#behavior — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #behavior, aggregated by home.social.
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Looking forward to the #NN2026 #symposium, starting today at #UniBonn.
🌍 https://www.nn2026.uni-bonn.de/de
I will present a poster on #IntelliCage experiments in #socially housed mice. The system enables continuous home-cage behavior monitoring, providing data to analyze #learning, stress-related #behavior, and long-term behavioral dynamics.
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A dead charger, a mystery key, a hotel pen from 2019. You've thought about throwing them out. Something always stops you.
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Self-help says jealousy is toxic. But it's the most precise signal your psyche has about what you actually want.
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Self-Inflicted and Poorly Supervised
I know I don’t need caffeine. That’s the first honest thing I write today, and I almost want to stop there because it already sounds like the kind of sentence people say right before they absolutely do the thing anyway. It’s not even about needing it. Not really. It’s more like… curiosity. Scientific curiosity, if I’m being generous with myself. Like I’m running a very small, very irresponsible experiment on my own nervous system just to see what happens when I press the […]https://xinkblotz.com/2026/05/24/self-inflicted-and-poorly-supervised/
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Self-Inflicted and Poorly Supervised
I know I don’t need caffeine. That’s the first honest thing I write today, and I almost want to stop there because it already sounds like the kind of sentence people say right before they absolutely do the thing anyway. It’s not even about needing it. Not really. It’s more like… curiosity. Scientific curiosity, if I’m being generous with myself. Like I’m running a very small, very irresponsible experiment on my own nervous system just to see what happens when I press the […]https://xinkblotz.com/2026/05/24/self-inflicted-and-poorly-supervised/
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Self-Inflicted and Poorly Supervised
I know I don’t need caffeine. That’s the first honest thing I write today, and I almost want to stop there because it already sounds like the kind of sentence people say right before they absolutely do the thing anyway. It’s not even about needing it. Not really. It’s more like… curiosity. Scientific curiosity, if I’m being generous with myself. Like I’m running a very small, very irresponsible experiment on my own nervous system just to see what happens when I press the […]https://xinkblotz.com/2026/05/24/self-inflicted-and-poorly-supervised/
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Self-Inflicted and Poorly Supervised
I know I don’t need caffeine. That’s the first honest thing I write today, and I almost want to stop there because it already sounds like the kind of sentence people say right before they absolutely do the thing anyway. It’s not even about needing it. Not really. It’s more like… curiosity. Scientific curiosity, if I’m being generous with myself. Like I’m running a very small, very irresponsible experiment on my own nervous system just to see what happens when I press the […]https://xinkblotz.com/2026/05/24/self-inflicted-and-poorly-supervised/
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Self-Inflicted and Poorly Supervised
I know I don’t need caffeine. That’s the first honest thing I write today, and I almost want to stop there because it already sounds like the kind of sentence people say right before they absolutely do the thing anyway. It’s not even about needing it. Not really. It’s more like… curiosity. Scientific curiosity, if I’m being generous with myself. Like I’m running a very small, very irresponsible experiment on my own nervous system just to see what happens when I press the […]https://xinkblotz.com/2026/05/24/self-inflicted-and-poorly-supervised/
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The Fine Art of Holding a Grudge
When we were kids, grudges lasted about six minutes.Someone stole your crayon, you cried, your mom intervened, and ten minutes later you were both eating the same bag of chips like nothing happened. Justice was swift.Closure was immediate.Snacks were shared. Then we grew up. And somewhere between paying bills and learning how to properly sigh, we mastered a new adult skill: the lifelong grudge. Holding a grudge as an adult is like carrying a backpack full of rocks—except the rocks are […]https://xinkblotz.com/2026/05/24/the-fine-art-of-holding-a-grudge/
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The Fine Art of Holding a Grudge
When we were kids, grudges lasted about six minutes.Someone stole your crayon, you cried, your mom intervened, and ten minutes later you were both eating the same bag of chips like nothing happened. Justice was swift.Closure was immediate.Snacks were shared. Then we grew up. And somewhere between paying bills and learning how to properly sigh, we mastered a new adult skill: the lifelong grudge. Holding a grudge as an adult is like carrying a backpack full of rocks—except the rocks are […]https://xinkblotz.com/2026/05/24/the-fine-art-of-holding-a-grudge/
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The Fine Art of Holding a Grudge
