Stunning: Antoine Boyer, “The Two Lonely People” (Bill Evans Cover)

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This is absolutely incredible, and I’m not just talking about Antoine’s gorgeous 7-string classical guitar.

Here is my cover of “The two lonely people” by Bill Evans. This video was recorded live at home on a seven string classical guitar made by Ryosuke Kobayashi. This instrument is a great source of inspiration for me! Hope you enjoy!

Ryosuke’s Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/ryosukekobayashiguitars/?hl=fr

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Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/antoineboyermusic
Website → http://www.antoineboyermusic.com

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:59:49am
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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:01:56am

re: #221 Charles Johnson

It just amazes me how completely out of touch these overwhelmingly white tech libertarian billionaires are. Pig-headed insistence on automatic technical solutions to abuse and extremism, after years of seeing them fail in spectacular ways.

Now it’s AI that’s gonna save them from dealing directly with the unwashed masses.

As I’ve said before, AI is not magic. At the end of the day, AI is still a computer program, based on computer rules. At the present moment, it is not sentient, it does not have the ability to “think;” it’s a decision tree that is a little more sophisticated than a bunch of if-else statements. The reason AI is treated with such reverence is because they claim it can “learn,” but that “learning” is just storing adjustments to its programming in a database or something. Humans still have to teach it when it gets something wrong, or reinforce it when it gets something right, in order for it to “learn.”

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:03:47am

re: #2 Nerdy Fish

As I’ve said before, AI is not magic. At the end of the day, AI is still a computer program, based on computer rules. At the present moment, it is not sentient, it does not have the ability to “think;” it’s a decision tree that is a little more sophisticated than a bunch of if-else statements. The reason AI is treated with such reverence is because they claim it can “learn,” but that “learning” is just storing adjustments to its programming in a database or something. Humans still have to teach it when it gets something wrong, or reinforce it when it gets something right, in order for it to “learn.”

Which, by the way, sounds like how people learn.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:05:51am

re: #3 Belafon

Which, by the way, sounds like how people learn.

You’re pretty right about that, although humans have the ability to self-learn, whereas AI has to be checked by someone else or else you get things like… what was that one AI that wound up going full 4chan Nazi and had to be shut down?

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:07:27am

I’ll confidently predict that there will never be an AI system capable of dealing with obsessive human trolls and Nazis. The bad people will increasingly get away with everything, and good people will be the ones who suffer, both from the abuse and from inaccurate enforcement of overly literal rule systems.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:09:30am

There are many things computers are great at. Dealing with messy, unpredictable, chaotic human beings is not one of them.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:10:34am

re: #4 Nerdy Fish

You’re pretty right about that, although humans have the ability to self-learn, whereas AI has to be checked by someone else or else you get things like… what was that one AI that wound up going full 4chan Nazi and had to be shut down?

Humans have to be checked by someone else too, or they wind up 4 chan Nazis or fans of Andrew Tate or Jordan Peterson.

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:11:25am

The shitgoblins are likely working on AI that will incessantly troll normies. Twatter bots was only the beginning.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:13:23am

re: #5 Charles Johnson

I’ll confidently predict that there will never be an AI system capable of dealing with obsessive human trolls and Nazis. The bad people will increasingly get away with everything, and good people will be the ones who suffer, both from the abuse and from inaccurate enforcement of overly literal rule systems.

I’m a bit more optimistic about that, but it won’t be with current technology (I think just throwing more connections without some kind of evolutionary development will reach its limits), but we will also end up with an intelligence that will go “I just don’t feel like it today” or “you do know that guns are your really big problem, right?”

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:13:55am

Mastodon

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JC1  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:18:21am

re: #5 Charles Johnson

I’ll confidently predict that there will never be an AI system capable of dealing with obsessive human trolls and Nazis. The bad people will increasingly get away with everything, and good people will be the ones who suffer, both from the abuse and from inaccurate enforcement of overly literal rule systems.

Never is a long time away…

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sagehen  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:18:30am

R Daneel Olivaw could solve the problem.

Laws of Robotics:

First Law

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Zeroth Law

A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:21:03am

The only way a social media system can ever really prevent abuse is by having a large group of trained human beings who can recognize and distinguish between humor/sarcasm and harassment pretending to be humor, and are empowered to take action to stop bad actors.

The tech bros don’t want to do this because it’s expensive and difficult to administer. So the good people on their service have to take the abuse and harassment because the owners are too greedy or chickenshit to take effective action.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:22:58am

I have strong opinions about this because I have LIVED through this situation.

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JC1  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:28:02am

re: #14 Charles Johnson

I have strong opinions about this because I have LIVED through this situation.

Counterpoint: AI is getting a lot better and can have access to an account’s entire history. Classifying posts into various buckets is a task that an AI can do quite well.

What I’d like to see if the ability to block accounts in mass. That way, lists can be maintained, and you can chose to block every account on a given list; automatically updated as the list is updated. Let the shit heads post all they want, as long as it’s trivially easy to block them all.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:29:27am

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:31:02am

re: #12 sagehen

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

That’s all fine until you realize that the robot thinks corporations are people.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:31:18am

re: #13 Charles Johnson

The only way a social media system can ever really prevent abuse is by having a large group of trained human beings who can recognize and distinguish between humor/sarcasm and harassment pretending to be humor, and are empowered to take action to stop bad actors.

The tech bros don’t want to do this because it’s expensive and difficult to administer. So the good people on their service have to take the abuse and harassment because the owners are too greedy or chickenshit to take effective action.

They could make a system that did a lot of filtering, but sent questionable ones to real people, but they don’t even want to pay for that.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:33:31am

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:33:52am

re: #16 darthstar

Needs to make a few of these:

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:33:53am

re: #12 sagehen

R Daneel Olivaw could solve the problem.

Laws of Robotics:

First Law

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Zeroth Law

A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

I always love quoting these because the point of them was to point out the limitations of writing to write a list of rules that could properly handle human behavior. Imagine if you made a justice system based in those rules, where you just change robot to human, and how quickly you would run into problems.

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jeffreyw  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:35:28am

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Captain Ron  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:36:33am
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Captain Ron  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:41:03am
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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:41:46am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:42:05am

If it hasn’t been said, and/or its not crystal clear, he’s mining for credit card numbers

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:44:28am

I agree with The Figen.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:44:41am

Mastodon

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jeffreyw  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:45:39am

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:45:58am

re: #24 Captain Ron

OMG Roy Wood is spicy.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:46:33am

re: #13 Charles Johnson

The only way a social media system can ever really prevent abuse is by having a large group of trained human beings who can recognize and distinguish between humor/sarcasm and harassment pretending to be humor, and are empowered to take action to stop bad actors.

