Just finished the local PBS station’s documentary on the Minneapolis Co-Op wars, telling the story of how the booming co-op grocery scene in the 1970s was almost torn apart by a fight between organic food idealists and communist organizers. Really fun and informative: https://www.tpt.org/co-op-wars/
anyone know any data archivists that might have a copy of the Intel OpenCL Runtime for Linux, version 14.2? the link on intel's website does not work and i cannot find it elsewhere
the 2013 sdk would probably also suffice (i have a filename for that one, "intel_sdk_for_ocl_applications_2013_xe_sdk_3.0.67279_x64.tgz")
Essential viewing for anyone who does stuff with electricity I think!
How to use your trashy meter without blowing it up (much)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QDW0LRQVrY
"If somebody robs a store, it's a crime and the state is all set and ready to nab the criminal. But if somebody steals from the commons and from the future, it's seen as entrepreneurial activity and the state cheers and gives them tax concessions rather than arresting them. We badly need an expanded concept of justice and fairness that takes mortgaging the future into account."
—Ursula Franklin, 22 years ago, on our societal tendency of flat out ignoring and even explicitly rewarding negative externalities
Today a friend and I stopped by crossbones graveyard by London bridge.
It started off as a place to burry undisirables who couldn't be burred in concocrated graves.
Today it stands as a monument garden to people.
The railings are tied with ribbons and keepsakes for people on the outskirts of life with few to morn them.
There is a ceremony held on the 23rd of each month to memorialise and honour these people.
In a place of souless redevelopment it shines as a beacon to the soul of the city. A genuinely sacred place in the urban.
#london
#pagan
ASD information requested
so my dad fixed my computer so i'm trying to go back to using it but after not using it for 1,5 months the screen makes me seasick
i think it has to do with visual sensory overload, i did everything i could think off, from turning the brightness down to the minimum to minimizing my browser window but nothing seems to be helping
i've had decent sleep, decent food, checked all those boxes
does anyone with ASD (self diagnosed included) has ever experienced this? did you found something that can help, i'm getting desperate after trying for 3 days straight with no positive results, i feel so guilty towards my dad who put so much effort and money into fixing my desktop which i know can not use anymore
when i look online all i can find is BS about how too much screen-time causes ASD
which ARGH
please help me find a solution to deal with this, please
boosts highly appreciated <3
@hafnia Yeah I consider Linux a lot like polyamory these days: technically I'm using it and I prefer it to the alternatives, but I do not tend to like people who make a point of leading with it as a personality trait.
Facebook, whistleblower
Facebook's internal research: "We estimate that we may action as little as 3-5% of hate and about [0.6%] of V & I [violence and incitement]… We have evidence [that] Facebook and the family of apps are affecting societies around the world."
Frances Haugen, whistleblower: "Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they'll click on less ads, they'll make less money."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-misinformation-public-60-minutes-2021-10-03/
Money opportunity for queers willing to talk to a university trying to improve their communications with queer/trans/non-binary folks
$75 for 2 hr session with possibility of multiple sessions
It's not great money, but I imagine $75 for talking about being queer could help some people out.
also hot take if you're a trans queer ideal leftist and you think you're exempt and haven't made the effort, you're actually probably just as bad about not listening to women or expecting them to do ten times the work to convince you of something a man could do with a passing comment
everyone has to do the work, you're not exempt you're just insufferable
PSA: If #ADHD strategies and coping methods work for you, please use them without sweating whether you have the diagnosis or not.
outing myself as an insufferable nerd, but there was a 4-5 month period where i was like "i'm imagining it, i must be crazy" and i just straight up kept track on a SPREADSHEET, i swear to god i had a little number clicker
women around me got interrupted ~2x as much as men
i get interrupted ~3-4x as much as after i came out as transfemme
women and people i knew to be trans-friendly had no significant difference from men as a whole
everyone has to work on it, it's a cultural pressure
Events, advice for organizers
A nice essay on pitfalls to avoid and why it's important to get rid of toxic volunteers.
Death, racism, covid, disability, hunting, memorium, long
Also, like, I don't know.. He was racist and I didn't spent as much time with him as I would have liked in later years because he was racist. I don't want to give the impression that that didn't matter.
But also, he tried to do better and now he's also dead. I miss him, and I miss the person he hoped to be.
Man, conservative news sucks.
Death, racism, covid, disability, hunting, memorium, long
Two years ago today, my grandfather died.
He was old and kinda racist, but he was also the kindest relative I had.
I think he tried really hard to be a good person around me. In my eyes, he was perceptive, thoughtful, and compassionate. I guess earlier in life, he was kind of an angry, prideful, volatile man. I think somewhere in him, he wanted to change, but just.. I don't know, I guess we're all works in progress.
One of my first memories of him is him intervening when my parents were angry with me for touching something I shouldn't have. I was a pretty curious kid. I didn't really understand why they were acting the way they did and was pretty upset. I was maybe three or four? And he just sat next to me with his hand on my back while I cried things out. He must've done something to get them to stop yelling at me, but I don't really remember what. I just remember him as a reassuring, strong, peaceful presence.
The Trump years and Fox News hit him hard. Maybe it was a combination of losing his vision and a resurgence of national pride, but whatever it was, it changed him some. It was often difficult for his own children to talk to him about meaningful issues, since he'd often shift the conversation to immigration and isolationism. In a small town, I guess it makes sense, but it.. I don't know, it was a tension I'm glad isn't at the dinner table anymore. Hearing stories from relatives, I guess this was kinda typical of him in his younger days, but it's not as much like the man I'd grown up with.
It was a small blessing that he died when he did, surrounded by family, a few months before the pandemic started. By then, he'd had a myriad of health issues, and had had a Do Not Recuscitate for about eight years, couldn't see well enough to hunt, and had troubles breathing due to inoperable lung cancer.
In the early days of spring in 2020, I often thought about how fortunate we were to have been able to spend a few weeks together with extended family talking, eating, and playing cards and music while holding vigil at his bedside. Weirdly, it was about as nice of a death as you could ask for.
I have a few regrets, mostly centered around things I wasn't able to do for him. He'd wanted a blood oxygenation sensor to let him know to sit down before he got too dizzy, he wanted working eyes, and we wanted hearing aids that a stubborn, tough old man would actually wear. I guess my experiences with him impacted a lot of the accessibility work I've been working with these days. A bone conduction baseball cap would've worked great for him.
I wasn't able to build anything for him, but I did compose a song at his bedside and played as much as I could. I had bruises on my thighs from holding my harp so much, and I needed to track when I'd gotten my fingertips wet so they wouldn't blister. It was good to be there with him. Good for both of us, I think. It was the best I could do.
When he finally died, it was the first morning I'd gone into work in two weeks. There was a violent thunderstorm and I was trying to start my car to leave to go visit the hospice when I got the call. It feels like he just wanted to spare me from being there at the time.
A friend drove out and gave me a lift about half an hour later and I was just a bawling mess. It was a really cathartic drive together.
Anyways, today is a bittersweet day for me. It's a day of remembering death and of togetherness. My grandfather treated me so well, and yet, I don't know, he was just also deeply flawed. I guess no one's perfect, but it was tough sometimes.
He grew up hunting in a frozen swap, was orphaned as a teenager, and was just so quietly supportive to me.. I don't know, I get the feeling he knew he was kind of an asshole and just tried not to say too much. Going through his things after his death, we found a St. Jude pendant. As a devout catholic, his patron saint was that of last causes. It feels like him.
Here's to changing and fighting and love and long walks in the swamp. Hold each other close today. 💙
I am VERY happy and proud to announce the public release of the "OpenBSD Webzine" !
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
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