Fellow Signal users ✨:
In case you use Signal but haven't discovered yet the wonderful feature that the "Note to Self" is, know that there is a wonderful feature called Note to Self !
It is amazingly useful!
HOW TO ❓
1. Just send a message to yourself in Signal to start using it! 🗨️
2. You can use it with the automatic Disappearing Messages feature for more #privacy 🔥
3. You can Pin it at the top of your conversations for more convenience 📌
4. You can use it to transfer links, texts, and photos between your phone and computer in a safe end-to-end encrypted way! 🔒
5. You can change the background and bubble colors of your Note to Self thread to avoid getting mixed up and sending random personal notes to a random Signal contact 😉
6. Magic!✨
Neuromancer 2022
The collapse of a startup leaves implanted medical devices in > 700 people
The unavailability of the proprietary SW needed to recalibrate the devices and maintain its effectiveness, and the draining of batteries, will leave them without treatment and with HW implanted in their bodies
They have to hack their own implants
And it is not an isolated case but a trend
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html
Probably the most epic before/after I've been involved with: Our 200+ year old barn converted into a small theater. This pandemic project was 100% self-done. The lumber was all reclaimed or sawn from trees on our property. We pressure-washed, added windows, stairs, rebuilt the horse stall floor (now stage), and added brick paving. Lots of digging with interesting archaeology! We plan music & dance events here. Still missing: The electrical system! #restoration #barn #theater #archaeology
If you haven't heard of the Literature Clock... well, now you have, and it's a delight:
I'm working on possible oral history project focusing on the story of an Indian American immigrant community organization.
I'm hoping it'll be kind and celebratory, but not hagiographic.
Any recommendations for interesting projects I should be looking at?
#CommunityHistory #geneadons #OralHistory #OralHistoryProject
A while back I saw an r/woodworking post where someone was asking for resources for woodworking plans. A few people told them to Google it.
If you Google it you get absolute horseshit. Just page after page of useless results. So we need to stop the fucking "let me google that for you" era and recognize that search is entirely broken in the modern day. We NEED human recommendations and information sharing now more than ever.
It's easy to see space travel as an ostentatious use of money, but it's worth remembering that far more is spent on things we've been trained to ignore.
NASA's budget for the Artemis program is $35 billion for 2020-2024.
Every year, the world spents $2 trillion on militaries, and nearly $6 trillion on fossil fuel subsidies.
That amount annually could pay to solve both world hunger and extreme poverty, and still have enough left over to pay for 706 Moon rocket programs.
Hey everyone 👋 I'm #newhere.
I have a muscle wasting disease called Duchenne muscular dystrophy, thanks to the #NHS and modern free healthcare, I'm still alive at 37. I need non-invasive ventilation, I use a BiPAP, you can see the mask on my profile pic.
During lockdown I started taking cloud photos: https://instagram.com/electric.will
I started a blog about my life living with Duchenne.
Photography, Ai art, clouds, house music.
Yeah, I don't know. If they say like, would you have any problem deciding on the facts and allowing the court to decide on the law, I could certainly say I would have no problem doing that. I might not actually intend to do that, but I would have no problem doing it if I wanted to. :D No idea if doing that is actually dangerous.
If there's anyone in the mastoverse with expertise in #contentWarning stuff, I would love to talk to you. I'm working on a project to try making doing content warnings in various media easier.
#MastodonOnTheMove Dec 9, 2022
@TexasObserver @TucsonSentinel @restofworld Create Mastodon Instances
We've entered a new stage in the evolution of Mastodon social media. Trailblazing media organizations are creating their own instances–something impossible on other social media platforms.
Recently publications like @RollingStone, @ProPublica and @sfgate established official accounts, but now a few pioneers are taking next step.
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#twittermigration #media #instance
It blows my mind that America could cut enough from its military budget to single-handedly fix extreme poverty and world hunger, and they'd still have the largest military budget in the world.
btw: my philosophy for contemporary #polytheism is, that we as the religious people may and can create new "lore", myths and legends, find out new or never explored sides of our gods and that this is part of evolving a breathing, modern #pagan practice.
So I collected all my self-written myths here (https://emthewyrd.tumblr.com/myths). You may use them, adapt them to your own gods if you think they fit and spread them of course.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.