pies @pies@qoto.org

“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls—family, health, friends, integrity—are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”

When Henri Matisse Was 90 Years Old, He Couldn’t Go to His Favorite Swimming Pool, So He Created a Swimming Pool as a Work of Art

https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/matisse-swimming-pool.html

Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:

Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.

Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.

My old bud JC is getting surgery this week and I was on the phone with him and said "Good luck under the knife" and he said "What?" and it seemed a little weird so you know how you don't say "good luck" to actors before a show, you say "break a leg" because "good luck" is bad luck to actors? I propose we have a different phrase for "good luck getting surgery" and my proposed alternate phrase is "Punch an angel."

There has been a lot of research about autistics over the years, but this one really took the cake! 🍰

Find out what happened when researchers attempted to compare the moral compass of autistic and non-autistic people... (1/2)

#actuallyautistic #autism #neurodivergence #comic #art #MastoArt

Sorry, had trouble with the earlier Mastodon post, so I posted an extended article on Substack:

"LLMs are better than you think at playing you"

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/llms-are-better-than-you-think-at

"Evil sorcerers" vs "ordinary mediocrities"

https://doctorow.medium.com/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee-4ac92fa2eed

#Facebook #DopamineLoops

What self respecting election geek doesn’t love a good chart? I’ve got plenty of them in today’s piece, courtesy of Catalist. They tell an amazing story about youth and women voters, especially in the battleground states. Check it out: https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-deep-data-is-in-and-democrats?sd=pf

Z okazji Międzynarodowego Dnia przeciw Homo-, Bi- iTransfobii życzymy wszystkim osobom LGBT+ realizacji postulatów z programu Razem:
🏳️‍🌈 Równości małżeńskiej!
⚧️ Końca dyskryminacji!
❌ Końca stref wolnych od LGBT+!
🏳️‍⚧️ Ułatwienia uzgodnienia płci!
🔍 Zdecydowanej polityki wobec krajów, które łamią prawa osób LGBT+!
👮‍♀️ Monitoringu przestępstw z nienawiści i aktualizacja paragrafu 119 kk!

How media enables white supremacy.

First pic: How NY Times depicted an unarmed Black teen killed by law enforcement—“problematic & no Angel.”

Second Pic: How NY Times depicts a white woman who unapologetically stole $700M & harmed countless people—“a loving mother & a new beginning.”

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So, we jumped from #Twitter to #Mastodon, after a man with a sink showed us how fragile centralized platforms really are. And now there's #Bluesky wanting to convince us that their AT Protocol is even more robust than #ActivityPub. But is it really superior and would it have been better to build the #fediverse on top of this protocol, instead?

Thread time!

DISNEY'S GONNA HAVE VILLAINS THAT LOOK LIKE RON DESANTIS FOR A DECADE.

This Central Air Data Computer (CADC) was introduced in 1955. It computed airspeed, altitude, etc for fighter planes. But instead of a processor, it was an analog computer that used tiny gears for its computations. Let's look at how one of its modules works.🧵

The BC Court of Appeals ruled against @Linkletter.

Covered by @pluralistic here https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/links-arent-performances/

“For starters, it finds that publishing a link can be a "performance" of a copyrighted work, which meant that when Linkletter linked to the world-viewable Youtube files that Proctorio had posted, he infringed on copyright.”

This is incredibly bad and continues Canada’s record of not really understanding the Internet.

A mechanism for #LongCovid

I am beyond excited to finally be able to share what I’ve been working on for the past year.

At the beginning of March 22, I discovered a potential mechanism for #LongCovid. It was a unifying mechanism that could explain every single symptom that patients were reporting, something I never thought possible for a disease that has over 200. Yet, this mechanism actually did.

Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1150105/full

Carl Sagan Explains How the Ancient Greeks, Using Reason & Math, Discovered That the Earth Isn’t Flat Over 2,000 Years Ago

https://www.openculture.com/2023/03/carl-sagan-explains-how-the-ancient-greeks-discovered-that-the-earth-isnt-flat-over-2000-years-ago.html