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I want to apologize to the whole community, sincerely, for my recent behaviors over the last 4 months.

If i have been rude or even short tempered with any of you my apologies you likely did not deserve it. Read on if you’d like to know the story and you can decide if I should be forgiven or not.

I know several months ago I made a similar apology, and this may fall on deaf ears, but I hope some of you will hear me out.

First off my last apology came at the face of an Israeli mob death threat on both me and my family. That added a lot of stress at the time and certainly led to me being a bit rude with some people, not an excuse but I do want to rehash it a bit for context. Many of you have noticed since then I do not go out without an open-carry weapon on my hip, this is why.

That said that is not the source of this apology but it is loose related.

I have been dealing with some health issues that, while not life threatening they have severely limited me in some ways. Specifically a very severe sleep disorder. The sleep disorder, and a brain fog that made it very hard for me to think and function normally. In and of itself these werent the root cause, there were underlying issues. But my attempt to treat the symptoms (since the underlying causes we unknown) actually led to a worsening of symptoms long term despite providing some help in the short term. I will explain.

Most of my life I had ADHD as a diagnosis, but it had never been a hindrance to me, in fact I saw it as something that improved my intellectual abilities overall. However this diagnosis allowed me to receive an adderall prescription to try to address the sleep disorder and brain fog, not to treat the ADHD directly, which I have been on for about the last 4 months. It was a low dose (20mg once a day in the morning to wake up). At first it addressed my symptoms with amazing results, but over time it led to a cure to my sleep issue but the brain fog got much much worse. In addition to that my irritability when interacting with people was worse and I have been quite dis-tempered with some of you, and I am deeply sorry for that if this describes you. It certainly continued to cure the sleep issue however and since normal sleep is needed for me to do my work i felt i needed to continue.

Recently however I decided to take matters into my own hands and stop relying on doctors. Instead I got labs through shady means to test for things doctors were dismissive of and wouldnt in the past let me get authorization to have tested. Namely my testosterone levels, thyroid hormone levels, and various blood sugar indicators. These tests revealed three underlying issues: 1) A severely low T-level (so low the tests couldn’t even register trace amounts) 2) An extremely high Thyroid-stimulating hormone, 3x above the maximum normal range 3) metabolic disorder causing blood sugar and insulin irregularities (which likewise led to extreme runaway hunger).

At this point I found a doctor who was finally willing to listen to me, armed with a mountain of ill gotten blood tests and managed to convince her to test me properly for verification and finally treat my underlying diseases.

As of about a week ago I started treatment for my underlying diseases, needing to take injections of about 3 drugs, soon to be 4. Knowing that the root cause could finally be addressed I figured around the same time last week I could quit both the adderall and the sleeping medication entirely. Now that the underlying treatments are starting to work, and the old treatments out of my system I feel the best I’ve felt in years. I already lost 16 lbs, my brain fog has mostly evaporated, and while my sleep is still recovering it was quite improved last night… So while i have a ways to go to be 100% I am already back to my old self, how I used to be before the brain fog began. and certainly doing better than I was doing even 6 months ago.

I will do my best, going forward to treat you all with the respect and due consideration you deserve. Again my apologies.

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So its done! I finally released a fairly easy to install (from scratch) Hugo based Static Site generator with full ActivityPub support.

It has step-by-step instructions on how to set it up for your own blog or static website.

One of the coolest features for me, other than having your static site blog posts show up as posts in the Fediverse is the support for interacting with those posts. Any replies you leave, likes, or boosts will show up in the "comments" section of the website on the page associated with the post. How cool is that!

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To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same. Add to the post.















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So I got the raw 3d MRI source files from the hospital. Then I got the software needed to view the MRI in 3d. It let me rotate, slice, and even colorize the images. So **I** generated these images from the raw MRI. It shows my kidney, heart, and skeleton from 4 different angles fully colorized. How cool is that!

I also included some of just the heart and kidneys on its own from the same scan.

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This is me

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There are actually people born after 2000 who arent babies right now... I still can not accept this.

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โŠฅแต’แตš CแตธแตŽแถบแต‹แถซโˆธแต’แต˜ โ˜‘๏ธ

I open sourced a thing !

A super simple web GUI for @mozilla 's

Should pass the SO test.

codeberg.org/falken/simple-gpt

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

LA Times reports that last night, hundreds of anti-Palestine protestors violently attacked pro-Palestine peaceful protestors.

