Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)

meow meow meow

No Hack & Craft today! @mlemweb and I are on the road! Cya next time!

Out of nowhere, a vote is called and the Apropos of Nothing bill is passed.

As a consequence, the Nothing Appropriation Committee is formally disbanded, leading to a nationwide existential crisis.

If you wanted an "engineer's thinking" about how weight gain and loss happens, I highly recommend the book The Hacker's Diet, which you can find online for free https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/

Calorie tracking works. The problem is, I stress ate, and my life has been very stressful, and any time I traveled, things would fall apart, and I have to travel a lot.

One big struggle right now is due to my constant hunger, I've figured out how to when *not* on a GLP-1 eat foods that feel healthy and reduce cravings somewhat (high fiber makes a big difference) because I had to, I was constantly furiously hungry and snacking.

But now my "healthier eating habits" from before seem to be counterproductive: I'm eating the way I was, but less, and losing weight too fast. A weird thing to adjust for.

Some things:
- I have enough information to prove that calorie tracking works and the calorie math works pretty much exactly in my body. But these days I am not using the calorie tracking features in org-diet I put in, I'm just weighing in. This does mean I have a good "gut instinct" of how many calories something is tho
- Started on the GLP-1 on Dec 9th. Some of the weight loss this month was before that
- Yes, I am losing weight way too fast rn, I know

A weird thing I have done for about 16 years is that all my weight information, and much of what I have eaten I have recorded in org-mode and while I haven't consistently exported the org-mode file itself, you can always see what the current state of my weight is:

https://dustycloud.org/tmp/org_diet_results.html

I used to generate an "all time" graph but hit some sort of bug in gnuplot. I should look at it again I guess.

Feel free to spy on me (but don't send unsolicited comments)

@jzb Just a lil bit of heartburn!

oi and yet

This is NOT an invitation to tell me your opinions about my weight, willpower, or to criticize my choice to go on this medication. Thank you.

I'm on a glp-1 medication. It's... pretty wild.

I would describe myself as having a malfunctioning appetite: I am *always* ravenously hungry normally, which is one of the reasons I am always cutting up and eating apple slices and baby carrots at my desk, so that I don't overdo it. It's very exhausting to manage.

For the first time in decades I'm experiencing the sensation of fullness and not constantly thinking about food. Weight is dropping off fast, maybe even *too* fast. Wild.

@emily_s whoa new @mcc facts

a font that shrinks the more you scale it up

I don't know why I wrote this

mew

good moining

@llewelly well now I will think about it all the time

Ultimately it's been my suspicion that trying to fight AI corporations on copyright grounds wouldn't be a good strategy, because ultimately what would happen is they'd end up in a situation that just entrenches them and media megacorps as monopolists. And, well... https://deadline.com/2025/12/disney-openai-deal-sora-1236645728/

Add on top of that how centralization of the web has lead to almost all art being published being under a ToS that can sell the data to OpenAI and ultimately indies get squeezed out of the fight.

I am slowly working through many challenging things. I am doing my best. But I am depresso.

bleh