Notices by simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net), page 4
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 07:05:30 JST 
simsa04
Perhaps its a way Mastodon run servers can find out by whom their acounts are subcribed to? (I recently susbcribed to 7 accounts on Mastodon run servers, the most recent https://mastodon.sdf.org/@davebonta doesn't seem to come through...) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 03:24:35 JST
simsa04
Another observation while I was humming by myself while trudging through the wet gras and heavy loam: It's a sin not to enjoy life.
And with that a grin flitted across my face.
World changing, climate catastrophe, doom, all the problems people entertain themselves with as excuses not to enjoy life.
It's remarkable that psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, Zen Buddhism, now Climate Doom, all originated and resided in countries with (former) majority Protestant creed.
There is a reason why the Climate movement (i.e., the anxiety about the climate that turned into openly and collectively celebrated panic attacks) arose and spread in (former) Protestant countries of Europe. People are not allowed or not willing to enjoy life. Worrying about and feeling responsible for all the woes life (undoubtedly) provides is a major trick to evade enjoying life. Protestantism gives all the rationalisations one can hope for, just think "responsibility". As if people couldn't enjoy life and still accept responsibility (at least in part). But Protestantism favours responsibility *at the expense* of joy and pleasure. Embracing the latter two means being an irresponsible person.
Again: It's sinful not to enjoy life. Simply because life is so much bigger than the individual person, and "assuming responsibility" at the expense of joy about this world means to belittle (and thus: deman) this very world.
#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten 2/2 -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 02:56:41 JST
simsa04
On this misty cold November sunday afternoon, I took a walk out in the fields, parallel to the motorway at first, later across open land, mostly agricultural deserts, flat to the distant hills some 200 km away.
I was thinking. Or rather: Things thought themselves, inside me, in a way different from me being thought.
One topic working itsef into a more stable clarity was self-worth. When young we tend to receive our sense of self-worth – the esteem for our worth, our self, our gracefulness – from others. Many struggles and conflicts with parents and others involve this longing for esteem and its rejection. It's only later, perhaps even late, in life that we grow into a form in which this esteem for our own worth and gracefulness arises from ourselves, no longer dependent on others. (I say "ourselves" because calling it "from inside us" would be misleading: We're not simply what's "inside the confines of our skin" but also what involves all that is outside of it.) And we may come to the point that we realize that the esteem by others is no longer essential for us to be who we are because we can bring it about from ourselves. I think this is a major aspect of what it means to have become an adult. It liberates the conflicts from their various weights.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Dec-2022 11:26:37 JST
simsa04
"Hear My Song" (1991) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEz5zwIkk5s is one of the films I just love.
Only realized today that Tara Fitzgerald, who so marvellously played in the wonderful "Brassed Off" (1997) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcG9vcb3VUI has a lead role here too. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Dec-2022 10:46:54 JST
simsa04
Thanks. Sweet dreams to you. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Dec-2022 00:28:21 JST
simsa04
Why would you even want to have an alternative to Twitter when all you're interested in is prolonging your addiction to more trite "content"? Your literalism is the problem here, not "surveillance capitalism", "walled gardens", data collection, evil Dear Leaders on Twitter or the Fediverse... -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Dec-2022 00:19:09 JST
simsa04
To take this topic up again: I find self-introductions in the Fediverse rather pointless, primarily because content about a person doesn't introduce this person to you at all. It's her manners, tone of voice, style of writing, whims and idiosyncracies that give you an insight (or disdain). Posting content about oneself is sufficiently done by offering a list of tags one subscribes to, preferably combinded with brief annotations on the reasons why. Did this for myself recently, see profile. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2022 23:47:09 JST
simsa04
@brightbyte
It's interesting that almost none of your repeats arrive here on my instance. Please give a brief ping if this note gets through to you. Happy Saturday. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 13:26:56 JST
simsa04
You want to improve the atmosphere and conversational #tone in the #fediverse? Forget trigger / content warnings, blocking and muting, and start reflecting on why you still subscribe to the people from whom you receive such content in your timeline. "Social" is a social thing, not a technical one. It doesn't need "tech fixes" but reflection, manners, courtesy, solidarity. Now you know. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 13:21:48 JST
simsa04
Thank you. Irrespective whether this gets resolved quickly or not, informing people and giving them a choice is a valuable and kind thing to do. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 13:18:55 JST
simsa04
Another follow-up:
Instead of blocking and muting accounts, contemplate whom you subscribe to. If those people interact with unpleasant stuff or people and these things turn up in your timeline, think about why you still keep them in your subscription list.
