5 Days to General @devosmium@mastodon.technology

It's weird to consider how much obsession there is with psychology & psychiatry--as well as how much of a high-dollar industry they are and their image as increasingly "harder" sciences.

Compare that to sociology and anthropology--which are viewed as much "softer," as alcoves for secret commies/out leftists (like David Graeber), or more "literary" or journalistic than, say, psychology.

When psychologists/trists are the ones looking at brain function divorced from the human. They reduce us to isolated chemicals, vague diagnoses, neurons, and matter--as if we're instruments to be tweaked, or behaviorally-modified (they've done wonders for Silicon Valley).

Compare that to the "less scientific" sociologist and anthropologist who looks at humans in their actual social context--how they interact in their daily lives.

Who might dare to suggest that someone's "chemical imbalance" might, say, be related to their crippling poverty...

Monotony is the enemy of learning.

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Pablo A. Celnik, M.D., professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine:

“What we found is if you practice a slightly modified version of a task you want to master, you actually learn more and faster than if you just keep practicing the exact same thing multiple times in a row,”

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/want_to_learn_a_new_skill_faster_change_up_your_practice_sessions

If a repetitive exercise bores you,
most likely you're not learning.

Change it up each time.
A little bit of chaos is good for the soul.
And apparently, also good for learning new things thoroughly.

^_^

Jury is still out on whether that two week period when I listened to the ten hour version of the mii song on repeat all day counts as a mental breakdown.

Red Dead Redemption 2, but as Bob Ross

@FuchsiaShock On the flip side: Showing your kids a pirated copy of Sesame Street is a great way to teach them that piracy is fun, ethical, and cool

google maps: you can't use this app till you update to the newest google play services sorry dude
me, clicking through the dismissable modal to use the app:

Reminder that microsoft was once so careless they bought skype for 8 millions when they could just download it for free.

Excited? One week today!

Remy Rodriguez was the first winner of the Saturn Belt Grand Prix who wasn't trained at one of the four Cobalt League elite flight academies. As a computer scientist she discovered a weakness that lead her to victory: Painting her ship with a specific pattern made the AI on board her competitors believe a meteoroid storm was incoming, forcing them to immediately emergency break and disengage. Rodriguez finished first despite her complete inability as a pilot.

#inktober #mastoart #creativetoots

@devosmium @SporkyDorky The goal isn't to make sense. The goal is to harass poor people.

Wrote this in a DM to a friend thought y'all might enjoy my take

The hegemonic empires of the world lack the resources to properly control their colonial interests which are rising with the support of the labor class of the imperial populations, but an independent pan-African anarcho-syndicalist confederation presents the greatest threat so is the focus of the war.