ASML's boss issues a dire 
"warning" to #Europe, buried under layers of irrelevant #distractions like a bad #infomercial 
. Spoiler: the real threat is your dwindling #attention #span. 
https://www.economist.com/business/2025/03/25/asmls-boss-has-a-warning-for-europe #ASML #warning #HackerNews #ngated
Date: 20250322
Time 2044
Central George Street location on a Saturday night. There is 7x12.foot stage by the door that faces the c shaped bar. It has a great view of the street with a deck that should be open soon. Staff was professional and courteous. Cover was waived as soon as I asked if the kitchen was open. There is a George Street Festival countdown clock on the wall with 130 days and 3 hours remaining. A youth at the door just got carded but has “forgotten” his wallet, back onto the street he goes. Bar on this level is at 80% capacity with no free tables.
Oasis -Champagne supernova is being performed on stage.
Got a soda for this one. I was warned the coffee was old. She got my vibe, I did not need a new pot put on and she warned me that the pot had been there for at least a couple of hours. Perfect service.
The burger, it looks like a 6oz patty. Lots of bacon, lettuce and my bun cracked. You can definitely taste the goat cheese. Bun may have been a bit small for all this burger. Batter on cheese adds a nice crunch. When I saw the photo I thought it was a hashbrown.
The bun is house made, it’s dense and kinda loamy. Kinda reminds me of nans bread.
I am having the house made cheesecake for dessert. No idea where it's going (It went in me it was good). No regrets.
TLDR: Cheesy Crunchy Burger with great staff and live music. 7.6/10
Extra points cause I’m nan’s boy.
####ATTENTION STAFF###
Dearest Green Sleeves on the eastern end of the bar farthest away from the stage. Someone installed something and left 3 jagged looking screws hanging out. Might want to pop a couple corks on that or something.
D'abord, bravo à l'équipe de Qlub.social.
Comme ce réseau social, il est temps d'émerger de cette stupeur téléguidée et de reprendre le contrôle. Décidons aujourd'hui ce qu'on veut pour demain. Ça commence par soi. Ce qu'on pense, ce qu'on dit, ce qu'on fait.
Je vous invite à lire le texte d'opinion publiée le 5 mars dernier, dans le quotidien Le Devoir, signée par Camilla Siron.
This poem breaks my heart all over again every time I read it. C/w violence mentioned.
From "Testimony" by Rebecca Baggett:
"I want to say, like Neruda,
that I am waiting for
"a great and common tenderness,"
that I still believe
we are capable of attention,
that anyone who notices the world
must want to save it."
https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/03/rebecca-baggett-testimony.html
#the100dayproject Theme: make beautiful things shine even more. Along the path where I often walk there is a pole. Over the years, the core has rotted away. But the heartwood where branches once sat is beautiful to see. It seems I am the only one who knows that! #attention #beauty natural #art
From: blenderdumbass . org
Doing those Dumbass Blender tutorials was supposed be a way for me to get noticed. But no matter how utterly insane my ideas were, I just fell deeper and deeper into despair.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_impossible_task_of_famousing_myself
Thoughts Become Things - The Power of Thought - New Blog Entry (Light and Sound on The Path): https://SantMatRadhasoami.blogspot.com/2025/03/thoughts-become-things-power-of-thought.html
ADHD isn’t a lack of focus—it’s an overwhelming flood of attention that makes prioritization difficult. Your brain takes in everything at once, leading to distraction, cognitive overload, and difficulty shifting between tasks. Healing and managing ADHD isn’t about trying harder—it’s about using tools that work with your brain, like interest-based motivation, body doubling, and the Safe and Sound Protocol. #ADHD #focus #attention #neurodivergentbrain #dopamineregulation
https://envisiontherapydfw.com/adhd-isnt-a-lack-of-focus-its-an-overflow-of-it/
Пишем свой Transformer
Чтобы поупражняться я решила более детально разобраться и попробовать самостоятельно написать Transformer на PyTorch. Результатом захотелось поделиться здесь. Надеюсь, так же как и мне, это поможет доразобраться в данной архитектуре и ответить на какие-то вопросы.
If you are trying to decrease your interactions with your phone and social media listen to Mel Robbins’ podcast. I love how she says first it’s not your fault, it is engineered to keep you on, they are making money out of your #attention. You pay it with your time even if you are not buying anything. What you can try: charge your phone in the kitchen at night; I turned on grayscale on my phone to remind me it’s a tool, colors are way more attractive.
#attentioneconomy
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mel-robbins-podcast/id1646101002?i=1000696858918
Productivity isn't just about managing your time; it also involves managing other finite resources, such as your energy and attention. #Productivity #TimeManagement #Attention
Apparently, "exceptional" in #math means endless, #labyrinthine #lists of solved #ciphers no mortal has time to care about. 
The article's true achievement is proving that "4Space" is where your #attention #span goes to die. 
https://cp4space.hatsya.com/2020/10/28/the-exceptional-jordan-algebra/ #exceptional #4Space #HackerNews #ngated
What's the opposite of lack of concentration? Can we call it strong focus? I direct my whole attention to the task I have in front of me. And I'm not saying that this is always a good thing.
Attention without feeling... is only a report.
-- Mary Oliver
#Wisdom #Quotes #MaryOliver #Attention #Emotion
#Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
Guide attendees out of the routine of attending, and gift them back into attention. This moves them from nowhere to now here.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/09/from-no-where-to-now-here
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more. This is due partly to having discovered what were the things that I most desired, and having gradually acquired many of these things. Partly it is due to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire — such as the acquisition of indubitable knowledge about something or other — as essentially unattainable. But very largely it is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself. Like others who had a Puritan education, I had the habit of meditating on my sins, follies, and shortcomings. I seemed to myself — no doubt justly — a miserable specimen. Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to centre my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/755…
Si vous utilisez #Thunderbird, que vous êtes encore sur la version 128.x ESR, et que vous utilisez des agendas #Google dessus, NE METTEZ PAS À JOUR VERS LA VERSION 136 : elle est incompatible avec l’extension qui permet d’utiliser ces agendas sur TB !
Si vous avez mis à jour et que vous vous êtes fait avoir, l’auteur a mis en ligne un ZIP sur son dépôt GitHub à télécharger et installer manuellement, en attendant une version compatible officielle :
https://github.com/kewisch/gdata-provider/issues/874
Il faudra peut-être se réauthentifier sur certains agendas.
From: blenderdumbass . org
Doing those Dumbass Blender tutorials was supposed be a way for me to get noticed. But no matter how utterly insane my ideas were, I just fell deeper and deeper into despair.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_impossible_task_of_famousing_myself
#Attention : Des #escrocs utilisent le nom de l’Autorité des services et marchés financiers (#FSMA)
L’Autorité des services et marchés financiers (FSMA) met le public en garde contre les agissements d’escrocs qui usurpent le nom et le logo de la FSMA et d’autres régulateurs financiers afin de tromper les consommateurs. Il s'agit d'une technique de fraude connue, pour laquelle l'ESMA a également publié un avertissement. Des escrocs prétendent que la FSMA peut aider…
Logging in to say how happy and grateful I am to be able to make annotations on #EPUB on my e-reader running #KOReader, and to then be able to import and read those same EPUBs and annotations on my laptop in @zotero
This allows me to read long-form (I really struggle to do so on my laptop) and still take digital notes (not having to manually copy afterwards.)
