New here, looking for my home on the fediverse. Interests include traditional musics from around the world, opera, Asian drama series and growing my own veg.
Decades of life with chronic illness. Brain often malfunctions. Whatever words I’ve gotten out have likely been a struggle. Please be kind.
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France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations (www.bbc.com)
Ex-Human Rights Watch chief - Israel violating humanitarian law in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
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Few Good Options as Israel Weighs a Ground Assault on the Gaza Strip (www.bloomberg.com)
I totally forgot how terrible a non-ad-free YouTube experience is
So I’ve been using youtube ad blockers since pretty much when ad blocker extensions were first available. Lately though I’ve been getting hit more and more with these messages that YT was sending out every 5 or so videos telling me that adblockers aren’t allowed. No problem, just gotta wait 5 seconds to x it out and then...
Israel’s Failure to Stop the Hamas Attack Shows the Danger of Too Much Surveillance (www.wired.com)
U.S. is sending a carrier strike group closer to Israel and will begin supplying munitions starting today (www.nbcnews.com)
Israeli death toll passes 600, another 2,048 injured (www.timesofisrael.com)
When Zionists redefine ‘antisemitism’ into a political cudgel (therealnews.com)
Recommendations for an outsider
I learned to read in grade school like pretty much everyone else I know, and I remember really enjoying reading for a very narrow portion of my younger years. When reading books became a compulsary part of school, that enjoyment just vanished, and video games ended up filling that void of “solitary passtime”. I dont even...
The smart(shit)ification of TVs pisses me off.
I absolutely hate “smart” TVs! You can’t even buy a quality “dumb” panel anymore. I can’t convince the rest of my family and friends that the only things those smarts bring are built-in obsolescence, ads, and privacy issues....
Is there a Book → Book Club / Reading Group service?
I have a specific book I’ve been meaning to read for awhile. I’ve heard that while it’s a great journey, it’s a dense / heavy / slow read along the way. It sounds like it’d be fun to read it together with a group of likewise interested folks....
How are Tumblr and Discord re surveillance?
These and Instagram seem to be the main locii of conversation for a topic I’m interested in. Instagram is a no because Meta. Just trying to keep myself off of the big data mining sites and search results are a bit of a hot mess....
e-book from Evie Snow, free today (sunny.garden)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/7269459...
What do you do when a great book has an absolutely uninteresting storyline?
I always say to myself that it is not worth to force books through. I do like 1/5th then I drop it if it did not catch me. Now I’m reading Pandora’s star which is a great scifi book and sandwitched inbetween the great scfi chapters there is this uninteresting detective storyline with zero scifi, people talking to eachother...
‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/eK1Rx...
Peter Pan and the Copyright that Never Grew Up - Plagiarism Today (www.plagiarismtoday.com)
When most people discuss perpetual copyrights, they’re usually its at least somewhat hyperbolic....