Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
I'm still trying to work out whether the still images in the movie were taken in those scenes, staged to match the action, or generated from the moving footage. Was very clever.
Watched Alex Garland's #CivilWar last night. Visceral,
impressive for a low budget movie. Manages to avoid politicising because the story is about the reporters. Hence the wierd Texas/California Union)
However, the portrayal of the war photographers as neutral observers merely documenting events for others to judge on, is naive. We have only to look at the distressing images from recent and current conflicts that are waved about without reference to the context.
https://thomasflight.substack.com/p/civil-war-on-the-complicated-power
Using the #OReilly app as we have institutional access. Fine, but there's no way in the app *still* to voice read those books, or export to a #VoiceReader. I often download pdfs or push web articles straight to my regular app.
Any suggestions?
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An idea I'm playing with: A tool that lets you build a basic HTML page, and shows you how to host it for free.
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Reminder that I made https://quickinfo.io where you can quickly look up answers to certain classes of questions instead of googling and wading through bad results full of ads and spam.
Demo: https://quickinfo.io/?demo
Usages: https://quickinfo.io/?%3F
Many people still google em dash, shrug, degree sign, etc. They open a website from results, it is slow and full of ads. It shows a cookie banner. There is a better way.
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Different conservative groups "all disagree about who should be in charge, but they all agree that some people are ordained to rule, and that any 'artificial' attempt to overturn the 'natural' order throws society into chaos." — @pluralistic
(FWIW, I got my go-to definition of conservatism from an essay by Phil Agre: "Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.")
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V Bellingcat:
From Crimea to #Iran : Two More Ships Join #Russia ’s Grain-Smuggling Fleet
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/23/from-crimea-to-iran-two-more-ships-join-russias-grain-smuggling-fleet/?utm_source=twitter
And if you would like to hear the take of #TheGlobalJigsaw on the above, you can check out our episodes here - one on the grain deal, two on Iran, plenty on Russia:
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@simon_brooke @IndyRichard I think if I was Stormy Daniels I would regard the suggestion I had an “affair” with Trump as defamatory.
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Not all math puns are terrible.
Just sum.
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The fact that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife was one of the organizers of Donald Trump’s armed insurrection should be mentioned every time SCOTUS is in the news, IMHO.
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When the trailer for #TheRegime came out, it seemed to be a fairly serious drama, but early reviews from bamboozled Americans indicated that it might be more along the lines of "Death of Stalin" or that Peter Sellers classic "The Mouse that Roared".
2 episodes in and chuckling all the way through. Fantastic costume and production design, and wrapped in an Eastern European shawl by Alexandre Desplat.
https://youtu.be/MilyCJRKX80
Yay, new episode of #Map Men! Undiscovering the world - in the age of satellite photography, we now know some islands on maps don't actually exist.
https://youtu.be/PVemGumEEgo
Archvied here:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924032565990/mode/2up
Appears to be a comedic rant about capitalism and industrialisation, with some excellent engravings throughout (yes, it's *that* Eric Gill).
"Yes, until after men had toiled through collisions, accidents and confusions they did not learn that regulation was necessary ; even now the regulations they have reached are not uniform ! It is impossible to estimate the number of lives which would have been saved, and the trouble which would have been avoided, had the rulers arrived at a theoretical system to be enforced early enough."
This sounds very familiar!
Spotted this in a bookstore. The age old struggle, @pluralistic,
Control Vs Service.
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Sorry for the rant, but everything this government have touched they've ruined. We have foodbanks, record NHS waiting, unis facing bankrupcy. No policy successes to point to after a decade, including and especially from their flagship policies. All they have left is desperate bids to be divisive.
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It's Professor Snyder. Listen to facts and wisdom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mId4LefqBck
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Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For four years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder, @brewsterkahle, calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/internet-archive-stands-firm-on-library-digital-rights-in-final-brief-of-hachette-v-internet-archive-lawsuit/
- Location
- Mostly London
- Pronouns (plz)
- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
