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fifilamoura

@fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe

I write and think about culture (for fun and to pay my rent). My obsessive interest is people and how we work, individually and collectively, which makes me interested in most things, with a particularly keen interest in cogsci and psychology (I grew up around medical science). I studied painting and drawing at uni and I used to play in bands and work in the music industry. Maybe I'll switch to using my real name here eventually.

Photo description: White woman with black hair and saxophone

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Jaden3, to random
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Looking after yall mind is more important than Looking after yall bodies.
If you are suffering from depression and anxiety it don't matter how fit you are. If you ain't happy it don't mean fck.
Love yall stay calm ,stay happy and fck all dat meaningless shit it ain't worth it .
Imma go retrain my brain now to focus on NOW fck yesterday fck tomorrow ๐Ÿ˜ค
I love yall ๐Ÿ’— stay happy
Love Jaden โค๏ธ

fifilamoura,
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@Jaden3 It's often kind of the same thing, though people can certainly work on their bodies but not their thinking or their emotional intelligence! The brain is part of the body and exercise helps keep it healthy too, we just need to also exercise our brain/mind (via thought, learning new things that are hard and using our minds in focused ways). Learning how to more fully focus on the "now" is important but so is developing skills like our ability to think into the future (chess and strategy games are fantastic for this). Stay healthy and happy!

msquebanh, to Canada
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If you're wondering why still supports to this day, you may want to learn about the factors.

Learning helps folks to understand current issues better, when horrible history repeats itself.

Canada was one of many nations that refused to admit trying to flee the that would culminate in the .

https://humanrights.ca/story/canada-antisemitism-and-holocaust

fifilamoura,
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@msquebanh I highly suspect it's less guilt and more about electoral politics and the power of the Israel lobby, and being beholden to the US (Canada has even less independence than Australia does but our war machines were built together and financial warmongers and exploitative industries in all our nations).

Daojoan, to random
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Trouble brewing. https://mastodon.social/@theindex/112469925900411283

fifilamoura,
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@Daojoan "....as country prays." Um, yeah, prays that he's dead seems like the sentiment of many inside Iran...

fifilamoura,
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@evan Do you mean a civil war or regional war? There's already war (on the Kurds and on women inside Iran, and also some retaliation against Israel while trying to avoid war with Israel). What there is right now are more unknowns... Will Iran declare this an accident or try to claim it's an attack? Who in the hierarchy will replace the two key members of government? Where does this leave other players in the region, both those allied with Iran and those not? Will Iranians try to use this as an opportunity for revolution? How deadly will the repression inside Iran be? @Daojoan

fifilamoura, to random
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It's somewhat delightful to have the rest of the world start to realize what a dangerous monster Gina Rinehart is. Art is having a good week in the portraiture division between the blood soaked portrait of King Charles and Vincent Namatjira's not even that unflattering portrait (considering Rinehart's actual face).

eclectech, to NoStupidQuestions
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Having established that dandelion seed heads are definitely NOT known as DANDELION CLOCKS by everyone I have a follow on question...

What DO you know them as?

Chatting to people already I have had FLUFFS (Lithuania) and WINDY PUFFS (Canada) both of which are SUPERB.

Are there any others? Will there be enough to make a World Map of Dandelion Names?! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Places, names & any other trivia welcome!

Earlier thread here: https://things.uk/@eclectech/112458271354372250

fifilamoura,
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@NatureMC @DigitalDruid @eclectech It's a diuretic so it makes you pee (or more likely to pee). The leaves are also a tasty bitter green.

DoubleTreble, to crochet
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@crochet
#crochet
For those of you who remember the Persian Tiles Afghan I made in February this year,
I am working on a different colour way of the design!
Ms DT has nabbed the original!
She just went daft when she saw it!!
'its pink and purple! ' ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ
Was how she won me over

Six Persian Tiles for a Crochet Afghan in browns & orange

fifilamoura,
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@DoubleTreble Wow, these are gorgeous. What a fantastic design aesthetic to apply to crochet, it makes total sense (because geometry)! @crochet

fifilamoura,
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@DoubleTreble You're doing math and geometry, it's just hidden in the craft! Also, I highly suspect that this is why so many female scientists knit and crochet (apart from it being soothing rhythmic handwork). @crochet

fifilamoura,
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@DoubleTreble Yep. @crochet

fifilamoura, to random
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One of my favorite songs....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm7BfuOEk9o

fifilamoura,
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@NatureMC Glad you enjoyed it. He's got new work out too (after an extremely long hiatus!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biD-AmPI-Y4&feature=youtu.be

_L1vY_, to OpenAI
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Via Sigal Samuel (Vox):
12:41 PM ยท May 17, 2024

"Thank you to the company insiders who bravely spoke to me. According to my sources, the answer to "What did Ilya see?" is actually very simple...
People speculated that Ilya saw AGI...as if was hiding some conscious, shackled AI in the basement.

But reporting this out, I thought: This is not a horror story about AI. This is a horror story about humans.
Like in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the issue wasn't HAL lying."

