amnesia cw?

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sigmaleph:

latest bout of ‘are people much better than me at this or just way overconfident about it’: how do you even know how long it takes you to fall sleep. like. basically by definition you’re not paying attention by the time it happens, it seems like it should be really hard to have anything like an accurate measure of it. sure you can tell the difference between an hour and a minute but i see people reporting numbers with granularity in the minutes and i have no idea how they could possibly know. unless they had a sleep test i guess, someone else doing the measuring for them, but then why would you ask other people and expect that same granularity? surely the default answer is ‘i don’t know’.

there’s the whole paradoxical insomnia thing, people who report they haven’t slept at all or slept very little but have in fact slept, which i think is evidence for ‘they are just overconfident’. people can say ‘i barely slept’ when they had several hours of sleep, because the borders of sleep and wakefulness are inherently fuzzy from the inside.

Fitness-tracker wristbands? Those alarm-clock apps that decide when (within a given window) to wake you based on how much you’re moving around and therefore how lightly you’re asleep?

(not to say that there isn’t *also* a lot of overconfidence going on, but very basic sleep tests are a lot more practical than they used to be)

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#I don’t *super* trust Sleep Cycle’s graph of what times I was asleep #I *know* I’ve seen it fail to recognise times that I woke up in the middle of the night #but there’s something to be said for it and I wouldn’t be surprised if‚ like‚ some mattresses work better for it than others #reply via reblog #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #amnesia cw?

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etirabys:

roughentumble:

unpretty:

unprettyextra:

Hosting site Imgur will remove explicit and anonymous content next month

so many posts on so many different forums are about to break

just like photobucket

Dumb question: is archive.org the kind of entity that can undo much of this damage? Can they try to scrape and store the most accessed N% of content that’s flagged as probable-to-go-down? If not, what’s stopping them – laws, resource bottlenecks, or technical difficulties?

ArchiveTeam (a distinct entity from the Internet Archive, but works closely with them) has now spun up a project to scrape Imgur for ingestion into the Wayback Machine. They welcome help; the level of tech-savviness required is “knows how to run a provided VirtualBox file”.

(VirtualBox scraper instances currently default to scraping Enjin, but if you want to specifically do Imgur you can go to 127.0.0.1:8001 while the scraper is running and change the available-projects setting.)

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#reply via reblog #PSA #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #amnesia cw?

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ot3:

ot3:

i think goncharov is definitely a real movie in the riverdale universe i think jughead loves it

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“the mandela theory is real and riverdale but only applies to jughead who is the sole person who can remember martin scorsese’s goncharov” is i think exactly the sort of thing that would happen. they should hire us to write this show

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#Goncharov #Riverdale #I don’t go here but #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #unreality cw? #amnesia cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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qwantzfeed:

you can get a couple’s tetanus shots even if you’re just friends.  ESPECIALLY if you’re just friends.  honestly they don’t even care, you can just book your appointment for the same time, it’s no big deal

also: this really is a sequel to a comic that came out 10 years ago and I really did make a Facebook event for it called “SELF, IF YOU ARE STILL ON FACEBOOK WHEN THIS EVENT HAPPENS, THEN WE HAVE MADE SOME BAD FRIGGIN’ DECISIONS” that finally came due today.   so uh, please enjoy the passage of time

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#…your regular reminder to get a tetanus shot and/or stop using Facebook‚ I guess #(my next tetanus shot is in November 2024 #–I did not have to look anything up to tell you that: immune bullshit has its perks– #and I’ve never had a Facebook account) #((unless you count the Instagram for doing freelance marketing gigs‚ I suppose)) #…also‚ you know when you switch calendar providers you can just import the calendar from your previous software‚ right? #comics #Dinosaur Comics #vaccines #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #amnesia cw? #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what

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official-kircheis:

in the glorious transhumanist cyborgian future one of the first things I want is a complete searchable AI-assisted index of everything I ever read and watched so I can effortlessly be like “hey what was that article I read where…” or “which video was it that made this point”

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#we can’t 100% do this yet but we’re closer than you might think #Whisper + Recoll is such a good combination #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #transhumanism #proud citizen of The Future #amnesia cw?

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eightyonekilograms:

In the big list of “terms of art in a specific discipline that suddenly everybody is familiar with”, I think that to go with “coronavirus”, “core inflation”, etc. we’ll shortly be adding “cascading failure.”

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sigmaleph:

tags from @brin-bellway

#I desperately want to make an “in the future‚ ‘zoonosis’ will be a word everyone knows” reference here#but I can’t think of a suitable word to stick in there#maybe if I were more fluent in webdev jargon#(…why does that quote not turn up on search engines)#(please tell me somebody knows what I’m talking about)

There’s a fancy word for this phenomenon, used by scientists who study infectious diseases from an ecological perspective: zoonosis. […] It’s a word of the future, destined for heavy use in the twenty-first century.

2014 Oct: Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus, by David Quammen

I got that off Siderea’s Great Age of Plagues series, though perhaps you got it from elsewhere.

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brin-bellway:

That’s getting at the same idea, yeah, but I don’t think it’s the exact line I was thinking of. (I wouldn’t be surprised if the thing I saw was a David Quammen author interview, though.)

Update:

Siderea, 2022-12-31:

“On the first anniversary of my 2020 post “Preparing for the Pandemic: Stage 0”, I wrote a post “The Very Bad News”, in which I said:

[…] the public imagination about climate change has been pretty much exclusively trained to entertain meteorological calamities – storms, mostly – but there are whole other categories.

Such as the epidemiological.

