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@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social I found this in an article on the con man Cagliostro, she is deeply disheveled: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessan...

@brandonbird.bsky.social TCM tonight is showing an Angela Lansbury twofer, the first is Gaslight (1944) and the second is she was in a 80s Sweeny Todd production!?

I've been playing the Remastered Diablo 2, and I have to report something: potions are *enormous*. The small potion bottles are minor ones, and look about 1 L. The next size up is 2 L; the super potions look to be about 5 L. Super rejuvenation potions are pumpkin sized.

@sitcompeople.bsky.social I have a few sitcom people

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time @jesawyer.bsky.social

I've been playing the latest version of Diablo 2, and I made an art, I call it "The Wages of Sin"

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux

11 Sept

The last joke in the Buster Keyton classic Steamboat Bill, Jr (1928): "Would you assholes chill, I was saving this priest from drowning."

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e.w. niedermeyer

@niedermeyer.online

27 Aug

Replying to @niedermeyer.online

weird little guys of the cluny national medieval museum

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@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

22 Aug

On the one hand, I shouldn't wish my country ill. On the other hand, Canada's grandfathers bled with my grandfathers fighting the Nazis. When we were attacked on 9/11, we asked Canada to send their sons and they bled with our troops in Afghanistan. To betray that bond - we'll deserve what we get.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social

Late last evening I instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa. We cannot accept what the U.S. has offered, and we will not give what they have asked.

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e.w. niedermeyer

@niedermeyer.online

21 Aug

there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at least a decade, from "one of the more positive aspects of society" toward a much more ambivalent view

20 Aug

@jackiev.bsky.social A few days ago I somehow got my nieces to watch North by Northwest. Like me they found the UN murder scene really funny. They did enjoy it though. One niece's comment: "the end was really fast." Which, fair. Other thoughts:

20 Aug

Scene with hammered Carey Grant at the police station: hilarious. Similarly hilarious: taking along *your mom* when you decide to essentially break into a place.

20 Aug

The Chicago sequence, including the famous crop duster scene and the assassination attempt at the art auction is all the same day. It's quite a day.

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e.w. niedermeyer

@niedermeyer.online

15 Aug

now celebrating 83.5 million years of winning

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15 Aug

@loresjoberg.bsky.social Just FYI, you are still correct that the biohazard symbol is a great piece of design.

8 Aug

Idea for a movie: a tyrannical AI has taken over a city, and the resistance fights back and wins by exploiting the AI understands the world through LLMs and sludge.

24 July

Does the 1984 Terminator run on assembly?

23 July

@civvie11.bsky.social Thanks to your sinister influence I'm watching The Thing (1982). That dog is a real good actor. Also, who the hell overwintering in Antarctica would cite Chariot of the Gods as authoritative?!

23 July

I'm impressed that Kurt Russell has the presence of mind to *continue* the blood tests after he gets a positive

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Niko Stratis

@nikostratis.com

22 July

the nostalgia diner industry should have aged past the 50s. I should be able to go to an era-accurate 90s diner, served a room temp Fruitopia by staff in babydoll dresses, there should be a Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition machine against the wall. They could sell Desert Storm trading cards.

12 July

Cable summary, "William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" (1996) Twentieth-century teenagers (Leo DiCaprio, Claire Danes) fall in love despite feuding families, in an update of the classic tragedy.

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Scam Ghouldin

@scamgoldin.bsky.social

7 July

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

cbc.caCarney to choose Germany and Norway to build Canada's submarines | CBC NewsPrime Minister Mark Carney is expected to select Germany’s TKMS as the preferred bidder for Canada’s next submarine fleet, choosing the European partnership over South Korea, sources confirm to CBC Ne...

6 July

Canada picks Germany to construct future sub fleet. Good news, although I personally thought they were going to go with Korea instead. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Dreadnought Holiday

@dreadships.bsky.social

1 July

It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.

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Tom Snarsky

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

25 June

this Stephen Crane poem is just how it is now

24 June

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social This is from the top level article on the Crimea:

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

20 June

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14 June

@sky.skymarchini.net Possibly dumb question: recently, near burning oil refineries in Russia, oil falls with rain. Do you know why this happens?

Thanks to @braddevero.bsky.social I find myself reading “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences." I have a Masters in Philosophy, so I was pleased to learn the Philosophers have the corruption locked down, except for specific spicy subjects or whatever

Which is weird, because perspectivism, which the authors insist is French and creeping postmodernism, is actually America's most notable original contribution to philosophy. They didn't do it entirely themselves...but mostly

14 June

And goddamnit, I meant @bretdevereaux.bsky.social. I have ADD, the struggle is real, no disrespect to @braddevero.bsky.social

IE EXACTLY THE BEHAVIOR IN OTHERS THE PAPER IS COMPLAINING ABOUT

So, uh, dear Mr. @braddevero.bsky.social : I've read this paper to this point and whatever other things are going on here, the paper assumes a bad truth theory and then tries to push it via all those 'biased' tactics it has spent thousands of words complaining about.

lol, laffo, Quote: "How did so many scholars, from so many different fields, become so thoroughly convinced of a heady view in epistemology, especially one that is stubbornly rejected by the mainstream of professional philosophers (Boghossian 2006, Nagel 1997)"

I mean, what these authors are doing here is saying their view is mainstream and it's all these other views that are the not mainstream (citation, two authors who agree with them)

Ah, ahhahaha. OK, so the authors of this paper believe if you don't believe in perspectiveless truth, (which is too complex to cash out on blue sky) you are a creeping postmodernist AND FRENCH

Calling Michael Foucault a postmodernist is a real canary in the coal mine, here. (For those that don't know, Foucault was quite candid in his dislike of postmodernists - he is unfairly lumped in with them as he was a confessed Frenchman)

3. Postmoderns, IE people who reject the concept of truth. This last one is a slippery definitional fish, since it is frequently tossed (also, like a fish) in the face of anyone who the speaker disagrees with, so let me say "rejecting the very concept of truth in its most basic form as accessible

or knowable." I'm actually surprised postmodernism has come up, since it's been a trend in American academic circles since like the 1970s - which badly undercuts the basic argument that this is any sort of a concern, since this is about "recent developments."

1. How Conservative Economists (for example) behave. IE boost the free market, dismiss anything contrary to that.

2. Empty Partisanship. Academics who use their fields to tell stories for political ends - anything that gets people to see things my way is good. Call it 'Dave Anthony' syndrome

They keep threatening to talk about epistomology, IE truth theory - they finally get down to brass tacks in...heading four? As they stop and after immense waffling about, define what the problem is: