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Hey @nprofile1q... -- there's a bug where if I have a progressive app set up but I also have a page from the same site open in the browser and I shift-click to open it in a new tab, the browser and all progressive app windows lock up and Vivaldi crashes.
Is there a proper place to report this?
Is there a proper place to report this?
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Last weekend at a wedding in Denmark, I heard that the right there are reacting against solar, but not wind.
In Germany, the right are reacting against wind, not solar.
Sure, there are different cir...
@nprofile1q... My take is that most of it is induced rage coming from fossil industry propaganda.
Perhaps the industry decided to pick on one thing at a time, to focus the ignorance available (much more limited in the EU than here in the US, where we are clearly the greatest at ignorance) on a single target -- or maybe as an experiment to see which one got more traction, so they could repeat that success in other countries.
Perhaps the industry decided to pick on one thing at a time, to focus the ignorance available (much more limited in the EU than here in the US, where we are clearly the greatest at ignorance) on a single target -- or maybe as an experiment to see which one got more traction, so they could repeat that success in other countries.
Okay, so even though I mostly listen to my personal music library, I like to have a streaming service around to explore music I don't know. I've been using YouTube Music for awhile bc I have a subsc...
@nprofile1q... FWIW: whenever I go exploring music on regular-old-unpaid YouTube, I get loads of interesting suggestions. On top of that, I have a whole browser-workspace full of suggestions from fedi (mostly YT videos) that I haven't had time to explore...
At lunch, my dad mentioned "citation justice" as being this terrible thing that is now debasing academia.
Not having heard of it before, I said I was pretty sure there had to be more to it than that, and then managed to move to another topic.
Searching the webs, what I get is that it's a practice researchers are engaging in voluntarily in order to help improve diversity in the research community, possibly with the encouragement of some instututions, while the Right is of course framing it as valuing diversity over relevance, thereby lowering overall quality (basically the anti-DEI playbook again -- and here I thought they were against recycling).
RationalWiki doesn't seem to have anything about it yet.
Have I discovered a new trope-ical species? 🪱
If anyone has more information, please feel free to send links for me to munch on. (omnomnom)
#lunchWithAConservative #citationJustice
Not having heard of it before, I said I was pretty sure there had to be more to it than that, and then managed to move to another topic.
Searching the webs, what I get is that it's a practice researchers are engaging in voluntarily in order to help improve diversity in the research community, possibly with the encouragement of some instututions, while the Right is of course framing it as valuing diversity over relevance, thereby lowering overall quality (basically the anti-DEI playbook again -- and here I thought they were against recycling).
RationalWiki doesn't seem to have anything about it yet.
Have I discovered a new trope-ical species? 🪱
If anyone has more information, please feel free to send links for me to munch on. (omnomnom)
#lunchWithAConservative #citationJustice
4/4 Let's be clear: these excessive demands are nothing less than blackmail from the US. We're calling on EU leaders to fight to protect our fundamental rights against yet another instance of the US b...
@nprofile1q...
Dear EU,
Do not sign any deals with the Tr💩mp administration. They cannot be trusted to carry out their end of any deal (or even understand what they're agreeing to).
Let them impose all the sanctions they want, cutting off their own noses to spite their faces. You're better off without them.
Things will change soon, one way or another, and whatever deal you make now will probably not reflect that reality.
Sincerely,
me
Dear EU,
Do not sign any deals with the Tr💩mp administration. They cannot be trusted to carry out their end of any deal (or even understand what they're agreeing to).
Let them impose all the sanctions they want, cutting off their own noses to spite their faces. You're better off without them.
Things will change soon, one way or another, and whatever deal you make now will probably not reflect that reality.
Sincerely,
me
What fascinates me about Rowling I think is that she has always been so conservative (in the worst sense) without comprehending that's what she is.
She seems to be the kind of person who mistakes bei...
@nprofile1q... I'd say it's not so much "being progressive" as "overtly accepting ideas that have only been acceptable in the mainstream for a generation or so (and can therefore be framed as progressive)".
New in this week's Torment Nexus newsletter: Anthropic says Claude has a secret place where it does its "thinking" https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/anthropic-discovers-that-claude-has-a-secret-s...
@nprofile1q... Thank you for venturing into these waters.
A thought: could it be that "consciousness" is not a binary?
A thought: could it be that "consciousness" is not a binary?
On the other hand, doing that would potentially create an embarrassing moment for her since it would be in a group setting, & it might be nicer to bring this up in private.
🤷♀️
There reall...
@nprofile1q... Maybe it's helpful if you think of it from the POV of how her behavior is hurting her -- like, you have some cognitive traction on a problem she's probably been dealing with for all her life but has no idea how to fix (and has probably abandoned any idea that it's fixable): maybe you can help make her life better!
Much depends, of course, on whether she is capable of introspection and constructive self-criticism.
Much depends, of course, on whether she is capable of introspection and constructive self-criticism.
Who cares what the studio "needed" or wanted out of a given film?
I'm a fan of movies, not a fan of giant corporations & people with far too much money already.
@nprofile1q... Having only watched the trailers, I have a vague theory that a lot of the "of course this is bad" ideation comes from right-wing sources who don't like the movie's anti-authoritarian messaging.
...but I could be wrong.
...but I could be wrong.
Personally, I'm a multi-medium art goblin.
I've become that arty woman that collects random stuff to make art from. I have scraps of all kinds of things accumulating around my art desk. I've met this...
@nprofile1q... The mom of a friend who lived down the street would incorporate twigs and bark into her weaving. That definitely got me thinking about found-materials art.
(added) It probably was somewhere in my thinking process when I decided I wanted to use bits of interesting random recorded real-world sounds in my musical production.
(added) It probably was somewhere in my thinking process when I decided I wanted to use bits of interesting random recorded real-world sounds in my musical production.
I used to feel so isolated & different because of my high level of emotional sensitivity/awareness.
It made me feel really distant from other people, like no one could ever understand.
The incredibl...
@nprofile1q... There's a song by Billy Joel which includes two lines I always found very affirming and healing:
I know you're an emotional girl
It took a lot for you to not lose your faith in this world
What I got from that is "it's okay to have strong feelings, to be sensitive -- there's a lot of messed-up stuff out there, so of course you're going to have a reaction to it".
I know you're an emotional girl
It took a lot for you to not lose your faith in this world
What I got from that is "it's okay to have strong feelings, to be sensitive -- there's a lot of messed-up stuff out there, so of course you're going to have a reaction to it".
That's the thing, isn't it? Having been in seemingly inescapable cycles of being rejected & mistreated by people causes a lot of damage, but it also raises your emotional pain tolerance & your motivat...
@nprofile1q... This probably explains why bullies/right-wingers often seem so convinced that we'll back down if threatened personally.