Richard Carroll

@npub106d…3m89 I haven’t had to do this often, but it’s annoying. I thought the whole thing with the postal service was that they brought my packages to me?

2024-06-10 14:41:04

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@npub175d…wrtj if you have a foothold in the industry you’ll probably be fine. Good luck!

2024-06-08 19:09:44

雪 | Tamaki #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/119466083
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2024-06-08 19:09:10

ささがく生活 | fjsmu（ふじしむ） #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/119456306
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2024-06-08 14:56:31

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@npub1f9c…0ry2 that sounds interesting, but since the locality is specific I won’t ask you to dox yourself by sharing the title, lol. I do have access to a university library which has a couple dozen books to choose from, but I always like getting personal recommendations.

2024-06-07 15:44:40

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@npub175d…wrtj F

2024-06-04 22:05:06

Do any of my followers have recommendations on books about children’s literature? Could be history, analysis, focus on particular themes - I’m pretty open.

2024-06-04 19:50:39

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@npub175d…wrtj well, time to die.

2024-06-04 16:49:21

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@npub1syf…mzey ultimately, yes, it’s virtue/vice, “There are but two courses which can be pursued, that of virtue and its opposite.” https://ctext.org/mengzi/li-lou-i#n1672

2024-06-03 20:45:53

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@npub1d58…jv5f funny, but is it really so different than making children do household chores or mow the lawn?

2024-06-03 15:05:17

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@npub1780…4ed5 RIP

2024-06-01 15:27:01

https://x.com/simzarts/status/1796709583123083558
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2024-05-30 20:53:22

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The only other Windows software I’m concerned about is Legacy Family Tree, but I know of at least one viable alternative if that turns out to be too much of a hassle.

2024-05-30 20:50:28

I plan to migrate from Win10 to Linux in the nearish future, so I’m happy to see it’s not too hard to get Scrivener working. I feel like I can trust this guy because he installed Kali on an old Mac and called the device “Knick Knack Kali Mac,” and someone who names their computer after the KKK is probably one of my e-friends.
https://rdewalt.substack.com/p/installing-scrivener-on-linux

2024-05-30 14:22:42

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@npub1d58…jv5f the Hyakunin Isshu is great. Which translation are you reading?

2024-05-09 16:48:33

https://x.com/demizuposuka/status/1788571628898791868
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2024-05-09 14:41:13

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@npub1mew…gjf7 shameful!

2024-05-08 14:42:26

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@npub1mew…gjf7 yeah, that’s a good way of putting it.

2024-05-05 23:07:08

In the past week for the blog, I’ve drafted a new post (on Thomas Carew), added a sidebar site to make it easier to navigate, and fixed all the broken links.
On the links, about half were cases of me missing an internal link to redo, the rest were to sites that no longer exist. In the latter case, I was able to link to an archived version most of the time, but in a few cases I had to either remove the link or add a parenthetical note that the site is dead.

2024-05-05 15:01:09

https://x.com/aduipanda/status/1787093698737549427
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2024-05-05 05:20:57

爪弾き | すり餌/お仕事募集中 #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/118436835
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2024-05-02 02:03:23

Great job killing my interest in this announcement.
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2024-04-22 18:24:42

An occasional reminder that online content is fragile. It looks like there are people trying to archive academic journals like this, but nonetheless, it’s worth saving anything you find interesting or useful yourself.
“A key chemistry journal disappeared from the web. Others are at risk”
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/a-key-chemistry-journal-disappeared-from-the-web-others-are-at-risk/4019265.article

2024-04-21 22:35:54

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2024-04-18 17:34:39

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@npub175d…wrtj it’s good to include that kind of anecdote in your articles, especially if they’re only tangential to your main point. Keeps the reader’s attention.

2024-04-18 17:19:54

New post: “The Rectification of Posts is Complete,” the second and final post on the WordPress to Hugo migration.
https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/rectification-of-posts-complete/

2024-04-17 15:01:55

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@npub175d…wrtj maybe he needs to write in English and get to the point.

2024-04-17 14:50:13

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@npub175d…wrtj tl;dr even if it wasn’t in foreign.

2024-04-17 14:48:27

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@npub1z5r…rjcc people so focused on “cereal experiments” jokes, this one that should’ve been easy has been laying around unnoticed.

2024-04-15 20:31:07

I finished editing and republishing every post on the blog yesterday, or at least everything worth saving. I also drafted a post to talk a little about the process, with a few observations about the site and my next steps. Effectively, though, I’m calling the WordPress to Hugo migration complete, since the only remaining tasks are non-urgent things that I can do whenever, like finding a more interesting theme.

2024-04-14 21:08:03

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@npub175d…wrtj I’d expect someone’s inner circle to be mostly people from their own instance…

2024-04-03 22:24:11

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@npub175d…wrtj either this is an act or he’s been clueless about this for months now…
https://cawfee.club/media/627e0f7e73130008883cf79b5c472450881afa50c3cb12ad9ad1236bf3efff6a.jpeg

2024-04-03 21:43:01

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@npub175d…wrtj I highly doubt it, especially since it’s a major but not immediately obvious change from when they first joined Minds.

2024-04-01 15:09:32

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@npub1tjg…snha nice, I’m looking forward to YouTubers making videos twenty years from now about how nostalgic they are for these ads.

2024-03-28 13:41:37

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@npub1pt6…6mf6 lol, that’s not even the most obnoxious suggestion in that answer.

