Went to the African-American history and culture museum yesterday - everyone should. Despite what I imagine some people believe, it’s not just violence and trauma porn, it’s a lot of day to day normal stuff on the upper floors. My wife wondered where the slavery and Jim Crow stuff was, but it occurred to me that it would probably be concentrated somewhere else in the building - excessive focus on slavery and trauma is a complaint I’ve heard about cultural stuff usual made for white audiences.
Probably the most informative exhibit (“favorite” sounds wrong) was the segregated train car. You really get a sense of how petty and cheap the racists were - the Black bathrooms are tiny (about the size of airplane ones now), white ones have a “lounge” area, which is weird, but regardless of how weird it was they had more space. Plus you couldn’t use the suitcase storage areas unless you were white, which is just ridiculous.
If I get a chance to go back I’ll have to see if they’ve got a Wilmington 1898 exhibit and what they have about COINTELPRO-related fuckery. Probably the single most horrifying thing in there is the child-sized shackles, but there’s also plenty of stuff in there that isn’t evil or soaked in blood.
Gibt es hier auf Mastodon eigentlich einen besonderen Hashtag, den man als deutschsprachige Autorin kennen sollte? Und worunter man die anderen buchigen Toots findet?
"To trace the unfamiliar to the familiar... is to understand."
Incredible Adventures
Algernon Henry Blackwood British writer of tales of mystery and the supernatural died #OTD in 1951. His two best-known stories are probably "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. via @wikipedia
Still trying to figure out who in my family is neurodivergent and how.
Seems like there is a pattern emerging: If both parents are neurodivergent, chances for the kids to be is at almost 100%. If only one parent is, chances seem to be about 50/50.
Anyone know if there are actual studies on that or is there just not enough data from past generations?
@HaelusNovak@btaroli@looneybyron@pathfinder@actuallyautistic I get that you guys are talking about Autism I know mine's not the same neurodivergency but there are some parallels forgive me if I'm cutting in with a different topic.
no, and it's actually the other way round: if it's not recessive, in other words, dominant, it can be selected against very easily.
If a gene is recessive, it's very hard to get rid of unless you have genetic tests for it. (example: hens laying eggs with a fishy smell. That's a recessive gene defect affecting an enzyme, it's a simple Mendelian trait, and pretty much impossible to get rid of in a flock. I think they may have blood tests now).
Hi Uair, welcome and thanks for the follow! I don't know what you mean by "group" but yes, this online community has been amazing for me, too. It's really like finding one's people 💛
@nellie_m@Uair@instance@relay.fedi.buzz @actuallyautistic not sure either - and now I'm nervous. I thought the whole place was, I mean the site name says "neurodifferent dot me." I haven't been hashtagging, I've just been talking as though everyone is Autistic, letting it all hang out, as we used to say. 😬
Ich habe ganz vergessen, dass ich bei First Press Games Chained Echoes bestellt habe. Irgendwie ist es mir heute wieder eingefallen. Es sollte eigentlich im 4. Quartal fertig sein, ist aber schon seit einem halben Jahr unverändert im Releaseprozess 😑 Ein bisschen ärgert mich das, ich bin mir sicher, dass es dieses Jahr nichts mehr wird 😏
@renwillis yes! It is a beautifully heartfelt game that I loved to death (and god bless it for bringing back action commands). After you beat it, I highly recommend going through enough of the post game to get the true ending. It is very worth it!
It's now my go-to rec for anyone who wants to get into JRPGs and the like but has trouble playing older games like Chrono Trigger
@catgirlfingies I really liked Silent Hill 3 and Fatal Frame. Hill 3’s spooky atmosphere and plot was great. I became a fan of the franchise immediately after I played it. As an aside: I was SO bummed when they cancelled Kojima’s Silent Hill project 😭.
Fatal Frame had a cool ghost-fighting mechanic. It was like Pokémon Snap but with higher stakes. Taking a good shot meant that you weren’t going to die fighting a particular ghost 😄.
And yes, I played lots of horror games back in the day of PS2. I don’t play a lot of them nowadays because I only have a Switch now as my main console, and I’ve been prioritizing first-party games (no horror there!). I did play Luigi’s Mansion 3; does that count? 😄
@yaitorr same here.was just taking a look.but have not played it,yet,as there are other games to be finished firtst,before deep diving into this.especially since there is a second part,coming next year.also SH2 is getting a remaster for ps,next year.did you like it,back in the day?
I have not tested Mobile-Friendly-Firefox with these browsers yet, as I am waiting for official arm64 releases before installing them onto my Librem 5. While I think that everything should work, anyone can share issues here on the fediverse, on my Mobile-Friendly-Firefox repo, or on my forum thread. I'll try to check all three from time to time so I don't miss anything.
Minor Update:
Added to install and uninstall scripts
Support for Librewolf flatpak
I have tested and confirmed that it works perfectly.
Vorige week voelde ik me een paar dagen gewoon goed (zowel fysiek als mentaal). Best jammer dat dat alweer een week voorbij is. Zouden veel mensen zich altijd zo goed voelen of de meesten niet? Dat vraag ik mij dan af. Het maakt ook niet uit; hier moet ik het mee doen. Dan maar proberen om mild te zijn voor mijzelf
Misschien houd ik daarom zo van boeken, omdat je daarin leest over waar mensen allemaal mee worstelen, terwijl ze er weinig van laten zien aan anderen. Omdat je je schaamt. Omdat je denkt dat je de enige bent. Uit boeken weet ik dat we allemaal maar mensen zijn en allemaal moeite hebben met van alles en nog wat
Het ultieme boek hiervoor is ‘821 mensen die er ook toe doen’ van Anna van der Kruis, met allemaal korte verhalen waartussen regelmatig verbanden te vinden zijn. Ik lees het nu voor de tweede keer en vind het nog beter @boeken
"Free speech absolutist" allegedly fires employee for raising security concerns.
Apparently Elon's version of free speech doesn't extend to employees who raise concerns about information security:
"Alan Rosa, who was Twitter’s global head of information security, filed the lawsuit late on Tuesday in New Jersey federal court, alleging breach of contract, wrongful termination and retaliation, among other claims. X Corp did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"Rosa claims that late last year, after Musk acquired the company, he was told to cut his department’s budget for physical security by 50%...
"Rosa says he objected because the cuts would put Twitter at risk of violating a $150m settlement it entered into earlier in 2022 with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which claimed Twitter had misused users’ personal information. The agreement required Twitter to implement privacy and information security controls to protect confidential data.
"He was fired days after raising those concerns, according to the lawsuit. Rosa is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, and legal fees."
It’s a shame that people like Elon are associated with the “free speech” movement. The right to free speech is something people fought and died for, and have risked their lives to protect decade on decade. It’s a gift previous generations have given to us. And now it’s almost seen as a dirty word. Which is exactly what those in power want.
Free speech and an unrestrained press protects all of us from government over-reach, it is a primary defense against the growth of fascism, it is the engine that drives the next stage of social and cultural evolution. Ideas considered abhorrent now may be commonplace in the future. Think of what people would had said if you had advocated for legal homosexuality in the 1950s, you’d be right if you’d think they’d use any exemption possible in free speech protections to try and throw you in jail, in fact they did, and people are calling for less free speech than we had then.
You are a human. It should be a universal human right to think whatever you want to think and say whatever you want to say, and the government has no place putting anything other than extremely clear and limited restrictions on it. Society is free to punish you, but it’s a power we cannot hand over to the government.