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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 4h

tell me this is a data entry error. or weird browser caching. or a CMS bug. something, anything.

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 6h

someday I'll take that sabbatical and do a language immersion course or something

omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 6h

but I still wonder if auditory processing played a role. or if it was simply an issue of not being immersed deeply/long enough

and honestly, I probably didn't drink enough wine lol it's ridiculously effective

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 6h

I know I spent more of my time thinking in Japanese my first few months there before I started teaching English. in France I was using English regularly from the start, and also taking Japanese classes alongside my French literature and writing classes 🤦🏻‍♀️

mistakes were made

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 6h

tbh I think the only reason my Japanese conversation skills ever seemed any good was because that was the easy part compared to reading and writing. but also because the bar is on the floor lol

or maybe my language immersion in Japan was that much more effective than it was in France?

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 6h

even when I was immersed, I didn't feel like I was improving after the first couple weeks

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 6h

it surprises me how well I can still read French a solid 15 years after I last used it regularly. I wonder how much my long-time struggles with speaking and listening skills were a symptom of not just memory issues but also auditory processing disorder

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 16h

it's hard to tell if reading the text makes a bigger difference than listening to the audiobook. I switch between the two regularly for the same book

but I did read for several hours continuously the other night when I couldn't get back to sleep, so that might explain the sudden change

omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 16h

I guess I can be pretty smart when I'm not braindead 🙃

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 16h

I've been repeatedly using SAT words organically in conversation the past couple days and I'm pretty sure it's cause of this

it's just wild how stark a difference reading fiction makes in my word recall in a fairly short period. surprises me every time

omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

okay I'm almost done with the second book in @maryrobinettekowal.com's Lady Astronaut series and I cannot recommend it enough to all you incident response and human factors nerds

the first book had me hooked from page one, which is a rare thing for me:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel

A Lady Astronaut Novel

bookshop.org

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 1d

Please consider adding alt text to posts with images as folx with vision loss & other disabilities deserve equitable access to information, & you can even update your settings on BlueSky so that you cannot post images without alt text, so you are prompted to add it if you might otherwise forget! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 1d

Let me take a minute to remind folks that Christopher Columbus did NOT discover new lands. These lands were already home to Indigenous peoples since time immemorial, they were never wild or in need of taming. We had language, culture and even a spiritual connection to Creator.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 1d

So, @frame.work decided to be the J.K. Rowling of tech then.

community.frame.work/t/framework-...

Framework supporting far-right racists?

We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We d...

community.frame.work

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

sigh. my partner was just looking into buying one too

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 1d

Apropos last repost, another sleight of hand that gen ai proponents like Miller engage in is suggesting gen ai is like photography. NO.

In the past, I mentioned how they’re conflating perception with process to obscure gen ai being theft & labor exploitation and to alter what “photography” means.

tru @thetrudz.photo · Aug 18

They’re using a perception parallel as a process parallel. As photography was a technological shift some ppl didn’t like then and gen ai is one many loathe now, they claim writing prompts in a theft machine is equal to study, composing, creating & developing/post-processing photographs.

No.

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

the only big content warning i would give is if you have a severe fear of flying (airplanes), or if you have emetophobia

Emetophobia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

I knew of Kowal from listening to @writingexcuses.bsky.social wayyy back in like 2015-2016 but now I'm kicking myself for not picking up any of her books sooner

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

obviously it's not 100% (I'm not Southern and I'm a terrible Jew, among other differences) but I can't remember the last time I related so hard to a character whose life wasn't a complete train wreck (c.f. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend lolsob)

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

it's also wild how precisely it intersects with my background and experience

oh, a high-achieving American white woman of Jewish descent, who's navigating a stressful career in a highly technical field and becoming painfully aware of the glaring blind spots in her worldview?

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

hard sci-fi that goes hard. like damn dude

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 1d

okay I'm almost done with the second book in @maryrobinettekowal.com's Lady Astronaut series and I cannot recommend it enough to all you incident response and human factors nerds

the first book had me hooked from page one, which is a rare thing for me:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel

A Lady Astronaut Novel

bookshop.org

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omg spees @spees.bsky.social · 2d

of all the industries to question emergency procedures for, air travel is an interesting choice. these policies were written in blood.

the airline is liable if the flight attendant fails to follow exit row procedures and the guy does cause problems in an emergency. it's an existential risk

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 2d

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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