Haha, so, fun times: my land people are selling my house. I have the option to buy it, but because my chronically ill arse can no longer work, no one is gonna give me a mortgage. Rents are about £150 more expensive than what I'm currently paying.
I'm exploring options, but now would be a really great time to buy one of my books, purchase some of my art, or sign up for my Patreon.
Unfortunately, I am still pretty sick, so can't do much at the moment, but will add links below this to my stuff.
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"We Need To Rewild The Internet"
An absolutely excellent read (and great analogy) by @mariafarrell and @robin Probably the best piece I've read all year.
I often struggle to think of a term for "appearing messy from a distance is often, on a human scale, healthy actually." Comparing the social web to an ecosystem is exactly it.
I poked around in the (slightly verbose) documentation and stumbled onto this:
Servers should not re-use URIs, regardless of the mechanism by which resources are created. Certain specific cases exist where URIs may be reinstated when it identifies the same resource,
So I wonder if it has the same inbuilt limitation that IPFS has, which means you cannot just update the data you are sharing, without also having to create a whole new link (I know IPFS are trying to work around that, but have seen no decentralised solution yet).
I’ll poke around some more!
Thanks for the link, I hadn’t heard of them before.
Now this is interesting, I know about Tor ofc, with all problems surrounding it (exit nodes etc) but I guess an onion website could be made well protected and shared & updated. You have to host it yourself though I guess.
Freenet, gotta dig down and see how it works under the surface, it looks very promising but it’s kind of complex and I haven’t yet figured out if it is all benevolent sharing for example and what happend if some random node sharing your stuff goes offline.
Very interesting!
I think (I’ll dig more to see if it stands) my advantage would be the redundancy (so the data always stays up and is hard to take down), the no need of benevolent nodes, and potentially the ease if use.
Scientists restore brain cells impaired by a rare genetic disorder
A therapy that restores brain cells impaired by a rare genetic disorder may offer a strategy for treating conditions like autism, epilepsy, and schizophrenia. #press
The background to this is that #AuDHD people have a choice: be yourself, and get rejected, or pretend to be NT, and get rejected, but not as quickly or as often. The NT population WILL NOT accept us for what we are!
@PatternChaser
Again, I was not talking about 'curing' anything with the objective of being accepted by NTs. I was talking about controlling some signs autistic people can find a burden for themselves.
It's not about searching a 'cure' to have a NT seal of approval, it's just pursuing researches such as some autistic ppl can feel better at their own level / with their own objectives. Someone was talking about pain perception level. It's a good example. @GreenRoc@pa@NPR@actuallyautistic
Off the top of my head I don’t remember how much the book of #Dune talks about the Harkonnen use of gladiatorial combat, but the movie draws a relatively subtle link between their idea of it and bullfighting - the guys in the wide black hats are like picadors, who stab the bull with lances to weaken it. I’ll avoid spoilers on a 60-year-old book or the new movie, but it’s a fun subtle thing.
@GrittyLipids@bookstodon
Damn, I think that's right. The Shadout Mapes wants to clean the blood off the horns of the bull's head. I'd entirely forgotten. Cheers!
(FWIW, I re-read Children and Chapterhouse recently. Not worth while, IMO; very much less interesting than I remembered. No bullfighting in either.)
@GrittyLipids@bookstodon
I suppose there is a little nod at bullfighting in the way Herbert describes using hooks on a worm to force it to stay on the surface, as well. I'd missed that.
@elonjet To the UFO mothership that showed up over Alaska way back in 1986, this is your call to return to the same place on Earth and mess with this plane. This time, more directly.
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