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I’m sceptical of the angle of that instance, so keep that in mind.
Pre-revolutionary literature was created by people from elites who had an unchallenged access to education and could live off their property while taking writing as a full-time self-employment. Not many did so, and not all of them are remembered now, but still we had a handful of pretty prolific authors. Since these elites weren’t strangers to Western Europe, a lot of their works got traction and translations there too. Due to how Tsar’s administration were backwards (esp. under Nikolay I), articles and novels have been put through a special service and redacted before being published. Yet, the reputation sometimes allowed to print even the most blatant stuff, and those who couldn’t - like early socialists - printed their papers and books elsewhere and then imported it back.
These big names is what’s taught in literature classes in Russia, divided by Golden and Silver ages of literature. Mostly because singling out a handful of them is easy to follow, I guess, and indocrinate some sort of easily-digested patriotism (Пушкин = наше всё!)? The only exclusion to that is Lomonosov (top tier university MSU named after him) that, by legend, was a serf who traveled to Moscow on his own, but that story is likely to have more blanks than proofs.
The Silver age I mentioned before dies off with the authors who started or were born before the 1917 for how long we traced them in USSR or abroad, including Bulgakov, Scholohov, Gorkyy, Cvetaeva, Mayakovsky and others. Gorkyy and Mayakovsky weren’t anti-soviet, and later Scholokhov wasn’t too, but they are coupled by their generation with those who disliked the revolution for one reason or another as a part of the same ‘generation’.
But what comes next under the soviet rule is kinda two-fold. For once, there’re a lot of literate people due to LikBez campaign educating everyone, and thus more potential writers. But at the same time there’re an idea of artists’ unions who served as both the first ideological barrier and the understanding that no one can become that big name by publishing one-two masterpieces and just living off from that. IIRC Bulgakov’s and Scholokhov’s writings were at some point sanctioned by Stalin himself and were printed in the USSR.
That mostly kills of the idea of a famous writer and, although there were a lot of talented people, more than ever, they couldn’t catch the same level of a long-living INDIVIDUAL reputation that may sell them to both locals and the foreigners. Their constant creative output didn’t bring them the same status and leverage and only those who are old enough remember exact series they liked as teens. And these got only reprinted and translated in the USSR itself, so no reach outside from the soc-camp
After that false vacuum new names start to appear only after the USSR eases some limits. For obvious reasons of red scare and curiosity about what’s happening in that biggest country, the most known name of late soviet era are those talking about the problems of the USSR, like edgy Soljh, or Shalamov who I prefer way more. And there were no rediscovery of that period by the mass reader even in Russia because contemporary art and unavailiable earlier foreign literature overwhelmed them by the sheer quantity of these.
Thus, I suppose, most of the soviet era lit is probably a one big white spot mostly known by those who study it. Since a minority of these books have proper scans or e-books, reprints, that limits even a local reader to dig for them in the libraries and learning what were the big hits from the elderly.
From the top of my head, I remember this teen book being mentioned a lot: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur_and_His_Squad But I didn’t remember it’s author, just a name. There was a very cool thread on a local social network but I struggle to find it.
ed: Correction - not only soviet, but all availiable there including translated foreign authors. If you’d be interested in something in particular, I can try to dig it out.
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This article is sort of all over the place. Is Carissa Véliz even her real name, and if so they’ve already shared information that makes them less private. Sharing a date or place of birth doesn’t make you more secure. In fact, in many instances not sharing information makes you less private. Using pseudonyms and random data that fits the profile makes you more secure. For example, if you sign up for a website that generally appeals to people between the ages of 20-30 but you say you were born in 1947, then that stands out. Using WhatsApp or Signal, which requires a phone number doesn’t make you more secure. It does collect your data. Proton Mail requires a private key and uses JavaScript to “decrypt” your data, but practically no one would know if one day they sent JS to collect your private key password.
