Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

“The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad”

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

> If I were a carpenter, and my colleagues got really into this new thing where you just chuck 2×4s at a spinning whirling mass of blades until a chair comes out the other side… you know, I just might want to switch careers.

Toen bekend werd dat we een heel eng kabinet gingen krijgen heb ik (voornamelijk om mezelf uit de verlamming te helpen) dertig dagen lang naar dingen gezocht die mensen al doen om onze wereld mooier te maken. Dat werden dertig draadjes op Mastodon, maar dat is natuurlijk niet zo praktisch. Daarom heb ik nu een pagina gemaakt waar je elke keer een random tip te zien krijgt.

https://nescia.nl/anna/we-laten-het-niet-gebeuren/

started planning my chores in advance by diarying and queueing them and my adhd suddenly feels much more manageable. i think i finally found something that makes it easier. i suspect the issue was time blindness + decision paralysis + constantly being haunted by all the things i gotta do and unable to actually sit down and sift through them. this helped. i obviously miss the deadlines for chores a little or get distracted here and there, but at least i get them done.

Ik heb een stukje van mezelf achtergelaten in Friesland

I can't get over how swathes of academic research into misinformation, as well as a lot of public sources on 'media bias' (including the heavily-advertised ground.news that sponsors all those Youtubers), are all just based on the opinions of A Guy Called Dave.

No, that's not a metaphor or a joke. The guy is literally called Dave.

https://assemblag.es/@theluddite/114733942475091154

There are still 7 times as many recent downloads for the five-year-old version 6.6.2 version of p-queue (the last one to support CommonJS) as for the most recent (ESM-only) 8.1.0 release from five months ago.

Looking at all versions inbetween, the 6.6.2 version still has about 4.5 times as many recent downloads as *every ESM-only version in the past five years combined*.

Quick poll:

Whether you are one or not, do you know what a "spoonie" is?

Boosts appreciated for broader sample size. Danka!

faschist saying "checkmate, liberal" won't work on me because:

1. im not liberal, im anarchist
2. im not playing chess, im playing piñata with fascist's body

Wetenschappelijke data redden is simpeler dan je denkt (en ook jij kunt iets doen)

delta.tudelft.nl/article/wetenschappelijke-data-redden-is-simpeler-dan-je-denkt-en-ook-jij-kunt-iets-doen

Nu in Amerika belangrijke wetenschappelijke data dreigen te verdwijnen, is een grote groep Europese wetenschappers begonnen met het dupliceren en opnieuw verspreiden van die data. Initiatiefnemer Henrik Schönemann richt zijn blik zelfs verder:…

@psychicparrot42 not masking in hospitals is completely absurd. literally killing people for emotional comfort

A lotta mutuals seem to be having a bad time, so before I go to bed, I'm gonna post this baby wombat in hopes that it helps a little.

#wombat

I think young people can start hitting "functioning adult" or even "advanced functioning adult" levels of expertise in topics they have special interest or exposure much earlier than older people want to admit

like, a teenage climate activist probably has studied more climatology than a random 40y/o. it's not that impressive to know more math than your philosophy teacher or more political science than your math teacher.

so it's a mistake to treat young people as less developed than adults in every measure, b/c that's simply not true

but it's also a mistake to look at the topics someone (such as yourself) is strongest in, see that they're more advanced in those areas than most adults, and figure they're probably at or above adult average more generally — b/c there are *so many* aspects of life and ppl don't know what they don't know. people and especially young people have more gaps in their knowledge than they realize. kids with adult-like competencies still need scaffolding everywhere else.

okay but consider: LLMs in the workplace as the perfect tool for a saboteur who wishes to retain plausible deniability.

lots of ppl want to see their shitty (evil, destructive, anti-democracy, etc) workplaces fail, few are willing to risk drawing attention to themselves. working sloppily & priotizing the appearance of productivity over maintenance are real and accessible sabotage techniques. even if nothing goes boom, soaking up resources and introducing sources of error adds up.

accepting that everything is political, I think the "political" posts that people have in mind when asking for cw: politics tags have the commonality that they are

asking the reader to have an emotion or form an opinion (or even asking the reader to take action) about something

and I think it's reasonable to want to be able to use social media and retain agency in when you're positioned as a game piece to be knocked around by someone's pinball bumpers and flippers

(the other category being "current events related to political entities")

it's true that everything is political in ways that cannot be escaped

even "look at this cool thing I made" embeds either "…which I could do b/c politics hasn't [yet] outlawed me existing or making things" or the very pointed negation of that

but I don't think that's what people are asking for when they ask for content warnings / notes / subject lines on "politics" ?

(or maybe they are, I think a difficulty w/ this debate is that different people ask for the same thing for different reasons, and different people assume different motivations for the same request)

I think for a lot of folks it has to do with a *hypervigilance* about the political — not the privileged wish to be secure in ignorance, but the folks who can't be ignorant or secure trying to manage the when & how & how much of their anxiety intake in order to remain functional, to protect their ability to take action to protect themselves & others.

the autism/ADHD/AuDHD thing is important to know b/c ADHD is a much easier/clearer diagnosis to get — being *outwardly* divergent in ways that annoy teachers can get one put in front of a psych faster than being quietly divergent in ways that impair yourself much more significantly

so there's a lot of ppl with an ADHD diagnosis who "coincidentally" have a bunch of sensory processing issues, difficulty intuiting emotion or intent (of self or others!), muscle pain/damage from too-flexible joints…

aperiodic reminder (hi new followers) that probably everyone who follows me is some flavor of autistic (imo ADHD / executive disfunction impairments are a color in the autism spectrum) just in case you've been struggling in a way it seems like most people you went to school with aren't and you don't have a name for what's up with that