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• Post #2866533

  I think I might be allergic to plums?? I had a few bites of one (for the first time in many many years) and my lips started to feel numb! Very weird. And a very different reaction from the preservative I'm allergic to, which makes my throat scratchy and my eyes watery.

• Post #2866532

  Oh dear, Tumblr has updated something and people are Upset. If I understand correctly, the new update makes it so the person who is notified about a reblog or comment is the latest person in the reblog chain, not the original poster of the top post. I assume the purpose is to A) encourage conversations among people in close reblog proximity to each other, and B) stop viral posts from being overwhelming for the original poster. The problem is that people can talk about your post without you e...

• Post #2866531

  The iOS Health app's notifications have an issue. Every now and then it tells me something like "Your walking steadiness is low. You could have an increased risk of falling in the near future." (I forget the exact wording.) But if you look at the long term data, yes, it's still in the Low range, but actually my walking steadiness is the highest it's been in the last year. So actually my falling risk has *decreased* a little bit. It's like the...

• Post #2866530

  Just found out about this Bartz v Anthropic settlement where a copyright lawsuit is being brought against Anthropic for using pirated books to train AI models. Once, I had an essay published in an anthology, so I used the Authors Guild search tool to look for the book, and it's included in the list of books being included in the claim. (I don't think I can file a claim though, since I'm not listed as the author of the book, so I emailed the editors to let them know the...