The tech bros don’t want to do this because it’s expensive and difficult to administer. So the good people on their service have to take the abuse and harassment because the owners are too greedy or chickenshit to take effective action.

If administered moderation outsold free for all harassment they’d be on it in a minute

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:47:56am

re: #26 Dangerman

If it hasn’t been said, and/or its not crystal clear, he’s mining for credit card numbers

Twitter has so much disinformation now that no one sane would sell access to their articles there, or give Elon their CC info. It’s for grifting idiots with nonsense articles that tell them that their wacky beliefs are correct.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:48:21am

re: #17 darthstar

That’s all fine until you realize that the robot thinks corporations are people.

Or takes it upon itself to define harm

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:48:23am

re: #27 Crush White Nationalism

I don’t know if Charles has every posted any Rodrigo y Gabriela videos. I’m not going to tell him how to run his web thingy.

(stares at Charles)

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:49:34am

re: #28 Charles Johnson

It sounds like they’re figuring out what she’s talking about. You train it, and then you test it, and then you train some more.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:51:19am

re: #13 Charles Johnson

The only way a social media system can ever really prevent abuse is by having a large group of trained human beings who can recognize and distinguish between humor/sarcasm and harassment pretending to be humor, and are empowered to take action to stop bad actors.

The tech bros don’t want to do this because it’s expensive and difficult to administer. So the good people on their service have to take the abuse and harassment because the owners are too greedy or chickenshit to take effective action.

I think the cap on this statement is if you look at how techbros use hidden human labor to do the upsetting work vetting social media and training AIs.

If it’s people that they can pay criminally cheap, far off from the imperial center, then fucking with people’s heads to keep the lights on is acceptable. Formalizing the tasks as labor that merits more compensation or protections is where they draw the line.

Partly this is just…capitalism in general…but the other half of this is the specific tech brain disease in which you’re selling the image of something that has no human inputs and has no ethical and social complexities: kind of the worst mix of individualist delusions and capitalist delusions in a shaker together. Acknowledging that their systems facilitate all the worse shit possible, and that it takes active effort to prune even the minimal “it’s a crime” components, runs counter to their profitability.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:54:03am
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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:54:22am

re: #14 Charles Johnson

I have strong opinions about this because I have LIVED through this situation.

Me, too, Charles. I’ve had social networks and email lists that I run for nearly 40 years now. At one point I had more Lyris email lists on the University of Michigan server than anyone else on campus. Moderation takes brains and perseverance but it CAN be done! Thank you for doing it here.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:54:28am
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:55:32am

re: #37 Crush White Nationalism

Freshpet Dinner Date Commercial | :30

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Teukka  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:55:36am

Computer history interlude:

The History of Cursor Keys

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:56:01am
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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:58:09am

re: #30 BigPapa

OMG Roy Wood is spicy.

The funniest part of that joke might be the audience shots. Some of them get it right away and some of them are clearly lost.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:01:06pm

re: #34 BigPapa

I don’t know if Charles has every posted any Rodrigo y Gabriela videos. I’m not going to tell him how to run his web thingy.

(stares at Charles)

littlegreenfootballs.com

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:03:49pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

Beat me to it! I was just thinking I may have seen them here before but I hadn’t seen that.

Now my wife is walking around shaking her booty to Rodrigo y Gabriela.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:06:50pm
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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:08:11pm

re: #39 The Pie Overlord!

I was confused for a moment because that right side profile is so often found on open-carry guys.

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jeffreyw  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:13:26pm

A man is at the funeral of an old friend.
He tentatively approaches the deceased’s wife and asks whether he can say a word. The widow nods. The man clears his throat and says, “Plethora.”

The widow smiles appreciatively. “Thank you,” she says. “That means a lot.”

Another man comes up and says: “Mind if I say a word too?” She says: “Please do.” The man clears his throat and says: “Bargain.” The widow replies: “Thanks, that means a great deal.”

Another man comes up and asks for the same privilege. The widow thanks him, saying that would be very nice. The man clears his throat and says: “Earth.” The widow replies, “Thank you, that means the world.”

Another man comes up and asks if he could say a couple words. The widow thanks him, saying that would be very nice. The man clears his throat and says: “Being alive.” The widow replies, “Thank you, he would have liked that.”

Another man comes up and asks if he could say a word. The widow thanks him, saying that would be very nice. The man clears his throat and says: “Infinity.” The widow replies, “Thank you, that means more than you could possibly imagine.”

Another man comes up and asks if he could say a word. The widow thanks him, saying that would be very nice. The man clears his throat and says: “Fhqwhgads”. The widow replies: “Thanks, you don’t know what that means.”

Another man comes up and says: “Mind if I say a few words too?” She says: “Please do.” The man clears his throat and says: “The Mariana Trench.” The widow replies: “Thanks, that’s really deep.”

Another man comes up and says: “Mind if I say a few words too?” She says: “Please do.” The man clears his throat and says: “water pit”. The widow replies: “Thanks, I know you mean well.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:14:48pm

Ugh. More blood for the tree of Liberty:

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. - A Pass Christian teen was arrested after a mass shooting in Bay St. Louis killed two people and injured four others.

Cameron Everest Brand, 19, was initially arrested on six charges of aggravated assault, which have since been upgraded to homicide.

Early Sunday morning, Bay St. Louis police responded to a shooting in the 1000 block of Old Blue Meadow Road.

When they arrived, officers found multiple people suffering from gunshot wounds at what appeared to be an after-prom party. Others had been taken to area hospitals by private vehicle before officers arrived.

WLOX News Now reporter Leslie Rojas spoke to the mom and girl who had the party. The mom was present.

They told her the shooter just came in and started shooting at people.

Happened about 30 mins away from where I live.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:18:12pm

re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg

Damn…it will never stop…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:19:21pm

re: #51 Joe Bacon

Damn…it will never stop…

so you’ve finally figured out why it is pointless to try and do anything about it
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:24:26pm

re: #52 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

so you’ve finally figured out why it is pointless to try and do anything about it
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!

As long as six assholes on the corrupted court worship at the altar of the NRA the bloodletting will continue.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:27:43pm

re: #53 Joe Bacon

As long as six assholes on the corrupted court worship at the altar of the NRA the bloodletting will continue.

I understand that we can never make it go away entirely but I believe we can make inroads into it with some rational legislation and a consistent interpretation of the 2A - and of liability legislation.

