“The compelling narrative of Just Mercy meets the accessible, numbers-savvy approach of Weapons of Math Destruction.” COUNTING ON JUSTICE confronts America’s unfair…
I happened to stumble across this book when a friend recommended it to me. I hope you guys might be interested in it!
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13231381
> I was thinking a lot about how design patterns are useful solutions to certain classes of problems. I went spelunking online and found this from a Wikipedia page lol. Hope it proves helpful for community activists!
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13231391
> cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13231381 > > > I was thinking a lot about how design patterns are useful solutions to certain classes of problems. I went spelunking online and found this from a Wikipedia page lol. Hope it proves helpful for community activists!
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13231381
> I was thinking a lot about how design patterns are useful solutions to certain classes of problems. I went spelunking online and found this from a Wikipedia page lol. Hope it proves helpful for community activists!
I was thinking a lot about how design patterns are useful solutions to certain classes of problems. I went spelunking online and found this from a Wikipedia page lol. Hope it proves helpful for community activists!
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Here are some resources I managed to find on Telegram
Solarpunk DIY Repository: https://t.me/solarpunkrepository
This is a list of pdfs about a lot of useful community organizing things. It ranges from farming to engineering to community organizing, food preservation, socoology and social services, etc.
Hope you all find it useful!
It kind of means women shouldn't be taken seriously, because they're just "silly little airheads" who just cook and clean.
I saw something similar happen with Strange New World. The marketing was bad but turns out it may have actually been a Solarpunk type of film, which actually would have been interesting to see.
Wow, I just looked at this page, and it seems to be a pretty straightforward guide to how the Inuit language works! This was an interesting find to come across. Thanks for sharing this with us, and be sure to post more!
I disagree, although I can definitely see where you are coming from. Places like Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi are still dealing with outright racism in some areas. There was even astory I read about a town that had a white okigarchy which wouldn’t give its black resudents mayorship. The South, while seeming like it won’t change, will eventually have to. There are a lot of demographic shifts happening here that will force it to change some. Not to mention a growing labor movement, awareness of clinate change, and growing activism to address social issues that will increasingly put pressure on local and stare governments. So, yes, it will take time to correct the inertia of the status quo, but it’s possible.
I disagree, although I can definitely see where you are coming from. Places like Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi are still dealing with outright racism in some areas. There was even astory I read about a town that had a white okigarchy which wouldn't give its black resudents mayorship. The South, while seeming like it won't change, will eventually have to. There are a lot of demographic shifts happening here that will force it to change some. Not to mention a growing labor movement, awareness of clinate change, and growing activism to address social issues that will increasingly put pressure on local and stare governments. So, yes, it will take time to correct the inertia of the status quo, but it's possible.
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7701186
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> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/225787 > > > I have built an AutoMod bot for my instance, lemmy.basedcount.com. The bot covers the following features: > > > > - Automated removal > > - of posts, based on their title, content or link > > - of comments, based on their content > > - configurable with either regular expressions or substrings > > - User whitelisting and exceptions for moderators to selectively lift some or all of the aforementioned rules for certain users. > > - Mention based pinning and locking of a post, through commands exclusively available to the mod team > > - Discord notifications for new registration applications through a webhook. [only for admins] > > > > Naturally, the bot is completely open source. I have also written a rather comprehensive (albeit long-winded) documentation and some examples. > > > > This project is mainly targeted towards admins of small instances, however anyone can spin up their own AutoMod instance for their favourite community (provided they are a moderator there). > > The automoderator is also available as a Docker image, for ease of installation. > > > > Feel free to suggest any additional features that you might want to see added to this bot.
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I barely even know about him in the first place lol
I hope this really hapoens. I've heard that video game development is a toxic jndustry to be in, from underpaid developers to strict dealines to meet. I really hope they will unionize!
"Girl, you are my Two's Complement, you're always my plus one on any occaision"
Cuz if you invert the bits of of a binary number and add one you get its negative number, so your girlfried is an equal part of you
For me, Blender was probably my very first introduction into FOSS. I was using it because it was free, but I also liked the concept behind having a useful software the people used everyday to make cool projects like movies and animated shows. I did a project on it in. What really got me down the rabbithole was Debian. I had come across it in computer class, and I really liked the interface. i did more research and came to love Debian for being a stable distro run by the community. From thereit's history.
Agreed, i have heard of dual power amd parallel power structures. We need a lot more of them.
