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elizabethtasker, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Tomorrow. My good people. We land.

ON THE MOON 🌝

This is not a drill ⚒️

JAXA's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission is going to attempt the first "pin point" landing, with an accuracy of less than 100m.

(This is compared with conventional landing techniques, were anywhere within about 10km is considered pretty snazzy.)

If successful, SLIM will also be Japan's first soft moon landing.

NikaShilobod, 5 months ago to Wikipedia

To my lovely #wikipedia editors and fellow #womeninstem, a humble request to flesh out this list and add organisational pages. It is essential to connect us to share resources and for resilience. Happy to add others, too, if someone needs help or does not know how.

List of organizations for women in #science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_for_women_in_science#Subject-specific_groups

#stem
@academicchatter @edutooters @womeninstem @womeninresearch

campuscodi, 4 months ago to random

A Ukrainian hacker group named BlackJack has breached and wiped more than 150 systems belonging to the Main Military Construction Directorate for Special Facilities (GVSU), a state-owned company that builds military facilities for the Russian military.

The group downloaded more than 1.2TB of information from the company's servers containing information on more than 500 military sites.

Ukraine's GUR agency praised the attack on Telegram as a major success: https://t.me/DIUkraine/3314

thor, 5 months ago to random

Something I'm starting to think about schedules: If you schedule an event after you've gone home for the day, you're less likely to bother attending it.

However, if you're already "on your feet", it just becomes the next thing you're doing that day, and relaxation time gets pushed to later.

To have an active social life, each event of the day needs to lead into the next. Leaving big unplanned gaps just breaks the flow, I think. They say to attach new habits to old ones, so I'm trying to do that.

I have scheduled a weekly trip to a bath in my area so I can go there on the way home. It cuts into my food budget a little, but also kills two birds in one stone: exercise and self-care.

#RomanLife

thor, 4 months ago to random

Each participant at the job coaching space has two people assigned to them. A primary coach and a secondary coach.

They were about to assign a new secondary coach but I influenced that decision by talking to two people separately and then they talked together separately.

Per the same recipe, I'm trying to influence my role in the sound design team and how it's organised by contacting the project manager directly. It doesn't hurt to try. It's not like they can fire me.

I'm not exactly a fan of these tactics, as I prefer to discuss things openly, but social psychology doesn't permit that. The people whose role it is to set the agenda can't be seen like that.

Nobody will tell you that you can do this. It does take some guts, and some may say it's wrong. But take the US president. This is exactly how he works. He talks to everyone, one by one, to create consensus.

If I really want to play that game, I may have to step up my efforts and talk to every single member of the group and win them over, one by one.

I think what I'm describing here is politics.

thor, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Although not a conscious decision, I think the reason I don't read books much is because they're long texts where only a small part is actually interesting.

They talk about listening skills, but more rarely discussed is adapting to the listener. A book doesn't adapt. It's like an old man droning on about something without noticing that the listener has fallen asleep.

Don Quixote defined the novel genre. It's too long if you ask me. I think the writer did it to impress somebody. "Look at this big book I wrote!" Most books take too long to get to the point. I usually just check summaries when people ask me if I read a book.

The flip side of listening skills is being too dumb to realise that you're hearing a lot of nonsense, so you just sit there like a tame idiot.

thor, 5 months ago to random

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thor, 4 months ago to random

Some people say that I don't stay on topic, or I'm being vague.

There's a word for keeping everything in mind all at once though:

Holistic thinking.

It's when you see that all the parts are all interconnected. Language has a limited bandwidth. Language is better at details than explaining the big picture. That's why you need to write entire books to explain it.

If you try to explain it quickly, people just think you're full of shit. "What is this vague mumbo-jumbo?"

johncarlosbaez, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Even though the white keys on a piano play the scale of C major, there's something special about the white key called D. Do you see it? It's quite visible here. And it can become important when you're tuning a piano.

If you give up, read on!

(1/n)

thor, 5 months ago to random

Working with people is probably the closest thing to having a different job every day. People are complex and each person is different. You can't figure them out completely but you understand more and more with time.

thor, 4 months ago to ADHD

A lot of #ADHD issues can be chalked up to a lack of concern with yourself (and therefore your home).

Your motivation is very extrinsic. To the degree that there is intrinsic motivation, it's usually for rather simple and immediate stuff like food, sex and fun.

There isn't a strong sense that the self is an important thing that needs time, love and care. An effort is something you make for other people, if they appear to appreciate it.

It takes a bit of an emergency for someone with ADHD to step in to save themselves.

thor, 5 months ago to random

These big eggs I bought seem a lot more prone to cracking when you try to boil them.

I had an egg boiler at one point and it came with a little tool to make a small hole in the eggs in to relieve the pressure.

I want that tool without the boiler. 🥚

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MrBerard, 5 months ago to composers

@composers What's your new year's resolution? Mine is Adim7-Em.

thor, 4 months ago to random

What I do on Mastodon in a nutshell: Introvert Thor listens, watches and learns while extrovert Thor talks about it. Incessantly. If you took me on a journey, I'd be your chronicler, photographer and companion.

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thor, 5 months ago to random

You know, there should be, like, therapy groups on Mastodon, where people can post to get help from others to process their thoughts.

I've effectively been using all of Mastodon as my therapy group at times. It's not the most efficient approach though. I'm kind of just throwing my dirty laundry out there and hoping for some help with it from random strangers.

It leads me to think of commercial apps like BetterHelp, where you can pay to talk to a therapist online.

You could, in theory, organise something like that, but free, volunteer-run and based on groups instead of hiring professional therapists.

thor, 4 months ago to random

A busy schedule makes you look important but in all honesty, it's just a tool for people who keep forgetting what they were supposed to be doing.

But I must admit that this has become somewhat easier for me to do with age. I was an early bloomer in the smarts department but a very late one in the orderliness department, and it's still a work in progress.

I used to be so messy that I didn't even remember to add appointments to my calendar. I figured I would do it "later" but of course that never happened. Took me a while to get into the habit of insisting on scheduling things immediately and writing them down immediately.