I talk about things the world will eventually do. Not a prophet. Just #addicted to my #imagination. And they're #logical because they #solve massive #problems. And then you get to do all the crazy wild stuff that sounds so cool because you're not running for your life. #Guru says it can be so good.

I claim that I have experience with that #mind #technology. And most specifically #order #of #operations. I'm really good at that when I'm #solving #problems and can ignore my life that falls apart around me while I do this. That part. She's not obsessed. No we're way past that. 👽🚀🛸👩🏼‍🚀☄️😹💃🏻

Fender-benders, dead batteries and loads of tows as wicked winter takes a toll
From collisions to dead batteries to cars stuck in roadside snow banks police, drivers and tow truck operators say this recent stretch of extreme cold is taking a toll on London's streets.
#weather #traffic #problems #London
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/winter-roads-collisions-9.7065324?cmp=rss

OC Transpo still can't say what's causing the LRT's latest wheel woes
As OC Transpo struggles to get enough train cars on the rails to provide regular LRT service, transit officials say they have no idea why metal is flaking off inside a vital component.
#transit #problems #Ottawa
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-lrt-train-wheel-problem-changes-cuts-9.7063407?cmp=rss

P.E.I. couple says their kids' RESP is in limbo because the bank altered their last name
Max Deller-Lestage and Marie Pascal wanted to transfer the registered education savings plan they set up for their children to a new bank — but the transfer wouldn't go through. That's because their kids' last names didn't match what was on the original invest...
#finance #children #problems #PEI
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-couple-kids-resp-investment-last-name-9.7062054?cmp=rss

P.E.I. couple says their kids' RESP is in limbo because the bank altered their last name
Max Deller-Lestage and Marie Pascal wanted to transfer the registered education savings plan they set up for their children to a new bank — but the transfer wouldn't go through. That's because their kids' last names didn't match what was on the original invest...
#finance #children #problems #PEI
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-couple-kids-resp-investment-last-name-9.7062054?cmp=rss

Last win11 frustration: Right click stops working randomly, so does screen capture. My usb-hub disconnects and connects again randomly. Screen capture gets locked by admin (or so does the computer say). Everything works again after a reboot - but that severely breaks my workflow. #win11 #problems

Senaste irritationerna: Högerklick slutar random att fungera, skärmklippverktyget blockeras enligt jobbdatorn av admin helt random och nu har min usb-hubb börjat kopplas ur och i lite random. Samtliga fel fixas med en reboot. Men det innebär att jag måste stänga ner alla program och bryta min workflow.

Last win11 frustration: Right click stops working randomly, so does screen capture. My usb-hub disconnects and connects again randomly. Screen capture gets locked by admin (or so does the computer say). Everything works again after a reboot - but that severely breaks my workflow.

#win11 #problems

Latest Line 1 wheel issue linked to overloading, expert says
As the latest wheel assembly issues plaguing Ottawa's LRT system cause overcrowded trains and stations, an expert on those components says overloading is a factor and — despite what the city suggests — it appears related to previous problems.
#transportation #problems #Ottawa
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/latest-line-1-wheel-issue-linked-to-overloading-expert-says-9.7056019?cmp=rss

🔥 Nouvelle vidéo tendance au Sénégal !
🎬 Des choses scandaleuses se sont passées lors de la CAN #can #senegalaise_tik_tok #footballtiktok #problems #pourtoi
👇 Regardez la vidéo complète :
https://diodioglow.com/video/des-choses-scandaleuses-se-sont-passees-lors-de-la-can-can-senegalaise
#Senegal #BuzzSN #TikTokSN #DiodioGlow #Can2025 #Marcom #Maroc

Napisałam na mastodonie, ale serio… Patrząc na ilość awarii pol serwerów, chyba serio będę musiała szukać innych alternatyw, zniosę awarię peertube, ale na pixelfed mam arty swoich OC i przez awarie jest mi trudno brać ich kolory

Poważnie, ilość awarii pol serwerów jest coraz bardziej męcząca, a założyłam tam konto, bo wystarczyło zrobić sobie na pol mastodonie i wtedy miało się dostęp do pixelfed oraz peertube (A patrząc na długość zatwierdzania przez moderatorów to wydawał się najlepsza opcją), ale no… Miejmy granice, dosłownie serwery są stabilne jak "Świat kucyków" (Taka gra… Mówię o pierwszej części) i się psują co chwilę… Doceniam to, że łatwiej było się dostać na peertube i pixelfed w ten sposób, ale no, mam prawo czuć co czuję, a nie wiem jak działa migracja na inne serwery, czy trzeba tam czekać na przyjęcie przez moderatora? Wtedy się nie doczekam…

