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@[email protected] Rome Odunze started his interview by shaking hands of familiar media. Made jokes with unfamiliar reporters about asking too many questions in a row, reading room. Radiated confidence and a comfort level. Anecdotal, well thought out
Very impressive dude #NFLCombine #uwhuskies
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¿Te lo perdiste?
#CONCIERTOS DE #ROCK | ZZ Podcast 05×10
https://luisbermejo.com/conciertos-de-rock-zz-podcast-05x10/
#desastres #anécdotas #estoicos #misterios #erotismo #felicidad #autoasfixia #leyendas #biografía
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Research from Ernst&Young, for the County Councils Network, suggests that #Cities have for the most part recovered to pre-#Covid levels of #economic activity while #rural areas have not (which certainly chimes with anecdotal evidence from around the #LuneValley).
If so, this suggests that if material well-being has returned to displace identity politics in #voters' minds that the usual rural conservative vote may be a lot softer than the #Tories may have hoped...
Oh dear... #GTTO
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We’ve been told our apartment building in Auckland’s Eden Terrace wasn’t hit too hard with the flooding (which is great!). Waiting on some pics from building management of our storage locker to make sure there’s no major damage. Anyone in #Auckland on here able to speak anecdotally to the scene in Eden Terrace specifically (Basque Park area)?
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We’ve been told our apartment building in Auckland’s Eden Terrace wasn’t hit too hard with the flooding (which is great!). Waiting on some pics from building management of our storage locker to make sure there’s no major damage. Anyone in #Auckland on here able to speak anecdotally to the scene in Eden Terrace specifically (Basque Park area)?
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We’ve been told our apartment building in Auckland’s Eden Terrace wasn’t hit too hard with the flooding (which is great!). Waiting on some pics from building management of our storage locker to make sure there’s no major damage. Anyone in #Auckland on here able to speak anecdotally to the scene in Eden Terrace specifically (Basque Park area)?
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We’ve been told our apartment building in Auckland’s Eden Terrace wasn’t hit too hard with the flooding (which is great!). Waiting on some pics from building management of our storage locker to make sure there’s no major damage. Anyone in #Auckland on here able to speak anecdotally to the scene in Eden Terrace specifically (Basque Park area)?
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CW: #MutualAid Fundraiser Update #2 and general old man yelling at clouds
I don't even know what to write at this point.
Every month I tell myself, "Okay, this is the month we get back on track. I'm going to go get a second job. We're going to do this on our own for once, goddammit."
Yet my job takes just enough of a physical and emotional toll that I can't seem to function. I can't get focused. I can't get the apartment cleaned up or get everything organized, I can't seem to summon the willpower to go through the mind-numbingly asinine job application process to some other retail job that's probably even more demeaning than the one I currently hold.
So every month we only make rent thanks to charity. The only reason we're not homeless is because we're receiving mutual aid. I'm not exaggerating. We would absolutely be on the streets without everyone's help on the Fedi.
This has been going on for two years now.
It seems reasonable to ask, "Well, why don't you apply for government assistance? Why don't you reach out to local charities? Why don't you handle your money better and quit relying on strangers?"
Let me offer brief summary of the circumstances of someone I know to help answer those questions:
A co-worker of mine - a single mother with multiple health problems, has needed to resort to payday loans for enough money to eat.
She makes *just* enough money to not qualify for much public assistance, and struggles with tech literacy so it's a nightmare for her trying to navigate all the hoops one must jump through.
She reached out to the local clergy of the predominant religious faith in the area. It's one of the most wealthy religious institutions in the world, commanding hundreds of *billions* in assets (thanks to a whistleblower for it to even be publicly known), and she is a member of this church.
They made her give them copies of her paystubs and her bank account statements, detailed financial information of her (just barely turned) adult son who barely makes anything working at a movie theater and that of her brother (also struggling financially, and will only be their roommate until the end of their lease sometime early summer), and still turned her down. They offered her a couple of vouchers for their church-owned food pantry, most of which she's unable to use due to food allergies.
She had to beg them, sobbing, until they finally relented and agreed to cover one month of rent for her and her son (I guess her brother will magically find his portion?) and insisted that this was the last help she would receive from them.
It's a perfect (yes, albeit anecdotal) example of why #MutualAid is crucial: people are falling through the cracks because the institutions we're supposed to be able to rely upon are failing to protect us. Even one of the most wealthy non-profit entities on the planet refuse to help even their own members without forcing them to undergo an embarrassing and demeaning process to prove their worthiness to receive help.
If anyone deserves help, it's her. She's a sweet, good-natured soul just trying to survive. Yet because she isn't computer-savvy and able to constantly begpost like I have the privilege of doing, she is stressed out of her mind and starting to sell all her possessions before she has to move to a different apartment next month and couldn't afford to set any money aside for deposit and related costs.
I can't even remember where I was going with this now after angrily typing all of that. I guess maybe that it isn't always as fucking simple and easy as some people think it is, to be a grifting beggar.
I can promise you one thing, however: I'd be willing to bet that most of us posting #MutualAidRequest after request, would really rather not be doing so.
I would much, much, much rather be giving back to the community.
But that's difficult when your annual salary raises are less than inflation. Or, as I've begun referring to them, "annual pay cuts".
But folks like my co-worker and myself didn't "apply ourselves" to get college degrees, so I guess we're getting what we deserve.
Except it shouldn't be what we deserve.
Survival shouldn't be a privilege to be "earned".
Original #begpost:
https://beige.party/@LibertyForward1/116469237814027295
Venmo: https://venmo.com/thegizmotwins
Cashapp: https://cash.app/$thegizmotwins
PP: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982
GFM: https://gofund.me/12171be3 -
CW: #MutualAid Fundraiser Update #2 and general old man yelling at clouds
I don't even know what to write at this point.
Every month I tell myself, "Okay, this is the month we get back on track. I'm going to go get a second job. We're going to do this on our own for once, goddammit."
Yet my job takes just enough of a physical and emotional toll that I can't seem to function. I can't get focused. I can't get the apartment cleaned up or get everything organized, I can't seem to summon the willpower to go through the mind-numbingly asinine job application process to some other retail job that's probably even more demeaning than the one I currently hold.
So every month we only make rent thanks to charity. The only reason we're not homeless is because we're receiving mutual aid. I'm not exaggerating. We would absolutely be on the streets without everyone's help on the Fedi.
This has been going on for two years now.
It seems reasonable to ask, "Well, why don't you apply for government assistance? Why don't you reach out to local charities? Why don't you handle your money better and quit relying on strangers?"
Let me offer brief summary of the circumstances of someone I know to help answer those questions:
A co-worker of mine - a single mother with multiple health problems, has needed to resort to payday loans for enough money to eat.
She makes *just* enough money to not qualify for much public assistance, and struggles with tech literacy so it's a nightmare for her trying to navigate all the hoops one must jump through.
She reached out to the local clergy of the predominant religious faith in the area. It's one of the most wealthy religious institutions in the world, commanding hundreds of *billions* in assets (thanks to a whistleblower for it to even be publicly known), and she is a member of this church.
They made her give them copies of her paystubs and her bank account statements, detailed financial information of her (just barely turned) adult son who barely makes anything working at a movie theater and that of her brother (also struggling financially, and will only be their roommate until the end of their lease sometime early summer), and still turned her down. They offered her a couple of vouchers for their church-owned food pantry, most of which she's unable to use due to food allergies.
She had to beg them, sobbing, until they finally relented and agreed to cover one month of rent for her and her son (I guess her brother will magically find his portion?) and insisted that this was the last help she would receive from them.
It's a perfect (yes, albeit anecdotal) example of why #MutualAid is crucial: people are falling through the cracks because the institutions we're supposed to be able to rely upon are failing to protect us. Even one of the most wealthy non-profit entities on the planet refuse to help even their own members without forcing them to undergo an embarrassing and demeaning process to prove their worthiness to receive help.
If anyone deserves help, it's her. She's a sweet, good-natured soul just trying to survive. Yet because she isn't computer-savvy and able to constantly begpost like I have the privilege of doing, she is stressed out of her mind and starting to sell all her possessions before she has to move to a different apartment next month and couldn't afford to set any money aside for deposit and related costs.
I can't even remember where I was going with this now after angrily typing all of that. I guess maybe that it isn't always as fucking simple and easy as some people think it is, to be a grifting beggar.
I can promise you one thing, however: I'd be willing to bet that most of us posting #MutualAidRequest after request, would really rather not be doing so.
I would much, much, much rather be giving back to the community.
But that's difficult when your annual salary raises are less than inflation. Or, as I've begun referring to them, "annual pay cuts".
But folks like my co-worker and myself didn't "apply ourselves" to get college degrees, so I guess we're getting what we deserve.
Except it shouldn't be what we deserve.
Survival shouldn't be a privilege to be "earned".
Original #begpost:
https://beige.party/@LibertyForward1/116469237814027295
Venmo: https://venmo.com/thegizmotwins
Cashapp: https://cash.app/$thegizmotwins
PP: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982
GFM: https://gofund.me/12171be3 -
CW: #MutualAid Fundraiser Update #2 and general old man yelling at clouds
I don't even know what to write at this point.
Every month I tell myself, "Okay, this is the month we get back on track. I'm going to go get a second job. We're going to do this on our own for once, goddammit."
Yet my job takes just enough of a physical and emotional toll that I can't seem to function. I can't get focused. I can't get the apartment cleaned up or get everything organized, I can't seem to summon the willpower to go through the mind-numbingly asinine job application process to some other retail job that's probably even more demeaning than the one I currently hold.