Do fellow citizens understand how we feel. What if we delegate jobs to people that think homosexuality is an attempt to corrupt others and send them to hell. AI at least evaluates morality without most bias that humans have. Doesn’t mean AI can’t do bad, but so can humans.
Carissa Véliz seems like someone that thinks they have answers, but in reality they are clueless as most people are. People get degrees and can act or sound important when in fact, they did very little to earn their title.
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Also, even with the owl stuff, there's political crossover, where I get a bit angrier about loopholes in laws that destroy ecosystems and inaction to saving endangered animals.
That kind of politics is very likely to be nearly universally agreed with on an owl community... at least I think, so you're probably safe.
I usually won't stalk profiles, I really only do to check "are you for real or are you just trolling", and now what with the Fediverse being a new thing I'll sometimes check on people to see if they stopped commenting too.
I'm a bit oversensitive and politics gets a lot of engagement, naturally, and there are so many politics magazines or magazines that aren't strictly politics but will post a political meme or about where inflammatory politics intersects with their usually non-political point of interest, and that's so so so many to filter out that I just don't trust I can look at All on my instance without seeing something enraging or "look how awful the world is today!" when I already know about that thing and don't want to spend my time getting worked up over it yet again. I know it means I lose out on fun interactions like the ones you have, though, and that's a tradeoff I take, especially since I supplement by subbing to /m/[email protected], and either that or Fedigrow has the active communities thread. I also used https://sub.rehab/ when first coming here from Reddit to replace all the subreddits I enjoyed, so I tried to hit all my interests I would be remotely interested in talking about online.
Yeah, given the games are visual novels and usually don't have much gameplay besides that (there are stat raisers like the Tokimeki Memorial series, I'm not really personally interested in Anchored Hearts but am aware of it because it is supposed to have some gameplay beyond just usual visual novel making choices, Boyfriend Dungeon is hack-and-slash) they put a lot into story or characters in order to keep it engaging. As someone who started with more traditional gaming before I found otome games, I would love to see more otome that also includes more traditional gaming. Some of the otome isekai genre things I consumed (more detailed explanation of what otome isekai is here, but in short the name should tell it all: girl/woman isekais into an otome game) feature otome that also is a real RPG with levels and everything (off the top of my head, Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I'm Not the Demon Lord, Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte, definitely have the game in the story be an RPG otome, and I don't recall what kind of genre The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior was but the title should tell you it definitely wasn't just a visual novel) which, if it isn't another misunderstanding of otome or artistic license being taken, implies that such games exist in Japan and just went unlocalized. But most otome are just straight up visual novels, so you have to sell them to us on the story, characters, and art only. Sometimes the music is really cool, but you don't really sell an otome on its music. Even if it's Band Camp Boyfriend. It's pretty cool. I've seen that some men play otome for the story and/or the romance and I definitely welcome that and them.
Curious what anime you like, and if you've joined any anime communities on the Fediverse. Or on Mastodon. Thinking of finally trying Mastodon after a year being on Lemmy and Kbin only. (I know my account age has me starting in September, but I instance-hopped.) I think I remember people on Fedigrow talking about anime communities they set up.
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I have no idea, I didn’t spend much time on the community page past seeing one post very negatively downvoted. Then I went to the community page to block it and literally every post I saw was negative. So I scrolled down to see more because maybe it was a fluke or something, and literally every single comment was very downvoted. I don’t remember anything about the posts, community, or its instance other than that the word “conservative” was in the community name and the posts were definitely on the right of politics.
Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, is recruiting “special deputies” to deploy during disaster or unrest. Opponents say the move is dangerous.
Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, is recruiting “special deputies” to deploy during disaster or unrest. Opponents say the move is dangerous. Portrait of George Blakeman. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has depicted his community as under siege.Credit…Johnny Milano for The New York Times
The leader of a New York City suburb is recruiting 75 armed citizens, many of them former police officers, for a force of “special deputies” to be activated whenever he chooses.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican who has allied himself with former President Donald J. Trump and thrust himself into the culture wars, posted a call in March for residents with gun permits and an interest in becoming “provisional emergency special deputy sheriffs.”
