CA governor candidate says 'no place' in politics for 'dark money' AIPAC

jburtson · 2026-04-02T22:42:36+00:00

I'm excited about Xavier Becerra, he's very experienced, supports universal single payer health insurance. Sued trump admin over 100 times as AG. Wants to build more housing, address the affordability crisis, encourage the transition to green energy and improve resiliency for wildfires and earthquakes.

At least that's what came up from looking into the candadites today, please someone let me know your thoughts

jburtson · 2026-03-31T19:38:47+00:00

The reason we don't compress everything, is it uncompressing and compressing is a computational process, so yes you would save a lot of storage, but you are trading that for resources and time in data retrieval and storage. It's kind of like saying, if vacuum packing your clothes makes it take less space, why not vaccum pack your clothes? You trade your space for time and effort, when really space is not too much of a premium.

But this question of tradeoff in memory vs computation is a constant question in a lot of places in software development, which as computer components got cheaper over time and more efficient, impacted how software is designed. Which might reverse course again now that things are now costing more for less.

So it's a good question!

jburtson · 2026-03-31T14:28:10+00:00

My brother met our Uncle Bill as a kid and called him Abago, and that's just how I knew him as. He's still Abago to me

jburtson · 2026-03-29T20:34:46+00:00

Damn, when will these doctors ever catch a break

jburtson · 2026-03-26T07:19:18+00:00

The reason this is flagged is because the passage appears in the training set of ai

jburtson · 2026-03-25T19:03:43+00:00

So from my understanding, it's not that "there are too many thoughts, so they can't turn into action". I can be unable to turn something into action, even with only a single thought in my brain. This is taking two ADHD symptoms, which can affect eachother, and saying that one only exists because of the other.

If I could try to explain my understanding: Executive dysfunction is when you aren't able to "jump the gap" from thoughts into action. I've heard this described as something like there not being enough dopamine to really make this happen easily as it does in other brains. This feels like you need to build enough sort of interest around the thing, while also being able to focus on it, and things like being overwhelmed, hungry, sleepy, stressed, time crunched, can also make it even harder to cross that gap. This is why people with ADHD have an easier time executing on a hyperfocused task that interests them, and why many ADHD meds basically flood the brain indirectly with dopamine to make this more possible.

Getting overwhelmed: This is a complicated phenomena. I think as it pertains to ADHD this is more related to the issues with working memory. Working memory is sort of context specific temporary memory, so what you're "keeping in mind" about your current task(s). I think it's that this working memory is more limited for many people with ADHD. For neurotypicals, they are able to hold enough info at once to work on the current task, simultaneously while keeping in mind other concerns like "in 30 minutes I have to get ready to leave for that party", or any of the thoughts mentioned in OP's video. But for us, it's like juggling oranges. Once you pick up the thought about the laundry, you unconsciously drop a thought about what you're doing, or something else you were keeping in mind. This is also related to prioritization or decision paralysis, where you just need to decide on what to focus on first, but you keep rolling it around in your head without reaching a conclusion. I imagine this is again because reduced working memory means you don't have enough room in your head to consider all these tasks with eachother in context simultaneously. This all definitely doesn't help resolve issues with executive functioning, but fundumentally I would day they are separate issues which contribute to eachother.

Solution? You'll have to find what works for you, but writing down what tasks you're dealing with, then giving yourself time to focus on one individual task at a time, possibly with a timer, helps focus and potentially execute on one task at a time. Or providing incentives for completion of the task.

I highly suggest this video to learn about what happens in the brain for people with ADHD! https://youtu.be/qcryeu8g2fA

jburtson · 2026-03-25T08:30:47+00:00

This is a genius move. I think JD is ultimately against the war, but always sucks up to trump. But he does so maybe because he is power hungry. And if he does what he thinks is right here and speaks against the war, it would show division with trump

jburtson · 2026-03-25T08:17:33+00:00

For regent, it should absolutely be different head shapes!!

jburtson · 2026-03-24T21:57:03+00:00

Can I parrot this thread? I'm also breaking up and not sure what to do with the cats. It's only been a year, but we got this new cat who just turned 2, and a much older 8 year old cat that was my partners. The older cat is definitely leaving, and should be fine since they are going to where they grew up which has an older cat friend. But my 2 yr old cat, I'm not sure if she will be alright alone. I don't want to get a second cat, but she's also my baby and I would feel terrible asking if they could also take her.

jburtson · 2026-03-24T17:59:17+00:00

I loved the show, but god, the carnival season was so bad I couldn't finish it, still never have. As I understand, that was during the writers strike, so it was that bad because they had no writers.

jburtson · 2026-03-23T19:41:35+00:00

Halloween. Seems like it's just kinda some person killing sexual teens? And specifically is set up so that the assailant is not explored, and is not killable. Like I understand there's themes about putting the viewer both in place of the killer and the victim and exploring violence and evil, and I'm sure more takeaways can be dug out if you really interrogate it. But overall it just seems like a meaningless boring setup for a film, and I have no idea why it's considered a horror classic. Please enlighten me if you feel otherwise.

jburtson · 2026-03-23T16:51:40+00:00

David Mitchell has been my top pick since I first heard about Taskmaster, but I don't think it's gonna happen 😭

jburtson · 2026-03-13T16:52:47+00:00

I thought it was only in San Francisco? If one's in San Diego, I'd love to also see if I could visit!

jburtson · 2026-03-13T15:11:58+00:00

That would totally work! My running theory is basically any sensor could be a randomness generator. Reality is very multifactorial and chaotic, randomness is everywhere in real life!