So every month we only make rent thanks to charity. The only reason we're not homeless is because we're receiving mutual aid. I'm not exaggerating. We would absolutely be on the streets without everyone's help on the Fedi.
This has been going on for two years now.
It seems reasonable to ask, "Well, why don't you apply for government assistance? Why don't you reach out to local charities? Why don't you handle your money better and quit relying on strangers?"
Let me offer brief summary of the circumstances of someone I know to help answer those questions:
A co-worker of mine - a single mother with multiple health problems, has needed to resort to payday loans for enough money to eat.
She makes *just* enough money to not qualify for much public assistance, and struggles with tech literacy so it's a nightmare for her trying to navigate all the hoops one must jump through.
She reached out to the local clergy of the predominant religious faith in the area. It's one of the most wealthy religious institutions in the world, commanding hundreds of *billions* in assets (thanks to a whistleblower for it to even be publicly known), and she is a member of this church.
They made her give them copies of her paystubs and her bank account statements, detailed financial information of her (just barely turned) adult son who barely makes anything working at a movie theater and that of her brother (also struggling financially, and will only be their roommate until the end of their lease sometime early summer), and still turned her down. They offered her a couple of vouchers for their church-owned food pantry, most of which she's unable to use due to food allergies.
She had to beg them, sobbing, until they finally relented and agreed to cover one month of rent for her and her son (I guess her brother will magically find his portion?) and insisted that this was the last help she would receive from them.
It's a perfect (yes, albeit anecdotal) example of why #MutualAid is crucial: people are falling through the cracks because the institutions we're supposed to be able to rely upon are failing to protect us. Even one of the most wealthy non-profit entities on the planet refuse to help even their own members without forcing them to undergo an embarrassing and demeaning process to prove their worthiness to receive help.
If anyone deserves help, it's her. She's a sweet, good-natured soul just trying to survive. Yet because she isn't computer-savvy and able to constantly begpost like I have the privilege of doing, she is stressed out of her mind and starting to sell all her possessions before she has to move to a different apartment next month and couldn't afford to set any money aside for deposit and related costs.
I can't even remember where I was going with this now after angrily typing all of that. I guess maybe that it isn't always as fucking simple and easy as some people think it is, to be a grifting beggar.
I can promise you one thing, however: I'd be willing to bet that most of us posting #MutualAidRequest after request, would really rather not be doing so.
I would much, much, much rather be giving back to the community.
But that's difficult when your annual salary raises are less than inflation. Or, as I've begun referring to them, "annual pay cuts".
But folks like my co-worker and myself didn't "apply ourselves" to get college degrees, so I guess we're getting what we deserve.
Except it shouldn't be what we deserve.
Survival shouldn't be a privilege to be "earned".
Original #begpost:
https://beige.party/@LibertyForward1/116469237814027295
Venmo: https://venmo.com/thegizmotwins
Cashapp: https://cash.app/$thegizmotwins
PP: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982
GFM: https://gofund.me/12171be3 -
CW: #MutualAid Fundraiser Update #2 and general old man yelling at clouds
I don't even know what to write at this point.
Every month I tell myself, "Okay, this is the month we get back on track. I'm going to go get a second job. We're going to do this on our own for once, goddammit."
Yet my job takes just enough of a physical and emotional toll that I can't seem to function. I can't get focused. I can't get the apartment cleaned up or get everything organized, I can't seem to summon the willpower to go through the mind-numbingly asinine job application process to some other retail job that's probably even more demeaning than the one I currently hold.
So every month we only make rent thanks to charity. The only reason we're not homeless is because we're receiving mutual aid. I'm not exaggerating. We would absolutely be on the streets without everyone's help on the Fedi.
This has been going on for two years now.
It seems reasonable to ask, "Well, why don't you apply for government assistance? Why don't you reach out to local charities? Why don't you handle your money better and quit relying on strangers?"
Let me offer brief summary of the circumstances of someone I know to help answer those questions:
A co-worker of mine - a single mother with multiple health problems, has needed to resort to payday loans for enough money to eat.
She makes *just* enough money to not qualify for much public assistance, and struggles with tech literacy so it's a nightmare for her trying to navigate all the hoops one must jump through.
She reached out to the local clergy of the predominant religious faith in the area. It's one of the most wealthy religious institutions in the world, commanding hundreds of *billions* in assets (thanks to a whistleblower for it to even be publicly known), and she is a member of this church.
They made her give them copies of her paystubs and her bank account statements, detailed financial information of her (just barely turned) adult son who barely makes anything working at a movie theater and that of her brother (also struggling financially, and will only be their roommate until the end of their lease sometime early summer), and still turned her down. They offered her a couple of vouchers for their church-owned food pantry, most of which she's unable to use due to food allergies.
She had to beg them, sobbing, until they finally relented and agreed to cover one month of rent for her and her son (I guess her brother will magically find his portion?) and insisted that this was the last help she would receive from them.
It's a perfect (yes, albeit anecdotal) example of why #MutualAid is crucial: people are falling through the cracks because the institutions we're supposed to be able to rely upon are failing to protect us. Even one of the most wealthy non-profit entities on the planet refuse to help even their own members without forcing them to undergo an embarrassing and demeaning process to prove their worthiness to receive help.
If anyone deserves help, it's her. She's a sweet, good-natured soul just trying to survive. Yet because she isn't computer-savvy and able to constantly begpost like I have the privilege of doing, she is stressed out of her mind and starting to sell all her possessions before she has to move to a different apartment next month and couldn't afford to set any money aside for deposit and related costs.
I can't even remember where I was going with this now after angrily typing all of that. I guess maybe that it isn't always as fucking simple and easy as some people think it is, to be a grifting beggar.
I can promise you one thing, however: I'd be willing to bet that most of us posting #MutualAidRequest after request, would really rather not be doing so.
I would much, much, much rather be giving back to the community.
But that's difficult when your annual salary raises are less than inflation. Or, as I've begun referring to them, "annual pay cuts".
But folks like my co-worker and myself didn't "apply ourselves" to get college degrees, so I guess we're getting what we deserve.
Except it shouldn't be what we deserve.
Survival shouldn't be a privilege to be "earned".
Original #begpost:
https://beige.party/@LibertyForward1/116469237814027295
Venmo: https://venmo.com/thegizmotwins
Cashapp: https://cash.app/$thegizmotwins
PP: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982
GFM: https://gofund.me/12171be3 -
:stargif: 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒐𝒅: 𝒅𝒆𝒍 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐 𝒅𝒆 𝑬𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒆𝒏̃𝒐 𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐 :stargif:
El 11 de mayo de 1930, una joven escocesa de 17 años llegó a Nueva York tras cruzar el Atlántico con apenas 50 dólares en el bolsillo.
Se llamaba Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, y venía de uno de esos lugares donde el viento parece más fuerte que las personas: la isla de Lewis, en las Hébridas Exteriores.Su pueblo, Tong, no tenía nada que ver con la idea de “oportunidad”.
Allí la vida era dura, casi de supervivencia: pesca, turba, clima extremo y poco margen para el futuro.
En su casa se hablaba gaélico escocés, y el inglés era casi una segunda realidad.
Su padre era pescador y trabajador de la turba.
No había lujos, ni red de seguridad, ni promesas.Lo de “llegó sin zapatos” se ha convertido en parte de la leyenda.
Puede que no sea literal al 100%, pero sí refleja bien su situación: pobreza real, absoluta, de esas que no se maquillan.
Lo cierto es que no llegó completamente sola; tenía hermanas en Nueva York, lo que le dio un punto de apoyo básico para empezar a trabajar como empleada doméstica.Y así empezó su vida en América: casas ajenas, trabajo constante, jornadas largas.
Sin glamour, sin atajos.
Solo adaptación.Con el tiempo, su destino dio un giro cuando conoció a Fred Trump, un joven empresario de Queens que empezaba a construir su camino en el negocio inmobiliario.
Se casaron en 1936.
A partir de ahí, la historia cambia de escenario: crecimiento económico, expansión urbana en Nueva York y ascenso social progresivo.Tuvieron cinco hijos, entre ellos Donald Trump.
Pero reducir su vida a “madre de…” sería quedarse corto.
Mary Anne tenía un carácter muy marcado.
En casa del matrimonio Trump convivían dos mundos: el de Fred, centrado, metódico, casi austero; y el de ella, más social, más inclinada al brillo, a la presencia pública, a cierto gusto por el estatus.Hay una anécdota que siempre se menciona porque define bien su forma de ver la vida: incluso siendo millonaria, seguía encargándose personalmente de recoger las monedas de las lavanderías de los edificios familiares.
Lo hacía ella, en su Rolls Royce.
No por necesidad económica, sino por una mentalidad muy arraigada: el dinero no se desprecia, se controla.Ese detalle se ha interpretado muchas veces como una especie de herencia emocional que influyó en su hijo: la idea de que todo cuenta, de que nada es pequeño cuando se trata de valor.
También hay rasgos más personales que suelen aparecer en su biografía.
Se dice que su estilo —especialmente su peinado voluminoso y muy trabajado— influyó en la imagen pública de Donald Trump.
No como copia directa, pero sí como referencia visual dentro del entorno familiar.En lo social, Mary Anne era mucho más que discreta. Le gustaban los eventos, las ceremonias, la vida pública entendida como representación.
Admiraba incluso a la realeza británica, especialmente a la Reina Isabel II.
