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Brianna Wise-Riley was working an administrative job with the Fulton County Superior Court when her manager gave her a great idea. Noting the food trucks parked near their office, her boss said: What if a nail salon could bring a manicure to you?...
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The virtual disk for my lemmy instance filled up which caused lemmy to throw a lot of errors. I resized the disk and expanded the filesystem but now the pictrs container is constantly restarting....
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The few conversations I’ve had there have been unproductive and inflammatory. While even in other instances when I’ve said something someone disagreed with they would at least support their statement. Also no one would tell me why the “Confused Unga Bunga” meme is racist but they keep accusing me of it. I’m all for...
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<p>Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(3), Jul 2023, 149-151; doi:10.1037/pap0000445</p>
<p>This article is a personal account of how the coronavirus pandemic triggered the mobilization of childhood defenses first employed when I fell victim to the polio epidemic. The article describes commonalities between the experience of polio and my own and others’ reactions to the pandemic—the collapse of time, the lapse into numbness and passivity, the management of mortal fear through denial and dissociation, and the reentry into a changed world. When a terrible illness threatens one’s body, there is a crack in the fantasy of omnipotence, of physical resilience, of a promising future. The article’s title went through several iterations. The first was Staying Alive, which accurately reflected a nearly universal preoccupation of the past 3 years. The second attempt stated the core premise of the article, The Events That Change Us. The present title, Falling Out of the World, dares to name the deeper premise of the article—how traumatic events can result in our no longer having access to the world we formerly inhabited. There is no return to normal. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)</p>
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I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days....
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And now something certainly no one asked for: a new Marketing Concept for Mastodon! Let’s face it: the bird icon and the whole birdy concept of Twitter was perfect marketing. It just was. Its so effortless, casual and simply fun. And now that Elon Musk gave it away - why not claim it for the Fediverse? The moment is almost too...
If you want to rebrand Mastodon, then maybe talk to the guys at, you know, Mastodon gGmbH. That’s a real company with real people there that really own trademarks and branding.
You trying to grassroots-rebrand Mastodon is about as useful as trying to grassroots Coca Cola into “Birdpiss”.
Yeah, you might like it, but it’s not your brand and it’s not yours to decide.
Also, while their branding/marketing isn’t great, rebranding is worse, because it means you have to completely start over. Take a look at the big idiot in the room, X.
They have a massive amount of “involuntary marketing”, by having almost all newspapers worldwide reporting on their name change. Still, if you say “I’ve seen this meme on X”, it will take the person you are talking with a second to translate and realize “Oh, you are talking about Twitter”. And that’s with all the newspapers worldwide doing their marketing for free.
Now consider doing the same with Mastodon. Most people have at least heard of Mastodon. Now say it’s rebranded to, let’s go with “Treetops”. Name changes, Mascot changes, Art style changes, everything changes to something completely unrelated. It’s a new, blank-slate brand without any recognition. How would that help?
The much bigger issue regarding Mastodon marketing is not whether it’s called Mastodon or Treetops or whether instances are called instances, trees or nests. The biggest issue is that they are non-profit and don’t have money for marketing. If they had a few billions for marketing, it would be much better as well. And erazing all their brand recognition won’t help them have more brand recognition.
And regarding the name of instances: Yeah, the term might be techy, but covering the term in a non-descript non-techy term does nothing to make it easier to understand. You still need to explain it, and now you got a layer of abstraction in between that makes it harder to do so.
If anything, it could be renamed to “provider”, because that’s the name that’s mostly used for access gates to federated services in the real world (email, phone, internet, all federated services that you access through your provider. Even health care kinda falls into the same category.).
Please name some instances when a trans person or woman has thrown a violent tantrum and ended up killing more than ten people. These issues are far from being equal or even comparable.
i joined dxcomplex because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
then it folded so i joined .world because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
then it got massive so i joined lemm.ee because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name)
As others have said … it’s basically up to you … subscribe to any or all!
To provide some broader perspective … it can be a confusing part of the space here, especially if you’re coming from reddit where all sub reddits have to have a distinct name.
