A friend showed me this site; OMG, it’s great; the products are hilarious and awesome. www.pitviper.com

Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies | by Julia Serano | May, 2023 | Medium:

I’ve read countless trans-skeptical and “just asking questions” articles about the gender affirmative model, and they always have one glaring omission. Specifically, they focus solely on gender-affirming practices — social transition, puberty delay, hormone therapy, and surgeries — and portray them as “novel” and “active” interventions that require further scrutiny. This framing makes it seem as though the alternative approach (passively “doing nothing”) is an inherently neutral and less risky option. But “doing nothing” is not doing nothing! It involves actively disaffirming trans kids’ genders — and we have lots of research on the impacts of that approach.

We should all read more LGBTQ-supportive articles this month. 🏳️‍🌈

Break the chains ⛓️

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Seems impossible to Favorite things on the Tenor app. Been like that for at least a month. Works for anyone else?

Plaid > Yodlee

Couldn’t get Passkeys to work with the 1password beta extension. Guess I will have to wait until next month to make another attempt. I am hopeful that support will be rolling out soon.

Some News - Verge Article

Another demo site here. - Passage Authentication Demo (1password.com)

A list is here. - https://passkeys.directory

We need more learning via memes. 📘

Thoughts and prayers go out to all those people who can’t do the job we hired them for.

Currently reading: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green 📚 “Our reality isn’t about what’s real, it’s about what we pay attention to”

Found a good use case for Bing chat or Google Bard; When you hit your GPT4 cap of 25 msg per 3 hours. L(° O °L)

Happy Fryday

The new microphone uses XLR. I plugged it into a Focusrite solo. I have to turn the gain all the way up for the audio to be picked up. I'm wondering if it is the XLR cable. Are there different types of XLR cables that would cause more gain to be needed?

Will Google actually beat Microsoft in putting an AI LLM directly into their respective word-processing applications?  Bard -> GDocs. ChatGPT -> Word. 

Last year I finished reading: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini 📚. Great book!

my first tattoo?

- yaml: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Friday —> Engage 🚀

Any tips for best/easy desktop software for creating Gifs that doesn’t require a subscription?🧈