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openculture@toot.community ("Open Culture (Official)") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“remember Vumbi Yoka Mudimbé’s and Ali A. Mazrui’s warnings that “Africa” as a space of knowledge was repeatedly invented from the outside… free ourselves from the image of a “uniform” and “eternal” Africa, of an Africa of innumerable and unchanging “tribes,” of an Africa conceived as the reliquary of our “origins,” for we are going to speak about African societies in history.”
— The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by François-Xavier Fauvelle
https://a.co/3GrO1vz
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davetron5000@ruby.social ("Dave Copeland :ruby:") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is srsly problematic for the PRC, hard to square this circle:
“China’s Courtship of European Powers Hits a Russian Wall
Beijing, in urgent need of reviving its economy, wants to mend ties with Europe but is struggling to create distance between itself and Moscow.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
This will be a must-see for those of us at small universities.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/21/are-they-making-a-show-of-my-life/
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RamenJunkie@retro.pizza ("RAMΞNJVNKIΞ🍜") wrote:
Mastodon FeedI’m not going to be tricked by literary critics again, is ‘Tropic of Cancer’ another one of those “classic novels” that is actually trash???
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Asked whether the jurors had recommended indicting Mr. Trump, Ms. Kohrs gave a cryptic answer: “You’re not going to be shocked. It’s not rocket science,” adding “you won’t be too surprised.”’
Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
*describing a piano* well see; it's a mechanical keyboard that uses non-clicky, linear switches, but it's got this really unique row-staggered key arrangement where the upper row omits a bunch of keys
the layout takes a lot of getting used to; VERY different from Qwerty, but at the same time also different from Colemak; technically it's a distinct kind of chording system, probably most similar to a steno?
anyway I'm going to try running it as my daily driver for a day or two next week to put it thru the paces since it sounds like a lot of people really like it; will let you know how that goes!
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
OH: "This code was apparently written by the infinite memory people."
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Mastodon FeedTonight’s painting progress #warhammer #horusheresy #miniaturepainting
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's good to be a weird & wealthy cult in America today.
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this is “but one of several G.O.P.-backed bills that would, among other things, assert control over the water system and reallocate Jackson’s use of sales tax collections.
The racial subtext is difficult to ignore: All 112 Republican state senators and representatives are white. All but four of the 58 Democratic legislators are Black.”
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“More than eight in 10 of Jackson’s 150,000 residents, as well as most of its elected leaders, judges and police officers, are African Americans. The proposed court system, and the police force, would be controlled almost exclusively by white officials in the state government.
Atop that, the new courts and police patrols would serve neighborhoods that contain the bulk of Jackson’s white population. The city’s Black neighborhoods would largely be skirted.”
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Malcolm X assassinated
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
That brings back unpleasant memories.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
JK Rowling belongs on the pages of the Onion. She's a figure of comical evil.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/21/the-onion-is-thriving/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Religion is such a convenient crutch for justifying bigotry.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/21/thanks-for-clearing-up-that-reasoning/
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ntnsndr@social.coop ("Nathan Schneider") wrote:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
How much can a Republican get away with in Minnesota? Lots. Repeatedly.
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Ah HA! It was Fedora in this case, *not* git. A new package was installed in my last update: nano-default-editor. Very suspicious...
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I used to do “agricultural work” in Humboldt County, and we used to call Fall ‘The Season of the Drunk Deer’. there were a lot of old, abandoned apple orchards in the area, the apples would ferment after dropping to the ground, and the deer would eat the fermented fruit and stagger about.
I spent a fair amount of my time repairing chickenwire around plants to keep the deer away, as otherwise we’d also find the plants eaten down to a nub and spaced out deer just hanging around.