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i do fedi by just putting shit into drafts and firing one im feeling off before i start disliking it again. scrolling thru my large collection, i feel like its too easy to tell which clumps of drafts i was manic during lol

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

More than a feeling: Expressive style influences cortical speech tracking in subjective cognitive decline
Matthew King-Hang Ma, Manson Cheuk-Man Fong, Yun Feng, Cloris Pui-Hang Li, William Shiyuan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21277

More than a feeling: Expressive style influences cortical speech tracking in subjective cognitive decline
Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) approximately doubles the risk of progressing to MCI and dementia. The present study investigates how one's subjective concerns of his/her own cognition are manifested in the neural dynamics during speech perception. EEG was collected from 56 Cantonese, cognitively normal older adults (aged 60 - 70) while they listened to stimuli of four expressive styles that varied in prosody: scrambled, descriptive, dialogue, and exciting. Using encoding models to predict E…

ProSiebenSat.1 appoints MFE-MediaForEurope CFO Marco Giordani as its new CEO, succeeding Bert Habets, as MFE integrates the German TV group into its business (Nick Vivarelli/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/prosiebensat-sha…

ProSiebenSat.1 Boss Bert Habets Steps Down in Shakeup
ProSiebenSat.1 boss Bert Habets has stepped down in a management shakeup with the board Names Berlusconi-Backed Marco Giordani New CEO Following Takeover

An evening discussing falling enrollment in #STEM courses at universities across Europe, especially traditional studies like chemistry, geology and meteorology. I wonder if young people are unaware of just how interesting #STEM careers to be? Or do they have the perception it's "too hard" compared to other subjects where easier grades may be had? Or is it simply they think they can have "better"* jobs in other fields?
#AcademicChatter
*Where better might mean higher paid, more prestigious, more certain of employment, or less workload or some combination of all of these... ?

The #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.

Following several months of interesting articles from various quarters in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series, we've written a summary and reflection on it all.
Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far. – degrowthUK

Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far.
by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton1 In the series Prospects for Degrowth Overviews of the current conjuncture – openings and risks We opened the series with Mark’s stock take, Prospects for Degro…

2026 NFL Draft: Top 10 Senior Bowl prospects following 2025 college football regular season https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-top-10-senior-bowl-prospects-following-2025-college-football-regular-season

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

'Small-market' Jaguars want to keep being ignored: 'We really don't care about the narrative' https://www.nfl.com/news/small-market-jaguars-want-to-keep-being-ignored-we-really-don-t-care-about-the-narrative