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  1. What keeps you going when things get difficult? Resilience is rarely a solo endeavor—it's built in the spaces between our challenges and our courage.

    At #FabiensJourney, I’m building a space to share the truth about growth. If you have a story of how you pushed through, I’d love to hear it. Let’s build a library of hope together. ✍️

    fabiensjourney.cfd

    #Resilience #Community #Authenticity #Determination #NeverGiveUp

  2. I am sitting in the sun, letting the warmth settle into me while a slight breeze moves across my skin, carrying the faint clean scent of mint from the plant to my right. The soft, steady hum of traffic drifts past in the background. Today I needed this more than I can easily explain.

    This morning my doctor cancelled her appointment, then changed her mind and said she could make it after all. I had already mentally released the day and reorganised around Thursday, so when the reversal came I found myself more unsettled than the situation probably warranted. Unexpected changes like that disrupt something deeper than just the schedule. My nervous system had already mapped the day a certain way, and a sudden shift, even a minor one, requires a kind of internal recalibration that is genuinely exhausting. I chose Thursday anyway, on my own terms, which helped. The unsettled feeling still took time to pass, which is why I am out here now.

    It has me thinking about something I have been sitting with lately. Reality does not care about our plans, our carefully built illusions, or the stories we tell ourselves to feel safe. There is a particular kind of shock that comes when life closes the gap between what we expected and what actually is, and it does so entirely on its own timeline, not ours.

    I am not convinced the answer is stripping away every layer of protection and standing completely exposed. I think the real work is building enough internal ground to tolerate what is real without being destroyed by it. That process is slower and more painful than avoidance, but there is clarity on the other side that no illusion ever provided. At least, that has been true in my own experience.

    #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #DisabilityPride #ChronicIllness #MentalHealth #Neurodivergent #SensoryProcessing #Selfcare #MindfulLiving #RealTalk #SlowLiving #InnerWork #Healing #Authenticity #NDCommunity #BlindLife

  3. I am sitting in the sun, letting the warmth settle into me while a slight breeze moves across my skin, carrying the faint clean scent of mint from the plant to my right. The soft, steady hum of traffic drifts past in the background. Today I needed this more than I can easily explain.

    This morning my doctor cancelled her appointment, then changed her mind and said she could make it after all. I had already mentally released the day and reorganised around Thursday, so when the reversal came I found myself more unsettled than the situation probably warranted. Unexpected changes like that disrupt something deeper than just the schedule. My nervous system had already mapped the day a certain way, and a sudden shift, even a minor one, requires a kind of internal recalibration that is genuinely exhausting. I chose Thursday anyway, on my own terms, which helped. The unsettled feeling still took time to pass, which is why I am out here now.

    It has me thinking about something I have been sitting with lately. Reality does not care about our plans, our carefully built illusions, or the stories we tell ourselves to feel safe. There is a particular kind of shock that comes when life closes the gap between what we expected and what actually is, and it does so entirely on its own timeline, not ours.

    I am not convinced the answer is stripping away every layer of protection and standing completely exposed. I think the real work is building enough internal ground to tolerate what is real without being destroyed by it. That process is slower and more painful than avoidance, but there is clarity on the other side that no illusion ever provided. At least, that has been true in my own experience.

    #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #DisabilityPride #ChronicIllness #MentalHealth #Neurodivergent #SensoryProcessing #Selfcare #MindfulLiving #RealTalk #SlowLiving #InnerWork #Healing #Authenticity #NDCommunity #BlindLife

  4. I am sitting in the sun, letting the warmth settle into me while a slight breeze moves across my skin, carrying the faint clean scent of mint from the plant to my right. The soft, steady hum of traffic drifts past in the background. Today I needed this more than I can easily explain.

    This morning my doctor cancelled her appointment, then changed her mind and said she could make it after all. I had already mentally released the day and reorganised around Thursday, so when the reversal came I found myself more unsettled than the situation probably warranted. Unexpected changes like that disrupt something deeper than just the schedule. My nervous system had already mapped the day a certain way, and a sudden shift, even a minor one, requires a kind of internal recalibration that is genuinely exhausting. I chose Thursday anyway, on my own terms, which helped. The unsettled feeling still took time to pass, which is why I am out here now.

