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How can I become hopeful about the future?
My main interface with the world is news media and Mastodon. The narratives presented there are dire. Inevitable climate disaster. Global authoritarianism. Societal breakdown. How can I convince myself there are 80% odds the rest of my life will be bearable?
Asking a crowd then writing a paid book?
Say I ask a question on a forum like "what are the best life hacks?" or "what are the best features of programming language X?". I get many small data points in response that I massage into a coherent (free) blog post. Later that blog post is incorporated into a paid book. What is the right/safe/legal way to do this sort of thing and not get sued and/or incite an angry mob?
Understanding civil/criminal court cases
I know plaintiffs and defendants (and by extension, their attorneys) are discouraged from discussing pending court cases publicly (for reasons I don't fully understand). But what about after a case is decided or settled? Where are the victors bragging about justice served, or the angry losers railing against an unjust legal system? I'm interested in both civil and criminal cases.
Pass it down the alley, and keep the story straight.
How to set up a whisper network to warn of wreckers in a geographically far-flung, mostly virtual recovery group?
Is it safe to use melatonin longterm?
From what I've read about melatonin, it's safe to use in the short term, but no studies have been done on long-term use. Have you used it long-term without any ill effects?
Cheapest & Best Photo Books
We want to print our wedding photos in a book for family. What website has cheap (and very good) wedding books? Any recommendations are appreciated.
Throwing money at stopping the next coup
I'm worried sick about the next US presidential election. Who is doing good work on this?
A way to @tag or #label a music collection?
Basically this. I want to have: 1. some kind of database (or list or something), of 2. albums and/or songs and/or playlists or whatever, 3. that I would be able to tag, and sort/filter by multiple tags.
I don't know if this is RateYourMusic.com (which would be great) or Evernote...or Excel/Sheets (please don't make it be Excel/Sheets)...or what. But I feel like I've poked around for something like this multiple times over the years, and I'm surprised I haven't found it yet.
n-text moral judgments
Should I run the blender at 3am in the morning when my family is sleeping?
Ask Delphi lets you try out a computational model for descriptive ethics, i.e., people’s moral judgments on a variety of everyday situations.
Relevant paper.
Ask Delphi lets you try out a computational model for descriptive ethics, i.e., people’s moral judgments on a variety of everyday situations.
Relevant paper.
I want to aggregate everything of mine online
I've been on the internet since 1988. I've saved pretty much everything - email, chat transcripts, irc conversations, blog posts, browser history, personal notes, photos, etc. -
I want to put it all in a place where I can easily access it. I do not have any logical explanation for why I want this but I'm constantly stressed out about it.
You have twenty seconds to comply.
The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine
[ungated] - "Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran's top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present."[1,2]
Proise, Grantfulness, Glofe, and most of all, Chart
With so many disasters pumelling the UK simultaneously—Brexit, Covid, GB News—it's nice to see that our most famous sponge monarch has decided to share her innermost thoughts with us as a balm to a broken nation. Queen Elizabeth II is now issuing a digital newsletter, defiantly written in her own hand and controversially available to aristocrats and commoners alike, and it's a true delight. The latest royal retelling? Wondruful I Just foumd Proncess Diano Skleneton Isnade A Suit Or Amror
What are the least welcoming online communities?
I'm starting some research into online communities, and one thing I've noticed is that some large internet communities/interests are much more welcoming to new/unestablished members than others. For some topics, if you publicly post "I really like X" you will generally get encouraging responses that assume you will positively contribute to the community. But for others, you will get accusations of being a "fake fan" and hazing/harassment behavior designed to keep you out. What large communities and subcultures seem generally distrustful towards strangers?
Chill lofi beat tutorials for new beat makers?
I'm very new to beatmaking (but not new to GarageBand or Soundtrap) and would like to learn how to make beats--just beats!--in a DAW. Details below the fold.
The eldercare crisis in the United States
Talking to dozens of adult caregivers, I heard variations on the same theme over and over again: It’s brutal, it’s tearing my family apart, it makes me resent everyone, including the people for whom I’m providing care. The suffering is not new. The crisis has just further expanded within the middle class and the population at large, gradually making it less and less ignorable. “We can’t have a strong economy if we have millions of people working as full-time caregivers and making so little that they are still living in poverty,” Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo recently told the New York Times. “We can’t have a strong economy when we have millions of other people dropping out of the work force to take care of elderly loved ones.”
Salvaging an old laptop
I have a Toshiba Portege R935-P330 that I'm trying to revive for my kids to use, and have some specific questions.
NYC Budget vs. everywhere else
NYC Budget is nearly $100 billion, with the nearest city (LA) having one at $8 billion. The per capita spending is nearly 3x higher. How is it possible that the revenue for NYC is so much higher and how is possible that NYC spends so much?
ADD coach recommendations?
Anyone have recommendations on ADD coaches who do remote work? Bonus points for affordability, knowledge about organizational skills & productivity skills
Gaming on Nvidia Shield
So I haven't really played computer games in a long while, but I really liked it in the olden days. I recently bought an Nvidia Shield, primarily as a media player, but also because I'd like to get back into gaming a bit. However, I find myself a bit overwhelmed by the offerings. Please, point me to your favorites!
To err is human. To forgive, divine.
