Done Since 2023-03-26

[mdlbear]

Uhtceare (pronounced- oot-key-are-a) is an Old English word meaning "the anxiety experienced by a person when they wake up too early and can't get back to sleep." I've been doing a lot of that lately. The world is not helping. About the only good thing about waking up too early is more time to snuggle the cats.

Most of the links are depressing. A few that aren't:

• (From Monday) Colorado emerges a refuge for families of transgender children, and a link to Tolkien's 1936 lecture Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics.
• (From Wednesday) An “aperiodic monotile,” or einstein, is a shape that tiles an infinite flat surface in a nonrepeating pattern. -- and one was discovered recently. There's more in this Smithsonian Magazine article (from today).
• (From Friday) King County Council votes unanimously for the Oxford comma | The Seattle Times

Be well. Be safe.

Notes & links:
0326Su  
  & awake 4:50; S=4:33;
  * up 7:10; S=6:16; exercises
  @ Intranasal trimeric
    sherpabody inhibits SARS-CoV-2 including recent immunoevasive Omicron subvariants
    antibody-mimetic proteins
  @ What you should know about Section 230, the rule that shaped today’s internet
    Supreme Court considers limits of immunity for social media companies | PBS
  @ The kids are not alright … and haven’t been for awhile | South Whidbey Record
  : I also had them haul off Rolly and Chamy, my Travelpro and Antler "underseat" bags
    that do not, in fact, fit under an airplane seat and so were never going to get used
    again.  That also makes me rather sad.
    -> probably warrants a farewell post.
  @ After her trans son Henry's suicide, Karen Berg fights anti-transgender bills in
    Ky. Senate - The Washington Post  <- CONTENT WARNING
  : Stupid fracking Zoom -- wasted too much time over the last three days because I forgot
    that it's selecting its own sound device instead of using the system device.  Now I
    can't find the preferences to switch it back...  OK, they're accessed from the caret
    to the right of the unmute button.  That's what I thought, but the tool tip
    does not reflect that fact.  Oh, for config files you can version-control!  Where is
    .zoomrc when you need it?
    -> and watching the recorded stream on YouTube, the (presumably AI-generated) live
       captions are ludicrously wrong.  Not really surprising. 
  : Got an email about ordering new CPAP supplies, and realized that I haven't been
    changing filters and nosepieces for a while.  Let alone recording that fact.
    -> last reference is 0121, changing nosepiece at RE.   And swapped devices btw. RE/RS
    -> ordered nosepieces and paper filters
  & re-listened to Cat Faber's and Lauren Oxford's set from FK-No;
    % Lauren's love songs are heartbreakingly beautiful
  & Dinner from the Taqueria -- G's suggestion.  Since the party's postponed to tomorrow

0327Mo  * litter boxen
  & awake 1:30ish; no mask; give up 2:45;
    % politics, with bonus earworms.
    % 3:20 sat up to read; now L shouler hurts, and Ticia has ny right hand again
  * up 7am; S=6:24; exercises
  @ Cloud vs on-prem: SaaS vendor 37signals bails out of the public cloud
  @ solarbird|It’s 1934, and “queer” is being used to describe identity, not as a slur
  * make sure that C's hearing aids are charged
  @ Colorado emerges a refuge for families of transgender children (solarbird)
  @ 8 things you can do with Linux that you can't do with MacOS or Windows | ZDNET
  # -I am the walrus- -> trochee the walrus, iamb the giraffe, and anapest the platypus.
  * guitar:  Millennium's Dawn intro, Bad Guys.
  & Wikipedia dive starting at Beowulf
    Sir Israel Gollancz Lecture 1936 Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics : Tolkien
  @ Dell's Concept Luna shows how future laptops could be easier to repair and recycle |
    Engadget (via ysabetwordsmith)
  @ Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online - The New York Times
  @ Better JavaScript Currying Examples

