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Thunberg = nom de la plante 

TAXONOMIE = branche de la science concernée par la classification, en particulier des organismes; systématique

Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828) était un naturaliste suédois. Il est parfois appelé le "Linné japonais." -- fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pet

Son nom - Thunberg - est cité dans les noms scientifiques de plus de 200 espèces de plantes et d'animaux au Japon, y compris Houttuynia cordata. -- fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houttuyn

Il a publié "Flora Japonica" en 1784. -- copie numérisée du texte bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/

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On a Silly-O-Clock plane to Amsterdam, en route to Brussels to speak on the future of Internet regulation at the European Parliament on behalf of @Mastodon and small technology (small-tech.org/about#small-tec) tomorrow.

Preview (slides): small-tech.slides.com/aral/dea

#eu #mastodon #regulation #freedom #HumanRights #democracy

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Chikara

It may be difficult to put something in words or express something in words, but I think it is a way to get closer to your goals.  -- Ichiro asahi.com/special/ichiro/from-

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@freemo Not idly do the leaves of Lórien fall, -- The Two Towers

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17 décembre 1637 : la révolte de Shimabara éclate au Japon. Des paysans de Kyushu excédés par les persécutions religieuses antichrétiennes et par des impôts intenables en cette période de disette se rebellent contre les shoguns Tokugawa.
La répression sanglante qui suivra consolidera le pouvoir des shoguns et aboutira à la quasi-disparition du christianisme au Japon.
#CeJourLa
#Histoire

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STEM ≥ l'histoire de la technologie au Japon 

La première utilisation de polices de caractères mobiles dans un livre publié imprimé au Japon a marqué une étape importante dans l'histoire de la technologie.

PRESSE D'IMPRIMERIE. La première presse à imprimer à caractères mobiles a été apportée de Corée au Japon en 1593. -- Princeton, "First Japanese Book Printed from Movable Type" (Julie L. Mellby). December 6, 2008. princeton.edu/~graphicarts/200

TECHNOLOGIE D'IMPRESSION. La technologie d'impression a été pillée lors de la première invasion japonaise de la Corée (1592-1596), également connue sous le nom de guerre d'Imjin. -- Kim, J (2018). "Museums and cultural heritage: to examine the loss of cultural heritage during colonial and military occupations with special reference to the Japanese occupation of Korea, and the possibilities for return and restitution." (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City, University of London), p. 20. openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprin

TYPOGRAPHIE. Les Japonais ont ramené de nombreuses polices et spécialistes de l'impression coréens au Japon, ce qui est devenu le début de la typographie japonaise. -- Sohn, Pow-key. “Early Korean Printing.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 79, no. 2, 1959, p. 103. jstor.org/stable/595851?Search

PREMIER LIVRE. En 1593, le premier livre utilisant le type mobile en cuivre a été publié au Japon. -- History of Information. historyofinformation.com/index

DEUXIÈME LIVRE. En 1599-1603, le premier livre a été publié à l'aide d'une presse de fabrication japonaise et de polices de caractères en bois de fabrication japonaise. - copie numérisée en ligne de Nihon Shoki (Chroniques du Japon) à la Bibliothèque du Congrès wdl.org/en/item/11835/view/1/3; et voir ci-dessous, un exemple de texte de ce livre japonais du début du 17e siècle

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The global success of Marie Kondo points to an important truth for Japan’s economy bloom.bg/2SIY2Z7 

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STEM ≥ Japanese type font 

The first use of movable type fonts in a published book printed in Japan was a milestone in the history of technology.