Era una mezcla curiosa: origen humilde, pero fascinación por el protocolo y el mundo de arriba.Y, sin embargo, nunca cortó del todo el hilo con su origen.
A pesar de vivir en una casa grande en Jamaica Estates, en Nueva York, regresaba casi todos los veranos a la isla de Lewis.
Volvía a su gente, a su idioma, a ese paisaje duro que la había formado.En 1942 se convirtió en ciudadana estadounidense.
Vivió una vida larga, de 88 años, falleciendo en el año 2000, poco después de su marido.Su historia no es solo la de una emigrante que “triunfa”.
Es más compleja: es la de alguien que se mueve entre dos mundos sin abandonar del todo ninguno.
Entre la escasez aprendida y la abundancia conseguida.
Y entre la discreción del origen y el peso de un apellido que acabaría siendo mundialmente conocido.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
#historiareal #maryannemacleod #escocia #sueñoamericano #inmigración #nuevayork #biografias #historiasreales #ecosdelpasado #familiasfamosas
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:stargif: 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒐𝒅: 𝒅𝒆𝒍 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐 𝒅𝒆 𝑬𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒆𝒏̃𝒐 𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐 :stargif:
El 11 de mayo de 1930, una joven escocesa de 17 años llegó a Nueva York tras cruzar el Atlántico con apenas 50 dólares en el bolsillo.
Se llamaba Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, y venía de uno de esos lugares donde el viento parece más fuerte que las personas: la isla de Lewis, en las Hébridas Exteriores.Su pueblo, Tong, no tenía nada que ver con la idea de “oportunidad”.
Allí la vida era dura, casi de supervivencia: pesca, turba, clima extremo y poco margen para el futuro.
En su casa se hablaba gaélico escocés, y el inglés era casi una segunda realidad.
Su padre era pescador y trabajador de la turba.
No había lujos, ni red de seguridad, ni promesas.Lo de “llegó sin zapatos” se ha convertido en parte de la leyenda.
Puede que no sea literal al 100%, pero sí refleja bien su situación: pobreza real, absoluta, de esas que no se maquillan.
Lo cierto es que no llegó completamente sola; tenía hermanas en Nueva York, lo que le dio un punto de apoyo básico para empezar a trabajar como empleada doméstica.Y así empezó su vida en América: casas ajenas, trabajo constante, jornadas largas.
Sin glamour, sin atajos.
Solo adaptación.Con el tiempo, su destino dio un giro cuando conoció a Fred Trump, un joven empresario de Queens que empezaba a construir su camino en el negocio inmobiliario.
Se casaron en 1936.
A partir de ahí, la historia cambia de escenario: crecimiento económico, expansión urbana en Nueva York y ascenso social progresivo.Tuvieron cinco hijos, entre ellos Donald Trump.
Pero reducir su vida a “madre de…” sería quedarse corto.
Mary Anne tenía un carácter muy marcado.
En casa del matrimonio Trump convivían dos mundos: el de Fred, centrado, metódico, casi austero; y el de ella, más social, más inclinada al brillo, a la presencia pública, a cierto gusto por el estatus.Hay una anécdota que siempre se menciona porque define bien su forma de ver la vida: incluso siendo millonaria, seguía encargándose personalmente de recoger las monedas de las lavanderías de los edificios familiares.
Lo hacía ella, en su Rolls Royce.
No por necesidad económica, sino por una mentalidad muy arraigada: el dinero no se desprecia, se controla.Ese detalle se ha interpretado muchas veces como una especie de herencia emocional que influyó en su hijo: la idea de que todo cuenta, de que nada es pequeño cuando se trata de valor.
También hay rasgos más personales que suelen aparecer en su biografía.
Se dice que su estilo —especialmente su peinado voluminoso y muy trabajado— influyó en la imagen pública de Donald Trump.
No como copia directa, pero sí como referencia visual dentro del entorno familiar.En lo social, Mary Anne era mucho más que discreta. Le gustaban los eventos, las ceremonias, la vida pública entendida como representación.
Admiraba incluso a la realeza británica, especialmente a la Reina Isabel II.
Era una mezcla curiosa: origen humilde, pero fascinación por el protocolo y el mundo de arriba.Y, sin embargo, nunca cortó del todo el hilo con su origen.
A pesar de vivir en una casa grande en Jamaica Estates, en Nueva York, regresaba casi todos los veranos a la isla de Lewis.
Volvía a su gente, a su idioma, a ese paisaje duro que la había formado.En 1942 se convirtió en ciudadana estadounidense.
Vivió una vida larga, de 88 años, falleciendo en el año 2000, poco después de su marido.Su historia no es solo la de una emigrante que “triunfa”.
Es más compleja: es la de alguien que se mueve entre dos mundos sin abandonar del todo ninguno.
Entre la escasez aprendida y la abundancia conseguida.
Y entre la discreción del origen y el peso de un apellido que acabaría siendo mundialmente conocido.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
#historiareal #maryannemacleod #escocia #sueñoamericano #inmigración #nuevayork #biografias #historiasreales #ecosdelpasado #familiasfamosas
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𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒔
Se comió un avión.
Y no es una metáfora.Michel Lotito nació en Francia en 1950 y desde joven empezó a hacer algo que no encajaba en ningún sitio: comía cosas que no eran comida.
No fue un truco puntual ni una excentricidad de feria.
Fue constante.
Metal, vidrio, goma… lo que para cualquiera sería peligroso, para él se convirtió en rutina.Con el tiempo dejó de ser una rareza local y se convirtió en espectáculo.
Bicicletas, carritos de supermercado, televisores, lámparas, incluso un ataúd.
Pero lo que terminó de fijar su nombre fue el avión: un Cessna 150 que fue consumiendo poco a poco entre 1978 y 1980.
No de golpe, claro.
Lo cortaba en piezas pequeñas, lo trituraba lo justo y lo ingería durante meses.De ahí el apodo: “Monsieur Mangetout”.
El hombre que se come todo.Lo más extraño no era solo lo que hacía, sino cómo podía hacerlo.
Según los médicos que lo estudiaron, tenía un revestimiento estomacal más grueso de lo normal, lo que le protegía parcialmente de cortes y perforaciones.
También producía jugos gástricos especialmente potentes.
Aun así, no era invulnerable.
Comer metal no es seguro en ningún caso.
Simplemente, su cuerpo resistía más de lo que parecía posible.Tenía su propio “método”.
Cortaba los objetos en fragmentos manejables, los acompañaba con agua y aceite mineral para facilitar el paso, y seguía.
Decía que lo más difícil no era el metal, sino cosas blandas como el plátano o el huevo duro.
Eso sí que le resultaba incómodo.
Ahí es donde su historia deja de ser solo extraña y pasa a ser directamente absurda.También hay anécdotas que ayudan a entender el personaje.
Una vez, al romperse un vaso por accidente, en lugar de tirarlo… se lo comió.
Otra, durante una actuación, alguien del público dudó de que fuera real.
Lotito le pidió un objeto personal y empezó a comérselo delante de todos, sin dramatismo, como si fuera lo más normal del mundo.No era un científico ni un artista en el sentido clásico.
Tampoco pretendía dar lecciones.
Simplemente encontró una forma de vivir (y ganarse la vida) haciendo algo que nadie más podía hacer sin consecuencias graves.
Su fama no venía de crear algo nuevo, sino de empujar un límite físico hasta donde casi nadie se atrevería a mirar.Murió en 2007 por causas naturales.
No por lo que comía.Y eso es lo que termina de descolocar.
Porque toda su vida parece construida sobre una contradicción: hacer algo claramente peligroso… y salir adelante.No dejó una obra, ni un invento, ni un legado fácil de explicar.
Pero dejó una historia que incomoda un poco, porque obliga a admitir que el cuerpo humano, a veces, no sigue las reglas que creemos entender.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
#historiareal #curiosidades #michellotito #monsieurmangetout #historiasreales #cuerpohumano #insolito #sigloxx #ecosdelpasado
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𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒔
Se comió un avión.
Y no es una metáfora.Michel Lotito nació en Francia en 1950 y desde joven empezó a hacer algo que no encajaba en ningún sitio: comía cosas que no eran comida.
No fue un truco puntual ni una excentricidad de feria.
Fue constante.
Metal, vidrio, goma… lo que para cualquiera sería peligroso, para él se convirtió en rutina.Con el tiempo dejó de ser una rareza local y se convirtió en espectáculo.
Bicicletas, carritos de supermercado, televisores, lámparas, incluso un ataúd.
Pero lo que terminó de fijar su nombre fue el avión: un Cessna 150 que fue consumiendo poco a poco entre 1978 y 1980.
No de golpe, claro.
Lo cortaba en piezas pequeñas, lo trituraba lo justo y lo ingería durante meses.De ahí el apodo: “Monsieur Mangetout”.
El hombre que se come todo.Lo más extraño no era solo lo que hacía, sino cómo podía hacerlo.
Según los médicos que lo estudiaron, tenía un revestimiento estomacal más grueso de lo normal, lo que le protegía parcialmente de cortes y perforaciones.
También producía jugos gástricos especialmente potentes.
Aun así, no era invulnerable.
Comer metal no es seguro en ningún caso.
Simplemente, su cuerpo resistía más de lo que parecía posible.Tenía su propio “método”.
Cortaba los objetos en fragmentos manejables, los acompañaba con agua y aceite mineral para facilitar el paso, y seguía.
Decía que lo más difícil no era el metal, sino cosas blandas como el plátano o el huevo duro.
Eso sí que le resultaba incómodo.