Peertube jak wspomniałam przetrwam, ale pixelfed jest do bani, bo mam na nim wcześniej wspomniane arty swoich własnych OC i tę awarie są ultra irytujące, a na mastodonie przez limit, nie widać wiele artów, w tym w mulimediach, więc fediverse i ta moc tu niestety nie działa :blobfoxbonk:

Co chwilę kończę przeskakując z platform (FB, deviantart, art blog na tumblr i pixelfed…), więc dosłownie moje OC przeszły więcej niż się wydaje… Dlatego na pixelfed moje OC mogą być w gorszej jakości, bo kopiowałam z tumblra (Przenoszenie) i serio, to problem…

Dlaczego nie mam OC artów na dysku? Cóż… Stary laptop miał mało miejsca na dysku, a na PC mojej mamy mam tylko arty jakie zrobiłam na nim… A jakbym miała pobierać wszystkie arty to bym oszalała, bo ich sporo zrobiłam od czasu laptopów do PC mojej mamy… Dlatego wolę je wrzucić do Internetu, bo zmniejsza chaos i nie zużywa pojemności dysku + Mogę śledzić swój postęp

I tak… To tyle… Jak piszę długie posty na warfn to z jakiegoś powodu, strona przeskakuje na samą górę, co utrudnia trochę pisanie…

Ale serio... Jak tak dalej pójdzie, będę musiała znaleźć alternatywę dla pixelfed (Pol serwery), bo ciągle ten serwer ma awarie...

I tak, bywa to frustrujące...

#Pixelfed #Fediverse #Server #Problems

When I read the laws of many coutries I found good laws and others that were not thinked by the ones who create them. You see, Science didn't destroy anything in reality to create a solution to some problem. They face the problem and try to "communicate correctly" with the source of problem.

#Debugging code is the same. If you have a softtware problem you going to format your HDD and destroy your computer? :)))

#Logic #Laws #Drugs #Ethics #Problems #Rational #Education

Office app has changed to copilot and now I can't open files

https://old.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/1q2b28q/office_app_has_changed_to_copilot_and_now_i_cant

#HackerNews #Office365 #Copilot #Issues #FileAccess #Problems #UserFeedback

W sumie, używam opery GX do mastodonu, pixelfed, peertube i do WP…

Brave używam do YT, wafrn, tumblra…

Bo YT na operze GX się mi zepsuł i to koszmarnie, do tego bloker reklam też średnio już działa…

No i to raczej rozwiązanie tymczasowe, bo jestem na PC mojej mamy, a ostatnio za dużo się dzieje w prywatnym życiu, a do tego co zbudowałam, potrzebuję tylko ekranu… Może coś tam dołożę, ale nie mam głowy do tego…

W skrócie, 2025 był do bani, nawet gorszy niż 2020… Bo w 2020 przynajmniej ludzie mieli dobre memy :BlobCat_Dead:

Ale tak… Brave to tymczasowe rozwiązanie, nie jest idealne, ale no… Przynajmniej przeglądarka jest za darmo pomimo "Twórcy bigota"…

Poważnie, trudno gdziekolwiek się udać, bo zawsze okaże się, że twórca lub firma cuchnie… I cóż, to aktualnie czuję… Brave jest co najwyżej "Ok", ale no… Nie należy do moich ulubionych przeglądarek, a używam go tylko dlatego, że YT w operze GX mi się zepsuło, niby da się tam oglądać, ale nie możesz napisać komentarza co nie jest odpowiedzią i coś kojarzę, że chyba "Społeczność" jest zepsuta (?)

Po prostu coś się zepsuło X czasu temu… Bez tego, nadal byłabym na operze GX (Choć fakt, że blokowanie reklam coraz gorzej działa, trochę mnie niepokoi…)

W skrócie, jestem wypalona, ale nadal się staram we wszystkim… Bojkotuję jak się da, ale coraz ciężej z tym wszystkim, bo prawda jest taka, że to jak chodzenie po cienkim lodzie, zawsze coś jest związane z okropnym twórcą, korporacją i tego typu, po prostu nie wiem czemu ufać… Coraz trudniej mi się cieszyć rzeczami, bo jak się do czegoś przywiążę, czy to nie okaże się złe? No właśnie… Chyba najbardziej odczułam prawdę na temat "Skilleta" i tego jak obrzydliwą osobą był John Cooper, po prostu auć, utwory pomogły mi w tworzeniu mojego uniwersum, niby nic specjalnego, ale nadal mam gorzki posmak… Rozumiecie, wiele utworów coś dla mnie znaczyła… Choć zabawnie jak analizuje się tekst starych utworów ze starych albumów i wynika, że największym ich wrogiem jest sam John Cooper :blobfoxglare:

W skrócie, nienawidzę żyć w czasach, gdy faszyzm stał się taką normą, że wszystko okazuje się fałszywe i niczemu już nie ufasz

“The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock, / But of wisdom: no clock can measure.”*…

Our problems are so vast, our distance from them so great. Benjamin Cohen asks how we navigate our “derangement of scale”?