    It has me thinking about something I have been sitting with lately. Reality does not care about our plans, our carefully built illusions, or the stories we tell ourselves to feel safe. There is a particular kind of shock that comes when life closes the gap between what we expected and what actually is, and it does so entirely on its own timeline, not ours.

    I am not convinced the answer is stripping away every layer of protection and standing completely exposed. I think the real work is building enough internal ground to tolerate what is real without being destroyed by it. That process is slower and more painful than avoidance, but there is clarity on the other side that no illusion ever provided. At least, that has been true in my own experience.

    #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #DisabilityPride #ChronicIllness #MentalHealth #Neurodivergent #SensoryProcessing #Selfcare #MindfulLiving #RealTalk #SlowLiving #InnerWork #Healing #Authenticity #NDCommunity #BlindLife

  5. I am sitting in the sun, letting the warmth settle into me while a slight breeze moves across my skin, carrying the faint clean scent of mint from the plant to my right. The soft, steady hum of traffic drifts past in the background. Today I needed this more than I can easily explain.

    This morning my doctor cancelled her appointment, then changed her mind and said she could make it after all. I had already mentally released the day and reorganised around Thursday, so when the reversal came I found myself more unsettled than the situation probably warranted. Unexpected changes like that disrupt something deeper than just the schedule. My nervous system had already mapped the day a certain way, and a sudden shift, even a minor one, requires a kind of internal recalibration that is genuinely exhausting. I chose Thursday anyway, on my own terms, which helped. The unsettled feeling still took time to pass, which is why I am out here now.

    It has me thinking about something I have been sitting with lately. Reality does not care about our plans, our carefully built illusions, or the stories we tell ourselves to feel safe. There is a particular kind of shock that comes when life closes the gap between what we expected and what actually is, and it does so entirely on its own timeline, not ours.

    I am not convinced the answer is stripping away every layer of protection and standing completely exposed. I think the real work is building enough internal ground to tolerate what is real without being destroyed by it. That process is slower and more painful than avoidance, but there is clarity on the other side that no illusion ever provided. At least, that has been true in my own experience.

    #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #DisabilityPride #ChronicIllness #MentalHealth #Neurodivergent #SensoryProcessing #Selfcare #MindfulLiving #RealTalk #SlowLiving #InnerWork #Healing #Authenticity #NDCommunity #BlindLife

  6. I am sitting in the sun, letting the warmth settle into me while a slight breeze moves across my skin, carrying the faint clean scent of mint from the plant to my right. The soft, steady hum of traffic drifts past in the background. Today I needed this more than I can easily explain.

    This morning my doctor cancelled her appointment, then changed her mind and said she could make it after all. I had already mentally released the day and reorganised around Thursday, so when the reversal came I found myself more unsettled than the situation probably warranted. Unexpected changes like that disrupt something deeper than just the schedule. My nervous system had already mapped the day a certain way, and a sudden shift, even a minor one, requires a kind of internal recalibration that is genuinely exhausting. I chose Thursday anyway, on my own terms, which helped. The unsettled feeling still took time to pass, which is why I am out here now.

    It has me thinking about something I have been sitting with lately. Reality does not care about our plans, our carefully built illusions, or the stories we tell ourselves to feel safe. There is a particular kind of shock that comes when life closes the gap between what we expected and what actually is, and it does so entirely on its own timeline, not ours.

    I am not convinced the answer is stripping away every layer of protection and standing completely exposed. I think the real work is building enough internal ground to tolerate what is real without being destroyed by it. That process is slower and more painful than avoidance, but there is clarity on the other side that no illusion ever provided. At least, that has been true in my own experience.

    #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #DisabilityPride #ChronicIllness #MentalHealth #Neurodivergent #SensoryProcessing #Selfcare #MindfulLiving #RealTalk #SlowLiving #InnerWork #Healing #Authenticity #NDCommunity #BlindLife

  7. I'm trying to get my friend Jonathan Hiebert to come over to Mastodon with his #whimsy and flower crowns.

    If you're on Facebook, go over and tell him to come over to Mastodon and tell him Jeffowski told you to do it too.
    facebook.com/jonathan.hiebert.1

    #Authenticity #selfexpression

  8. Porting SafeText and analyzing digital content with Apache Tika

    by @beet_keeper

    Last year I wrote about pitfalls in modern journalism, especially with regards to receiving documents and information from whistleblowers without offering them adequate protection.

