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Abbey’s Road | David Schurman Wallace
Real-world ecoterrorists are outnumbered by their representations in fiction and film. Why does reality lag behind the image?Zachariah Webb (The Baffler)
Demolierte Medien – und offene Fragen zur Rolle von Politik und Geheimdienst
Ein Jahr nach der „Correctiv“-Erfindung der „Wannsee 2.0-Konferenz“ versuchen manche Journalisten eine vorsichtige Absetzbewegung – viel zu spät. Sie gehören zu den Verlierern einer bizarren Affäre.Natalie Furjan (Tichys Einblick)
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American Detainee Transparency and Recovery Act (2024 - H.R. 10168)
To amend the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act to require the Secretary of State to provide additional information to Congress regarding United States nationals detained abroad, and for other purposes.GovTrack.us
Russian Army main battle tank (MBT) which overturned while trying to get over a river crossing in the Kharkiv Oblast – on the Eastern Front.
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1877796952240234669?s=46 https://i.redd.it/fef8a8v118ce1.jpegPosted by _Tegan_QuinBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
What I am specifically thinking when I boost this: Please don't do this to any liberals who suddenly wake up in the next two months
People are now confessing to editor light theme preferences en masse at the Python Office Hours. 😱
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Test & Code | pytest plugins - a full season
This episode kicks off a season of pytest plugins.In this episode:Introduction to pytest pluginsThe pytest.org pytest plugin listFinding pytest related packages on PyPIThe Top pytest plugins list o...Test & Code
Made my first PR for Super Productivity!
#FOSS #OpenSource #GitHub #Productivity
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add GitHub token validation by RayBB · Pull Request #3873 · johannesjo/super-productivity
Description Add validation. I'm just facing one problem with the translation strings. Perhaps you can fix it up and merge? 👍 Issues Resolved Closes #3864 Check List New functionality include...GitHub
#Python has some super cool built-in functions. One such function is `setattr()`, which allows you to add a new attribute to an object at runtime.
Here's an example:
Venezuela's Maduro begins new term as US increases bounty for his arrest
The US announces a $25 million reward for the arrest or conviction of Venezuelas President Nicolás Maduro, on same day he's sworn in for a third consecutive term.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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The good guys aren't doing very well in the polls. The bad guys are taking over the world.
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The Local Elections That Will Define Criminal Justice Policy in 2025 - Bolts
Big-city mayor, prosecutor, and sheriff elections this year could carry high stakes for policing and punishment.Michael Barajas (Bolts)
That's why I like using Tumblr, there's no threat of them making money.
The Kwaidan Collection by Lafcadio Hearn: Review by Karen Haber
The Kwaidan Collection, Lafcadio Hearn, illustrated by Kent Williams (Beehive Books 978-1-948886-32-1) $100.00, 144+pp, hc) April 2023. Cover by Kent Williams. The Kwaidan Collection is not only a…Locus Online
Sound Check
#poem
The soundwaves whirl inside my ear
Evoke old lessons tucked away.
Sometimes the world is very clear.
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I spoke to you of this last year
That night we each knew what to say.
The soundwaves whirl inside my ear.
*
At times I feel naught but fear.
At times life seems a scripted play.
Sometimes the world is very clear.
*
I haven’t had the lull to hear.
Muddled in this mire of gray.
The soundwaves whirl inside my ear.
*
I hold your recalled visage dear.
Smiling like a sunshine ray.
Sometimes the world is very clear.
*
I listen, but I do not hear
shots that shattered yesterday.
The soundwaves whirl inside my ear.
Sometimes the world is very clear.
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If you're looking to replace your proprietary #digitalart tools with a powerful #foss #opensource alternative you should be seriously looking into #krita @Krita @kritafoundation
Here's an older but still incredible video by #noctualis that gives some quick tips to speed up your workflow
8 TIPS for Faster Painting in KRITA!
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8 TIPS for Faster Painting in KRITA!
These tips help make my painting process a lot faster and streamlined. I've learned them through years of digital painting so I hope they help you speed up your painting process too! Also this is my first tutorial type video! I would love to hear w…Noctualis | Invidious
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Acting President Accepts Resignation from Head of Secret Service
Photo : YONHAP News Acting President Choi Sang-mok has reportedly accepted Presidential Security Service chief Park Chong-jun’s resignation.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
A Winter Parable
#poem
Two old men sit
wrapped in wool, contemplating a frozen stream.
Their memories soar out past yesterday’s horizon
to youthful pleasures and dismays.
Yes, time has been harsh as the coldest winter;
and beautiful as late night snowfall that
covers the world in symbolic purity,
sets off
strawlike, colorful northern herbs
against a star and moonlit sky.
To know profoundly, we need not be old,
only of a romantic nature.
To share these epiphanies,
we need only be in love with life.
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During the George Floyd protests, I had some non-Black friends and colleagues reach out to me to commiserate about the plight of Black people in the U.S.