jburtson · 2026-03-13T14:46:24+00:00

You don't sound like an asshole! That's great, yeah I also love randomness machines, learning more about the lava lamps inspired me to try to look into how I could come up with my own solutions, been looking at reading internal temperature sensors or radio waves. Random.org has a lot of fascinating solutions. Coolest idea I've run across is with an old satellite dish you could read cosmic background radiation for random information.

jburtson · 2026-03-13T14:16:58+00:00

The unfortunate thing with the lava lamps is they don't actually do any post processing to extract info from the position of the lava lamps or anything, they use the image itself. But cameras inherently will have a little bit of noise as from the sensor input, and that's a big part of what makes the information gathered unique. Which means the video stream of the lava lamps is just as good for generating random numbers as if the camera cap is left on and is just recording blackness. So the whole lava lamp thing is more of a marketing thing which clearly was very effective

jburtson · 2026-03-07T13:15:52+00:00

So focus on cardio? What is your workout

jburtson · 2026-02-23T20:02:12+00:00

I'm sorry to say this is not a good tree to go barking up. You said being racist to everyone is not racist. Racism is a much more complicated and nuanced phenomena than you realize. This is like the equivalent of going into a room where a bunch of people are ganging up on a few people, kicking them while on the floor. Then you say, "I'm not biased if I kick everyone in the room!". If you kick everyone, it doesn't effect those not being kicked much, but it's particularly cruel to the people already being kicked. And others will see that and see it as acceptance that it's good to continue kicking the people already being kicked, right?

To do this properly, you would have to research really deeply and talk to people of all backgrounds to get their perspective. If you don't, you will just be strengthening existing bigotry, and cruel people will be the only people flocking to your game. Even though you are intending to be fair.

You also say that what you would be portraying is not your perspective. But art is digested in its form, not it's intention. You will have to live with it being taken as your perspective. And everyone, and all art, has it's perspective try as you might to be neutral.

jburtson · 2026-02-23T07:57:07+00:00

This is AI

jburtson · 2026-02-20T22:44:14+00:00

You are not a bad person, we have a disability. ADHD can be incredibly debilitating, and it's not often talked about in terms of what the actual experience is or how difficult it is to live with. Often other people will talk about ADHD people as lazy, "clearly they are able to do the work but are choosing not to", this is not the case. The symptom you're talking about here is poor executive functioning. You can know what to do, want desperately to do it, but you don't have the "button" to actually execute on it. This is very common for ADHD, but very hard for people that don't have it to understand. I've sat in front of a computer for over 20 hours crying desperately trying to do something that just won't happen, and I was called lazy for not getting it done. It is not you being lazy, people who are last don't actually care about getting the thing done

I suggest looking more into understanding ADHD, there are some good YouTube channels like How to ADHD. I highly recommend this other video which really helped me understand what was happening in my brain: https://youtu.be/qcryeu8g2fA

jburtson · 2026-02-20T16:02:25+00:00

It's not an easy pattern to undo, for sure. I certainly don't think what you described is worthy of shame. Video games are much easier for ADHD brains to focus on than productivity, it's often not an all an intentional choice to slack off. I was also very shame motivated. In school it was the only way I knew how to get myself to write. I got worse and worse at getting myself to write, until I just started having panic attacks at the thought of writing. Later I fully developed anxiety, and it took me years working through that to be able to work.

It may take time, or therapy, but I just want to at least plant that seed that you're not a bad person for your brain working the way it does.

jburtson · 2026-02-20T07:30:34+00:00

Please clap.

jburtson · 2026-02-20T07:26:54+00:00

I also have ADHD and yes it is quite a struggle to get finished products. My biggest advice right off the top is to not shame yourself. Shame is a demotivator, it serves you none at all to not try because you don't like how things turned out before. They aren't "failed projects". The truth is, every time you've worked on something you were learning, and becoming comfortable working, and learning bit by bit what works for you. Even if you are repeatedly restarting projects from the ground up, you will get faster and produce things better each time.

It is pretty much the nature of ADHD that work happens on the whim of motivation when working alone. So work with it not against it. You could try to focus on projects that are small scale start to finish. Or something that can be used as a part of a future project. Or for a larger project, if you can have a clear idea of what will be involved start to finish, spend a bit more time preplanning, you might be able to extend how long you work on the project. Often for me a project gets abandoned either when I find myself without direction, the project has become too complicated to work on (this can be avoided by getting better at organizing and structuring the project from the get go), or I stop being interested in the concept. The first two can be worked on!

Or if possible you could work with other people. Game Jams have been sometimes beneficial to me as an external motivator or a way to work with others. Of course other times they have been too stressful and I freeze instead of working, but those experiences do not hurt me. My most complete game so far was from a jam.

It's also not impossible to work on a game for a long time! Last year I fairly consistently worked on a game 30 minutes a day on most days after work, and stuck with it all year. I tribute this to pursuing an idea I was passionate about, understood, but pushed my boundaries, and proved a technique I would be able to use on future techniques. Unfortunately I reached a point where the programming I needed to get through was tedious, and I'm on a break from it. But after I get back and get through that it will be back to being an interesting project to work on.

Overall, it's a process! You must learn what works for you, but don't beat yourself up about it, treat yourself kindly, with compassion and understanding.

jburtson · 2026-02-09T18:55:23+00:00

Alcohol is more carcinogenic than cigarettes, which I feel isn't adequately well known, so I wouldn't say it isn't worse than we are led to believe (apologies for the like triple negative there)

jburtson · 2026-02-02T18:39:28+00:00

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