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   Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 09:43:04 JST Sandra

   I read “Indistractable” today. Since I’m already so long down the road, a lot of the practical advice was useless to me (“here’s how to use Facebook slightly less”) but the core message of how the opposite of distraction is setting and making goals matches with the trip I’ve been on lately. I’m finding that I need both: just cutting the screen without a clear plan of what to do instead doesn’t work, but neither does vice versa: I can have all the plans in the world but addiction to the shiny is a 🐝 and a half. By addressing both, I’m finally in a good place, at least for now.

   As for the book, I’d call it mid tier as far as applied psych productivity books go. While some of the lingo gets unbearable (“indistractable” is a great punny book title but he uses it throughout as an adjective with inconsistent meaning) and there are some red flags among the endorsing names, I’ve seen worse. Main disappointment is that I’d want it to go much further. Annihilate all silo accounts and dark patterns.

   But that it doesn’t is kind of a strength, too. It also addresses the internal struggle. You could have a perfect set up (probably better known as no phone) and still be a wreck addicted to novels and jigsaw puzzles. Sometimes we make our own distraction.

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   Wiktor Kwapisiewicz (wiktor@metacode.biz)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:06:13 JST Wiktor Kwapisiewicz

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   Just for the record: it’s still possible to get a free S/MIME cert nowadays e.g. https://www.actalis.com/s-mime-certificates — not affiliated, but checked it today and got a valid one, it’s still a bit of a hassle clicking through the forms there :-/

   If it would be more convenient I guess regular people wouldn’t mind it being centralized. The same way as domain TLS certificate authorities operate now.

   As for PGP, the current “schism” where GnuPG forked OpenPGP into their own, proprietary https://librepgp.org/ won’t help the interoperability, I’m afraid :(

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   John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 21:28:58 JST John Carlos Baez

   These days reporters are interviewing me again about the Azimuth Climate Data Backup Project - because we're again facing the possibility that a Trump administration could get rid of the US government's climate data.

   From 2016 to 2018, our team backed up up 30 terabytes of US government databases on climate change and the environment, saving it from the threat of a government run by climate change deniers. 627 people contributed a total of $20,427 to our project on Kickstarter to pay for storage space and a server.

   That project is done now, with the data stored in a secret permanent location. But that data is old, and there's plenty more by now.

   As before, I'm hoping that the people at NOAA, NASA, etc. have quietly taken their own precautions. They're in a much better position to do it!

   I got interviewed for this New York Times article about the current situation:

   • Austyn Gaffney, How Trump's return could affect climate and weather data, New York Times, November 14, 2024. https://archive.is/y5Qb9

   For what we actually did, read this:

   https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/azimuth_backup_project/

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   Jeremy McNaughton 📣️🍉️ (jmcnaughton@freefree.ps)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 08:03:43 JST Jeremy McNaughton 📣️🍉️

   eSIMs are how Gazans have documented Israel's genocide in real time, they provide vital links with the rest of world through the blackout and blockade.

   ⚠️ Donate eSIMs directly: http://gazaesims.com/ to learn how and see which carriers are needed now.

   As a person with a disability I chose Crips for eSims for Gaza: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/crips-for-esims-for-gaza/

   #Palestine #Gaza #disability #MutualAid #tech #socialmedia #FreePalestine #Jabalia #solidarity #gazagenocide #genocide @palestine

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   Michael Busch (michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 04:43:29 JST Michael Busch

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   @inthehands @wdlindsy I learn from @rebeccawatson that Richard Dawkins is calling himself a "cultural Christian" now.

   As a pretext for sexism, racism, and anti-Muslim bigotry.

   The authoritarian pattern is worldwide.

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 03:11:34 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   @louis I think its more to do witht he adoption of this use of the term is recent, so maybe you just havent heard it yet. But using neurodivergent to mean “autistic spectrum exclusively” has been the norm and fairly widespread for about 2 years now.

   As of the last year or two you will find medical sources definition neurodiverse as “someone with autism, or more generally…” as in even the scientific literature seems to be giving it special preference to autism as of late.

   See: https://www.washington.edu/doit/what-do-%E2%80%9Cneurodiverse%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cneurodivergent%E2%80%9D-mean

   A “neurodivergent” person refers to a person on the autism spectrum or, more generally, to someone whose brain processes information in a way that is not typical of most individuals.