marasawr

marasawr, 2 months ago to random

one of the great things about having adhd is that when motivation and focus align, your brain runs like a Ferrari on a track

but when they don’t align, your brain is still that same Ferrari, only you’re now driving over cobbles and mud with a blown valve gasket

everybody thinks they want an expensive, tempermental, gratuitously overtuned hand-built speed machine, until they have to live with one as a daily driver that sees a track maybe a few days per year

marasawr, 5 months ago to random

coming out of a grim, battering slog of a year, let’s all agree to make 2024 bleed

we choose our battles wisely and attack/defend/love/support with ✨ferocity✨

marasawr, 5 months ago to random

can confirm 2023 is dead also hello from Aotearoa’s other island that specialises in glacial lake blues and tussock golds

video/mp4

kevinrothrock, 9 months ago to random

I think the “Steve Jobs” movie’s orchestral score (by Daniel Pemberton) is one of the best to play while writing. Tron Legacy is another winner. Any other nominees?

marasawr, 9 months ago to random

for folks born after 1990 wondering if we knew our response to 9/11 was (first) cosmically unhinged and (then also) hysterically criminal, yup!

felt like madness in the moment and only looks worse in retrospect as time goes on – I don’t think I’ll ever be able to separate grief for the people we lost today from the shame of what came after

evacide, 9 months ago to random

The feminine urge to buy a black utility jumpsuit just like your other two black utility jumpsuits, but slightly different.

kevincollier, 9 months ago to random

Who's the best "I read all the privacy policies so you don't have to" style academic or researcher?

kennwhite, 9 months ago to random

“Canberra is a small place, so we sent the worm [removed from the patient's brain], which was still alive, straight to the laboratory of a CSIRO scientist who is very experienced with parasites,”

I just want to emphasize: WHICH WAS STILL ALIVE

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-worm-living-womans-brain-australia-depression-forgetfulness

marasawr, 9 months ago to random

MTV and VH1 should be the only television channels allowed inside any gym

maybe Discovery+, but Shark Week content only

JosephMenn, 9 months ago to random

When they want a story about a Musk tweet.

marasawr, 9 months ago to random

Zoomers & boomers: «IDGAF. It doesn’t affect me; everyone already has all my data—»

Me: No. No, they do not.

You generate data every time you touch that service, visit that site, patronise that business. Your data isn’t just your PII, and it isn’t finite. You are a living, breathing fountain of data that can be and is used in ways that harm the vulnerable and marginalised, even if it’s never used to harm you

It’s not zero-sum. Limiting use & reducing dependence still counts as
a good

marasawr, 9 months ago to random

Like much of modern linguistic theory, LLMs / GPTs were built on only an unrepresentative handful of the world’s languages

Unlike modern linguists, LLM / GPT shills don’t seem to view this as a problem

http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/02/when-minoritized-languages-change-linguistic-theory/

marasawr, 9 months ago to random

«I’ve been doing this for over 40 years, and our models of temperature increases have been pretty darn good. But the impacts are more severe, frequent and intense than I expected. Things are happening, in terms of impact, much more rapidly than I expected.»¹

Looking back at projected impacts from when I was in my teens/early 20s, some of the weather events we’ve seen this year weren’t considered super likely before the last quarter of the century
__
¹ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-08-18/lahaina-yellowknife-hurricane-hilary-climate-scientists-watch-predictions-come-true

exchgr, 10 months ago to random

what’s the appeal of silo. does it get better

shortridge, 10 months ago to random

instead of “cocktail hour” events at conferences can we instead have “kitten hour” where we go to a cat cafe and speak quietly about nerd stuff over soothing tea?

dansup, 10 months ago to random

Thoughts on the new logo our in house designer who just learned figma made?

marasawr, 10 months ago to random

someone once successfully rebranded lobster from literal prison food to a synonym for wealth/excess

Leon Emeralds over there successfully rebranded the platform I was on for 13 yrs and used almost daily to a thing I now struggle to remember exists

marasawr, 10 months ago to random

of all the shit my parents ever told me the fact that I wasn’t planned (and my younger brother was) is the one I really could have done without

like I’ve gained nothing from that except a lifetime of feeling like a mistake at every family gathering

idk, maybe balance your need to speak radical truths in a given moment against possibly traumatising your child(ren) forever

marasawr, 10 months ago to random

I once stared into the EU regulatory void long enough to become expert in a tiny, cursed corner of it and now not even death itself can save me I belong to the void forever

marasawr, 10 months ago to random

idk which of my well-compensated chucklefuck peers in infosec need to hear this, but below ~USD 10M net worth you are far closer to the workers organising than you are to the billionaires preying on them

marasawr, 10 months ago to random

barista at my new/post-move local coffee shop was super annoyed I keep switching latte flavours and asked what the pattern is

I told him I get rose lattes on days I need to be spiky, lavender on days I can chill a bit

now all the baristas have started greeting me with «we spiky or chill?» and the other regulars are so dang confused I perish every time ☕️

dansup, 11 months ago to random

I'm going to take tonight off and recharge, self care is important!

I'll have all day tomorrow to wrap up and ship Sign-in with Mastodon and Stories on Android, enjoy your evening 😄

kevinrothrock, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Threads feed is exactly what you’d expect from the ppl who brought you Facebook. A bunch of lame-ass posts from celebrities & brands you don’t even follow. Even worse than Twitter’s ads. A pretty UI though.

marasawr, 11 months ago to random

｡ﾟ..｡(っ ᐛ )っ f͛⦚u͛⦚c͛⦚k͛⦚i͛⦚n͛⦚g͛⦚ c͛⦚u͛⦚r͛⦚s͛⦚e͛⦚d͛⦚

TIL stainless steel appliances marketed ‘smudge proof’ or ‘fingerprint resistant’ actually just have a clear coat on them that means I now have to treat scratches on my refrigerator like scratches on my car

WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS BETTER THAN BARE METAL??