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@pre@boing.world
2025-05-31 12:24:33
Content warning: Medical stuff / MRI selfie

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

@timfoster@mastodon.social
2025-04-30 07:14:49

Yeah, I won't be playing tennis tonight, despite wonderful weather.
On the plus side, I've managed to retain both lungs, and my throat now only feels like a brillo pad rather than a cheese grater.
Feeling much better thanks 🙂

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-28 11:45:43

#WaterfallWednesday, pretty much a year ago...
(Coincidentally there on the same day as @…... but didn't know)
#LandscapePhotography

Short close-up video of a small, but intensely flowing waterfall in a canyon, filmed directly from the narrow path going next to it. Turquoise water, spray, the camera initially following the flow, then panning upwards to show the depth of the canyon...
@arXiv_hepth_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-30 10:17:47

This arxiv.org/abs/2505.20597 has been replaced.
initial toot: mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-28 11:45:43

#WaterfallWednesday, pretty much a year ago...
(Coincidentally there on the same day as @…... but didn't know)
#LandscapePhotography

Short close-up video of a small, but intensely flowing waterfall in a canyon, filmed directly from the narrow path going next to it. Turquoise water, spray, the camera initially following the flow, then panning upwards to show the depth of the canyon...
@pre@boing.world
2025-05-27 19:06:58
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Wish World
:tardis:

A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
:tardis: :tardis: :tardis: :tardis: :tardis:

@lukem@hachyderm.io
2025-03-26 09:48:21

Omfg, as much as I have mixed feelings about setting up ecommerce stores of any kind, Freewebstore is another level of nightmare.
Simulated chatbot "conversations" that make onboarding / offboarding annoyingly lengthy. GIVE ME OLD-FASHIONED FORMS GOD DAMMIT.
UX that treats me like a toddler while trying way too hard to upgrade me to a paid plan.
Oh, and of course. AI. AI this, AI that 😓 😡
Never, never, never again.

@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social
2025-05-20 16:10:10

We'll kick off this year's edition of #bbuzz with our keynote speaker @…!
Read our blogpost to learn more and join us this June in Berlin or online!

Keynote by Aline Blankertz with title "Unpacking Digital Sovereignty: How to avoid fueling the nationalist rise"
Photo of Aline Blankertz
Join us from June 15-17 in Berlin or participate online / berlinbuzzwords.de
@k8s_cncf_nbg@social.kontrollapparat.de
2025-04-23 14:21:24

🚀 Kubernetes Meetup in Nuremberg! 🇩🇪
Join us on June 2nd for an evening of tech talks, networking, and community fun at the next CNCF Meetup!
🎤 Speakers:
🔹 Sarah Julia Kriesch – Docker vs Podman and the Universe
🔹 Philip Laine – Spegel: A Stateless OCI Registry Mirror
📍 Location: Coworking-Space Nürnberg
🕕 18:00: Doors open for networking
🕡 18:30: Talks begin
🔗 Sign up here:

Image Description: Invitation to a CNCF Meetup in Nuremberg

At the top of the image, there's a large banner titled “Kubernetes Nürnberg”. The background shows a scenic photo of Nuremberg Castle under a blue sky, overlaid with translucent hexagonal shapes in blue and green tones.

Below the banner, the invitation text appears in black font on a white background. It includes the following information:

    Event Title: CNCF Meetup in Nuremberg

    Date & Location: June 2nd at Coworking-Space Nü…
@glauber@writing.exchange
2025-05-17 03:10:20

The New MAGA World Order
“Rather than following a foreign policy that ignores values altogether,” writes @jonathanchait, “Trump has a clear preference for values that are, in the American context, historically anomalous or—to put it in less neutral terms—bad”:
(No paywall)