In effect, there isn’t that much of a difference between here and reddit. Sub-reddits with (slightly) different names were often about exactly the same thing but with different moderators and cultures or vibes. That’s basically what’s going on here when multiple communities have the same or very similar name. They’re not the same thing, they just different communities focused on the same topic, with different moderators and (sometimes at least) different cultures, moderation policies and vibes.
Some things which are different here:
Lemmy is decentralised, meaning that it’s made of multiple servers that share their data with each other but are all essentially independent.
This allows the users on completely separate servers to interact as though they’re on one server (like on Reddit). But, when two communities are on two different servers (often called instances), they can be more independent from each other than on reddit.
This manifests largely in the ability all servers have of deciding which other servers they do and do not share data with. Not sharing data is often referred to as defederation. When a server defederates from a another server, users of that defederated server can no longer interact with a community on the server that’s defederated them.
Because of this, any two communities, while focused on the same topic, may have not just different cultures but different groups of people/users that are physically able to interact and post there.
A famous example actually of this is actually that lemmy.world and beehaw.org are defederated from each other (actually beehaw defederated from lemmy.world). This means that users on those two servers are not interacting with the technology communities on the other server. Users on lemmy.ml, however, like myself, aren’t defederated from either, and so I am and often do interact with all three technology communities. Given your server, you’re probably in the same boat.
Generally, people not accustomed to this complexity find it either confusing or even unnecessary. My take is that it’s a different kind of friction that is the trade off for more independence, freedom and robustness, as lemmy is now made of over a thousand independent servers, each hosting their own copies of the communities they subscribe to, each providing their users their own hosting and defederation and moderation choices.
Beyond all of that, this is hopefully a situation that should get better when user-defined multi-communities come along. It seems to be a feature in the works, and should make it easier to keep track of multiple but similar communities. Other features have also been suggested for this issue, so you’re clearly not alone in finding it troublesome, which means hopefully it will get better.
IMO, simple user-defined multi-communities, whose member communities are easily sharable is the way to go.
I had hoped, that you would notice my user name kind of resembles Count Zero, my avatar is taken straight from a Count Zero book cover, and my home instance is lemmy.villa-straylight.social
Well, you know what they say about explaing jokes and what that does to their funnyness. I guess it was not obvious enough.
Name one. Excluding mixed economies and state run capitalist countries.
History absolutely has examples of recessions occurring in non-capitalist countries. Here are a few instances:
Soviet Union (1980s): The Soviet economy experienced a period of stagnation and recession during the 1980s. A combination of factors including inefficiencies in central planning, declining oil prices, and a lack of technological innovation led to economic troubles. This culminated in the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.
Cuba (1990s): After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the loss of its economic support, Cuba entered a period known as the "Special Period in Time of Peace." This was characterized by a severe economic downturn, shortages of basic goods, and a drop in GDP. Cuba's economy is based on socialist principles.
North Korea (1990s): Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and a reduction in aid from communist allies, North Korea faced a period of economic decline in the 1990s. This was marked by food shortages, famine, and a decline in industrial production.
Venezuela (21st century): While Venezuela has been characterized by a mixed economy with elements of socialism, it's worth mentioning due to its economic troubles. The country experienced a deep recession starting in the mid-2010s, driven by falling oil prices, mismanagement, and political instability.
Cambodia (late 1970s): After the Khmer Rouge regime took control, Cambodia's economy suffered a massive collapse due to forced collectivization, execution of professionals, and isolationist policies. The country went through a period of severe economic depression.
Maoist China ("Great Leap Forward", late 1950's): While China under Mao Zedong's leadership implemented communist policies, it's important to note that there were periods of economic turmoil. The Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) aimed to rapidly transform China's economy through collectivization and communal farming, but it resulted in widespread famine and economic setbacks.
A small number of them have tried, but quickly stfu when it was pointed out to them that they have zero standing here.
