@lizstl13
Welcome Elizabeth!
The UN created Israel. The international community supports Israel’s right to exist.
There is no debate with organisations that do not.
There is no lack of information either.
"A vicious campaign by Israeli academia, police, and media to silence the professor shows Palestinians they have no safe place in Zionist institutions."
Our latest guest post by Media Cymru fellow Shirish Kulkarni explores the cultural changes needed in journalism, and how we can give audiences more value by finding ways to tell different stories, in different ways
@BBC_News_Labs One problem everybody is certainly struggling with is how to deal with the flood of information.
I think the big social media sites play a detrimental role in news writing & dissemination, because they force you to post frequently and with attention-grabbing headlines (preferably ones that make people angry) in order to feed "the algorithm".
I think Mastodon and the Fediverse can be a chance for change here too, because you can post as seldomly as you like and still be seen.
I know I'm late to the party, they always did say I was a late bloomer and all, but Good Omens is really really good. I always did like Neil Gaiman's writing but it's another thing to binge watch season 1 of #GoodOmens. I mean the binge part was easy as I could not stop and now, here, after the finale I really have to see how a season 2 can be a thing right?
Mainly tip on the hat good sir, fantastic story. @neilhimself 👏👏🎩
(I know now I'm the one putting #hashtags in line, I'm a monster)
@neilhimself@s1m0n4@JustBrogrammer Hey Neil, any thoughts about Amazon Prime Video doing a bait-and-switch, by announcing that even customers that have already paid annually for their service will find what they watch - such as Good Omens and Good Omens 2 - interspersed with ads?!
Did Amazon give you a heads up on their plans to insert advertising in the middle of your stories as soon as early next year?!
It has been so long since I've been here. But I'm looking forward to reintegrating into the platform and finding my/new people. Are we still saying #histodons ?
The Whole Earth Catalog collection (and much more) changed my life for the better. It's all now online. This is seminal media and cultural history: https://wholeearth.info/
The -layout option is great, but if you want to then put together the paragraphs using the layout result, you have to watch the leading spaces.
Depending on the page images, you may find 0, 1, 2 or more leading spaces in front of each line for a whole paragraph...and then the first line may have 2 or 3 more, as the indent.
I usually go through the book or story to see what's what, then use a little regex and manual edits to get rid of any leading spaces except the paragraph indents you want.
Then I replace the real indent spaces with some unused character, blow away all the remaining line-feed and/or newline characters, then replace the placeholder characters with newline characters.
NOW I have a text file Calibre can turn into an epub with good paragraphs!
The Calibre heuristic processing option can do some of this, but it is not as accurate as doing it yourself.
When we hear about the rise of neurodivergent people, children, teens and young adults, we should realize that from the 1940-1990’s we saw an uptake in the use of pesticides, insecticides, tetra ethyl lead in gasoline, tobacco use, and questionable medications that we didn’t fully understand.
Sometimes effects to human health take decades and generations before they fully manifest.
@HopelessDemigod Lead in gasoline started in the 1920s and was phased out in the 1970s. If you are concerned with how different social factors may be affecting @actuallyautistic and other neurodivergent people you need to actually listen to them when they tell you what's happening to them.
Ich finde es toll, wie viele Literaturmenschen im #Fediverse unterwegs sind. #neuhier ist zum Beispiel die Philologin @AndreaStrobl. Vielleicht wollt ihr ihr folgen?
@Sascha_Raubal Super. Danke für diese Liste, die weiterhelfen dürfte. Habe sie zur eigenen Verwendung in Friendica in meinem info-Ordner gespeichert. Noch den Verweis auf literatur.social dazu, dann müsste man sich ja eigentlich finden können …
If you’re white “socialist” in the West who thinks Hamas is chill & you applaud their murder & kidnap of Israeli civilian, you aren’t a socialist. You’re not an internationalist.
You’re an orientalist in the classic white European sense of the word, and one who dislikes Jews.
@rml Blake, I’m sorry to say but your comment is out of line. It’s ignorant and untrue. I am a life long activist for Palestinian rights. I do not condone the genocide of the Palestinian people and do not equate anti-Zionism to antisemitism. I spend my days and nights promoting the delinking of those two things and am attacked daily by the Zionist right for it. That you would accuse me of that shows your bad faith and belief that anyone who doesn’t support Hamas is in fact the enemy of the Palestinians. Your claim that Hamas is the only Palestinian resistance to the State of Israel and Zionism is false. This is NO DIFFERENT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, or FORM to those who make the actually antisemitic claim that “all Jews are supporters of the State of Israel and that the State of Israel speaks for all Jews”. This is false. The Left opposition to Hamas is consistently put down, harassed, arrested, and killed. Hamas is NOT the resistance, the only resistance, and DOES NOT speak for all Palestinians.
Your own orientalist outlook shows with your outrageous and asinine post from your discussions of shihsa smoking to your mention of the Samaritans (who are not Jews, BTW). Your orientalist outlook fails to mention Hamas’s actual charter (not the 2017 fake one used to appease people like you) which is still the de facto position of its members and supporters, save some reformers. Your orientalist outlook ignores Hamas’ leaders domination of the Palestinian working class from their luxury homes in Doha. Shameful.
I encourage you to read my MANY posts on this issue, including over the past few days. Your aggressive and false accusations over my views and beliefs are EXACTLY what my previous post was about. Be well.
You're just making stuff up! The left of the resistance is the PFLP, which is in an alliance with Hamas since the 2017 prisoner hunger strikes!
The most widely beloved leftist leader in Palestine of the past decade is Basel al-Araj, a comrade of mine, was murdered by the IDF in collaboration with the PA during an operation in Balata camp, while being hosted in a Hamas safe house. I was in Nablus when it happened!
Not mention Nizar Banat, the most inspiring PFLP voice of recent times who advocated unity of Hamas and PFLP, and was subsequently assassinated by the PA.
Mini-thread 🧵 Just wrapping up the #German Studies Association conference in beautiful Montreal (with less than beautiful weather)
I have to say: an overstuffed program with 32 (!) concurrent sessions, starting at 8 a.m. (!) is just idiotic: the laudable desire to include as many talks as possible (ppl need to give talks in order to get funding to travel) becomes counterproductive at some point. The fact that some panels on related topics were given the same time slot also makes no sense 😩 1/n
@CitizenWald@histodons@NMW Hoping the book comes out in paperback so I can afford it, though I know how difficult it is with scholarly books. Congratulations on its publication!
@BBC_News_Labs I read the blog post and saw nothing about how they are measuring the performance of LLMs at this task, or how they are validating the results.
Also no info about the resources that would be required to catalog this data the "old-fashioned way" with human indexers using a controlled vocabulary, or a "formerly novel" approach like crowdsourced tags.
From having processed the RMFI, yes, it is hard. It is deliberately so.
It is a shame that UK news organisations don't just commit to creating and maintaining a joint, open, shared, structured version of the RMFI where journalists clean up and tag the data using their actual domain expertise.