… Parents say the days are long but the years are short. Sophocles says time eases all things. Thoreau says time is but the stream we go a-fishing in. Einstein tells us time is an illusion. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that. All of them are right.

A human life can be 70, 80, maybe 90 years. The tuataras, a New Zealand reptile, can live to be 100, as can a crocodile. A Seychelles giant tortoise can live close to 200 years. Sea animals have us all beat. Bowhead whales can live past 200 years. For some sea urchin species, it’s 300. The ocean quahog clam can live past 500. On the other end are insects. An adult dragonfly might live a week. Shadflies, also called mayflies or fishflies, live just a day or two.

Geological time has an entirely different range of long and short. My friend studies ice cores from millions of years ago, examining glacial variation to better understand how climates change. The Pleistocene, Pliocene, Miocene. These are epochs, an official scientific term for a measure of time—less than a period, more than an age. Epochs span millions of years. They put our biological lifespans to shame. We are shadflies to the sandstone sediment of the Miocene.

Our current epoch, scientists argue, is called the Anthropocene. It’s new. The term comes from Paul J. Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who wrote that “human activities are exerting increasing impacts on the environment on all scales”—impacts so profound that we created an entirely new stamp on the timeline. The Anthropocene is a commentary on our scales of time as well as space. It isn’t just how old things are or how long they take, but how big they are and how vast their dimensions are. 

I’ll admit a little hesitancy for the concept. It’s an audacious move, to declare the dawn of a new epoch from within; I’m not sure if there’s a bit too much modern exceptionalism at work. But I also can’t say the full scientific validity matters for me. Say what you will about the Anthropocene, but I nod to it for trying to gauge what’s so strange and difficult about our moment. It is the relationship between biological generations and geological epochs, between the scope of mortal activity and that of global planetary activity. It is all scales everywhere all at once.

Understanding the significance of our own lives requires some understanding of scale. “Just as the microscope and telescope extended our vision into spatial realms once too minuscule or too immense for us to see, geology provides a lens through which we can witness time in a way that transcends the limits of our human experiences,” Marcia Bjornerud, a geologist, writes. The Anthropocene, she suggests, is a fine time to “adopt a geologic respect for time and its capacity to transfigure, destroy, renew, amplify, erode, propagate, entwine, innovate, and exterminate.” We need to know how to navigate our epoch: to recognize our profusion of scales and strive to understand, amidst their collisions, not just how to care for the world beyond us but how a person can be, what it means to stand as a morally vested individual. 

And yet we humans are still not particularly good at seeing ourselves in time or space. I’m certainly not. So here we are. Not only has our age come face to face with an emergency of scalar challenges—brashly called a global climate crisis—but we have produced a daunting sense of distance from addressing it. The problems are physically too far away, too large, too vast; the psychological distance we feel from addressing them is too great. It’s a double-distancing. Hopelessness comes from the scalar mismatch between we individuals, who are wee individuals, and the problems of an 8,000-mile-diameter earth. 

All of this was on my mind when I first met Robert Socolow [here], an 88-year-old physicist who, over the course of his life, turned to environmental science and technology to help humanity respond to our most complex challenges of scale. One of those efforts has been with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, where Socolow helps with their Doomsday Clock. That’s the device that, since 1947, tracks humanity’s proximity to self-destruction. The clock is a metaphor, presuming to measure Blake’s hours of folly by minute and second hand; the hands are set by “nuclear risk, climate change, disruptive technologies, and biosecurity,” among other concerns. They’ve changed positions 26 times in the decades since they began metaphorically ticking. Since 2010, the clock’s hands have only moved closer to midnight. 

In 2025, Socolow himself revealed the face of the clock at a press conference in Washington, DC. It was January and he was at the US Institute of Peace in Foggy Bottom. With a crowd of reporters looking on, cameras flashing and shutters digitally clicking, Socolow stood by a modernist wooden stand and spun a turntable to reveal the clock hands at a small, acute angle against midnight. A world of scalar challenges fell into an urgent sort of order. The end was 89 seconds away.