PRINTING PRESS. The first printing press which used movable type was brought from Korea to Japan in 1593. -- see Princeton, "First Japanese Book Printed from Movable Type" (Julie L. Mellby). December 6, 2008. princeton.edu/~graphicarts/200

PRINTING TECHNOLOGY. The printing technology was looted during the first Japanese invasion of Korea (1592-1596), also known as the Imjin War. -- see Kim, J (2018). "Museums and cultural heritage: to examine the loss of cultural heritage during colonial and military occupations with special reference to the Japanese occupation of Korea, and the possibilities for return and restitution." (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City, University of London), p. 20. openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprin

TYPOGRAPHY. The Japanese took many fonts and Korean printing specialists back to Japan, and this became the beginning of Japanese typography. -- see Sohn, Pow-key. “Early Korean Printing.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 79, no. 2, 1959, pp. 96–103. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/595851. jstor.org/stable/595851?Search

FIRST BOOK. In 1593, the first book using movable type made of copper was published in Japan.. -- see History of Information. historyofinformation.com/index

SECOND BOOK. In 1599-1603, the first book was published using a Japanese-made press and Japanese-made wooden type fonts. -- see online digitized copy of Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) in Library of Congress wdl.org/en/item/11835/view/1/3; and see below, sample text from this early 17th-century Japanese book

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@freemo @design_RG The genesis of your thinking about @design_RG and me is unimportant, but it does matter that you posted an observation -- an opinion -- which anyone and everyone in the fediverse may read. You wrote, "you guys seemed not to get along."

No. Those words are not valid and they are unhelpful.

I get along fine with @design_RG.

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Freedom of speech and the Web. Rest CW'd for length (4850 chars hidden) 

About two days ago, @freemo made a well-considered proposal to create a collective among Fediverse instances, for the purpose of enforcing respect for one another's freedom of speech. It doesn't quite line up with my idea of free speech, however, and I decided to publish my thoughts on the matter to solicit feedback. Just as "your right to swing your arm leaves off where my right not to have my nose struck begins," so too one person's right to speak leaves off where another's right not to repeat his words begins.

When you access a webpage, your browser sends a request to the server on which that website is hosted. In the simplest case, this request is essentially a formalised way of saying, "Hey, [server], please send me [page]." If things go according to plan, the server responds with the named page. You can set this up yourself: type up some text, share it using a tool like SimpleHTTPServer, and load it in a browser.

But you don't, strictly speaking, *need* to run a server to send the content in response to client requests. You could, for instance, run netcat listening on an appropriate port, and manually type in whatever you wanted as the content of the webpage. Of course, this would get very tedious if you had to type it in more than once or twice, but it does cause the browser to display the content.

It should be evident that typing the response directly back to the listener is an instance of speech, the same way it is to answer a question on the telephone or by a printed letter. In this case, it's very clear who the speaker is - if the reply is based on information obtained from a third party, or even if it's a direct quote of a third party, the role of speaker still remains with the person actually making the reply by typing it up, by speaking it into the handset, or by putting pen to paper.

Note that the freedom of speech allows one person to decline to quote another as well. If Alice asks Bob, "What did Carol say about me?" that freedom allows him to say, "It doesn't bear repeating," or even lie and say, "Nothing at all." It is not a violation of Carol's freedom of speech for Bob to do so, even if Bob knows full well what Carol said about Alice, even if Carol made her remarks directly to Bob, and even if Carol wanted Bob to pass the remarks on to Alice.

Let's return to the idea of manually typing out your HTTP responses. Suppose, for instance, you have a comment section on the page you want to show the user - why would you be obliged to type out a given comment, simply because the commenter wants you to pass it on to your site's visitor? Clearly, as you're the speaker, your freedom of speech is still in operation as in the above scenario, and it protects your decision to decline to do so.

Consider an old-fashioned printing press, which works by pressing an inked design against a sheet of paper. When that paper is retrieved from the machine, it may have some words on it - but the printing press itself is not the speaker of those words. It is the operator of the press - who carved the design, or constructed it from movable type or some other means - who is responsible for their content. The press itself is merely a tool that enables him to produce many copies of the same words more rapidly than he could by handwriting them repeatedly.