Amazing how there was immediate law enforcement to stop peaceful protestors but nowhere near that speed to stop these violent extremists.๐Ÿค”
latimes.com/california/story/2

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Mike. ๐Ÿฉผ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

"Israeli Minister Reportedly Asks IDF To Kill Palestinians Instead Of Arresting Them

โ€œWhy are there so many arrests?โ€ Ben-Gvir allegedly asked. โ€œCanโ€™t you kill some? Do you want to tell me they all surrender? What are we to do with so many arrested? Itโ€™s dangerous for the soldiers.โ€"

#Politics #Biden #Gaza #Genocide

huffpost.com/entry/israeli-min

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@peterdrake

To update you and eveyone interested. We have 4 out of 5 of the versions tested on beta. The last one is where we expect some problems. If so we will apply 4 out of 5 and work on the 5th. Otherwise we might have all 5 updates applied to production soon. The first 4 succeeded which is a nice first step!

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Freedom=Growing Each Other

QOTO thoughts - writing you to keep in touch and also to bring some considerations - some is 'why it doesn't work here' but not all related to QOTO completely (but maybe learning without action is not ideal / too limited as what QOTO acronym might infer)... 

======> INTRO:
@freemo + others - I thought I'd write you just to keep in touch and also to bring some considerations - some is 'why it doesn't work' here but not all totally related to QOTO but maybe if learning without action is happening this is not ideal / too limited as acronym might infer / try for in question / teaching and more...

So perhaps some considerations to why I think it should be more (which depends if you are working towards freedom) or can simply see all ways are my way and yours if we are to get to something better all round. Or do you not want that? (also good to ask).

I think I'm lucky enough to have an admin that cares (yourself) but who knows how prepared we are to take it to X level which I think we need so it's not just writing and occasionally boosting...

======> LIST
So here's the list starting with โ–ˆ for each (these are measurables, in no order but all important to me which I'd appreciate reply):

โ–ˆ- Leadership to involve us all on QOTO - I think you need something, at least podcast or shaping future together somehow measurably to act against / for things freedom-loving or however it's framed...

โ–ˆ- You wanted to do some audio between us but only live talk (which my internet speed can't do) so would have helped me to do a offline audio ping pong which is also good for pre-meditated themes and editing. This is not a really bad thing but stopped the audio happening clearly because I'm currently using minimal system + enjoying low-cost modem-speed internet which can't do too much live. So re-consider this at least as a test since you were ok with live which is fairly the same once we're rolling and do 5min audio ping pongs.

โ–ˆ- I'm not sure of your aims...
I thought I was

โ–ˆ- See you're getting in to AI is a big flag for me (and danger in general) and while I like / trust you - too clever friends will obviously land friends possibly in trouble or there is a fear there in who I perceive to help (even if it's before helping or if you 'don't really need me').

So I'm going for freedom which I see as enabled by all those that include themselves... and well I don't know if I should try include or label you in freedom but who knows if this server will help me get there basically... so I've had feelings of leaving (again just saying but hope you can say something) and right now I'm not sure what there is for me...

โ–ˆ- Maintenance mode on QOTO for a long time has perhaps magnified these comment BUT perhaps that is a good thing as plodding along is also not good and need more response / participation / heat back from those going for / searching for same/similar things, which I question as users and eventually admin leading / not leading them (though I appreciate the free being here being a chore but not having will at least for me is just limited for me).

Maintenance seems to be going on and for extended times then you've said and continues.

โ–ˆ-Mastodon can't import back in another profile (so we're locked in) unless a tool exist to make posts in another form... which I'm kind of finding people that can help partially on that... but no import to another Mastodon is bad (maybe offline self-instance or 1 user instance might work to copy outbox.JSON file)

โ–ˆ- Threads / Meta and all that is basically also part of my consideration so not just QOTO or directed at you... because I think we need a ANTI-Meta invasion mechanism or way because whatever we do can be flipped in their favour in the end (such as taking over / scraping too easily without us writing disclaimers or legal footers asking them not to at least).

โ–ˆโ“โ–ˆ So one question is if you can add ANTI-Meta disclaimer to interface saying:

"USERS DO NOT CONSENT TO SCRAPING DATA BY ANYONE UNLESS USERS MENTION IT'S WANTED IN THEIR PROFILE"

FREEMO + PEOPLE, LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF POINTS, THANKS

@QOTO / INCLUDED HERE TO DISTRIBUTE WEIGHT OF TOPICS AND REPLY WITH OTHERS SO IT'S NOT JUST FREEMO (but if it is just freemo then this might prove my point he's alone / limited in endeavours I'm looking at)

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P.S - NOT TO DISTRACT - BUT

=====> A similar video/audio version of my text is with the link below, to do with building things and refers to revolution or change a lot, is here which is very similar to what I'm saying about participation and structure even without 'my' levels of revolution but something for all of us on QOTO more than just posting/boosting mostly:

invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=V

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The International courts have called Israel to court several times over human rights violations and acts of terrorism (including using children as shields). They have never showed. This alone is enough for me to support his arrest as a war criminal.

inb4: The international court has also called HAMAS to court, and they should be held guilty for their violations as well.

