It's not that difficult, really - a lot more of us in this group than outside of it
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Jeff MacArthur
@jeffmacarthur
Getting pretty tired of this Twitter BS; fretless bassist & composer; non-partisan political junkie; geeky tech enthusiast; Maritimer who's been around a bit.
Halifax, NS, CanadaJoined January 2009
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julian bashir and miles o'brien on a night out
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Fun music thread!
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I teach college music theory. Here are a bunch of musical moments from different genres that make my brain produce The Good Chemicals, along with a *mildly* technical explanation of what's going on musically. 1/
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"When I'm Prime Minister" by winning the election I refuse to trigger b/c my party must live on the fumes of pretending it's influencing sitting governments to get any recognition, so we reliably prop up people we deeply disapprove of, as outlined below. What leadership! #cdnpoli
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28 years without clean water.
8 years of broken promises from Justin Trudeau.
9 years of Pierre Poilievre doing nothing to fix it when he was in government.
When I’m Prime Minister, Indigenous communities will not have to fix these problems alone. twitter.com/solmamakwa/sta…
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Omigosh, look at everything u get w/ Twitter Blue!!! 2 things Coming Soon (we promise!), the ability to get future things we haven't even thought of yet, &… longer videos. So $105/year for longer videos then! What tremendous value - well done, Elon! (What's YouTube cost again?)
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This is a disgrace. This milk couldn't even be given to food banks. Canada's supply management system for dairy products needs to be changed.
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We have some fairly standard winter weather coming, so Nova Scotia Power would like you to prepare for service failures. This is a PR strategy to convince you that those failures are inevitable. Oh, and ICYMI yesterday, your power bills are going up again.
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This is one of the clearest cases I’ve seen of people self-identifying as being too dumb to live.
And the real problem will be that it will raise a generation of people who are used to reading this weak #AI text and think that that’s what good writing looks like. This is already happening in popular music in various ways.
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I'm now receiving a steady stream of sales emails written by an AI like #ChatGPT & they're awful. That's just very lazy #marketing and sales tactics.
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Our govt employees behaving responsibly & working hard for us all: “A federal govt dept charged with doling out COVID-19 financial benefits has fired 49 of its employees who received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit while they were still employed.”
Stunning how little math people must know to make the excuse that, b/c prices have gone up, we now have to tip a higher percentage to be fair to the people we’re tipping. We’re already tipping more b/c the costs are higher so, no, I’m not tipping 20-25%.🤷♂️
This guy posted his first...and last video. Chances are, he'll have some visitors soon, may have happened already. He'll be silenced. Dairy farmers hardly ever disclose how much milk is dumped yearly. Asked the last week, they have no idea.
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Government making a Dairy Farm in Southern Ontario dump 30,000 litres of milk because they have gone over quota.
Can’t donate it to a food bank, or to a hospital, or to a homeless shelter. Right down the drain so we can pay $7 per litre for milk.
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Yay, Canadian dairy supply management: making farmers dump good food that could be going to people who need just to keep prices high! ☹️
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Government making a Dairy Farm in Southern Ontario dump 30,000 litres of milk because they have gone over quota.
Can’t donate it to a food bank, or to a hospital, or to a homeless shelter. Right down the drain so we can pay $7 per litre for milk.
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An email a day keeps the timesheets away. 🍎
We just launched the easiest-to-use time tracking tool ever. And it’s FREE for 3 months ($18 value).
10 minutes of setup gets you a daily email showing you everything you did yesterday.
Like & comment “wow” and I’ll DM the details.
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"Speaking for The Coast, we have decided that power needs to be held to account.
The Coast will be suing the city because it broke the law, and we all deserve leaders who actually do their jobs. Even if they only do so when legally compelled."
Wow!
