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Gadfly (-booq-)

@gaditb@icosahedron.website
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[ Gadit // גדית ]

[Has possibly begun dancing a wild weave between aspects. Maybe.]
[I claim neither consistent context nor clarity.]

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Joined March 31, 2017
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 1w ago
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@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems I'd be less frustrated and sour watching this go by if a primary impact of LLM-pushers on software communities wasn't, besides the abstract moral stain, damage against the social bonds in communities and against the ability for the community to collectively do the work it had grown around.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 1w ago
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@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems The AI push'll flame out and people'll wait two years and move on and will pretend that nobody got accidentally hurt.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 1mo ago
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@cassiopeia@thicc.horse @cwebber@social.coop You need to first talk about how DNS works to explain parts of what ActivityPub is.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
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@slava@mathstodon.xyz "A blanket ban on LLM contributions in unenforcible, it's completely unverifiable in the general case and unmanageable without largely trusting people!--" Yeah we have those types of rules already they're called "community norms" and they work pretty well actually.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
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@slava@mathstodon.xyz Like almost all projects also have de facto policy bans on doing Jia Tan or Dual_EC_DRBG playbooks on them. They're not foolproof! And they're not costless, socially! It uses a chunk of coordination and effort to enforce them, like any social norms -- they're not free. But they make those actions more risky and expensive, and arguably block e.g. Crypto AG playbooks from being run.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 1mo ago
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@michael@social.chrisco.me @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange 9front in an abandoned weather station atop a rocky hill.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
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@Binder@petrous.vislae.town (This is the second or third post on this topic I've seen (I've also seen sufficient quantities of gay porn, thankfully, but there's a baseline presence of that) -- would you happen to be willing to explain/link briefly what's the source of the topic this is responding to?) (No worries if not.) EDIT: Answered! Thank you to all who answered.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 4mo ago
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@bstacey@icosahedron.website "It's still stuck there it just meant I had to crawl a while to get an internet connection."
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
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Eurosurgery. Eurotransmitters.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
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@aburka@hachyderm.io @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @regehr@mastodon.social @dan@discuss.systems @dev@discuss.systems
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 1mo ago

Actually the Cain and Abel story is about how capitalism is destructive to public transit.

This is because as it is written "she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have bought [CANiti] a man with the help of the LORD.",

and Abel commutes.

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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
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Eurotoxin? ... Euroticism.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 2mo ago
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@aparrish@friend.camp Look it's not spicy-autocomplete if it doesn't have any spiciness!
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
Replying to

@jaseg@chaos.social

The explicit delimiters matter because OpenType does not provide a convenient, universally reliable “this is the beginning/end of the shaping run” test.

Am I wrong, or is this a clear legit use-case for U+000E/U+000F ␎ /␏, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_Out_and_Shift_In_characters ? (The "ugh, but that sucks to type" still applies, and also for various other reason nahh, but teCHNICALLY--?)

en.wikipedia.org
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
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@fribbledom@mastodon.social Open source, by physical means if necessary.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 2mo ago
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@varx@infosec.exchange I would distinguish that. The reason I would distinguish that from a Unicode is that it: a) leaves the character set as an open category (you could argue that the fundamental extensibility of Unicode and/or the private-use areas enable that, but that feels different to me, more all-encompassing. I dunno, maybe I'm wrong.) b) doesn't inherently priviledge the non-diacritic-having Latin alphabet in the encoding (or at least, only minimally, using the first available prefix specifically) (You could again argue that the same thing applies to Unicode, that it is simply being at the beginning of Plane 0 that is the extent of that priviledging, but first of all that often means a 2+-times difference in size required to encode a single character and second of all often non-Latin scripts are often split into muliple discontinuous regions.)
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 2mo ago
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange It's not remotely dead in Jewish communities. Granted, one of the jokes is about how we're all telling the same set of jokes that everyone already knows over and over again, but,, (But as the joke goes -- well, you've got to tell it right.)
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 2mo ago
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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social @testobsessed@ruby.social @joeltosi@mastodon.social Okay wait hold on ectremely unimportant question how did you manage to have the one 80s-quality (extremely complimentary) Software Book cover that I have seen in the past 20 years and who else has preserved this Forbidden Knowledge.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 2mo ago
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unimportant questioning the factor of ten you can ignore unless you also thought this
@cupz@mas.to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Wait -- ten years, right? (Skipping the "how much of billionaires/trillionares' money is number-games they play o call themselves bigger winners and justify being given more by society, and only ever existed in books and would disapear if it tried to be used practically" question.)
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 4mo ago
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@vantablack@cyberpunk.lol Neurodiversity is a Competition and baseball remains winning
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
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@varx@infosec.exchange If it's Spot-It, you can find papers and lecture-slide on it, if you're interested.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 4mo ago

