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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gael/116288869154611736
Petite découverte sympa grâce à l'algorithme de #Youtube 😬
Interview de Gaël Duval par entre autres JB Kempf de #VLAN pour apprendre sur les origines de #Murena et #eos
Vidéo en français et lien #Peertube ici : https://video.ut0pia.org/w/bXzPrmQTVnrJ7AyqBW8rpF
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gael/116288869154611736
Petite découverte sympa grâce à l'algorithme de #Youtube 😬
Interview de Gaël Duval par entre autres JB Kempf de #VLAN pour apprendre sur les origines de #Murena et #eos
Vidéo en français et lien #Peertube ici : https://video.ut0pia.org/w/bXzPrmQTVnrJ7AyqBW8rpF
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gael/116288869154611736
Petite découverte sympa grâce à l'algorithme de #Youtube 😬
Interview de Gaël Duval par entre autres JB Kempf de #VLAN pour apprendre sur les origines de #Murena et #eos
Vidéo en français et lien #Peertube ici : https://video.ut0pia.org/w/bXzPrmQTVnrJ7AyqBW8rpF
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“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best –” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
House at Pooh Corner, ch. 10 “An Enchanted Place” (1928)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/milne-a-a/78333/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #pooh #poohbear #winniethepooh #aamilne #anticipation #expectation #imagination
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CW: Erotica Promo - Seduced by the Cougar Next Door
Alan is thrilled when his folks suggest he come home from college to house-sit while they visit Europe. It will save him money and let him laze around for the summer. The people in his parents' small town are nearing retirement or are young professionals. It looks like a boring summer until the older woman next door, Stephanie, starts flirting with him. Is she just friendly or is their attraction mutual?
Find out in Seduced by the Cougar Next Door by Ash Hollerin. Available now at Smashwords, Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and more!
#erotica #EroticFiction #EroticStory #books #smut #Smashwords #Kobo #Kindle #NSFW #lewd
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What we really are
We pay attention to our own true nature and by becoming fully conscious of the union of our nature with Christ, we become fully ourselves.
John Main, Word into Silence, p.18
The idea of time has many expressions, from chronological to biological, emotional to cosmic. We sometimes feel we have lived a lifetime in a moment. We can feel time as a crucifixion or as a resurrection. The vast figures measuring cosmic time in an expanding universe can seem overwhelming but the few years of a human life can seem more significant and precious. Time and mortality live out the drama of birth and death and the painful mystery of separation. In the light of faith we come by stages to see the all-pervading mystery of union…
This consummation of union, whether it is called nirvana, liberation from rebirth, enlightenment, moksha or heaven is part of the common ground of all religious wisdom when we understand religion in its mystical dimension. It refers to the experience of oneness, the transcendence of the ego’s centre of consciousness, the transformation of the dualistic mind, the movement from the mind’s self-mirroring complexities into the simplicity and pure vision of the heart, the non-duality of the spirit. With a silent passion deeper than their words and differences, all religions point to this. If they do indeed teach this way and not just pay lip service to it, religion offers our often sad and battered humanity a reasonable and empowering hope.
We both lose and find ourselves in the otherness of ultimate reality. This is easy to say but it is a hard paradox to wrestle with. It demands a deepening faith commitment. When the master class of life has taught us enough, commitment meets detachment and solitude, the recognition and acceptance of our uniqueness becomes more attractive and even easier. We gradually withdraw from unnecessary activity and distraction. We become freer from compulsions and addictions.
Laurence Freeman, First Sight: The Experience of Faith, p.76-77
What we really are is this. We are not what we think we are, frail isolated intelligences trapped in a zero-sum game of mere survival, creatures of allegiances and enmities, just barely hanging on. We belong. We are part of it all, wavelets on a limitless ocean of grace.
We must… make a clear distinction between belief and faith, because, in general practice, belief has come to mean a state of mind which is almost the opposite of faith. Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. In this sense of the word, faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deception.
Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity p.24
Faith is no more, perhaps, than this radical open-heartedness, this helpless surrender to what is, in David Jones’ words, “actually loved and known”. All our practice, all our patience and all our prayers come down to this simple oneness. What we used to be is dispersed, patched and rotted through with light. None of the old certainties can hold. They don’t need to: this trackless brightness beyond the memory of shorelines is the waking heart itself, nothing more.
#AlanWatts #awakening #contemplation #faith #JohnMain #LaurenceFreeman #prayer #stillness #union -
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The guidance also admits prompt injection may never be solved -- and that the industry has no mature methods to evaluate whether agentic systems are behaving as intended.
The phrase that matters: the agent might be lying to the governor.
Not a critic. Six governments, in writing.
haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/strong-governance-is-not-optional/?utm_source=mastodon
#CyberSecurity #AgenticAI #NCSC #CISA #Governance #IsleOfMan
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**Post 2:**
The guidance also admits prompt injection may never be solved -- and that the industry has no mature methods to evaluate whether agentic systems are behaving as intended.
The phrase that matters: the agent might be lying to the governor.
Not a critic. Six governments, in writing.
haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/strong-governance-is-not-optional/?utm_source=mastodon
#CyberSecurity #AgenticAI #NCSC #CISA #Governance #IsleOfMan
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**Post 2:**
The guidance also admits prompt injection may never be solved -- and that the industry has no mature methods to evaluate whether agentic systems are behaving as intended.
The phrase that matters: the agent might be lying to the governor.
Not a critic. Six governments, in writing.
haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/strong-governance-is-not-optional/?utm_source=mastodon
#CyberSecurity #AgenticAI #NCSC #CISA #Governance #IsleOfMan
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**Post 2:**
The guidance also admits prompt injection may never be solved -- and that the industry has no mature methods to evaluate whether agentic systems are behaving as intended.
The phrase that matters: the agent might be lying to the governor.
Not a critic. Six governments, in writing.
haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/strong-governance-is-not-optional/?utm_source=mastodon
#CyberSecurity #AgenticAI #NCSC #CISA #Governance #IsleOfMan
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»If you #awaken from this #illusion and you understand that #black implies #white, #self implies #other, #life implies #death […], you can feel #yourself – not as a #stranger in the #world, not as something here on #probation, not as something that has arrived here by #fluke - but you can begin to feel your own #existence as absolutely #fundamental.«
-- Alan Watts in The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
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»If you #awaken from this #illusion and you understand that #black implies #white, #self implies #other, #life implies #death […], you can feel #yourself – not as a #stranger in the #world, not as something here on #probation, not as something that has arrived here by #fluke - but you can begin to feel your own #existence as absolutely #fundamental.«
-- Alan Watts in The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
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»If you #awaken from this #illusion and you understand that #black implies #white, #self implies #other, #life implies #death […], you can feel #yourself – not as a #stranger in the #world, not as something here on #probation, not as something that has arrived here by #fluke - but you can begin to feel your own #existence as absolutely #fundamental.«
-- Alan Watts in The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
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Feet wet at the shoreline at Loch Scaravaig, Elgol, Skye. #Scotland #Landsacpe #Photography #Seasscape
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‘Little Amelie’ & ‘Arco’ Sales Agent Goodfellas Animation Launching Micheal Morpurgo Adaptation ‘Lucy Lost’ & ‘Treasure Trekkers’ With Alan Cumming At EFM
#Festivals #News #AlanCumming #Animation #Arco #Berlin #Berlinale #EFM #EuropeanFilmMarket #France #GoodfellasAnimation #LittleAmelie #LucyLost #TreasureTrekkershttps://deadline.com/2026/02/goodfellas-lucy-lost-treasure-trekkers-alan-cumming-efm-1236710980/
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The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.
One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).
The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.
J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.
When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.
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#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty
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The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.
One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).
The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.
J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.
When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.
1/3
#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty
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The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.
One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).
The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.
J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.
When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.
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#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty
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The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.
One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).
The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.
J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.
When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.
1/3
#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty
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The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.
One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).
The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.
J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.
When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.