Ahí es donde su historia deja de ser solo extraña y pasa a ser directamente absurda.También hay anécdotas que ayudan a entender el personaje.
Una vez, al romperse un vaso por accidente, en lugar de tirarlo… se lo comió.
Otra, durante una actuación, alguien del público dudó de que fuera real.
Lotito le pidió un objeto personal y empezó a comérselo delante de todos, sin dramatismo, como si fuera lo más normal del mundo.No era un científico ni un artista en el sentido clásico.
Tampoco pretendía dar lecciones.
Simplemente encontró una forma de vivir (y ganarse la vida) haciendo algo que nadie más podía hacer sin consecuencias graves.
Su fama no venía de crear algo nuevo, sino de empujar un límite físico hasta donde casi nadie se atrevería a mirar.Murió en 2007 por causas naturales.
No por lo que comía.Y eso es lo que termina de descolocar.
Porque toda su vida parece construida sobre una contradicción: hacer algo claramente peligroso… y salir adelante.No dejó una obra, ni un invento, ni un legado fácil de explicar.
Pero dejó una historia que incomoda un poco, porque obliga a admitir que el cuerpo humano, a veces, no sigue las reglas que creemos entender.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
#historiareal #curiosidades #michellotito #monsieurmangetout #historiasreales #cuerpohumano #insolito #sigloxx #ecosdelpasado
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𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒔
Se comió un avión.
Y no es una metáfora.Michel Lotito nació en Francia en 1950 y desde joven empezó a hacer algo que no encajaba en ningún sitio: comía cosas que no eran comida.
No fue un truco puntual ni una excentricidad de feria.
Fue constante.
Metal, vidrio, goma… lo que para cualquiera sería peligroso, para él se convirtió en rutina.Con el tiempo dejó de ser una rareza local y se convirtió en espectáculo.
Bicicletas, carritos de supermercado, televisores, lámparas, incluso un ataúd.
Pero lo que terminó de fijar su nombre fue el avión: un Cessna 150 que fue consumiendo poco a poco entre 1978 y 1980.
No de golpe, claro.
Lo cortaba en piezas pequeñas, lo trituraba lo justo y lo ingería durante meses.De ahí el apodo: “Monsieur Mangetout”.
El hombre que se come todo.Lo más extraño no era solo lo que hacía, sino cómo podía hacerlo.
Según los médicos que lo estudiaron, tenía un revestimiento estomacal más grueso de lo normal, lo que le protegía parcialmente de cortes y perforaciones.
También producía jugos gástricos especialmente potentes.
Aun así, no era invulnerable.
Comer metal no es seguro en ningún caso.
Simplemente, su cuerpo resistía más de lo que parecía posible.Tenía su propio “método”.
Cortaba los objetos en fragmentos manejables, los acompañaba con agua y aceite mineral para facilitar el paso, y seguía.
Decía que lo más difícil no era el metal, sino cosas blandas como el plátano o el huevo duro.
Eso sí que le resultaba incómodo.
Ahí es donde su historia deja de ser solo extraña y pasa a ser directamente absurda.También hay anécdotas que ayudan a entender el personaje.
Una vez, al romperse un vaso por accidente, en lugar de tirarlo… se lo comió.
Otra, durante una actuación, alguien del público dudó de que fuera real.
Lotito le pidió un objeto personal y empezó a comérselo delante de todos, sin dramatismo, como si fuera lo más normal del mundo.No era un científico ni un artista en el sentido clásico.
Tampoco pretendía dar lecciones.
Simplemente encontró una forma de vivir (y ganarse la vida) haciendo algo que nadie más podía hacer sin consecuencias graves.
Su fama no venía de crear algo nuevo, sino de empujar un límite físico hasta donde casi nadie se atrevería a mirar.Murió en 2007 por causas naturales.
No por lo que comía.Y eso es lo que termina de descolocar.
Porque toda su vida parece construida sobre una contradicción: hacer algo claramente peligroso… y salir adelante.No dejó una obra, ni un invento, ni un legado fácil de explicar.
Pero dejó una historia que incomoda un poco, porque obliga a admitir que el cuerpo humano, a veces, no sigue las reglas que creemos entender.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
#historiareal #curiosidades #michellotito #monsieurmangetout #historiasreales #cuerpohumano #insolito #sigloxx #ecosdelpasado
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CW: #MutualAid Fundraiser Update #2 and general old man yelling at clouds
I don't even know what to write at this point.
Every month I tell myself, "Okay, this is the month we get back on track. I'm going to go get a second job. We're going to do this on our own for once, goddammit."
Yet my job takes just enough of a physical and emotional toll that I can't seem to function. I can't get focused. I can't get the apartment cleaned up or get everything organized, I can't seem to summon the willpower to go through the mind-numbingly asinine job application process to some other retail job that's probably even more demeaning than the one I currently hold.
So every month we only make rent thanks to charity. The only reason we're not homeless is because we're receiving mutual aid. I'm not exaggerating. We would absolutely be on the streets without everyone's help on the Fedi.
This has been going on for two years now.
It seems reasonable to ask, "Well, why don't you apply for government assistance? Why don't you reach out to local charities? Why don't you handle your money better and quit relying on strangers?"
Let me offer brief summary of the circumstances of someone I know to help answer those questions:
A co-worker of mine - a single mother with multiple health problems, has needed to resort to payday loans for enough money to eat.
She makes *just* enough money to not qualify for much public assistance, and struggles with tech literacy so it's a nightmare for her trying to navigate all the hoops one must jump through.
She reached out to the local clergy of the predominant religious faith in the area. It's one of the most wealthy religious institutions in the world, commanding hundreds of *billions* in assets (thanks to a whistleblower for it to even be publicly known), and she is a member of this church.
They made her give them copies of her paystubs and her bank account statements, detailed financial information of her (just barely turned) adult son who barely makes anything working at a movie theater and that of her brother (also struggling financially, and will only be their roommate until the end of their lease sometime early summer), and still turned her down. They offered her a couple of vouchers for their church-owned food pantry, most of which she's unable to use due to food allergies.
She had to beg them, sobbing, until they finally relented and agreed to cover one month of rent for her and her son (I guess her brother will magically find his portion?) and insisted that this was the last help she would receive from them.
It's a perfect (yes, albeit anecdotal) example of why #MutualAid is crucial: people are falling through the cracks because the institutions we're supposed to be able to rely upon are failing to protect us. Even one of the most wealthy non-profit entities on the planet refuse to help even their own members without forcing them to undergo an embarrassing and demeaning process to prove their worthiness to receive help.
If anyone deserves help, it's her. She's a sweet, good-natured soul just trying to survive. Yet because she isn't computer-savvy and able to constantly begpost like I have the privilege of doing, she is stressed out of her mind and starting to sell all her possessions before she has to move to a different apartment next month and couldn't afford to set any money aside for deposit and related costs.
I can't even remember where I was going with this now after angrily typing all of that. I guess maybe that it isn't always as fucking simple and easy as some people think it is, to be a grifting beggar.
I can promise you one thing, however: I'd be willing to bet that most of us posting #MutualAidRequest after request, would really rather not be doing so.
I would much, much, much rather be giving back to the community.
But that's difficult when your annual salary raises are less than inflation. Or, as I've begun referring to them, "annual pay cuts".
But folks like my co-worker and myself didn't "apply ourselves" to get college degrees, so I guess we're getting what we deserve.
Except it shouldn't be what we deserve.
Survival shouldn't be a privilege to be "earned".
Original #begpost:
https://beige.party/@LibertyForward1/116469237814027295
Venmo: https://venmo.com/thegizmotwins
Cashapp: https://cash.app/$thegizmotwins
PP: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982
GFM: https://gofund.me/12171be3 -
2/3 "Moins demander aux individus de se corriger, et davantage se demander ce que l’on tolère comme normes de travail, de réussite, de disponibilité ou de bonheur… Peut-être que la seule résolution vraiment radicale serait alors celle-ci : ne plus traiter comme des problèmes individuels ce qui relève, manifestement, d’un ordre social à repenser." #captitalisme #sociologie #résolutions #nouvelan Le nouvel an : cadeau empoisonné du capitalisme ?
https://anecdate.substack.com/p/le-nouvel-an-cadeau-empoisonne-du -
:stargif: 𝑷𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒅𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒐́𝒏: 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒂 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒐́𝒏 𝒚 𝒍𝒂 𝒍𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂 :stargif:
En abril de 1513, las naves de Juan Ponce de León divisaron una costa verde y desconocida.
Aquella tierra terminaría llamándose Florida y marcaría un nuevo capítulo en la expansión de la Monarquía Hispánica por el Atlántico.Durante siglos se repitió la misma historia: un explorador obsesionado con encontrar la famosa Fuente de la Juventud.
La imagen es potente, casi de cuento.
Pero la realidad histórica fue bastante más compleja.Ponce de León nació hacia 1460 o 1465 en Santervás de Campos.
Su origen exacto sigue siendo algo difuso.
Algunas crónicas apuntan a que pudo ser hijo natural de un miembro de la familia noble de los Ponce de León.
Lo que sí parece claro es que creció en un entorno humilde pese a esa posible ascendencia.De joven sirvió como paje en la corte de Fernando II de Aragón y más tarde como escudero de Pedro Núñez de Guzmán.
Allí aprendió el manejo de las armas y las tácticas militares que más tarde aplicaría en el Caribe.Su vida cambió cuando viajó al Nuevo Mundo.
Participó en la colonización de La Española y pronto acumuló tierras y riqueza gracias al sistema de encomiendas.