Bundism (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term

Bundism may refer to:

* Bundism, a historical Jewish Marxist-Socialist and secular political movement centered in Eastern Europe in the early 20th c., which clashed with Bolshevism (Jewish & non-Jewish), Socialist Zionism, the orthodox Aggudath Israel, assimilationism (political & cultural), and various non-Jewish nationalisms, and participated in the rise of Yiddishism
* Bundism, a mid-20th-c.-to-21st-c. Yiddishist secular social movement, involved in Jewish community and social intitutions and in progressive and socialist politics, especially in Melbourne, Toronto, Israel, etc.
* Bundism, a Jewish anti-Zionist political and cultural movement in the early 21st c. with associations to anarchism and progressivism
* sometimes used in relation to Jewish Diasporism, an Autonomist political ideology being re-developed in non-Zionist, anti-Zionist, and socialist Jewish circles in the early 21st c.

See Also:
* nu, tzvei yidden--!

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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
Replying to
I don't yet have a closed-form solution for what day and year it will be N days from the start of the calendar, but I'm almost SURE there is one. The harder one would be deriving which and where the concurrent years are, if you just have today's day+year. Ah! No, wait, leap days. That'll probably throw somewhat of a wrench into even the first computation. MaYBE there's still a closed-form solution?
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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cc @suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish I don't actually know whether you'd be into this but I feel like you'd at least be able to pick up what I'm putting down here.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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This is just a quick sketch -- I haven't implemented leap days or anything like that. Also there'll almost definitely need to be named months scattered around, just counting up to 365 would be bland. I think I'll want different week-lengths, too -- I forgot when arbitrarily picking 5 that it'd mean that every day of that subyear would fall on the same day of the week every time. (Although tbh maybe it'd be nice, having a guarantee that one third of the New Years will be on a weekend?) (EDIT: No, wait. Not one third. 5/(5+7+18)=5/30=one sixth of the New Years.)
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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(Also I'm realizing that for leap days, I could just use exactly the same leap-day computation as the Gregorian calendar, just simply using the year-number in the exact same way. Granted, in this system there might sometimes be two leap-years happening simulteneously, but almost certainly only ever overlapping a little bit! and it'll still work out asymptotically!)
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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Here's an e.g. of what I'm thinking. (long copypaste sorry)
d 357 of yr 129 (wd 17/18) d 358 of yr 129 (wd 18/18) d 336 of yr 126 (wd 1/7) d 337 of yr 126 (wd 2/7) d 338 of yr 126 (wd 3/7) d 339 of yr 126 (wd 4/7) d 340 of yr 126 (wd 5/7) d 341 of yr 126 (wd 6/7) d 342 of yr 126 (wd 7/7) d 136 of yr 128 (wd 1/5) d 137 of yr 128 (wd 2/5) d 138 of yr 128 (wd 3/5) d 139 of yr 128 (wd 4/5) d 140 of yr 128 (wd 5/5) d 359 of yr 129 (wd 1/18) d 360 of yr 129 (wd 2/18) d 361 of yr 129 (wd 3/18) d 362 of yr 129 (wd 4/18) d 363 of yr 129 (wd 5/18) d 364 of yr 129 (wd 6/18) d 365 of yr 129 (wd 7/18) d 1 of yr 130 (wd 8/18) d 2 of yr 130 (wd 9/18) d 3 of yr 130 (wd 10/18) d 4 of yr 130 (wd 11/18) d 5 of yr 130 (wd 12/18) d 6 of yr 130 (wd 13/18) d 7 of yr 130 (wd 14/18) d 8 of yr 130 (wd 15/18) d 9 of yr 130 (wd 16/18) d 10 of yr 130 (wd 17/18) d 11 of yr 130 (wd 18/18) d 343 of yr 126 (wd 1/7) d 344 of yr 126 (wd 2/7)
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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UPDATE on this: I have the beginning of an idea about this. This is just the structure -- I haven't picked out any of the numbers yet, so the specifics can be any number of similar shapes -- but I /think/ I should be able to get this to function as an asymptotically-solar calendrical system, with the new years occuring pseudo-randomly around the seasons (well, each separate new-years rotating largely predictably around). If I pick the fractions prime-ly enough, it /should/ take a pretty decently long time before it loops. Cicadas, you know. Leap days are... not a problem, but don't have a natural fit. Not sure whether to put them separately, or if not how to decide which sub-year to put them in. But, like, it can be arbitrary. Arbitrary is fine. ... maybe we just put them in the quickest year. That feels nice.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 1mo ago

