Avi Flax

Screenshot of a MacOS computer, showing the app Disk Inventory X, displaying a treemap of all the directories and files on my computer, their relationships, and their relative sizes. The package `Photos Library.photoslibrary` is massively dominating everything else. It’s 640 GB out of 816 GB total. So around 78% of my data is my photo library.

😅 I might be something of a photo hoarder 😅

(My photo library is everything above the yellow line.)

…I feel horrible for having alienated them in that way, but also hopeful that I can assimilate this knowledge and react more compassionately and constructively in the future.

…I see now that their neurological construction would have made that nearly impossible for them, and that they were never actually exhibiting disregard for my sensitivities…

…and I've got frustrated with their intensity and lack of calm countless times, and unfortunately expressed that frustration, and begged them to "speak calmly"…

…it's long been a struggle for me to separate the signal of what they're trying to communicate from the "noise" of their agitation — or at least it seemed like "noise" to me…

…even while watching it I was mentally reframing 2 of my essential, cherished relationships: one with a woman who wasn't diagnosed until her mid-30s, and another with a girl who was diagnosed at 9 years old and is now a teen…

Why Hollywood Won't Write ADHD Be kind to yourself this year. Using Zocdoc is FREE - visit my sponsor https://zocdoc.com/sloanstowe to find and instantly book an appointment with a top-rated, in-network doctor today. Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sloanstowe/ Follow me on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sloanstowe ADHD RESOURCES: Check out Dr. Barkley’s YouTube channel for more information on ADHD: https://www.youtube.com/@russellbarkleyphd2023 Illuminating Q&A with Dr. Barkley: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/l9lr9f/radhd_iama_with_dr_russell_barkley/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDgOmFd5SlE&pp=ygUaZHIgYmFya2xleSBhZGhkIGZvciBhZHVsdHM%3D Community-made pro tips for people with ADHD: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/ioi1my/i_went_through_700_reddit_comments_and_collected/ Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQNhh44GeV8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlY7_alm_bo https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/08/percy-jackson-rick-riordan https://psychiatry.duke.edu/adhd-girls-and-women-key-facts https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7617439/ https://www.aol.com/later-life-diagnosis-adhd-ocd-120044669.html https://smarts-ef.org/blog/fictional-characters-adhd-and-dyslexia/ https://actuallyadhd.org/resources/representation-actually-adhd-fictional-characters-and-celebrities/ https://chadd.org/attention-article/as-he-enters-retirement-russell-barkley-looks-back/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10017728/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0148296385900049?via%3Dihub https://www.reddit.com/r/camphalfblood/comments/qe1c6y/pjo_does_anyone_else_find_it_hard_to_believe/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39844532/ https://timburtonversusbunnies.tumblr.com/post/178486248831/embed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWcmDEUeZew Chapters: 00:00-00:45 - intro 00:46-04:25 - percy jackson 04:26-05:54 - canon list 05:55-08:08 - stiles stilinski 08:09-10:01 - richie tozier 10:02-12:50 - why labels matter 12:51-14:22 - thank you zocdoc 14:23-17:53 - jake peralta brooklyn99 17:54-19:30 - bad representation 19:31-20:44 - doctor barkley 20:45-22:28 - my experience 22:30-28:57 - maxine baker 28:58-29:55 - conclusion

🤯 🤯 🤯 I just stumbled across this video essay by Sloan Stowe on ADHD and… holy shit.

youtu.be/j0GGoL7mzzM

I learned **so much** from this video that…

TIL the word "conversance" which is the nominalization of "conversant" — "familiar with or knowledgeable about something"

Also TIL the word "nominalization" — "convert (a word or phrase, as a verb or adjective) into a noun"

Hell yeah!

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How Boomers Ruined Cars YouTube video by Climate Town

Ever wonder why everyone is driving a literal tank to the grocery store? Automakers exploited a 1970s "light truck" loophole to dodge safety and emissions rules. Now our streets are a warzone for pedestrians, all for profit margins.

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Photo of a high speed DC fast charger for electric vehicles with a sign taped to it which reads: Shell Recharge Download the Shell App to Charge Today! Heads up, drivers! The Shell Recharge stations at this location have been decommissioned. Download the Shell App to access more than 115,000 charge points in the Shell Recharge roaming network.

Photo of two charging bays with offline chargers. The bays are blocked by orange cones.

This is why EV charging companies shouldn't sell out to fossil fuel companies.

Photo of a utility pole at night with lots of wires and cables, and a light source behind them, possibly the moon.

💁 I just posted some new copy to foldertunes.app wherein I try to convey the value proposition of the app.

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My kid and I just started playing What Remains of Edith Finch, and only a few minutes in, I can tell it's amazing.

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Thanks! I figured as much so I already switched. You might want to add something to the docs though. This could trip up beginners (and/or LLMs)

@val.town I just remembered — another concern I had was with the blob store. As far as I can tell via the docs, it would seem probably quite susceptible to race conditions, especially if used in HTTP handlers. So… maybe it’s more appropriate to use with a cron trigger?

Ah I just remembered — another concern I had today was with the blob store. As far as I can tell via the docs, it would seem probably quite susceptible to race conditions, especially if used in HTTP handlers. So… maybe it’s more appropriate to use with a cron trigger?

My pleasure, sounds good, will do!

It feels odd to make a change and then run `vt push` — there are no commits and no way to annotate my changes. I get that it’s simpler and probably better for those who don’t know Git. But for me it feels odd. That said, it’d probably work just fine in conjunction with Git. I might try that.

Trying out @val.town and so far it’s mostly good stuff!

The only thing I’m still not sure about is the lack of any kind of support for, or integration with, Git.

TIL about Resist and Unsubscribe and I immediately unsubscribed from:

• Apple One
• YouTube Premium
• Netflix

Abolish ICE!

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#resistandunsubscribe #resistICE

GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader - yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Apropos of something, here's a yt-dlp command that will download just the audio and thumbnail for a YouTube video:

yt-dlp --extract-audio --format bestaudio --write-thumbnail URL

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Screenshot of a New York Times article at nytimes.com with the headline “Goose Is a Jam Band. Geese Is Indie Rock. They Both Have New Albums.” And the sub-headline “They’re also both on tour. Confused? We can help.” And then photos of both bands, I guess.

Seriously?

Screenshot of a git commit tree from the Mac app GitUp, showing a main branch, into which a branch `scanning` has been merged, and we can see that origin/scanning has a different set of commits, off of which the branches art, art2, and art3 are based. There’s also an art4 branch off of main. It’s a mess.

This is fine.

It's been three weeks since the storm. Shovel out these cars, tow them, and turn the space into bike parking, public seating, on-street garbage containerization, bioswales... anything other than car storage would serve more people than this.

Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.