An unlikely quantum superposition of the best dad in the universe and the worst dad in the universe, according to my children anyway.
Terminally online since 1996. Interests include DIY #synthesizers, #photography, #cooking and #woodcarving. He/him.
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Because of some psychic damage I had to take at work today I treated myself to a little tube of Naples yellow deep watercolor paint.
I got it to hopefully mix with burnt umber to get a perfect Lake Michigan sand color in a light wash, but also I’ve seen some lovely mixes with Quinacridone Magenta.
Sadly I can’t use it because I’m missing my watercolor half pan I thought I had, and I didn’t have time today to fix the 3D printer and make a new one
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"What we found, again and again, was that these patients were not treatment resistant in any meaningful psychiatric sense. Their brains were being starved of blood. The sympathetic system was failing to move blood upward, or the parasympathetic system was dilating vessels at exactly the wrong moment, or both. Once you measure the two branches independently and correct the specific imbalance, the so-called depression lifts, not because we treated depression, but because we treated the physiology that was masquerading as depression"
Nearly half of the study cohort (48.3 percent) had been diagnosed with long- or post-COVID syndrome, a population now recognized as a vast and troubled reservoir of autonomic dysfunction.
Consider a house with the water main half shut. The faucets sputter. The toilet runs all night. The garden wilts. You could call a plumber for the faucet, a landscaper for the garden, a different plumber for the toilet, and every one of them would fix something while fixing nothing.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@iFixit/116330853955952160
This is exactly the kind of thing I mean when I say don’t give people shit when they are doing the right thing.
Now, in this case, Apple is a big company and they can take it. I’m not worried about the feelings of corporations.
But pay attention to the pattern. How many times have we seen this same dynamic with people? The shy teenager comes out of their room during a small family gathering and gets bombarded with “Oh look who graced us with their presence!”
Don’t do that folks!
Good morning fools!
Today I want to encourage you to go out and be foolish. I have a fear of drawing, that whatever I make is going to turn out looking dumb and foolish.
It’s never foolish to make art. Here, I made a picture just now, with sharpie so I can’t erase anything. Look how bad it is.
The earnestness of this post itself is *so cringe* but I think earnestness and being foolish is a good antidote to the mind numbing cynicism of whatever #aprilfoolsday has become
Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about what happens when a Black feminist theorist's words get borrowed, stripped of context, and made to do work they were never meant to do.
https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/ #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy
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