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#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty
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Tears as couple with ‘150 kids’ have garden ‘ruined’ by Alan Titchmarsh | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV https://www.allforgardening.com/1661372/tears-as-couple-with-150-kids-have-garden-ruined-by-alan-titchmarsh-tv-radio-showbiz-tv/ #AlanTitchmarsh #FrancesTophill #garden #gardening #GardeningUk #ITV #itv1 #KatieRushworth #LoveYourGarden
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Tears as couple with ‘150 kids’ have garden ‘ruined’ by Alan Titchmarsh | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV https://www.allforgardening.com/1661372/tears-as-couple-with-150-kids-have-garden-ruined-by-alan-titchmarsh-tv-radio-showbiz-tv/ #AlanTitchmarsh #FrancesTophill #garden #gardening #GardeningUk #ITV #itv1 #KatieRushworth #LoveYourGarden
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“I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said Pooh, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”
“You’re the Best Bear in All the World,” said Christopher Robin soothingly.A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 3 “Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting” (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2843/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #pooh #winniethepooh #poohbear #christopherrobin #reassurance #comforting #delusion #folly #friendship #limitations #praise #selfassessment #selfawareness #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdefeating #selfdeprecating #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfimage #selfloathing #selfopinion #selfregard #selfreproach #selfrespect #selfworth #soothing #stupidity
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Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦 @[email protected] ·On websites that link to things like
https://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/article/244 (and a lot newer ones that link to ones that link to it)...there's this tale of a psychologist Alan Richardson who conducted a study with basketball players. I think I've even heard of it: you have a control group of players do do nothing, you have a group that practices, and a group that imagines themselves practicing. The legend (and since no one cited their sources beyond mentioning his name, that's effectively what it was) was that the 'imaginers' had just as much, or almost as much success as the 'practicers'.
This turns out to be a real set of studies. And unlike in 2013, where this was locked behind a paywall where even people who were interested in knowing what was in it couldn't access it........scihub gives us access now.
https://sci-hub.tw/…/doi/abs/10.1080/10671188.1967.10613388…
https://sci-hub.tw/…/www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10…
1) A huge risk of p hacking . p < 0.05.
2) Low sample size. N=literally dozens
3) replicated with diminishing, but positive results. The sort of thing you'd expect to see when someone got lucky with a high p value and then tried to replicated it, and found *something* there
4) the papers above discuss the outcome in terms of
* symbolic activity versus motor activity - ie sitting and thinking of chess is different from sitting and thinking of moving your hands and getting a ball in a bucket. Which in turn is different than a complex social problem like 'becoming president of the US'. Generally there's tasks that require thinking about, and having a clear idea of what constitutes a win condition (similar to A* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm ) can get you there quicker
* possible ways that imagined practice could impact the structure of your brain, and the information that is most at hand
things like that
what it does *definitely not* say is
"situations and opportunities will come your way" if you focus on visualizing your goal alone, that is not something you can "count on", at least based on the particular
Now granted - the above two scihub links are only discussion links of a third paper, which isn't online
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14143283
That might be an interesting read. But even so, the data seems to support exactly what athletes tend to want - a quick way out of working hard at practicing and meditation to still the mind. And one thing that is always available is our desires. It would be *so convenient* if visualizing our desires were enough to obtain them, but it seems like this is not in the cards unless your desires fall into a certain category of things.
eg #mindpower extrapolates incomplete, and inacessible science without a real hard link to its source, and surprise surprise, it took the data beyond what it actually was valid for -
https://www.europesays.com/it/202331/ Guns N’ Roses, l’ex manager Alan Niven fa causa alla band: «Stanno tentando di bloccare la pubblicazione del mio libro» #accordo #alan #AlanNiven #annunciato #axl #AxlRose #band #bloccare #BloccarePubblicazione #Celebrità #Celebrities #Entertainment #fury #FuryRock #FuryRockRoll #guns #GunsRoses #Intrattenimento #IT #Italia #Italy #libro #manager #memoir #niven #produttore #rock #RockRoll #RockRollStories #roll #RollStories #roses #sound #SoundFury #SoundFuryRock #Stories
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Ver la letra de la canción “Darkside” de Alan Walker
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Paroles de la chanson “Darkside” de Alan Walker
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Confira a letra da música “Darkside” de Alan Walker
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