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Anita Lewis
@ajlewis2.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy
Retired: was lab tech, religious sister, archivist, US Army (no not all at the same time) Interested in Linux and eclectic reading.

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Reposted by Anita Lewis
@ajlewis2 That's great feedback, thanks.

The corollary is really simple: we know that adjacent numbers share no prime factors, so if we take all the primes we know, multiply them together and add one, we have a number which can contain none of the known primes. The conclusion being that there […]
Original post on cyberplace.social
cyberplace.social
January 26, 2026 at 2:11 PM
I liked your post of a quote, so I decided to send out this one I loved from my morning read and make sure you see it @johnrakestraw

"Doing God means acting *not* as separable agents but in differential collectives mindfully enfleshing our planetary entanglement. And planetarity itself enfolds […]
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social.vivaldi.net
January 25, 2026 at 8:03 PM
3 Small thoughts from Ava. I find her clear thinking and writing admirable--actually enviable.

https://blog.avas.space/smallthoughts6/
small thoughts part 6
> In ‘small thoughts’ posts, I’m posting a collection of short thoughts and opinions that don’t warrant their own post. :) It's been a while! ☁️☁️☁️ Sometimes, people say they felt uncomfortable, like something in their life isn't right, and how a change they made relieved this feeling. This new version is their true self, meant to be, or more 'natural'. It's storymaking, sensemaking, in a random world. It hinges on thinking that feeling happy is the default mode that you can be led astray from, and that there is a static true 'you' underneath it all that you should live in line with to be happy all the time and not be contorted and led astray from your happiness. To me, this also has some religious undertones and is probably influenced by it. Almost any change we initiate and fill with justification and story makes us happy initially, because we like to feel that we are in control, and that our personal narrative is cohesive and making sense. New things are exciting; becoming a new person by just doing a bit of something new feels like a good escape, but we can claim this new persona is who we were actually meant to be, and is part of a bigger road of self-discovery, and has deep down always been us. We wanna feel like a main character that embarks on a new mission, but we don’t want to feel like we are losing ourselves or come across as inauthentic. This narrative combines it in a way that avoids having to confront the juxtaposition of new and old, known and unknown. In a way, the narrative of repeatedly finding your true self, like peeling back more and more onion layers, with the hopes of one day having excavated the whole thing intact like an archaeologist, denies so much random growth and change that doesn't fit into our story. It's okay for things to just happen or shift with no reason that is cinematic or cool to tell others. A non-sequitur. ☁️☁️☁️ Remember that the people on YouTube and TikTok who are telling you about how great logging off is and how regularly they participate in phone-free times or whatever still put up their tripod and clicked record to share these "offline times" with you in an upcoming video they planned, or went out of their way to stage their offline activities for a video. Even when they are convinced to have broken free from it for a little while, their time offline is still visibly affected by their online content strategy. While buying these flowers, walking through the forest, and hanging out with friends, they still evaluated each moment for a social media worthy aesthetic, and still pulled out their phone to record with the intention of editing and uploading it later as a backdrop for their online pursuits. And despite telling you to log off more, so many of online content creators rely on the algorithm, the endless scrolling, and you lying down to watch video after video to get views and money. Many of them do actually mean well I assume, but I also think they _know_ that watching videos of others being productive in itself feels productive and uplifting, and that it's the same with watching someone record their hobbies while a soothing voice-over talks about getting away from the phone. These videos, ironically, offer a relief of something that is still ongoing while watching it, and that the creator themself cannot fully escape from. ☁️☁️☁️ It's worrying how such a large part of artificial intelligence is simulacra of women. The default voices and names of assistants like Siri, Alexa, or Cortana, or chatbot assistants on company websites; the non-consensual undressing of women on social media and other deepfakes via Grok; the generation of probably terabytes of women in porn each day; the millions of virtual girlfriend chatbots; the Reddit posts comparing images generated by different image generation models almost always featuring women; AI-generated social media influencers like Aitana Lopez, Lil Miquela, Milla Sofia, Mia Zelu and a thousand others; AI-generated 'musicians' like Timbaland's TaTa, Xania Monet and more. It underlines, painfully to me, a certain view society still has despite all progress: Women are predominately there for selling sex, selling company, being an assistant and eye candy to get off to. It's dehumanizing. We are thought of as the faces to attract buyers, but not necessarily as the brain behind the operation. In a society that thinks anything women are into is easy, boring and vapid, we are the perfect faces for a landfill of AI slop. In a world that has for centuries struggled with seeing women as fully human, it's almost not surprising that our feelings and consent around deepfakes of us doesn't seem to matter. Once again, we are only visible when we are sexy or if we are serving someone. We are still experiencing a gender pay gap in many industries and countries, and our work, our faces and voices are the first to be replaced with a generated version, skipping the part where they'd have to pay us. I think nothing has ever made me feel more like a commodity than AI. > Reply via email > Published 18 Jan, 2026
blog.avas.space
January 20, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by Anita Lewis
Honestly, I've not watched many performances that stopped me in my tracks in taste years. Heck, decades. Mainstream music has gotten bland. I am sure fantastic singers are still there and amazing music too. It's not as findable these days.

