When is it time to walk away?
(That's a tough one, alright)
We make commitments & compromises, invest in projects, entertain hopes & dreams, and then ... well, life happens. It's always a little chaotic, and sometimes it's just plain bad.
It's hard to choose: persist or desist?
Decisions that feed the soul honour our deepest #values.
What matters to you?
▪ creativity?
▪ how we treat one another?
▪ health?
▪ meaning?
▪ the environment?
▪ family?
▪ fun?
▪ what else?
Wow, there's a lot of current #covid19 and #longCovid information here, all gathered in one place and easy to consume.
We in the caring professions need to remain aware of how covid has affected clients' physical and mental health. The effects are more pervasive than we'd prefer to believe - and I say this from personal experience.
The best way is to try it! Many coaches offer a complimentary "chemistry" session, so you can get to know each other and see how they work. But check that it includes not just chat, but also coaching!
"cony of the presidential palace, Erdogan, who has governed Turkey since 2002, acknowledged that his party had “lost altitude” across the country and said he would self-reflect and rectify any mistakes.
There'a a conference I considered attending last year, but there was no mention at all on the website about covid mitigation strategies. I couldn't even see a way to request a single room. I also could find no way to contact the organiser to ask questions.
I'm at elevated risk from covid19, even removing my mask to eat with others feels risky.
Nope. Sad, but nope.
"significant numbers of researchers at A.I. conferences were caught handing their peer review of others’ work over to A.I. — or … writing them with lots of A.I. assistance. And the closer to the deadline the submitted reviews were received, the more A.I. usage was found in them.
If … you think that maybe it shouldn’t be A.I.s reviewing science … those feelings highlight the paradox at the core of this technology: It’s unclear what the ethical line is." https://mstdn.science/@bkahn/112192024999364589 #AI#LLM
… "Einstein supposedly said: 'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' But what happens when a toddler is consuming mostly A.I.-generated dream-slop? We [are] in the midst of a vast developmental experiment.
There’s so much synthetic garbage on the internet now that A.I. … researchers are themselves worried, not about the health of the culture, but about what’s going to happen with their models."
"although birds and humans haven’t shared a common ancestor in more than 300 million years, a bird’s brain is much more similar to ours than to a reptile’s. The neuron density of its forebrain — the region engaged with planning, sensory processing, and emotional responses, and on which REM sleep is largely dependent — is comparable to that of primates. …"
-- Maria Popova in WaPo
"Early identification and treatment of psychiatric disorders in COVID-19 survivors, especially those severely affected or unvaccinated, should be a priority in the management of long COVID. With the accumulation of breakthrough infections in the post-pandemic era, the findings highlight the need for continued optimization of strategies to foster resilience and prevent escalation of subclinical mental health symptoms to severe disorders." #covid19#LongCovid https://sciencemastodon.com/@brianvastag/112182626404061531
I'm just finishing a 2nd reading of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (by N. K. Jemison) and it's quite amazing. Greek pantheon meets modern fantasy fiction.
I think that, post-covid, the newer antihistamines are messing with my memory. It shows up when I leave the house and have trouble navigating.
The old-fashioned antihistamine I take at bedtime seems ok. But I have serious pollen allergies. So I finally have given in and ordered a neti-pot for daytime use. #sigh Let's see how this goes.
(I was a swimmer, and I hate water up my nose! My bestie assures me it's really not bad, tho. 🤞 )
The beauty of Pysanki (Ukranian Easter egg) decoration is familiar to many Canadians. Ukrainians have been part of our cultural mosaic here for generations! \o/💛💙
The Town of Vegreville took that to a whole other level :-) ➔
"The egg is 9 metres (31 feet) long and three and a half storeys high, weighing in at 2.5 tonnes (5,512 lb) making it the largest pysanka in the world! It was constructed in 1975 in honour of the early Ukrainian settlements east of Edmonton."
It was TFG's 'muslim ban' and his inhumanity to asylum seekers and refugees that made me, for a first time, poltically active. In fact, it revealed to me a deep value that I hadn't previously articulated: "stand up for the vulnerable".
But, until watching this, I didn't realise why.
That's when I realised that M∆G∆ was not an American problem, but aworldproblem.
😭