0328Tu
  & awake 3:30; S=5:29; gave up trying to get back to sleep ~4:15; tried again 5ish; fail
  % shaking, dry sobs; politics; Cuddle from Desti helped.  really wish I could cry.
  * up 6:15ish; S=6:23; exercises
    % managed a few sit-ups; head of the bed slightly raised, using blankets for leverage
  @ ChatGPT Opened a New Era in Search. Microsoft Could Ruin It | WIRED
  @ Get Off My Desktop! Windows Must Stop Showing Tabloid News | Tom's Hardware
  * 15min:  9ish:  dishes
  * 10am Memory Keepers grief support group
  @ Tornado-spawning storms may get worse due to warming (Sigma Xi newsletter)
  @ About Us – Mozilla.ai
    Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI
  * 1:55 leave for...
  * 2:15 checkin for audiology - about 90min because it's test + consultation
    same building as PT was, only on the second floor
    -> wax removal (R ear) was somewhat painful.
    -> L: 10dBHL 250-500Hz; 20 at 1500, 30 at 2KHz, 60 at 4KHz, 80 at 6KHz
       R: 15dBHL 250-500; 10 at 1KHz, 5 at 2KHz, 20 at 3KHz, 50 at 4KHz, 90 at 6KHz
    -> Levels: dBHL = hearing loss, so inverted relative to a normal response curve
       range from -10 - +20 are normal 25-40 mild, 40-55 moderate, 55-70 moderately severe
                  70-90 severe, 90+ profound
       @ dB HL - Sensitivity to Sound - Clinical Audiograms | Auditory Neuroscience
         Audiogram - Wikipedia
    -> hearing aid evaluation scheduled: 5/15 - apparently I'm considered a good candidate
  % 8:30ish: sleepy

0329We  * litter boxen
  & awake 3ish; no mask, sitting up;
    % very restless - wanted to go for a walk.  Angry/frustrated because insomnia
  * up 7am; S=4:56; exercises
  * load drugs
  @ An “aperiodic monotile,” or einstein, is a shape that tiles an infinite flat surface
    in a nonrepeating pattern. (ysabetwordsmith)
    [1003.4279] An aperiodic hexagonal tile [PDF]
  @ siderea | Move [US, pols, Patreon] (also via catsittingstill)
    " If you have a uterus, or love someone who does. If you're trans, or love someone who
      is – especially if they're a child. If you were married to someone of the same
      sex. If you are otherwise LGBQ, or your child is. If you are someone who provides
      medical care that is or is about to become criminalized. "
    siderea | The Second American Civil War [US, curr ev, Patreon]
    " The threat model is not that a bunch of military larpers will decide to try to
      overthrow the federal government. The threat model is that a conquering-minded,
      anti-democractic movement will take over the federal government, and then as they
      subjugate the states that resist them, send in federal troops. "
    -> Signal Boost.
  * 15min:  load/run dishwasher.  Close but didn't quite get everything.  Did get big pan
  @ Microsoft Defender mistakenly tagging URLs as malicious
  @ Seattle Audubon unveils new name after severing tie to slave owner | Sea. Times
    " Birds Connect Seattle.
        That is the new name unveiled Tuesday of the organization formerly known as the
      Seattle chapter of the National Audubon Society, as it severs ties from its
      namesake, slave owner John James Audubon. "
  @ Panera shouldn’t be in the surveillance business. $A palm scanners WTF?
  * 2:05-ish - pick j up at school 2:20
  : GAAAK!  Somehow the (heavily customized, I think) Woodmart theme disappeared from GS.
    Fortunately I've done a lot of work toward switching to a block theme, but I wasn't
    really done.  May be able to export it from staging.  If I want to. 
    AHA!  Message from Jetpack Scan:  "High  Vulnerable Theme: woodmart (version 6.1.4)
    Vulnerability found in theme".  and a button labeled "Fix this threat".  I probably
    clicked it, and if I didn't I should have.  (I should maybe have bought the damned
    theme even though I planned to get rid of it, but this is better than procrastinating)
    The threat message is dated 3/2, and the scan on 3/20 was all okay.)
  @ The Wall: Loss of Identity After Stillbirth
  : and wireless charging is working again on the pixel phone.  WTF?

0330Th
  * up 6:30ish; S=8:16, BP=130/71(H), P=85; exercises (inc. 13 sit-ups)
  @ Obamacare Preventive Services Mandate Ended by Federal Judge
  @ Stories from workers who left the labor force : NPR (@benfulton@hoosier.social)
    " According to the Fed, there are 3.5 million people they expected to be working or
      looking for work based on pre-pandemic trends but who are just not there. 
      * Half a million of them died.
      * About a million would have been migrants, but people aren't or can't migrate
        anymore. 
      * Two million mostly retired early or are staying home and caregiving or aren't
        healthy enough to work. "
  @ How Good Smile, a Major Toy Company, Kept 4chan Online | WIRED
  * 2pm (house) cats checkup at FAH
  @ Compsci boffin publishes proof-of-concept code for 54-year-old zero-day in Universal
    Turing Machine • The Register not observed in the wild
  @ Trump indicted by N.Y. grand jury, first ex-president charged with crime - WaPo 
  * stage fiber cookies for Lair
  * guitar:  a little noodling; Millennium's Dawn intro
  
