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kerim, 6 days ago to random

@mmasnick What are you using now?

kerim, 6 days ago to random

The NY Times report "The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel" is quite long, but Ali Velshi does a good job of summarizing it and explaining its importance in about 8 min here. (You can skip the interview with the reporter at the end - not much is added.)

https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/-50-years-of-crime-without-punishment-new-report-details-how-israel-s-politics-were-hijacked-by-extremist-settler-ideology-211185733646

kerim, 12 days ago to random

If you didn't have time to read the story about how Israel is using AI to select bombing targets in Gaza, Vox has made a short 9 min video about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGqYbXL3kZc

kerim, 13 days ago to random

"We know there can be no winners in this war because there’s no military solution to the conflict . . . we are serving time in military prison because we keep on objecting to this war . . . Our side is ceasefire. Our side is peace."

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/09/israel-military-teenagers-ceasefire-mesarvot/

kerim, 16 days ago to random

I've written a guide for people who want to draft papers in #Obsidian and then export to Microsoft #Word with "live" #Zotero citations. That is, the final document will look like a document that was written in Word with Zotero from the beginning, allowing you to edit the citations and generate a bibliography before submitting to a journal.

https://garden.oxus.net/technology/obsidian-to-word/

kerim, 25 days ago to random

Read an article today which suggests that trauma backstories are a recent trend in TV story writing, but the thing is that this has been a staple of film screenplay writing for decades. It is closely connected to the way people are taught to write screenplays and the kinds of stories studios expect to produce. Central to these is the notion of "the hero's journey" in which the main character must overcome his (or, less often, her) inner demons before they can achieve their goals.

kerim, 1 month ago to random

Siddhartha Deb, in the NY Times:

"This is not sustainable, even if it seems likely that Mr. Modi will ride to a third victory in national parliamentary elections that begin Friday . . .

Perhaps even the prime minister and his party can sense this. Their crackdowns on opposition political leaders, manipulation of electoral rolls and voting machines and freezing of campaign funds for opposition parties are not the actions of a confident group."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/opinion/india-election-modi-religion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l00.VEHZ.Cvd3JzhB6D6z&smid=url-share

kerim, 1 month ago to random

"You don’t have to like anti-Israel language or activism to be worried about congressional demands to suppress it. These hearings are highly unusual; it’s hard to think of a time since the anti-Communist House Un-American Activities Committee when Congress has made such an effort to investigate disfavored ideologies in academe."

• Michelle Goldberg in the NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/opinion/columbia-antisemitism-hearing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l00.NJli.VG7KsrTQ54uP&smid=url-share

kerim, 1 month ago to random

I gave Suno AI the following prompt

"80s Mandopop song about a Formosan mountain dog who is afraid of earthquakes"

and here is the song it wrote (in English).

https://suno.com/song/a2f56e4b-a296-4552-9750-e2bd91cb29f9

kerim, 1 month ago to Taiwan

This is fascinating on so many levels.

TSMC employee newborns in #Taiwan make up 1.8% of country's 2023 total

https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202403290012 (1/4) 🧵

kerim, 1 month ago to random

I wish there was some way to explain to Duolingo that I really don't care about my "streak"…

kerim, 3 months ago to random

"Today, Apple’s products violate all the fundamental rules of design for understanding and usability, many of which Tognazzini and I had helped develop."

My parents are both computer literate - my mom wrote her PhD thesis on an Amiga, and my Dad was ahead of his time in introducing the use of computers into higher education. Yet I see both of them struggling with their Apple products . . .

https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-user-friendly-design-what-i-see-today-horrifies-me

kerim, 4 months ago to random

The current state of the US Post Office makes me sad. During this stay, not a single package delivered via USPS "Priority Mail" was delivered on time. Most were several days late.

Trump once admitted that he deliberately starved the US Post Office of cash in order to delay mail-in ballots, and yet here we are...

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-ap-top-news-elections-politics-14a2ceda724623604cc8d8e5ab9890ed

kerim, 4 months ago to random

RIP Peter Schickele, aka P.D.Q. Bach.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/arts/music/peter-schickele-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok0.6Asc.DKX1giJ73xdK&smid=url-share

kerim, 4 months ago to Palestine

A group of Jewish writers drafted this letter after seeing an old argument gain new power: the claim that critiquing Israel is antisemitic.

“We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand. The safety of each people depends on the other’s.”

#Palestine

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/

kerim, 4 months ago to twitter

I deleted Twitter ages ago and refuse to create a new account even to see posts there. Nitter Redirect is a free Chrome extension that will redirect Twitter links to Nitter, which is "a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance."

#Twitter

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nitter-redirect/gjchkcbplbacbdoloilellfedfomlhia

kerim, 4 months ago to Palestine

Read this powerful piece by Raz Segal (Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University) and Penny Green (Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London) on the South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the Hague. Then go to the Law for Palestine database and look at some of the over 500 quotes they've collected from Israeli politicians and military leaders expressing genocidal intent.

#Palestine #Genocide #SouthAfrica

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/14/intent-in-the-genocide-case-against-israel-is-not-hard-to-prove

HuShuo, 4 months ago to Taiwan

Ruling DPP’s Lai to Claim Taiwan Election Win With KMT Set to Concede

KMT, TPP concede. Legislature numbers not clear yet.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2024-01-13/taiwan-presidential-election

#Taiwan #Election #TaiwanElection #DPP #KMT #TPP