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If you are well organized, it is a healthy trait. no one would say you are "on the OCD spectrum".. but when that trait gets out of hand we would say you have OCD, and likely would be diagnosed as such.

I see (autism) ASD and ADHD as much the same way. Most people diagnosed with it who are high functioning dont really have it at all. It is just a personality trait and all in all a positive one. high-functioning ASD are just people without social hangups, good. And people with ADHD who are high-functioning are largely just amazing multi-taskers.

The harm in putting people on a spectrum is they see themselves asa diseased, broken, something that needs "consideration.. they arent, in most cases in the right proportions these "diseases" are in fact just super powers, things more people should wisht hey have really.

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Bruce Mirken

"To sustain this level of blind support for #Israel, the U.S. must erode its own #democracy. And that is what we see happening on U.S. campuses now." commondreams.org/news/emory-pr

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:gnu: bonifartius ๐’‚ผ๐’„„

@freemo didn't want to play down the usefulness! :) i only think all people have special traits or talents which help them to perform especially well on some tasks or in some environments. imho that's why humans were so successful settling in wildly different places :)

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Which form of pronouns will you use when asked?

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@freemo

FWIW, I agree with this 100%.

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A high functioning 0erson with adhd is at higher risk of developing adhd related problems, just as thry are at a higher risk of developing its super powers.

Im a person with adhd, for me it has manifested largerly as a suoer power with little or no drawbacks. It is a large reason for my carereer success.

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D:\side\

@freemo it mostly comes down to the circumstances they live in. What they do, what their local communities expect.

Consider something more clear-cut and outside of mental health: myopia, near-sightedness. A condition with which one's eyes have a much closer focal range, meaning they see things worse from afar, but also better up close. Not just as close as people without it โ€” even closer. Meaning that with a comparable retina a myopic can clearly discern much finer details. Kind of a superpower, right? If they do lots of work on a tiny scale it would seem like it.

And yet, street signs, menu posters in restaurants, numbers on the public transport and tons of other things are *a lot* harder to see, to the point of them being entirely nonfunctional, which reflects on the user โ€“ forcing unto them alternatives or aids (glasses, smartphones and their cameras, other people) through difficulties integrating into society.

Different lifestyles have different compositions of these components.

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If you are well organized, it is a healthy trait. no one would say you are "on the OCD spectrum".. but when that trait gets out of hand we would say you have OCD, and likely would be diagnosed as such.

I see (autism) ASD and ADHD as much the same way. Most people diagnosed with it who are high functioning dont really have it at all. It is just a personality trait and all in all a positive one. high-functioning ASD are just people without social hangups, good. And people with ADHD who are high-functioning are largely just amazing multi-taskers.

The harm in putting people on a spectrum is they see themselves asa diseased, broken, something that needs "consideration.. they arent, in most cases in the right proportions these "diseases" are in fact just super powers, things more people should wisht hey have really.

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Which form of pronouns will you use when asked?

15 people ยท Apr 27, 2024, 06:57
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Bibliolater ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“œ๐Ÿ–‹๐Ÿ“

@freemo @maccdog I am really looking forward to using the new features that are planned. I expect the wait is worth it.

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@bibliolater @maccdog

The first 5 will get us some core stuff. Its the 6th one where the best stuff will be. I have f
A full tine staff working on qoto now.

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casey is remote

@hornblower @freemo LOL what?

If anything, this is what gets #JoeBiden reelected, because the left wingers have nowhere else to go and #Trump is actually a stronger supporter of #Israel than #JoeBiden is

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@hornblower

I’ve said it a few times now but you seem to refuse to listen to what I say and just repeat your talking points..

I expect stein to get 0 electorial votes and 1% to 3% of the vote.

My point is so what? How is voting for someone who gets 2% of the vote and loosing any different than voting for an evil person who gets 48% of the vote and looses, or even voting for another equally evil person who gets 51% of the vote and wins? How is you voting for someone you dont want to win, who wins somehow better than voting for someone you do want to win who looses? Thats the part you have failed to answer and just completely ignore in the discussion. The outcome is exactly the same with regards to who wins no matter who i vote for, so what even is your argument for me to vote for someone I dont want.. you have none.

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