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mrcompletely

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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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tor_haxson, to random
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I am suffering from a tick borne infection of some sort,

Basically the protocol at least at urgent Care centers is.

Tick bite, + symptoms => A course of antibiotics.

I am cool with that, and glad I didn't go to my doctor who may have been less likely to prescribe.

So yeah, FYI, if it is more than just the usual itch, and your lymph nodes get in on the action, visit a doctor.

We need an AI agent that goes out and kills ticks, a hummingbird sized tick eater.

mrcompletely,
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@tor_haxson care care of yourself amigo

WilliamRobert, to random
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A deep dive into Ursula K. LeGuin's classic novels through the lens of her 'dangerous' philosophy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRC0cK_MSA0

mrcompletely,
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@EVDHmn @WilliamRobert fundamentally she was a Taoist, a view that clarified as she got older, but the kind of Taoist that creates their own poetic translation of the Tao Te Ching. In terms of social philosophy she was feminist, ecological, antiwar/pacifist in the general sense. She wrote stories in which violence was never glorified or seen as a viable solution. IMO she is the most important figure in the transition to modern SF from the culturally naive "Golden Age" of Heinlein, Asimov etc

mrcompletely,
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@EVDHmn @WilliamRobert what this quote refers to is likely the fact that she created plausible seeming societies in which structures like power hierarchies, capitalism and gender-role conformity don't exist or are seen as pathological. She wasn't the only one doing that in her era (Delany in particular) but she's had the greatest impact

FateMusic, to random
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I chuckled at Kreutzmann having an index entry for "horses, cocaine and" in his bio (p. 231 if you're wondering). I thought it was just a BK/Benjy Eisen thing.

But of course I am an infinitely ignorant fool. Because, of course:

cocaine's for horses not for men
doctor say it kill you but they don't say when
cocaine done killed my honey dead

Well played.

note to self: I see now this is the second time I have made that same connection, as if fresh and new, 3 years apart.

mrcompletely,
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@FateMusic it always seemed wild to me that this was a real old song, hearing Doc Watson do it and stuff...from a modern perspective it feels like cocaine was invented in 1968 and went big in its first decade but it's been fucking people up for well over a century

chooban, to random
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What is the correct setlist for 's Rockin' The Rhein? Wikipedia mentions a third set, the archive.org has the same ordering as the official release, and deadlists begs to differ. :/

mrcompletely,
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@chooban @bourgwick @InstituteJerry hm. Probably possible. Lot of priorities rn but that seems not crazy

bourgwick, to random
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50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead & wall of sound in #SantaBarbara with maria muldaur & the great american string band. love to the compuserve tape tree, probably my 1st exposure to ’74 dead. with the new "mars hotel" reissue, now the 1st ’74 dead show without official release.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1974-05-25.sbd.jmiller.205.sbeok.shnf
vivid audience tape: https://archive.org/details/gd1974-05-25.aud.gems.111301.flac16
silent footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYt8RQQoMjA [1/10]

mrcompletely,
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@bourgwick Buell Neidlinger is a cool af little dude, we booked him at the first String Summit outside of Portland to play with someone or another (possibly Dawg? he was there) and I think do a workshop. He seemed to like that the kids running the hippie bluegrass festival knew he was a jazz guy too

digginjazz, to jazz
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I bought this album in 1970 while in high school, for no other reason than I was mezmorized by the cover art, and heard that Miles is hip and I should be listening to him. At the time, I didn't get it and shelved it for years. It took being exposed to much more music to understand what genius is contained on these disks. So much history and influences are amalgamated into this music.

mrcompletely,
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@digginjazz for me this was the album that opened up everything. A friend put it on late at a party when everyone was in a perceptive and receptive mindset and within minutes I realized I knew nothing about music at all

bourgwick, to bookstodon
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restarted a book i thought i maybe didn't like, but turns out i was just in an airport experiencing interminable delays when i tried before. @bookstodon

mrcompletely,
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@bourgwick @bookstodon nice!

grimalkina, to random
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The answer to "how can we make more technology work better and more for everyone" PROBABLY can't hinge on "individual software developers are responsible for knowing internalizing and perfectly executing every single thing in the world and perfectly understanding the needs of billions of people" eh?

mrcompletely,
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@grimalkina lacking in praxis or method of application?

exchgr, to random
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going to a party called “cornhub” today

mrcompletely,
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@exchgr thoughts and prayers

dgar, to random
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One of the contributing factors in the fall of Count Dracula’s empire was the fighting with stakeholders.

mrcompletely,
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@dgar goddammit

mrcompletely, to nba
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Dallas looks like they know exactly what they're doing. Minnesota doesn't. Might be all there is to this series really.

mrcompletely,
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@emarktaylor yeah the two teams are really closely matched. But when one closely matched team is executing in the endgame and the other isn't, it's decisive. Wolves can def turn it around but at this point it will take sustained next level excellence from Ant to do it.

