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it's always "footage appeared to show police in riot gear beating protesters with batons after breaking up the protest", and never "we asked the beaten up protesters if they had been beaten up by pigs"

@VE2UWY @n8chz masto is sorta already supposed to not dupe stuff like that, but it's not properly working i guess...

if you use #neovim, can you write extensions in #fennel, thus making into a kinda frakenstein #emacs?

@daviwil does that mean you done it schon?

cd we write some kinda elisp > fennel transpiler and go all the way? fully nuts?

@mynameistillian some user-friendly aimed linuxes i know of are MX (which i also use and recommend), mint, Pop, elementary, and ubuntu. there's also zorin about which i know nothing.

if you're from windows land, i'd suggest avoiding new(er) Gnome desktops (they're kinda desperate to emulate aspects of macOS, i find them incredibly hard to use). i have found xfce works well for my formerly windows-habituated brain (win 7-ish brain i guess), but maybe also MATE works in a similar way.

i guess it takes a bit of trial and error, using USB live versions of a few OSs to see if it clicks with your brain. hope it's an easy ride...

@technomancy vetting elisp! hah!

but yes, i totally take the point and that's what i was thinking also.

but the prob with optionals is in this case no one will bother to do it, while it turns out it's actually an annoying but important way that fedi works, and mastodon.el doesn't do enough to help it work properly, which i always felt bad about. masto devs (that hellscape) seemingly refuse to do better server-side...

i'll think on it.

#emacs #mastodonEl

decided to try adding language checking to composing posts. it's easy with guess-language.el.

toot compose language is now set to your default from account preferences. if guess-language.el gets a different result to your posts setting, you get a prompt.

am just not sure if it should be optional or a hard dep.

imho, #duolingo was always shit that i ran a mile from. it trivialized the experience of language learning and talked down to users, gamified acquisition and treated people like babies. its design was ruined by being based around how apps/computers work, it was one-dimensional. (feel free to disagree without trying to change my mind.)

everyone has different brains and learning styles, but what worked for me a million times more effectively than duolingo was Assimil, originally LPs and books, now available as pirated PDFs and mp3s from your favourite torrent site.

Assimil was made by pedagogues who were clearly experts in language acquisition. it doesn't rely on infantilizing repetition, understands that the real name of the game is engagement (not the viral app/social media/notification kind), which generates (deep) attention and leads to things making it into long-term memory.

it works because you want to learn what they're talking about, you want to grasp the world that they're giving you increasingly complex glimpses of.

Gilles Dauvé's (Troploin) critique of Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything.

https://www.troploin.fr/node/108

Spoiler: it's really no good at all... the critique that is. (Despite the fact that Dawn as well as Debt both deserve a solid critique.)

#communisation #graeber #communism #anarchism

@youronlyone for the first English example, you can just say "I am the third-oldest" (implying child, no need to mention siblings), and if in third-person prose (like a bio), you can say "the third child", or "the third of four children".

openness to corporations is the most evil liberal inclusion/tolerance rhetoric. they literally function by penetrating and gutting communities then charging for the privilege to enter into them. they run on the exact opposite logic of what they destroy. it's not a matter of being nice and letting everyone in. letting them in = destruction, by their very principle.

fedi needs to get down with glissant's idea of opacity. we need to make ourselves opaque. we need to wall plunderers out.

small actual community >>>>>>>> million times > dead in the water big community.

Should we let Deutsche Wohnen join our house project? Should we let Nestle join our alternative food network? Should we let Bayer join our permaculture group? Should we let Shell join our end fossil fuels campain? ...

guys these are really really tough questions that are just nagging at me so much, i'm at a loss as to how to proceed. send help.