John Weston

@unsoluble
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@atpfm Had to pause your podcast to yet again try to figure out why my HomePod is switching audio playback sources at random, only to return to it and find Quiet Uptown still playing and see what you did there.
This is not my circus but those are definitely my monkeys

We've been receiving a lot of requests for us to answer this crucial question, and we are delighted to attempt to provide you with the information you need as to whether you can read braille with your clit.

Screenshot via @skinnylatte

@RecDiffs For a moment in time many, many years ago, the Harmony remote looked like this. We’ve still got ours, and it remains wonderful — not TiVo curves by any stretch, but still nice and round on the back and soft in the hand, D-pad right in the thumb spot. No screen!

@RecDiffs A long time ago I heard from somewhere a theory that your inner voice's *timbre* is an amalgam of all the voices you heard around you when an infant or thereabouts.

Went looking for corroboration just now, didn't find anything at all, but found this neat bit that ties a lot of it together: The notion of "corollary discharge" — inner voice as a means of damping your own sound-making. (Researched by a guy at a local uni here, too!)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23846719/

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/internal-speech-is-driven-by-predictive-brain-signal.html

Corollary discharge provides the sensory content of inner speech - PubMed

Inner speech is one of the most common, but least investigated, mental activities humans perform. It is an internal copy of one's external voice and so is similar to a well-established component of motor control: corollary discharge. Corollary discharge is a prediction of the sound of one's voice ge …

PubMed

🌱 Congratulations to Emily Lowan, newly elected leader of the BC Green Party!

She is now the first political party leader in Canada on Mastodon — a milestone for healthier, community-driven digital spaces.

I look forward to seeing Emily share more here about expanding Mastodon adoption and supporting her MLAs as they join the Fediverse. Perhaps also a friendly challenge to other party leaders.

@emilylowan @mlabotterell #yyj #Cdnpoli #Canpoli #GreenParty #BCPoli @Paulatics

We live in the ruins of a greater civilization

got a teenage kid? do they use a computer to write, make art or music, code, or anything else creative?

is that computer included in your backup solution?

if not, please back it up.

when I was a teenager, long before cloud backups existed (we're talking the IDE HDD era here), I had a drive failure. I lost 5 years of programming projects. I don't know that anything in there would be useful today, but it was a record of my entry into the subject and two decades later I'm still sad about it.

@atpfm I generally know what I’m doing, have been following all the glass design stuff, and listened to the episode where John raised this concern, and it STILL took me a hot minute to stop wondering why my alarm is purple.
"What's the lesson here, guys?"
"We don’t know.”
"C’mon, think about it."
"Don't be assholes?"
"Don’t be assholes. Especially to…”
"To the guy with the thumbs?"
"To the guy with the thumbs."