jszym @jszym

some nights i cant stand the idea of going to sleep because its like, well, ummm, well you feel a sense of finality about the day and ummmm, well, ummm, hard to uhhhh, hard to explain the feeling umm, i guess, well actually i guess, its like, well, its like you die, isnt it??? its the same as dying. just because its not permanent doesnt mean its not scary. if only i could phrase this in a way that didnt sound extremely stupid

Added "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship" (2018), you can watch it here:

https://kino.social/paywall-the-business-of-scholarship-2018/

Feature-length documentary about the parasitic publishing companies that syphon off billions of dollars of public money by pointlessly charging scientists to read each other's research.

The film is brand new and released under #CreativeCommons Attribution 4.0 licence. You can find out more at https://paywallthemovie.com/

#Paywall #Research #Scholarship #Publishing #Documentary #Film

his arms expand when he eats spinach, but non-directionally, because he's Popeye the Scalar Man

albin.social is a new mastodon derived instance

it has many negative traits that mean you as an instance admin should defederate

-harvests user data, presumably from all federation as well as local users
-plans to run off ads fed that data
-for profit, corporate adjacent based monetary goals, instead of user centric
-no features to sell you other than "ads = stability" in their twisted logics

boost and defederate, folx

"When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than your ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create."

- Why The Lucky Stiff

At the beginning of the 17th century, a book of black magic was published, attributed to the mythical Faust and known by the title Höllenzwang. The library in Weimar owned a manuscript of this text, which Goethe was aware of. This document, which is difficult to date, is written in cabalistic signs and, according to a German gloss, contains a series of magic spells for exorcists, which can be used in particular to call up the seven evil spirits.

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/fmb/cb-0066

'I am not the Dread Cryptographer Zimmerman', he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the pad from the previous Dread Cryptographer Zimmerman, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Cryptographer Zimmerman either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Zimmerman has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia.'

I meant think about it.

Cats lay on piles of laundry because they smell like you, their precious human.

Dragons lay on piles of shiny things because they're precious.

Cats are a distant evolutionary cousin to dragons, thanks for coming to my ted talk.