my roommates are watching original-4kids yu-gi-oh for some incomprehensible reason and my adult self is losing her mind at what is effectively animated trading-card calvinball like i watched it as a kid, right? but it's another thing being old enough to realize that almost every move every character makes involves making up a new rule

afraid of loving things because you tried to love things throughout your childhood but got neutral or negative responses every time you tried to share those cool things with your disinterested parents, which was internalized as a shame of being too excited for something you love alternately, externalized as a need to shame others for caring too much about something

it's apparently #WorldMentalHealthDay2019 so have this accumulated pile of real-world inspirations for how to undo some of the bad brain here's a few more

@eevee over 1/3 of drugs have known interactions with the mitochondrial electron transport chain in some fashion. most are unexplored and some may even be a contributing factor to mechanism of action.

we mostly only notice them when people get idiosyncratic drug reactions. @eevee we have little to no idea how a large portion of psychiatric drugs work. even the mechanism of action of something as traditional as lithium is basically unknown.

i cant guarantee it works this way for everyone but there's one bit of advice i've found super useful when trying to learn stuff (i don't remember where i first read it)

basically: "to learn things, you need immediate feedback when you are wrong" because if you have anything *less* than immediate feedback, your brain is reinforcing the mistake merely by doing it, and you need to (as fast as possible) stop yourself from having that happen, so you don't lay down the wrong wires

so marie and i just did a thing that i would recommend to anyone wanting to get better at cosplay photography, whether as a subject or camera-wielder find cosplayers who have work that inspires you, similar to what you'd like to do. check out their photos: bonus points if they have photo books or big photo sets.

go through the photos. postmortem them all. roast the things that don't work. spot all the clever things that did.

amazing. the CIA used a shitty instant messenger to communicate worldwide for YEARS and .... surprise! everyone broke into it. almost literally everyone

https://twitter.com/rmc031/status/1058367031068839937

70% of the CIA's communication worldwide was compromised.

tech person tried to tell them what was happening, was punished.

people who supported things like one-time-pads and other Actually Secure Methods were dunked on as "troglodytes"

a cosplay crafter (and professional propmaker) friend got a request for a complex outfit commission (Saber Lily with full armor). It’d need $100s in materials and 50-100 hours of work.

she gave a generous offer of $800.

this is what she got in response (cc @forexposure_txt) Crafters: please don’t give in and get ripped off by these people. I mean, you know they’re probably not going to become “famous” or w/e with that attitude but even if they do, are these REALLY the kinds of people we want as “famous cosplayers”? pls no

i'm coming to the terrifying realization that there are less than a dozen people worldwide who understand ANY of the LLVM machine function pipeline

the entire half of the compiler between "instruction selection" and "printing assembly"

and i'm one of them

shit. i don't mean "less than a dozen gurus"

i mean there are precisely zero gurus and less than a dozen blind fools fumbling around trying to understand the elephant

okay i actually fucking LOVE this bug so much omg. this is even better than i thought it was. sorry, i apologize, i'm gonna fangirl a little bit here sorry

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first of all: the attack isn't intel-specific. it's not (QUITE) a hardware bug. it's extraordinarily clever.