The posting called the initiative a strategy to assist in the “protection of human life and property during an emergency” such as a hurricane or blackout — and perhaps, Mr. Blakeman later added, “a riot.”
The new force has drawn vocal opposition in this well-to-do Long Island county, which is one of the country’s safest, protected by one of the largest police departments. It has plunged Nassau into a national debate about authoritarianism in an election season that some see as a fork in the road for American democracy.
Mr. Blakeman said in an interview that the program was about “providing another layer of protection” for residents. “I didn’t want to be in a situation where we had a major emergency and we needed help and people were not properly vetted or trained,” he said.
But critics have accused him of creating, with little notice or explanation, an unsanctioned militia answering only to him. They called the move especially dangerous amid heightened fears of political violence, and as Mr. Trump promulgates plans for mass deportations and quashing dissent.
Sabine Margolis, an I.T. program manager from Great Neck, said that Mr. Blakeman was using the pretext of an emergency response team to create a “clandestine armed presence.” Her online petition called “Stop Bruce Blakeman’s Personal Nassau County Militia” has received more than 2,600 signatures, and opponents have held rallies pillorying both the program and the lack of details on training, scope of recruitment and parameters of the deputies’ duties.
Mr. Blakeman dismissed criticism that the program is politically motivated, but it has provoked a more forceful reaction than his previous provocations. He has railed against bail reform, migrants and mask mandates, has called Democrats like Gov. Kathy Hochul soft on crime and has portrayed Nassau County as besieged by lawlessness — and used neighboring New York City as a cautionary example.
But Mr. Blakeman’s opponents say that giving police powers to civilian gun owners could result in accidental shootings and is an implied threat to minorities and political enemies.
“It’s fear-mongering, and it’s very damaging to people,” said Delia DeRiggi-Whitton, the Democratic minority leader of the County Legislature.
“It’s the opposite way we want to be going, a private militia with guns,” she said. “We’re trying to work on gun control, rather than promote them.”
Mr. Blakeman said he created the force so that “in an emergency, if we required them to protect infrastructure or government buildings or schools or hospitals, that would free up our police.”
Of roughly 100 applicants so far, about 25 have already been trained, Mr. Blakeman said, and he plans to train 50 more. His office would not provide applicants’ names but described the backgrounds of nearly a score of members — a mix of retired police officials, former veterans and other emergency responders and one bank chairman.
Enrollees receive training in the law, on firearms and on the use of deadly force, Mr. Blakeman has said. Preference goes to retired police officers, military veterans and security guards.
A spokesman said that the county pays members their $150 daily stipend from tax dollars only when they are activated for emergencies, that they use their own guns and that there is a list of permissible firearms.
Mr. Blakeman said that the program was not a militia and called the gun-control argument “ridiculous.” Being armed, he said, is crucial in an emergency.
“How could you protect infrastructure if you’re not armed?” he said, adding, “What should we do? Hide under the covers?”
The issue of the new force grew particularly contentious after Mr. Blakeman acknowledged in April that the deputies could be activated to patrol chaotic demonstrations. When a WPIX reporter asked whether he could declare a political protest an emergency, he said, “if the riot was to a level where they were burning buildings.”
Asked about the comment in an interview this week, Mr. Blakeman said that protests would be left to the police. Of the special deputies program, he said, “Of course, it would not be used for political purposes.”
Neither the county sheriff nor police responded to requests for comment.
In New York, a county executive officially administers budgets and taxes, and services like roads and parks. But the job can also be a way station for higher office, and Mr. Blakeman, in office since 2022, appears regularly on Fox News and other outlets.
His championship of red-meat issues has endeared him to conservative voters in the county of 1.4 million residents. Although Democrats hold a slight edge over Republicans as registered voters there, Mr. Blakeman defeated the incumbent, Laura Curran, partly by campaigning on a promise to “restore law and order.”
