Activity from brainwane

jamjam: Clarkesworld is named after editor Neil Clarke, not Arthur C. Clarke. If you can find Fiona Jones to ask her more about her inspirations for the story, I do hope you will do so and report back here! I have been having trouble… [more]
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MeFi comment - Almost 5 hours ago

"One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea"
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MeFi post - 2 days ago

Thank you for bringing these to our attention and making my spouse laugh really hard several times this morning. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 days ago

I do really like the characterization of Saru making TERRIBLE RECKLESS DECISIONS because he's so used to relying on his fear as a core component of his judgment, and now it's just gone, and he hasn't actually worked to replace it with anything. And I… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 days ago

Escape, lineage, oppressed labor, and underdog revenge
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MeFi post - 5 days ago

Eldercare, Family Caretaking, and End-of-life Logistics: Stuff I Learned
favorited 48 times, recently by ColdChef, bkdelong
Projects post - 5 days ago

You're using assessment words like "is"/"aren't" more than you're talking about your own subjective preferences, and I think you and I will simply have to agree to disagree about things like whether John's performance is endearing… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 days ago

I agree that it would be a completely different show if everyone had the same approach, whether that approach was "clown" or "compete" or "faff about," and that it's pleasing to have the contrast! I think it's… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 days ago

If you have been depending on an online system to check your pay records, and you will lose access to them after your last day, download those records and save them to your personal file storage. You may need to refer to them in the future to deal… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by In Your Shell Like, little mouth, Blue Jello Elf, foodmapper, music for skeletons, sardonyx, oneear, ellerhodes, charcoals, praemunire
Ask MeFi comment - 6 days ago

I love John's drive for excellence as well as how he plays with Alex using a yes-and Taskmaster fan approach, like creating another task card. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mmoncur
FanFare comment - 6 days ago

"nobody has really considered what they might look like to an outsider"
favorited 16 times, recently by jeffburdges
MeFi post - 8 days ago

"negative space to denote premium feel & materiality"
favorited 65 times, recently by Green-eyed grenade
MeFi post - 8 days ago

This was fascinating. Some of the details that I found noteworthy: the guy who keeps going to a class even though there's a woman among the other students, and theft and traffic as annoyances -- which indicate that locals do not instantly defer… [more]
favorited 21 times, recently by rosiroo
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

I am regretting, right now, having used a "why don't they just" joke in any way, shape, or form in the beginning of this post. I hereby request that people consider reading and commenting on any of the links that I posted -- or lambasting… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by cosmic owl, Bella Donna, dorothyisunderwood
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

“What did you mean, ‘Not again?’”
favorited 56 times, recently by Shirley88
MeFi post - 9 days ago

Wow, cool! Thanks for sharing this! More behind-the-scenes info in this interview with the author. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 days ago

Art, games, music, zines, and a list of fictional badgers
favorited 10 times, recently by xenization, belarius, JHarris, gc, mirileh, pracowity, May Kasahara, Artw, a faded photo of their beloved, The Manwich Horror
MeFi post - 11 days ago

I have taken a Wilderness First Aid class with NOLS and learned some criteria for how to handle serious head injuries and related stuff. The guidelines said, regarding brain-related injuries: Rapidly evacuate if the patient has: ...… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 12 days ago

Jon Bois (previously on MeFi) makes a lot of narrative videos that use visuals of charts and maps to increase the sheer amount of information he can give the reader. 17776 and its sequel 20020 are multimedia science fiction pieces… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 12 days ago

Two debugging puzzles (and more to come?)
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MeFi post - 12 days ago

"Not-pleasant! I am causing you not-pleasant!"
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MeFi post - 12 days ago

I appreciate this post and explanation as context for jests I was noticing on social media - thanks! [more]
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MeFi comment - 12 days ago

amtho, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about. Gold star. I find the rhetorical form of this checklist template intriguing. The format itself conveys: Your idea is not only bad, it is bad in a way that is a cliché. You are… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

"Animals speak their own language... it’s a lot simpler to figure out."
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MeFi post - 14 days ago