I'm not usually a Rudy defender but i feel like it's time for people to let that go. Guarding Luka alone on the perimeter while he dances isn't what he won the award for. No one in the league can do it reliably so 🤷

mrcompletely, to nba
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#nba questions tonight

I know it's cheap, simplistic, inaccurate, surface level analysis to say this is on Ant. But if Minnesota wants to win, isn't this still really kinda on Ant?

26 minutes for KAT? I know it was the Naz game but there were a bunch of possessions he should've been in there. Maybe including that last defensive possession. What's up with that rotation?

Speaking of that last defensive possession: what the hell? (also: lol)

mrcompletely,
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@claude yeah so it was def funny to see him on skates because he's so long, he looked like a baby deer. But the play isn't his fault. Defending a wizard one on one on the perimeter isn't his thing, just as you say. My point is the team shouldn't have hung him out there like that. That's not his job

mrcompletely,
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@jdm2 sub KAT for Rudy? Where was KAT? To me that's the play

bourgwick, to books
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recent-ish reading/rereading. @bookstodon

mrcompletely, (edited )
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@bourgwick @bookstodon how'd you like Hyperion? One of the supposed "modern classics" I can't quite dig like most SF fans

mrcompletely,
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@bourgwick @bookstodon well, it's the Canterbury Tales In Space With A Monster, so it's definitely old fashioned! But I know what you mean. Left me cold as well. I assume you know Sterling is on Mastodon?

mrcompletely,
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@arghdos @bourgwick @bookstodon I actually didn't think it was good 😁 but anyway

brucy, to random
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Keep all hockey on ESPN and all basketball on TNT, but only because of the studio teams.

mrcompletely,
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@brucy also because I get free tnt and no ESPN so it's perfect

paris, to asheville
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do i know anyone who lives or has lived in , north carolina?

mrcompletely, (edited )
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@paris I've spent a ton of time there, though not in years - grew up in the area, still have a friend or two there. It's delightful, but increasingly gentrified, and of course it's an oasis of progressive people in a reactionary Maga desert.

paninid, to random
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Anybody looking to , here is a link to Wellfound has a number of interesting roles and companies: https://wellfound.com/l/2AgqiP

mrcompletely,
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@paninid thanks!

SpaceAce, to random
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5 songs that remind you of high school GO

edit i guess i shoulda started this. this is a mix of whatever i was listening to in my walkman plus songs which really timestamped the period

  1. Clarence Carter - Strokin - the post grad party I remember throwing up to this
  2. Velvet Underground - I Heard Her Call My Name - walkman, headphones, cranking it
  3. White Lion - Wait (AHAHAHAHAH there's a funny story)
  4. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missle F-11
  5. Gang Green - Alcohol
mrcompletely,
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@gloriousnoise @SpaceAce purity testing is for the conformists. Love what you love.

mrcompletely, to music
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Couple great Molly Tuttle solo tunes here from a MerleFest session this year


https://youtu.be/gFJey3eHUJQ?si=46vKD8Ll726ihSni

bsletten, to BillyStrings
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The people behind the Billy Strings fan site Billy Base know what the hell they are doing and understand information at a level I haven’t seen much in the world of popular culture.

Real-time set lists, metadata, authorship, when it entered the rotation, history of being played, lyrics, etc.

Really well done. 🙌🏼🫡

https://billybase.net

mrcompletely,
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@bsletten Billybase is an excellent example of a fan driven setlist site. Similar sites include https://kglw.net/ (King Gizzard), https://brownbase.org/ (Ween), Phish.net, https://jerrybase.com/ (Grateful Dead and Garcia, one I help admin) plus most if not all of the major jam bands like Widespread Panic. Basically any act that plays a different setlist every night and has fans that are also jam band fans or part of that culture is likely to have a similar site (of varying quality)

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