En ese contexto se casó, alrededor del año 1500, con una mujer llamada Leonor en Santo Domingo.Sobre Leonor existen pocos datos claros.
Algunas fuentes dicen que era hija de un posadero español; otras sugieren que pudo tener origen indígena y que fue bautizada con ese nombre tras su conversión al cristianismo.
Lo cierto es que formaron una familia estable para la época.Tuvieron cuatro hijos: Luis, el único varón, y tres hijas llamadas Juana, María e Isabel.
Mientras Ponce de León construía su carrera política y militar, su familia permanecía en el Caribe administrando propiedades y haciendas.Su ascenso fue rápido.
En 1508 fundó el primer asentamiento europeo permanente en Puerto Rico y se convirtió en su primer gobernador.
Pero el poder en el Nuevo Mundo era frágil.El hijo de Cristóbal Colón, Diego Colón, inició una batalla legal contra la Corona para recuperar los privilegios concedidos a su padre en las Capitulaciones de Santa Fe.
En 1511 los tribunales le dieron la razón.La consecuencia fue humillante para Ponce de León: perdió el gobierno de Puerto Rico y tuvo que entregar el poder a hombres nombrados por Diego Colón.
Sin cargo político y con su prestigio tocado, buscó una salida.
El rey Fernando le concedió permiso para explorar nuevas tierras fuera de la jurisdicción de los Colón.
Así nació la expedición de 1513.El viaje fue duro: corrientes desconocidas, calor extremo, costas pantanosas y enfrentamientos con pueblos indígenas. Pero también dejó descubrimientos importantes.
Durante aquella navegación los españoles identificaron la poderosa Corriente del Golfo, una ruta marítima que más tarde permitiría a los barcos regresar a Europa con mucha más rapidez.El nombre de Florida surgió por una coincidencia de calendario.
Ponce de León avistó la costa durante las celebraciones de la Pascua Florida, y decidió bautizar así a la nueva tierra.Años después regresó para intentar colonizarla.
Pero el segundo intento terminó en tragedia.
En 1521, durante un enfrentamiento con los indígenas Calusa, fue alcanzado por una flecha.
Gravemente herido, fue trasladado a La Habana, donde murió poco tiempo después.Con el paso de los años, cronistas como Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo difundieron la historia de que buscaba la Fuente de la Juventud.
La anécdota acabó convirtiéndose en leyenda.Pero si miramos su vida completa, vemos algo más humano: un soldado que ascendió desde una posición modesta, que acumuló poder en el Caribe, que lo perdió en una batalla política… y que se lanzó a explorar nuevas tierras para recuperar su lugar en la historia.
Quizá por eso su figura sigue generando debate.
No fue un héroe romántico ni un simple villano.
Fue, como muchos hombres de su tiempo, una mezcla de ambición, dureza y necesidad de dejar huella antes de desaparecer.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
#historia #historiadeespaña #edadmoderna #exploradores #imperioespañol #florida #historiadelcaribe #curiosidadeshistoricas #ecosdelpasado
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:stargif: 𝑫𝒂𝒍𝒊́: 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒐, 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒐 𝒚 𝒖𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒋𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒐 :stargif:
Salvador Dalí nació en 1904 en Figueres y acabó convirtiéndose en la cara más reconocible del surrealismo.
Tenía una técnica casi fotográfica que pulió en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, pero lo que lo hizo único fue su obsesión por convertir los sueños en imágenes.
Ahí entra la influencia de Sigmund Freud: hormigas, huevos, cuerpos deformados… todo ese mundo simbólico que aparece en cuadros como La persistencia de la memoria.Hasta aquí, el Dalí “de manual”.
Pero su vida fue bastante más incómoda de lo que suelen contar.No era solo excéntrico.
Hay testimonios de comportamientos violentos y una relación muy complicada con su entorno, incluida Gala Dalí.
Su vínculo fue intenso, pero también desequilibrado, con episodios de agresividad en ambos sentidos en la etapa final.
Tampoco ayudaba su relación con la sexualidad: miedo, voyeurismo y una constante necesidad de controlar la situación desde fuera.Con los animales, más de lo mismo.
Los utilizaba como parte de su espectáculo, buscando provocar.
No era tanto crueldad gratuita como una obsesión por romper límites… pero eso no lo hace menos incómodo de ver hoy.Su personalidad tampoco encajaba bien ni siquiera entre los suyos.
André Breton, harto de su obsesión por el dinero, lo rebautizó como “Avida Dollars”.
Y no iba desencaminado: Dalí convirtió su propia figura en un producto.
Mientras otros artistas tomaban postura contra el régimen, él no tuvo problema en mostrarse cercano al franquismo, lo que le ganó bastantes enemistades.La relación con Gala merece capítulo aparte.
Se conocieron en Cadaqués cuando ella aún estaba casada con Paul Éluard.
Dalí quedó fascinado.
Ella vio en él a un genio… y también a alguien a quien dirigir.
Se casaron, no tuvieron hijos, y acabaron viviendo una relación abierta muy peculiar.
Gala tenía amantes jóvenes y Dalí lo aceptaba, incluso lo financiaba.
El famoso “pacto de Púbol” lo resume bien: él le regaló un castillo y solo podía visitarla con permiso.Los últimos años fueron duros.
Enfermedad, dependencia de medicamentos y episodios violentos.
Aun así, cuando Gala murió, Dalí se vino abajo completamente.Hasta su herencia fue un último giro inesperado: dejó todo al Estado español, fuera familia y Generalitat.
Una decisión que aún hoy genera debate y que dejó su obra en manos de la Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí.Y ni muerto dejó de ser Dalí.
Está enterrado en el Teatro-Museo Dalí, bajo los pies de los visitantes.
Literalmente.
Cuando lo exhumaron en 2017, su bigote seguía intacto, colocado como siempre.Su obsesión con la identidad venía de lejos: tuvo un hermano mayor con su mismo nombre que murió antes de que él naciera.
De niño le dijeron que era su reencarnación.
Creció con esa idea en la cabeza.
No es raro que necesitara llamar la atención constantemente.También vivía lleno de manías: llevaba un trozo de madera como amuleto, tenía pánico a los saltamontes y necesitaba rituales para sentirse seguro.
No era postureo del todo; había miedo real detrás del personaje.Eso sí, sabía perfectamente lo que hacía.
Su “locura” era, en gran parte, construida.
Inventó el método paranoico-crítico para provocar imágenes y luego pintarlas con precisión milimétrica.
Y fuera del lienzo, era puro espectáculo: conferencias con traje de buzo, paseos con animales raros… todo pensado para no pasar desapercibido.Hay anécdotas que lo resumen mejor que cualquier análisis.
Como cuando destrozó un escaparate en Nueva York tras modificarle una obra y acabó detenido.
O cuando diseñó el logo de Chupa Chups en una servilleta en menos de una hora, con la idea brillante de colocarlo arriba para que siempre se viera.También colaboró con Walt Disney en “Destino”, un proyecto surrealista que tardó décadas en terminarse, y llegó a crear uno de los primeros hologramas artísticos junto a Alice Cooper.
Todo le interesaba si podía convertirlo en algo extraño y nuevo.Y luego está su lado más pícaro: pagar cenas con cheques dibujados.
Sabía que nadie los cobraría porque valían más como obra que como dinero.Al final, Dalí fue eso: un genio técnico, un provocador constante y una persona difícil.
Separar al artista de la obra aquí no es fácil… pero tampoco se puede entender uno sin el otro.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
#dali #surrealismo #historiadelarte #curiosidades #arte #culturageneral #biografias #historia
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Hackearon mi cuenta: ¿qué hacer en los primeros 15 minutos?
Los cibercriminales buscan obtener información privada y sensible y nadie está exento hoy del hackeo de alguna de sus cuentas: desde WhastApp, Instagram, Facebook y LinkedIn, hasta plataformas bancarias o de servicios como YouTube y Spotify. En caso de que suceda, es primordial no perder la calma y cómo actuar de manera inmediata, ya que el tiempo en estos casos vale oro. Desde ESET, advierten que tomar las decisiones correctas pronto ayuda a proteger tus datos y mitigar las posibles consecuencias de esta situación indeseada (Fuente ESET Latam).
“Un hackeo de una cuenta funciona como un proceso: tiene etapas. Entonces, accionar rápido es clave, ya que el ataque podría quedar en la nada, o tener un impacto mínimo. Es decir, marca la diferencia entre que todo quede en una anécdota, o la pérdida de datos sensibles y dinero.”, comenta Mario Micucci, Investigador de Seguridad Informática de ESET Latinoamérica.
A continuación, ESET comparte qué hacer, y qué no, en el caso de sufrir el hackeo de las cuentas, y cuáles son las posibles consecuencias en caso de no actuar de manera rápida y correcta. En la mayoría de los casos, el acceso inicial se produce por credenciales robadas, correos de phishing o infección con malware, muchas veces sin que la víctima lo note. Los pasos detallados aplican tanto si una cuenta fue comprometida, como cuando el acceso se originó desde un dispositivo infectado:
Minuto 0–2 | Frenar el daño: El primer paso es desconectar el dispositivo de Internet (tanto el Wi-Fi como los datos). Si la cuenta vulnerada es online (sea mail, red social o banco), se debe cerrar sesión en todos los dispositivos siempre que la plataforma lo permita. En este paso aún no es aconsejable borrar nada todavía, ya que puede servir como evidencia para entender la naturaleza del ataque.
