Lmst

Devotion is attention that does not turn away.

No bargain.
No achievement.

Just staying
where the heart has already bowed.

Former NATO chief says he doesn't think allies will be pulled further into Middle East conflict
The former secretary general of NATO says he doesn't think allies will be pulled further into the conflict in the Middle East, but he's concerned the ongoing war with Iran will benefit Russia's economy and take the world’s attention away from the invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nato-iran-israel-us-war-9.7127634?cmp=rss

U.S. pressure on Venezuela hasn't eased, even as world's attention turns to Iran
Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, is trying to manage U.S. demands as she looks to hang on to the support of the Trump administration more than two months after it toppled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. It's a prospect that's being made more difficult because the U.S. is now at war with Iran.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-us-influence-trump-9.7122944?cmp=rss

Forcing Flash Attention onto a TPU and Learning the Hard Way

https://archerzhang.me/forcing-flash-attention-onto-a-tpu

#HackerNews #Forcing #Flash #Attention #TPU #Learning #Hard #Way #Technology #AI #MachineLearning

The connection between facilitation, rapt attention, and love? I am drawn to facilitation for giving the gift of listening closely out of love.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/connection-2/2016/08/facilitation-rapt-attention-and-love

#facilitation #attention #listening #love

facilitation rapt attention and love: photograph of two men wearing name badges sitting and talking indoors

Time to reclaim our #attention span and #cognition! https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/health/video/fix-poor-attention-span-techniques-wellness-digvid?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us Let alone #writing my take here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2026/03/09/writing-critical-thinking-and-ai-where-are-we-headed/ #consciousness #chat #chatbots #AI #tech #grammar #grammarly #paperpal #sudowrite #writers

[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

Guide attendees out of the routine of attending, and gift them back into attention. This moves them from nowhere to now here.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/09/from-no-where-to-now-here

#meetings #attending #presence #attention #nowhere #NowHere #events #eventprofs

an illustration of a rainbow parachute dangling the words: Nowhere. Now here

Ok, so I just learned from @huberman why I procrastinate, have a hard time focusing, and love coffee… ☕️

Spoiler alert: it’s all about dopamine!

I mean, they diagnosed me with ADHD when I was like 13. But this Huberman Lab podcast explains the neuroscience behind all this.

And it gives some practical tips and advice for how to train attention with movement, guided attention protocols (meditation?), and even omega 3 supplements (who knew?!). 🤷🏽‍♀️

Here’s the episode: https://d3e.co/y2

Enjoy, dear one! Sending you love 🙏🏼

#ADHD #attention #SelfCare #focus #performance #EmotionalRegulation

I am writing an open letter to the #fediverse #administration and #moderation community, because you need to keep a few things in mind.

Lately I have started noticing some #fediverse #relays disable this instance in the server logs.

It seems like #censorship is alive and well. Whether it be #language or #geography based.

I will say this once.

I have no issue at all with #international content. In fact I encourage it. And I am working on a #translation enabled client for #Mastodon to release as #open #source #software, so that anyone can interact with any #ActivityPub #server out there, to not exclude entire swaths of #audience reach, that would and currently still is, isolated by regional and not human #diversity as such.

To be clear. I do not want to #expose #racism to the world. I want to move beyond that, to create ways by which #inclusive dialog can transcend #world #borders few want you to never forget.

To do that, we will at some point or other have to talk about some concepts that would otherwise never find common resolution in the mind of the everyday person. And I am open to hosting that.

I simply want to put our humanity first, the way the open #internet prior to any concept of #weaponization, was designed to build conceptually. Before bots, automation and spam ruined the experience of the pre-web 2.0 internet. To the point where marking anything as either or, gets you silenced before you remember you once weren't.

Speaking on a personal level, I make mistakes in my ability to just post before I #think about things. I cannot premoderate everything I say to the point where it comes across as neutral or distant, as if I never bothered to go through the experience. And I admit I am and can be at #fault for that. But what I cannot #apologize for, is why I #feel the way I do. In order to clear my #mind my #head, and my #heart for better #times and #memories I can more clearly #focus on. And this is what #inspires me to keep things moving along such a trajectory.

I can't be #positive or #negative all the time. I will just be #real, and let the #moment pass. In #trust that you're with me for whatever part of that #journey comes our way.

I do'nt want us separated by preventable alternatives that bring us closer together. That is my ultimate #purpose as to why I am making this post.

With this in mind, I myself have a tendency to be the only one posting on this server...but if you want to join us, and speak in your own language or talk about issues that matter to you...then by all means, go for it.

I am doing the same here, not to get attention, but to find #community so we can bond over things held in common, not broken by common disinterest. And I have largely been very #successful at this both on other platforms, and by sticking to topics at hand in more traditional forums.

The truth of the matter, is that we have a critical shortage of relays in the fediverse active at any one time. Until recently we have been fortunate here at #MediaNexus to have over 70 enabled instances, this has dropped since to the late 60's since reports started coming in criticizing just one post about the #war I have made, calling out a commentator for their views.

We can't always #agree on things. But we can ensure that we stand for the principle of an agreement not to break down over the disagreements of a few people, who just can't get along no matter how you approach them.

Guys, we need #decentralized #media now more so than ever before. It is not about monitoring for dangerous opinions. I don't want to live in an echo chamber. IF that's what you want, then I suggest you visit #BlueSky for that.