In February, Mr. Blakeman made national headlines with an executive order banning transgender athletes from playing on county-owned fields unless they competed on a coed team or the one matching their birth gender. In May, a judge ruled that Mr. Blakeman lacked the authority to issue the order. The next month the Republican-controlled County Legislature voted along party lines to enact it as law.
Jay Jacobs, the Democratic Party chairman for both Nassau County and New York State, accused Mr. Blakeman of using such issues to distract voters from his lack of progress on cutting property taxes and fees and fixing the property assessment system.
“This is all to solidify his extreme right-wing base,” Mr. Jacobs said. “Instead of solving the county’s problems, he’s appealing to the right wing by speaking the language they like: militia, guns, law and order.”
“There is no problem he is looking to solve,” Mr. Jacobs added. “Does he think we’re going to be invaded by Suffolk County?”
Critics say Mr. Blakeman’s plan reflects intimations of violence by Mr. Trump and his allies. Mr. Trump has said that shoplifters should be shot; suggested that his supporters might commit violence if the Supreme Court ruled against him; and refused to rule out political violence if he were to lose in November. He plans to deputize local law enforcement officers to carry out mass deportations of migrants.
Ms. DeRiggi-Whitton said in an interview that she had heard from Jewish residents who likened Mr. Blakeman’s initiative to the rise of Nazi forces under Hitler. One person referenced the Brownshirts, a paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party formed in the 1920s.
When Ms. DeRiggi-Whitton told reporters this in April, Mr. Blakeman, who is Jewish, called the comparison offensive and demanded her resignation.
His plan certainly has supporters, including Jennifer O’Sullivan, 51, a Republican voter who said the deputies could have helped, for instance, when houses were robbed after being evacuated for Hurricane Sandy.
“The county just wants to be prepared, and they’re not just rounding up anyone,” she said. “People with full carry permits are extremely law-abiding. They have to have a clean record and referrals regarding their character.”
Mr. Blakeman said a similar special deputy program exists in Westchester County, which is led by a Democratic county executive.
But Westchester’s chief operating officer, Joan McDonald, said that Westchester’s force, which provides support for parade and festivals, operates under a measure enacted by the State Legislature decades ago specifically for the county.
Members receive 178 hours of training, including 67 hours on firearms, in accordance with state standards for peace officers, she said. Most importantly, she said, its deputies answer to the county’s Department of Public Safety.
In a recent letter to Nassau lawmakers, Ms. McDonald wrote, “Westchester has not created a private militia, as County Executive Bruce Blakeman has done.”
Mr. Blakeman said his critics are assailing — and exaggerating — a program that will make the county safer.
“It’s a database and it’s nothing more than that,” he said. “People are trying to make it more than it is.”
Tbf some of the popular music has been shit since music began I’m sure, but there’s also always good stuff. For instance rap music, most of it these days is garbage like lil uzi and lil peep, but there’s still dudes like Aesop Rock (not ASAP Rocky, Aesop Rock), Run The Jewels, Meyhem Lauren, Lil Nas X, making good shit out there. Pop hasn’t been good since the 80s though. Oddly enough I think my favorite stuff from “now” is actually the fact that shoegaze is coming back but called zoomergaze and it’s fantastic! The band Julie is a good example, check out their EP Pushing Daisies. Also there’s been some really good recent country, namely Charley Crockett and Sturgil Simpson, and (ok it’s psychedelic bluegrass but) Billy Strings.
There is good stuff, we just have to dig through piles of shit for it.
A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza....
Snaps, flatpaks, docker etc… are small compressed applications that come with all the dependencies to run in a container. Their advantage is that they can run without installing all the extra dependencies on the host installation. They often suffer from random bugs such as permission errors. Along with many having questionable possibly malicious sources. The Ubuntu devs have went all in on them. Many people enable flatpak on mint to get some application that isn’t included by the package manager. What I was trying to convey is that these differences and the arguments they enable are kinda like watching two old farts at a coffee shop arguing over whether a Ford or a Chevy truck is better. In the end snaps and flatpak have some utility but are often a sore subject for some.
