Notices by Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (sarajw@front-end.social)

@binarydigit that is huge, you clearly have been like, working out or something

T shirts by @heydon represent:

@dletorey @vasilis #BTConf

@heydon @dletorey @vasilis wore mine today. Didn't get the memo in time for yesterday:

#BTConf @btconf is kicking off! Raaaahhh

@jamfactory has made excellent titles for everyone - I bet the speakers are loving it - here are his own titles!

Not caught on camera, him pointing his thumb at his own screen and shaking his head 😅

#BTConf

First talk by https://paulazuccotti.com already inspired me. What objects do you touch in a day? What does that say about you?

#FutureArchaeology #BTConf

Strong start by @tink making it extremely clear that current generative AI tools thrive on IP theft and overconsumption.

#BTConf

And @tink continued about the flaws of gAI - but now we're on image description, which truly is a good use of AI. It offers a lot more independence for people with visual impairments.

Léonie can hammer AI to find out more about all sorts of pictures, even old photos from her past. This way she can get a much richer understanding about what's in that picture, in a way that she hasn't before, as she feels less keen to keep asking a friend questions, imposing on their time and generosity.

#BTConf

This particular card: https://www.lettercollections.com/2014/07/a-card-for-lesleybarnes

...made by https://martinaflor.com is making my brain itch. I feel like she was strongly influenced here by a display font I've seen before. Anyone know it?

#BTConf

Medical blood pressure PSA:

Are you overweight? Does your blood pressure read high? Does your upper arm hurt when it's measured?

The more overweight I've become, the more I've grown to fear BP measurements, because it always hurts quite a lot. I can feel the anxiety rising as the cuff is strapped on. Then I get higher heart rate and BP readings than when I am relaxed.

I guess something about a fatter arm means it hurts much more to get to similar pressure levels?

It's a known thing.

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@binarydigit take the rest if you need the rest <3

@inthehands have you got children? Although yes I'm also entertained by them :)

There are now 4 shows done by the same animation house - think "learning blocks" or something is the collective term:

- Alpha blocks
- Number blocks (my kids LOVE number blocks, and I can see why, they're very good)
- Colour blocks
...and the most new ones
- Wonder blocks (essentially introducing algorithms!)

@inthehands the eldest is also still only 7 so I don't have to go too deep into the physics of it just yet... But I should remind myself of how it all comes together so I can explain better.

I blame the BBC children's TV show Colourblocks for bringing up this subject...

@inthehands I mean, yes. I know that but I still find it 🤯

Was trying to explain to my eldest why actually cyan, magenta and yellow are the real primary colours, and why red, blue and yellow are not and... Well, it still blows my own mind.

I get very confused between light/cone colours of red, green and blue being also primaries, which mix together to make C, M and Y, and then if you take the latter three colours as pigments you can mix most anything from them, and just 🤯

I'm still surprised that magenta and a little yellow makes red.

@aral how long until it's not just foreign students but then also black, or native American, or disabled, or trans, or female, or gay students, who are keeping those worthy young white men from the places they deserve...

@binarydigit ooh. Are you using another online place for repositories?

Sara's sugar sagas:

I mean, I try not to eat sugar. Chocolates around Christmas and ice cream in summer are hard to ignore, of course.

After a long OGTT (Oral Glucose Tolerance Test) I was clearly v. hangry and jittery and was heading into hypoglycemia, so I now officially have Postprandial Hypoglycemia (basically a pretty solid regular sugar crash).

I am to go to a nutritionist, there was talk again of the weight loss injections (do not want, they apparently can cause more hypoglycemia)

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and I am apparently only mildly insulin resistant.

The mild insulin resistance means my body doesn't immediately pick up on the blood insulin, and doesn't start processing the sugar out of the blood quickly enough - so another glut of insulin goes into the bloodstream, and then it's all processed all at once and then some - leaving me with not enough sugar left over.

So I am not close enough to diabetes to just be prescribed Metformin but thankfully they let me have it anyway privately,

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off-label I guess. I know it really helped me 20 years ago, and it's taken that long to get back to this situation where I don't feel myself in my body any more and something had to be done.

Now the thing is... I don't think I'm special.

I reckon lots of us who are fat have very similar issues. We have bodies that maybe overshoot the blood sugar storage, leaving us sapped of energy and hangry and all we can do is keep snacking to keep the low blood sugar symptoms away.

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