Totally understand why #elvis was called the King […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM
@johnrakestraw

"But I do think that there’s room in the world, even a world as tortured as ours, for reading, thinking, and writing."

I think there is not only room, but necessity. It feels like I find sanity in the written word with the connection I get to the sanity of thinkers from all […]
Original post on social.vivaldi.net
social.vivaldi.net
January 15, 2026 at 2:24 PM
@stefano

I just started using the "draft" function of BSSG tonight. That helps me feel I can just write what I'm thinking and know where to look to get back to whatever drafts I've made. It helps that they are dated and have the structure ready to post. A nice feature!
January 6, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Reposted by Anita Lewis
Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud is the most ultra-realistic science fiction I've ever read. It is dated and very white-man-British biased, but the insight it provides into the machinations of the government and academia of the day (circa 1957) is fascinating […]
Original post on cyberplace.social
cyberplace.social
January 5, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Reposted by Anita Lewis
Looking Back at 2025, Looking Forward to 2026

Pizzas, tiramisu, stickers, and plenty of coffee. But above all, people.

My 2025 has been a journey from Canada to Croatia, reconnecting with old friends and launching new projects. In a difficult year for the world, I chose to focus on the light […]
Original post on mastodon.bsd.cafe
mastodon.bsd.cafe
December 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
December 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I finally saw the sign off from CBS News by Dickerson and DuBois. I rarely saw much of the program, but I know it was the one my mom trusted and I heard about their leaving. It's worth a 3 min watch if you haven't seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyuf4OzUkq0
December 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
My short review of Rabbi Jesus by Bruce Chilton:

The book is as it says: An intimate biography. The in depth description of the times, places, and culture during the lifetime of Jesus gave me a richer view of him. The book brought a fuller picture of his spirituality than I had before reading […]
Original post on social.vivaldi.net
social.vivaldi.net
December 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
@ellane

That one-page notebook has been working great for me. I find I look at it often enough that I take care of what's there. I cross things off if they are complete and transfer notes to digital periodically. It's so nice to write things in one place and know where it is. And it's a use for […]
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social.vivaldi.net
December 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Had my first problem with Verizon after 14 years. My voicemail could not be accessed by me or by outside callers. I checked online and used the chat. It's an auto-chat and I suppose it would have helped someone who didn't know how to dial in for the voicemail. Giving it the message I got when I […]
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social.vivaldi.net
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
@SamuraiSakura

Your blog post on Christmas reminds me how grateful I am that I'm not exposed all that much to the Holiday thing that promotes consumerism.
December 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Three bookmarks from my feed here that look interesting. Each of them made my fan start running as things popped up all over the page. I have an Obsidian Web Clipper that I used to grab them and get out of there each time. Hopefully there will be something to see in the clipping. I don't know […]
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social.vivaldi.net
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Grammarian vs Errorist - a supervillain showdown

Elle Cordova - a short entertaining video I just found by someone whose music I love. Seems she is a lover of the written word and knows her stuff. Also quite a sense of humor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEaqySLiAck
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
@superball

I started reading your website today with "A New Stage" and I very much enjoyed it. I've got it on RSS and will work my way through. Such a beautiful journey in that first post!
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
@SamuraiSakura

I read your blog post "Turn Off and journal instead" with great interest. First of all, congratulations. I'm happy for you. Secondly: I hear you. What you say is resonating in me. I do find a happy place on a dark terminal, mouseless, one possible screen. Lately I choose instead […]
Original post on social.vivaldi.net
social.vivaldi.net
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Anita Lewis
…and at night, when everything seems so dark you are starting to get crazy and hopeless, just remember: a new morning will come and a new sun will shine for you.

Have a great week, #bsdcafe
Have a great week, #illumoscafe
Have a great week, #fediverse […]

[Original post on mastodon.bsd.cafe]
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Study Finds COVID mRNA Vaccines Boost Cancer Treatment

Over the last five years, billions of people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. New research has found an unanticipated result of these vaccines: Cancer treatments are more effective for some vaccinated patients […]
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social.vivaldi.net
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Surreal... Yes, and it looks like where one might listen to silence.
October 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Fantastic!!
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The Hurricane path I like to see as I turn to NOAA to see what's ahead for Florida.
October 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM