Shimrra Shai

@shimrrashai
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Budding artiste, *ACTIVIST*, Scholar, and Educator.

University of Idaho '21, U. of Minnesota '24 expected

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Show threadShimrra ShaiJan 26, 2024
@rechelon Esp. given you seem to provide a clear line of connection, that did not occur to me. I still toy with the subjects in many ways outside the formality of academe, though, but I also feel like I could never truly be "right" on anything, and I never got the itch to try to be like you seemed to do, because I always figured everything is tentative, and my natural cognition lends toward always keeping one's mind open to adaptive learning instead of trying to be "100% right" the first time.
Shimrra ShaiJan 26, 2024
@rechelon - I was reading your website with very sharp interest and like a lot of how you think but I have to wonder: I note you seem to like and center physics and math, and one of the things I did - while developing much understanding of them - was that in terms of schooling, I abandoned getting a degree in them in favor of getting one in liberal topics. Not because of a lack of comprehension, but lack of seeming connection w/my activist ideals. Do you consider me to have made a severe error?
Shimrra ShaiJan 25, 2024
Peter GleickJan 25, 2024

Tip of the Day!

Here is a reminder to everyone [rightly] pissed at the incredibly high cost of peer-reviewed journal articles behind paywalls:

If you send an email to the lead/corresponding author (whose contact is almost always provided in the article, or easily found with google) and ask for a copy of the article, the author will almost universally be delighted to send a copy [legally] to you, free.

We authors LOVE it when someone asks for a copy of our articles!!!

Shimrra ShaiJan 25, 2024

If you are in to exercise, fitness, and wellness, and then go to be anti-vax/mask/etc., you are living a contradictory value set - or else, and perhaps more charitably and likely, you have soaked up false information.

Let's make this straight:

* Healthy living BUILDS your immune system
* Vaccines TRAIN your immune system

There is no other logically optimal plan than to use BOTH. Not one XOR the other.

Shimrra ShaiJan 25, 2024
T. Ryan GregoryJan 18, 2024

2024: "We have respirators that electrostatically capture viral particles, ventilation and filtration systems to clean indoor air, and UV lights to kill viruses."

1918: "That's incredible! What's it like living without all this illness?"

2024: "Oh, we don't actually use them."

Shimrra ShaiDec 25, 2023

I have managed to complete the TianoCore EDK2 firmware set for the Firefly ITX-3588J computer board. That is, a real UEFI BIOS pack for a Mini-ITX size computer board with an ARM processor (Rockchip RK3588) on it:

https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588

#coding #firmware #computer #pc

GitHub - edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588: EDK2 UEFI firmware for Rockchip RK3588 platforms

EDK2 UEFI firmware for Rockchip RK3588 platforms. Contribute to edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588 development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Shimrra ShaiDec 25, 2023
Show threadWillDec 22, 2023
@drewphish it was founded by a dude who was kicked off Twitter for spreading vaccine misinformation specifically as a place for deplatformed people to share and monetize their views. Nazism isn't a bug.
Shimrra ShaiDec 25, 2023
Show threadGrumbleDec 22, 2023

@jann @drewphish Substack:
we don't like Nazis, but censoring them makes the problem worse.

also Substack:
we don't like sexual content, but censoring it is a good idea.

Consistency is overrated. Besides, there's money involved.

Shimrra ShaiAug 30, 2023
Antifa InternationalAug 29, 2023
Shimrra ShaiAug 22, 2023
posiputt ÖvÖAug 20, 2023

A thought! Stopping is good. Learn how to stop. And don't reduce this to a work-life-balance thing. Learn to stop when a fun thing stops being fun. Also, learning to recognize the moment when it stops being fun is really worth it. Stopping is part of your needs.

Let's stop together
Right now
Oh yeah
In sweet harmony