For the past year and a half (or so?), I've been weaning myself off of (and eventually just deleting outright) social media, deleting accounts for sites and services I don't use, and stuff like that.
Currently, I'm down to Instagram (which is private and now pretty-well-curated as far as materials and followers go) and Twitter (which I use mostly for work - I use my work address, and my coworkers/pupils see/use it - though random silliness does make its way there, too). I guess Reddit, too.
I have a smartphone that no longer has a data plan right now (a Pixel) that I use, again, mostly for work (it makes tweeting pictures quicker/easier I guess, and it's handy to have e-mail on-the-go) and officially switched to a flip-phone back in December for everything else. It's been pretty liberating.
I recently switched my primary e-mail to a new service that gives me a lot more security, and look forward to using it with people I care to stay connected with.
What're my goals? I guess all this hippie-sounding crap sums it up:
- Have my internet presence minimized/erased/made as-completely-private as possible so that I don't have crap (nothing shady, thankfully, but maybe embarrassing) show up from a decade or so ago when people Google me/search for me in most capacities (social media, etc)
- Not have my phone out all the time and be more mindful of whatever's going on in life, spend more time doing things instead of looking at what everyone else chooses to show off having done
- Call people more instead of texting/DMing/whatever, make stronger human connections
- Control as much data regarding myself being "out there" as I can, and (when appropriate/necessary) have it archived on my own computers, instead
- Not get spam
- Go "off the grid" (practically) if I want to
Any tips (or heck, *guides?*) on what to do? Services/people who will, um, clean up some harder-to-reach things for me? I'm not against paying to have something done, if the price is reasonable and the service reliable.
*written on before...*written on again... some jerk keeps rubbing it off 😁
In an opinion column yesterday, Thomas Friedman envisioned a Democratic cabinet that included many of the 2020 candidates, from Sanders to Biden, that he believed would unite the party and ensure a Democratic landslide.
Although the piece itself reads somewhat like liberal Avengers fan fiction, the idea itself that progressives need moderate votes to win (and vice versa) has been repeated by many in the media. So is this kind of unity slate meant to bring together both wings of the party possible, and would it be likely to succeed?
Hellooo reddits! I'm Steve Ramirez Ph. D, Director of The Ramirez Group (http://theramirezgroup.org/research), Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Boston University, and faculty member at the BU Center for Memory & Brain and Center for Systems Neuroscience. I study how memory works and then how to hijack it to treat disorders of the brain. My lab's work focuses on how to suppress bad memories, how to activate good ones, and how to create "maps" of what memories look like in the brain. I also LOVE inception and cat gifs. At the same time, my lab also tries to locate memory traces in the mouse brain and we are currently exploring how to reactivate these traces and implant false ones as well. My hope is that my lab's work can inform how patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, or depression are treated.
PROOF THAT I EXIST! https://twitter.com/okaysteve/status/1101121214876184576.
the lab's instagram bc instaYES: https://www.instagram.com/2fos2furious
I'm crazy grateful to have received a NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, a McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders award, and a NARSAD Young Investigator Award. I'm a National Geographic Breakthrough Explorer and a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient (I'd like to thank my mom... my dad...), and my work has been published in Nature, Science, Neuron, and Frontiers in Neural Circuits, among other publications. You can also see my TED Talk here discussing my memory research and implications, which was probably the most stressful and exciting day of my life: https://www.ted.com/talks/steve_ramirez_and_xu_liu_a_mouse_a_laser_beam_a_manipulated_memory
It's good to be back reddit -- last time as a poor grad student, and now as a poor professor! so ask me anything about neuroscience in general or memory in particular! LETS GO!
EDIT: alright reddits, my keyboard currently is up in smoke and my fingers fell off a few minutes ago, so I have to logoff for an hour and go stuff my face with thai noodles (poor professor status: confirmed) for a bit. please leave any and all questions and ill get back to as many of them as possible, and ya'll are AMAZING slash I hope to be back soon for another round of inception, careers in science, and ethics of memory manipulation! #BLESSUP
He believes there’s nothing like the greyed-out doors.
You won't be able to use it either, though, but you never have to encounter it again.
- With most teams playing 7 home games, I was looking for at least four good games.
- After an exhaustive search @ FBS Schedules of every P5 Schools Home Schedules these are my findings:
- The Glut of Neutral-Site games must come to an end.
- Teams with 7 home games basically go 1.) Neutral site 2.) Bad Mac School 3.) Bad Sun Belt School 3.) Bad FCS school. Duh, everyone knows this, but is really glaring when you pore over each school's schedule.
- So, in my estimation, here are the fanbases that are getting the must bang for their bucks in 2020.
1.) Oregon - North Dakota State, Ohio State, USC, Washington, Stanford
2.) Ole Miss - Auburn, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi State
3.) Alabama – Georgia, Texas A&M, Auburn, Mississippi State (Only Interesting because of Leach) – but home fans also are treated to Georgia State, Kent State and UT-Martin
4.) Arizona - Hawaii, Stanford, USC, Oregon, Arizona State
5.) Boston College - Purdue, Louisville, Clemson, North Carolina
- In the final analysis, in my estimation, 5 out of 65 P5 fanbases have at least 4 or more interesting games to watch while the rest have 3 or 4 games that should only be worth the price of an XFL ticket.
- Coming up next, Worst home slates, weird scheduling quirks, etc.
In my personal opinion, You (the loan taker) took out the loan, that is on you. If you weren't willing to pay it back, you shouldn't have taken the money. If I bought a $75000 car, but decided later that they were asking too much for it, I would still have to pay it back somehow. If you felt like college was too expensive then you should have went to trade school, or joined the military.
Many people look down upon those who are broke, poor, and in alot of debt, saying they should have made better decisions, but they owe just as much in student loan debt. Its just as irresponsible, and should be viewed as such.
If we just left them there, we'd all benefit.
#tragedyofthecommons
My father works for a company that repossesses cars when people can no longer make payments.
They must wait x amount of time for owner to claim anything in the car, after that it’s trashed, or up for grabs.
He gave me an iPhone that was found. I can access settings, but can’t restore the phone to factory settings because of needing to enter the previous owner’s iCloud password.
Talking to apple I would need proof I purchased the phone, which obviously isn’t available.
Any idea on what I can do?