I got into it a few weeks ago here on Lemmy.world with some asshole using the same username as he does on Reddit, a mod of 39 subs, when he started lazily regurging all the reasons why Reddit’s decisions are delightfully benign and good and to be celebrated . . . yeah, I wasn’t having that, except here there is no one who cares about Reddit admin enough to shut me up.
Funny thing, he ended up getting all his Lemmy posts modded the same day. And not just with me: when I looked at the modlog he’d gotten into it that same day with someone in every single Lemmy thread he’d posted to. I haven’t looked again but my guess is that he either created a new Lemmy account with a different name or just shut the fuck up and went back home to Reddit like a good serf.
Also, there have been a few rumors about various mods of Reddit subs demanding that popular federation communities of the same name be handed over to their control as well by the admins of an instance, claiming “ownership” and throwing out some non-specific threats to make that happen, but then when that didn’t work out for them (I guess when the uproarious howls of derisive laughter finally stopped) they stfu too and presumably crawled back into their Reddit holes as well.
I love watching stupid, self-important fools get escorted rapidly and with force back into their own lane.
<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Abstract</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Mouth and facial movements are part and parcel of face-to-face communication. The primary way of assessing their role in speech perception has been by manipulating their presence (e.g., by blurring the area of a speaker’s lips) or by looking at how informative different mouth patterns are for the corresponding phonemes (or visemes; e.g., /b/ is visually more salient than /g/). However, moving beyond informativeness of single phonemes is challenging due to coarticulation and language variations (to name just a few factors). Here, we present mouth and facial informativeness (MaFI) for words, i.e., how visually informative words are based on their corresponding mouth and facial movements. MaFI was quantified for 2276 English words, varying in length, frequency, and age of acquisition, using phonological distance between a word and participants’ speechreading guesses. The results showed that MaFI norms capture well the dynamic nature of mouth and facial movements per word, with words containing phonemes with roundness and frontness features, as well as visemes characterized by lower lip tuck, lip rounding, and lip closure being visually more informative. We also showed that the more of these features there are in a word, the more informative it is based on mouth and facial movements. Finally, we demonstrated that the MaFI norms generalize across different variants of English language. The norms are freely accessible via Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/mna8j/) and can benefit any language researcher using audiovisual stimuli (e.g., to control for the effect of speech-linked mouth and facial movements).</p>
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I can’t claim to know the benefits of state, local, or fed taxes. Like a lot of things, I imagine it’s better trialed on a local then state level, and might never reach federal.
Like a lot of tax claims, it may just be reliant on claims, and would not always require proof. You file for taxes, you report 3 homes, you state which one you occupied; or you state that you had a tenant in that home. If you’re audited on your taxes, they may find you falsely reported a tenant, which would be tax fraud. The IRS could find reason to audit someone if, for instance, they’re freely posting on Facebook “Yeah, just say you have tenants who do not wish to be named, they can’t do anything about it”. Many tax rules already work by self-reporting, and/or finding conflicts in prior documentation.
It would not prohibit third homes, but you’d have to pay a hefty property tax to hold onto an extra home and require it to stay empty while people are out there homeless. So, you’d have to be rich and not care that simply owning these properties bleeds you money (which is the opposite of how being rich usually works - your properties generate so much value by “existing” that you can simply persist a high quality of life just off residual income)
That isn’t how Lenny works, though. Anybody can fire up an instance for any type of community. They could be pro-socialist, anti-socialist, liberals, Nazis, goldfish fanciers…you name it. If you don’t like them, you can defederate from them.
They don’t but they get aglomerated together anyway for having the same name . The community is the whole, which specific instance is hosting a particular /c/book post doesn’t matter. That it is on /c/book is what matters, not that it is on Lemmy.world
I can see this going well. But I can also see them creating issues by consensus, such as “defederation blocklists” and “user blacklists”, they also have our names, emails, and IP addresses right? Instance admins have quite real power already. Perhaps users also ought to have such democratic discussions?
