Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Dec 2022
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A German state that specifically banned books by the most prominent Jewish intellectuals and scholars by declaring all of them dangerous radicals and “woke” activists who were trying to indoctrinate children, hoping to undermine the nation and subvert German national unity? 4/
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A German state that tried to suppress all inquiry into structural, systemic anti-Semitic discrimination in Germany today, and tried to purge all traces of such critical thinking from the libraries, the classrooms, the syllabi, the school curriculum? 3/
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A state that was specifically targeting any teaching that emphasized the central role of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust to modern German history and banned the use of scholarship that looked into continuities of anti-Semitism in Germany since the end of World War II? 2/
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What would you say if I told you there was a state in Germany (which also has a federal system in which education is largely in the hands of the sixteen states) that was effectively outlawing the teaching of any critical reading of Germany’s history and present? (Thread - 1/)
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Mastodon Flock — http://mastodon-flock.vercel.app/
An excellent Twitter-to-Mastodon friend finder.
All the functionality of Movetodon (before Twitter killed it today), but open-source with a delightfully retro interface.
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How to Use ChatGPT by OpenAI: Beginner's Guide
https://www.debugpoint.com/how-to-use-chatgpt/
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Sarah Posner: We will never fully understand the Jan. 6 insurrection without first reckoning with the role of Republican and religious right activists who believe God is telling them to fight an existential battle for a Christian America.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jan-6-committee-omitted-christian-nationalism-rcna67870
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@AmandaMarcotte @hannu_ikonen #republicans are empowering #racists, #misogynists, #murderers, #Fascists, #Christofascists, #Nazis, etc. What are #democrats doing aside from passing bills to make life better for #Americans?
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When Harvard Law School says you’re greedy, that’s something else https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4330393
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RT @froomkin
I wrote about how the Washington Post could save itself by taking advantage of the New York Times's pathetic custom of getting played by the right: https://presswatchers.org/2023/02/the-washington-post-is-doomed-without-a-major-reset/
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Live Captions is an application for the Linux desktop that provides instant, local, and open source captioning for video
Jitsi video conferencing screen showing a man and a woman and a screenshot, with live text caption at bottom In a perfect world, all videos would have transcripts, and live videos would have captioning. It’s not just a requirement for people without hearing to be able to participate in pop culture and video chats, […]
https://gadgeteer.co.za/live-captions-is-an-application-for-the-linux-desktop-that-provides-instant-local-and-open-source-captioning-for-video/ https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10-868bdd5a-c7cae73ec4677a32
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If you’re on #Ubuntu with some apps installed from Snap Store, be sure to run this to ensure old package releases don’t take up gigabytes of your disk space:
sudo snap set system refresh.retain=2
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"I don't want everybody to vote… Our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down"
— Paul Weyrich, 1980
(a father of the modern right, founder of ALEC, Heritage Foundation & Moral Majority; and partner in politics with nazi collaborator Laszlo Pasztor)
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I spent a month talking to people who lived and worked at Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist theme park in AL. They claim DAL turned a blind eye to drugs, violence, embezzling, and repeat visits by a sex offender who's accused of abusing a boy there:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/preacher-kent-hovind-accused-of-enabling-a-pedophile-at-his-christian-dinosaur-adventure-land-theme-park
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Well in one respect, this kind of proves that no good deed goes unpunished - stunt or not, he's genuinely helping people, and I would say his critics should STFU except that he also seems to have some rather unsavory personality traits (mentioned briefly in the article) that are fair game for criticism. But that said, I'm a little astounded that this philanthropy is something that people would waste time criticizing, since it is helping restore sight to people who otherwise would remain blind.
Also anyone who thinks that people should just live with their dissabilities and join some kind of community of others with the same condition, when that condition is easily addressed by available and affordable medical intervention can go straight to hell. It's one thing if nothing can be done about a condition, but if for example I were going deaf and a Cochlear implant would help and you tried to talk me out of it, I would probably want to punch you square in the face. Most people don't want to just live with a disability if something can be done to mitigate it, but there are a few who would rather join a community of others like themselves and the complain about people who are "ableists" because they don't want to be part of their little pity party. I am NOT talking about people who have conditions that can't be helped by medical intervention, or who can't afford the cost of or don't have access to such intervention, or who have other valid reasons for not getting that help and who don't try to force their choices on other similarly situated people. I'm only talking about the people who don't want such help but don't want anyone else to get it either, and hurl slurs and hate at the people who do accept such intervention and those who provide it.
The real bastards are the people who try to deny such interventions to children, in cases where the rewards can be great and the risks are small. I have nothing but contempt for those people. I had better stop here (but take a guess how I feel about anti-vaxxers).
After YouTuber MrBeast made a video about paying for 1,000 blind people's eye surgery, critics raise questions about "stunt philanthropy" and "char...
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Live Captions is an application for the Linux desktop that provides instant, local, and open source captioning for video https://gadgeteer.co.za/live-captions-is-an-application-for-the-linux-desktop-that-provides-instant-local-and-open-source-captioning-for-video/
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And now NBC News has an excellent article out on the homophobic smear campaign targeting #gigisohn
Still crickets from the White House and Senate Democrats...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fcc-gigi-sohn-nomination-turns-ugly-rcna68224