What matters is if you get what you want. For instance on Ubuntu you can install steam as a snap or install the actual application. Both work fairly well. You will be able to play most games by using steam and proton or by using other helper apps to install your games. The names of these are winetricks, lutris or playonlinux. Asking which one is best will often trigger arguments similar to asking what distro is the best.
I personally slowly eliminate snaps from my Ubuntu installations by compiling the applications myself. Not everyone enjoys doing that kind of thing. No matter what you choose you can usually get it working. With Ubuntu you will have quite a bit more support in the form of posted solutions and walk throughs but distros like mint are catching up a bit.
Communities on .ml are moderated in a way that pisses people off, especially in regard to politics.
People that judge someone with an .ml name on an different instance and a different community are acting like clowns. They’re just being lazy and/or prejudicial.
I apologise for getting a minor detail wrong about the order of items in the list, I underestimated how critically important the order of items in that list was to you.
For instance it seems like you saw a chronological list and when the very first item - which is actually quite damning and from which you omitted the inciting incident of a CIA-backed assassination - wasn’t a full-on war crime, you decided it was all frivolous. I can see why it’s so easy to get someone like you to ignore war crimes when you’re that unwilling to even read about them. I called out East Timor by name and you still ignored it. I can’t hold your hand through the entire article. History is for people who are willing to do some reading.
Anyway, if you go just a few items down the list, you read this:
The genocidal slaughter reached its peak in 1977, On March 1, 95 members of the Australian Parliament sent a letter to Carter claiming the Indonesian troops were carrying out “atrocities” and asking the American President “to comment publicly on the situation in East Timor.” [3]
The response was crickets. Carter ramped up aid with funding and weapons to the murderous Indonesian regime, brazenly flaunting the human rights requirements imposed on American aid.
So that’s a war crime, even by the extremely lax rules imposed by the US on themselves and to which they will never hold themselves accountable.
I saw someone else has posted here previously but it seems to be pretty dead and I can’t really get in touch with the person over it so I started another one and I plan on doing some weekly content on there if anyone is interested :)
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The login page specifically mentions signing in using Mastodon (although In assume the other named services also work) and returns a 404 if you try to use a Lemmy instance:
So I signed up with my Mastodon account and that went smoothly.
The data page does show that the importing is only from the named sources.
Conclusion:
It’s a very nice looking service and should prove very useful.
For our purposes here it would need Lemmy integration but that’s not insurmountable, it’s written in Python so there should be plenty of people who could get stuck in an add it.
I’d, personally, want to import my IMDb lists but that’s not difficult to fix as other movie sites allow this (I know Trakt do, and the clunky fix is to go via Letterboxd who also appear to do it but I haven’t tried there).
So a few issues I’d like to see addressed but neither look too difficult and, as this has only just popped up on our radar, I am sure there are people thinking along the same lines (and many others, as this has huge potential).
I’m not sure if it’s different per instance, but in lemmy.world instance you go out to the feed and scroll to the bottom. You can search by user name and such.
Didn’t know the name was controversial in Türkiye for Turkish people like yourself
In December 2021, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğa called for usage of Türkiye for exports, and in governmental communications with international entities and other countries. The reason given was that Türkiye “represents and expresses the culture, civilization, and values of the Turkish nation in the best way”. In May 2022, the Turkish government requested the United Nations and other international organizations to use Türkiye officially in English; the UN agreed.
Surprisingly enough that’s on the Wiki page for… Turkey:
Thanks for teaching me the words endonym and exonym:
For instance, Deutschland is the endonym for the country that is also known by the exonyms Germany and Germania in English and Italian, respectively, Alemania and Allemagne in Spanish and French, respectively, and Niemcy in Polish.