Minuto 3–6 | Asegurar el acceso: Cambiar la contraseña de la cuenta comprometida desde un dispositivo seguro, es fundamental que sea una clave única y robusta. Además, como buena práctica, activar el doble factor de autenticacióN (2FA) siempre que sea posible. Si la plataforma hackeada lo permite, cerrar todas las sesiones activas y revocar los accesos de aplicaciones conectadas.
Minuto 7–10 | Revisar otras cuentas no afectadas: En el caso de reutilizar la misma contraseña en diversas cuentas, se deben actualizar las claves en todos los servicios y plataformas, para evitar que sean hackeadas también. También, verificar si no hubo cambios en los datos de contacto, mensajes enviados que no se reconozcan, y compras o movimientos extraños. Además, siempre que sea posible, revisar el historial de inicios de sesión y la actividad reciente para detectar accesos no reconocidos.
Un área para destacar es el correo electrónico, debido a que suele ser la puerta de recuperación del resto de las cuentas. Entonces, si un ciberatacante controla el mail, podrá volver a entrar al resto de los servicios. Es por lo que asegurar el correo es clave para evitar que el hackeo se repita.
Minuto 11–13 | Escanear y limpiar: Realizar un análisis de seguridad completo en el dispositivo vulnerado, y eliminar todo tipo de software, extensiones o aplicaciones que no se hayan instalado. A su vez, actualizar tanto el sistema operativo como las apps que se utilizan.
Minuto 14–15 | Avisar y prevenir: Parte de actuar rápido y de manera correcta ante un hackeo es avisar a los contactos. Básicamente porque el ciberatacante pudo escribirles para solicitar dinero o cometer cualquier tipo de estafa. También se debe reportar el incidente a la plataforma cuestión (mail, red social, banco), sobre todo si hay datos sensibles o dinero involucrados. Si hackearon los servicios financieros, contactar de inmediato a la entidad para bloquear operaciones y monitorear todos los movimientos.
Desde ESET advierten que hay diversas buenas prácticas que como usuarios se pueden adoptar para reducir sensiblemente el riesgo de sufrir un hackeo de las cuentas. Comparte las siguientes:
- Activar el doble factor de autenticación: Además de requerir un nombre de usuario y contraseña, solicita el ingreso de un segundo factor, que podría ser un código de seguridad o un dato biométrico. En muchos casos, bloquea por completo el acceso del cibercriminal, incluso si la contraseña fue comprometida.
- Utilizar contraseñas fuertes: Las contraseñas más utilizadas por los usuarios siguen siendo “123456”, nombres y fecha de nacimiento. El problema es que son claves muy fáciles de descifrar para los cibercriminales. La solución es crear contraseñas fuertes, únicas y que no sean reutilizadas. El mejor aliado para eso es un generador de contraseñas, que crea credenciales fuertes y únicas.
- Actualizar software y aplicaciones: Cuando llega una notificación de pedido de actualización, lo ideal es hacerlo de inmediato, ya que es necesario para corregir posibles fallos o vulnerabilidades del sistema.
- Prestar atención a los correos de phishing: El phishing es una de las prácticas más utilizadas por los cibercriminales para obtener los datos de acceso a las distintas cuentas. Prestar atención a ciertas señales puede ser clave para evitar ser víctima de este ataque. Una alarma, por ejemplo, puede ser que el correo electrónico no está dirigido, o presenta errores gramaticales y ortográficos.
- Instalar una solución de seguridad: En cualquier tipo de dispositivo que se utilice, contar con una solución de seguridad robusta es casi imperativo, ya que representa una barrera de defensa contra las ciberamenazas, incluyendo el mencionado phishing.
“Frente a un hackeo, los primeros enemigos suelen ser el pánico y la ansiedad. Por eso, contar con un plan de acción permite tomar mejores decisiones. Actuar rápido puede marcar la diferencia entre un incidente aislado y un problema con consecuencias más graves. La seguridad no se trata solo de reaccionar cuando algo falla, sino de incorporar buenos hábitos para reducir la superficie de ataque, como contraseñas únicas, autenticación en dos pasos y dispositivos protegidos. Estas acciones pueden significar ahorro de tiempo, dinero y preocupaciones.”, concluye Micucci de ESET.
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Buenas tardes de domingo lluviosos
Hacía tantos años no veía llover tan seguido que así da gusto.Aqui en españa se sigue cambiando la hora, y aún hay aquellas personas que tienen relojes por toda la casa antiguos.
Solo pensar que está persona tiene que cambiar la hora de los relojes...creo que tardaría su buen rato.
Cómo anécdota, hace unos años a mí me tocó cambiar la hora...a unos 15 relojes...en casa de una señora....menuda odisea.¿Os gustaba eso de tener que cambiar la hora o preferís que se cambie solo?
#reloj #hora #domingo #felizdomingo #lluvias #lluvianecesaria #descanso #Relojes #relojmanual #relojautomatico
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DATE: May 10, 2026 at 08:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Scientists challenge The Body Keeps the Score with a new predictive model of trauma
A recent theoretical paper published in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience suggests that psychological trauma is not literally stored in the tissues of the body. Instead, the authors propose that trauma creates a rigid pattern of threat prediction within the brain, reducing cognitive flexibility. This updated perspective provides evidence that therapies focusing on mental state shifting, such as flow states, may help retrain the nervous system and support recovery.
In 2014, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk published The Body Keeps the Score, a book suggesting that trauma alters the nervous system and becomes physically lodged in the body. The bestseller popularized the idea that individuals cannot simply talk through trauma, as the body continues to react to past threats. While the book gained immense public and clinical popularity, some scientists have criticized its underlying biological mechanisms.
Scientists Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, Glenn Fox, and Karl Friston recently authored a paper to address these mechanistic discrepancies. They argue that the popular metaphor of somatic storage is biologically inaccurate. They propose an alternative model based on computational neuroscience.
Michael Mannino, the chief science officer of the Flow Research Collective and a distinguished research fellow at Florida Atlantic University, explained the motivation behind the paper. “Two things motivated the pushback,” Mannino said. He noted a conversation with researcher George Bonanno regarding resilience data.
“Bonanno had looked at some of the same kinds of trauma data and drawn very different conclusions than the dominant ‘trauma is stored in the body’ framing,” Mannino explained.
This conversation resonated with his own observations. “That conversation crystallized something I had already been sensing: the model did not line up with what we were seeing in flow research or in real-world performance contexts,” Mannino said.
Additionally, the authors noticed conflicts between the body storage theory and their own work on optimal mental states. “Second, the ‘body keeps the score’ framing became harder to reconcile with the evidence around flow,” Mannino noted. “Flow is common, trainable, and repeatedly associated with improvements in psychological functioning.”
He elaborated on this contradiction. “If trauma were literally stored in somatic tissue in the way the popular metaphor suggests, then it would be strange that flow training could have such broad effects on trauma recovery,” Mannino said. “Flow is not a specialized somatic therapy. It is not manually targeting hidden trauma deposits in muscle or fascia.”
“So if flow is helping people shift traumatic patterns, then the problem likely is not ‘stored trauma’ in the body,” Mannino continued. “It is more likely a problem in how the brain predicts threat, safety, agency, and action.”
The authors also felt the cultural timing was right for a shift in perspective. “The timing also matters because the popular culture around trauma has shifted,” Mannino pointed out. “Many people now lead with trauma as identity. The concern is that the storage metaphor may unintentionally reinforce victim identity, external locus of control, and chronic reactivation of painful memories.”
“If trauma is framed as something buried inside the body that must be located and released, people can feel less empowered,” Mannino added. “But if trauma is understood as a disorder of prediction, then we have more actionable targets.”
In their paper, the authors reframe trauma as a disorder of prediction rather than a disorder of storage. They use a concept called predictive coding, which suggests the brain constantly guesses what will happen next based on past experiences. In a healthy brain, these predictions are flexible and update when new information arrives.
Following a traumatic event, the brain tends to assign too much weight to signs of danger. This creates a highly rigid system where the brain anticipates threats everywhere, leading to hypervigilance and avoidance. The brain misinterprets regular physical sensations, like a racing heart, as proof of immediate danger.
Because of this rigid prediction system, the brain loses what scientists call metastability. Metastability refers to the brain’s ability to fluidly switch between different networks and mental states. High metastability allows for cognitive flexibility, meaning a person can easily adapt to new situations.
Trauma traps the brain in a narrow, inflexible state of fear. The body acts as a messenger in this process, sending signals that the brain misinterprets, but the body does not serve as an archive for the trauma itself.
“The main takeaway is empowering: trauma is not necessarily something hidden in the tissues that must be excavated,” Mannino said. “It may be better understood as a maladaptive prediction system.”
He explained that the brain is always forecasting safety, danger, and the meaning of physical sensations. “The brain is constantly predicting what is safe, what is dangerous, what matters, what action is possible, and what the body’s sensations mean,” he said.
“In trauma, those predictions can become rigid, overgeneralized, and threat-biased,” Mannino noted. “The person may not simply be ‘remembering’ the past. Their nervous system may be predicting the present and future through the lens of unresolved danger.”
This distinction is important for treatment. “That distinction matters because storage is a very hard target,” Mannino said. “We do not fully understand how memories are stored in the brain, let alone how traumatic memory would be stored in the body in a literal biological sense. But prediction is a much more tractable target.”
Mannino emphasized that psychology already utilizes tools that address prediction, including cognitive reframing, exposure therapies, attention training, and mindset changes. “So the average person should not hear this as ‘the body does not matter,'” he said. “The body absolutely matters. Pain, posture, breath, autonomic tone, movement, touch, and interoception all shape prediction.”