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158403/openai-resignations-ai-safety-ilya-sutskever-jan-leike-artificial-intelligence

fifilamoura,
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@_L1vY_ Our problem is the humans whose default behavior is killing humans. And what those humans are using AI for currently, which is constant surveillance and targeting of humans. AI is already killing people with OpenAI's blessings if we're going to be honest about it. @jachiam0

StillIRise1963, to random
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Netanyahu hasnโ€™t spoken to any Israeli journalist since the beginning of the war because authoritarians donโ€™t answer to the people.

fifilamoura,
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@StillIRise1963 Not only that he keeps trying to shut down any Israeli newspaper that isn't right wing.

fifilamoura, to random
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Good to see this being clearly spelled out, we really do need to be talking about Netanyahu's corruption and genocidal ideology and not some mythical idea of Israel that is held by many in the Jewish diaspora and which obscures the reality of of what has been going on in Israel (much to the horror of many Israelis).

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-benjamin-netanyahu-1.7206266

fifilamoura, to random
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So all these university shenanigans to avoid accountability about their finances are starting to make me wonder just how corrupt and how regularly abused the relationship between university boards/board members and their investment policies are? I'm now assuming it's a massive ouroboros of wealthy people being highly corrupt (and telling themselves their corruption is actually ethical really). The more elite they are, the worse they are apparently.

fifilamoura, to random
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I cannot think of anything more depressing and symbolic of the decline of the West than watching two incredibly out of touch, greedily rich, warmongering geriatric White men mumbling and blustering insults sourced from the 1950s at each other onstage. Talk about a sad and tawdry cargo cult performance of pseudo-democracy.

skinnylatte, to random
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Thereโ€™s a guy I know very distantly in San Francisco who recently ran on a โ€˜all East Asian Americans are secretly young Republicans like me and Trump is fine actuallyโ€™ platform and he was very surprised when he didnโ€™t get anywhere with that, and heโ€™s also very surprised that no one wants to talk to him

Other than problematic ideology, I have a problem with him speaking for me

fifilamoura,
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@skinnylatte @vfrmedia But, also, North America lets plenty of fascists immigrate if they have money. Often the regimes being toppled are authoritarian, their rich and powerful often use their money to flee.

fifilamoura, to random
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Average White men totally overestimate the power of individuals because they're systemically privileged. Of course, they also just get murdered if they actually blow the whistle on the system in any meaningful way. Most of the rest of us have quite a different relationship to power and the system.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Anyone else struggling to see any prospects for turning things around? I will keep on trying to do what I can. Of course. But 2024 is challenging.

Last year did a post about how I wasnโ€™t motivated by hope but by . I now realise i got that wrong. Hope isnโ€™t just fluffy โ€œthings will be alrightโ€. Hope is some flicker of belief that you and others can change things; I did, actually, have โ€œhopeโ€. Less now, but will keep going.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/banks-almost-7tn-fossil-fuel-firms-paris-deal-report

fifilamoura,
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@pvonhellermannn @bencurthoys World in Data are Effective Altruism cultists, no? (It is associated with this bullshit Pollyanna brightsiding of capitalism and fascism by techbros). https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uaveEAgFfyFx4EYaH/a-new-our-world-in-data-article-on-longtermism

fifilamoura, to random
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There are people who eat to keep their body alive and then there are those of us who cook and eat to keep our souls alive.

Jyoti, to random
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fifilamoura,
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@Jyoti And has as many calories as a delicious cookie.

fifilamoura, to random
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So RFK's brainworm story was just a ruse to get out of paying alimony, which is why we know about it. Figures. What an absolute asshole he is.

https://skepchick.org/2024/05/did-a-worm-really-eat-rfk-jr-s-brain/

rebeccawatson, to random
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What are the chances that RFK, Jr.'s brain was eaten by a worm at the same time he got mercury poisoning AND was going through a contentious divorce in which he testified that his cognitive problems impacted his ability to pay spousal support? https://skepchick.org/2024/05/did-a-worm-really-eat-rfk-jr-s-brain/

fifilamoura,
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@bertwells Braindead Kennedys, a tribute band. @rebeccawatson

evacide, to random
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Everything about Durov's statement is so profoundly dishonest that I feel like engaging in a point-by-point debunking is a waste of time. If most of the messages on your platform are not end-to-end encrypted AT ALL, it is less private and secure than platforms whose messages are all e2e by default.

https://t.me/durov/274

fifilamoura,
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@evacide So is this him admitting he's an agent of Russia like these things usually are? (As well as just trying to market his own app, of course.)

glynmoody, to OpenAI
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#OpenAI considers allowing users to create #AI-generated #pornography - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/09/openai-considers-allowing-users-to-create-ai-generated-pornography what could possibly go wrong...?

fifilamoura,
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@glynmoody Clearly the AI hype bubble has started to deflate a bit if the so-called "legit" businesses are chasing the porn market. I guess people are getting bored with it and nobody wants to pay for it?

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