    The tl;dr is that you, as a whistleblower, need to protect yourself; and you, as an editor or journalist, need to protect your whistleblowers.

    Steganographic fingerprints might be one method adopted to detect someone leaking information. Steganographic characters replace common textual characters with unusual but hard to detect variants, e.g. they look the same to the human eye, or are actually invisible. Using a tool called SafeText by David Jacobson we can identify these hidden fingerprints in the content that you share.

    I firmly believe we can find clues about what is important to preserve, or learn to preserve, when we analyse the content of the digital record and not just the (file) format of the digital record.

    A file can contain many different features and these are all challenges to their future interpretation, and thus preservation.

    I wanted to use SafeText in some of my other non-Python tooling and so I decided to port the code to Golang as a composable module and binary.

    By coincidence at the time I started writing this I had also just written about revisiting tikalinkextract and so I thought I would write this small explanation about how you might combine Tika and SafeText to perform some content analysis of your own.

    Who knows, maybe we will find a conspiracy. Maybe we’ll find secret codes in our own digital records. Maybe we’ll learn something new about our records…

    Lets have a look at putting Tika and SafeText together and see where it goes.


    #ApacheTika #authenticity #Code #Coding #ContentAnalysis #Data #DigitalHumanities #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #Golang #integrity #Metadata #Paradata #SafeText #steganography
  9. Porting SafeText and analyzing digital content with Apache Tika

    by @beet_keeper

    Last year I wrote about pitfalls in modern journalism, especially with regards to receiving documents and information from whistleblowers without offering them adequate protection.

    The tl;dr is that you, as a whistleblower, need to protect yourself; and you, as an editor or journalist, need to protect your whistleblowers.

    Steganographic fingerprints might be one method adopted to detect someone leaking information. Steganographic characters replace common textual characters with unusual but hard to detect variants, e.g. they look the same to the human eye, or are actually invisible. Using a tool called SafeText by David Jacobson we can identify these hidden fingerprints in the content that you share.

    I firmly believe we can find clues about what is important to preserve, or learn to preserve, when we analyse the content of the digital record and not just the (file) format of the digital record.

    A file can contain many different features and these are all challenges to their future interpretation, and thus preservation.

    I wanted to use SafeText in some of my other non-Python tooling and so I decided to port the code to Golang as a composable module and binary.

    By coincidence at the time I started writing this I had also just written about revisiting tikalinkextract and so I thought I would write this small explanation about how you might combine Tika and SafeText to perform some content analysis of your own.

    Who knows, maybe we will find a conspiracy. Maybe we’ll find secret codes in our own digital records. Maybe we’ll learn something new about our records…

    Lets have a look at putting Tika and SafeText together and see where it goes.


    #ApacheTika #authenticity #Code #Coding #ContentAnalysis #Data #DigitalHumanities #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #Golang #integrity #Metadata #Paradata #SafeText #steganography
  10. Porting SafeText and analyzing digital content with Apache Tika

    by @beet_keeper

    Last year I wrote about pitfalls in modern journalism, especially with regards to receiving documents and information from whistleblowers without offering them adequate protection.

    The tl;dr is that you, as a whistleblower, need to protect yourself; and you, as an editor or journalist, need to protect your whistleblowers.

    Steganographic fingerprints might be one method adopted to detect someone leaking information. Steganographic characters replace common textual characters with unusual but hard to detect variants, e.g. they look the same to the human eye, or are actually invisible. Using a tool called SafeText by David Jacobson we can identify these hidden fingerprints in the content that you share.

    I firmly believe we can find clues about what is important to preserve, or learn to preserve, when we analyse the content of the digital record and not just the (file) format of the digital record.

    A file can contain many different features and these are all challenges to their future interpretation, and thus preservation.

    I wanted to use SafeText in some of my other non-Python tooling and so I decided to port the code to Golang as a composable module and binary.

