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I wrote about the second strangulation of the Voice of America hours before the US attack on Iran. The piece was quoted by AP and BBC. It's even more relevant now considering that VOA Farsi has been reduced to a skeleton. https://newsguy.substack.com/p/zombie-version-of-voa-slain-again

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I'm definitely just silently nodding in recognition while reading about several of those symptoms 😅

Got me thinking about how I (don't) multitask... I can really just work on a single high-level task at a time, or I'll quickly come to a standstill trying to decide what to do.

However, while working on a task, I often juggle several ongoing things at the same time within that particular task. Fine while it lasts, but forces a significant context reset if interrupted.

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@tracketpacer This video makes me feel less alone in some of these things. I never noticed about my desire to work alone. I'm actually very social but I struggle to get any meaningful work done with other people.

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how being ND affects my career 🪿

(i always hesitate to self diagnose & refuse to speak for anyone else, but what i can talk about are my symptoms + how it shows up for me personally)

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@filippo No, absolutely no. The library (and by extension its maintainer) did not take down those sites. We should never use or accept language that even indirectly suggests this.*

Whoever took the library and used it without sufficient testing "took down" the sites. It only matters that the bug is old or obvious in that it *directly points out* how the company using the library failed to take the necessary precautions.

*It's the same kind of language that places blame on victims: "look at what you made me do"; other examples would need a cw..

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Giving new life to a refurbished ThinkCentre M720q as my future FreeBSD home server! :freebsd:

What a nice little box and so easy to get inside and work. Upgraded: 16GB -> 32GB RAM (16GB x2), 250GB SSD replaced with a 1TB NVMe.

Maintenance Manual: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/thinkcentre_pdf/m720q_ughmm_en.pdf

#HomeServer #HomeLab #ThinkCentre #FreeBSD #RunBSD

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Today I'm polishing up Day 10 of my Oregon Coast Trail travelogue. The fateful day I lost my beloved iPod. It wasn't exactly a cakewalk leaving the beach and joining the trail that leads up and around Cape Meares, but it sure was memorable!

(Less than a week until I'm back on the Oregon Coast Trail!!!)

#Hiking #Oregon #nature

Rocky shoreline with ocean waves, scattered stones, and a large log extending over the rocks under a clear blue sky.

Wooden trail sign on a rocky beach with waves and tall cliffs covered in trees under a clear blue sky.

Eroded cliffside with exposed roots and rocks, a small stream at the base, and a "TRAIL" sign on top of the cliff.

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Looking down from a ridge on alpine forest as it fades downward, showing a valley with mountains on either side and a range of mountains in bluish haze along the horizon. White horizon vrsdient to light blue - perfectly clear sky. In Franconia Notch

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@Geojoek I'm glad you're enjoying them! I suspect it will remain one of my favorite places on earth for the rest of my days. Hopefully there will be many, many more trips...

I am not sure how close you are, but you should take a look at Shaun Terhune's gallery in Littleton, NH if you ever get the chance. (He has a website w/ photos too). No affiliation, I just love his work.

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We Americans like to bomb a place and then act like the risk of retaliation fell out of the clear blue sky.

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‘When the system makes everything possible and you don’t fear any consequences, some people discover entirely new human beings inside them. Schoolboys one day are now running around violently with Kalashnikovs. When there are no consequences, the ground of civilisation turns out to be quite thin.’

Nino Haratischwili on violence and war in 1990s Georgia.

#LitX
#Books
#Aarhus

Georgian author (country not US state) Nino Haratischwili on stage in conversation with Elisabeth Skou Pedersen at LiteratureXchange Aarhus Literary Festival. They are in yellow armchairs. There are flowers, books and water on a small white side table between them. Behind them: three wooden panels with the festival name on it. Pedersen: white woman, light brown hair, wearing a beach-style summer shirt and shorts with runners. Haratischwili: white woman, black hair, wearing a smart black top and very wide-legged jeans and runners.

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We've been waiting a while for this, but we finally got to return to JFK's TWA Hotel -- and this time spent a night in a runway view room! Highlights incoming 🛬

@NYCAviation #AvGeek

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Can't believe he ended his bombing Iran tweet with both a call for peace and a "thank you for your attention to this matter"

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my silly photo app reminded me that eight years ago today I went on a tiny hike with one of my best friends, and at the top of it, looking out over the landscape, realized that I was in love with him and wanted to date him.

got together with him about two weeks later, now we're married.

*weird*.

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this was the photo I took from the top. we hiked up with cans of ginger ale and toasted each other -- "to friendship, and fake hiking on the longest night of the year!", and he said something gentle and nice about the toddler and dad who were at the top of the trail with us, and I knew that, barring something extraordinary, that joke I'd been making for years about how someday I was going to marry him just for "tax purposes" was no longer a joke, and I wanted to keep him in my life as more than a friend.

he's a weird cryptid of a man, but he's *my* weird cryptid of a man, and I'm very fond of him.

A landscape photo taken from the top of a hill, near sunset. The sky is blue and gold, and there are pine trees in the foreground. The view is that of a field dotted with trees, with houses and mountains on the horizon. Everything is very green and yellow.

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Just released #wanderer v0.17.0 – the first version with full federation support via ActivityPub!

wanderer is a self-hosted platform to manage your hiking, biking, and running trails. Now you can follow users, comment, like, share trails, and more across instances.

🔗 https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer
🗺️ Demo: https://demo.wanderer.to

@milan

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wanderer, a self hosted trail logging app, has added federation via ActivityPub. You can now follow, like and comment on trails shared from other instances.

https://wanderer.to/

#ActivityPub #Fediverse