Give you the Common Usage W, only nitpick is I think “AKA Turkey” or “commonly known as Turkey“ may also help mitigate potential (albeit perhaps unlikely) confusion while sounding less prescriptive.
Would you mind elaborating on “control the context to eliminate bias and gaming” under this situation?
Sure, apologies if you already know any of this.
As with other scientific fields, there are guidelines and processes in place to evaluate the structure and approach for research.
iirc you don’t technically have to adhere to them, but it will certainly be a point of industry and peer criticism if you don’t, sometimes leading to papers not being accepted for journals and other more esoteric consequences.
This is one of the reasons proper peer review is important.
A basic example would be picking from (or narrowing to) an appropriate subset of the population.
If you were trying to perform research with the goal of evaluating the population as a whole, running your experiment exclusively with women between the ages of 18-25 would immediately be picked up as a reason the results can’t be trusted (in terms of the stated goal).
A slightly less obvious example (for certain kinds of experiments) would be sentence structure and unconscious bias through contextual information.
When wording questions and examples it is easy to introduce a bias in the tone and word choice, which can affect the outcome of the research.
A simplistic summary is that there is a bias (unconscious or otherwise) against people with “ethnic” sounding names on their resume.
There is, of course, more nuance to it than that, but still.
This is much less cut and dry because sometimes the bias is the thing being studied and forms a part of the test, which is why when creating these kinds of experiments the process is carefully evaluated and revised, hopefully by multiple people.
Another one you touched upon already is context, the time of day, life events, general disposition etc.
Good test design will try to account for as much of this as possible (though it’s unlikely to remove it all entirely).
Obviously the more questions asked, the more granular the results can become, so I’ll grant that.
That’s not always strictly true, quality is also important and there are diminishing returns on quantity, the length of a questionnaire can sometimes have it’s own effect on the results for instance.
This relates to your final point: What would I consider to be the test’s objectives? For me, it’s an exercise in gleaning insight into one’s own personality; to help with reflection and introspection. To identify your strengths and weaknesses. In some sense, to provide some identity. I can’t tell you how I felt understood. I actually teared up while reading the analysis for the first time. As something of an outsider for much of my life it was like it filled in the missing pieces I long suspected and yet always doubted. Like I said I can’t speak for what others got out of the test, but it was the best therapy I ever received. (And for context, I read every other generalized group to make sure it wasn’t generalized astrological bullshit where every description could match every person, for which nothing came close).
It sounds like this experience was/is of great use to you. I’ve heard similar things about ADHD and ASD diagnoses.
Finding your tribe/place sounds great.
What i would say is that people who don’t have this level of resonance with the results could well see it less favourably than you.
That isn’t necessarily because they performed the test (or interpreted the result) incorrectly, it could just mean less to them.
Well to be frank, the fact that you’re asking this shows you haven’t really understood what makes something secure or insecure, or it isn’t as important to you as you claim. If you want your stuff to be secure, your phone is the only “thing” that generates the 2nd factor. Especially things that are critical shouldn’t have duplicate devices being able to also generate codes. If you do want to generate codes for less critical accounts somewhere else, you should register a 2nd TOTP generator with that service and use one each per other machine. That way, if something gets compromised, you can just revoke those devices preventing any damage without having to re-setup existing 2fa again for the devices that weren’t compromised.
Now aegis is Android only, like you said. It also has no way of syncing with another instance (by design). It’s local only, it can just do backups. Having it send the highly critical information anywhere kind of defeats the security-purpose of it being local only. It adds a whole communications protocol that has to be secured, and somehow you have to authenticate the other side and so on. This also probably doubles the complexity (or at least size of the codebase) for the project, which then makes audits harder et cetera. Aegis currently does one thing (generate TOTP codes), and does this very well and as secure as it can without compromises.
