely,
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@kilroy_was_here that's called a "feret" tyvm

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@Superleopold first time I ever heard Sonny! A friend and I had a bunch of Night Music eps on VHS and that's one of the ones we kept returning to

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@chris I respect him so much I forgive even that

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@tlmoore Willner was cool af...I'm sure the producer(s) deserve a lot of credit but Sanborn had to make it work as the onstage host, which given some of the combinations seems like no joke

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@tlmoore well said - the BG parallel is on point

vicgrinberg, to random
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Paper acceptance day! 🥳🥳🥳 Cygnus X-1 for the win! More soon on ArXiv!

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@vicgrinberg congratulations

seachanger, to random
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midlife crisis but instead of buying a convertible I unsubscribe from all email lists and cancel all donations and subscriptions

mrcompletely,
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@Sadsquatch @seachanger I take a run at this between xmas and NYE every year, bc in that timeframe every nonprofit has an ask, and every business has a sale. Then over the year a few creep back in, but it's less every year, so it feels like I'm eroding their grip over time

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