And so this is not about what I want. I have no #agenda to share. Just a simple message. Layered in #truth and #growth of either #awareness or #news that isn't 100% reliant on one person's understanding to be amplified by 1000000 more as their own, holey so.

In part, while we live in an age of alternate #information being so readily available. Even about the same exact #post generating different #analysis by whoever is looking at it from multiple perspectives. We cannot mix #facts with #fiction where #events count objectively.

Losing access to one #relay especially using platforms like #pleroma and #mastodon, potentially means dozens of your available #updates as your #content gets published, cannot be seen. And, I am asking on behalf of all #sane server owners out there, to stand in solidarity with one another for the sake of our continuity. So that one link in our chain, does not and cannot cripple its #functionality anymore. To the point where nodes are centralized around #ideals not #ideas in turn.

Please, mention me in any #disagreement you may have. We are #humans not #bots at the end of the day. And a lot of us pay really good #money to #hosting companies to be able to critically customize our experience on the deecentralized web. Myself included.

We don't do that because it's cool. We do that, because we trust in all of you to uphold this #principle of our continuity as a whole. At the federation, relay, server instance, and user level.

Media Nexus is very young. And I have only managed to get 5 people to sign up because of the common culture I would otherwise not have been able to share as we explore the world we each live in collectively.

As an #important #introduction to the wider reach of independent blogs and forums, I started this server, not to compete with others, but to ensure that we treat this entire medium of #communication like a single #torrent in great health.

I have no interest by and large, in running a #social #media company for the sake of establishing a #network of random people who otherwise have nothing in common accept liking the interface by which we share are thoughts with one another. Although I will admit that's half the fun in making this possible.

In order for us to #work together, I have to imagine we already are doing so even if we never met in person.

Due to the abundant use of platforms widely available for #engagement of various purposes, all I can offer you, is access to someone who puts humanity first. Not by trend, but by principle. That's not just me, that's all of you that believe we are stronger together. Posting just as you do, for being all that you are, where ever your sense of community feels most comfortable belonging there.

No matter who reads this letter, I #support you in all that you do, even if there are times where we have to talk about why we matter to one another. The fact that it can happen at all, is a #miracle I will always #cherish and #embrace while I am alive on this Earth. Because everyone, even you, play a part in our experience in this way. And I wouldn't trade or exchange that for anything.

I #love you for the #person you are, as you become involved in your journey of #life here. And likewise, appreciate you for caring about your place in our world. And as I said above, I only wish for us to find common ground on things we in turn find interesting enough to boost, favorite, and reply to. Whether that's a poll, a photo, or a news article.

I know this post is getting quite long. But there are #reasons why I have to personally speak up about this. As someone who only started their journey on any kind of federated platform let alone hosting one at the beginning of March of this year, following the #tech news of very unsettling feedback. I cannot in good #faith abandon the #philosophy of things that go #viral, because they're #genuine and #free enough to be #authentic and original. And to me, it absolutely #matters that we remember how to #teach this to our #friends and #family as a whole. Less we forget how to #remember our meaning in a world we can still #save from the #absence of all that brings our #presence into #power in turn.

It starts with the #recognition that to deny anyone based on the #group of a sub culture someone belongs to, is a slippery slope of a #sincere and #honest diversion I cannot support.

Thank you for your #attention to this matter.

If this #resonates with you, or even if it does not, let me know.

Yours with warm #appreciation and #gratitude abounding,

Elshara Silverheart

What are your strategies for protecting your attention span among the mauling clutches of the #attention #economy? Without abandoning #social #media and #AI altogether.

These technologies are here to stay and their impacts are not all bad. Abandoning them would be a serious case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The socials are not the problem anymore than any other external circumstance is the problem - our relationship with these "problems" is the problem.

#mentalhealth

Avi Chawla (@_avichawla)

LLM의 'Paged Attention' 개념을 시각적으로 설명한 자료 공유 트윗입니다. Paged Attention이 어떻게 동작하는지와 왜 효과적인지(How and why it works)를 시각화해 이해를 돕는 기술 설명성 포스트입니다.

https://x.com/_avichawla/status/2031827029570854928

#pagedattention #llm #attention #research

Attensity!: Marketing site for a new book about attention management in the Internet era
https://attensity.net/
#advertising #attention #books #ads #+

Nothing to see here, just keeping track of this article on reading and decline of literacy:
https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem
tl;dr: It's not you, it's the platforms. #reading #attention #dopamine
(I'd much rather see the so-called problems of the 18th and 19th centuries: people reading too many novels!)

The dominant platforms have been deliberately engineered to fragment attention in service of advertising revenue

Gloria Mark, Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California Irvine, has tracked attention spans on screens for two decades. In 2004, people averaged two and a half minutes on any screen before switching tasks. By 2016, that had fallen to 47 seconds. This is frequently cited as evidence that screens inherently fragment attention. But look closer at what Mark’s research actually shows. The fragmentation correlates not with screens in general but with specific design patterns: notification systems, variable reward schedules, infinite scroll. These are choices made by specific companies for specific economic reasons. They are not inherent properties of the medium.

Politicians are starting to pay a lot more attention to the plight of

https://misryoum.com/us/us/politicians-are-starting-to-pay-a-lot-more/

Blue-collar workers have been at the center of political messaging for years. Politicians meet with waitresses at a diner to pitch raising the minimum wage, tour a factory to spotlight job growth or tell stories of their family’s hardscrabble bona...

#Politicians #are #starting #pay #lot #more #attention #the #plight #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com