Some MeFites may not know that we have a kind of similar thing: the MeFi Mall where (for free) MetaFilter members can link to things we make and sell online. Just text and links (no graphics). We have often promoted it toward the end of the calendar… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Shout out to the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) Award, mentioned in a few of those lists. Disclaimer: I'm on the board. Our mission: to celebrate science fiction, fantasy, and other forms of speculative narrative that expand and explore our… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

"codewords to use on doctors and such"
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MeFi post - 2 weeks ago

Yay! Also, I should have mentioned: audio version available. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Excellent question. "Seaview on Mars" by Katie Rathfelder, a short story available in the anthology Consolation Songs. The short story "Sunlight" by Shauna Gordon-McKeon. (Direct link to story hosted on Medium.) I… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

This was fun! Thanks for posting it. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

"resentment is an essential survival skill"
favorited 17 times, recently by Tesseractive
MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

Some favorite glimpses from the checklists I linked to (and I would love links to others): Here is why it won't work: ( ) It assumes that using the government to force abrogation of private contracts that were freely entered into by the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Seeing the calendar reform one reminds me that there is a sort of transformation one can apply to turn a "falsehoods [kinds of people] believe about [topic]" list into a rejection checklist, and vice versa. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

My friend Zack wrote one a few years back: Your post advocates a □ software □ hardware □ cognitive □ two-factor □ other ___________ universal replacement for passwords..... [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by genpfault, ob1quixote, wenestvedt, humbug
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I am middle-aged and I appreciate Swift's music although I have not heard all of it. The music video for "Blank Space" is very pretty. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Honeylocusts, Ginkgos, Callery Pears, Maples & more in the 5 boroughs
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

Oh and the "approach to fighting spam" template I link to was written by MeFite lapsed.catholic in 2003 in a Slashdot comment thread. In that Ask thread, lapsed.catholic notes that one source of inspiration was a form letter disproving… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

genpfault, thanks, I'll ask the mods to fix those! [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Lengthy how-I-get-to-sleep notes
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

Fediverse conversation includes: "This 2019 document claimed that all triggered content thus far has been through publisher request. Which would explain why so many other cases were faster. http://documents.clockss.org/index… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Managing risk and taking care of accidents in the wilderness
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

Digital preservation, access control, and scholarly needs
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

Turns out I can't go on the 27th. If anyone wants to take over as host, please speak up by midnight the end of the day Saturday, April 20th. I'll leave this up till then. Otherwise I'll contact the mods to ask to delete it; I wouldn't want anyone to turn up on the day, expecting MeFi company, and find absolutely none, not even the host. Other NYC people: if you would like to set up an IRL event that isn't this, please do! Some ideas: Outdoor dining! (Recent recommendations from Ask: 1, 2, 3, 4) Search the Parks calendar for something that speaks to you. The Queens Night Market, starting Saturday, April 27th. Whatever movie or play you're already going to go see. [more]
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IRL comment - Last month

grouse, thank you for that! The specific wording, for those seeking it in that boilerplate Publisher Agreement: the Archived Content is determined in good faith by the Board to be unavailable from any publisher for at least six consecutive… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

I am an Indian-American woman and this article MADE ABSOLUTE COMPLETE SENSE TO ME and I empathized extremely thoroughly with it. As a person in my twenties I did know how to turn on a stove, boil water, make a few basic stovetop and oven and… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

I appreciated the link to the February 2023 thread by Mekka Okereke. Through it I found a link to "excerpts from the tapes and transcripts delivered to the Court by Laura Hart McKinny" with quotes by Fuhrman spanning 1985-1994 which I had… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Previously on the blue (March 30th). Quite a lot of discussion and useful links in that thread. they did it by messing with autoconf and... nobody understands autoconf. My friend Zack Weinberg and I did some work on autoconf a few years… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

You are not alone - it's a fundamental human thing to sort of subconsciously believe one is invincible. There is this moment in the Mahabharata called the yaksha-prashna -- a riddle contest with a disguised god. The punchline is: the… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

Azz wrote a comment responding to many bits of the discussion here. Includes sleep maintenance tactics. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

[Please note that neither of these people is giving readers advice of the form "you should do this" -- they are each saying what they do. Azz notes in their profile page: "You are the expert of your own situation… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

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