@joyce there's a stealth category of Supposed Kids' Books That You Should Absolutely Read As An Adult and that's my number two all time book on that list, the first being The Thirteen Clocks by Thurber - I know @neilhimself is a fan as well - an absolutely masterful book on every level. Everyone should get to know the Golux and the Todal. Anyone who loves The Last Unicorn is likely to love this book too
@KShortill@joyce I would certainly list the younger-audience works by @neilhimself to start with. He writes with respect for the minds of younger people, which is the key quality of a work like this. Calvin & Hobbes is a canonical text of this type, as are the first few Earthsea books by LeGuin. The Princess Bride novel is not, which surprises many who see the movie first. I've never written out an actual list so I'll have to think about it to recover a few more examples.
The isolation of #MECFS has gotten bad enough that I signed up for an online group thingy that includes Zoom calls. And now my #autism and social anxiety are making me dread each minute as I watch the clock tick closer to the call time. Gahhhhhhhhhhh.
@ImmedicableME
Podcast, because it distracts me into getting interested in something. Art, because it's a whole different mode of being. Sensory pleasure, because it's nice and life can be nice. @actuallyautistic@mecfs
@independentpen@actuallyautistic@mecfs I love that trio. I’ve gotten into art journaling recently and I’m enjoying just drawing lines (sorta like zen tangle), it’s so soothing. My weighted blanket helps, but I think something with a great texture would be a good addition. Thank you for sharing what works for you and also for helping me brainstorm!
I also have arthritis learned recently that pain tolerance can lower while in burnout. Doesn’t that make arthritis a cycle of burnout? Or I mean cyclical.
And, as an aside, we could really use histories of First Nations and taxation in Canada. I'd rather not have to write one myself but would be more than happy to share the thing or two I know on the subject. @histodons
As a Google user it feels like terrible timing to be cutting costs by getting rid of the people who give feedback on whether search results are good or not.
One of the primary causes is "Rigging the game".
On a playing field with unequal rules, you can't win. No matter how hard you work. Change the rules to be more fair. At least then you do have a chance.
Rigged - Dean Baker
How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer https://deanbaker.net/books/rigged.htm
Looking back on his early life in Aberdeen, Byron declared that he was ‘half a Scot by birth, & bred/A whole one’. To what extent should we privilege such a claim? In what ways did Byron engage with a Scottish poetic heritage, if at all?
—Dr Daniel Cook, “Byron’s Scottish Poetry”, The Byron Journal 50/1, 2022 (subscription/institutional access required)
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#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!
@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.