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Captain Ron  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:34:23pm
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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:38:56pm
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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:39:30pm

re: #27 Crush White Nationalism

Awesome video! Thanks for posting it!

Supposedly they got their start busking.

Also, they are going to be touring the West Coast in late May and early June. And will be in DC for a weekend at the end of June.

rodgab.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:40:47pm

re: #55 Captain Ron

I want my kids to have empathy. empathy is woke weakness
I want them to be able to read books about Roberto Clemente, Sonia Sotomayor & seahorses. hard-working white people made america a place where people like clemente and sotomayr could succeed. and seahorses are bad family role models
I want them to learn accurate American history & not some whitewashed, sanitized version. america is a christian nation

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:45:20pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:46:28pm

re: #59 Belafon

‘Nobody got my approval’: Trump furious he wasn’t consulted about GOP debates — he’s out

Why are they planning debates when all they should be planning is a coronation ceremony?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:48:36pm

re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

‘Nobody got my approval’: Trump furious he wasn’t consulted about GOP debates — he’s out

Why are they planning debates when all they should be planning is a coronation ceremony?

The few Republicans who haven’t publicly committed to Trump as their candidate lord and savior still think, and hope, that they can make Ron DeathSentence or Vivek Ramaswamy more appealing than Trump if they can pull a Nixon on him.

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gwangung  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:52:40pm

re: #55 Captain Ron

Folks gotta remember…the MAJORITY of public school students are not….white.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:54:15pm

Dogs just want to have jobs.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:55:26pm

See also the happy Kyrgyz hunting dogs at the link.

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JC1  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:55:55pm

re: #62 gwangung

Folks gotta remember…the MAJORITY of public school students are not….white.

That can’t be right.

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Captain Ron  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:56:00pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:05:47pm

re: #66 Captain Ron

Wow. I got my first ChatGPT-written paper for an undergrad assignment on positionality. This line was the tell: “I do not have a personal history, identity, or culture in the traditional sense because I am an artificial intelligence language model.” Ooof!

so the student did not even bother to read what they were about to hand in?

that is an F minus with extreme prejudice.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:07:30pm
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gwangung  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:08:13pm

re: #65 JC1

Well this is what I found…

nces.ed.gov

Of the 49.4 million students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools in fall 2020, some 22.6 million were White, 13.8 million were Hispanic, 7.4 million were Black, 2.7 million were Asian, 2.2 million were of Two or more races, 0.5 million were American Indian/Alaska Native, and 180,000 were Pacific Islande

No matter how you look at it, it’s a lot different from what our internal model is…

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:08:52pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:10:45pm

I’m curious about how Bluesky will develop, but I’m not going to be coerced into ignoring my serious misgivings about Jack Dorsey, after the experience with Twitter. And their current CEO Jay Graber came up through the cryptocurrency world, another huge red flag.

I’m amazed at how many tech journalists are going all in for Bluesky, with very little discussion of these issues.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:12:36pm

re: #70 gwangung

OTOH

(from the same source)

Among the 4.7 million K-12 students who were enrolled in private schools in fall 2019, about 66 percent were White, 12 percent were Hispanic, 9 percent were Black, 7 percent were Asian, and 5 percent were students of Two or more races.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:13:11pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

I’m curious about how Bluesky will develop, but I’m not going to be coerced into ignoring my serious misgivings about Jack Dorsey, after the experience with Twitter. And their current CEO Jay Graber came up through the cryptocurrency world, another huge red flag.

I’m amazed at how many tech journalists are going all in for Bluesky, with very little discussion of these issues.

The fediverse has its issues, most notable among them the lack of a proper federated identity. However, it is also a proper decentralized system; Bluesky may be “decentralized” technologically, and they may have open-sourced their protocol, but they still plan on making it a walled garden and having control over all the important bits. Just as a general rule of thumb, I distrust anything coming out of the techbro sector these days, especially when it’s put up against something that’s truly a community effort.

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sagehen  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:13:41pm

re: #65 JC1

That can’t be right.

It is.

The majority of American births (by a tiny margin) have been non-white for about 5-10 years now; and the majority of private school and home-school kids (by a large margin) have been white for many years. Starting with the white-flight academies after Brown v Board.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:15:15pm

re: #75 sagehen

It is.

The majority of American births (by a tiny margin) have been non-white for about 5-10 years now; and the majority of private school and home-school kids (by a large margin) have been white for many years. Starting with the white-flight academies after Brown v Board.

Why do you think the white nationalists are freaking out about the Great Replacement Theory? There is a grain of truth to it, as pointed out here.

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gwangung  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:17:24pm

re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Certainly. That’s where the white students went.

But doing the numbers, the idea that students are white simply isn’t true (approximately half aren’t).

And if you’re talking school boards, you’re talking public schools, where the majority isn’t white. So any talk about curriculum being “CRT” is all about protecting a minority.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:21:12pm

Rebranding and weaponizing CRT was one of the great triumphs of Right Wing demagoguery over the past two years: it went from an obscure graduate-level academic discipline to being seen as a threat to the well-being of White Americans everywhere.

Now it is being used as a (Jim) crowbar to break apart any school curriculum that can be seen as the least bit critical of our nation’s racial history.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:23:21pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:28:26pm

Happy Walpurgisnacht to everyone on Bald Mountain!

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:30:39pm

Today’s Google doodle is for Alan Rickman.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:32:10pm

re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Walpurgisnacht - German LYRICS + Translation - Faun

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:37:01pm

“Maj Vare Valkommen” - RANARIM

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:48:26pm

I’m pretty sure all the “woke” employees already left.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:52:06pm

re: #84 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m pretty sure all the “woke” employees already left.

And even if they haven’t, none of them would willingly go to Florida. That’s like the seventh circle of Hell, at this point.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:53:09pm

re: #76 Nerdy Fish

It’s way past time for them to accept that the majority of humans are not European.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:01:19pm

Ronna McDaniel to losing GOP candidates: Double down on taking women’s rights

Yes, Ronna ROMNEY! Tell your apparatchiks to double down on taking women’s rights away from them!

Ronna McDaniel urges GOPers to double down on abortion bans despite losses

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:06:58pm
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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:09:43pm

re: #87 Joe Bacon

Dishonesty about the Democratic position is their only refuge.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:10:43pm

re: #88 ckkatz

“I protect my kids. They don’t go to satanic drag shows. They go to church and Christian camps!”

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:10:46pm

Ronna Romney pretending women are using abortion to select the preferred sex of their child.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:12:42pm

Show me ONE GODDMANED CASE where a woman and a doctor kill a child after it’s born.

