"Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume."
"This interdisciplinary study analyses the connections between literary Modernism and right-wing ideology. Moreover, it is the first academic study to explore the reception of these Modernist authors by today's far right, seeking to understand in what ways they use strategic readings of Modernist texts to legitimise right-wing ideology."
"Klimaschädliches #Heizen und #Tanken wird teurer - das ist politisch gewollt. Im Gegenzug soll an jeden #Bürger ein #Klimageld ausgezahlt werden - doch die Mittel sind inzwischen anderweitig verplant."
@flexghost I sometimes wonder too about stuff I see on Facebook from groups like Occupy Democrats or The Other 98% or similar pages. Some of the memes they post and that I see shared by fellow liberals/progressives almost seem like they are purposefully made to make us on the left seem like we have more extreme or more unreasonable positions than we actually do. Like to drive division and make it harder for nonTrumpy center/right people to be able to vote with us to defeat MAGA.
@flexghost@Itty53
When I was around 10 years old, Clinton was in office, and the social security administration enacted a new policy of giving bonuses to any employee who got someone kicked off for fraud.
Shortly thereafter, the SSA determined that my father, who had ALS, was ineligible for disability, because he had a life insurance policy.
People like me are angry because we have been directly harmed by the failure of the Democratic party to be effective at reversing the damage of the Rs
Going to share a few more up-close shots of the new Mastodon merch! I'm happy that we got to incorporate some Mastodon history in the designs. Mind you there's only going to be 250 of each at launch!
Being an admin of a large-ish instance has been quite an eye opening experience into how awful some people are towards trans people. I really don’t understand the energy they put into hating people.
Seeing their attempts at indoctrination fail to take hold the indoctrinated can only imagine they have been stymied by some equal and opposite form of indoctrination. That we might be sincere about creating the space for each young person to find their own way, to make up their own mind is impossible from their perspective.
That we wait on the outcomes of experiments and study to determine what is best? Just a lie.
@darnell
This is one of the reasons spanking persists as a method. With a constant and loving parent it’s often not harmful. What is important is to recognize that it’s never more effective or needed. Some parents don’t know of any other way or their elders pressure them in to it. But there really is no evidence that it’s more effective than other forms of consistent and caring discipline.
No child needs spanking. Especially not black children. There are heaps of trauma we have passed down buying into the idea that it’s possible to “spank a kid safe” or buying in to the idea some kids are so bad, so hard-headed nothing else will reach them. But this just isn’t true.
I’m not some wishy washy hippie. I live and teach in the Bronx. I have seen a bad child once or twice.
Ok. I am tired of Infosec.exchange being sluggish. I just submitted a crazy order with Hetzner to upgrade the instance. Hopefully the last time for a while. I ordered a dell AMD Genoa 48 core server with 256 GB of ram to act as a database and redis server, a dell 64 core sapphire rapids server with 256gb of ram to act as the single front end/puma/streaming server, and an amd 7950 with 128gb of ram to run minio (insourcing from Backblaze).
I ordered all with 10g network interfaces to be connected to the same switch.
I continue to see issues with Backblaze performance causing issues with posting.
This will consolidate the environment down from about 13 servers to 4 (I will keep using less expensive servers on 1G networks for Sidekiq if it can’t run on the sapphire rapids server.
I will be putting that behind Fastly for global distribution and ddos mitigation. I don’t know whether I’ll keep serving media via bunny.net or try to do that with Fastly also. Bunny works pretty well and is cost effective for media delivery.
Things on infosec.exchange were getting a little bit sluggish, and I've had complaints about media processing taking a long time so I added another app server for the US region. In the past, that has caused media uploads for some people to just fail outright because the reverse proxy hops the upload from one app server to another - and the other has no idea what to do with the last half of a file. I am hopeful I've got that problem ironed out in the nginx config, but would be interested in knowing if anyone runs into that...
@smutstodon This poll hasn't been live for 24 hours yet and I already have 100 votes in the poll. I ran a similar poll on #Twitter back when I had a little more than 2000 followers (in 2019) and the total result were 128 votes.
So it seems my reach in the #Fediverse or engagement is better than it was even on "old Twitter" which is a beautiful discovery 🥰
🧵 OK, time for another dev thread
This time I'm making an ART FORGERY game, should only take around 1.5 days but it'll probably be spread out into next week (& doing the thread slows me down)
There's one obvious choice for what you're forging...
For anyone having issues with the #ActuallyAutistic hashtag, there is also #AllAutistics and @allautistics (the latter being a recently created group that you can follow and post to).
They are intended for anyone who is (or thinks they might be) autistic (formally or self-diagnosed).
This is such a valuable point. Internal vs. external conflict.
External conflict requires a receiver who receives it as conflict, though, and I wish autistic spaces here were better at declining to take up the offense.
100mountains initially spoke primarily in first-person. It would be so fucking cool if first-person sentences at least got a full-on pass from masking. Let people describe their own perspectives on depersonalized things without any risk of someone self-identifying with those things enough to say OUCH! minus one point for aggression!!
(I don't want to have to caveat, but I will for clarity, that I am criticizing an aspect of social choreography that doesn't have to be this way, and not either of you personally)
€ Euro banknotes are getting a new look! The time has come to choose the theme for their future design, and we want YOU to have a say. Which theme should be selected?
@EU_Commission
I followed the link to see the possible designs.
The first page gave an arithmetic question (NOT math, that is a separate rant) to "prove I am human".
I proved I am human by leaving the page.