At-Large Language Models.

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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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That's a bit more than a month of consecutive days. Format is "d {{day in the current year}} of yr {{current year}} (wd {{weekday (number) in the current week}} / {{number of days in a week for the current year}} )"
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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@futurebird@sauropods.win @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space Every party-line Republican vote since 2013 is downstream of the successful* assassination-attempt of Gabby Giffords. (* the goal wasn't murder, it was removal as a political actor. Which entirely succeeded.)
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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@futurebird @gemlog As Featured On The Hit TV Show, Elementary (2012-2019)
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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@irrlicht@social.lithio.fr You're welcome! I hope you find something/some things that work enough to recover the capacities you want.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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@irrlicht@social.lithio.fr This isn't the most comprehensive search, so there might well be better stuff still out there. "Return to Learn for College and University Students" by the Brain Injury Association of New York, looks like a guide for school counselors/admin. https://bianys.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024-08-27-RTLU-Handbook-Final-Web.pdf Page 9 has a table of student accomodations in various contexts. "Concussion Guide for College Educators" by Concussion Alliance https://static1.squarespace.com/static/63813f208be08634a208db60/t/67d9678cf009da5f47fbc796/1742301069251/Concussion.Alliance.College.Students%E2%80%93Concussion.Guide.for.College.Educators.pdf Separates a few different locations/modalities that can have different accomodations/easings added done to them. It looks like a common term for academic concussion recovery is "Return To Learn", so maybe searching that more (especially listing one example strategy, to look for a list) will yield something.
bianys.org
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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"That's just transparently enragement-bait." "I found that talk EXTREMELY enraging." "We just got enraged!"
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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@irrlicht@social.lithio.fr Going based on the vibes I picked up -- nothing I could find for the bit I looked was directed at e.g. self-managed researchers -- common themes were:

  • don't rely on memory to remember facts/context, get it written for reference
  • get a framework to work within
  • make learning as stoppable/resumable as possible, so you can just head-down-tap-out-walk and resume later
  • audio is easier to listen to at hard times -- rewinding and relistening is useful (I think? I can't find where I read/thought that)

Based on that, some not-expert-advice-just-me-mouthing-off is, thoughts that come to me are maybe--

  • first thing seeing a paper, make an outline of the headings, with spaces for notes.
    • Only then go back to the start and start filling in the outline with the info from the paper
  • if you don't morally object to any LLM stuff, maybe look into some of the text->audio tools they make? the times I've unintentionally ran into that it was..janky but functional for some uses

?

