@pre@boing.world2025-05-31 12:24:33
On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-06-02 04:53:22
Last night I dreamed that the great computer scientist, Niklaus Wirth, had died by suicide because he was convinced his intellect was failing, because a simple financial calculation was failing, because he'd caught an exception and just returned zero instead of handling it, because he'd written sketch code and meant to come back and deal with it later but had not done so.
Which is almost certainly all arrant nonsense, but what a BIZARRE thing to dream about.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-06-30 20:05:41
Court filing: Paramount and Trump ask a judge to stay their 60 Minutes lawsuit until Thursday as they are in "good faith, advanced, settlement negotiations" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/p
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-07-01 01:19:25
Now I’m on MIRAC’s mailing list, so hopefully I don’t miss the next one.
Also, though…it is just deeply heartening to randomly encounter a protest: not a thing that I already knew about, but a thing that just •showed up• in my neighborhood. It makes me feel like the circle of resistance is much bigger than my own little circle. And it is.
That’s the feeling I want us to create: “Wow, these protests are everywhere.”
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-07-01 07:26:42
"But to denounce an army is not to denounce a race. And given serving IDF soldiers revealed in the Israeli press just last week that the IDF is actually ordering its troops to fire into unarmed crowds of Palestinians gathering to collect food from its tightly controlled aid centres — ...— it’s understandable that feelings against this genocidal military are running high."
Glastonbury furore shows how fast our freedoms are being dismantled
@floheinstein@chaos.social2025-06-30 12:48:23
Nonmention:
If you are victim to a ransomware attack and your data gets leaked on the darknet, you shouldn't write a press release that this happened "despite your high security standards", when everyone can see your standards in your password file PW.docx.
#infosec #ransomware
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-07-01 22:39:30
I’m not usually feeling attractive, but every now and then I catch myself looking that way. It’s part of my gender-fluid experience, I guess.
Being autistic adds its own flavor to how I see myself and attraction.
#Autosexual? Sometimes!
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-05-31 18:33:47
The Soviet way with words 😂
(from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko)
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-06-30 19:23:22
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-05-31 01:16:05
A US federal judge orders the USAGM to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding of ~$12M, following a similar order last month for its April funding (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
https://www.rferl.org/a/rfe-rl-order-lamberth-court-funding-/33429…