    By coincidence at the time I started writing this I had also just written about revisiting tikalinkextract and so I thought I would write this small explanation about how you might combine Tika and SafeText to perform some content analysis of your own.

    Who knows, maybe we will find a conspiracy. Maybe we’ll find secret codes in our own digital records. Maybe we’ll learn something new about our records…

    Lets have a look at putting Tika and SafeText together and see where it goes.


    #ApacheTika #authenticity #Code #Coding #ContentAnalysis #Data #DigitalHumanities #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #Golang #integrity #Journalism #Metadata #Paradata #SafeText #steganography #Whistleblow #Whistleblower
  11. Porting SafeText and analyzing digital content with Apache Tika

    by @beet_keeper

    Last year I wrote about pitfalls in modern journalism, especially with regards to receiving documents and information from whistleblowers without offering them adequate protection.

    The tl;dr is that you, as a whistleblower, need to protect yourself; and you, as an editor or journalist, need to protect your whistleblowers.

    Steganographic fingerprints might be one method adopted to detect someone leaking information. Steganographic characters replace common textual characters with unusual but hard to detect variants, e.g. they look the same to the human eye, or are actually invisible. Using a tool called SafeText by David Jacobson we can identify these hidden fingerprints in the content that you share.

    I firmly believe we can find clues about what is important to preserve, or learn to preserve, when we analyse the content of the digital record and not just the (file) format of the digital record.

    A file can contain many different features and these are all challenges to their future interpretation, and thus preservation.

    I wanted to use SafeText in some of my other non-Python tooling and so I decided to port the code to Golang as a composable module and binary.

    By coincidence at the time I started writing this I had also just written about revisiting tikalinkextract and so I thought I would write this small explanation about how you might combine Tika and SafeText to perform some content analysis of your own.

    Who knows, maybe we will find a conspiracy. Maybe we’ll find secret codes in our own digital records. Maybe we’ll learn something new about our records…

    Lets have a look at putting Tika and SafeText together and see where it goes.

    Continue reading “Porting SafeText and analyzing digital content with Apache Tika”


    #ApacheTika #authenticity #Code #Coding #ContentAnalysis #Data #DigitalHumanities #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #Golang #integrity #Journalism #Metadata #Paradata #SafeText #steganography #Whistleblow #Whistleblower
  12. To every trans sister still hiding pieces of herself: I see you. You are not too much. You are not wrong. You are beautiful and worthy exactly as you are. The world needs our real, messy, radiant selves — not another polished version. 🌸
    I’m learning to love her out loud. Slowly. Tearfully. Proudly. One unfiltered photo at a time.
    Which slide feels more like “me” to you? 1 or 2? 💖
    #TransWoman #TransJoy #Authenticity #SelfLove

  13. To every trans sister still hiding pieces of herself: I see you. You are not too much. You are not wrong. You are beautiful and worthy exactly as you are. The world needs our real, messy, radiant selves — not another polished version. 🌸
    I’m learning to love her out loud. Slowly. Tearfully. Proudly. One unfiltered photo at a time.
    Which slide feels more like “me” to you? 1 or 2? 💖
    #TransWoman #TransJoy #Authenticity #SelfLove

  14. "In December 1997, a series of simulated postings appeared on several mail lists, (Rhizome, 7-11, nettime). The writing appeared under the authorship of various art/culture critics such as Mark Amerika, Peter Weibel, and Timothy Druckrey."

    This was the first #genai outrage, the moment in #history when #ai and #AIauthorship / #authenticity became hot issues!

    1997!

    I was one of the editors of the edition notes.

    30 yrs I know who the anonymous artist is. #arthistory

    switch.sjsu.edu/archive/nextsw

  15. ✮ Dreaming of Vanilla After Dark ✮

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  20. ETH‑Forscher entwickeln einen fingernagelgroßen Chip, der Kamerasignaturen kryptografisch versiegelt, um Deepfakes nachträglich erkennbar zu machen 🔒📸. Prototyp zeigt Wirkung; breite Hersteller‑Adoption bleibt Herausforderung 🤖➡️ srf.ch/wissen/kuenstliche-inte #Deepfakes #KI #ETHZ #Authenticity

  21. The rich are so inept that they don't even do pleasure right.

    I mean, yeah. They'll do EXCESS.

