Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space

Project for the weekend: a tutorial on how to identify websites making false scientific claims (in this case, presenting themselves as a company vaguely seeking investors). There’s so much stuff wrong with this one site that whittling the analysis down to something people will read and share will be tough. It’s a chance to play with some kind of “online presentation” platform though, I’ve wanted an excuse. (Picking a platform is one step in this process. Maybe it will just be a website.)

@green If you are experiencing intestnail pain and a cat who is usually chill is upset, it's possible you smell sick and Nar is upset about this.

I want to read a very specific kind of book that I am not sure exists. Anyone have any good recommendations for something that is all of:

* http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FairPlayWhodunnit
* Urban fantasy
* Available on Amazon Kindle (USA); non-DRMed ebook stores other than Amazon are included in this

yes, autocorrect, thank you so much for the help - I almost forgot the “S” in front of the phrase “shaving sex”. That is totally what I meant

SAID NO ONE EVER

@Jssra @Finfell@dragon.style “hey, this smells like a cooked mix of *exactly the right proteins to rebuild myself with*, I wonder what it is?”

@JulieSqveakaroo @Sangria Yeah, let me know if either of you find one. Or a Discord server or something. I am also interested, predictably enough. <..<

never change, Chuck Tingle. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0795FV3LP/

I am slowly building the habit of "if I can identify that doing a thing is not any sort of transgression, do not apologize for the thing". It takes practice but it's progress

Out of practice at SNES Tetris Attack but not out of practice enough to actually lose any games in Vs. Hard Mode. Super Hard will likely pose much more of a barrier.

@salameleon Additionally, consider CBD as a tincture, used sublingually (hold 90 seconds) once per day; starting dose would be 3mg CBD (volume of tincture depends on brand and concentration). CBD is cannabis-derived, but is legal in the United States, does not show up on tests looking for THC or THC metabolites, and is not generally regarded as psychoactive. The mood shift is big enough for me I'm not comfortable calling it "not psychoactive"

@Draekos no, and if more people had your inability to hold hatred then the world would be a much better place.

@salameleon Ugh. I'm sorry your workplace is being so exhausting and destructive.

@jessmahler @lila@octodon.social Oh, I forgot part of my explanation - crimping the corner is so that the student can feel that this is the same piece of paper, by finding the familiar crimp in the otherwise differently-shaped paper. Other tactile marks would work as well.

@jessmahler @lila@octodon.social (What I learned from that can be summarized, though: anybody can learn anything if they can be led to connect it to a familiar concept. Nobody can make that connection for them, but children will tell you constantly where their knowledge ends and give hints about how they form connections and interact intellectually with the world. What bridges the gap from there to what we wish to teach, and how can I make the points of connection most obvious?)

@lila@octodon.social @jessmahler (also don't mistake me for a real professional educator. I volunteered at a science museum for a few years, over a decade ago, but I've been a computer programmer since. I felt more confident answering the original question since I can talk about my own experiences with autism - but what I know of blindness comes only from people I led through activities at the St. Louis Science Center.)

@lila@octodon.social @jessmahler Fold the paper while the student is touching it, feeling it bend, and feeling the crease form; repeat a couple of times and talk about the nature of folding paper. Then introduce, by touch, another sheet of paper; crimp the edge using the student's hands, or have the student do so. Then take it and quietly fold it in half (maybe quarters) yourself, hand it back, and talk about what must have happened, even though it could not be directly perceived?

@jessmahler Yay! And then if you need to show the difference, performing things he can't see but can know happened - like showing a piece of paper, bringing it under the table, folding it in half, then bringing it back out - can give him chances to think about the difference between "happened" and "perceived". Be careful, he's going to get really fascinated with figuring out things he can't perceive and suddenly 20 years later he has a microbiology degree

@jessmahler has he had an opportunity to learn "I perceived" as a concept? It sounds like he has understood "X happened" as equivalent to "I perceived X" and if he learns the latter then he has a way to understand a difference between "I perceived" and "X happened" because they now exist as separate concepts

Someday, and hopefully someday soon, bioprinting of skin will become so cheap the the shitty $45 HP version of a skin printer (with $80 skin cartridges) will enter the budget of amateur direct-to-YouTube horror movie makers operating on a college student beer run budget, and the cultural output of our society will get that much more beautifully grotesque