beanseason.bsky.social
She/her, co-op deli cook, sweet on my man, shy, book-loving homebody. Interconnectedness/interdependence, and the inherent worth and dignity of everyone are key
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Not sure I get this one because it kind of seems like it's making fun of someone for being the victim of revenge porn. Hope I'm just missing something.
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I was so excited to see this story, too-- that book was such a banger!
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Ota Benga might have had something to say about this one
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It's called a rectum/
for it is rectangular./
Show me that butthole
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It's concerning for many reasons that he has our data, but what he's doing in this clip might just be stimming.
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"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
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Yeah I got run over like that once &my bike was mangled-- luckily I just got a few scapes. Scared me so much now I don't take my right of way unless I'm 100% sure they see me. I feel like I'm a part of the problem because I'm teaching them that bikers will be timid, I'm just tryin to not die though.
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You're in for a treat! I hope you get a chance to do a tour and see all the beautiful artwork inside, like these cool murals made by Hildreth Meière: www.atlasobscura.com/places/nebra...
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I don't care if you believe me, but I'm confused on how it's fascist to say that there are some ppl on here asserting that there won't be anymore meaningful elections (with the clear implication that that's a bad thing to assert because it's defeatist and depresses turnout).
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I've seen plenty ppl on here asserting there won't be meaningful elections again, &he said: "again, paying attention to democratic erosion is extremely important.
but winning elections matters to. and reminding people that there is still a lot to fight for is also important."
How is that lulling?
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I like that it looks like the outline of a bird inside the outline of the arm in the shadow figure
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intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory, but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk
emptying our minds of their riches." Thank you for reading! (8/8)
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in The Neurobiology of Learning, appears to modify the brain in a way that can make it easier to learn ideas and skills in the future.
We don't constrain our mental powers when We store new long-term
memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an
enlargement of our (7/?)
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Says Torkel Klingberg, 'The
amount of information that can be stored in long-term memory is virtually
boundless.' Evidence suggests, moreover, that as we build up our personal
store of memories, our minds become sharper. The very act of remembering,
explains clinical psychologist Sheila Crowell(6/?)
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continually adjust the strength of synaptic connections. 'Unlike a computer,' writes Nelson Cowan, an expert on memory who teaches at the University of Missouri, 'the
normal human brain never reaches a point at which experiences can no longer be committed to memory; the brain cannot be full.' (5/?)
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long-term memory, [we're] not 'freeing up' space in [our] brain[s] for other functions. In contrast to working memory, with its constrained capacity, long-term memory expands and contracts with almost unlimited elasticity,
thanks to the brain's ability to grow and prune synaptic terminals and (4/?)
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you can move the bits from one storage drive to another as many times as you like, and they will always remain precisely as they were.
The proponents of the outsourcing idea also confuse working memory with long-term memory. When [people fail] to consolidate a fact, an idea, or an experience in (3)
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nature of biological memory. What gives real memory its richness and its character, not to mention its mystery and fragility, is its contingency. [...] Biological memory is in a perpetual state of renewal. The memory stored in a computer, by contrast, takes
the form of distinct and static bits;(2/?)
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I didn't realize how important it is for memories/knowledge to be embodied/integrated until I read The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. Now I try to make myself wait and repeat the inquiry in the meantime if it's something I'm truly curious about and want to remember. With limited success, of course.
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Seems weird to be so demanding of purity and perfection from others that we're willing to go along with this man tricking and bullying/humiliating this woman who has already been through a LOT. I don't know the context, though
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The plain language of the 22nd amendment says no person can be elected President more than twice ever, so they'd have to pass another constitutional amendment if they wanted to change that.
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I remember NPR interviewing this random non-famous lady also running who had great policy positions but I was mad at her anyway, wishing she would take that energy and put it behind a non-clown canidate who might win. In hindsight, I was probably too hard on her, because was there anyone like that?
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"A hapax legomenon is a word that only occurs once in a corpus of text. The plural is either hapax legomena, or hapaxes. The word comes from Ancient Greek, and means (something) only said once." This is a cool term to know!
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I can't find "omen text," so I'll guess that's just a cuneiform text about an omen lol
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Protasis
This term (plural: protases) describes a conditional clause, a subordinate clause beginning with "if." For example, Mesopotamian omens and laws are constructed in the following way: "If X, then Y".
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I have to look all of these up! "extispicy (plural extispicies) (uncountable) Synonym of haruspicy: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice."
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Great content! Using alt text next time will make it so that screen readers can also access it.
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One day when I was a little girl my mom offered to buy me a candy bar and I was about to pick the Crunch Bar, but she explained what they'd done in Africa and I joined the boycott instead. I'm 45 years old and a second generation boycotter. They don't deserve our business! Perma-boycott them!