While I appreciated their outreach, I was also annoyed by it. Those problems had existed for centuries, existed at that moment and would exist in the future. Yet I was getting the outreach because George Floyd was trending.
Eventually he would stop trending and the U.S. would revert to mean. I never said this to anyone but I did think it. 😔
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in reply to mcc • • •Mm, sorry for being unclear. I guess, to me the current system does so much damage and has so many flaws that seem really harmful to so many people, that the solution of let's do minor tweaks on it doesn't feel very plausible. But obviously other people see it differently, so I guess I'm asking where the difference is for them: do they think the system works better than I do, or that small tweaks are the best that can be done, or that small tweaks will actually fix it for real... That sort of thing.
Also sorry if I come across as annoying. It really is curiosity.
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in reply to modulux • • •@modulux Okay. This is a complicated subject and you make several assumptions about me I don't think are fair.
First off: The one thing I don't think works is third parties in the united states of america. I was at the Nader rallies in 2000. I've seen this tried. This strategy just doesn't work.
Second off: It's not enough to say "the system must go". You need a plan for making it go. Simply saying "well, we have to throw it all out!" is often followed by doing literally nothing at all.
mcc
in reply to mcc • • •@modulux Third off, there's a gradation of engagement/rejection strategies with regard to existing structures. Even Bernie Sanders ultimately worked through the Democratic party when he did his Presidential runs.
So with those things established:
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in reply to mcc • • •@modulux Personally, no, I don't think small tweaks are enough.
I *do* think under some circumstances, small tweaks are *worth it*, and I think you might even be able to make a large change with many small tweaks combined. A good example here is incrementalism under Barack Obama. I think this actually worked, *at first*. From 2009-2010 we got a series of actually positive small tweaks. The problem is the Republicans found a counterstrategy, & Team Obama didn't change their strategy in response.
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in reply to mcc • • •@modulux In that case I think the sin of Obama was not attempting incrementalism, but rather that he *stuck to* incrementalism after it was demonstrated that we were only going to get that one increment.
Meanwhile if you look at Elizabeth Warren— let's consider three alternatives, circa 2020. Elizabeth Warren and her "plans", Bernie Sanders, "throw the system out". As noted, I don't see a coherent plan for option three. So personally, I didn't then see it as a real alternative.
mcc
in reply to mcc • • •@modulux So I guess the answer to your question is: I think what Warren was offering *was* a big change, and fundamentally the same stuff Sanders was offering, and I liked her *version* of it better, because if you're going to make big changes I think you want to interface with experts and academic literature. Because how else do you know your big changes are the right ones. And I can't find a hole in that thinking, even now.
The problem was Elizabeth Warren herself, who wasn't trustworthy.
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in reply to mcc • • •Thanks for your answer. I think I understand it better now. I'm sorry if I was making assumption, I was trying to work out the reasons people saw things as appealing. Thanks for your patience, it was a very detailed answer.
And of course I agree with your main point: it is far better to be welcoming to people changing their minds.
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in reply to modulux • • •@modulux *Nod*.
I will say: I can tell that my approach was wrong— I don't know if it was wrong objectively, but twas definitely wrong for how things turned out— but I still don't know what correct is. If you can't work with the Democratic party, not even to the extent of trusting its left flank, AND you can't throw out the system, what does that leave? Also: I don't even live in America anymore. Do my experiences translate to my new context, where a third party *exists*? What the heck do I do?
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in reply to Asbestos • • •@Asbestos @modulux Critiquing your argument but not your conclusions:
- "Incrementalism works for the right-of-center" and "Incrementalism works for the left-of-center" are not equal statements. It may be that what works for one group is not portable to the other, because of where the groups are positioned within the structure of society.
- I do personally think that the right has created an environment where incrementalism does not work for the left. At that point a new strategy is needed.
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in reply to mcc • • •Yeah, that's a pretty solid argument, I do think it can work if the argument is rephrased. The United CEO shooting is a good example, Many right wing chuds were all in favor of the shooter.
I think part of the problem is that Obama got hammered for even a slightly left move, so he should have gone hard, because you'd get the same level of pushback.
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Multiple parties cannot work in the US because of winner-take-all district/state voting and single-round presidential elections.
In fact, even the two-party system never worked in the US. Because of the above reasons, and real-time poll analysis, the two parties eventually converge to essentially the same platform, just a hair breadth apart; so that elections are decided by fractions of 1%. This is a well-known result from mathematical election theory.
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in reply to mcc • • •Among the hundreds of left factions its all highly bespoke etiquette, as there are wide gaps between what each clique finds acceptable. The goof tolerance is far lower, too. Like they're hunting for any pretext to take offense.
And yes, it's happened even here.
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in reply to mcc • • •The Gaza genocide and the reaction after the orange fascist won was what finally changed my mind.