I guess maybe the sobering part of this read was the fact that maybe revolution will take a lot longer than we thought...so maybe our focus should be on building alternate community institutions and forming connections instead of focusing on big events like protests.
These ones might be smaller, but:
- Meet The Robinsons
- Tomorrowland
- Me. Peabody and Sherman
- Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
I think these movies were really good because they actually moved you, in their own little way.
I agree with this post you made. If the best we can do is vote into office a fairly old, out-of-tuoch president who has done a moderately decent job of running the United States, then it's a lose-lose situation for everyone. Politics especially in the United States has become too boring and safe. We need to take a risk on Cornell West and spice the game up a bit. Else we'll repeat the same mistakes we've been making for the past 50 years.
Edit; pls forgive my passion posting, whoops. Point is we need a shake up cuz stuff is going down the drain a little
I'm not sure, but if it gets the ability to sync comments and posts across instances, i'd love that feature!
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Ooh, thanks for your analysis! I never considered the "lack of choices" perspective.
Yeah, i totally agree. Electoralisn is one path, however, if more people resist, it's a way better effort. The problem is just even getting people engaged right now. The main focus should be getting these structures and networks up and running, especially in underserved places like rural towns and impoverished areas.
At thsi point the only reasonable thing we can do is have a massive grossroots effort at local and state levels.
The Appropriation of "Rich Men North of Richmond"
I heard on the radio that a new viral song has shot its way to the top of the charts, called "Rich Men in Richmond", and it has already soarked a bunch of controversy, being referenced at the Republican debate last night as an "anthem of sorts", an anthem which ironically ridiculed the candidates on the stage, as the singer Oliver Anthony to point out in a public address later.
However, interestingly enough this sort of appropriation of country songs as "anthems" for the authoritarian right has happened before, with Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA". It was popular because of a similar economic cry for relief, at least until it got coopted by Reagan.
Born in the USA by Springsteen
> Born down in a dead man's town > The first kick I took was when I hit the ground > You end up like a dog that's been beat too much > 'Til you spend half your life just coverin' up
> Got in a little hometown jam > So they put a rifle in my hand > Sent me off to a foreign land > To go and kill the yellow man
> Come back home to the refinery > Hiring man says, "Son if it was up to me" > Went down to see my V.A. man > He said, "Son, don't you understand"
> Down in the shadow of the penitentiary > Out by the gas fires of the refinery > I'm ten years burning down the road > Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
The song is basically about a small town rural man who grows up living a rough life, which leaves him with many physical and psychological scars that he has to "spend half his life just covering up". He then was drafted to the military to go fight off in the Vietnam War. After a few years of fighting a needless war, he returns home to find a job, only to be turned away because all the jobs have dried up. Desperate to survive, he goes to the Veteran's Administration (VA) to get assistance, but is presumably turned away because the VA is underfunded, and he is eventually forced to go to prison, reduced to burning away his potential as he is used and firgitten by the same America he fought to protect.
The song is made more ironic by the fact that he echoes "Born in the USA," which implies that as an American he should be achieving the American Dream, but he definitely doesn't achieve them as his potential is wasted away in a jail cell, among the most forgotten in society.
Springsteen's song poignantly pointed out the realities of being a poor white American citizen, and this struck a chord as the song skyrocketed to popularity, so much so that Ronald Reagan mentioned him in a presidential speech, and used his song to appeal to millions of Americans to win in a landslide in 1984, using the song's appeal to white Americans and its connection to patriotism. It is still used today at some right leaning rallies as a quintessentiallu american sonf
Rich Men North of Richmond by Anthony
> I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day > Overtime hours for bullshit pay > So I can sit out here and waste my life away > Drag back home and drown my troubles away
> It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to > For people like me and people like you > Wish I could just wake up and it not be true > But it is, oh, it is > Livin' in the new world > With an old soul > These rich men north of Richmond > Lord knows they all just wanna have total control > Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do > And they don't think you know, but I know that you do > 'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end > 'Cause of rich men north of Richmond
> I wish politicians would look out for miners > And not just minors on an island somewhere > Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat > And the obese milkin' welfare > Well, God, if you're five-foot-three and you're three-hundred pounds > Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of Fudge Rounds > Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground > 'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down
Meanwhile, "Rich Men North of Richmond" has a similar theme and topic of exploitation, this time from the "rich men". Although it approaches it from a different manner, this time the enemy is more defined, namely rich people.
The chorus is a successor to Springsteen's song, being that the singer is an "old soul" living in a "new world'. He still experiences a similar hard rural life, having to work hard long hours for "bulls\\\* pay", and "waste his life away".