Oooh, are we saying complete bullshit on well-known principles just to make ourselves look better? Here, lemme try
One principle that has guided my career in engineering is predicated on a theory which asserts that an organization inevitably produces designs closely mirroring its own communication structure. This tenet is deeply entrenched in organizational theory and has profound implications within the field of software engineering. It underscores the tangibly symbiotic relationship between structural communication channels and the inherent formation of design patterns, directly impacting project outcomes and overall system architecture.
Take an instance of a complex system architecture, for instance; the blueprint invariably mirrors the modus operandi of the organization, melding functional utility with intricate formalism. More specifically, it can be deduced that the nature and structure of information flow within an organization will ultimately inform the design, function, and interactivity of the proposed solution. Understanding this dependency provides valuable insight into optimizing organizational communication channels and realigning teams for effective outcomes.
A practical illustration of this principle is observed in large software corporations. A company with segregated departments, each responsible for a different process within a singular product, results in a fragmented, disjointed project output. Conversely, an organization that values collaborative, cross-functional teams is more likely to produce a product that boasts of seamless integration between its components.
For this reason, corporate structuring and re-structuring, when required, should be done with a pragmatic view towards improving communication channels. Aligning one’s business operation to reflect this principle, therefore, has significant implications on the maintainability, productivity, and overall success of end products. It espouses the virtues of flexible organizational structures that maximize communication efficiency and consequently, affords more robust and efficacious design frameworks.
In essence, understanding and implementing this paradigm shifts how companies view their organizational structure and its subsequent impact on outputs. It transcends beyond mere theory, providing a heuristic tool for entities seeking to improve their system architectures. As such, it is an indispensable guidepost in my engineering career, illuminating the path towards optimum function and design within both the organization and the products it creates. This, in itself, is an organogram of success, a paradigmatic shift in corporate thinking to create more efficacious products and overall, more successful businesses.
Full disclosure, I didn't write this, this is GPT-4 on Conway's law. Here's the prompt, if anyone's curious:> write five paragraphs on conway’s law that makes the speaker sound smart through a corporate vocabulary. start with “one principle that has guided my career in engineering”. do not mention conway’s law or conway himself by name.
Who else is a little bit stoned rn?
They invest in Black women. A lawsuit claims it’s discrimination. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Brianna Wise-Riley was working an administrative job with the Fulton County Superior Court when her manager gave her a great idea. Noting the food trucks parked near their office, her boss said: What if a nail salon could bring a manicure to you?...
New Communities Lemdit.com
lemdit.com/c/casualchat...
Having an issue with pictrs after full disk
The virtual disk for my lemmy instance filled up which caused lemmy to throw a lot of errors. I resized the disk and expanded the filesystem but now the pictrs container is constantly restarting....
[OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit (s11.gifyu.com)
Is there anything good in Hexbear?
The few conversations I’ve had there have been unproductive and inflammatory. While even in other instances when I’ve said something someone disagreed with they would at least support their statement. Also no one would tell me why the “Confused Unga Bunga” meme is racist but they keep accusing me of it. I’m all for...
Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?
I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days....
Rio – The Twitter-Platform where Birds can leave their Nests (lemmy.world)
And now something certainly no one asked for: a new Marketing Concept for Mastodon! Let’s face it: the bird icon and the whole birdy concept of Twitter was perfect marketing. It just was. Its so effortless, casual and simply fun. And now that Elon Musk gave it away - why not claim it for the Fediverse? The moment is almost too...
Danish government prepares bill to stop Koran burnings (www.reuters.com)
Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:...
Subscribing to a community that lives on multiple instances
Dear Lemmy, When a community with the same name exists on multiple Lemmy instances, how do you choose which to subscribe to?...
Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have
Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
The recession should probably be here by now (www.axios.com)
I feel superior (feddit.de)
Names (lemmy.world)
2 Fiscally Responsible 2 Be Furious (lemmy.world)
No one really understands our struggle (lemmy.world)
Remember me comrades! (lemmy.ml)
There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k) (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping....
Informal Lemmy U.N.?
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2491711...
"Managers are the real architects," concludes manager (lemmy.ca)
For reference (as per Wikipedia):...