Likewise, a webserver is just a tool that saves the site owner from having to repeatedly type the same response to each HTTP request he gets. This is just a program running on a machine somewhere, which itself doesn't have the degree of autonomy necessary to enjoy freedom of speech. The program's speech cannot be "free" in any meaningful sense, because it is completely controlled by the person with the capability to determine how it works, whether by altering the program itself or by modifying the content files it sends.

This is how federation works among Mastodon and related technology. Each instance is normally responsible for passing along the content produced by others, but silencing, suspending, and banning allow the operator of each website to specify policies under which his machine should not repeat that content. This control makes the operator the speaker to whom freedom of speech applies, even though he neither authored the content nor manually transmitted it to the client. His free speech rights, far from compelling him to never use these tools, are in fact what allows him to exercise his discretion to do so.

Although they use tools to distribute content more efficiently, the human operators remain the speakers, and it is to them that the freedom of speech applies. Machines themselves don't have such a freedom protecting them from our decisions to modify the content they emit, and if others offer comments, it is no infringement of their freedom when we decline to repeat their words.

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Chikara

@freemo @design_RG

Welcome to our new moderator.

Bem-vindo ao nosso novo moderador

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Chikara

@freemo @design_RG QED

Le't review slowly:

A. According to @design_RG, my use of the word "election" was wrong. -- see qoto.org/@chikara/103324461563

B. According to @design_RG, a wrong word the noun "election" was both incorrect and correct. The beginning of his sentence explains "it is not an election." And the end of the sentence is about "both the November and December elections."
• It is not an election as in open to membership vote -- that is clear from the administrator original posting for both the November and December elections-- see qoto.org/@design_RG/1033246146

C. Responding to @design_RG -- and working with him to try to move towards cooperation and common ground, I edited my post with different words and a different format. I wrote
• I decided not to express any opinion in the QOTO moderator selection process
• My support or lack of it will have no effect on the short-term process of selecting you as a QOTO moderator. -- see qoto.org/@chikara/103326686555

D. There is nothing in the brief exchange between @design_RG and me which explicitly informs your noun choices when you write "your objections in the election." -- see qoto.org/@freemo/1033282900664

You ask, "Why would I say something would have no effect?"
ANSWER: A + B + C + D = QED

You ask, "What are you basing this on?"
ANSWER: A + B + C + D = QED

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@khird NO. These letters are upper case. If I understand correctly, this is the correct way to shout on the internet. Let's be clear: I'm shouting NO.

In real life, I don't shout. I'm a quiet man. But that's changing.

I was disbelieving when you imported homophobic hate to QOTO. I should have felt soiled, but I didn't. This confused me for a time, but not so much now.

"We know that every moment is a moment of grace." -- see 8th paragraph in Elie Wiesel's Nobel Prize acceptance speech nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/19

I presented my trivial questions to @freemo because of a blind and deaf woman

I cannot do everything, but
still I can do something; and
because I cannot do
everything, I will not refuse to
do something that I can do
-- Helen Keller

I was uncertain about what I owed to @admin et al. at Humlr.social

But you pushed me hard in a transformative direction; and I felt compelled to search out the words of a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

"There may be times when we are powerless ..., but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." -- see last paragraph in Elie Wiesel's 1986 Nobel Prize lecture nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/19

Generally, I almost always hold myself back unless I'm speaking up for someone else, and even then I'm slow. But that's changing.

NO. In this one word, you've helped me find my voice.

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@design_RG You've taught me never to send you a DM. It won't happen again.

I looked up the term "ascerbic."

I don't see how this adjective applies to my words. Maybe if I change some of the words, it will mitigate the stigma.

DIFFERENT WORDS

I decided not to express any opinion in the QOTO moderator selection process because it is a procedural charade.

The fact that my point-of-view is missing will have no effect on the short-term outcome, of course.

But it does make sense to acknowledge a problem which has potential long-term consequences.

Without more, a sham process is meaningless except for the unanticipated consequences going forward.