Now for an actual answer: Most password-managers can also generate TOTP codes, like KeePass or KeePassXC to name two open source ones. But it’s their secondary purpose, with the primary obviously being storing the passwords. I’m not going to get into the implications of storing a TOTP code generator secret together with the password of the account it protects, let’s just say there are some. Since the actual secrets are stored in a (secured) database, you can sync these between devices. Or you can just create multiple TOTP generators for a single service and keep them separate.
Or we circle back to something server based, like BitWarden, which is primarily a password manager but also does TOTP. It’s a commercial, server based solution that is free for individuals. I’m not sure what the current limitations are for those accounts, like number of entries or just who you can share stuff with and so on. There is a open source implementation of their protocol called VaultWarden, where you can self-host the back end and not rely on the company securing their servers properly (and/or not being collateral damage in a breach of some kind). Again, combining password + TOTP-storage in the same service that is accessible online should be done with considerable thought to how it’s secured, but you could use this to only store the 2fa aspect as well.
The goal of c/Quarks has always been to help foster a sense of community for StarTrek.website, but it is just a generic “offtopic” community and does not really have an identity of it’s own on the Fediverse....
I think you guys actually need more open communities and not less.
Quark’s is great as an off-topic zone. The theme makes sense because the bar is somewhere people go to unwind and not necessarily talk direct shop. Stuff like news that’s Trek-adjacent fits perfectly in here, but the subsequent topics listed after other sci-fi television kind of deserve their own community. I think the scope of Quark’s is too large.
Navigating the fediverse and server meta have traditionally been their own communities as a /c/meta sort of affair. Those are definitely things that only the @stw community would really want to discuss internally and perhaps should be kept instance-user-only, but something like news and other “adjacent” content is of value across the federation and the opportunity for everyone to post just makes more organic sense to me. I would also take the opportunity to have another themed name, like /c/battlebridge, /c/ops or even /c/conferenceroom for the meta community.
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Why is Soviet literature so obscure? (or, a mini feedback on Bulgakov's Master and Margarita)
I heard a lot of praise for Bulgakov’s oeuvre in the past, so I decided to give it a go....
new sharkey instance now open: cyberpunk.gay (cyberpunk.gay)
cyberpunk.gay is now open for registrations!!!...
Judge dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump (www.cnn.com)
‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’: Carissa Véliz, expert in ethics applied to technology, advocates for a system of digital anonymity (english.elpais.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/806357...
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Neolithic population collapse may have been caused by plague, researchers say (www.theguardian.com)
Is everyone here leftist?
A Trump Ally Is Training 75 Armed Citizens. Is That a Militia? (www.nytimes.com)
Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, is recruiting “special deputies” to deploy during disaster or unrest. Opponents say the move is dangerous.
People younger than 30, what advice would you give to people over 30?
Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza (www.windowscentral.com)
A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza....
Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say (www.theguardian.com)
Nato summit: Ukraine on 'irreversible path' to membership (www.bbc.com)
Nato members have pledged their support for an “irreversible path” to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid....
'they didnt want us posting': Furry hacker collective suspended after teasing breach of right-wing think tank (www.dailydot.com) Spanish
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I saw someone else has posted here previously but it seems to be pretty dead and I can’t really get in touch with the person over it so I started another one and I plan on doing some weekly content on there if anyone is interested :)
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 76 (fediversereport.com)
A fully-featured review platform for the fediverse with NeoDB...
What is the craziest subs on lemmy ?
Baklava in Istanbul, Türkiye
Julian Assange's sexual assault accuser is "happy" he's free (www.bbc.com)
Swedish human rights activist Anna Ardin is glad Julian Assange is free....
Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen (appleinsider.com)
Announcement to non-StarTrek.website users: on July 10th, c/Quarks will change to "locals only". Thanks to the Lemmy devs for this new feature!
The goal of c/Quarks has always been to help foster a sense of community for StarTrek.website, but it is just a generic “offtopic” community and does not really have an identity of it’s own on the Fediverse....