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armurray

@armurray@mastodon.social

Software Engineer developing tools to enable evolution, collaboration, and design (esp as pertains wicked problems)
I like motion graphics and films on parallel universes and time travel

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rubiks projection

video/mp4

armurray,
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@ylegall @loosenut we’re not worthy

rit, to random
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My 12 year old nephew is doing a school project where he has to interview someone about their career and then do a presentation with graphics.

I ask what graphics he has so far. "I have a guy drinking coffee at a computer"

Perfect.

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@rit Kurt Russell plays chess in The Thing .gif

kf, to random
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one of the weird things about walking and taking public transit for the past two years is that I now HATE cars

HATE them

not just having them, but being in one. you want me to get in a car? to go to a place? instead of a bus/streetcar/train? what if I just didn't

armurray,
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@kf best attitude to hold, really

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Brawndo’s got what plants crave, and coconut is a food that ends in um, like bananum
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112411684628599192

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 9,1947

armurray,
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@nancycomics love this one

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i watched the apple ad everyone is hating on and I hate it too. it feels bad man.

armurray,
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@lzg just watched it (and heard it was taking some flack but haven’t seen what anyone is saying). Here is my take: most of the things getting crushed are things I love, piano, arcade machine, books, guitar, turntable… stuff I want in my home and life. Goals

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I love Nine Inch Nails, and I love the Revolting Cocks, but I've never listened to, like, any Ministry. I wonder if I should. One problem is it's hard to know where to get started, there is a lot of it

armurray,
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@mcc the responses that said the mind is a terrible thing to taste are correct

armurray,
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@mcc the response that said, “with sympathy” is borderline insane

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this week really feels like the monkey’s paw is curling tbqh

armurray,
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@kf say more?

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    armurray,
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    @lzg temptation does not exist, only pleasure, little godling

    armurray, to random
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    @kf somehow I wanted to tell you about the movie, “clockwatchers” (Parker Posey, Toni Collette), but think I failed to mention it. Hidden gem

    armurray,
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    @kf we were chatting the other day and Parker Posey came up (you’ve got mail), and well, you have a somewhat chaotic stance with work (not dissimilar to Posey’s character) and I thought you might like it… it has a certain distrusting vibe you might enjoy

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    @kf I laughed like mad, mostly by way of understatement; anyway, I loved it, now shared!

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    Is there an explainer for what is actually the point of all the AI stuff? For crypto I was fine ignoring it as it was stupid on its face. I would ignore AI too if it were just hyped by tech companies and VCs, but it seems to dominate everywhere. I’m in a “CTO club” and it’s nonstop AI.

    Internet search on this topic is, even via Kagi, tons of SEO nonsense.

    Don’t tell me about it writing emails or code. I understand that part. What actual problems is it supposed to solve?

    armurray,
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    @davetron5000 was just thinking about how incredibly limiting the actual results have been so far

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    @lzg my go to joke: I used to think I was depressed, turned out I was just listening to Portishead

    Been revisiting lately

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    @lzg what a time to be alive! Teen angst for me, too

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    Lambda School /BloomTech is old news; always talked about like it was run by Satan himself by all of us who worked on actual education and learning access issues in tech.

    But what's not old news and will always emerge again is that probably now people will just be more biased against e.g. bootcamp learners who are trying their damndest to claw into a better life, rather than taking it out on the men who find toying with education a way to make their own terrible imperium

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    @grimalkina I hear you!

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    I've heard many times that "billionaires should not exist."

    I've never heard of a viable idea to actually make this actionable policy. Every country I'm aware of with a wealth tax in Europe has repealed it.

    But suppose you just declare, "100% tax above $100M USD on wealth" anyhow.

    The ultra wealthy people can just leave and go elsewhere. If they can't just leave, it implies the freedom in their country is a sham like Russia or China.

    Anyone willing to thoughtfully weigh in?

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    @raiderrobert progressive flat tax for all, ultra simple tax code, shared by many nations. The rumour that billionaires will leave is supported by complex tax codes that promote havens and loopholes - the key thing to change is to make manufacturing and the use of physical resources and local staff to mean that corporate taxes are paid in the country of origin. Of course, impossible to achieve, because of the golden rule.

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    @lzg it’s okay to stare

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    Something reminded me of this classic.

    https://youtu.be/lGar7KC6Wiw?feature=shared

    armurray,
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    @loosenut Idc they will value my creativity!

    kf, to random
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    people who use a standing desk: I just got an ergonomic standing mat with ridges and stuff. do you use yours with shoes or flat-footed? I am undecided.

    armurray,
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    @kf always flat footed… I think it’s supposed to massage / fascial release parts of your feet to make you feel good, plus increase variety for your standing positions… with shoes, you might miss some of these benefits…

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    instagram keeps recommending TRX to me

    and there is no amount of money you could pay me to hang my full body weight off a door frame

    who does instagram think I am

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    @kf I had one attached to my ceiling for hanging out in my media room in SF and adored it, and yeah, it needed special mounting

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    @lzg I put a hard limit of no more than 8, and am curious what life would be like with fewer, could be nice :-)

    kf, to random
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    deep into eddy burback youtube videos

    and why did it take me so long to find this channel

    https://www.youtube.com/c/EddyBurback

    amazing videos:

    • visiting every rainforest cafe
    • visiting every margaritaville
    • seeing U2 at the las vegas sphere
    • reviewing sex education videos from the 1980s
    • watching "morbius" in-theater every day for a week
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    @kf a classic, the third in the Tom & Meg trilogy - and from a purely relational perspective lovely… his deception is a touch cruel (and he’s a minor scoundrel)… the tale foretold the rise of the Amazons - I’d love to see the sequel where she quits Fox the company (like Trent Reznor leaving Apple Music), for that little part in her that is still alive, to start an independent movement… I’m not sure it would sell, though… also, Parker Posey, FULL POINTS

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    @kf first time I saw it, I wasn’t enamored, but now it’s a go-to period piece and has its own charm in a bottle, product placement and all!

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