Posts by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
(DIR) Post #ATeC9NQMCEintneOpM by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-15T17:58:17Z
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My lunch-hour thought: I think one of the most mind-expanding concepts I recently learned, that helps me better understand psychological personality understanding, is that we all have personality *patterns*, but we don't all have personality *disorders*, though sometimes our personality style may share a name w/ a disorder. For instance, we may have a mildly "obsessive" personality pattern, (list-making, order-seeking) but it's just our orientation. Ditto narcissistic, schizoid .. #Psychology
(DIR) Post #ATesEbkgY74drJKt60 by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-16T01:49:51Z
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I'm glad no one banned "The Fountainhead" when I was a kid, for otherwise how would I have read it and found out how self-serious a well-known novel could be?
(DIR) Post #ATfd6jn5TOnYJsCz5s by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-16T10:35:02Z
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I found this article by a Tennessee obstetrician persuasive. She argues that to fight criminalizing anti-abortion bills pro-choice advocates should really consider supporting specific state compromises responding to new state bans that allow doctors to safely treat more women. So far, they don’t want to compromise. But, “For the foreseeable future, this is a state [not federal] issue,” she writes. Time to get local. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/opinion/medical-exceptions-abortion-tennessee.html?unlocked_article_code=weqNQxq3XB97nEUtMzfK_0R1RlK6Chdp8Z-NLnAjKpDNvTzVip3kGgH3nUs2wZQ20-vVViBcSD19cj_NhwmIYoafp1Ma6zJHHw-VQ2BX5uDdgPs4AhySebBUfIC9g2roCFCWT8PTCOwNloSe6GIhQXLuqQ1fl6cJJ-WMzn5nxrwRHF1eWT2vZjiWf7QNJopMuPudiiKbRQX0natqSNlCVgR9Cq7wGoVU2SeAKTqdDdWpcbIon4P3GKUqHW7UdzmZ46t5inOPWEyVDJ6fuf0BRjHsSm5l4XAQQNssiCXRUfEE03Q52Eb0AP-WsfOx2blI4N41YA5NhzK27rMZJWejT3uAM9G_JJljjyvIrLbHyQ&smid=url-share
(DIR) Post #ATfk2KKesv6nskks9A by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-16T11:52:41Z
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@cstross do you know whether sites have to say somewhere publicly whether they are using a chatbot/whether users are interacting with a computer or are reading something put together by a nonhuman?
(DIR) Post #ATfkUqdwLZ2yCXNEf2 by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-16T11:57:51Z
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@cstross thank you. I hope the laws start catching up. I would like a “warning label.” And maybe I will ask, if ever I have to “chat” with a corporation: “are you a real person?”
(DIR) Post #ATfxPHurKh4kS9xzUG by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-16T14:22:31Z
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One thing I don't quite understand about the suit is this: If I were to publish a book, and it were within copyright, and then someone donated a copy of my book to the Internet Archive (or the archive purchased it), could that copy then be checked out by many people at once? Or one at a time? Or it depends?/ Does this cut authors out of royalties in a new way, is part of my question ... #Books
(DIR) Post #ATfytEMbCo6a4omd5E by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-16T14:39:05Z
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@jonhendry @cstross yeah, i have certainly interacted with those. It’s the next phase that I hope to be a person
(DIR) Post #ATg2mtZlyoHNgVBDHM by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-16T15:22:45Z
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@Seller11 I understand a library to be a place where 1 person checks out 1 copy of a book (or copies of books). Then that particular copy is "spoken for" till it is returned. I am trying to understand whether the Internet Archive would be a library in that sense. One copy of one book at one time to one person.
(DIR) Post #ATg2ra4dupHkeDqxeq by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-16T15:23:39Z
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@Seller11 To your questions, I do support libraries, and the physical used-book market is one I utilize frequently. Especially once I learned that we consumers don't "own" our ebooks, just like libraries don't exactly. I don't quite understand how royalties flow to authors & copyright holders from libraries vis-a-vis ebooks. I also don't understand how ebook royalties work in general.
(DIR) Post #ATg3hhOtv6IGQhBGJE by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-16T15:33:03Z
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@philnel Gene Stratton Porter!
(DIR) Post #ATguAbdlbuuaZxEtgO by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-17T01:20:58Z
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@jcolag thank you!
(DIR) Post #AThh2LQCvHgPiNaSpc by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-17T10:28:30Z
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@erikalyn complicate issue, thank you for the insights and info
(DIR) Post #AThnsmn70auvNngpTE by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-17T11:45:13Z
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Expand housing: I am nervous about whether Kathy Hochul's housing compact -- which I'm into, because I hope it can make it easier for people to stay here in New York -- will pass, but at least here in Westchester, it's getting a lot of attention and support from officials and maybe even businesses: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2023/03/17/hochul-in-rye-brook-talks-housing-business-westchester/70012154007/#WestchesterCounty #NewYork #Housing
(DIR) Post #AThq0imvyVBhC2WBrU by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-17T12:09:03Z
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Hyperlocal moment: instant support for the new District 9 candidate for county legislature, Emiljana Ulaj, who is the the spouse of my town's mayor, and a professional union organizer. If you're in the area ... https://twitter.com/emiljanaulaj#WestchesterCounty
(DIR) Post #AThqi55evrKQoVx6Ei by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-17T12:16:54Z
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@lbflyawayhome "I may be some time .."
(DIR) Post #ATi0fBBun9ksPN8Ko4 by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-17T14:08:26Z
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Today, I'm taking the time to move to zirk.us! ---> there's something kind of nice about saying bye to my evanescent words ---> and if the move doesn't retain my followers, I hope you will follow me over there if you like ...
(DIR) Post #ATi0zIqo1WPRxIr6Aa by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-17T14:12:03Z
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@UnicycleSam ha! it was I/me
(DIR) Post #ATivp7ZAooW1RttSOe by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-18T00:48:53Z
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@Dwinle @elizamccarthy@zirk.us I really think a big magazine or newspaper story about the DSM and how it's affected psychotherapy is in order
(DIR) Post #ATj0S5jdxaaMsdd2rg by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-18T01:40:45Z
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@JaminBogi ha!
(DIR) Post #ATj1zMTaq0aCJQY8Rc by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
2023-03-18T01:57:59Z
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@JaminBogi oh thank you! I would love one