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callisto

@callisto@disabled.social

#ActuallyAutistic, PTSD, metastatic cancer, Ohioan, if someone finds my executive function please return it. Find me on the doors in election season, doing what I can the rest of the year. @Chain_Lube on the bird app.

My reality check bounced again & the overdraft charges are ridiculous.

White cishet femme (she/her) but doing my best to center more marginalized perspectives. I mostly follow back, but not if you don't add alt/text to images. No porn, thx.

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lauren, (edited ) to random
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To the extent that search engines know which content is created by generative AI, they should offer a search parameter to users that excludes all known AI-generated content in search results. Where possible, a sticky "never show me AI-generated content" option should also be available. #Google

callisto,
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@lauren Might be more productive to tag ?

callisto,
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@lauren More likely than trying to get a search engine that profits massively from "AI" to undercut itself though, no?

callisto, to random
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Anybody have some handy links on why exclusively in-person events are ableist, especially during a pandemic? I don't have the spoons to write or compile.

(Side note: I hate the "spoons" metaphor, but sometimes I don't have the spoons for the extra three syllables in "capacity," and today is one of those days.)

cra1g, to geopolitics
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FORTUNE: Consumer prices pushed up mostly by corporate profits, new Groundwork Collaborative study finds

"Corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the second and third quarters of 2023 and more than one-third since the start of the pandemic, the report found, analyzing Commerce Department data. That’s a massive jump from the four decades prior to the pandemic, when profits drove just 11% of price growth."

https://fortune.com/2024/01/20/inflation-greedflation-consumer-price-index-producer-price-index-corporate-profit/

callisto,
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@cra1g Non-paywalled link: https://www.aol.com/finance/greedflation-caused-more-half-last-100000958.html

mekkaokereke, to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

They're talking about grade inflation at the Ivies again. And OK, fair. Everyone gets an A. But can we also talk about educator inflation? Educator inflation is a good thing! By educator inflation I mean: the typical educator at a top tier university today, is miles better at educating, than the typical educator at that same institution 50 years ago.

The field of education is not static. There are constant advances in how material is presented, and how students are supported.

callisto,
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@FantasticalEconomics @tob @mekkaokereke You can't inflate away competition. The metrics just change. Instead of competing for a B, now they're competing for an A++. Or maybe it's up to A+++ now, I can't keep track.

callisto,
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@FantasticalEconomics @tob @mekkaokereke That's a great strategy, but I wouldn't call it "inflation." The economic metaphor "grade inflation" is based on, is a situation where the scale of measurement (units of currency) changes while the relative relationships between the costs of things mostly do not. Inflation doesn't mean a pencil costs the same as a car.

Maybe what you're doing could be called "conflation?"

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Yeah, New York Times, where would they be getting that idea?

Few Transgender Children Change Their Minds After 5 Years, Study Finds But the study, which began in 2013, may not fully reflect what’s happening today, when many more children are identifying as trans.

callisto,
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@RickiTarr Meanwhile, nearly 15% of patients regret having had cancer surgery, which the paper's authors frame as "relatively uncommon," suggesting that most other types of surgery have a much higher regret rate. Surgical transition hovers around 5% regret I think?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28243695/

TechConnectify, to random
@TechConnectify@mas.to avatar

"Heat pumps don't work in the cold"

Context: This is data from my mom and dad's new cold climate heat pump. While the system has been calling for heat continuously during this time, it has only needed to kick on the backup resistive heating in the deepest of cold, and even then only for a couple of hours overnight.

For those of you who speak metric, -13°F is -25°C, and their desired setpoint is 21°C

callisto,
@callisto@disabled.social avatar

@TechConnectify Is that software onboard the heat pump, or where does that image come from? I'd sure like to know about mine, just installed this fall, getting its first cold-weather workout this week.

DeliaChristina, to random
@DeliaChristina@sfba.social avatar

This week in the office:

Colleague: Do you remember Brother typewriters?

Me: OMG. I wrote all my college papers on a Brother.

Other Colleague: What's a Brother?

Me: [staring in Old]

Colleague: The best electrical typewriter that had a ball and then it added a tiny screen --

Me: -- and you could edit! But only 5 words at a time. I loved my Brother.

Colleague: Well, I saw this ad for something pushing 'distraction free writing'. Just a keyboard and a tiny screen.

Me: Omg. A typewriter.

Colleague: But with a battery! And flat!

Me: True innovation.

callisto,
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@thepoliticalcat @DeliaChristina but does it connect to wifi? :)

alexisbushnell, to actuallyautistic
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A friend of mine has recently been naming the expression on my face when I send him photos and it is always wrong.

I said I'm really bad at expressing emotion and he said "you're really good at expressing emotion on your face, we just need to work on your timing!"

