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 We got lots of spam at MetaFilter and one time someone posted trying to promote something called "Exemplary Purchase" and we kept wondering what are they were trying to say until we realized it was a translation error, they meant to say "Best Buy" in English. Ten years on, every time I drive past a BestBuy, I think "Exemplary Purchase!"
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   holy shit I had no idea there was a Moo Deng livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shnlRaGwKOc I've just been informed the Norwegian phrase for speed bump also describes me to a T https://phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news. Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel. I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.
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 @mathowie The one feature that keeps me using Mona for iOS is putting photo captions into the Alt Text field so I don't have to copy and paste manually. But otherwise phanpy.social is the web app I can use anywhere, even in VR. Lawyer: my client should be able to Fuck Around, forever. Lefty SC justice: What about the Finding Out step that always follows? Lawyer: We eliminate it. It never happens ever again, but just for the office of President. Everyone else continues to Find Out. [6 out of 9 SCOTUS justices nod in agreement]
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1. Biden does not contest the case. 2. Trump wins the “principle” of absolute presidential immunity. 3. Biden shoots Trump. Problem solved.  if I was cast in the film The Social Network, I'd walk onto set each morning, do some finger guns at the director and ask him "So, are we sorkin' hard today or hardly sorkin'?"
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@mathowie I hope this is a reference in part to https://www.theincomparable.com/sorkin/ 
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 @mathowie Spectacular!! I love this very much! I encourage more boosting of these rad photos! the funniest thing about Apple is the last version of MacOS features "video reactions" where if your camera sees you do a thumbs up or heart symbol with your hands, stuff happens behind you like fireworks in ANY video app you are using BY DEFAULT. A friend was in an online therapy session, describing his trauma so the therapist asked if he was alright and he did a thumbs up and then HUGE FIREWORKS BEHIND HIS HEAD. It's so bad that online therapy sessions now start with a warning dialog!
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@mathowie Apple never learn - reminds of when (pre-Intel) Macs first had system-wide voice recognition enabled by default and if you learned the correct intonation for the default voice you could reboot anyone else's Mac (without saving open docs) by loudly saying "Computer - Shutdown - Yes" and the hjinks that followed this discovery Once again I’m getting a lot of questions about my tote bag that are already answered by my tote bag
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 @mathowie looks like a bag a extraterrestrial would actually have if trying to disguse as human 🧘♀️a yoga pants store aimed at Gen Xers called Such Great Tights that only ships via the postal service
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@mathowie A cheap knock off store called Owl City (didn’t have time to come up with a pun) |
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@mathowie My dad always calls Best Buy "Least objectionable purchase"
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from 2021:
> (...) Our study introduces the concept of tortured phrases: unexpected weird phrases in lieu of established ones, such as ‘counterfeit consciousness’ instead of ‘artificial intelligence.’
Examples:
Colossal information -> Big data
Counterfeit consciousness -> Artificial intelligence
Flag to commotion -> Signal to noise
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02134-0
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from 2021:
> (...) Our study introduces the concept of tortured phrases: unexpected weird phrases in lieu of established ones, such as ‘counterfeit consciousness’ instead of ‘artificial intelligence.’
Examples:
Colossal information -> Big data
Counterfeit consciousness -> Artificial intelligence
Flag to commotion -> Signal to noise
@mathowie Joey with his thesaurus again. 🤷🏻♂️