Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Esme Povirk
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I was having to read some "neuroscience and education" stuff for a training I'm in at work and there was this part:
"The human brain reward system in the 21st century is an evolutionary mismatch. There is a discrepancy between the conditions that the reward system evolved to serve and those that it often faces in the 21st century. The reward system evolved over millions of years to motivate humans to work hard (invest time and energy) in maintaining their survival needs (e.g., nutrition, protection, reproduction, and the learning of new skills). However, this system is not designed for the abundance and immediacy of stimulation in the digital and instant reward era, which promotes the persistent release of dopamine that leads to an increased craving for reward (seeking behavior; wanting) and a decreased sense of pleasure and satisfaction (liking) "
and I see this kind of assertion a lot: we live in an era of instant gratification, carefully designed addictive apps that hijack your dopamine release system, &c.
but is it true?
No, really, is any of it true. Like do people get stuck infinitely scrolling because silicon valley has figured out how to hijack your brain or is that just still tech sector auto-fellatio because "we can override your volition but that's bad" is still asserting their own power and importance.
Because honestly it feels more like everyone is exhausted, bored, isolated, and largely broke so you're going to gravitate to the free thing that requires almost nil activation energy, which would be the opposite of "I need constant dopamine" and more like "I am a tiger in a tiny enclosure and I am so fucking bored and trapped that I'd do anything to be distracted from it"
@Sophie I feel like "this is only a problem because people treat it weirdly" applies to a lot of things.
Esme Povirk
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I'm looking to hire a plural system familiar with Internal Family Systems therapy for sensitivity consulting on one of my upcoming games
no game design expertise necessary
please boost and share!
no game design expertise necessary
please boost and share!
hypno, vore, amputation //
@lioness "oh don't worry, none of your limbs are lost. I know exactly where they are"
kink/hypnosis/sex
Mind Play (2013 Edition): Erotic hypnosis is supposed to be intimate and interactive, like sex. How would you feel if your lover kept their head buried in a book while they were having sex with you?
Normal person: Yes, that would completely ruin my enjoyment of sex and illustrates why I would not want to use a script to hypnotize someone.
Me: That sounds really fun and I have a new kink now.
@zigg I suspect that when you oppositely shift your clocks and schedule, even though technically you're doing everything at the same time as before, you still "know" that it's nominally a different time and it has a subconscious effect. UTC avoids this (though if your local timezone were closer to UTC you'd probably get something similar when switching to it).
@zigg Oh we opted out in November. But instead of shifting the times in our schedule (which hasn't worked in the past), we set all our clocks to UTC and converted our schedule to that. A nice side-effect is that we avoid jet lag when crossing one timezone, and we never have to adjust a clock even then. It is more work communicating with the locals, but working with other time zones (which we do a lot) is easier.
@recursive I have to wonder how much that general realization is the result of improved communication leading to people having more/better resources they can use to figure their own shit out. -Menderbot
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Its interesting that it took psychotherapy a long time to come around to the understanding that a sizable chunk of what troubles us in our minds is the direct consequence of trauma.
I'm thinking of everything from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freudian_Coverup
to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Model
Nowadays, it's considered a pretty reasonable belief that a significant amount of the suffering of otherwise healthy adults is the consequence of earlier trauma.
Shout out to Epistemic Injustice.
streaming
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd I went on a long trip but now I'm back and I'm ready to probably suck at BIT.TRIP Runner today.
@b0rk I tend to do a lot of "git branch -f" because I work with submodules which leads to not having a branch checked out.
If you do have a branch checked out, then I feel like moving it would involve some combination of branch -f + checkout, which would probably be a lot safer and more intuitive than git reset, come to think of it..
I guess you'd do something like
git checkout [flags] commit && git branch -f branch commit && git checkout branch
@b0rk Another wrinkle I've noticed to this is lists: sometimes replies show up on those as well.
I'd need to experiment but my hypothesis based on what I remember happening would be: Replies are shown if they do not start with a mention, the first mention is someone you follow (or maybe someone on the particular timeline you're looking at?), or the first mention is you.
@lioness we like to call those triggers
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Female propensity for autoimmune diseases tied to X chromosome inactivation
A system that shuts down one of two X chromosomes is targeted by auto-antibodies.
@b0rk I mentioned commit.verbose already. I also like core.pager=cat (don't want it to auto-page), merge.conflictStyle=diff3 (I want to see what the merge base looks like when resolving conflicts), and I like to make an alias ff for "merge --ff-only"
I didn't know about init.defaultBranch, that's useful.
@b0rk A good practice that makes #2 less likely is "git config --global commit.verbose true" and reviewing the contents of every commit you make before writing the commit message. If you notice it has things you don't want, you can close the file without a commit message (or delete the commit message if there is one), and the commit will be aborted with your index left as it was.
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Okay, we've now updated to the latest glitch-soc version.
For anyone else; PLEASE update (or nag your admin to update) your mastodon version, this vulnerability is serious, it allows people to inject posts into others' feeds, impersonating them, and the advisory also says that they can "takeover" their account; https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-3fjr-858r-92rw
@Sophie Thank you, this happens to me and I would never have thought to look for a name for it (I guess it happens with autism too).
Esme Povirk
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@georgetakei for those that it helps: this is usually called “Waiting Mode” and it’s common for several neurodivergencies, especially ADHD.
If it’s a problem, knowing the name can help find solutions that work for you. (Personally I embrace my waiting mode, I use the time to de-stress ahead of potentially stressful appointments, and prepare scripts to get me through them)
Joined Aug 2018