Yet that is what Republicans are endlessly claiming!

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:14:24pm

re: #93 Joe Bacon

These are people who need to be threatened with eternal burning in a lake of fire to make them slightly worried about killing people, and they’ll still kill people when they feel like it.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:14:35pm
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ericblair  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:15:44pm

re: #93 Joe Bacon

Show me ONE GODDMANED CASE where a woman and a doctor kill a child after it’s born.

Yet that is what Republicans are endlessly claiming!

To really kill children, you need Republicans in power.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:16:23pm

re: #87 Joe Bacon

Ronna McDaniel to losing GOP candidates: Double down on taking women’s rights

Yes, Ronna ROMNEY! Tell your apparatchiks to double down on taking women’s rights away from them!

[Embedded content]

How long before Republicans claim she’s a Democratic plant?

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:20:31pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:23:22pm

re: #74 Nerdy Fish

The fediverse has its issues, most notable among them the lack of a proper federated identity. However, it is also a proper decentralized system; Bluesky may be “decentralized” technologically, and they may have open-sourced their protocol, but they still plan on making it a walled garden and having control over all the important bits. Just as a general rule of thumb, I distrust anything coming out of the techbro sector these days, especially when it’s put up against something that’s truly a community effort.

And you also can guess that they won’t moderate seriously even after it devolves into a cesspool. They think they can tech their way cheaply out of something that requires a lot of human intervention. At best some algorithms might help with some initial filtering.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:24:29pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:28:58pm

Walks the past few days when it was nice. Plus an expedition to look for morels with my niece yesterday. We did not find any, but she found a few this morning in a city park.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:30:31pm

OH NO! SOMEBODY JUST DISCOVERED…PORNHUB…and Hunter Biden is to blame?!

Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to ban adult sites

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:31:40pm

re: #75 sagehen

It is.

The majority of American births (by a tiny margin) have been non-white for about 5-10 years now; and the majority of private school and home-school kids (by a large margin) have been white for many years. Starting with the white-flight academies after Brown v Board.

Which is the underlying reason that conservatives don’t want to fund public education. That and they don’t want children learning anything but their ideology.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:35:43pm
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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:39:05pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

Tell him this is the Northern White House, and he has to stay for his own safety.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:40:14pm

Why hasn’t his passport been revoked?

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:42:19pm

re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg

“I protect my kids. They don’t go to satanic drag shows. They go to church and Christian camps!”

As long as those kids never leave that bubble, and are never left alone with a minister, they might be ok.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:45:23pm

re: #106 Joe Bacon

Why hasn’t his passport been revoked?

He’s not a flight risk because no other country wants him.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:45:53pm

re: #106 Joe Bacon

Why hasn’t his passport been revoked?

Legally speaking, what purpose would that serve? He showed up in court for his arraignment, on the one set of charges that have been brought so far. AFAICT, you can’t just go around yoinking people’s passports because they’re assholes.

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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:50:05pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:50:39pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:51:04pm
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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:53:28pm
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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:54:22pm

re: #100 ckkatz

So if after only 6 days without Tucker right wing hate has dissipated noticeably, after a few months without him they may start realizing that the GOP isn’t on their side and they’ve been spoon fed hate to benefit Republicans. Who knows…they may just get woke.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:54:40pm

re: #101 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I see that at the end, you showed the morel of the story.

(Btw, which park were you at?)

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:59:00pm

re: #115 ckkatz

I see that at the end, you showed the morel of the story.

(Btw, which park were you at?)

We were walking in Hartwood Acres yesterday.

She found the morels in Frick Park apparently.

I might poke around in a few spots in North Park or other parks out this way mid-week since I think they will be appearing about then. Though I’m not a mushroom picker like my brother is. (And my niece got it from him.) Though I don’t recall him going after morels as well. He does have spots where he collects chanterelles. Usually in late May or early June IIRC.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:01:05pm

Get ready for the CalvinBall at the end of the session. Just in time for them to flee the conflagration these arsonists set.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:04:02pm

re: #117 ckkatz

I guess the Federalist Society interns are waiting for Leonard Leo to finish reviewing what they wrote.

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Nojay UK  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:04:33pm

re: #116 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

He does have spots where he collects chanterelles. Usually in late May or early June IIRC.

Our favourite spot for chanterelles was half-way down a cliff. We needed a climbing harness, twenty metres of rope and a belay to get to them. It was our favourite spot because the sort of bastard with a girly mushroom-picking basket and buggerall else couldn’t get to them.

The riverbank where Destroying Angel fruited one year in three is another useful mushroom-hunting place we kept in our back pocket. “I’ve got a little list…”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:09:15pm

re: #119 Nojay UK

Our favourite spot for chanterelles was half-way down a cliff. We needed a climbing harness, twenty metres of rope and a belay to get to them. It was our favourite spot because the sort of bastard with a girly mushroom-picking basket and buggerall else couldn’t get to them.

The riverbank where Destroying Angel fruited one year in three is another useful mushroom-hunting place we kept in our back pocket. “I’ve got a little list…”

At his previous home my brother could wander his little section of wood and former pasture and had permission to walk though his neighbor’s woods as well. He usually found chanterelles and black trumpets.

His spots to find chanterelles in larger numbers were a bit more remote. He also had places to collect ramps, wild garlic, and a few other plants. IIRC, he also transplanted ramps to a few places to see if they could get established there.

He usually cleaned and froze the chanterelles and then used them in making soup or quiche during the rest of the year.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:14:23pm

re: #102 Joe Bacon

OH NO! SOMEBODY JUST DISCOVERED…PORNHUB…and Hunter Biden is to blame?!

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Someone should probably teach her about the history of Betamax and what happens when you take on porn.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:14:33pm

re: #116 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

We were walking in Hartwood Acres yesterday.

She found the morels in Frick Park apparently.

I might poke around in a few spots in North Park or other parks out this way mid-week since I think they will be appearing about then. Though I’m not a mushroom picker like my brother is. (And my niece got it from him.) Though I don’t recall him going after morels as well. He does have spots where he collects chanterelles. Usually in late May or early June IIRC.

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After seeing your picture of the turtles, I was thinking that about back in the 1960s and that in those days, the only thing I ever found growing in the local park lakes was algae. How times have changed!

Speaking of Frick Park, did they ever rebuild the Forbes Ave/Fern Hollow bridge?

I do not remember many mushrooms around growing up. But I did spend a week near Zelienople, Pa (Butler County) back in the Fall of 1968 in Junior High, learning about mushrooms amongst other things.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:18:56pm

re: #113 jaunte

What could be more American than getting shot at a baseball game?

