Accessing Mastodon and the fediverse via email: https://www.olowe.co/tmp/fedimail.mp4
An experimental #IMAP and #SMTP interface.
I feel like #NNTP#Usenet interface would be more appropriate.
But gotta start somewhere!
Threading and replies work ok too (so far!).
Ha good eyes! :) I have basic receive-only working with Lemmy using a virtual file system interface I wrote (pkg.go.dev/olowe.co/lemmy). Just realised we actually spoke about this a while ago haha (lemmy.sdf.org/post/1035382 )
But synchronising to disk is super inefficient: too many API calls. Should subscribe using ActivityPub proper and store updates received as RFC 5322 messages.
From there we could serve the messages via NNTP. Then, finally, we could use nntpfs(4)
Oh wow thanks! :) One program syncs my home Mastodon timeline, with all replies, to a Maildir. Dovecot serves that over IMAP. Sending involves a custom SMTP server which reads the mail message and creates a post from it.
For Mastodon it was all about converting statuses (toots? Posts?) into RFC 5322 messages. Using the status’ ID as Message-Id in the message header is handy. Mail clients do the heavy lifting of rendering threads thankfully!
@carljshirley@allstartrek LOL Yeah I bet he kinda did look like Vader a bit. I've never seen a comparison of Nazi and #StarWars imperial helmets, but I can imagine they're not dissimilar.
I'm capable of holding two contradictory truths in my mind at once, for example, the fact that #Ubisoft sucks, and the fact that Let's Dance is still pretty fun. #gaming#NintendoSwitch
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I guess we do #introduction posts over here? I work on the #neuroscience (am I doing those hashtags right!?) of learning and memory, specifically how we learn while we navigate space and context. To do this, I take in vivo recordings (currently calcium imaging but ephys has my heart) of freely moving rats! After that, I use computational and mathematical approaches to analyze their neural activity! I am currently a BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 postdoc at Northwestern working with John Disterhoft and Sara Solla. I was trained at MIT with Matt Wilson, where I got my PhD in biology, and my BS is from Carnegie Mellon. Welcome!
Look, I'm a writer. I know there are too many superlatives in this piece. But there are not enough superlatives in the world for what @neilhimself and Fourplay did last night.
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[…] ISRAELISM uniquely explores how #Jewish attitudes towards #Israel are changing dramatically, with massive consequences for the region and for #Judaism itself.
[…] Zimmermann is part of a growing trend of young American Jews who are no longer satisfied with the one-sided narrative marketed to them in Jewish communities, Jewish schools, youth movements, and Birthright trips, but are starting to examine it critically, shaking off the automatic identification of #Judaism with loving Israel, and taking action against the occupation and for Palestinian rights.
[…] In debates with Palestinian students, Zimmermann recounts in the film, she felt again and again at a loss. "I remember there were Palestinian students who stood up and said: 'You cry over being silenced and marginalized, but my uncles and cousins couldn't sleep for weeks when bombs fell over their heads in #Gaza,'" she says. "I was thrown into these conversations where people used words I had never encountered: 'occupation,' 'settlements,' '#apartheid,' and 'ethnic cleansing.' I always thought I knew so much about Israel, but suddenly when they mentioned all these words, I didn't understand what they were talking about. I felt embarrassed that we couldn't respond to their claims. Do we not have any successful counterarguments besides 'double standards' and 'antisemitism'? This really troubled me."
Can you punish a person for a crime not yet committed? Israel's new #FutureCrime law passed 2nd and 3rd readings.
The Constitution Committee approved for second and third readings the bill that establishes one year imprisonment for a person who systematically consumes publications by #Hamas and #ISIS, which include words of praise, solidarity or encouragement for acts of terror. However, consumption of publications done sporadically, in good faith or for a legitimate purpose will not be prohibited consumption. During the discussions, the committee added to the test of systematic and ongoing consumption, a circumstance indicating identification with the terror organization.
