Activity from brainwane

This is, if I understand correctly, a desire that has led many people to experiment with psychoactive substances, meditation, podcasts/radio shows, more repetitive forms of written entertainment (such as particularly formulaic genre novels), and… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I agree with Umwelt: "you don't need to DM [Direct Message] people to talk to them, you can usually just reply to their tweets publicly." Mostly when people refer to community and rich conversations that happen on Twitter, that's what… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

(I think of that book every time I see a residential house with a turret-type tower.) [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

One interesting wrinkle, for me, is that this was Newark Airport specifically. About a decade ago, when I was using Newark Airport somewhat regularly, I remember seeing a pledge posted on the wall stating that prices for food sold in the airport… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I have written a long blog post about the precautions I take and why. I follow 4 main principles to reduce my risk of catching COVID: 1. Avoiding sharing unfiltered air with people outside my household 2. Noticing how safe I am & raising… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

This was a hilarious episode, and it made me tear up with grief - when Uma is suddenly alone at the diner, or Dickie mentioning that when someone dies you remember a thousand little details about them. [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 months ago

Tomorrow Is Waiting
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MeFi post - 8 months ago

Assuming that "that family member has cerebral palsy" is not the only reason for naming someone after them, it strikes me as totally fine, but I think it's going to depend deeply on the specific individual beliefs and cultural traditions of… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Interesting interview with a few of the people behind the show. I’ve been doing this for a long time. Maybe the thing I’ve learned more than anything else is that reality is a very sturdy construct for people. No matter what happens to people,… [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 months ago

donnagirl, you asked whether the BIPOC board meeting notes recently were super detailed as a way of conveying a particular message. No, it was just a time issue -- we had a process that went like "someone listens to recording of meeting and… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 8 months ago

Most of us do not have or follow clear rules about social media usage, in particular: * whether I allow others to publicly mention that they socialized with me, or are socializing with me right now * if I notice something about someone's… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Tonight we had a meeting with her and another group leader. We had some other concerns about lesson planning, but we talked a lot about worship night. She volunteered to leave the band, but I know this is a big blow to her. She was teary eyed the… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

"I lived here, I loved here, I thought it was true"
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MeFi post - 8 months ago

I would love for more people to flag comments and posts they want a mod to look at, so that flagging data could be more useful and be reused for other things! Over and over, when encouraging MeFites to do so, I've read MeFites saying that they have… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

"I found it interesting and rewarding"
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MeFi post - 9 months ago

I read a few folks here as saying that we don't really need that much mod coverage, and that aiming for 24/7 mod coverage should not be a high priority. I think that low mod coverage makes it harder for racism concerns to get addressed quickly, and… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

"I decide that it is practical for me to find it attractive"
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MeFi post - 9 months ago

There is a kind of Poe's Law-type pattern that happened today, in that I fully thought a bunch of the lines in the parody version were elegant skewerings of the kind of things Silicon Valley folks (including me) might be prone to say, and then I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Recently a friend watched this with teens and had to explain to them that a movie character from this era coughing a bit of blood into a hanky = tuberculosis = they will die by the end of the film, and that moreover, even stories set in the modern… [more]
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FanFare comment - 9 months ago

I do recommend "Rät" and "Divine Comedy of the Tech Sisterhood" and Ellen Ullman's novel The Bug as explorations of the distorted psychological dynamics that emerge as one participates in the tech industry. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I realized that another piece of fiction that strikes a similar vein, for me, is Peter Watts's bonus material for his scifi novel Blindsight: the in-universe presentation "Vampire Domestication: Taming Yesterday's Nightmares for a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Movie: The Celluloid Closet
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FanFare post - 9 months ago

Seconding the scheduling idea! There are some activities I do where, if I do them, I feel WAY BETTER and some pre-existing crankiness, fuzziness, or other bleh feelings get cleared away for a while. But I haven't yet learned to associate the… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

January 2022 discussion of MeFi's mission and whether a consensus mission statement is possible. Though meant more to elicit "what the users of MeFi see as the value and goals of our interactions on the site" and "not meant to be a… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

Tumblr user unpretty reblogged a gifset from what looks like a pro wrestling match. This is the sort of recruiting material that can be effective for this sort of thing: a person whose taste I already know and like giving me a glimpse of an… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