0331Fr  * litter boxen (E')  Transgender Day of Visibility
  & awake 3:30ish;
  * up 5:45ish; S=6:38; lots of cat time->out of bed 6:40; exercises
    % pain in L hip and R knee; hip pain is helped by exercise
  @ Transgender Day of Visibility | GLAAD
  @ Trans Day of Visibility: Hope amid record-breaking targeting of rights | The Hill
  @ The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism | WIRED
  @ vocab_drabbles | #056 - Uhtceare (ysabetwordsmith)
    " (n.) Pronounced- oot-key-are-a : An Old English word meaning ‘lying awake before
      dawn and worrying.’  The old English term 'uhtceare' refers to the anxiety one
      experiences right before dawn. More specifically, it is the anxiety experienced by a
      person when they wake up too early and can't get back to sleep. "
  : E' 9am
  * put Apollo back on -- it got left on the charger yesterday
  * 15min: email house appraiser
  @ King County Council votes unanimously for the Oxford comma | The Seattle Times
  @ Depression: Screening and Diagnosis | AAFP with 5- and 15-item geriatric scales
  * make site backup of GS (took 16 minutes - 1:33-1:49); update to WP 6.2.  seems okay
    -> deactivate Woodmart Core plugin (since we've dumped the theme) earlier, WooCommerce
    -> Deactivate WPBakery Page Builder (breaks old home page but so what)
    -> Mailchimp was deleted yesterday.
  * SL: TJ's: sourdough boule, cheese, ?coffee, sm. milk if they have it, else payless
  * SL: RE: eggs, bacon, milk, fresh or smoked fish, sardines, matzoh
  * monogrammed bathrobes staged for Box Room
  * Back on Whidbey:  let N know that I'm home;  * water orchids  * sort mail
  @ Does Psychiatry Improve Outcomes? We Don’t Know
  * pack:  small corelle plates for house cats
  * pack:  green ceramic canister for coffee in Lair.  Try to remember green raincoat
  @ Ptolemy's Lost Manuscript Discovered in Book Found in Medieval Abbey
  % 9pm sleepy
  * guitar: Bad Guys; singing: Riverheart

0401Sa  April Fools Day
  & awake 3:30ish;
  * up 6:30ish; S=6:50, W=197.2; exercises
  @ Evan Prodromou: "This protocol was made by trans people and this culture was built by
    trans people.…" - CoSocial
    " If you love the #fediverse, thank your #trans friends, colleagues and allies today. "
  @ Second Idaho hospital will no longer deliver babies | Boing Boing
  @ Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter
    " What we need is regulation that enforces transparency. Not only should it always be
      clear when we are encountering synthetic media, but organizations building these
      systems should also be required to document and disclose the training data and model
      architectures. The onus of creating tools that are safe to use should be on the
      companies that build and deploy generative systems, which means that builders of
      these systems should be made accountable for the outputs produced by their
      products. "  Timnit Gebru et. al.
  @ Looks like Meta has drawn a line in the sand; tonight, "Share to Twitter" has
    disappeared from Instagram. (but they also dropped Tumblr, so not clearcut)
  @ siderea | Why Nazis Hate Jews [curr ev, pols, soc just, p/a/s, Patreon]
    " Think about how "crime" is often code for "Black" in racist American discourse;
      "conspiracy" alludes knowingly to "Jews", antisemitically, exactly the same way –
      the same way "illegal immigration" is, in the US, code for "Latinos". "
  * pack:  * tie and scarf hangers for Lair;  * wooden hangers for heavy items
  * 15min:  change battery in Box Room fire alarm; take monogrammed bathrobes to lair
  * Singing:  For Amy; Eyes Like the Morning
    -> Consider adding a second voice on the chorus.  Quietly, with extra reverb
  * 15min:  some (possibly futile) gestures toward clearing a surface for taxes
    -> most of the sewing table clear.  Back side of the card table cleaned, but re-used
  @ The Case for Guerrilla Crosswalks
  @ Best college football prank Harvard Yale MIT balloon
  $ (paper) tax forms sorted.  Still need to locate all the PDFs, esp. Raymond James
  * scan signed letter for Monkika (Raymond James)
  * 15min: laundry
  * Singing:  Wheelin'
  % 11:50 woke up after having been sleeping in the recliner.  Going to bed.