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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2024-06-13 05:51:41

Autism spectrum, feelings and (against all odds) a Witcher quote
"""
[…] Because you're a witcher and you can't feel any emotion. You don't want to fulfill my request, because you think that you care about her, you think that… Geralt, you are with her only because she wants that, and you'll be with her for as long as she wants to. What you're feeling is a projection of her emotion, her interest in you. To all demons of the Pit, Geralt, you're not a child, you know who you are. You're a mutant. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying this to offend or disdain you. I'm just stating a fact. You're a mutant, and one of the basic features of your mutation is your full immunity to emotion. You've been made like this so that you could do your job. Do you understand? You can't feel anything. What you're taking as emotion is actually cell memory, somatic memory, if you know what that means.
"""
(Andrzej Sapkowski, Miecz przeznaczenia, Okruch lodu, Istredd's words, my own translation)
However the context is different, it made me think of my own problems with emotions.
Am I capable of love? Or perhaps I can merely project somebody else's feelings, return them at the best. Or perhaps just intellectually be aware of what I am supposed to feel.
Was perhaps that, what I used to take for "love", actually gratitude that somebody was nice to me, or that she showed interest?
Or perhaps was it that she fitted into an unrealistic model that I've engraved into my personality as a child?
Or just an attachment, a feeling of safety, stemming from a large data set. A conviction that unpleasant surprise is no longer that likely.
Or just desperation, a need that's been forced into me since I was a child and that now I'm trying to attain based on what the media, books and personal stories tell me about it.
Or even something resembling a Stockholm syndrome. "At least she's paying attention to me. I know the worst she could do to me."
#ActuallyAutistic

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2024-06-12 21:00:21

twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

twitter: Twitter followers (2010). 465017 nodes, 834797 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/twitter

twitter — Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2024-06-12 00:55:32

Pulitzer-prize winning Mississippi Today appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court following a lower court order to turn over documents amid a defamation suit (Adam Ganucheau/Mississippi Today)
mississippitoday.org/2024/06/0

Editor’s note: A judge ordered us to turn over privileged documents. We’re appealing to the Mississippi Supreme Court.
Editor's note: Mississippi Today asks Supreme Court to overturn an order that threatens constitutional rights of journalists and all citizens.

@flancian@social.coop
2024-06-11 10:47:14

Free [[sf2]] [[Soundfonts]]:
sites.google.com/site/soundfon

Soundfonts 4U
Free Quality SoundFonts (sf2) - for iOS apps (bs-16i, SoundFonts and JamKoo) - for Windows/Mac apps (sforzando, MuseScore and more) -General Midi SoundFonts

@jrconlin@soc.jrconlin.com
2024-06-11 15:40:45

Well, this explains quite a bit.
(Taken from an article discussing the newly released Apple AI program, in which we discover the source of corporate interest in AI.)

A clipping from a Wall St. Journal article in which we learn: "Apple’s shares have risen about 8% in the past year. Microsoft has surged roughly 26%, and it supplanted Apple as the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization in January. Google is up 41% over the past year. Apple’s recent challenges include falling sales in China. PHOTO: CFOTO/DDP/ZUMA PRESS Microsoft and Google have rapidly incorporated generative AI across their products. Nvidia, the main chip provider in the AI…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2024-06-12 05:57:58

Which San Francisco Mayoral candidates believe that the city can only improve if we increase local demand on resources (that are already failing to meet demands in many cases) ?
sfstandard.com/2024/06/10/san-

Mayor candidates: What should San Francisco’s population be?
Should San Francisco’s population decrease, stay the same or grow? We asked all five mayoral candidates. Here are their answers.

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2024-06-12 05:57:58

Which San Francisco Mayoral candidates believe that the city can only improve if we increase local demand on resources (that are already failing to meet demands in many cases) ?
sfstandard.com/2024/06/10/san-

Mayor candidates: What should San Francisco’s population be?
Should San Francisco’s population decrease, stay the same or grow? We asked all five mayoral candidates. Here are their answers.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2024-06-11 10:37:01

Yesterday's evening hike... grand & far views, and looking much warmer than it was...
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography

A path is leading through a wild mountain meadow with lots of flowers towards a group of spruces in the not too far distance. Yellow evening light is illuminating a section of the meadow, creating a glow and hard contrast with the shadowy area in the foreground. In the far back, the western flank of the Ammergauer Alps, incl. foot hills and region around Füssen. A layer of clouds is hovering close above the mountains, above that serene clear blue sky.
Panoramic view across mountain meadows with lots of flowers, patches of forests and fields in the foot hills of the Alps in the Allgäu region. A scattering of small villages and hamlets here and there. A layer of clouds is hovering close above the mountains in the distance, above that serene clear blue sky. In the foreground, yellow evening light is illuminating a section of the meadow, creating a bright glow and hard contrast with the shadowy areas even closer.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2024-06-11 10:05:43

UAE-based Tenderd, which uses AI to help reduce emissions, raised $30M led by Danish firm A.P. Moller, following a Peter Thiel-backed $5.8M seed in 2019 (Fahad Abuljadayel/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2024-06-11 11:30:45

Nintendo drops X support from the Switch via a new firmware update, following Sony and Microsoft doing the same in 2023 after X began charging for API usage (Wesley Yin-Poole/IGN)
ign.com/articles/nintendo-swit

Nintendo Switch Update 18.1.0 Pulls X/Twitter Support, Bringing It In-Line With PlayStation and Xbox - IGN
Nintendo Switch firmware update 18.1.0 is out now and pulls X/Twitter support. Check out the patch notes.