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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 19:40:07 JST Børge

   I see most people so far don't want this as default. I would appreciate if someone would tell me why.

   In my experience all mice has some resistance on the scroll wheel, so it's highly unlikely anyone scrolls by accident. There's nothing that happens on scrolling on the desktop, and nothing to do there.

   Today you can three finger scroll if you have a touchpap. But if not you have to use the keyboard or move cursor to upper left corner, then to the bottom middle to open the App list.

   #gnome

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 20:11:55 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   Folks wanted cheaper egThrow out the roadmap. Build a portfolio of instant pivots instead.” - 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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   Build options, not plans!

   We are on Day 19 of this series and have covered a lot of ground. We’ve established the necessary foundation: the future is terrifyingly fast (Day 16), your only defense is being (Day 17), and you must adopt an "antifragile" mindset to feed on the chaos (Day 18).

   The question today is this: How do you plan when you can’t predict? Or when what you predict doesn't happen because something else does. Or a trend is too complex 

   Welcome to the idea of Optionality Architecture. Instead of building a plan, build a series of pivots, so that you are ready for whatever the hell happens!

   Think about this idea. Planning is dead. Reacting with prebuilt plans is in.

   Here's why.

   In a linear world, the five-year plan was the gold standard. It was a single, rigid path based on the comforting (but false) assumption that the future would look mostly like the past. Strategy was about prediction and sticking to pre-determined plans.

   A five-year plan today? Laughable! In an exponential world, a single, fixed plan is a strategic liability. The moment you commit to one path, a technology curve goes vertical, or a Black Swan event lands. The old strategy instantly becomes an anchor that guarantees you miss the shift.

   The winning move is to stop worshipping the plan and start architecting the possible.

   That's why the new principle you must master for 2026 and beyond is Optionality Architecture.

   Beyond being a cool phrase that rolls off your tongue, it's a critical survival and success strategy you need to go forward.

   To get it, you must understand what it is.

   The most successful individuals and organizations in an exponential world don't just have options. They systematically construct portfolios of options.

   Keep reading - learn your options!

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   **#Optionality** **#Pivots** **#Portfolio** **#Flexibility** **#Adaptability** **#Diversification** **#Strategy** **#Career** **#Revenue** **#Exponential**

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/12/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-19-optionality-architecture-throw-out-the-roadmap-build-a-portfolio-of-instant-pivots-instead/

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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 17:28:43 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

   Dear Minifree customers (those who follow me on Mastodon): I haven't been at the lab recently - and I sent everyone, probably also you, an email, today, explaining why.

   In case I missed one of you, or e.g. your email bounced, I'll also explain in (less) detail here:

   I've been looking after someone recently who's very ill, and haven't been at the lab at all.

   I'm at the lab today, catching up on orders - I expect to ship orders by the end of the week.

   If you emailed me, I'll respond soon.

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   Burn This Dyspho Out 🏳️‍⚧️ (testoceratops@disabled.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 05:00:54 JST Burn This Dyspho Out 🏳️‍⚧️

   in reply to

   The recovery position is often the first thing people think about, but way often it's better not to do it. Here's why.

   In my case, moving me on the side compresses my rib cage, preventing me from breathing and making the seizure last longer.

   Don't forget that a chronically ill person often has underlying conditions.

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   John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 08:48:09 JST John Carlos Baez

   Why do we call electrons 'negative' and protons 'positive'? It's an arbitrary convention but it's annoying: it means that when electrons flow through wires, the current is defined to flow in the OTHER DIRECTION.

   If you ask people why electrons got called 'negative', you get a bunch of crap answers:

   "Electrons are referred to as negative because of their behavior in an electric field. In an electric field, an electron will move from the negative pole to the positive pole, giving it a negative charge by convention."

   Yes, but why THAT convention?

   "If we re-designate all positive electric charges as negative and vice versa, while keeping their absolute value, the resulting physics would be the same. So exact choice is merely a matter of convention."

   Yeah, it's a convention - but why THAT convention?

   "In quantum theory of elementary particles (in a sense of irreducible representation of Poincare group with mass m and spin (helicity) s) if some operator Q of internal symmetry commutes (like electric charge charge) with Hamiltonian H...."

   Irrelevant crap which never leads up to an answer.

   The answer is that Benjamin Franklin chose this convention and nobody knows why.

   In Franklin's day there was a 'two-fluid' theory of electricity saying electricity comes in two kinds. Around 1750 he developed a 'one-fluid' theory after showing that a rubbed glass receives an equal but opposite charge as the cloth used to rub the glass. He decided that electrical fluid was going into the glass. So he said the charge of the glass was 'positive' and the cloth was 'negative'.

   Unfortunately it turns out that that electrons are going into the cloth.

   The whole history is interesting:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_charge#History

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 12:46:57 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   @lonelyowl13

   So the two party system hoax, is bore out but an illusion that does lend to this thinking, and it can be understood why.

   In FPTP voting systems there is a strong tendency for each election for there to be at most 2 parties that collect most of the votes. What a FPTP system does not do is cause the same 2 parties to consistently win during each election.

   But its an illusion because it is not reflection actually support from the people. They will vote for someone other than who they want as a compromise. Sot eh actual "real" support is usually wildly different than the public manifestation of support in the form of votes.

   In other words if parties have A: 35% B: 33% C:32% in terms of peoples preferred candidate, what you will see is the actual vote will turn out to be A:51% B: 49% C: 2%

   However the very next year if C gains 1% support and B looses 1% support then the very next year you will see a sudden shift in votes at A: 51% B: 2% C: 49%

   So while there isnt **really** a two party system this illusion tends to make people thing it is. Then once they think it is it becomes self reinforcing people people are idiots.

   @MySideIsHumanity @Mary625