    But they rarely enjoy pleasure or rest for pleasure's sake.

    They can rarely immerse or lose themselves to their pleasures.

    Because it's so often predicated on them actively knowing that others LACK it. ➡️

    #Philosophy #Anticapitalism #Pleasure #Authenticity #Ego #Insecurities #writing #Classwar #Classconsciousness

  22. The Bible's 'Two Corinthians' has a special meaning for Donald Trump. This meaning:
    "Two Corinthians walk into a bar.
    Two Corinthians: One Cup.
    Two Corinthians: Fast & Furious.
    Two Corinthians 3: This Time It’s Personal."
    jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/tw
    #religion #authenticity #FakeChristian #Trump #politics

  23. The Bible's 'Two Corinthians' has a special meaning for Donald Trump. This meaning:
    "Two Corinthians walk into a bar.
    Two Corinthians: One Cup.
    Two Corinthians: Fast & Furious.
    Two Corinthians 3: This Time It’s Personal."
    jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/tw
    #religion #authenticity #FakeChristian #Trump #politics

  24. The Bible's 'Two Corinthians' has a special meaning for Donald Trump. This meaning:
    "Two Corinthians walk into a bar.
    Two Corinthians: One Cup.
    Two Corinthians: Fast & Furious.
    Two Corinthians 3: This Time It’s Personal."
    jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/tw
    #religion #authenticity #FakeChristian #Trump #politics

  25. The Bible's 'Two Corinthians' has a special meaning for Donald Trump. This meaning:
    "Two Corinthians walk into a bar.
    Two Corinthians: One Cup.
    Two Corinthians: Fast & Furious.
    Two Corinthians 3: This Time It’s Personal."
    jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/tw
    #religion #authenticity #FakeChristian #Trump #politics

  26. "Your flaws are your most important assets." - Futurist Jim Carroll

    --
    Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
    --

    We're all talking about the importance of authenticity in an era of artificiality.

    After all, in 2026, AI can generate almost anything. A photorealistic headshot of a CEO who doesn't exist. A polished podcast in your voice, on a topic you've never thought about, in under five minutes. A speaker highlight reel with fake audiences and fake standing ovations. Perfection has become cheap, instant, and infinite.

    Here's the paradox of this new era: when perfection is everywhere, perfection stops counting. When everyone can be perfect, being perfect doesn't matter anymore.

    What stands out now is the opposite. The stumble, the scar, the story too weird to be invented, the detail too specific to be faked, the mistake too painful to be generated. In a world full of synthetic perfection, your flaws are the only authentication signal that proves you are real. It might become the most important signal for your future success.

    And in that context, I must confess: I didn't know I had been operating on this principle for most of my career! For 36 years, I've quietly leaned on my flaws without naming them as assets. It was just how I operated. Now, when everyone is talking about AI, I can see how important my flaws are.

    An example? In 1995, I appeared on a VHS tape called The Family Guide to the Internet, presented by IBM. I billed myself as a "Global Internet Consultant" and walked a fictional family through the wonders of newsgroups and proper Internet etiquette. It is, hands down, the most embarrassing thing I have ever done. It still exists on YouTube. And get this - I often tell people about it and send them the link. Most people would have buried it, but don't try to hide from it. It's proof that I was actually there, in the room, at the moment the future was being figured out.

    While not as interesting, there have been many other stumbles, errors, and foibles along the way.

    So tell the embarrassing story. Quote the bad review. List the failed venture. Publish the rejected pitch. Show the wreckage.

    Let the cracks show.

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    Futurist Jim Carroll is proud of his flaws and mistakes.

    **#Flaws** **#Assets** **#Authenticity** **#Imperfection** **#Scars** 

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decodin

  27. A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

    AUTHENTIC, adj. Indubitably true — in someone’s opinion.

    Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
    “Authentic,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-04-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82290…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abrosebierce #devilsdictionary #authenticity #belief #bonafides #genuineness #judgment #legitimacy #opinion #perspective #trustworthiness #truth #verity