This is because of the rich people who want to "have total control over your life" and know everything you do, extracting you for every penny you are worth.
He then goes on to slam the politicians for not looking out for rural people like them, and goes on to blame "obese people milking welfare", an obviously very offensive and stereotypical remark that actually hides a deeper truth to the pain the singer expresses. To cope with the pain, they can tend to "kick down" on other groups, like obese people, who they think are the reason why they don't have enough to survive. They perceive the whole world as against them, "kicking them down" and never giving them a chance, which can kill them in the pricess. Historically, this has been the case, as more urban areas got the economic benefit of industrialization, and rural areas have been left to fend for themselves, whether it be coal miners trying to unionize; or farmers toiling the soil, trying to compete against Big Agriculture, or small town people struggling to find jobs in rust belts.
Comparisons and Remarks
Both Anthony's and Springsteen's songs expeess the plight of rural and poor white male Americans very well. However, they express it in different ways.
Anthony's song is a variant of Springsteen's which criticizes the current festering plight of white rural and lower class American, yet again, as it highlights the wealth inequality which leaves many families struggling to survive. It also tends to more directly address the causes of this plight, targeting the rich, politicians, and those who do not pay fairly.
This is different from Springsteen's story, which is more about the hardships and experiences of life, and more implicitly pointed the American government at that time as the enemy. It chronicles the journey of a forgotten soldier, and how their American Dream was never realized, but constantly teased in front of them.
Because of the mass emotional appeals of these country songs, they have always been targets of right-wing politicians, to make them seem like they are a part of the in group, when in reality, they use people to get and stay in office (note that both of these somgs were popular during presendential runs). So they co-opt the song and misconstrue the singer's message so as to gain support.
Sorry this hasn't been thought out too well, i just though an analysis would be interesting, please correct me if i did anything wrong.
Edit: corrected Springstein to Springsteen Edit 2: the person in the Springsteen song was drafted, so i corrected
Whioe you are most definitely right, it's at least a starting point (even if it's really ineeficient)
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you're probably right about that, i never thought of it that way!
A good farming wiki I found. It will be helpful because it will help us learn how to grow plants.
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7125786
> - [ ] GMOs are bad, but not for the reason you think. > - [ ] Company called Monsanto (now under another company called Bayer) made a weedkiller called Roundup which contains glyphosate, which is a possible carcinogen > - [ ] Roundup killed crops as well as weeds, so they sold GMO seeds that could withstand Roundup > - [ ] However, due to the monopoly/doninance of Monsanto, a lot of food, both processed and unprocessed, contains GMOs, which also contain a lot of glyphosate (which may be bad for you) > - [ ] To cover up further investigation of glyphosate, they captured and bribed the EPA to look the other way and even to support Monsanto's research -- at least until the WHO cane out in 2015 and said that glyphosate could be carcinogenic > - [ ] So GMOs aren't inherently bad, but they can be used for evil purposes like these > - [ ] So try and at least buy organic food or grow your own food to avoid glyphosate > - [ ] However according to a youtube comment, Roundup is also used to make plants mature faster...
Edit: misspelling, changed Montesanto to Monsanto
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- [ ] GMOs are bad, but not for the reason you think.
- [ ] Company called Monsanto (now under another company called Bayer) made a weedkiller called Roundup which contains glyphosate, which is a possible carcinogen
- [ ] Roundup killed crops as well as weeds, so they sold GMO seeds that could withstand Roundup
- [ ] However, due to the monopoly/doninance of Monsanto, a lot of food, both processed and unprocessed, contains GMOs, which also contain a lot of glyphosate (which may be bad for you)
- [ ] To cover up further investigation of glyphosate, they captured and bribed the EPA to look the other way and even to support Monsanto's research -- at least until the WHO cane out in 2015 and said that glyphosate could be carcinogenic
- [ ] So GMOs aren't inherently bad, but they can be used for evil purposes like these
- [ ] So try and at least buy organic food or grow your own food to avoid glyphosate
- [ ] However according to a youtube comment, Roundup is also used to make plants mature faster...
Edit: misspelling, changed Montesanto to Monsanto
A striking quote from Angela Davis: > "Women are in control of the weapons of war...We always seem prime to celebrate individual achievement, individual advancement of black people, women, people of color, without taking consideration that diversity, in itself, would mean that previously marginalized communities would be recruited to guaruntee a more efficient operation of oppersive systems" > -- Angela Davis
I want to know you guy's thoughs and opinions on this quote.