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   Mad Argon :qurio: (madargon@is-a.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 05:40:03 JST Mad Argon :qurio:

   Because of my family I always had strange attitude to #hair.
   When my sister was in preschool, mother started keeping her hair long. And at the same time often cut short mine. In early elementary school time everyone who saw us was impressed by her hair.
   For young depressed kid I was, message was like "long hair is source of your worth and your family denies you this".

   I wasn't even jealous of hair itself, rather positive attention, something severely lacking in my childhood. As slightly older child I tried to keep long hair just as means to win this strange emotional game. I didn't even have enough patience, both for waiting for hair growth and taking care of it. Max length I had was slightly below half of back, when I was 14/15. And periodically I had this urge to just cut these inconvenient hair chin- or ear-length.

   At the end of university, when I no longer felt this "attention game" pressure, I learned to cut hair myself and kept them as short as I was able to cut manually. In 2022 I grew more irritated and decided to ask hairdresser for tomboy #haircut. And it had to be repeated periodically as short hair grow very visible way.

   In last year most of time I fantasized about grabbing hair clipper and just shaving my head. Near the end of the year I finally started doing this.
   And hell, why nobody told me how convenient it could be?! If I knew several years ago...

   The most funny part: when I have literally few milimeters of hair, I already received more compliments than in my all my earlier life combined! Once I was compared to Sinead O'Connor... :blobCat_giggle:

   I feel I don't understand people...

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Friday, 05-Dec-2025 21:03:40 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "The hubris of experience guarantees failure." - Futurist Jim Carroll
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   Futurist Jim Carroll is writing his end-of-2025 / introduction-to-2026 series, 26 Principles for 2026. You can follow along at 2026.jimcarroll.com. He welcomes your comments.
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   We are on Day 12.

   We’ve spent the last two weeks stripping away the internal barriers to speed—the fear, the linear forecasting, the lack of collaboration, and the organizational complexity (Day 11).

   Now, we face the final, most formidable internal enemy. It’s not out there in the market. It’s looking back at you in the mirror.

   It's you.

   It is the ego of the successful leader. To really get ahead in 2026, you need to understand the trap of hubris and why your past success can be your biggest future liability.

   What do you need to think about? The challenge of successful experience and why it can get in your way.

   In a linear, slow-moving world, 30 years of continued success was your most valuable asset. It proved you knew the formula. You had "seen it all." Your intuition was unimpeachable wisdom. You knew exactly what to do, when it needed to be done, and how to do it.

   Those days are gone.

   In an exponential world, where entire industries are being reinvented every few years, that same 30 years of experience can become a catastrophic liability. Why? Because it can get in the way. It blinds you. It clouds your judgment. It can bring to light your lack of skills in how to respond to the profound changes that are underway. It conditions you to believe that the future will behave like the past.

   It locks you into old pattern recognition for entirely new patterns!

   When you combine a track record of linear success with an exponential shift in reality, you get a dangerous psychological condition I have written about extensively, and that's the trap of hubris.

   It’s the arrogance that says, "I know better than anyone else." It’s the belief that your past wins grant you immunity from future disruption. It is the ultimate drag on velocity because a leader or individual blinded by hubris will drive full speed off a cliff, ignoring every warning sign along the way because they are convinced their internal map is better than the external terrain.

   The discipline you must master to avoid this fate is Strategic Humility.

   You need to know what it is, how to identify it, how to avoid it - and how to shed it!

   Read the post to learn how.

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   **#2026** **#Change** **#Navigate** **#Future** **#Inspiration** **#Principles** **#Speed** **#Growth** **#Guidance** **#Exponential**

   Futurist Jim Carroll has seen a lot of hubris within the leadership teams has has spoken to, as part of his keynote preparation process - and that insight has shaped the way he has pulled together his trends and innovation keynote.

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/12/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-12-strategic-humility-the-hubris-of-experience-guarantees-failure/

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   stefan (stk@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:00:32 JST stefan

   I find it interesting that ever more journalistic outlets publicly lament that “only x% of [audience] are already using generative AI!” in kind of a pearl-clutching, “how _dare_ all the others?!” way.

   In the past week, the mental comparison with statements like “only x% of all people are already using radium toothpaste” being published in serious outlets fills me with ever more amusement.

   Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radior_cosmetics_containing_radium_1918.jpg (apparently public domain)

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   wuhan.bat™ (jae@darkdork.dev)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 23:29:50 JST wuhan.bat™

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   @m0xEE @p @phnt

   And it's all there: "You can change it in the source of course, nothing prevents you from it",— it actually seems pretty polite, but I'm sure the dev can get nasty about it, all shit thrown in that direction considered. So what?

   the dev was pretty nasty and soapboxy way before this. very authoritative stance on everything, often wrong with his technical design.

   There's always a way: don't like it — don't use it! Like "OMG, how dare anyone ask for donations?!" — okay, what's better: living off donations from those who do that voluntarily or working for an evil corporation that does all the evil by proxy and just extracts its revenue from us to pay them salary?

   xe makes 180k(usd) a year. he's not suffering for donations. but yes, if the code works well (and it doesn't) i'd fund the whole project for 6 months out of my own pocket. but the implementation is over-complicated and trivial to bypass.

   This particular thing was even originally done in a Fedi-friendly way, allowing links and whatnot through — yeah, it was just checking user agent, which is lame, but so what?

   the way it works that caused a lot of the stir was checking for any ua-sig that has mozilla in it which is many browser ua-sig. so spoofing a ua-sig lets you hop the wall easily. it's advertised as "ddos protection" this is not how you deal with ddos in a meaningful way.

   In the end it would just get replaced with that abomination "Choose all bicycles! NOW!!! And you can go fuck yourself with your w3m!" — would that be any better? I think not. Yet people keep attacking lesser evil until some devil incarnate takes its place, something that they can't bring down just by shit-smearing it on Fedi. What is the point?

   sure this is a lesser evil. but there's no attack here. simply facepalming when i want to visit codeberg and nearly every time it triggers anubis. it's a computer science problem. i could really care less about the anime shit. i've alread got one that serves pictures of programming gods that doesn't persist the mozilla ua-sig pattern

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   Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 05:53:33 JST Nowhere Girl

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   Except for activists at the local level, pretty much nobody got in their way.

   In fact, the Democratic Party, still cowering in the shadow of Reagan and butt hurt over being rejected by white voters, went out of their way to help Republicans and their wealthy patrons consolidate media under their control. Deregulation, baby.

   Not to mention turning cops into a militarized occupation force at home, armed with special powers via the "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terror."

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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 04:45:42 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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   So let us get to it, let's talk about whether or not Bluesky can scale *down* in a meaningful way.

   In my last essay I made assertions that this was important for decentralization and said ATProto wasn't great for this, and this was one thing people challenged me on

   So let's take a look!