“But the mechanism may not be that trauma is physically stored in the muscles,” Mannino continued. “The mechanism may be that bodily signals are feeding into the brain’s predictive machinery, shaping what the person expects, fears, avoids, or interprets as dangerous.”
To help restore mental flexibility, the authors suggest flow states could act as a powerful intervention. Flow happens when a person becomes completely absorbed in a meaningful, highly challenging activity. Action sports, playing music, or engaging in complex tasks can trigger these states.
During flow, the brain’s threat detection centers quiet down, and networks related to focus and adaptation engage. “The strongest evidence begins with a large body of converging observations,” Mannino said regarding the connection between flow and trauma recovery.
He pointed to action sports athletes who face high risk but often report feeling regulated and empowered. “If trauma were simply stored in the body through overwhelming experience, then repeated exposure to danger should reliably worsen trauma,” Mannino noted. “But that is not always what we see.”
“Another line of evidence comes from flow-based and adventure-based interventions,” Mannino explained. Programs focusing on outdoor leadership or addiction recovery tend to help individuals break out of fixed behavioral loops. “Flow may help because it trains flexible state-shifting, agency, attention, and adaptive prediction under challenge,” he said.
“The strongest theoretical argument is that flow targets the prediction system,” Mannino added. “Flow changes attention, motivation, agency, threat perception, self-processing, and action-readiness. Those are all central to trauma.”
“If trauma involves rigid threat prediction, then flow may help by creating conditions where the nervous system learns, experientially, that challenge can be navigated safely and effectively,” Mannino said.
While the authors challenge the idea of somatic storage, they do not suggest that body-based therapies are ineffective. Bodywork, massage, and breathing exercises often provide significant relief for trauma survivors. The authors simply propose a different biological explanation for why these treatments work.
“We should not dismiss the therapeutic benefit people report,” Mannino stated. “Bodywork, somatic therapies, massage, acupuncture, breathwork, and related interventions clearly help many people. The question is not whether they can help. The question is why they help.”
Mannino suggests that finding a tight or painful spot during bodywork might create a prediction error in the brain. “A bodyworker finds a spot of pain, tightness, or unusual sensation,” he explained. “The brain then has to interpret that signal: ‘What is causing this?'”
Because sensation and emotion are linked, the brain might generate a memory or narrative to explain the physical feeling. “That does not mean the memory was literally stored in that muscle,” Mannino said. “It may mean the sensation created a prediction error, and the brain searched for a prior, an explanatory model, or an associated emotional memory.”
He believes this perspective opens the door to better scientific questions. “Is the therapeutic effect coming from touch? From relaxation? From parasympathetic activation? From interpersonal synchrony? From human connection? From increased interoceptive awareness? From changing threat predictions? From the therapist-client relational field?” Mannino asked. “The goal should not be to banish bodywork from trauma recovery. The goal should be to get the mechanism right so we can improve the interventions.”
The authors acknowledge limitations in their current model. Their framework represents a proposed mechanistic reframing, not a finalized clinical doctrine. Additionally, the specific connection between flow states and trauma recovery requires further direct testing.
“What remains speculative is the exact mechanism,” Mannino noted. “We do not yet have definitive evidence that flow heals trauma by increasing metastability, altering prediction error, or reorganizing attractor dynamics. Those are plausible, testable hypotheses, not settled facts.”
Trauma also comes in many forms, meaning this model might not apply universally. “PTSD, developmental trauma, acute trauma, grief, moral injury, chronic stress, and traumatic brain injury may involve overlapping but distinct mechanisms,” Mannino cautioned. “A prediction-based model may be powerful, but it should not be treated as a one-size-fits-all explanation.”
“A second caveat is that body-based therapies may still work,” Mannino added. “Rejecting the storage metaphor does not mean rejecting massage, somatic therapy, breathwork, movement, or bodywork. It means we should ask better mechanistic questions. These practices may work by changing autonomic state, increasing interoceptive precision, reducing threat prediction, enhancing safety cues, promoting interpersonal synchrony, or creating prediction error that allows updating.”
The evidence connecting flow to healing also needs formal neuroscientific backing. “Finally, the flow-trauma connection is still developing,” Mannino noted. “There is strong theoretical and anecdotal support, plus related evidence from performance, adventure therapy, and clinical psychology. But the direct neuroscientific evidence still needs to be built.”
Moving forward, the researchers hope to test their claims by measuring brain dynamics in populations with trauma histories. “To test the claim directly, we would need to measure brain dynamics in trauma populations, especially looking at whether PTSD is associated with reduced metastability, reduced flexibility, or difficulty transitioning between neural states,” Mannino said.
A strong study might use brain imaging to look at flexibility in people with trauma compared to a control group. “The prediction would be that PTSD involves overly rigid attractor dynamics: the nervous system gets stuck in certain threat-biased patterns and has trouble transitioning flexibly into alternative states,” Mannino explained.
Researchers could also test different interventions, comparing body-based treatments to flow-based activities. Mannino mentioned a speculative idea from Kotler involving bodywork. “If a bodyworker stimulates a painful area and the person reports a memory or emotional response, researchers could examine whether the content of that response varies according to contralateral brain-body organization,” Mannino said.
“So yes, the line of research is moving toward empirical testing,” Mannino emphasized. “The key is to move beyond metaphor and into measurable predictions: metastability, complexity, state transitions, prediction error, symptom change, and intervention response.”
The broader goal is to build a performance-based approach to neuroscience. “The next step is to test the model directly,” Mannino stated. “One direction is to examine metastability and neural complexity in trauma populations, especially before and after interventions.”
“A second direction is to compare somatic-based interventions with flow-based interventions, and potentially with combined interventions,” Mannino continued. “If bodywork helps, we want to know why.”
“A third direction is to study prediction-related mechanisms in adjacent conditions: PTSD, depression, anxiety, addiction, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s, ALS, and other neurodegenerative or neuropsychiatric conditions where rigidity, loss of agency, and impaired state transitions may play a role,” Mannino added.
The team envisions a future where treatments focus on expanding mental capabilities. “The broader aim is to develop a performance-neuroscience approach to brain health: not just reducing symptoms, but restoring flexibility, agency, adaptive prediction, and the capacity to enter high-functioning states like flow,” Mannino concluded. “That is where this line of research is headed.”
Scheduled for release in July, Kotler and Mannino’s forthcoming textbook defines the emerging scientific field of performance neuroscience. The book explores how the brain and body coordinate under high-pressure conditions, explaining the biological mechanisms behind flow states, stress regulation, and peak human achievement. The book will “will help formalize the field and provide a broader scientific foundation for this line of work.”
The study, “The body does not keep the score: trauma, predictive coding, and the restoration of metastability,” was authored by Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, Glenn Fox, and Karl Friston.
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Starting Over
Adam Hinds
For years, I’ve written across different formats and through different outlets. One of my favorites has always been The Chaos Section. I enjoy the freedom that writing brings. But I’ve always lacked focus.
That changes now.
A Decade in the Nonprofit World
I’ve spent the past ten years working in and around nonprofit organizations, and I genuinely love them. I love the mission-driven people who pour themselves into this work. Not every organization is created equal, and some are certainly more transparent and effective than others. But in my experience, the organizations I’ve supported have consistently been led by people who carry the mission in their hearts. That kind of internal motivation is rare, and it’s contagious.
The nonprofit sector is also enormous. Nonprofits employ more than 12 million American workers, and the range of work they do spans education, healthcare, disaster relief, housing, food security, and nearly every other dimension of human need. These organizations have a long-standing tradition of propelling social movements in American history, from the abolition of slavery to women’s suffrage to more recent community responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s not a small thing.
There is a persistent frustration embedded in nonprofit work, and it would be dishonest not to name it directly: the pay gap.
By its very nature, the mission-first environment of a nonprofit yields lower salaries, at least below the executive level. Private-sector management occupations pay roughly 30 percent more than comparable nonprofit roles. In small nonprofit organizations, the median private-sector CEO salary was nearly two-thirds higher than at nonprofits of similar size.
For people drawn to this work by a sense of purpose, that gap is often accepted as part of the deal. But it shouldn’t be, and the field increasingly knows it. Decades of gradually narrowing wage gaps between nonprofits and private and government employers have come as the nonprofit sector’s size, market share, and economic clout have increased. There is still significant ground to cover.
I’ve also worked in and around government, spending much of my career operating in and around the military. And while there are genuine exceptions, the pattern I’ve observed too often in civilian government work is one of comfortable inertia. A kind of entitled, half-hearted apathy where doing the bare minimum becomes the unspoken standard. The incentives are structured around tenure and process rather than results and impact.
This is not merely anecdotal. Common characteristics of inefficient bureaucracies include being costly and ineffective, slow to act, and self-serving, with inefficiencies often amplified by civil service laws and personnel cap limitations that restrict leadership’s ability to shape organizations. In its 2025 review, the Government Accountability Office identified 38 federal programs as highly susceptible to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. That figure has fluctuated over the decades, but has never reached zero. That should tell us something.
Government has no place in social services.
Programs like medical care, insurance, housing assistance, and related social services do not belong under the purview of any government entity. They should belong to the nonprofit sector. Unlike the government, nonprofit organizations have the flexibility to respond quickly to emerging issues, pilot innovative solutions, and cater to specific local or niche needs. They are also better able to experiment with new approaches and respond quickly to changes in the environment.