When we were kids, grudges lasted about six minutes.Someone stole your crayon, you cried, your mom intervened, and ten minutes later you were both eating the same bag of chips like nothing happened. Justice was swift.Closure was immediate.Snacks were shared. Then we grew up. And somewhere between paying bills and learning how to properly sigh, we mastered a new adult skill: the lifelong grudge. Holding a grudge as an adult is like carrying a backpack full of rocks—except the rocks are […]https://xinkblotz.com/2026/05/24/the-fine-art-of-holding-a-grudge/
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The Fine Art of Holding a Grudge
When we were kids, grudges lasted about six minutes.Someone stole your crayon, you cried, your mom intervened, and ten minutes later you were both eating the same bag of chips like nothing happened. Justice was swift.Closure was immediate.Snacks were shared. Then we grew up. And somewhere between paying bills and learning how to properly sigh, we mastered a new adult skill: the lifelong grudge. Holding a grudge as an adult is like carrying a backpack full of rocks—except the rocks are […]https://xinkblotz.com/2026/05/24/the-fine-art-of-holding-a-grudge/
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The Fine Art of Holding a Grudge
When we were kids, grudges lasted about six minutes.Someone stole your crayon, you cried, your mom intervened, and ten minutes later you were both eating the same bag of chips like nothing happened. Justice was swift.Closure was immediate.Snacks were shared. Then we grew up. And somewhere between paying bills and learning how to properly sigh, we mastered a new adult skill: the lifelong grudge. Holding a grudge as an adult is like carrying a backpack full of rocks—except the rocks are […]https://xinkblotz.com/2026/05/24/the-fine-art-of-holding-a-grudge/
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You like your neighbour. You had a great chat Saturday. But the elevator doors close and suddenly you can't speak. Nobody fully understands why.
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You like your neighbour. You had a great chat Saturday. But the elevator doors close and suddenly you can't speak. Nobody fully understands why.
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You like your neighbour. You had a great chat Saturday. But the elevator doors close and suddenly you can't speak. Nobody fully understands why.
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You like your neighbour. You had a great chat Saturday. But the elevator doors close and suddenly you can't speak. Nobody fully understands why.
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You like your neighbour. You had a great chat Saturday. But the elevator doors close and suddenly you can't speak. Nobody fully understands why.
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Your best friend says something kind and you barely notice. A stranger on the street says four words and you carry them all day.
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An overview of the adverse effects of increasing heat on animal cognition and behavior:
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How to Change "The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be" Sale: $32 to $2.99 by Katy Milkman Rating: 4.4/5 (1,896 Reviews) #booksky #books #selfimprovement #motivation #businessbooks #behavior #habits #productivity #psychology #change
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How to Change "The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be" Sale: $32 to $2.99 by Katy Milkman Rating: 4.4/5 (1,896 Reviews) #booksky #books #selfimprovement #motivation #businessbooks #behavior #habits #productivity #psychology #change
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How to Change "The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be" Sale: $32 to $2.99 by Katy Milkman Rating: 4.4/5 (1,896 Reviews) #booksky #books #selfimprovement #motivation #businessbooks #behavior #habits #productivity #psychology #change
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How to Change "The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be" Sale: $32 to $2.99 by Katy Milkman Rating: 4.4/5 (1,896 Reviews) #booksky #books #selfimprovement #motivation #businessbooks #behavior #habits #productivity #psychology #change
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@stepheneb @RuthMalan @ewen Maybe it's a good moment to bring out some classic quotes again:
"We make our tools and then they shape us."
(not giving attribution because I've seen far too many conflicting sources for it)"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
— Ludwig WittgensteinAlso this one:
"You don't need tools. You need techniques."
(here I actually don't know the source)All of them, but especially the latter two, have been very influential on my tool-building journey and design philosophy in general. Tools are concrete instantiations of concepts, techniques, but techniques themselves are much more important, more transferable and more valuable to learn, to adopt and to internalize.
Tools are replaceable, or at least they should be.
In almost every other field of human endeavor, tools have mostly been replaceable and skills learned (aka techniques) are directly transferable. Only when it comes to software have we changed this behavior to fully bind large parts of our problem solving skills & approaches, and in many cases, our entire livelihoods, to a handful of increasingly monopolistic tool vendors, whose only interest is to extract value, bind us to their tooling, their platforms and their network effects.
