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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • You can definitely swipe up on a notification to make it go away without dismissing it.

    Honestly, just make this habit: whenever you see a non-actionable notification, before you swipe it away, long press it and hit “turn off notifications.” Then you can go through that app’s list and choose the ones you need—or turn the app’s notification off completely!

    For ones you want to show up, but don’t want interrupting you, switch their delivery to Silent and Minimized.

    Be ruthless with your notifications. You’ll feel a lot better.



  • I remember using the second definition in elementary school in the early 90s, before cell phones were on common use, long before they flipped open, and even before they had extendable antennas. I suppose they might have been a cordless landline, but I always assumed it was a corded phone. The “call me” message, then, wasn’t about being able to see someone but not hear them except in very specific circumstances; instead, it was implied to mean “call me later.” It could be used as a way of flirting, or it could be more platonic. I suppose it could also be used in a business setting, though I wasn’t really old enough to know.








    • What color was the ball?

    I didn’t see a color in my visualization, but I know it was red.

    • What gender was the person that pushed the ball?

    They were genderless; more of a concept of a person than an image of one.

    • What did they look like?

    Like…an area of visual space that my mind attached the identifier “Person” to.

    • What size is the ball? Like a marble, or a baseball, or a basketball, or something else?

    A little smaller than a tennis ball, but bigger than a ping pong ball.

    • What about the table, what shape was it? What is it made of?

    I didn’t see either property in my visualization, but it’s wooden and round.

    And now the important question: Did you already know, or did you have to choose a color/gender/size, etc. after being asked these questions?

    Lol. Well, I guess I botched that one. Obviously I did not know before being asked these questions, for most of the answers.









    • Wohl and Burkman were sentenced to community service.

    • The charge they pled guilty to was fraud; that they “falsely claimed that mail-in voting would put voters into a database that would be used to collect outstanding debt, track down warrants or enforce mandatory vaccinations.” It doesn’t matter what the outcome was (intimidation or something else), the fraud was the crime.

    • Fox is a slightly different case, as they’re technically press and thus have a first amendment protection that automatically makes any case against them harder. But either way, the lack of prosecution is far from evidence that a crime was not committed.

    • I already identified exactly which law Musk is breaking and with what action. 52 USC 20511 and 52 USC 30101, if you find it particularly important.