@jzsimon@fediscience.orgI wish I knew how to read Linear A (writing system used in Ancient Greece, before the Greek language). I feel that this Linear A writer may have been trying to invent the spreadsheet.
https://mastodon.social/@lineara/114536979045278956
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
@mszll@datasci.socialI've read now through the "Streets for kids" #cityranking report: https://cleancitiescampaign.org/city-ranking-2025/
@axbom@axbom.meI don't know how many times I've read, in mainstream media, the words "The Internet exploded with talk of Y" or "Everyone on the Internet is talking about Z", without me ever having heard of Y or Z.
And I spend a great deal of time "on the Internet".
The Internet should be talking about how a certain social media platform ruined the use of X as a placeholder variable.
@timelfen@assemblag.esJust read Plantin & Thomer's article, on the changes Figshare for Institutions introduces into the provision & organization of data-management labor in libraries. The authors worry that this commercial SaaS platform for institutional & data repositories, while fulfilling a number of library needs, will have detrimental effects. While it's a good piece of infrastructure-studies research, I question some of the analysis & conclusions.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWow. https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/04/28/how-california-sent-residents-personal-health-data-to-linkedin My opinion of LinkedIn was already vanishingly low (one way to ensure I won't read something is to po…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust read through "Sanctuary" by Paola Mendez & Abby Sher, which was electrifying as I read news about ICE kidnappings in local towns, including one in Waltham today where they left a kid alone on the sidewalk:
#ICE #kidnappings
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeThis was foreseeable. Want to go on vacation on the state's dime? Pull your kids out of school and get vouchers.
Reminds me of the time I saw my sister-in-law tell her first grader to read a book for a treat. That was her idea of teaching her kid how to read. Both she and my brother benefited from special education throughout their schooling. The state was fine with them homeschooling. I believe they were eventually convinced by her parents to send the kids back to school. My pare…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCloudflare open sourced an OAuth library mostly written by Claude, showing how AI handles mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment (Max Mitchell)
https://www.maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares…
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialI’m deep into a biography of Chuck Berry and I’ve been whining to friends and family for a week about how hopelessly thorough it is. Now the stories about his endless philandering and unrestrained sexual harassment and his reputation as an uncooperative, miserable bastard are adding up and I’m wishing I had chosen to read his autobiography instead.
@davidshq@hachyderm.iowhen it comes to #psychology and #mentalhealth I've read a decent number of #books on the topic.
I think the best I've read are:
- David D. Burns' Feeling Good (CBT generally including anxiety, depression)
- Sue Johnson's Hold Me Tight (romantic/marital relationships)
- Peter Kramer's Against Depression (on why depression is not a creative gift or sign of moral incompetence, biological underpinnings)
Peter Rutter's Sex in the Forbidden Zone has also been instrumental in forming my understanding of the unhealthy ways romantic interest manifests.
Anne Wilson Schaef's Co-Dependence: Misunderstood--Mistreated is the best I've read explaining how "being good" can oftentimes actually be bad.
The latter two are both more things I extract from the books rather than the books themselves and both are couched in ways that make them not ideally suited to the topic...but still the best I've found.
In addition one might include Joel Fuhrman's Eat for Life (I'm reading it now, I originally read Eat to Live) for nutritional health (which affects psychological) and David Allen's Getting Things Done (still one of the most influential books I've read on productivity).
My #question is, are there books you've read that you'd considered "must reads" on psychological / mental health? Not just mental illness, but mental health?
@DiverDoc@mstdn.caI am trying out just boosting some posts that I think are excellent. I have become increasingly bothered by "liking" posts that make me angry or that disgust me in one way or another. So many of the things that I read about Trump and his sycophants disgust me, and while I think that others should see these posts, I always get ticked off when I click the like button so I'm going to try just boosting things and see how I feel about that!
@al3x@hachyderm.ioAs far as I can tell, a #Maven plugin can be configured:
1. inside <pluginManagement/> or <plugins/>
2. using <configuration/> or <execution>
Does anyone know where can I read how this works and what is the priority order in which such configurations are considered?
@… any help?
@crell@phpc.socialThe latest in the #WordPress drama...
https://joost.blog/path-forward-for-wordpress/
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialThe most shortsighted take on "let's replace human iNaturalist contributors with 'AI'" that I've read comes from people that cite that shit paper about how much more energy efficient "AI" is at solving tasks than humans.
