#IR has a lot to offer, as @halvardl suggests in terms of theorisation and abstraction that could help #historians of #emdiplomacy when they tackle with the difficult questions of what #earlymodern#diplomacy actual is and who and what was a #diplomat. At the same time, he warns historians to be careful when adapting modern concepts like public #diplomacy to avoid anachronism. Moreover, Leira sees lots of potential in comparisons across time and space. This could help #emdiplomacy getting out of its eurocentric bubble. (4/5)
But it’s not only #earlymodern#NewDiplomaticHistory that can learn from an exchange with #IR: @halvardl is sure that this could give #InternationalRelations a better understanding of how and when ‘the international’ emerged and changed. There is much to learn for both sides and we are looking forward to explore at least some of the questions raised by Leira. (5/5)
@ligniform At this point torrenting or pirating doesn't feel like stealing...Since ownership has become so murky over the years due to corporations attempting to get gamers used to not owning a physical copy.
"In a recent interview, Ubisoft’s subscriptions director Phillipe Tremblay said gamers need to accept not actually owning their games. Tremblay compared this to how people got used to not owning physical CD and DVD collections anymore. He said a similar change in attitude “needs to happen” with gamers as well." Sounds to me like a call to arms more than a convincing argument against game ownership. I might have to get an Xbox Series X and buy physical games again.
I really don't want to enrich a gross company which would argue for people to sink money into subscriptions instead of games! As then games would exist in an ephemeral state which could be removed at any time from the service...It's truly horrifying.
#documentary / On The previous Israeli attempt to encourage "voluntary emigration" of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip
The proposals being heard against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Gaza, to transfer the residents of the Strip to other countries, are not new. Dr. Amri Shefer Raviv, a historian of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, examined in his research a similar attempt made by the Israeli government immediately after the Six Day War.
In the months after the Six Day War, the Committee for Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories drafted a document that was meant to outline the lines of action for controlling the conquered territories. The first and most important paragraph defined in the draft document: "A policy aimed at the departure of a maximum number of Arabs from the held territories".
From then on, Israel consistently dealt with the question of how to encourage the Palestinian residents of the territories to leave the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - without provoking international criticism against it. Unlike the West Bank, where about a quarter of the residents left immediately after the war, almost no resident left the Gaza Strip.
Initially, Israel hoped that a political agreement would solve the refugee problem and determine in an orderly manner the fate of the Gaza Strip and its residents. As time passed, when it was understood that a political agreement and a solution to the refugee problem were not on the horizon - Israel moved to a policy of encouraging emigration. It was a quiet policy aimed at pushing people to leave the Gaza Strip individually - whether by providing incentives to leave or pushing them to seek a better life by deliberately maintaining a low standard of living in the Strip. At the same time, Israeli representatives made efforts to reach agreements with foreign countries - including in Latin America - that would be willing to absorb Palestinian refugees for a fee.
New Developments in the Gaza Economy: The Impact of the Blockade
p. xxxvii
[...] Gaza’s Tunnels: Formalizing the Informal Economy and Other Distortions
A critical economic development in the Strip since the second edition of this book was published in 2001 is unquestionably the phenomenal (but short-lived) growth of the “tunnel economy.” Tunnels burrowing under the Gaza-Egypt border have existed since the 1980s, but in the space of a few years they mushroomed from a few dozen to about 500 by the eve of OCL; by 2012, estimates reached as high as 1,100—1,200 tunnels (of which anywhere from 200 to 600 were believed operational)."’ Such growth is a direct consequence of the blockade and has taken place largely at the expense of the formal private sector discussed above. Already by 2008, the World Bank was reporting a redistribution of wealth from the formal private sector toward informal black market operators.” By the end of that year, the massive destruction wrought by Israel’s OCL provided a further push to the tunnel economy, as the massive reconstruction required materials barred entry by the blockade.
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!
My name is Priyanka Singh. Born in New Delhi, India, I've been traveling since past few years to continue my learnings about life. Academically I did my postgraduation in literature and worked for a decade in publishing. I also worked in a non profit for a few years and this year I intend to start a free progress school in my parent's village in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand. I'm looking to connect with people ideating innovation in education. Thank you for reading. 🪷
@Mela@historikerinnen
Sehr schön! Im Idealfall sind die E-Books, welche über unsere FID-Lizenzen bezogen werden können, im deutschen Bibliotheksnetzwerk nur bei uns vorhanden. Spezialliteratur als komplementäres Angebot zum Bestand der UBs. Die verfügbaren Titel in unserer "History Collection" konnten wir kürzlich noch einmal deutlich ausweiten.
Growing up in the area, there were years where we'd bring our whole family up to the curbside of the #RoseParade and camp out for a day or two ahead of time. Just floats, bands, equestrians.
It's a little weird to see them going for the Super Bowl type-spectacle now. I'm both impressed & disgusted.
Esp with Honda as a sponsor, we get really auto-oriented BS in the beginning. #HappyNewYear
Unexpected way to see cyclists in the parade - the New Buffalo Soldiers group representing the Iron Riders of the 25th Infantry. When the military was checking out bicycles as an alternative to cavalry.
"The project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ will show the importance of medieval reading culture as a European movement by bringing together (digitised) manuscripts produced between c. 500 and c. 1550 from across Europe, unlocking their educational potential by curational and editorial enrichment, using innovative ways for displaying and handling digital objects in an educational context."
The deadline for this year’s Otherwise Award recommendations is coming soon!
To recommend “a work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our notions of gender” and that was published in 2023, fill in the recommendation form as soon as you can.
@bookstodon The deadline for this year’s Otherwise Award recommendations is coming soon!
To recommend “a work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our notions of gender” and that was published in 2023, fill in the recommendation form as soon as you can.
Everyone looking forward to PS5 Pro is actually a PC gamer in their heart, dreaming of having an option to spend money on a more powerful graphics card.
@sharan I actually agree. I think PC remains what it has always been for people who prefer it that way, but consoles distanced themselves SLIGHTLY from what they used to be. There is now too much emphasis on resolution, framerate, options, etc in console space.
Digital Foundry has a million YT followers talking about console games running at 25 fps in certain scenarios. This kind of content has changed console gamers to be like PC gamers, but it doesn't work. 🤷
@nazokiyoubinbou console game developers used to create game for particular hardware and you would always get fluid gameplay. Nowadays developers fail to optimize their game and hope that more powerful hardware gets released. And users support this way of doing things...
I missed a lot of stuff from the book in Season 1, and S2 was clearly too late to bring all of that back. I loved S1 and still enjoyed S2, but I think it would have been even better if they'd made S1 longer. There was much more that could have been told there.
S2 was definitely more like Dr Who than the apocalyptic stakes of S1, but I guess you can do that only once.
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.