EmergentWake

EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:26 UTC

Youth pastor voice: "You know who else seemed to have an invisible touch?"

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:22 UTC

Realizing to my dismay how much heavy lifting that "+" is doing.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:45 UTC

I haven't seen anyone recommend Matt Ruff in this thread yet. Probably best known for Lovecraft Country, which is occasionally very funny, but some of his earlier stuff is also hilarious. Sewer, Gas, & Electric especially.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:55 UTC

I went with a block instead, but this really is example one million of bigots who can't help but describe trans people in a way that makes them out to be almost impossibly cool.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 03:46 UTC

Tough call. On the one hand, this is massively wasteful, but on the other, the fatal accident rate of civilian helicopters is at least 17 times greater than that of cars.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 03:37 UTC

The best case they can come up with for AI is that it can do some of the work that they could pay a human to do, but while VCs are still flushing money down that particular toilet, it's a bit cheaper than people, and the only downside is that it sets the planet on fire and doesn't work.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:24 UTC

He was also a time traveler who put the second pyramid on top of the first nearly forty years before the first was built. Truly, the man lived a life.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:14 UTC

Every time I think of The Postman, I remember Nathan Rabin's My Year of Flops review, and especially the quote in it from David Brin, the author of the book.

www.avclub.com/my-year-of-f...

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:46 UTC

Somewhere, there is an alternate universe where Ill Harvest is a pretty solid Beastie Boys concept album about the development of agriculture. I hope it's the same alternate universe where they released The Illiad, about the fall of Troy.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:16 UTC

I have a vague memory that's stuck with me for years of an interview Ice T did on I think Conan, where he was shown that photograph, and said something like, "Do you know what they paid me to do that movie? A million dollars. I will do ANYTHING for a million dollars."

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:14 UTC

Soon they'll just openly project that half of all cars and up to 1% of all humans will have some level of autonomy by 2030.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:52 UTC

1. Biden no longer wears pants. It's balls out from now on. 2. Wherever Clarence Thomas parks his motor coach, Biden is there, slashing his tires and keying the paint. 3. Every morning, one justice gets a steaming bowl of shit fresh from the President thrown through their bedroom window.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:51 UTC

Isn’t the point of all this that the law no longer matters if the president is immune from prosecution?

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:37 UTC

In his official capacity as commander in chief of the US military, I imagine he has the power to simply order a drone strike on the homes of the justices.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

Followed by a full 90 minutes of complete silence as the wreckage drifts through space. This is cinema.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 03:42 UTC

To be fair to Jake Tapper, he may well be better at being a truck.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 03:29 UTC

I was a little surprised it hadn't come up yet!

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 02:12 UTC

There are already a lot of strong contenders in this thread. But I'll throw in this one: "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." - C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 00:56 UTC

A lot of people really struggle with the idea that both parties to a conflict can both be absolutely fucking awful.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

I used to know the difference between kickers and plats, between a cob nobbler and a dish, and that marked me as better than the lamestains, a real hoopy frood who knows where his towels at. And now those moments are lost in time, like tears in rain. Christ, what an asshole.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

But the goal wasn't education and engagement. It was forcing the university administration to divest. I'm completely agree about the value of libraries, but this wasn't an attack on the library, and much of the damage came from attempts to build barricades to keep people inside safe.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 03:46 UTC

To be fair, the same guy wanted Supernatural to end after season 5, and that ran for an additional decade, so who knows.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 03:44 UTC

Battlestar Galactica always feels weird to me because on the one hand it seems very much of the prestige TV era, but then you watch the episodes and they'll have a cut where someone repeats a line twice in a row because they had to remind people what happened before the ten minutes of commercials.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 03:40 UTC

Maybe this is ahistorical or wrong, but it seems like for a while ad-tech promised companies they could deliver ads of higher quality, by more accurately targeting the people most likely to spend money, but that was mostly bullshit, so we're now seeing those same assholes piling quantity on top.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 19:06 UTC

I too prefer the commandments of the Eagles: Take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy Take it to the limit Take another shot of courage Don't you draw the queen of diamonds Come down from your fences Look at the way that we live Lay down your law books now

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 13:32 UTC

I don't know that that's reasonable to say when this exists.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 01:59 UTC

At this point, it's like 40% just more popups asking me to disable my ad blocker.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 22:34 UTC

Also works for adults!

