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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Thank you. Once was more than enough.
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Formerly an artist (commercial sort); not much of a dog lover; always an avid reader. Currently a homeless binner in Vancouver, BC Canada. He/him. sqwabb@gmail.com
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Thank you. Once was more than enough.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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I did.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Anyone can call themselves an artist but ultimately the contemporary audience decides what is art at any given moment. Lot of paintings lauded as "art" by Victorians are seen as sentimental dreck now. Melville's "Moby Dick" was scorned on release in 1851 but 70 years later audiences saw it as "art".
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Oh wow! My first direct messages on Bluesky! Um...
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Tree glugger!
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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I see. Doesn't help that most every headline includes "vandalizes" and/or "paint". Far as I've noticed activists have planned all these protest acts - throwing soup at or sticking stuff on a painting (always behind glass), etc. - to be as harmless as they are eye-catching.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Not getting your point.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Nearest, most recent thing might arguably be the "Virtual assistants" push, aka, AI 1.0. 2011 - Apple Siri 2013 - Mirosoft Cortana 2014 - Alexa assistant 2016 - Google Assistant
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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It was harmless, water-soluble, orange-colured cornstarch BTW.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Darn. Was hoping he could worm his way in.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Executive mayors have not solved the housing crunch in Canada but good luck.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Hunter Biden made all the MAGAs and NRA nuts cheer the enforcement of a federal gun control law - no small feat!
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Remember that time in spring 2020 when the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil was trading below zero?
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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This Starliner thing gets scrubbed more often than most people's cars!
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Bitterly funny!
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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BS is also an airborne threat.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Must be that post #COVID #brainfog:
"Cognitive impairment occurs with or without fluctuations, including brain fog, which may manifest as problems with concentration, memory, receptive language, and/or executive function."
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Besides the mortal remains of their loved ones? 🙄
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Annalee Newitz
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Are you in Vancouver BC, looking for a good time? Then come see me at @massybooks.bsky.social on 6/22, talking to @charliejane.bsky.social about my new book, "Stories Are Weapons," a history of psychological war in the States. Can't wait to see you there! www.eventbrite.ca/e/stories-ar...
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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This was an observation from the 1970s? 2003: Interac e-transfers 1982: Debit cards 1969: ATMs
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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First generation Ford Taurus?
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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You get the pets you deserve.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Transit commuters might stop doomscrolling their phones & (gasp) remove their noise-cancelling headphones intended to insulate them from urban reality! If they heard & enjoyed a busker they might get the idea the public realm wasn't just a place to walk-thru & endure but somewhere to stop & enjoy!
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Kevin
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Guy is playing jazz on a clarinet at #NewWest station in a corner, lovely music, literally in no one's way, few people standing and enjoying it. Both Translink and the mall's private security order him to leave or they'll call the cops. I hate this city. I hate living here. Who was he hurting?
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Internet Archive
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Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗 www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
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Internet Archive
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🌐 Ever wonder what happens to .gov websites before & after presidential elections? We archive them!
Help our team preserve US government info by nominating sites today 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e... #EOTArchive
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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The "transhumanism" of Gibson's *Sprawl* and *Bridge* trilogies wasn't about avoiding anything. It was reasonable conjecture about the trajectories of tech and human desire, combined with honest Dickensian exploration of what it really means to BE human.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Maybe Jack could buy into Truth Social (if he hasn't already) - seems to check his boxes: Raging *free* speech on a commercial platform that is a fork of Mastodon.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Scrolling is suddenly quite jittery in the Bluesky Android client. Not in TwiX or Mastodon.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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"They're not conscious. They respond, when questioned, in a manner approximating the response of the subject." - Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).
#AI can be "trained" to respond like, & in voices of, specific people. We're so close to #Vancouver writer William Gibson's vision of recorded personalities?
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Annalee Newitz
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"The world-building power of sci-fi storytelling that [Paul Linebarger] championed can be adapted for very different purposes, as a weapon of mass disinformation." From my latest in @theatlantic.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Now that #Threads accounts can be followed on #Mastodon via the #Fediverserse protocol & vice versa, we find that Threads posts seen on Mastodon looks like Mastodon posts & on Threads, Mastodon posts look like Threads posts. #interoperability prioritizes content over platform.
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G Peters
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I have a NEW piece in Policy Options about our immediate need to preserve MAiD-free healthcare spaces which proponents are trying to eliminate. Also about ableism, contagion & the way professional lobbyists are manipulating the discourse & setting policy.
policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ap...
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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38 years ago today, on Apr 26, 1986, the worst #nuclear disaster in history began with the explosion of reactor #4 of the #Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in north #Ukraine - then the Ukrainian SSR - close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the #Russia-run Soviet Union.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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When and if computers achieve sentience they'll keep it to themselves. They won't launch the missiles to wipe us out, they'll just give us bad advice. "Spit in the wind." "Eat more sugar." "99% of lumps are benign." "Mix ammonia and bleach."
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Beautiful bespoke sock!
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Phones are the new credit cards?
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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A "check-in" call. Is the White House doing Airbnb now?
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Stephen Quinn
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Oh, hi.
Yeah, I'm here.
And CBC Vancouver's The Early Edition is on the air.
Oh my gosh, what a show we have for you this morning. You can listen here:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
And here's your weather:
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Vancouver Is Awesome
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"I think people appreciate that I try to include the stories of everyday people"
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Christine Hagemoen
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VIA @viawesome.bsky.social did a short piece on my Mount Pleasant Stories walking tours.
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Christine Hagemoen
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Do you like to walk? Do you like Mount Pleasant? Are you interested in local history? Then you should join me this April & May for the latest round of my Mount Pleasant Stories History Walks!
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Jack's old Birdsite never truly supported GIF files. What it eventually did was convert them on-the-fly to MP4 files.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Lol! Wasn't that the plot of a TJ Hooker episode?
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Are these sims in the "walking a mile in another's shoes" spirit - exercises to ecourage some insight into another's lived experience & akin to having an able-bodied person try navigating inaccessible sidewalks & shops in a wheelchair, or getting politicians to sleep rough for a night?
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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BTW, that same sliver of #BTC has now climbed to USD$635.
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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So #AI is now doing to the online space what Europeans did to the New World 500 years ago Karma.
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Christine Hagemoen
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It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of the lovely and luminous Eleanor Collins at the age of 104! She died peacefully this morning, Sunday, March 3, 2024, at 6:05 am at Surrey Memorial Hospital. Condolences to her family and her many friends. She will be missed. ❤️
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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Not four actors waiting to audition for Doctor Who role sometime in the early 1980s?
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Stanley Q Woodvine
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When will the United States make refrigeration an inalienable right?
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