And his steps to stop it
"Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes."
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
- Gen. Smedley Butler, a guy who knew war
Effects of a video game intervention on symptoms, training motivation, and visuo-spatial memory in depression By Moritz Bergmann, Ines Wollbrandt, Lisa Gittel, Eva Halbe, Sarah Mackert, Alexandra Philipsen, Silke Lux Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 2023 doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1173652 Methods: a total of 46 clinically depressed individuals were treatment including psychotherapy and/or randomly assigned to one of three groups: an experimental "3D video gaming" group (n = 14) which played Super Mario Odyssey, an active control group (n = 16) which trained with a computer program "CogPack," and a treatment-as-usual (TAU) group (n = 16) which received a standard clinical pharmacotherapy. Results: regarding depressive symptoms, a significant decrease in the proportion of participants who showed clinical levels of depressive symptoms as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory was only found in the 3D video gaming group (which played Super Mario Odyssey). Conclusion: besides a standalone cognitive training, the current findings suggest that cognitive trainings using a video game have potential to increase subjective well-being, show higher levels of training motivation, and lead to improvements in visuo-spatial memory functions in MDD. The proportion of participants that showed depressive symptoms (BDI-II ≥ 13) at pre- (T1) and post-assessment (T2). For Super Mario Odyssey, 100 at T1 and 57 at T2. Note: information heavily abridged. For the full paper, see link above.
A 2023 German psychiatric study found that playing Super Mario Odyssey significantly improved depressive symptoms in clinically depressed individuals compared to regular psychotherapeutic treatment, reducing depression by 43%.
Ramadan Mubarak and remember it's okay if you accidentally fall sometimes.
youtu.be/aDdOchBejcc
To your point about standalone info-- I was trying to look through GNU stow options this morning and after struggling with standalone `info` for ~5 minutes I gave up and searched for online html docs.
Only if that ancient evil brings the same energy as this demon when you scan it.
Tweet from @weirdtakoyaki that says "i like big butts and i cannot lie, my brother also likes big butts and cannot tell the truth, how will you escape our dungeon"
I still think about this tweet often.
MBA Considered Harmful: Teaches that which is priceless is worthless
"Because there is nothing more dangerous to a regime predicated on lies than witnesses who capture the truth."
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"Sousveillance" is the recording of an activity by a member of the public, rather than a person or organisation in authority.
It's a great word and an essential thing for us to be doing.
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"train for the mind" is such a good analogy ❤️
What was your process for archiving tweets?
I've been looking for typing games for my kids and Typing Land is by far the winner so far. It's so cute and fun it's hard to stop playing.
typingland.higopage.com
This reminds me a little bit of @asuth.com's paper computer.
youtu.be/Y8Qm48_GhJ8
After a 5 hour flight, I really appreciate that SLC is designed to minimize the time spent taxiing. The tradeoff is that it takes longer to walk through the airport but it's so worth it to be able to get off the plane and stretch my legs.
It was an amazing party. Thank you to everyone who came. There was a big event where the folk2 merge happened through the system and you can see the aftermath in this photo.
Folk Computer is doing a v2 launch party this Friday in Brooklyn. I'll be there if you want to come say hi.
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Lasers were first built in 1960. That's 15 years after the atomic bomb dropped. I always pictured them being an earlier 20th century invention.
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One must imagine Icarus happy.
Flying is fun as hell.
A lot of the cool stuff is below 92 MHz because that band is reserved for non-commercial stations.
Inspired by @arquipelago.org I printed and bound some PDFs I've been wanting to have around for reference. I used this video to learn the saddle stitch. youtu.be/aWHkY5jOoqM
Screenshot of memory spy website showing why negative one equals 65535 because they are both 1 away from zero.
I'm trying to get more comfortable with C. @b0rk.jvns.ca's Memory Spy tool has really strengthened my intuition for the bits behind the variables.
memory-spy.wizardzines.com
An absolute tragedy. I know you'll do an amazing job supporting your students tomorrow. They are lucky to have you.
The best part of trick-or-treating last night was seeing people out in the neighborhood being social and supportive. It's humanity's forte.
Do you have any recommended book binding tutorials or just wing it?
"I don't think [Elon Musk] has the power he thinks he has or that a lot of people think he has, to damage Wikipedia. I mean, we'll be here in a hundred years and he won't."
Wikipedia is hands down the very best of the internet. This is a great interview with co-founder Jimmy Wales
youtu.be/YJezMMCogXw
Midvale, UT in the WinCo parking lot. Specifically the Great-tailed Grackle. They are a pillar of our community 😆
The junkos' eyes are stunning but I'm a sucker for birdsong, so maybe the chickadees?
I heard the most beautiful grackle calls in a parking lot yesterday.
And here they are! Less than 24 hours since my wife sent me a png and asked me to make it into earrings. Seriously amazing software y'all ❤️
