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Daniel Reavers 
@onekind@beige.party
mastodon 4.7.3I'm a queer and nonbinary person with disability. (Here are my pronouns: they/them; here are my acronyms: #AuDHD, #BP2, #CPTSD). I am sweary and acerbic and occasionally need to remind myself to assume positive intent. I am moderately techie but prefer not to have #FOSS projects recommended to me out of the blue unless you've really taken the time to understand my requirements.
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Unceded Gadigal lands
You know me, I'm all about food, so I donate to the UN World Food Programme and World Central Kitchen. WFP are active in Nepal, where 25% of kids under 5 have physical stunting from nutrient and calorie deficiencies in their everyday diet.
If you want to donate to emergency food distribution, World Central Kitchen have spun up agreements with local restaurants and food producers, and essential meals are being provided right now to people displaced from their homes and their communities.
Something to keep in mind: there is ongoing famine in Sudan and Gaza and elsewhere, and these crises will only intensify if WFP and WCK have to reallocate limited resources. Please give generously.
WFP
https://donate.wfp.org/
World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/donate/
TEMU LEX LUTHOR
You guys I just started hearing time signatures in music.
It started when someone pointed out the change of time signature in a guy playing 'Golden Brown' on a harpsichord was not very JS Bach and I could hear that.
Then I watched this Reel of a Muse track played on what I can only describe as an electronic hurdy-gurdy and it sounds AWFUL.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1985661862153805
I have always theoretically understood time signatures but never 'heard' them!
Not quite there. I lol'd so hard tho
My column on the 'original sin' of the NDIS scheme design is now available on Inside Story.
Not gonna lie, the photo caption made me cackle.
Ok I'm almost done. Kidney infection with downstairs involvement (owie). Ultrasound done and I'm just waiting for doc review. Cannot believe how sick it made me.
The team I manage is working very hard to complete revisions to an ethics application and smack it back over the net for the HREC to consider. We're all a bit tired and emotional. I just had to quietly correct a senior researcher's misspelling of her own name. 😅
HOME. MEDICATED. FED. NOW SLEEP.
Hey friends, if you work in health communication or building community around sexual and reproductive health with trans and gender diverse people, please consider attending this vital seminar on how TGD folks experience menopause.
The nurse in the stall next to mine is prepping an elderly Chinese man for discharge and I could hear he was cussing her OUT in a Chinese language.
Ok, heading for discharge. They want to keep me overnight but I'll wind up manic if I spend the whole night in ED.
Made it through the double anniversary day without crying. Woke up to a stonkingly gorgeous day today, cued up some mellow tunes, instant waterworks.
Filing this away as a very elegant example of how to reframe your negative findings as a positive contribution to knowledge.
This study set out to test whether cognitive restructuring — a PTSD treatment modality — *changed* patterns of activation in a particular network of neural centres measured using fancy MRI (fMRI) methods.
They found it did not! But a negative result never holds a good scientist down — instead they reported the study as if it were observational from the beginning, reporting that variations in the function of one particular centre in the network of interest predicted therapeutic outcomes.
It's a little bit bait and switch but as I said it still represents a contribution to the literature on the psycho/neuro correlates of treatment success.
Nope, just been admitted. Not sure why. The adventure continues. At least I'm not in ED waiting room.
Back to ED this morning but it's just for confirmatory ultrasound.
Six years since one of my closest friends died in hospital and I lost it crying on my way into the hospital. The absolute last place I want to be right now.
Love to start my Sunday with an unplanned medical adventure. *sigh*
I am preparing to move my PhD to a different university because I've hit 10 years on the first attempt and my current university isn't keen to support me to complete. I spent a sunny but freezing afternoon hunched over my keyboard bashing out a Research Proposal document to submit to the new university and I think it broadly makes sense!!!
YOOO it is so good to 'have my brain back' after nearly a decade lost to mental illness, ineffective treatment, undiagnosed ADHD, the pandemic, and slugging my way through trauma therapy.
Friends, my lovely friend Ann had a fall and bonked a facial nerve causing facial palsy. Does anyone know a facial nerve specialist?
Dripped and nil by mouth for exploratory surgery since you can't get a ultrasound on a Sunday at RPA.
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@corduroy@aus.social Feedback: does it accommodate slow vs fast metabolisers?
People usually know which one they are — the test is how quickly you can sleep after a cup of coffee.
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@garthk@eigenmagic.net If this is what I think it might be, I can recommend Halo Print or SSweatshop in Sydney, they both do small runs at high quality for $$ not $$$$$. If you design it I'll get it printed 🙂
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Oh WORD.
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@sendai@eigenmagic.net Ahh this really sucks. Bigalugs is lucky to have your support and I hope you can together find safe and affordable accom soon.
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@rLok@apobangpo.space so here again I want to distinguish between the marketing strategy of AI companies (heinous, revolting, unethical) and the actual technical capabilities of the tools. Mozilla has no reason to gas up Anthropic if it's not getting results — I don't think they have a business relationship beyond the agreement to pilot test Mythos on the Firefox codebase.
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@rLok@apobangpo.space I agree strongly about vibe coding, especially when the results of vibe coding is (auto) submitted to repositories.
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@rLok@apobangpo.space It's hard to interpret that critique because of the intensity of the AI anti-hype so many people are SO invested in. I think the specific claim being made is not that these vulnerabilities were impossible to find using existing tools, but the scale and speed are different.
Do I know any mid range Hifi nerds? I am looking for recs for a lounge room twin speaker set around AUD $400.
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@rLok@apobangpo.space But see also:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/21/2028206/mozilla-uses-anthropics-mythos-to-fix-271-bugs-in-firefox
I'm not saying this is the truth of AI use in software dev — they both are. Shit's more complex than the anti-hype allows.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io IS POZOLE YUCATAN?? Okay that explains why I tell Mexicans about my obsession with pozole and 9/10 times they're like 'what is that?'
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@SnarkWasABoojum@tech.lgbt Hello. I used to work in sexual assault criminal law reform. You know this is standard in pretty much all sexual offences trials?
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@rLok@apobangpo.space again, though, it's so vitriolically hostile to AI that it's a bit hard to interpret. my understanding is the word 'thousands' isn't in the data sheet because it was used by a stakeholder not Anthropic.
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@LapTop006@aus.social ahhhhh just the speakers I think - I have a Bluetooth amp that probably isn't anything special but with shitty BT audio I don't think it needs to be