My household sadly concluded that the café was way too roomy and upscale (e.g. the surely very breakable chair hanging from the ceiling) to actually be in Jackson Heights. [more]
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FanFare comment - 9 months ago

I am so glad I read this today. Thank you. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Warning that TVTropes can be an addictive rabbit hole to fall down! But their examples of "bottle episodes" of live action TV shows may be of interest. One episode it mentions is Babylon 5's Season 4 episode "Intersections In… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

donnagirl, I'm glad you appreciated the explanation, but I reject the second bit. I interpret your sentence as saying that the MetaFilter admins should have done similarly and haven't done so in equivalent circumstances, and I think you're wrong… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

I've just remembered that there are some writings by Suzette Haden Elgin (author of The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense, which I have not yet read) which cast light on the questions wheatlets has asked and the situation she is in… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I just accidentally played like 15 seconds of the middle of this song on a work call while waiting for others to finish a task. I did not know they could hear it. Two of them thought the call had been hacked somehow. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Good and bad experiences with Mountainsmith tents?
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Ask MeFi post - 9 months ago

Also: Why are the questions always framed in a future tense: "would you recommend Target crew socks to your family and friends?" Yes? No? I don't know. Can't I just tell you about today's visit? posted by JoeZydeco I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

The Fediverse posts on the #Chandrayaan3 hashtag have been so lovely to watch. Congratulations in many languages. Relevant Indian art from circa 1700: a Rajput miniature painting of the moon-god Chandra in his antelope-drawn chariot. "Actual… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

New! I am interested in making front page posts recommending short scifi/fantasy stories you can read for free online! For the rest of August: MeMail me to tell me you've contributed USD $150 and I'll make a post. $225 if you want to specify… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

Since the end of last year’s fundraising our Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) has decreased by roughly 6.5% ($1,730.00/month) due to subscriptions people decided not to maintain. Request for clarification: are we pretty sure that is a… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

"decided to allow myself the pleasure of this singular experience."
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MeFi post - 9 months ago

Some answers from this previous Ask may speak to you. For instance, given that you are in the process of learning a skill and joining a new field, maybe something has struck at your sense of self-worth as tied to identity or belonging, and maybe… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I have never watched pro wrestling but I did listen to The Mountain Goats' album about it. What would it take to convince me to watch stuff happening soon? Let's see! Some possibilities: * feminists I know via Dreamwidth or Tumblr or WisCon… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I have just realized another thing that would help me a lot: solid, credible reassurance that all the people I am seeing are actually physically ok and are not going to actually get hurt. That I don't have to worry that I am watching people get… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

"how it will be allowed to be interpreted"
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MeFi post - 9 months ago

I do stand-up comedy. I've found a niche: stand-up comedy about the tech industry, open source software, and related topics (last year, for the MetaFilter fundraiser, I made jokes about MeFi culture). And I write and perform in plays about being a… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I tuned in to the livestream and tears ran down my face. God it's wonderful to get to virtually be with a bunch of nerds in Bangalore who are so utterly happy that they've been able to do an amazing thing. While watching and waiting, I reread Iona… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Perhaps some people who have commented in this thread might like to consider what people from India think of Westerners asking whether India's space programs are a good idea. To such folks, I re-recommend that you read Iona Datt Sharma's short story… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Previously: another gallows-humor resource on similar topics, including "Depressing Mad Libs" (obituary templates), and "So You Suddenly Have To Become Some Kind of Hacker" on figuring out how to get access to the deceased… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

My Fediverse (social media) feed yesterday was a torrent of shock and sadness at this news; I exclaimed aloud with horror when I read it, as Nóva's insights and observations on sociotechnical topics had been something of a fixture for some time… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I am interested in making front page posts recommending short scifi/fantasy stories you can read for free online! For the rest of August: MeMail me to tell me you've contributed USD $150 and I'll make a post. $225 if you want to specify some… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

California v. Johnson
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MeFi post - 9 months ago

People who love front page posts about short sf/f you can read for free online: For sufficient stakes I could be persuaded to do another little series. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

I thought the pandering, the self-indulgent nostalgia trip, wasn't working on me. We have a bunch of the same actors and musical score that I remember, but the pleasures of TNG that I remember weren't just about those actors, those characters, and… [more]
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FanFare comment - 9 months ago

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