The evidence bears this out. Consider Direct Relief, one of the most efficient large-scale humanitarian organizations in the world. During COVID-19, Direct Relief delivered more than 82 million units of PPE, 173 million defined daily doses of vital medicines, and 36,000 pieces of diagnostic and intensive care equipment to partner organizations fighting COVID-19 worldwide, reaching organizations in 55 U.S. states and territories and 100 countries. No government agency matched that speed or scale of targeted deployment.
Then there is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, perhaps the most striking example of what a well-funded nonprofit can accomplish. St. Jude has helped raise the overall childhood cancer survival rate in the United States from 20% to 80% since its establishment in 1962. In fiscal year 2021, St. Jude received $2 billion in donations, with daily operating costs averaging $1.7 million, and patients are never charged for their care. Eighty-two cents of every dollar received goes directly to support treatment, research, and future needs. That kind of efficiency and mission clarity is simply not achievable inside a government bureaucracy.
When nonprofits face challenges, they are often the result of government-created friction rather than organizational failure. A national Urban Institute survey found that nonprofits reporting problems with government contracts, such as late payments, contracts not covering the full cost of service, and complex reporting requirements, were more likely to freeze or reduce employee salaries, lay off employees, and draw down on their reserves. The bureaucracy reaches into the nonprofit sector too, and when it does, it slows everything down.
Charitable giving also rises naturally to meet real need. During COVID-19, giving increased in 78 percent of counties that experienced the greatest threat from the pandemic, particularly to human services charities that helped mitigate the pandemic’s effects. People, when given the choice, direct resources where they can see the impact. That is the market working in favor of human welfare.
Where I Come In
My focus, moving forward, is to help nonprofits in every capacity available to me.
That starts here, with a renewed commitment to writing about, discussing, and advocating for better ways to support and strengthen nonprofit and community-focused organizations. Everything I produce from this point forward will serve one purpose: supporting the organizations that help others.
Some of that support will take the form of board membership and organizational leadership. My ongoing work with Scouting America is a good example of what community-rooted involvement looks like in practice. In 2023, Scouting America served more than one million youth and delivered over 7.1 million hours of service to the country. Since its founding in 1910, roughly 130 million Americans have participated in its programs, served by more than 400,000 adult volunteers. That is the quiet, sustained power of a nonprofit operating at scale.
But I want most of my work to focus on consulting, helping organizations that are doing meaningful work put the pieces together more effectively. Whether that means strategic planning, fundraising infrastructure, board development, or communications, the need is consistent and urgent across the sector.
The content I create, through writing, podcasts, and eventually video, will all carry this same focus. I hope you’ll join me.
Adam Hinds is a retired U.S. Navy Chief Operations Specialist with 22 years of active and reserve service, and a current government contractor supporting the Joint Staff at the Department of Defense. He holds a Master of Arts in Conflict Management from Lipscomb University and a Bachelor of Science in International Relations from Middle Tennessee State University, and holds the Advanced Certified Nonprofit Professional (ACNP) credential. His nonprofit and civic work spans board service, operations consulting, and volunteer leadership. He currently serves on the boards of HELP, Inc. and Quality of Life, Inc., and works with organizations across the nonprofit, veteran, and civic sectors on governance, operational structure, and board accountability. Adam serves as District Commissioner for the Old Dominion District of Scouting America’s Colonial Virginia Council, Flotilla Commander for the Smithfield Flotilla of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, and holds national staff and leadership roles across several civic and fraternal organizations. He splits his time between Middle Tennessee and Hampton Roads, Virginia.
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Why the Brain Prefers to Read on Paper
by Kris deDecker, October 25, 2013
" 'Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a #MentalRepresentation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure.
"The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices.
"Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.
"In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other.
"Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.' "
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/10/why-the-brain-prefers-to-read-on-paper.html
#SolarPunkSunday #TechAddiction #Books #PhysicalBooks #ASMR #FullyEngaged #NeoLuddites #LessScreenTime #LibrariesRule #ReadABook #PaperMaps #PhysicalLandscape #Handwriting
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Why the Brain Prefers to Read on Paper
by Kris deDecker, October 25, 2013
" 'Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a #MentalRepresentation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure.
"The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices.
"Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.
"In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other.
"Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.' "
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/10/why-the-brain-prefers-to-read-on-paper.html
#SolarPunkSunday #TechAddiction #Books #PhysicalBooks #ASMR #FullyEngaged #NeoLuddites #LessScreenTime #LibrariesRule #ReadABook #PaperMaps #PhysicalLandscape #Handwriting
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Why the Brain Prefers to Read on Paper
by Kris deDecker, October 25, 2013
" 'Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a #MentalRepresentation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure.
"The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices.
"Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.
"In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other.
"Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.' "
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/10/why-the-brain-prefers-to-read-on-paper.html
#SolarPunkSunday #TechAddiction #Books #PhysicalBooks #ASMR #FullyEngaged #NeoLuddites #LessScreenTime #LibrariesRule #ReadABook #PaperMaps #PhysicalLandscape #Handwriting
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Why the Brain Prefers to Read on Paper
by Kris deDecker, October 25, 2013
" 'Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a #MentalRepresentation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure.
"The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices.
"Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.
"In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other.
"Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.' "
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/10/why-the-brain-prefers-to-read-on-paper.html
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Why the Brain Prefers to Read on Paper
by Kris deDecker, October 25, 2013
" 'Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a #MentalRepresentation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure.
"The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices.
"Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.
"In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other.
"Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.' "
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/10/why-the-brain-prefers-to-read-on-paper.html
#SolarPunkSunday #TechAddiction #Books #PhysicalBooks #ASMR #FullyEngaged #NeoLuddites #LessScreenTime #LibrariesRule #ReadABook #PaperMaps #PhysicalLandscape #Handwriting
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:stargif: 𝑪𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐 𝒆𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒐 𝒇𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒐 𝒔𝒆 𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒐́ 𝒆𝒏𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒂𝒅 :stargif:
La versión viral es seductora: médicos victorianos agotados de provocar “paroxismos histéricos” a mujeres diagnosticadas con histeria, inventan el vibrador para ahorrarse tiempo y muñeca.
Suena redondo.
El problema es que la historia real es bastante más compleja… y menos cinematográfica.Primero, la “histeria” sí existió como diagnóstico.
Viene del griego hystera (útero) y durante siglos se usó como cajón de sastre para síntomas que hoy llamaríamos ansiedad, depresión, trastornos somáticos o, simplemente, malestar femenino que incomodaba al entorno.
En el siglo XIX era un término habitual en la medicina europea y estadounidense.
Eso es cierto.También es cierto que el médico británico Joseph Mortimer Granville patentó en la década de 1880 un aparato electromecánico de vibración, conocido como el “Martillo de Granville”.
Pero aquí viene el matiz importante: Granville lo diseñó para tratar dolores musculares y problemas nerviosos, sobre todo en hombres.
De hecho, dejó por escrito que no le gustaba usarlo en mujeres para tratar la histeria.La idea de que los médicos pasaban horas practicando masajes pélvicos hasta provocar orgasmos de forma rutinaria y sistemática es mucho más discutida entre historiadores.
Esa narrativa se popularizó sobre todo a partir del libro The Technology of Orgasm (1999), de la historiadora Rachel Maines.
Su tesis planteaba que el vibrador surgió como una solución médica para inducir el “paroxismo histérico”.
El problema es que investigaciones posteriores han señalado que hay pocas pruebas clínicas directas que respalden esa práctica como algo tan extendido y mecánico como suele contarse.¿Existían tratamientos pélvicos?
Sí, hay referencias médicas a manipulaciones y terapias físicas.
¿Era el orgasmo considerado un fenómeno sexual en la época?
No necesariamente como lo entendemos hoy; muchas veces se describía como una “descarga nerviosa”.
Pero la imagen de consultas llenas de médicos exhaustos provocando orgasmos en serie es, como mínimo, una simplificación muy atractiva.Lo que sí es comprobable es que a principios del siglo XX empezaron a comercializarse vibradores eléctricos para uso doméstico.
Se anunciaban como “masajeadores”, prometiendo vigor, belleza y bienestar.
Aparecieron en catálogos antes que otros electrodomésticos más conocidos.
El lenguaje era deliberadamente ambiguo para evitar problemas legales en una época con fuertes leyes de obscenidad.En los años veinte, cuando estos aparatos empezaron a aparecer en películas pornográficas, el vínculo con el placer sexual se volvió explícito.
A partir de ahí desaparecieron de la publicidad “respetable” y quedaron asociados al ámbito privado.En cuanto al diagnóstico, la American Psychiatric Association eliminó oficialmente la “histeria” como categoría en 1952.
Fue el cierre simbólico de una etiqueta que durante siglos sirvió para patologizar conductas femeninas que no encajaban en el molde social.Entonces, ¿es cierto que el vibrador nació como herramienta médica para provocar orgasmos terapéuticos?
Parcialmente plausible en algunos contextos, pero exagerado en su versión más viral.
¿Fue la histeria un diagnóstico que mezclaba ciencia, moral y control social?
Sin duda.La historia real no necesita adornos: durante mucho tiempo el malestar femenino fue reinterpretado como enfermedad uterina.
Y la medicina, como toda institución humana, no estuvo libre de prejuicios.Conviene contarlo bien.
Sin puritanismo, pero también sin convertir un proceso histórico complejo en una anécdota perfecta para redes.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
#historia #histeria #historiadelamedicina #vibrador #sigloxix #mujeres #mitoshistoricos #curiosidadeshistoricas #saludmental #victoriano