I've seen this in all parts of the creative and tech industries: Help and condition people to become a power users/operators (or "thought leaders") in these insular systems, support and entice them with a few extra morsels thrown here and there to select people (e.g. sponsorship deals), dangle career opportunities, invitations to conferences/events where they sing praise to the platform lords and opportunities. In the end, this "community engagement" is all a form of marketing for these providers, platform-based nepotism, connections, revolving doors, more than about the actual work produced or transferable skills obtained.
For the longest time, I found this behavior especially predominant and so very alienating in the "creative industries", which just seemingly can't get enough of this model! Rather than investing time & effort into helping shape and co-create ownable tools and transferrable techniques themselves, to experiment and create with techniques "outside the box", for the longest time the de-facto behavior has always been to become a "company man"-type person/expert.
Narrow field experts, consultants and "platform wars" everywhere, for as long as I can remember: AtariXL vs. C64, ST vs Amiga, Flash vs. Director, Cubase vs Protools vs Ableton, Adobe vs Affinity, Houdini vs. Alias vs. Blender, Light Room vs. Dark Table, Processing vs. OpenFrameworks vs. Cinder, React vs Angular vs. Vue, C vs Rust vs Zig etc.
In some sense it doesn't even matter if these are closed or open source platforms/providers. Entire disciplines/sectors are tied up in monolithic & monopolistic tools and the streamlined visions/philosophies of their purveyors.
Every creative idea and solution is mostly approached & judged through the lenses of these tools and their capabilities. For many even only unconsciously so. Auto-pilot mode engaged.
Almost every one of these discipline-defining tools has turned into super complex bloatware, deemed necessary to establish and maintain monopoly status, cover all bases. And even though these tools have become so huge and do afford a vast spectrum of creative expressions, I've been finding it extremely disturbing and alienating that, as a social group, especially "creative" professionals are exhibiting such strong consumerist behaviors and just aren't more interested in questioning and shaping these workflows, these tools and possibilities/options themselves, seemingly unaware (or uncaring) about that second part of the first quote above:
"...and then they shape us"
#ToolMaking #Creativity #Tech #Monopolies #Platform #Behavior #Quote
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You're in the shower delivering the perfect comeback to a conversation from three weeks ago. The other person has already forgotten it happened.
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Everything in C is undefined behavior
https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html
#HackerNews #C #programming #undefined #behavior #software #development #coding #standards #programming #languages
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Everything in C is undefined behavior
https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html
#HackerNews #C #programming #undefined #behavior #software #development #coding #standards #programming #languages
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Everything in C is undefined behavior
https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html
#HackerNews #C #programming #undefined #behavior #software #development #coding #standards #programming #languages
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Everything in C is undefined behavior
https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html
#HackerNews #C #programming #undefined #behavior #software #development #coding #standards #programming #languages
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Everything in C is undefined behavior
https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html
#HackerNews #C #programming #undefined #behavior #software #development #coding #standards #programming #languages
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Buprenorphin and Ketamine Combo Provide Anti-Suicidal Effect
https://neurosciencenews.com/buprenorphin-ketamine-antisuicidal-peychopharmacology-30736/
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Adult Brain Recycles Prenatal Genetic Playbook for Memory
https://neurosciencenews.com/hud-protein-embryonic-memory-genetics-30727/
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Salt-Nicotine E-Cigarettes Triple Smoking Cessation Odds
https://neurosciencenews.com/nicotine-ecigarettes-smoking-cessation-30728/
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Everything is perfect. It's the last evening of a vacation that went well. And you feel, unmistakably, sad.
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Everything is perfect. It's the last evening of a vacation that went well. And you feel, unmistakably, sad.
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Everything is perfect. It's the last evening of a vacation that went well. And you feel, unmistakably, sad.
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Everything is perfect. It's the last evening of a vacation that went well. And you feel, unmistakably, sad.
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Everything is perfect. It's the last evening of a vacation that went well. And you feel, unmistakably, sad.
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Why are most humans right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk
#HackerNews #right-handedness #human #behavior #evolution #walking #habits
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Why are most humans right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk
#HackerNews #right-handedness #human #behavior #evolution #walking #habits
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Why are most humans right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk
#HackerNews #right-handedness #human #behavior #evolution #walking #habits
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Why are most humans right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk
#HackerNews #right-handedness #human #behavior #evolution #walking #habits
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Why are most humans right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk
#HackerNews #right-handedness #human #behavior #evolution #walking #habits
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I sometimes think even animals react against cheating in relationships too. 🐐🤔
For example, goats and many other animals can become aggressive or defensive when another male approaches their mate, almost like nature has its own version of jealousy and loyalty 🌍