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 04:56 UTC

It's none of the above. The version specified in the law was created by the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the 1950s and later became the text used by Cecil B. DeMille in monuments used to promote his movie, The Ten Commandments.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 23:59 UTC

This would also provide a break in that long gap between February and the end of May when there are no holidays (except in Massachusetts, I guess).

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 01:24 UTC

I kind of suspect there's a lot about Ed that will prove to hold up very poorly, but I'd still like the opportunity to find out.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 20:08 UTC

Why wait for future generations? We can despise them now, and seek opportunities to make their lives miserable.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 16:35 UTC

There was a bookstore in Massachusetts, near where I grew up, called Tatnuck (still exists, I think), and as I recall, their whole thing was that they'd find a way to get you just about anything, and always ordered two copies: one for you, one for the store. So they always had a very fun selection.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 00:24 UTC

I truly love this. This makes me want to play a paladin, which I can assure you is a sentence I have never uttered.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 16:18 UTC

That's true, but this is just one part of a larger surveillance system. Given the incredibly long and thorough history of law enforcement abuse of that system, there is zero reason to think they won't abuse this. Thousands of cameras covering vast swaths of public space is actually not great!

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

I get that they work to reduce speeding, and I agree that that's a good thing. It's also great to reduce interactions with armed cops. But I still can't get behind a system that involves constant surveillance of everything all the time.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 14:44 UTC

If you two ever do a podcast again, for literally any show, I will watch the show just for the podcast. I still tell people about how great Citadel Dropouts was. Gold standard for a podcast about a show, and it almost made the last season worth it.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 03:17 UTC

Worth noting that while there is a history of military personnel and others carrying them for this purpose, it's probably not a good idea!

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 16:26 UTC

You’re right that there is a distinction in that taking the kids was mostly a way to punish parents. But the US locks up a hell of a lot of kids, and it’s both brutally punitive and wildly ineffective at reducing harm. We are a country that loves putting people in cages, and a lot of them are kids.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 15:12 UTC

The US government and all the state governments have pretty much always taken kids from their parents and put them in camps. Tens of thousands of incarcerated children. The outrage should never end.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 01:39 UTC

Especially funny in that it was a hidden track on the CD.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

Absolutely horrifying way to think about children.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 15:12 UTC

I would bet just about anything that this fucker's been relentlessly meditating on exactly this for years.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 06:09 UTC

Just saw this tip recently: At least on an iPhone (and maybe android too, I don't know), you can take photos of your own bookshelves and then search for text. So if you kept, for instance, a photo of each shelf, you could pretty easily narrow down where to look.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 03:46 UTC

There are so many sins of the educated class that it would make a pretty solid book. One of those 1000 page tomes with 300 pages of footnotes and appendices. But David Brooks would have to be one of the least qualified people alive to write it.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 23:28 UTC

I've heard reports that there will be some additional characters from across the timeline: Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 20:58 UTC

My guess is they can do that because they own IMDB, which I think starts at like 400k a year. That's a drop in the bucket for streaming services, but they're not likely to spend it just to make the service better. They'll put in ads raise your rates instead.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 04:09 UTC

Maybe cable is to the video ecosystem what the crab is to the crustacean one: everything is going to turn into it eventually.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 16:03 UTC

Hwær cwom mearg? Hwær cwom mago? Hwær cwom maþþumgyfa? Hwær cwom symbla gesetu? Hwær sindon seledreamas? Eala beorht bune! Eala byrnwiga! Eala þeodnes þrym! Hu seo þrag gewat, genap under nihthelm, swa heo no wære.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 16:33 UTC

They're not even reading the surviving exemplar. They're reading, like, "Feel Nothing: Business Powered by the Ancient Wisdom of the Stoics" or "Feel Everything: Epicureans at the Negotiating Table." Or, maybe even more likely, a blog or a tweet about those books.

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