Confusing headlines

[bradrn]

Seen on Hacker News:

‘Problematic stuff’: death, memory and the interpretation of cached objects

Which is worse?

(I think cache is worse. But I work in IT.)

Ah-hah, you’ve fallen into the trap! Here’s the abstract:

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Deliberately deposited (or cached) objects are ubiquitous in the archaeological record, yet they are often classified under different categories, such as hoards, structured deposits, grave goods and cenotaph burials, and interpreted according to different criteria. Drawing on contemporary attitudes to death, dying and bereavement, and using later prehistoric Britain as a case study, this article brings the analysis of these objects together within a single interpretive framework, which asserts that much of this material represents the ‘problematic stuff’ left behind by the dead. This approach forces us to reconsider the traditional boundaries drawn between different aspects of the archaeological record and demonstrates the value that emotion has in our interpretations of past societies.

[zompist]

Just saw this as the title of a YouTube video:

The Beatles Live in Australia

My immediate reaction was "no they don't!"

[Emily]

Just saw this as the title of a YouTube video:

The Beatles Live in Australia

My immediate reaction was "no they don't!"

george alive in serbia canberra

[Man in Space]

Just saw this as the title of a YouTube video:

The Beatles Live in Australia

My immediate reaction was "no they don't!"

george alive in serbia canberra

Paul is dead, mate.

[alice]

From the front page of today's Scottish Sun: Bug test pressure warning.

[alice]

Just saw this as the title of a YouTube video:



My immediate reaction was "no they don't!"

george alive in serbia canberra

Paul is dead, mate.

No he isn't; he served me at a filling station in Prestonpans the other day.

[Man in Space]

george alive in serbia canberra

Paul is dead, mate.

No he isn't; he served me at a filling station in Prestonpans the other day.

The koala was Paul

[Vijay]

New posters have appeared on my street.

Idk why my brain did this to me, but when I saw this, I immediately interpreted "posters" to mean 'people posting on a forum' and "new posters have appeared on my street" as some kind of variation on "new kid on the block," instead of, you know, actual posters, like the kind you stick on walls, on an actual street.

[alice]

New posters have appeared on my street.

Idk why my brain did this to me, but when I saw this, I immediately interpreted "posters" to mean 'people posting on a forum' and "new posters have appeared on my street" as some kind of variation on "new kid on the block," instead of, you know, actual posters, like the kind you stick on walls, on an actual street.

Maybe one of them is the hapless Bill, who is always appearing on things that say "Bill Posters will be prosecuted".

[Linguoboy]

Missouri Supreme Court reverses Medicaid expansion decision (AP)

Sounds like expansion is being halted by the court when really it was halted by the governor, the lower court ruled that was constitutional, and the Supreme Court just overturned that ruling.

[bradrn]

John Barilaro asked to pass legislation to allow Friendlyjordies defamation defence

(Question: did Barilaro ask someone else, or did they ask Barilaro? And would said legislation allow Friendlyjordies to defend against Barilaro, or vice versa?)

[Vijay]

New posters have appeared on my street.

Idk why my brain did this to me, but when I saw this, I immediately interpreted "posters" to mean 'people posting on a forum' and "new posters have appeared on my street" as some kind of variation on "new kid on the block," instead of, you know, actual posters, like the kind you stick on walls, on an actual street.

Maybe one of them is the hapless Bill, who is always appearing on things that say "Bill Posters will be prosecuted".

He's also American, so he's always confused because he's not familiar with this British usage.

[Linguoboy]

Illinois Investing $200 Million to Strengthen Early Childhood Workforce

[Raphael]

Today I learned that there's a charity called Breast Cancer Now:

https://breastcancernow.org/

[bradrn]

High-dimensional pointless varieties over finite fields

[Raphael]

From the Hamburger Morgenpost, a local tabloid where I live:

Großfahndung! Kind (4) im Transporter verschwunden

That is, literally

Major Investigation! Child (4) Disappears in Transporter

My first thought on reading that was "What, they've invented transporters now? Why didn't anyone tell me?" Turns out it was a truck, though (which, in this case, had been partially converted into an RV).

[hwhatting]

My first thought on reading that was "What, they've invented transporters now? Why didn't anyone tell me?"

You seem to be very much into SF... I wouldn't even have com up with that interpretation; for me, the archetypical Transporter is this this kind of van.

[Linguoboy]

Feds probing Chicago police shooting at Red Line stop caught on video (Chicago Sun-Times)

[Man in Space]

My first thought on reading that was "What, they've invented transporters now? Why didn't anyone tell me?"

You seem to be very much into SF... I wouldn't even have com up with that interpretation; for me, the archetypical Transporter is this this kind of van.

That’s (Star Trek is) the interpretation my mind jumped to as well.

[Linguoboy]

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