See, even if *this* pandemic wasn’t caused by the Climate Catastrophe, it seems the epidemiologists are expecting the Climate Catastrophe to cause other pandemics and epidemics. There’s a variety of reasons why – I had found a prescient essay from, IIRC, 2015 or so, which I have subsequently lost, which had a sentence to the effect of, “In the future, ‘zoonosis’ is going to be a word everyone knows.” – but we can discuss those later.

Well the actual quote, it turns out, is, as I quoted above, “Zoonosis.  […] It’s a word of the future, destined for heavy use in the twenty-first century.””

It *feels* like that specific “going to be a word everyone knows” line has been around since the 2010s, but (1) that might not be accurate and (2) 2021 might not be the first time Siderea said it. (She has apparently set her blog to not be indexed by public search engines, and I don’t currently have any plans to ingest it into my personal search engine.)

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#oh look an update #reply via reblog #apocalypse cw #illness tw #amnesia cw? #climate change

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tkingfisher:

After all these years, the app I really really want to exist is still Pokémon for Naturalists.

Seek from iNaturalist is good, if limited, but dammit, I want REAL gamification. I want people to get a serious hit of dopamine from their citizen science. Especially plants.

I want to record sightings of ten different shrubs and BAM you get a Shrubasaur, but he’s not gonna evolve into Oakdaimon until you log fifty species of tree. I want obscure-ass Naturemon that only show up if you’ve successfully logged thirty species of nearly identical lichens. I want to walk into a swamp and find a gamer in hip waders grinding water bug IDs so that he can finally get Belastoman, the Toe-Cutter.

Then ideally I want to be able to battle other naturalists. I want to yell “Sedgizard, I choose you!” and have my opponent stare in mingled awe and horror, because bitch, it took me years to document three hundred native sedges, and NOW IT WILL EAT YOUR FACE.

…I am pretty sure I am not the only person who would be down for this.

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#story ideas I will never write #(sort of) #Pokemon #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #apocalypse cw? #amnesia cw?

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hjartasalt:

hjartasalt:

hjartasalt:

pick an Icelandic person you’ve heard about

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Please reblog after you’ve voted I am genuinely very curious to see how many tumblr users know each of these

Just realized I made the fatal mistake of not including Stefán Karl Stefánsson in this poll rip king tumblr loved you

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It’s why I’m asking people to reblog :)) it’s already reached a lot of people who have never heard of me

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#surveys #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(Lauf (from Iceland)) #(it was not until *after* laughing at that option being there that I realised Lauf is the OP) #(I was thinking of that getting-more-people-to-hear-about-Lauf’s-name-change-than-the-entire-population-of-Iceland post) #I feel like I *almost* remember the names of the singers from Of Monsters and Men but I’m not quite managing to dredge them up #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once #amnesia cw?

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jadagul:

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beatriceeagle:

I think the discussion that made time loops my brand was entirely confined to Twitter, so since this website has gone all in on time loops of late, here, have the story:

Several years ago, I suggested to my wife that we have an agreement that if either one of us ever came to the other and said that we were in a time loop, we just accept that it’s real and get on with things, thereby eliminating the frustration of the looping partner having to convince the other one every day.

She REFUSED. Because “time loops aren’t real.”

Well, we had this debate on and off for several years, and finally, she got tired of me bringing it up and agreed. So now we have a deal: We’ll believe each other, but if I ever do it as a joke, the deal’s off.

It turns out that the reason that my wife has been refusing to make this agreement is less that time loops aren’t real, and more that she’s concerned I would come to her one day, claim to be in a time loop, and then the next day declare the time loop had finally broken. And since that is, of course, exactly what it would look like to her if I really was in a time loop, she’d have no way of proving it.

I explained to her that she’s completely right, that would be incredibly funny, but I’d never do it because there’s a part of me that is legitimately nervous that I will actually end up in a time loop one day, and I need her to believe me.

This won’t help YOU, but it will help anyone who knows you and gets stuck in a time loop if you come up with a code phrase that means someone is in a time loop, commit it to memory, and NEVER tell anybody what the phrase is.

Then, if someone comes to you and tells you the code phrase (which, again, you have NEVER revealed to anyone), then you can trust that in a previous iteration of the time loop they must’ve successfully convinced you that they were in a time loop and so you gave them the pass phrase to speedrun in future iterations.

You can even just commit to giving it to anyone who says they’re in a time loop, right? But you shouldn’t believe them if they use it afterwards.

But you say “hey, here’s the passphrase; use it on the next time through the loop and that me will believe you.”

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#I recommend having more than one #multiple security levels and all that #time travel #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers

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eightyonekilograms:

In the big list of “terms of art in a specific discipline that suddenly everybody is familiar with”, I think that to go with “coronavirus”, “core inflation”, etc. we’ll shortly be adding “cascading failure.”

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sigmaleph:

tags from @brin-bellway

#I desperately want to make an “in the future‚ ‘zoonosis’ will be a word everyone knows” reference here#but I can’t think of a suitable word to stick in there#maybe if I were more fluent in webdev jargon#(…why does that quote not turn up on search engines)#(please tell me somebody knows what I’m talking about)

There’s a fancy word for this phenomenon, used by scientists who study infectious diseases from an ecological perspective: zoonosis. […] It’s a word of the future, destined for heavy use in the twenty-first century.

2014 Oct: Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus, by David Quammen

I got that off Siderea’s Great Age of Plagues series, though perhaps you got it from elsewhere.

That’s getting at the same idea, yeah, but I don’t think it’s the exact line I was thinking of. (I wouldn’t be surprised if the thing I saw was a David Quammen author interview, though.)

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#reply via reblog #illness tw #amnesia cw? #apocalypse cw?

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