Notices by anderbill (band@hachyderm.io)

@lauren i do appreciate your comments and commentary. i also appreciate how much work it is to produce on a schedule. and i always like seeing Leela (sp?)

@hipsterelectron ain't that the truth!

@clive @GhostOnTheHalfShell also a nice read; Midgley can be quite droll in her critiques (today we call that "shade"). this book changed my thinking about science

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @clive in addition to Brave New World, i found Science As Salvation by Mary Midgley (https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/24430307) informative and on point.

boredom is useful

Itsevk : <https://www.threads.net/@itsevk/post/DHyIv0nN0Ri>
"Boredom's useful too though, because it's when you disengage from everything else that you can engage in creativity. Boredom tells you when you should do something different. Boredom teaches you what matters to you."
— Dr. Dacher Keltner, TIME interview with Rosemary Counter (June, 2024)

@FediTips many thanks for the followup.

@FediTips thx for the reply. the Bookmarks icon you show does not appear anywhere on my (advanced web) screen. if i manage to open the "Getting Started" column Bookmarks do show up in the "PERSONAL" section. so i do know how to find them now.

@slowenough @FediTips thx for that gem

@FediTips thx again for the docs. i do use bookmarks, but my instance(?) or web-interface(?) does not seem to have anyway to show them. (i may have to resort to API?)

@bethsawin thx for the quick reply. the # sign gave an error. using MULTI did not yield any price reduction in the cart; i'll try again.

@bethsawin Hi. I am trying to buy the paperback at Island Press and that code does NOT work. Looking forward to reading it.

@flancian for me, hope is often an escape, a way to avoid action, and, yes, i often rely on it.

@stevegis_ssg great reminder. I often email authors and most reply quickly.

@flancian so you claim. it is an empirical question in several ways

mood: Sándor Weöres (1913-1989): the Hungarian poet, discerned the shadows the future casts before it when he wrote: "Time for black prophecies are over; the Winter of History is whistling around us."
cf. Totalitarian States-of-Mind in Institutions https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6227252.v2

this is a bit circular, but needing to test seeing replies ...

2025-03-11 test 012 - a prime number day

2025-03-11: test 011: testing 1, 2, 3 ....

2025-03-11: AP test series 010: Latest (2025-03-10) NOAA Mauna Loa Observatory co2 value: 430.19 ppm

@hdv good points. and "missing the point" and "normalizing" are, for me, two big negatives on relying on AI-based summaries of meetings, and may also be issues with summaries of written materials.