Israeli society and media are sliding down a slippery slope into a dark and gloomy abyss from which there may be no way back.
After posting on #Facebook about Palestinian civilians who were killed in the bombings of #gaza Israeli Civics teacher Dr. Meir Baruchin from Jerusalem was arrested, under suspicion of "intention to commit treason". Police search turned his house upside down.
This is what an Israeli father, who knew of Dr. Baruchin, wrote to his friend a couple of days earlier:
"My son is supposed to study in the high school you manage in a few years [...] and as someone who knows Meir, follows him closely on Facebook and has met his former students, I pray that he will be one of my son's teachers and his classmates."
He then warns:
The automatic, absolute and blind mobilization of most of the Israeli media in favor of the silencing and intimidation campaign we are now at its peak (or heaven forbid only its beginning) should worry and frighten every Israeli citizen, regardless of his political views and tendencies. Today it is Meir Baruchin, who despite having written explicitly more than once that he is "against killing innocent civilians, against kidnappings, against rape of women" dared in parallel, heaven forbid, to show compassion and pain in light of the shocking and heart-wrenching sights coming out of the #Gaza Strip. Yesterday it was someone who sprayed graffiti with the number "1400" near the home of Likud MK Dov Khenin in protest of the abandonment of southern residents which cost the lives of 1,400 people, and tomorrow it will be someone who writes a word or two about the exclusion of women, religious coercion or discrimination against LGBT people.
#Israel [Dr. Meir Baruchin] / Because of criticism of the occupation I was suspected of intending to betray Israel
Dr. Baruchin is a civics and history teacher at a high school
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In 1915, the American journalist Walter Lippmann wrote:“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
For 35 years, I have been teaching civics and history in high schools. The pillar of my work is the conversation I have with my students. Many studies have been written about the importance of conversation in social life. Cicero, for example, wrote about "the good conversation." Human life is characterized, among other things, by a series of conversations that take place in institutions, places and circumstances and different contexts.
A democratic regime is one that allows for conversation between people who agree with each other or disagree in their views. Democratic discourse is one in which every participant feels that they can express themselves freely. No participant dominates the conversation, and there is no undermining of the legitimacy of any participant in the conversation because their arguments are not pleasing to the other participants.
An interesting conversation requires at least two opposing positions. Sometimes opposing positions arise from the direction of the students, but in many cases they share one position. Regarding the relationship between Jews and Palestinians, most students are used to hearing only one voice. They hear this voice at home, at school and in most media outlets. They do not know another voice. When I take upon myself the task of making the other voice heard (the Palestinian voice), there are students who initially feel uncomfortable because they are not used to hearing the other voice, but as time goes on they discover interest and curiosity. A debate develops that sharpens thought. Things are said that accompany the students for many years. By making the other voice heard, I seek to help students develop a broad perspective as they mature, form a perspective, and deal with complex situations.
The difficulty of conducting a democratic discourse in Israeli society did not arise on October 7, 2023, but it has strengthened significantly since then. With the outbreak of the war, I began posting on my Facebook page posts in which I criticized the harm to innocents in Gaza, especially children and women. Needless to say, the atrocities committed by Hamas people on Saturday, October 7, shook me deeply and still hurt me today. I explicitly expressed this in a post I uploaded on October 11.
Nevertheless, I received thousands of Nazi messages wishing me and my children death and disease, and I was portrayed as a terror supporter identifying with the horrors committed by Hamas members. On October 18 I was summoned for a hearing by my employer, the Petach Tikva Municipality, the city where I have been teaching since 2007. The next day I received a letter of dismissal. A few days later, the Ministry of Education suspended my teaching license, thus effectively preventing me from teaching in other schools.
Immediately afterward, I began the process of filing an injunction in the Labor Court against the Petach Tikva Municipality and the Ministry of Education. This process was halted on November 9. On that day, I was asked by phone to come in for questioning at the Jerusalem police station, on suspicion of incitement. In hindsight, it turned out that in order to investigate an Israeli citizen on suspicion of incitement, the police needed the approval of the prosecution. The police did request approval, but their request was denied.