/

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steve_davis  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:22:18pm

re: #1 darthstar

awww! the little guy hid under the mat. He was just trying to make use of the dug-out lair that the bigger animal had stopped hibernating in, apparently. Didn’t know it was coming back!

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:22:39pm

Snow be damned!

Sumer is Icumen in (The Hilliard Ensemble)

Middle English, Wessex dialect circa 1260

Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
Awe bleteþ after lomb,
Lhouþ after calue cu.
Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ,
Murie sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes þu cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Pes:
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!

Modern English

Summer has arrived,
Loudly sing, Cuckoo!
The seed grows and the meadow
blooms
And the wood springs anew,
Sing, Cuckoo!
The ewe bleats after the lamb
The cow lows after the calf.
The bullock stirs, the stag farts,
Merrily sing, Cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo, well you sing,
cuckoo;
Don’t ever you stop now,
Sing cuckoo now. Sing, Cuckoo.
Sing Cuckoo. Sing cuckoo now!

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:22:57pm

re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg

What could be more American than getting shot at a baseball game?

/

Maybe getting shot at a football game? 🤨

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:23:54pm

re: #114 darthstar

So if after only 6 days without Tucker right wing hate has dissipated noticeably, after a few months without him they may start realizing that the GOP isn’t on their side and they’ve been spoon fed hate to benefit Republicans. Who knows…they may just get woke.

Some may wake up from the fever dream, but the vast majority will still pull the lever for (R) regardless. See Idaho. State of.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:25:32pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:25:38pm

re: #122 ckkatz

After seeing your picture of the turtles, I was thinking that about back in the 1960s and that in those days, the only thing I ever found growing in the local park lakes was algae. How times have changed!

Speaking of Frick Park, did they ever rebuild the Forbes Ave/Fern Hollow bridge?

I do not remember many mushrooms around growing up. But I did spend a week near Zelienople, Pa (Butler County) back in the Fall of 1968 in Junior High, learning about mushrooms amongst other things.

The replacement span opened in December of 2022. I understand there are periodic closures still as they add minor bits. But at least they’ve gotten something that can get auto and bus traffic over the gully.

triblive.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:30:16pm

re: #128 jaunte

That’s how you know your policies are terrible.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:30:50pm

Memories of the pawpaw tree Dad was able to grow in our backyard. When the fruit was ripe Dad would pick. We’d slice and pick the seeds out. the fruit had a custard-like texture. Tasted like a cross between a banana, mango and cantaloupe.

And then there were those “monkeyball” trees all over the Pittsburgh area…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:33:16pm

re: #131 Joe Bacon

Memories of the pawpaw tree Dad was able to grow in our backyard. When the fruit was ripe Dad would pick. We’d slice and pick the seeds out. the fruit had a custard-like texture. Tasted like a cross between a banana, mango and cantaloupe.

And then there were those “monkeyball” trees all over the Pittsburgh area…

Osage Orange? Supposedly spiders don’t like the smell of them.

You can find those all over. Used to be grown as part of hedgerows IIRC in various places.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:35:22pm
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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:36:10pm

re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth

He wants to catch the killer so he can give him an award.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:36:28pm

re: #132 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Osage Orange? Supposedly spiders don’t like the smell of them.

You can find those all over. Used to be grown as part of hedgerows IIRC in various places.

For those who have never heard of them, this is what Monkeyballs look like.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:37:24pm

re: #135 Joe Bacon

For those who have never heard of them, this is what Monkeyballs look like.

Oh yeah. When I lived in Northwest Indiana, these things grew in the hedgerows and next to the ditches alongside roadways. They were EVERYWHERE.

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:44:45pm

re: #135 Joe Bacon

Damn. Take the black spot away and it looks like a ball of ice cream rolled in pistachios. Which I’d mow over a granny and step on a puppy to grab.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:47:15pm

re: #135 Joe Bacon

For those who have never heard of them, this is what Monkeyballs look like.

I think in Illinois we called them hedge apples.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:47:49pm

re: #138 Barefoot Grin

I think in Illinois we called them hedge apples.

Yep. I never knew they were edible; honest to God, I thought they were poisonous because of their funny color.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:49:02pm

re: #132 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The “osage orange” bushes were grown all over the midwest. I remember seeing them when I was young.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:49:08pm
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Barefoot Grin  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:49:27pm

re: #139 Nerdy Fish

Yep. I never knew they were edible; honest to God, I thought they were poisonous because of their funny color.

That’s what I was told. I never knew either.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:49:47pm

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:50:38pm

re: #142 Barefoot Grin

That’s what I was told. I never knew either.

And now we know why our Bacon is the way that he is.///

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:51:50pm

re: #140 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The “osage orange” bushes were grown all over the midwest. I remember seeing them when I was young.

Wikipedia article on the tree is quite interesting. Native to North America in a limited area. The wood is dense and flexible and Native Americans prized it to make bows out of. And being rot resistant it appears to make good fence posts as well.

It got widely spread in part to be used as livestock “fencing” prior to the introduction of barbed wire.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:52:11pm

re: #139 Nerdy Fish

Yep. I never knew they were edible; honest to God, I thought they were poisonous because of their funny color.

And they smelled weird too.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:54:18pm

re: #146 Joe Bacon

And they smelled weird too.

I remember having to climb through some of them when I would go over the fence to walk to my neighbor’s house, rather than walking down my incredibly long driveway and down the street. The nearly half mile walk between my house and his was long enough without adding the driveway to it.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:54:59pm

re: #147 Nerdy Fish

I remember having to climb through some of them when I would go over the fence to walk to my neighbor’s house, rather than walking down my incredibly long driveway and down the street. The nearly half mile walk between my house and his was long enough without adding the driveway to it.

And if you broke them open they were sticky and gummy.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:55:30pm

Mastodon

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:56:26pm
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:04:53pm

re: #141 ckkatz

Definitely going to be a place that I wouldn’t join especially if they want me.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:09:02pm

re: #151 Belafon

Definitely going to be a place that I wouldn’t join especially if they want me.

Hah!

Nicely done riff on Groucho Marx’s reported letter of resignation to the Friars’ Club: “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”

Well played!

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:11:02pm

dude holy shit Governor Wheels in Texas is a fucking ghoul

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:14:09pm

re: #131 Joe Bacon

Memories of the pawpaw tree Dad was able to grow in our backyard. When the fruit was ripe Dad would pick. We’d slice and pick the seeds out. the fruit had a custard-like texture. Tasted like a cross between a banana, mango and cantaloupe.

