Activity from brainwane

Patience, craft, experience, affirmation
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MeFi post - 9 months ago

In the comments on Tor.com you can read my multiple comments as I came back, several times, years apart, rereading the story and burbling with praise. I so love that Marisol and Richard become friends, that his crankiness is the crankiness of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Seconding that you would do well to spend some time reading Job Accommodation Network resources including their guidance on how a manager can help a worker with their limitations without diagnosing them. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Regarding "would you mind?" The people who feel bulldozed by a "would you mind?" question are not taking it literally, similarly to how most English speakers do not take a "hi, how are you?" opening salutation… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

"it smelled good, but... in my mind it already belonged to someone else"
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MeFi post - 9 months ago

A few years ago I was reflecting on how acceptance is not the same as resignation. I had been talking with a friend, many months previous, and race stuff came up, and the desire to not screw up, and the desire to not be perceived as screwing up… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Writing to possible or impossible audiences
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MeFi post - 9 months ago

Speech-to-text with Whisper
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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. -- ok, 20+ people faved this and 2 people encouraged me via comments. So let's talk about… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

Looking back and looking over your shoulder
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MeFi post - 10 months ago

"she is lonely, and skeptical of my ability to ease her loneliness"
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MeFi post - 10 months ago

I hired someone I found via MeFi jobs to redo my business and personal websites, and my sites are so much better now. When I go to in-person events in various settings and industries and so on, sometimes someone knows, or notices, or puts together,… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 10 months ago

HUMAN_FALLBACK
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MeFi post - 10 months ago

When I do standup comedy over Zoom or a similar platform, I get permission from the organizers to have 3-4 of the audience join me as co-presenters, and arrange ahead of time who those 3-4 "studio audience" people will be. I only need their… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

fabius: yeah, I think that's a good question! I was travelling or otherwise unavailable during a lot of the period where my colleagues were polishing these minutes so I'll ask them to respond. My guess is that someone or some group of folks really… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 10 months ago

Here are the Boston wastewater numbers. It's hard to know what the absolute risk numbers are. Ways to protect yourself include: wear an N99 or P100 respirator, which provide greater protection than N95 -- you could even invest in a PAPR if this… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

As prior commenters noted: works without energy infrastructure animals will reproduce themselves with relatively little help Regardless of direct fuel source (fossil or renewable), bicycles, trains, and other efficient… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Based on what you've said, even though you perceive yourself to look nearly nothing like Mark, to other people’s perceptions, you and he look alike. What would it mean to you to accept this as a fact that doesn't reflect on either of you, nor on the… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

You can play with some numbers in the Microcovid calculator to better understand factors that would lead to greater or lesser exposure and transmission risk, such as your mask, the duration of the activity (e.g., maybe skip the headliner and just… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

(I said "spending a year on the Board" because I figure it's generally easier for people to commit to that than to say "sure, gimme an open-ended commitment." But there are currently no fixed terms for BIPOC Board participation… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 10 months ago

jonathanhughes: Here's some background context: There's a programming language called R. Researchers often use it to do statistical analysis and similar stuff in the sciences. Most people writing software programs these days don't write… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I just went and read the linked Ask that you pointed to, and I want to revise my response. It's painful that people are demonstrating that a big part of their internal picture of you is the particular facial attribute of your appearance in which… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

"Fitness is a journey and we all start somewhere"
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MeFi post - 10 months ago

In 2001 I got to attend a live recording/broadcast? of West Coast Live. My Audience True Story(TM) was read on the air! I was also outraged to learn that the Aquaphone was not actually the sound of the Bay but was just a practical sound effect made… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

[It is probably untoward of me to say "send them to meeeeeeeeeee".] [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Argument Clinic: What Healthy Professional Conflict Looks Like (PyCon US)
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IRL post - 10 months ago

Whyte noted regarding Babel by R.F. Kuang: Hugo voters have different tastes to Nebula and Locus voters, and it’s not at all unusual that a Nebula winning novel fails to make the Hugo ballot – I count eight precedents so far this century,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

:D Hey, I finally found a reblog of the Tumblr post that I always think of when I think of nurturing and celebrating the second reaction: danosaurs-and-philions: im a bad person who thinks bad thoughts like ‘ew what is that girl wearing’ and… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 10 months ago

Via a recommendation from Eszter Hargittai on Crooked Timber: Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published by Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato (concentrating on the kind of nonfiction from big… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

things, sensations, experiences, places, memories
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MeFi post - 10 months ago

Nicholas Whyte shared his assessment of the ballot, including of the "Babel" rumor. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I am uncomfortable with this becoming something that moderators use to determine the acceptability of content. I don't think this is what you're asking for, but I want to make sure there is no consensus developed that such terminology should result… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 10 months ago

Also, I loved the mention of Ask Jeeves. [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

Is your question US-specific? [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

"How Do I Accommodate This Person?" Ask JAN
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MeFi post - 10 months ago

A primer on Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
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MeFi post - 10 months ago

I remember watching and enjoying this movie around when it came out. The scene that stuck most in my memory was Chenille telling Sara that Derrick was "one of the good ones" and noting that Black girls had to compete with white girls for… [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 months ago

Hi, just caught up on this thread. I'm a member of the Global BIPOC Board (what we do; my thoughts, as of a few months ago, on whether/how the BIPOC Board has made a difference on the site). kevinbelt, in a comment in this thread, you have… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 11 months ago

You can pay for lessons. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I wrote a blog post that covers what I do and what I ask others (whom I am seeing in person) to do in order to mitigate the risk of catching or transmitting COVID. Then, when I am going to see someone, I send them a link to that post along with a… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

It's a fun song and I enjoy it, and I'm glad the article's author Kalle Oskari Mattila likes it too. I'm glad I got to read this article. Really appreciated the ending: ....In a nation of immigrants, the themes of arrival, survival, and belonging… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I have an idea for something to add to our policies somewhere (not sure where): Enjoying things is good. You do not have to apologize for enjoying media that you do not agree with politically, or that others find fault with. Critiquing things… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 11 months ago

Jeanne wrote: The problem is the thousands of mutually contradictory ideas about what good fiction is and what good fiction should do. When I read an essay about what fiction needs in order to advance social justice, I think, "Yes, I should… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I first learned of the really terrible conditions in the post-Reconstruction South from The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, which I read early this year, around the same time I watched… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Legit/credible Big Five personality testing
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Ask MeFi post - 11 months ago

hippybear, thank you for this series of posts. I regret that I have not had the leisure to enjoy them fully and sink into the links you've shared during June, and look forward to doing so and to appreciating what you have so consistently and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Those who exist, have existed, or will exist in the vicinity of Omelas
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MeFi post - 11 months ago

box, thank you for posting this. It was an informative read that got me reflecting on how strict my parents were when I was growing up. And my heart just sank at these parts: In January of our senior year, Darci had a miscarriage, something she… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

love, beauty, sparkly song, shattering, joy
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MeFi post - 11 months ago

I came here to say 'soloist' as well. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

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