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Who Invented Paper? A New Discovery in Egypt Upends the Consensus - New Lines Magazine
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B/c we get such great service from NS Power, I guess? Also, every story like this should mention their CEO makes more than $8 million a year (probably mysteriously going up by ~14% over the period of this increase).🙄 #nspoli
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Vis @Witherscbc cbc.ca/news/canada/no
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…"Then again, (her) appointment has little to do with any attempt by Mr. Trudeau to foster meaningful dialogue. Her nomination is meant to delight outspoken interest groups whose support is critical to Liberal political fortunes… (Her salary:) between $162.7k & $191.3k" (2/2)
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Great read: "(She's) entitled to her opinions. But one wonders how she can promote understanding of & tolerance toward Muslims among Canadians if she starts out from the defensive crouch she has taken in her writings. Tolerance is a two-way street…" (1/2)
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#Poetry is best shared with someone who doesn’t know you. Otherwise the just think you’re a whiny cunt.
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Dear Ontarians,
Since Sunday, January 29, egg farmers are getting less for their eggs 👇. If prices continue to rise at the store, have a chat with your grocer.
Yours truly,
TFP
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Cough, cough 👇
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I have a theory that ChatGPT and text-based AI is being overhyped because it is most impressive to a bunch of people for whom writing is a minor part of their job that is annoying and they're not very good at it and fail to understand writing on a fundamental level.
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The proposed NS auto insurance changes have potential drastic consequences for those injured in a motor vehicle incident.
PLEASE read the info below,share it & take action before Feb 3.
Every Nova Scotian should be aware of this issue.
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Some fun info here (not wholly correct but interesting)!
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Replying to @Ash_Stewart_
I am also unsure about the *why*/how this came to be but how you pronounce Toronto basically points to if you're from Ontario or not lol. the10and3.com/this-is-how-ca
can music AI chill for just a second? we JUST got text-to-music like 2 days ago
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Excited to share SingSong, a system which can generate instrumental accompaniments to pair with input vocals!
arxiv.org/abs/2301.12662
g.co/magenta/singso
Work co-led by myself, @antoine_caillon, and @ada_rob as part of @GoogleMagenta and the broader MusicLM project
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After a 20-year hiatus, Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade has announced its long-awaited return with the massive, 41-date Summer of Green Tour 2023, which will mark the band’s first appearances since summer 2003.
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Weird how many "progressives" understand you can - to VERY good effect - substitute non-cops for cops to get better policing, BUT they can't seem to understand anything relative to healthcase except "more doctors/nurses!". Happy to see movement on this:
OMG — what an image! Tank man stood up to the Tiananmen tanks in June 1989. Now Cdn researchers are helping the Chinese military develop their weaponry & their surveillance technology to use against the Uyghurs. It is disgraceful that these researchers don’t have an ethical lens.
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The City of Kwinana, which is a suburb of Perth, Australia, installed drainage nets in Henley Reserve. Started as a trial, the water pollution filters have collected 370kg of debris in 4 months
[read more: buff.ly/2FTwnig]
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This might be the best programming quote I've ever heard:
"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."
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A journalism student recently asked by email: How do you become a columnist? Do you have any advice? Here is the answer: 1/n
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I'm getting to the point where I want to respond to unsolicited email mktg with an "FU", since that's only about as rude as it is to reach out to a stranger like you know them & pretend you've got some solution they REALLY need. I both block & mark as #spam but no end of them.😒
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Mark your calendars: The IT job fair is back on March 1!
This free event connects industry with over 400 IT students from across the province.
Register your booth or sign up to speak: digitalnovascotia.com/news/nscc-to-h
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The overnight winter parking ban WILL BE ENFORCED from 1-6 a.m.
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#BusinessTip: Always worthwhile to just do a quick search for the typo "pubic" if you've used the word "public" in anything you've written. It won't look wrong to spellcheck but it can be a little jarring for your readers. 😂
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When Gary Gygax moved to Lake Geneva WI at age 8 (‘46) he made friend that he would go on the greatest of adventures with.
In ‘72 Gygax & Kaye formed Tactical Studies Rules (TSR).
The original TSR logo is a combo of their initials.
Don Passed on this day Jan 31st 75 RIP
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I submit this to the discussion on whether Bb=C 😊 (I’d love to hear this with Pythagorean tuning on each chord relative to the supposed tonic) #Music
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