All aspects of human enjoyment and fulfilment that comes from volunteering aside. It's not like they'll put all contributors against the wall to save energy now, do they?! Bob Contributor will still drive his car, eat his sandwiches and burn energy 🤦♂️
@wfryer@mastodon.cloudA New Path Forward for WordPress, and for the Open Web (JOOST.BLOG, 6 Jun 2025)
#edtech
@pre@boing.worldI read "Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It" by Christof Koch.
Interesting book which spends like 8 or 9 chapters detailing all the experiments which prove beyond much doubt that consciousness, and self awareness, is a thing done by a brain.
It describes how perception is a construction of a description, has a chapter called "computational mind"
And then spends the last two chapters describing why he thinks the mind can't be computed, because drugs have made him think experience is some kind of magic associated with highly interconnected causal structures.
Apparently, he thinks, once things become interconnected enough they become able to cause things independently of the physics running those connections.
Which is crazy, obviously. There's nothing causal in direct connections between neurons that isn't equally causal in modeled connections between virtual neurons.
All his evidence in the book from neural MRI scans to the effects of psychedelic drugs and symptoms of strokes and disease point to the brain simulating a virtual reality which is the basis of perception.
That simulated world in which we live is full of colour and shape and sounds and emotions and millions of mental constructs that are built to be correlated by the senses with the outside world, but are not equal to the world itself. We live in a dream constructed to correlate with reality.
But then instead of taking the next step: That consciousness itself is a property of a simulated being inside that mental model of the universe, a property which the brain simulates and applies to the virtual self that's doing the experiencing inside that model, he jumps towards some magic implying pan-psychism or that sufficiently interconnected networks become causally self-complete for some reason nobody can fathom.
Sure, colour and shape and emotions are all made up by the brain but experience can't be! For some reason.
You see in truth dualism is false, in that there is no spirit realm in which ghosts animate the matter of the body somehow.
Yet also, dualism is true, in that there is a simulated mental reality which we live in, computed by the brain in which all perception and experience are created, which is related-to but separate-from the unfolding complicated dance of energy that is the universe our bodies interact with.
People take some DMT trip, and the model of the universe emulated by their brain collapses and breaks. Their virtual simulated self inside their mind has these experiences of being one with the universe or the experience of feeling dead yet conscious or whatever, and these hippies think that the broken down simulated experience is real and reflects how consciousness is more fundamental than the atoms that make up the neurons in their brain.
Instead of realizing it shows them that their experienced universe is a simulacrum, they think they get a more direct experience of reality somehow. A consciousness more pure than any mere base atom.
"Then I am myself the world" is a great title. Everything you ever experience is created and simulated in your brain like a dream, the whole universe is inside your head. Even the fact of experience itself.
But that isn't the conclusion Koch reaches somehow, he just jumps from describing the evidence that this is so straight into ascribing super-causal magic consciousness to particular arrangements of atoms that integrated information theory suggest have high correlation, and thinks therefore conciousness is itself the entire universe.
Ah well, fun book. I like arguing in my head with authors that are wrong.
#reading #books #consciousness #thenIAmMyselfTheWorld
@ncoca@social.coopHow did I miss this? Why didn't anyone tell me that #Mongolia's PM resigned? Why isn't this a bigger world story?
https://www.straitstimes.com/asi…
@samir@functional.computer@… @… Possibly forking, but building from scratch appeals to me. (Except the UI part, which is the main reason I'm not doing it.)
I have opinions about how this kind of thing should work. Specifically, I don't want a "read i…
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comOooh I love the special command that tells you what's slow to compile! https://mastodon.social/@nicklockwood/114618134583698966
@awinkler@openbiblio.social
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialIt's the year 2025 and Microsoft have released version 21 (Twenty One!) of Sql Server Management Studio and apparently they've lost the secret to the technology that makes it so that when you double click a file to open it, it doesn't start a whole new instance but instead opens the file in the running instance
I mean you read the stories about how NASA forgot how to be able to read the tapes full of Mars data or whatever but you don't expect it to happen to something y…
@ginevra@hachyderm.ioJust started playing #NorcoGame. It's a beautiful opening.