Instead, it was decided to investigate me on two other counts: intent to betray the State of Israel (an offense punishable by up to ten years in prison), and intent to disrupt public order.
The moment I entered the police station, handcuffs and leg cuffs were placed on me, and my mobile phone was confiscated. Five detectives drove me to my home and for about two hours they turned the house upside down from top to bottom looking for inciting material. In addition to the mobile phone, two laptops and six USB drives were also confiscated. I was then taken back to the police station for the first interrogation, which lasted about four hours, and was divided into two parts:
In the first part, 14 posts I had uploaded to my Facebook page were presented to me, most of which were uploaded long before October 7, and were mainly critical of the occupation. For example, in November 2019, a shack in Gaza was bombed. The result was nine dead from the Al-Sawarkha family, including: Ramzi (45), his wives Maram (35) and Yosra (39), and their children: Waseem (13), Mohannad (12), Muaz (7) , Salim (3) and Firas (2). In the post I wrote at the time, I called the act - murder.
In another post, from May 2023, I simply recounted the story of Mohammed Khalil Daoud, a Gaza resident whose only son, Tamim Mohammed Daoud, was born in 2018. The day before, Tamim Mohammed went into stress due to an air strike. His heart could not withstand it and stopped beating. He died of heart failure. In the investigation I was asked what I meant in the posts, what I wanted to achieve, and how the content of the posts could be interpreted by readers. The second part of the investigation was not based on questions. But on rhetoric. The desired answers were planted in the body of the questions, so I was not given the opportunity to choose the answers I wanted.
At the end of the interrogation, I was taken to the "Russian Compound" detention center. I was defined as a "security detainee." I stayed in an isolated cell with no windows. Even my wristwatch was taken from me. The next day, Friday, November 10, a hearing was held in court. The hearing lasted a few minutes, and at the end the judge decided to extend my detention until Monday, November 13, at 12:00 noon.
Time crawled slowly. I was not given the option to bring a book into the detention cell. I wore the same clothes for four days. To keep myself busy, I did physical training every two hours. Detention center staff were prohibited from talking to me.
On Sunday, November 12, I was taken for a second interrogation, which also lasted about four hours. In this interrogation, too, an attempt was made to put words in my mouth. At one point, the interrogator accused me that my posts were like "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." When I asked her if she ever got around to reading the protocols, she did not respond. The next day, a hearing was held in court, at the end of which I was released.
After I was released, I continued the process of filing an injunction in the Labor Court. At the hearing it turned out that my employer, the Petach Tikva Municipality, did not even have a single record on which they could base the allegations against me. Both at the hearing and in the ruling, which ordered my reinstatement and compensation, the judge noted the high professional level I maintain as a teacher, as evidenced by many letters of praise and thanks from students, parents and principals.
My dismissal and arrest were part of a political persecution of anyone expressing compassion for Palestinians in general and innocent Gaza residents in particular. On December 3, the police returned my confiscated belongings to me. When I turned on my mobile phone I found thousands of messages from the time period when the phone was not in my possession. One message in particular caught my attention. I read it many times. It was written by a former student who graduated 12th grade last summer.
Here is what she wrote:
"Hi Meir, I hope you remember me. I heard you were arrested. I really hope you're okay overall, and you continue to stay strong. It can't be easy. If it helps, I thought this would be a good time to tell you that in the few lessons I experienced with you in 12th grade... you were very meaningful to me.
"I want to thank you for what you taught me. I never had the chance to say it. Thank you for fighting for justice and equality. I think you are very brave, that you are loyal to your values and principles, no matter what. I'm trying to adopt this approach to my life, and it's not easy.
"Even when I didn't always agree with you, it was fascinating to hear you. You are an amazing teacher, and especially at a time like this the lessons I remember with you occupy me a lot... Just so you know, there is at least one student of yours who admires and appreciates you."