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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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... Two people faved this which means they understood it and I can't shake the feeling that that's three people too many.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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("subyear" isn't the right term. "Braidyear"? Like, there's nothing technically wrong with just saying "year", there isn't any other year-concept higher than it. But for explanation.)
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
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@FediverseSymbol@typo.social ... this is a tragic failure of the ActivityPub C2S spec, isn't it.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 2mo ago
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@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems No looks you gotta understand you gotta see they're actually playing Chess here -- if we simply redefine "acceptable security posture" to include "our sandbox is only designed to prevent erroneous rm -rf /" then in a year or two they'll be able to hit their KPI targets of 100x-ing the number of vulnerabilities EASY.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
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@liaizon@social.wake.st Cool! And nice! But the fact that their primary front-end is their own individually/ad-hoc developed application, despite already intentionally operating in the collapsed-context "we're presenting all these posts, published in different paradigms, adjacent as a list of same-type-of-things" weak-point of ActivityPub as a concept, rather than there being any preexisting C2S applications which were ready to recieve them, means that it is currently in a failing state from what it was intended to do. But maybe this is an eventual pathway out of that?
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 2mo ago
Okay if I'm understanding people's responses to the above correctly, I expect this to get an overwhelming (uniform? maybe not?) "Yes": Was a universal encoding that would see a nontrivial sequence of bytes as translating unambiguously to a particular sequence of characters, selected out of a set intended to contain all* in-use characters across humanity, inevitable? (*for practical purposes. E.g. modulo CJK unification, okay skipping until-sufficiently-popular e.g. sitelen pona and other small-use symbols. Also okay skipping (or not) in the hypothetical cases emoji, etc.) This has an open-ended follow-up question :...

Okay if I'm understanding people's responses to the above correctly, I expect this to get an overwhelming (uniform? maybe not?) "Yes": Was a universal encoding that would see a nontrivial sequence of bytes as translating unambiguously to a particular sequence of characters, selected out of a set in

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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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@irrlicht@social.lithio.fr For

And more generally, any guidance on how to fulfill one's special interest ... when reading complicated document or long ones is impossible anymore?

my first thought was "concussion recovery has similar limitations, and given the amount of students with concussions there might be more resources written under that topic",

but a quick search points to.. kinda yes, but also a lot of it is kinda generic study-habit stuff.

I could link what I found if you want? (Also sorry if this was like, the yeah-obvious-first-thing you thought of and this is not a helpful comment.)

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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 2mo ago
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@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social (Not disagreeing with you in any broad-functional way beyond the narrow-detail specific absolute "incapable" and "any definition", but I had a friend whose parents monitored network traffic via capabilities on the router (iirc. it's been a bit.) in their attempt to surveil and control their gender/sexuality (and like, them in general).) (I also think I feel like in my own usage, I have found utility in distinguishing between "private" and "secret" in a way that locates them in mostly-distinct places on a spectrum of "control of information, often considered socially" of which "public" is a range at the other end, but you've done a LOT more work in related areas than me so I'll defer to you around it.)
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 3mo ago
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@dev@discuss.systems Look, credit where credit is due, their use off offputting and unnecessary slop-generated art is limited to secondary assets on the slide and the actual text that is the main point of the slide seems to be rendered using actual textboxes, so they didn't use AI-graphics (maybe other AI stuff, I can't tell, but not the graphics) in a way that actively degraded the ability to understand whatever nonsense point they were attempting to communicate here. ... I think that is the extent of credit due, as far as I can tell.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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I think I actually DO want sub-year sections, honestly. If I go by 73-day seasons it lays out nicely, I think. Also that lets me re-use Discordian season names and the notable-dates with it, etc., just mapped to the new times they'll be occurring in. (And it gives me a specific already-decided way to handle leap days.) Also, a 17-13-15-11-5 pattern gives me a near-lunar cycle match. So this could have luni-solar properties.
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Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website
· 5mo ago
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MITRE should appeal to the youth demographic by guaranteeing at least 3 Uncommon and at least 1 Rare Vulnerability and Exposure per booster pack. And one of them per-pack a holofoil.
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