And then there were those “monkeyball” trees all over the Pittsburgh area…

I have planted 50 Paw Paw so far this spring and just got another 75 to put in on one of my disc golf courses. Two of my first-planted ones, 5 years ago or so, have flowers this year. No fruit yet. Can’t get Monkeyball, Osage Orange, to grow well on my property.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:14:22pm

I was trying to make sense of this post. Then I realized who the poster was.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:21:06pm

Ask your 2015 self if this would have made any sense. And yet, here we are.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:25:13pm

I have never seen the 4th Superman movie with Christopher Reeve. I just caught the last 20 minutes. I can see why they try to forget this one as much as three.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:28:22pm

re: #157 Belafon

I have never seen the 4th Superman movie with Christopher Reeve. I just caught the last 20 minutes. I can see why they try to forget this one as much as three.

It’s another Crapterpiece from Cannon which gave Razzie members plenty of cinematic crap to goof on in the 80s.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:28:55pm

My son volunteers at the local library. They named their book carts:

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:35:17pm

re: #159 Belafon

They are showing a lot of creativity.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:37:53pm

*snork*

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jeffreyw  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:43:20pm

I’ve been seeing spots in front of my eyes.
David ”Have you seen a doctor?”
”No, just spots.”

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:43:41pm

1. Jake Cinninger
2. Roy Buchanan
3. D. Boon
4. Jeff Beck
5. Stevie Ray Vaughan

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:44:23pm

Yet another “Ask your 2015 self if any of this makes sense.”

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Captain Ron  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:48:12pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:48:24pm

re: #163 teleskiguy

Can’t really stop at just five.

6. David Lindley
7. Prince
8. Andreas Kisser
9. Mark Knopfler
10. Jimi Hendrix

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:51:19pm

re: #163 teleskiguy

1. Jake Cinninger
2. Roy Buchanan
3. D. Boon
4. Jeff Beck
5. Stevie Ray Vaughan

Favorites?

5) The Edge
4) Joe Strummer
3) Elliot Easton
2) Pete Townshend
1) Mark Knopfler

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:52:08pm
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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:53:11pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:56:22pm

re: #135 Joe Bacon

For those who have never heard of them, this is what Monkeyballs look like.

In Ohio River Valley we call them horse apples

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:57:38pm

re: #132 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Osage Orange? Supposedly spiders don’t like the smell of them.

You can find those all over. Used to be grown as part of hedgerows IIRC in various places.

they’re also a good mice/rat repellent

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wrenchwench  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:03:36pm

re: #166 teleskiguy

Can’t really stop at just five.

6. David Lindley
7. Prince
8. Andreas Kisser
9. Mark Knopfler
10. Jimi Hendrix

Replace the one I never heard of with Ry Cooder and I’m there.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:03:37pm

Mastodon

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:05:05pm

I just heard that the comedy club where I’m supposed to tape my special tomorrow is flooded and may or may not be open tomorrow. It’s rained a lot n NYC. Why does god not like my comedy? Hoping for the best.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:07:05pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

There are many things computers are great at. Dealing with messy, unpredictable, chaotic human beings is not one of them.

It’s a computer’s inability to deal with emotion. There’s just no real way of programming it.

As Antonio DiMassio pointed out, “We are not thinking machines that feel. We are feeling machines that think.”

Also the main reason the rich and powerful, especially the rich, are so obsessed with AI is they want their slaves back.

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wrenchwench  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:17:45pm

re: #174 I Would Prefer Not To

I just heard that the comedy club where I’m supposed to tape my special tomorrow is flooded and may or may not be open tomorrow. It’s rained a lot n NYC. Why does god not like my comedy? Hoping for the best.

Got some dry humor?

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:22:38pm

re: #175 Romantic Heretic

As Antonio DiMassio pointed out, “We are not thinking machines that feel. We are feeling machines that think.”

That seems like one of those nice to believes. We’re a machine designed to reproduce. Because we lack some of the physical advantages of most animals - we don’t reproduce very often and when we do it’s in small numbers, we don’t have claws, we’re not fast, and we’re not strong - our brain has developed into our best skill. Feeling - mourning and burying our dead, making music - came pretty far into our evolution.

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Markm1960  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:26:51pm

re: #163 teleskiguy

1. Jake Cinninger
2. Roy Buchanan
3. D. Boon
4. Jeff Beck
5. Stevie Ray Vaughan

I dont necessarily choose the most skilled guys, but ones I do enjoy hearing quite a bit:

Neil Young
Keith Richards/Mick Taylor
Matt Pike
Doug Gillard
Michael Schenker

Tomorrow it will be different.
Since you added 5 More I’ll add in 5 more:

Mark Knopfler
George Harrison/John Lennon
Mike Ness
Glen Campbell
Angus & Malcom

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:27:05pm

re: #140 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The “osage orange” bushes were grown all over the midwest. I remember seeing them when I was young.

I have an enormous old one, many feet around, standing next to my house. I’m not afraid of it falling on the house, because hedge is one of the hardest woods around: like rock. If you can get a couple of dried sticks of it into your fire, it will burn extra hot. A full load of it in a stove would probably melt the stove and burn down your house. They spread like wildfire (No pun intended) so my woods is full of big old dinosaurs and tons of younger ones. The wood is orange.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:27:23pm

re: #169 ckkatz

It’s the LA Sheriff’s Department which is riddled with white supremacist gangs. This is typical of their actions.

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:28:28pm

re: #174 I Would Prefer Not To

I just heard that the comedy club where I’m supposed to tape my special tomorrow is flooded and may or may not be open tomorrow. It’s rained a lot n NYC. Why does god not like my comedy? Hoping for the best.

Just ask Him what floats His boat.

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:29:19pm

re: #178 Markm1960

Those guys I listed *are* my favorite guitarists. And most of them are, like, the best. Handicap of mine, I suppose.

Neil Young is awesome. And you know what James Taylor can fucken play.

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:31:09pm

I gotta give Keith Richards his due as well. Deceptively simple licks that stay in your head forever.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:31:31pm

re: #173 jaunte

The US economy is performing amazingly well, but as Bloomberg’s Matthew Winkler notes, the public overall doesn’t realize that. Why?

He alludes to the key reason for the public’s lack of understanding, but doesn’t make clear what it is, so allow me to be clear that “media narrative” doesn’t explain who’s primarily at fault.

The culprit is Big Journalism, again utterly failing to do its job.

Wrong.

