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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 31m

I used to put fireflies in a jar to keep on my nightstand as a kid as I went to bed and then, well... Let's say that being a very vivid childhood memory makes a certain film that much worse as an adult. 😭

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 36m

I have no horse in this race since I've never taught linear algebra, but it is very interesting how courses either start with Det and go all in (more standard) or are vehemently against them until they are practically 100% motivated near the end (e.g. Axler).

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 38m

Do matrices dream of sheared sheep?

An illustration from a linear algebra textbook showing a cartoon of a sheep followed by a "sheared" sheep, in the sense of a shear transformation - essentially turning the "square" covering the sheep into a skewed parallelogram.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 2h

(Chemical Safety Board videos are my go-to reference for how to talk about a lot of those things without making it spectacle. Heavy on context about the failure points and action items, frequent use of low detail animations, and matter of fact accounting.)

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 2h

*caveat that there are educational/instructional purposes to some footage, like structural failures, factory accidents, etc if you're actually working in those fields, but the context has to be very clear, and stills coupled with illustrations are often sufficient.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 2h

The impulse to "witness" full unredacted horrors for their own sake* is a fast ticket to treating horrors as mere spectacle. It's exploitative, reduces it to "content", and becomes the same impulse as watching old Faces of Death VHS tapes on loop.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah at a certain point, once you're well past gradient descent and random forests and simple reinforcement schemes - at least once you're doing multilayered neural net stuff into deep learning - in the AI region of techniques as far as I'm concerned.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 13h

The DoS comparison is interesting and says a lot about what these firms are doing these days - in both professional circles and to the Web - throwing so much out there in queries and results, and expecting everyone else to foist the load for them.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 13h

"The OpenAI press release just suggests "progress". But the media cycle, for everyone else, these are "solutions". This is a perfect way to have your cake and eat it too. But it is the equivalent of a Denial of Service, should we want to take it seriously..."

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 16h

Ugh I need to post worse so someone will pay me not to post.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 16h

It's so funny how quickly you learn no one cares about this stuff. I have been in dance belt and aerial tights and light stage makeup and barely gotten second glances. People do respond to full clown though. That is always interesting.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 17h

I love the multi-layered mislead on the statement here. Just how many wrong ways there are to parse it because of how these things are typically presented.

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 18h

Favorite weird factoid lately is that, supposedly, if we were ever going to find alien tourists here, they'd be here to check out a total eclipse, since it's likely rarer than "has intelligent life" for a planet's moon to be the exact size and distance to appear the same size as its sun.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 18h

Oh this feels rude to re-up right after they acquired Joseph Beth. 😭

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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 20h

“We’re now expected to either (1) check all this garbage that OAI is producing or (2) concede that all of these conjectures have been proven,” one algebraic topologist wrote to me. “I believe in politics this is known as ‘flooding the zone.’ We simply don’t have the resources to correct the record.”

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 20h

Oh I'm going to have to see how this compares to Marginalia now.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

2017 Las Vegas shooting had 60 deaths

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And I thought I was excessive scanning my books via LibraryThing after a move.

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's older than that; at least as old as C S Pierce writing about the type and token distinction in semiotics, over a century ago.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's already gross accounting, but I have to also assume they did not do any accounting for the associated decrease in hospitalizations while they were at it. Because, you know, getting severely ill also costs a lot of money.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I will not lie, we watched this Varekai bit in clowning class and that tweet popped into my head when the guy took the shirt off in this illustrative duo act.

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Clown Magic Chaos in Varekai | Comedy Mayhem on Stage! | Cirque du Soleil

YouTube video by Cirque du Soleil

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So the funniest thing I ever saw in the macro sense was someone complaining that their fiber supplementation added carbs and l honestly loved their discovery journey after that.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It is admittedly very weird to be, or have been, a basic science researcher that had terminal protocols for rodents, and be around farms as a child, and afterward realize you have very strong opinions about the mechanics of euthanizing animals.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have opinions about animal euthanasia but yes, one of the standard IACUC approved methods is CO2 and that is entirely about the comfort of the experimenter. Injection is the same in the human equivalent.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Something something "what did the nazi child masturbaring in the bathroom hear?"

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have been looking into retreats at the Abbey at Gethsemane, ngl.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1 is basically Reddit, right?

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also a brush to stipple is way faster and gets a better contour top line than the spongy wedges, at least in my inexperienced hands.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Got some help with actual (inexpensive) contour and blush that work over the kinda oily clown white base I have - the Sephora folks were super patient - and we found a solution that looks theatrical with good contrast but not super garish. Honestly it was a fun little trip!

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Chekov's 13 ball and the sailing convertible are such great moments at the end of the dream sequence that the reconciliation in the waking world in the last two minutes is kind of a let down!

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They really get some mileage (pun intended) out of this motorbike handlebars sequence. Several good stunts and gags, in rapid fire.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh and the chase sequence with the jump through the suitcase gag and the riding-the-handlebars bit! I guess I really forgot which film those belonged to, but I knew more of this film from clips than I thought.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this is the one with the traffic stop gate stunt! It's so hard to remember which iconic stunts are in which films.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I can't decide how much the decision to have a little vial labeled poison is just the base language of silent films or if even that comes across as heavy handed. Also I wonder how many times it took to shoot this billiards bit where he keeps avoiding the 13.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this little film within a film bit of the Hearts and Pearls sequence is *so interesting* as a gag premise. Just his little ghost/dream projection seeing his rival in the film and getting pulled into it, but then being subjected to the chaos of the settings changing under his feet.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh more people getting absolutely soaked as a sight gag. Love to see it.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

OK I love the physical comedy of this shadowing bit. Two characters on screen, one doing something mundane (walking, stopping, etc) and the other reacting to them in an over the top way (literally on his heels, almost running into him) is such a classic.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Someone has stolen my watch!" Oh cute so the actual mystery is super low stakes! (Well, ok it's tied up with a romantic interest so not really.)

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Here's a banana, kid, now scram" is such a silly little setup in an otherwise saccharine scene and tells you exactly what the next gag is. You're right, he slips on the peel moments later.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Everyone losing a dollar at this start is roughly like losing a $20 according to the CPI inflation calculator. Folks at that little theater just can't be trusted with cash.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolutely pocketing that as a potential clown gag though. Just a little reference for (my) Dapper Dipper to have a little detective book and magnifying glass and make a little thumbprint.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I didn't realize the iconic shot with the magnifying glass and the "How to Be a Detective" book was literally the opening shot. Nifty but now I don't have it to look forward to later!

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Really funny that there's two Jr films like that but I also don't think I can do The General right after that business with the Stonewall Jackson steamboat.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Next up since I'm just having popcorn for lunch and knocking these out: Sherlock Jr!

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And that ends that one. Cute little bow on the end, though weird choice for the last shot to be Jr still in the water rescuing the guy with the float instead of the reconciliation with the rival's daughter in front of both parents one shot before.

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