2024-03-27 13:23:12

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@npub1qez…kasy speedrunning is its own thing distinct from how normal people play most games. It’s probably best to ignore them unless that’s specifically what you’re into.

2024-03-21 20:34:38

TIL there was a second edition of Cyberia released in 2002, eight years after the first. I own the first edition; it ranged from interesting as a time capsule of the early-90s internet to a slog through drug culture navel-gazing.
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2024-03-21 14:24:05

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@npub1mt0…esms I’d consider keeping your hair, grey or not, an indisputable W.

2024-03-21 13:30:57

Even though I know the game of Go will carry on [after AI] just like chess has all these years, I can’t help feeling sad for how we will never experience some things the same way ever again.
The greatest story of a player post-AI won’t be overwhelming victories like Go Seigen’s jubango. It will be someone who can come close to defeating an AI.
Even though I know that the game of Go will continue on, but still, I mourn for the version of Go that I loved and once knew, which will never exist again.
Someone, I forgot who, pointed out recently that games are less fun once they’re “solved” or sufficiently optimised. Tic-tac-toe is a trivial example, but even something like go or chess feel smaller, even if they’re complex enough that games between humans remain interesting. I don’t know go well enough to say how it’s changed, but I understand the author’s and Lee Sedol’s feeling here.
https://www.zhangjingna.com/blog/2024/3/20/lee-sedol-alphago-art-and-go

2024-03-18 18:40:57

Another section of posts edited and republished, this time Graphic Novels and Comics (which are actually mostly manga).
These went quicker than I thought they might since there’s a surprising lack of images. Many are part of the “75 Books in 2015” series, where I was reading and writing about a lot of books and so didn’t have time to write thorough reviews, and others are relatively insubstantial and didn’t seem to justify a full review.
https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/highlights-and-review-index/

2024-03-14 21:22:27

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@npub1mew…gjf7 if this is AI, good job on its part I guess. The artist does link to a process video, but I didn’t watch the whole thing.

2024-03-14 19:57:26

弔い | B L O O M #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/116922806
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2024-03-14 16:24:04

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@npub1qez…kasy I don’t even see that, it just presents me with a login screen.

2024-03-13 18:57:28

A good article overall. It’s interesting to see a defence of Mackey from outside the Right.
Douglass Mackey can be fairly categorized as a peddler of ugly and hateful speech. Many readers of this comment are likely diametrically opposed to everything Mackey stands for, both politically and personally. But prosecuting him under § 241 for posting memes was a poor decision by the Department of Justice. The potential impacts to online political discourse are simply too high. At the very least, the jury in this case should have been instructed to consider whether the text-to-vote memes were satire. That Mackey has now been convicted and sentenced to seven months in prison — while perhaps satisfying for those who find his speech repulsive — is a blow to online speech and provides a potent precedent that could be wielded against political enemies of a future administration.
https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-137/united-states-v-mackey/

2024-03-07 21:07:38

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@npub1mt0…esms congratulations on all your newfound free time.

2024-03-07 20:58:27

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@npub1mt0…esms the quote may come across as slightly aggressive in some circles, but OTOH, anyone worth talking to will take it in stride.

2024-02-26 16:26:37

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3xfbyhLw5R/
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2024-02-21 15:09:21

You know a review is going to be good when you’re seven paragraphs in before even mentioning the book you’re reviewing.

2023-12-14 15:05:58

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@npub175d…wrtj I’m sympathetic to the legitimists out there and do like the idea of, say, a Hapsburg restoration, but yes, there is a cargo cult aspect to it. Any future monarchies are 90% likely to come from a Caesar figure, someone like Franco, not someone like Juan Carlos.

2023-11-17 16:25:15

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@npub175d…wrtj jump into a thorn bush.

2023-10-31 15:41:57

The short answer [to whether Halloween is pagan] is “no”. Contrary to Seth Andrews’ claims about “the Catholic Church” stealing a pagan festival “involving the druid priests and the people dressing up in masks and tricks and treats”, the date and most of the traditions are firmly Christian in origin. The November 1 date that is the centre of “Allhallowmas” was not derived from any “Celtic” original and the original Irish date for an All Saints feast moved from April 20 to November 1 due to the influence of Continental and English liturgical practice. That this meant the new All Saints Day fell on the “quarter day” of Samhain was pure coincidence. Contrary to repeated insistence in popular sources, scholars can find no clear indication of any ritual or religious practices on Samhain, and certainly none that can be traced to later Halloween traditions. Masks, costumes, trick or treating, Halloween games etc. all either have known traditional Christian origins or simply cannot be linked to anything definitely pre-Christian. Possibly the main thing that does connect Halloween to earlier beliefs about Samhain is the idea that it is a numinous time of year when this world and the otherworld become closer and, thus, it is a time to be wary of malevolent entities. But how much of that idea comes from pre-Christian beliefs and how much of it is a result of a Christian feast focused on the afterlife and the dead is, again, impossible to tell. It is most likely some combination of the two.
https://historyforatheists.com/2021/10/is-halloween-pagan/

2023-10-11 17:17:01

Knowledge of the fallacies is essential to reasoning well, but it is of limited value if it is merely superficial knowledge, and may in that case even impede careful reasoning. It can lead to seeing fallacies where they do not exist, and thus lead away from truth rather than toward it. And if one’s knowledge of fallacies is deployed merely as a further rhetorical means of trying to make an opponent look bad, it constitutes sophistry rather than remedying sophistry.
https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-little-logic-is-dangerous-thing.html