The CCCP is doing the job that the Republican Party wants which is to endlessly spread GOP talking points to put Trump back in the White House and Moscow Mitch as Senate Majority leader.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:32:15pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

I’ll confidently predict that there will never be an AI system capable of dealing with obsessive human trolls and Nazis. The bad people will increasingly get away with everything, and good people will be the ones who suffer, both from the abuse and from inaccurate enforcement of overly literal rule systems.

OK, maybe not “never,” because I can’t foresee all of human history, but not in our lifetimes.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:32:21pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:34:40pm

Making dough for pita (for tomorrow) and listening to Kate Bush. Forgot how beautiful some of her songs are…and great lyrics.

Kate Bush - The Man with the Child in His Eyes - Official Music Video

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:35:04pm

re: #185 Charles Johnson

Yup!

As soon as they idiot-proof a system; A better class of idiots appears.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:37:25pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:38:08pm

re: #186 Charles Johnson

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:41:31pm

Okay…catching up with the thread. My five guitarists:

Jerry Garcia (quelle surprise!)
Jimmy Herring
BB King
Phil Manzanera/Robert Fripp - tie…Phil for the Roxy work and Fripp for the inventive shit he did with Brian Eno
Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings/Merle Haggard - another tie - love their playing style for different but overlapping reasons

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:43:19pm

re: #186 Charles Johnson

Sounds like a quack-pack hunting for pure-bread dogs

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:43:23pm

Fripp is still publishing musical studies to Youtube on a regular basis. This is less than 24 hours old but May 1 because he’s in the UK

Robert At Home - May 2023

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:45:47pm

re: #188 ckkatz

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:47:51pm

re: #193 darthstar

Fripp is still publishing musical studies to Youtube on a regular basis. This is less than 24 hours old but May 1 because he’s in the UK

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Video

Yes, he’s quirky as fuck, but I followed his blues riffs in E study about eight months ago and was blown away and reassured about the fact that learning never stops.

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:47:57pm

A comment from Charlie Pierce’s post on the Cruz/Bartiromo tape:

Ah, America. The only country where a Canadian Latino can reinvent himself as an immigrant-hating southern white supremacist.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:48:40pm

re: #189 ckkatz

Repeating myself here: one has to understand TV ratings to know why the Tucker 8PM slot should not yet be analyzed like so many to do.

Last Wednesday 8PM had:
1) NBA playoff game;
2) NHL playoff game;
3) Carol Burnett special on broadcast (NBC), which drew the best audience of the night and you can damn well be sure it was mostly old folk doing nostalgia.

The Burnett show drew a 14.6 in the 50+ demo. That is remarkably large demo figure in today’s television.

Once playoffs are over and cable TV returns to normal, then check the weekly averages for the FoxNews 8PM slot to compare to Tucker at same time last year.

I do expect a drop, but I bet it will be a modest one.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:48:57pm

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:49:02pm

Charlie Pierce himself:

The alleged presidential campaign of Ron (Three-Fingers) DeSantis is having so much trouble gaining altitude that you’d think Elon Musk were behind it. (Too soon? Don’t care.) He seems to be extraordinarily unlikable, but he makes up for it by proposing policies that are extraordinarily unpopular.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:51:38pm

re: #198 Patricia Kayden

And to complicate matters,

In 2015, Kansas passed S.B. 45 into law, authorizing anyone 21 years of age and older to carry a concealed firearm on their person without a license or permit.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:54:41pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:55:24pm

.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:58:15pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:58:48pm

Manliness Mansplainer Manages Manly Mansplanation

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:59:33pm

re: #201 Charles Johnson

Hah!

We have even corrupted our esteemed host!

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:00:49pm

Greg Abbott is not sorry about the five victims. To him they’re “five less illegals.”

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:10:00pm

re: #204 gocart mozart

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:10:19pm

Mastodon

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:10:34pm

I appreciate Luis having an F-Word Counter in this song.

F it up - Louis Cole (Live Sesh)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:12:54pm

re: #143 The Pie Overlord!

Fuque your racist dogwhilstling ass, rando Twitter troll. Not satisfied with just demonising Jews I guess.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:16:33pm

re: #209 BigPapa

I appreciate Luis having an F-Word Counter in this song.

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Video

He’s one considerate motherfucker.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:17:14pm
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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:18:16pm

re: #212 Charles Johnson

And I never forgot how Luke Russet slobbered all over Phony Joni Ernst.

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TedStriker  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:18:32pm

re: #157 Belafon

I have never seen the 4th Superman movie with Christopher Reeve. I just caught the last 20 minutes. I can see why they try to forget this one as much as three.

re: #158 Joe Bacon

It’s another Crapterpiece from Cannon which gave Razzie members plenty of cinematic crap to goof on in the 80s.

It was the Salkinds trying to wring every last dime out of the Superman license while they still had it.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:19:37pm

Youtube Video

High mountains and deep valleys
The forest full of nightingales
High mountains and deep valleys
The friend that pleases me

Come, come, my heart’s very dearest
We shall dance until the morning is here
All the night until the break of day
Come, let us dance ourselves tired

Come, come, my heart’s very dearest
We shall dance until the morning is here
All the night until the break of day
Come, let us dance ourselves tired

High mountains and deep valleys
Dark woods and wild land
All the night surrounds me
It makes me a sweet dream

Lyrics -
lyricstranslate.com

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Captain Ron  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:20:40pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:21:54pm

I am against dosing people with LSD without their knowledge. This practice went on for a long time with U.S. government support (Project MKUltra, Church Committee, et al).

But…

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:22:26pm

re: #177 Belafon

My take on DiMassio’s quote is that all human action springs from emotion. Thinking is something we are impelled to do by our emotions.

And too many people can’t differentiate between feeling and thought. Eg. QAnon and MAGAts. Both are based in a feeling of helplessness and fear. Feeling reinforced by the information they consume.

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:26:21pm

re: #217 teleskiguy

There are few things a man with porpoise cannot do.

You must have porpoise in your life
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Romantic Heretic  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:26:57pm

re: #188 ckkatz

The problem with designing fool-proof systems is that people underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams

And man, did I learn that the hard way when I was coding.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:32:33pm

re: #219 BigPapa

There are few things a man with porpoise cannot do.

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For all intensive porpoises….

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:36:48pm

Son one: What would you do for a Klondike bar?

Son two: I would go get one.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:38:39pm
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:41:39pm
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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:42:53pm

I have never hated B2K more than this. Never forget.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:43:24pm
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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:43:40pm

This could be my last Elmo link. Sorta serendipitous.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:44:15pm

re: #221 Charles Johnson

I spent a few years doing his B2K cd thing, but it was in bookstores with copies of Dianetics.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:44:41pm

re: #223 Belafon

Son one: What would you do for a Klondike bar?