Most of us are daunted, every day, by the vastness of planetary activity and the proximity of our personal choices. We look at the clock, unsure how to balance clashing scopes of time and space. But if I’m unsettled, I want proximity to settle me. I want to be close, I want to feel part of the world I inhabit and see and feel, I want to hold those I love near to me. So what should we do?…

… The confusion may come from what the writer Timothy Clark calls “derangements of scale.” Our experiences as modern global humans, Clark writes, are like being “lost in a small town” and then handed a map of the entire earth for locating yourself and finding your way. In the Anthropocene, he writes, “we have a map, [and] its scale includes the whole earth, but when it comes to relating the threat to daily questions of politics, ethics, or specific interpretations of history, culture, literature, etc., the map is often almost mockingly useless.” Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to think the unthinkable. It goes without saying that it can be paralyzing, demoralizing, to be an individual acting as part of the collective, globe-sized world…

[Cohen shares his conversations with Socolow, with call-outs to Tolstoy, Camus, Augustine, and Solnit…]

… The attempt to capture our smallness inside the grandness of the universe is a timeless human quest, I get that. Tolstoy’s theological view is a typical one; God is that which is without scale. Even if I’m not so theological about it, I share the modern anxiety. And that anxiety is currently a dominant emotion. 

Clark writes that “deranged jumps in scale and fantasies of agency may recall rhetoric associated with the atomic bomb in the 1950s and after.” After talking to Socolow a number of times, I don’t think it recalls so much as continues that rhetoric. The new atomic age was a test case for the coming collisions of scale that derange us now. The Doomsday Clock was about sounding the alarm. It was meant to shake people, to grab them by the shoulders and yell that they pay attention to human-made catastrophe.

We’ve flipped in the past 50 years, nearly the exact span of my own life. A half century later, and so many people have gone from urgency to hopelessness. They feel bombarded by all scales, not just the next one.

There’s room to reconsider that bombardment. There’s time to think to the next scale. Socolow has been doing it his entire adult life. So were Augustine and Tolstoy and Camus and so is Solnit. It isn’t new, we aren’t alone.

And so Socolow and I stand in his home office, trying to measure. It’s misty outside and calm inside. He is thinking in linear feet of books, where the spatial scale of distance is a proxy for the temporal scale of his life’s work. I’m thinking in years, measuring my sense of contribution and belonging against the shadfly-like limitations of a mere biological lifespan. I’m cautious, excited, gratified that the two of us can talk and compare across the scales of our current lives. That Blake couplet in the epigraph above [title quote] runs through my head. Socolow’s keenly aware of his own place in our epoch. Nearly a hundred linear feet of a life’s work at an archive, and still, as we consider our various measures, he tells me, “I am searching for ways to be constructive, and there are small opportunities here and there so far.” There is wisdom here, even if no clock can measure it…

Eminently worth reading in full: “By All Measures,” from @longreads.com.

* William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell”

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As we take the long view, we might we might rejoice in the naively and nobly inventive: it was on this date in 1605 that El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (or The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha— aka Don Quixote), the masterwork of Miguel de Cervantes (and of the Spanish Golden Age) and a founding work of Western literature, was first published. Widely considered the first modern novel (published in the Western world), it is also considered by many (still) to be the best; it is in any case the second most translated work in the world (after the Bible).

RE: https://mastodon.social/@leeralles/115899747994989179

2/2 #JaneGoodall in an interview with #MargaretAtwood: "People who say we’re #doomed – I’m just not interested in that. It doesn’t generate any sort of positive activity ... We have all these #problems. But at the very end of the tunnel is a little ray of #hope. We have to roll up our sleeves and crawl under all these obstacles, climb over them, work our way around them until we reach them."
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Finch LRT uses same switches as Ottawa's plagued transit line
One of the major issues plaguing the Finch West LRT is the technology system used to melt ice and snow along the line. As CBC's Dale Manucdoc explains, it's the same system used by Ottawa years ago that proved to be problematic. 
#transit #problems #Ottawa
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7045183?cmp=rss

Finch LRT uses same switches as Ottawa's plagued transit line
One of the major issues plaguing the Finch West LRT is the technology system used to melt ice and snow along the line. As CBC's Dale Manucdoc explains, it's the same system used by Ottawa years ago that proved to be problematic. 
#transit #problems #Ottawa
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7045183?cmp=rss

How to flip the record over? #vinyl #problems #NowSpinning