scottmoore.bsky.social
I used to be a professional online community builder (1995-2020). I have eclectic interests: coffee roasting, kludge DIY, 16thC Germany, History of Surgery...
Now, I just have opinions: all of them are wrong, but some of them are useful. Willing to learn.
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To me, the wild fires proved outsider wags couldn’t differentiate between LA County and the city of LA.
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Major Taylor by Andrew Ritchie is possibly the best, most detailed biography about him.
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Major Taylor by Andrew Ritchie is possibly the best, most detailed biography about him and includes his time in Europe and Australia.
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Yes! I love when people know about Major Taylor. Spread the word.
Because cars were not fast yet, when he beat a world record in 1900, he was literally the fastest man in the world.
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Is the ice cream cranberry with gravy swirls?
How do they keep it in the wrap?
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There is always money in the Republic of Bananastan.
Home of the world’s finest banana factories since 2025!
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I'd call it an "ouroboros of bullshit", but that's an insult to ouroboros'.
It's more like a Human-AI-Centipede.
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When you attack authoritarians for having alternative sexual lifestyles, when you criticize their weight, all of that, they don’t see it.
The people who do are people who should be your allies and should be welcomed in. And that is poison for coalition building.
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As someone who will instantly lose their California’s Medi-Cal benefits if Gov Newsom succeeds in his asset limits, it feels like a life or death choice between hiding assets or following the law.
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Yes! And here are two good podcast episodes about healthcare fraud and the trade-off in trying to eliminate fraud.
Picking Uncle Sam's pockets, with Jetson Leder-Luis
www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/def...
Fraud levels are a policy choice
www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/fra...
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Maybe we should call it Regurgitative 'ai'
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Never trust a fart.
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Zeno’s Fascism
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Hopefully your aunt wasn’t squirting an acid solution up her nose.
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I feel like I’m constantly expected to be all “no not you guys, you guys are fine” to people who are screaming at me that I deserve to die because I was born in a country that’s elected a fascist government that’s starving people by denying them aid as though that’s… not the US as well
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Paying attention to potential disinformation or propaganda is like masking and vaccines. If you do it, then someone else is less likely to fall for it and pass it on.
Information herd immunity starts with YOU!
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Trust. I've been on this hobby horse since the late 80s when we didn't have copiers, just mimeographs. Crap like "don't flash your headlights at cars with headlights off. It's gang initiation!"
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All the more reason to for us to slow down and take a second look at everything. Otherwise, we can fall for faux-outrage which leaves us worn out to mount real resistance to real crimes. Solidarity!
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Actually, if we take a moment to look at the details, we can see it's intended as a joke or as propaganda to rile people up.
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That’s okay. He’ll figure it out after the third move — second move if he moves into a walk-up.
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Oh, this also means I will initially get kicked off my utilities low-income program and have to do separate paperwork to get back on, so yay, more costs I can’t afford.
And if you don’t know, managing paperwork is a big effort in getting social benefits regardless of program.
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This is absolutely fucking with my depression tonight. Wondering if I can obtain a canister of CO just in case I need to exit stage left to avoid the medical debt of growing old taking away the house from my niblings.
I’m scared. Existentially scared.
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I am eternally grateful that when I went to our library looking for “The Existential Pleasures of Engineering” by Samuel C. Florman, his “Engineering and the Liberal Arts: A Technologist's Guide to History, Literature, Philosophy, Art and Music” caught my eye.
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live laugh love lockheed martin
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Ooo, very cool! Do you know of any sources from the 16thC?
Some friends and I tried fishing based on what we could find from the 17th/18thC. We didn’t make poles or flies because we couldn’t find 16thC sources.
We caught some bluefin tilapia and a small bass from a stocked lake, though.
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It's okay to admit that it is hard to keep up with terms. But you MUST try to keep up.
Complaining that you should be given a pass is a tell that you do NOT have your heart in the place. That you DON'T want to change and you are UNWILLING to put someone else's humanity before you own comfort.
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Or at least the operator. Specifically bearing down on a small dog (or any dog) is a dick move.
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Been friends for 40+ years because, although she is not an easy person, I much prefer the company of kindness in the absence of niceness to the ease of niceness in the absence of kindness.
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I kept saying, "Please don't let this be AI. Please don't let this be AI." and lo! it is not. Whew!
Custom action figure by Meltdown Customs made around 2021.
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Rebecca Watson (Skepchick) just did a YT video about a couple of reports of people getting sucked into the sycophantic model of ChatGPT to the point they started thinking they were super-human putting 7 and 13 year relationships on the line.