DIFFERENT FORMAT

A. FACT. My support or lack of it will have no effect on the short-term process of selecting you as a QOTO moderator.

B. QUESTION. Does it make sense to acknowledges a problem that has long-term consequences?
ANSWER: Yes

C. PROBLEM. Without more, a procedural charade is a meaningless in the short-term and potentially meaningful consequences long-term are not unlikely.

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mmu_man

Sympa le Tripitaka Koreana… mais un peu encombrant 😃

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripitak

#imprimerie cc @bayartb

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STEM ≥ l'histoire de la technologie en Inde 

La première utilisation du visage de type bengali dans un livre publié imprimé en Inde a marqué une étape importante dans l'histoire de la technologie.

Charles Wilkins (1749-1836), était un typographe anglais.

Wilkins a été l'un des créateurs de la première police de caractères bengali; et il a publié le premier livre imprimé en bengali avec type mobile en métal. -- British Library, "Two Bengali grammars – a typographic perspective" (Fiona Ross). bl.uk/early-indian-printed-boo

Tous les types précédents d'impression bengali étaient réalisés sur des plaques de cuivre, -- -- see Banglapedia, "Printing" en.banglapedia.org/index.php?t

La première imprimerie du Bengale a été ouverte en 1778. La presse était à Hoogly (Chinsura) sur la rivière Hoogly à 40 miles au nord de Kolkota. C'est l'endroit où le premier livre de grammaire bengali utilisant la police mobile de type bengali a été imprimé.-- M. Siddiq Khan. “The Early History of Bengali Printing.” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, vol. 32, no. 1, 1962, p. 54. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4305188

Voir ci-dessous
• page de titre du premier livre imprimé en utilisant la police Begali en métal
• la première police de caractères bengali;

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STEM ≥ Bengali type font 

The first use of Bengali type face in a published book printed in India was a milestone in the history of technology.

Charles Wilkins (1749 - 1836), was an English typographer. -- see Wikipedia "Charles Wilkins" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_; and see "Typography" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typograp

Wilkins was one of the creators of the first Bengali typeface; and he published the first typeset book in Bengali. -- see British Library, "Two Bengali grammars – a typographic perspective" (Fiona Ross). bl.uk/early-indian-printed-boo

All previous types of Bangla printing were made on copper plates. -- see Banglapedia, "Printing" en.banglapedia.org/index.php?t

The first printing press in Bengal was opened in 1778. The press was in Hoogly (Chinsura) on the Hoogly River 40 miles north of Kolkota.

Hoogly is where the first Bengali grammar book using the movable Bengali type font was printed. -- see M. Siddiq Khan. “The Early History of Bengali Printing.” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, vol. 32, no. 1, 1962, p. 54. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4305188; see below, title page of first book printed using Begali typeface made of metal; and see below, Wilkins drawing of one Bengali character to be made into type; see also below, Wilkins Bengali matrices

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@design_RG I completed the signed up process at Discourse.org. -- see meta.discourse.org/u/chikara/s

I used the Discourse search engine to search for "design_RG" and the results did not include what I was looking for. -- see meta.discourse.org/search?q=de

"My" Discourse pages feature a visually distinctive company logo like the one on the AWI page you created, but there's a glitch. I can't log on to participate.-- see discourse.qoto.org/t/setting-u

The system protocols seem to require me to sign up with another avatar -- something like "Chikara1"?

SUGGESTION: I used "my" Discourse search engine to search for "QOTO"; and the dialogue at "Discourse Math Plugin" suggests you might want to "change permission"? -- see
meta.discourse.org/search?q=QO

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9 Ways To Improve Your Life Before 2020

1. Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone
2. Avoid negative people
3. Take rest often
4. Be kind to good people
5. Get more sleep
6. Learn to be grateful
7. Stop comparing yourself to others
8. Spend some alone time
9. Stop self-deprecating talks

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