In my experience it's one's subscription list that flushes in content and people you don't want to see. Concentrate on a few but reasonable and kind people, and chances are you escape most of the unpleasant stuff. Simply because these people don't engage with such awfulness either. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 13:09:35 JST
simsa04
I'm glad that gnusocial only badly interoperates with the Mastodon network. The tone over there is often so unpleasant that I simply enjoy the niche that gnusocial and its instances carve out.
Context:
https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/109441617731363268 -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 11:53:16 JST
simsa04
Well, nothing really changed since 2016 when @hannes2peer from Quitter first got giddy about blocking all he didn't agree with. So it's an old story, resurfacing from time to time, in various guises. But the separation of the fediverse in mutual exclusive sub-diverses was apparent even then. This is what we get when the bawling of practical constraints enters the mind of admins, moderators, developers. In fact, they're in search of The Silo they can own. All little Elon Musks, I suppose, but without the money and the influence. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 10:48:43 JST
simsa04
A sequel to the rant above:
If you are new "here" – it's not a "here" because it is no place, and it is not a "here" because the differences between Twitter and the fediverse are negligible – don't look for an instance that fits your "interests". With that attitude you reiterate the silo you're coming from.
Instead of selecting an instance according to interests or topics, select them according to the tools and possibilities they provide.
If you want content warnings, go to Mastodon. If you need to be able to block and mute other people by yourself, choose a Mastodon instance, not a gnusocial instance. If you want to write longer notices, look for instances that allow for a higher character-number than the usual 500 that Mastodon instances provide. Etc., etc.
Which, on the other hand, means: People in the #fediverse did a terrible job preparing for the arrival of people moving from Twitter to the fediverse (as always).
They either provided lists of topical servers https://joinmastodon.org/en/servers or came up with tech criteria like protocols https://fediverse.party/en/tools/ that are way too advanced for the clicky-layperson.
What we should have done (and should have provided) is an overview and summary (two different things!) of the features between which new users may want to choose.
Remember: Instances are not gated communities (topics) but doors into conversations (tools). The latter requires a different approach and attitude. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 09:59:39 JST
simsa04
Watching the increasing blocking of instances by their admins without people even having a say in it – do you really believe you are any better than Elon Musk? And you, users of blocking instances, do you really think you're better off than on Twitter?
This is the #fediverse, for Christ sake, so stop behaving like children running to their older brothers to beat up the obnoxious kid that is chasing them through the hood.
And secondly, if you really need "content warnings" in your neurotic desire to prolong (or recreate) a pampered childhood, then you are at the wrong place. The fediverse is about reality, not your blaring need for protection which, to be established, puts the onus on others to make you feel a bit better. Just stop behaving like a spoiled brat with entitlement attitude, and perhaps everybody may get along a little bit better.
Or more bluntly: Please consider moving back to Twitter or the other platforms you used to frequent. You negatively impact the atmosphere in the fediverse, not just in the Mastodon network.
(Just thinking that these people are allowed to *vote* makes me want to through up. Perhaps instances should establish some age-confirmation in the process of sign-up: "I'm older than 18 years and I won't run to an admin when I feel offended by something." Gosh!) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 08:56:10 JST
simsa04
Done. :-) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 08:31:30 JST
simsa04
Matt von Hippel, "Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence" https://www.quantamagazine.org/crucial-computer-program-for-particle-physics-at-risk-of-obsolescence-20221201/
« [I]f you want to solve the biggest equations in the world, for 33 years one program has stood out: FORM.
Developed by the Dutch particle physicist Jos Vermaseren, FORM is a key part of the infrastructure of particle physics, necessary for the hardest calculations. However, as with surprisingly many essential pieces of digital infrastructure, FORM’s maintenance rests largely on one person: Vermaseren himself. And at 73, Vermaseren has begun to step back from FORM development. Due to the incentive structure of academia, which prizes published papers, not software tools, no successor has emerged. If the situation does not change, particle physics may be forced to slow down dramatically. »
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 01:18:09 JST
simsa04
♪ Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson, "The Ghost of You Walks" (live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNPl5bI4wq0
Intriguing phrasing of vocals, guitar, and double bass.
!listening -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 01:13:24 JST
simsa04
Ah, there it is, that little tiny ghost of yours accompanying you everywhere, scouting in advance the path you "choose"... -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 00:37:13 JST
simsa04
Witnessing the degradation of my cognitive abilities, it's not that much frightening but annoying. When you can feel how dumb and dull you are compared to a few years back...
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