@actuallyautistic

callisto,
@callisto@disabled.social avatar

@alexisbushnell @actuallyautistic Except neither. Possibly you both need to work on double empathy. But if you know how to interpret NTs' facial expressions, then it's just that your friend needs to have a better idea of ND people's facial expressions.

velobetty, to random
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Rarely do you get to see the roots of post boxes like these ones waiting to be re-potted.

callisto,
@callisto@disabled.social avatar

@velobetty Wow, the two on the outsides are in great condition for going back to the reign of King George (I assume VI - but given the different fonts, maybe one of them is V and one VI). I wonder when this photo was taken.

vlrny, (edited ) to random
@vlrny@disabled.social avatar

OMG I thought this was dead, but it's finally putting out some tiny hopeful roots. Relatable, lil bulb. Relatable. 🧡

callisto,
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@vlrny Nice! I wanted paperwhites this year, but no place had them for sale locally. Plenty of amaryllis, which I'm super allergic to. Do you know, was there a shortage of paperwhites for some reason?

callisto,
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@vlrny I love the fragrance so much. Enjoy!

callisto, to random
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https://xkcd.com/2855/

QasimRashid, (edited ) to random
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How many of y'all are down to throw $1 at my 100% people funded campaign? ❤️✊🏽

A week ago we needed 1200 donors to hit goal.😳

With 12 hours left we need only 375 donors to hit goal.

Donate $1 Here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/people-fund-qasim-for-congress

callisto,
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@QasimRashid Direct link so we don't give Musk the clicks on that shortened link:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/qasim-web-referral

I'd pretty much made the decision to focus my donations more locally this year (I'm in Ohio and we have some really critical races here), but in the spirit of knowing we're all connected, especially within a nation, sending a small donation your way (more than $1)

sundogplanets, to random
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Remember how I posted that our car got totaled a couple weeks ago? We bought a new car partially with the insurance payout from that (well, still used, but by far the newest car we've ever owned). It's a plug-in hybrid, which is completely perfect for our rural living situation! I'm excited.

But WOW, it's the first car I've ever had that's not a beater, and it feels like driving a freaking spaceship. I think I'm going to actually have to sit down and read the owner's manual. Any tips?

callisto,
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@sundogplanets Not what you asked, but as soon as you mentioned "rural living situation" I'm going to recommend these. I don't like to use kill traps, but living in the country with one car, I just can't wonder every day whether it will start or whether it'll yet again be another missed meeting, flatbed wrecker, thousands of $ in repairs, and a month with a rental that may not be able to handle my lane in winter. There's no lying under a modern car with a soldering iron. https://goodnature.co/

TechConnectify, to random
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A dishwasher tip specifically for those of you in North America:

Your dishwasher expects to be filled with hot water. If it takes more than 15 seconds for the water at your kitchen tap to get hot, your dishwasher may be washing with cold water for much of its cycle.

If your dishwasher seems kinda meh, try running the kitchen tap until it's proper hot and steamy before you start a wash cycle. It may make a huge difference.

callisto,
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@TechConnectify The dishwasher I bought last year in the USA does that automatically. Three purges of about 3-4 seconds each before it starts its initial fill. Is that a common feature now?

dgoldsmith, to random
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From @ErinInTheMorn:

Thanks to the mainstream media, the public has no idea how much science is on the side of gender-affirming care.

Ohio Hospitals Testify On Trans Care Ban: “You Trust Us On Every Other Condition, Please Trust Us On This One” https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/ohio-hospitals-testify-on-trans-care

callisto,
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@dgoldsmith @ErinInTheMorn It's still on Gov. DeWine's desk. Call (if the voicemail box isn't full), email. https://governor.ohio.gov/contact

thepoliticalcat, to random
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    callisto,
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    @thepoliticalcat I don't doubt it, but do you have a link to the parallel parking study? I couldn't find anything in PubMed with both parallel parking and COVID.

    callisto,
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    @thepoliticalcat Eh, I bookmark everything, or just leave it to get back to later, and then have so many bookmarks and open tabs I still can't find anything 🤷

    hestes, to random

    We don’t have national healthcare but the US government still pays 41% of total national health care costs and that’s more than what they UK, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Spain combined pay to provide universal health care to all citizens. Profit-based health care is broken.

    https://www.statnews.com/2023/12/19/us-healthcare-costs-government-covers-41-percent-of-total/

    callisto,
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    @hestes It's only ever been about denying services to "those people." It's never been about government spending.

    onepict, (edited ) to random
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    Thinking about how Folks held on to Twitter and Facebook for so long. I kinda feel that the folks who want mastodon/fedi to replace those networks perhaps didn't realise that for some of us, we'd already moved several times.

    Once you've moved on from your first one emotionally it's easier.

    So for those of us where this isn't their first rodeo what was your network pre Facebook? :BoostOK:

    callisto,
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    @onepict CompuServe, then a couple of different vBulletin forums.

    nathanlovestrees, to random
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    I want to dive like muskrat and gather mud to spread on turtle's back

    callisto,
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    @handmade_ghost @nathanlovestrees Text version (YouTube's auto-captioning is less than stellar, plus even if it weren't, it's difficult for a lot of people to focus on text plus images plus sound at the same time):

    https://thehusbandofthegirlthathasnoname.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/work-by-peter-spiro/comment-page-1/

    mentallyalex, to random
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    I really need this on a mug.

    callisto,
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    @farah @mentallyalex Yeah but look at some of their other listings. Trump, Trump and more Trump. Not getting my money. I wonder whether they've even licensed the artwork.

    callisto,
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    @mentallyalex @farah Here's a version on a shop with a lot of queer-affirming merch. https://www.lookhuman.com/design/470670-my-tummy-hurts-i-m-mad-at-the-government/mug15oz-whi-one_size

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