@anthropoid@101010.pl Indeed!
TIL about [cluster headache](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache)
> _“The #pain […] is usually described as burning, stabbing, drilling or squeezing. While #suicide is rare, those with cluster headaches may experience suicidal thoughts (giving the alternative name ‘suicide headache’ or ‘suicidal headache’). […] The disease may be the most painful condition known to medical science. […] #ClusterHeadache is probably the worst pain that humans experience. […] Women with cluster headache will tell you that an attack is worse than giving birth. So you can imagine that these people give birth without anesthetic once or twice a day, for six, eight, or ten weeks at a time. […] Their pain was so severe that several of them had to be constantly watched for fear of suicide. Most of them were willing to submit to any operation which might bring relief.”_
#qualia #HedonisticImperative #consciousness
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🗞 Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe steps down as W3C CEO; Ralph Swick appointed Interim CEO https://ift.tt/V1GKpUP
@duncanmak @rauschma That's what I think, too: that a well designed standard would have worked better than React-centric and idiosyncratic JSX…
@rauschma I guess it's spelt “JSX” nowadays.
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i maintain the identity associated with the bits I was born with, and also, am very good with computers
that is to say, I'm a cis admin
> _“When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about significantly changing the present by doing something small, but hardly anyone thinks that they can significantly change the future by doing something small”_
🏆 🤯
You are wrong. There are legit use cases for #crypto where the alternatives (banks, cards, cash, etc) are worse.
https://qoto.org/@tripu/108535084051255580
It's like saying you don't see a point in glasses and contact lenses just because you happen to have good eyesight but keep on seeing ads everywhere, optician's shops, and people around you spending money on all that.
> _“If you’re in a developed country, and you’re happy with your banking system, and you’re not a sex worker, and you have zero concerns about your country being taken over by fascists, you probably don’t need cryptocurrency and shouldn’t worry about it. If other people say they do need it, don’t call them liars and say you know with certainty that nobody has ever used crypto for anything besides Ponzi schemes and monkey pictures.”_
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-im-less-than-infinitely-hostile
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@thomasfuchs Just because you haven’t found a use for it (and like me get inundated with bullshit crypto scams) doesn’t mean it isn’t being used in productive ways. They just aren’t very sexy or meme-able.
fwiw, for [my blog](https://blog.tripu.info/) I use [Docusaurus](https://docusaurus.io/), which I think is veeery similar to #MkDocs, and supports “personal blog” as [one of its use cases out of the box](https://docusaurus.io/docs/blog) (sidebar, authors, dates, feeds, etc).
/cc @neil
If ever there was a reason to make #OpenHardware, #FOSS and #standards mandatory in certain cases:
> _“Earlier this year, many people with Argus optical implants – which allow blind people to see – lost their vision when the manufacturer, Second Sight, went bust. […] There's no ethical case for permanently attaching computers to people's nervous systems without giving them the absolute, irrevocable right to nominate who maintains those computers and how.”_
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/12/unsafe-at-any-speed/#this-is-literally-your-brain-on-capitalism
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I'm glad you liked it!
I usually trust that high-profile Twitter accounts will be somehow always preserved for posterity.
afaik, Catalan is widely used by public administrations and by private media companies. Whoever is accusing the central government of suppressing the Catalan language has the onus to prove it, I'd say. I don't know one way or another. My own experience visiting Barcelona etc tells me that most captions, documents, etc are in both Spanish and Catalan. In fact, sometimes they're in English and in Catalan — and not in Spanish.
Most MSM have taken sides from the beginning, yes.
I wrote a long piece about the #referendum back then, in case you want to dig deeper:
In #Spain, today, [men live six years less than women](https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.htm). Still, most institutions and public opinion simply ignore this #GenderGap or [interpret it the wrong way](https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/statement/2022/06/un-women-statement-for-international-widows-day).
/cc @bonifartius @anthropoid@101010.pl