GamerGaters inundated her with death threats. Now some are apologizing — and she forgives them.
“Over 100 Gamergaters have written me over the year asking for forgiveness, and I’ve thanked them and forgiven them every single time,” she wrote Tuesday on Twitter. “If I can understand people can grow past their worst moments, I think the rest of us can too.”
The Aftermath of Leaving a Good Relationship
I just left my long term mostly good relationship and I feel like I just jumped off a cliff and am in free fall. I think deep down I know it is what I needed to do, but it's not a simple situation and it hurts and I'm seeking guidance from others who've done the same.
Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve.
Jofra Bosschat described his works as "Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism."
He is perhaps best known for his Zodiac Series which has an accompanying contemplative blog from symbolreader.
However his other work initially inspired by Salvador Dalí is equally if not more fantastical. ( Art. Some images NSFW. Some repeats)
He is perhaps best known for his Zodiac Series which has an accompanying contemplative blog from symbolreader.
However his other work initially inspired by Salvador Dalí is equally if not more fantastical. ( Art. Some images NSFW. Some repeats)
All the trains in my son’s train podcast ranked by how much I hate them
“A lot of people don’t like Gordon, who is haughty and rude, but I feel an affinity with this train because the contempt in which he holds all the other trains on the Island of Sodor comes very close to matching my own.” An overview of the characters featured on the Thomas and Friends Storytime podcast. (SLGuardian)
I hope you'll find the next 40 minutes useful.
"We know as much about teaching and learning as we do about public health. The difference is most of us don't know how much we know. By the time you finish high school you know what vitamins are, what germs are, and where babies come from. You probably don't know similar basic facts about how people learn and how best to teach them." - Greg Wilson, author of Teaching Tech Together (among other things, and in the blue previously) takes 40 minutes to sum up what everyone in technology should know about teaching and learning.
How does MetaFilter have such a high user engagement compared to others?
All questions asked on this platform typically get answered and get LOTS of in depth answers. Compare that to reddit, Quora etc. I feel like you don't get the same engagement. Why is that?
Looking for a particular dense, sample-based album from the mid-90's
Help me remember this amazing media-dense album from the mid-90's!
Is there such thing as a JSON editor for non-technical people
I would like to make it easier for clients to change text in a JSON file. They are not programmers. Is there an online tool that lets someone edit and share JSON without having to know it (or how not to break it)?
Do most other women get physical pleasure from penetration?
I find penetration psychologically erotic, but basically don't find it physically pleasurable at all unless my clitoris is involved. I'm not even talking about trying to orgasm - I know most women can't without clitoral stimulation - but I really don't find the act of penetration physically enjoyable. Do other women have this?
"A very calm game...with mystery and conflict"
Gorgeous and inspired by, among others, Le Guin,
Book of Travels TMORPG (TINY Multiplayer... for small numbers of player per server) reaches early access on August 9 on Steam.
Is it time for the four-day work week?
A raise or a four-day week; biggest German union seals new deal
- "Germany's largest trade union, IG Metall, agreed a 2.3% wage increase, to be paid either in full or as part of a switch to a four-day week, in a key industrial region, setting the benchmark for 3.9 million metal and engineering workers nationwide."[1]
They Would Prefer Not To
Nobody Knows What To Do About NEETs
NEET stands for “Not in Employment, Education or Training.” These are individuals in their mid-20s or older, adrift in life, often living at home with parents. Some are struggling to integrate into society because of past trauma, mental illness or disability; others sound more like Herman Melville’s fictional scrivener, Bartleby, who flatly refuses to do anything on the grounds that he “would prefer not to.”
What are the current job/gig hunting websites?
Sure, I know about LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster - but - what's the new 'hotness'?
When should you end a conversation? Probably sooner than you think
People Literally Don’t Know When to Shut Up—or Keep Talking, Science Confirms (Scientific American): We are really bad at navigating a key transition point during one of the most basic social interactions. "Mastroianni and his colleagues found that only 2 percent of conversations ended at the time both parties desired, and only 30 percent of them finished when one of the pair wanted them to. In about half of the conversations, both people wanted to talk less, but their cutoff point was usually different. Participants in both studies reported, on average, that the desired length of their conversation was about half of its actual length. To the researchers’ surprise, they also found that it is not always the case that people are held hostage by talks: In 10 percent of conversations, both study participants wished their exchange had lasted longer. And in about 31 percent of the interactions between strangers, at least one of the two wanted to continue." When should you end a conversation? Probably sooner than you think (Science)
Live TV news headsets
When a journalist or anchor is speaking to camera, what do they hear in their headset? Are there a lot of prompts? Or do they only hear corrections for when they make a mistake?
Learning to Learn + 'Superlearning' + Memory development
How did/do you prep for information intake? How did you build skillsets to develop the knowledge for your degree/craft/profession? How do you maintain?
A Demoparty in a Browser
In 2016, the internet archive added a repository of console demos, which today has almost 600 entries.
Demos involve bare metal hardware hackery to get the bestest graphics and music out of a machine. These ones are all made for extinct consoles, but can now run in your browser thanks to the magic of Mame. Jason Scott tells the tale.
If it ain't broke...
The website of Berkshire Hathaway, one of the largest companies in the world, is a Web 1.0 throwback essentially unchanged since 1997.
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