Son two: I would go get one.

If I ever go back to Pittsburgh I got to get some Isaly’s Maricopa Ice Cream!

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:44:52pm

Remember -

To err is human; to moo bovine.

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:48:48pm

Hey freetoken, you mind making an AI picture of a Triple Wide?

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:49:03pm

The end of Bob’s Burgers tonight was an uptempo jazz version of “Radio Ga Ga.”

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:59:55pm

About those ducks.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:05:21pm
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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:10:18pm
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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:14:05pm

re: #231 ckkatz

Remember -

To err is human; to moo bovine.

..but it takes a computer to really eff things up

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:15:36pm

Trump claims to be treated worse than Abraham Lincoln

alternet.org

He whined again on Mark Levin’s propaganda platform.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:19:45pm

Not surprised. But I admit to being amused now that the roles are reversed. The concept of global citizen is making very slow progress against history and tradition.

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Captain Ron  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:31:55pm
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wrenchwench  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:34:44pm

re: #240 Captain Ron

Bars of gold from all over?

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:36:06pm

I’m being honest.

I worry most about my body breaking down, where I can’t do things like ski.

Klaus Obermeyer (age 102) skied a few times this winter in Aspen.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:42:48pm

re: #242 teleskiguy

I’m being honest.

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I worry most about my body breaking down, where I can’t do things like ski.

Klaus Obermeyer (age 102) skied a few times this winter in Aspen.

I ran a 31 mile ultramarathon last year.
95 degree heat.
Half of the starters didn’t finish.
I came in 8th place overall, 6th place male.
Fifth place male was the oldest male and a year older than me.
I was second oldest male at 64.

Right now im running 6 days a week.
30 miles last week.

You do as much as you can.
Never look back.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:44:21pm

re: #242 teleskiguy

I’m being honest.

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I worry most about my body breaking down, where I can’t do things like ski.

Klaus Obermeyer (age 102) skied a few times this winter in Aspen.

You should have decades more of skiing ahead of you. A work friend who is about 74 moved to Utah 4 years ago from the Chicago area and is enjoying skiing, a very rare privilege when he was working; but now he is retired and relocated, he can do it several days a week throughout the winter.

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:44:25pm

re: #243 Dangerman

It might be gaining on you.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:45:55pm

re: #155 ckkatz

I was trying to make sense of this post. Then I realized who the poster was.

(thread)

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wrenchwench  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:50:03pm

Mastodon

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:50:58pm

Please tell me Laura Loomer is not the bride to be? What insane person would marry her? Does someone need a green card? Are they blind and deaf? Are all males under the age of 60 dead? Can you tell that I hate her?

edit The last updink was my 50,000 thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

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sagehen  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:09:41pm

Maybe it’s just somebody insane enough to ask her to be a bridesmaid.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:09:46pm

re: #248 I Would Prefer Not To

Hopefully she’s just one of the friends.

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:16:22pm

re: #244 Hecuba’s daughter

You should have decades more of skiing ahead of you. A work friend who is about 74 moved to Utah 4 years ago from the Chicago area and is enjoying skiing, a very rare privilege when he was working; but now he is retired and relocated, he can do it several days a week throughout the winter.

I’ve been beatin’ the hell out of my body goin’ on 35 years now. I skied 70 days this winter, give or take. Somethin’s gotta give. I read all the time on the skiing Facebook groups (Unofficial Networks is a honey pot) about old timers *knees* not working anymore.

My knees feel fine. And I’ve been telemark skiing for 20+ years. I actually tell people that tele is *easier* on your knees than alpine skiing. Time will tell. I plan on skiing until I die.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:28:45pm

As we talk and contemplate recent machine learning, I wanted to add something to the discussion.

I have been leading some college students on a capstone project between my company and a university, from the end of February to the end of last week. The project was to analyze c++ code and generate comments.

When we started, state of the art seemed to be this place called docstring.ai. We couldn’t use it, because it required us to upload code to their server, which was not an option for us. So they started with CodeT5, which seemed to be pretty comparable, and could be trained locally. Now, the thing about both of those is they generated single line comments. They probably got about a 60% mark, but struggled with classes and some other complexities of C++.

But, during these last two months, there were two large leaps in capabilities from large language models. Not only did the quality of the comment improve, but they could generate multiline comments, and handle values outside of the functions. One you could supply a few comments, not templates that you marked up, but actual valid comments, that it could use as a template to generate other comments. I would say this one was over 80% accurate, possibly around 85%.

Now, as I said, I think we are going to hit a wall with current technology, but the large data that the internet provides, willingly or not, is providing a whole lot of information for these systems to learn from, and we’re getting better at configuring them to perform complex tasks that weren’t even possible two years ago.

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:35:18pm

I got a fairly impeccable technique too. When you’ve slid around on slippery sticks attached to your feet for three and a half decades you get good at it. You get comfortable. Big risks to average skiers are just meh to a guy like me. Like Biden says, thems the facts Jack!

Last year I jumped off a bunch of cliffs in the Vail ski area. I still pinch myself…

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wrenchwench  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:36:57pm

re: #253 teleskiguy

I got fairly impeccable technique too. When you’ve slid around on slippery sticks attached to your feet for three and a half decades you get good at it. You get comfortable. Big risks to average skiers are just meh to a guy like me. Like Biden says, thems the facts Jack!

Last year I jumped off a bunch of cliffs in the Vail ski area. I still pinch myself…

How much of a threat are your fellow skiers?

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Captain Ron  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:37:59pm
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:40:22pm

re: #255 Captain Ron

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Except for when Biden is alone in the room. I mean he managed to get the West to back Ukraine even after both Bush’s fuckups and following Trump.

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:41:27pm

re: #255 Captain Ron

Oh, gag me.

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Dragonomics  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:45:23pm

re: #255 Captain Ron

I look at that picture, and I ask myself, would it be overkill to spell ‘war criminals’ with three k’s?

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:46:19pm

re: #258 Dragonomics

I look at that picture, and I ask myself, would it be overkill to spell ‘war criminals’ with three k’s?

Look at it like this, it took that many criminals to equal the war crimes of one Kissinger.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:48:55pm

re: #163 teleskiguy

1: Andrés Segovia
2: Chris Squire (well, bass guitar)
3: Steve Howe
4: Carlos Santana
5: Alex Lifeson

(7:01)

Leyenda by Albeniz in HD - Andres Segovia

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:46:33pm

re: #255 Captain Ron


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