I love the simplicity of the way the choices are presented. I don't know yet how much they matter; whether I can only choose one; or should I choose and read them all? (Don't tell me yet, if you've played)
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub
June 13
Do you restrict what you read or watch while working on a WIP? Why or why not?
June 14
Do you take notes for your WIP? How closely do you follow them?
June 15
Have you ever challenged yourself to write without editing? What were the results?
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No, but I may limit whether I read or watch anything at all at the time. Flow…
@timfoster@mastodon.socialWoo, nice find by my wife in a charity shop this morning! Now I just need to find time to read it. (How To Build A Car, by Adrian Newey)
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaWeird how the Linux Mint subreddit has been taken over by people proudly displaying how cool their desktops look.
I know that after being boxed in by Windows it is nice to get more control but frankly I'd rather read posts by people who need help.
#LinuxMint
@rompe@mastodon.socialHow I read your toots.
Seen in the #Copenhagen Glyptothek
@al3x@hachyderm.ioThe only documentation I can find about using the `:custom` keyword with use-package is "The :custom keyword allows customization of package custom variables."
I have no idea how to read that.
1. Can I do (recent-mode t)?
2. If I am to set a config option like dired-dwim-target to t do I write that: (dired-dwim-target t) or (setq dired-dwim-target t)?
#Emacs #UsePackage
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizzaWant to read about one more guy talking about a #Framework 13? https://www-gem.codeberg.page/Framework13
Otherwise, let's interact together on other interesting topics …
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAsk yourself: How many water bottles thrown at cops are worth keeping one innocent American* teen out of inhumane #ICE detention?
For anyone criticizing the #LA protests or suggesting they should stop for any reason, let's be clear about the stakes. Read this article (or my summary):
https://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-detained-ice-family-video-ice/story?id=122511685
This 18-year-old was snatched without a warrant, because he was in his dad's car and allegedly (possibly a lie or mistake) his dad drove recklessly. He's been in the US since he was 5, originally on a student visa that's since expired. He is an innocent American, by any reasonable definition of those two words*. Thankfully, he's since been released on bail, but he may yet be held indefinitely in ICE detention (in inhumane conditions that have been repeatedly documented) and/or separated from his family & friends and shipped off to Brazil where he last lived when he was 5 (ICE does not care whether he speaks Portuguese, has any family there, etc), all potentially without due process (though he seems to be getting that in this case). Even if this doesn't happen to Marcelo due to the media attention & protests, it is certainly happening to other innocent Americans throughout the country who aren't as lucky to have people standing up for them.
Here's Marcelo speaking about detention conditions and those he was detained with:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZpZMUb9aEys?si=bpK-022CU7Acb5RY
Do you know how many kids like Marcelo were detained in LA yesterday? Probably zero, because of the protests, including their confrontational tactics. The most "violence" I've seen (from the protestors) is throwing a water bottle at a line of heavily-armored riot police. So the protests are working to protect the community. If you're suggesting a change in tactics, consider whether your suggested tactics (like pre-scheduled non-confrontational protests that have been happening for weeks) will protect the Marcelos of LA.
*Whether he's innocent or American should not in fact matter, but sadly it might to some reading this. If that's you, you've still got some growing up to do.
@matematico314@social.linux.pizza
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgWay back in 2022, as the world tried to readjust back to "normal" following COVID - I helped to co-organise a bootcamp with sponsorhop from the @… IASC, @… and a generous dollop of help from @… and @… colleagues.
We gathered 10 senior scientist mentors and 22 students in an old torpedo research station (now used by Roskilde University) for 10 days. It was an extremely intense period but the 4th paper produced by this talented group has just come out.
I consider facilitating #EarlyCareerScientists to work on important science problems an extremely rewarding part of my job, and I'm looking forward to the next one already as part of our PISCO project.
In the mean time, go and read this extremely cool work, collecting together a huge number of radiosonde observations going back to the 1950s over the Arctic Ocean and using them to assess how well CMIP6 models represent lower atmosphere.
#CMIP6 #ClimateModels #Arctic #ArcticClimate #SeaIce
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JD041412
@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe galaxy-halo connection of disc galaxies over six orders of magnitude in stellar mass
Pavel E. Mancera Pi\~na, Justin I. Read, Stacy Kim, Antonino Marasco, Jos\'e A. Benavides, Marcin Glowacki, Gabriele Pezzulli, Claudia del P. Lagos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22727
