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US-client-state, Australia, again fails Palestine

"A motion to recognise a Palestinian state by the Australian Greens" was voted down in parliament 80 votes to five.

"Greens leader Adam Bandt put the motion to the Australian House of Representatives."

"It was seconded by Greens Max Chandler-Mather & supported by Independent member Andrew Wilkie.

"Mr. Bantdt criticised Labor for not supporting the motion."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/greens-move-to-recognise-palestinian-state-voted-down-in-parliament-5658619

#So-calledLabor #AusPol #AusGreens #Palestine ..

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US-client-state, Australia, again fails Palestine

"A motion to recognise a Palestinian state by the Australian Greens" was voted down in parliament 80 votes to five.

"Greens leader Adam Bandt put the motion to the Australian House of Representatives."

"It was seconded by Greens Max Chandler-Mather & supported by Independent member Andrew Wilkie.

"Mr. Bantdt criticised Labor for not supporting the motion."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/greens-move-to-recognise-palestinian-state-voted-down-in-parliament-5658619

#So-calledLabor #AusPol #AusGreens #Palestine ..

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US-client-state, Australia, again fails Palestine

"A motion to recognise a Palestinian state by the Australian Greens" was voted down in parliament 80 votes to five.

"Greens leader Adam Bandt put the motion to the Australian House of Representatives."

"It was seconded by Greens Max Chandler-Mather & supported by Independent member Andrew Wilkie.

"Mr. Bantdt criticised Labor for not supporting the motion."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/greens-move-to-recognise-palestinian-state-voted-down-in-parliament-5658619

#So-calledLabor #AusPol #AusGreens #Palestine ..

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US-client-state, Australia, again fails Palestine

"A motion to recognise a Palestinian state by the Australian Greens" was voted down in parliament 80 votes to five.

"Greens leader Adam Bandt put the motion to the Australian House of Representatives."

"It was seconded by Greens Max Chandler-Mather & supported by Independent member Andrew Wilkie.

"Mr. Bantdt criticised Labor for not supporting the motion."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/greens-move-to-recognise-palestinian-state-voted-down-in-parliament-5658619

#So-calledLabor #AusPol #AusGreens #Palestine ..

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Reader question: What's your favorite genre and what is a pet peeve you have about something in that genre?

For example I love fantasy, but my pet peeve is the unassuming teenager who somehow seems to master every skill in the world (in 2 hours or less) 😁

@reading @fantasybookstodon

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No, Oscar Wilde did not say "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness"
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/no-oscar-wilde-did-not-say-imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery-that-mediocrity-can-pay-to-greatness/

Another day, another debunking!

I've seen this quote flying around social media for some time.

A tweet with thousands of reposts and likes. It reads: I just learned that the full Oscar Wilde quote about imitation is: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” The last part.. it matters.

Everyone loves finding out that a famous quote has a twist and that the author isn't anonymous. It's the perfect piece of clickbait!

But the thing is… this quote is bunkum.

The easiest way to tell is to stick it into a search engine. You'll find lots of people confidently claiming it is by Wilde - but no actual sources. Try it now. Surely at some point someone would have pointed to the scene in a play, or some private correspondence, or a passage from a book, wouldn't they? But there's nothing. Just a lot of unsourced claims.

Wilde isn't an obscure writer. All of his work has been digitised and is easily searchable. As far as I can tell, this "quote" doesn't appear anywhere.

So who did say it? And who attributed it to Oscar Wilde?

The phrase "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" has a long history. In its modern form, it can be attributed to Charles Caleb Colton who published it in a book of aphorisms in 1820. That's 34 years before Oscar Wilde was born.

But what about "that mediocrity can pay to greatness"? The earliest example of that 2nd half comes from 1893, in "Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses - Volume XIV". That was published in 1896.

Here it is in the essay "The Imaginative Faculty" by Sir Herbert Beerbohm.

As on the stage, so it is in real life, we are not what we are, we become what we imagine ourselves to be. A man is not always what he appears to his valet. He often finds his truest expression in his work. A great man will often appear uninteresting and commonplace in real life. Who has not felt that disappointment ? The real man is to be found in his work. It is this personality which is often obliterated by his biographer — for detraction is the only tribute which mediocrity can pay to the great. This literary autopsy adds a new terror to death. A man might at least be permitted to leave his reputation to his critics, as he would leave his brains to a hospital.

Admittedly, that was published during Wilde's life. And, in 1892, Beerbohn produced and stared in Wilde's A Woman of No Importance. Nevertheless, the phrase isn't found in that play - nor in any of his earlier works that I can see.

In 1898, the phrase was also used by "Abbott" when memorialising the racist and misogynist hate-preacher "Brann":

https://archive.org/details/completeworksofb12branuoft/page/72/mode/2up

It pops up again in 1918 with Georg Brandes writing "A great writer has said: Detraction ts the only tribute, which mediocrity can pay to the great.".

The combining of the two phrases doesn't seem to appear online or in archived works until - as far as I can see - October 2nd 2012.

Using Twitter's date-based search I found a now-defunct lifestyle magazine with the full quote - albeit unattributed. A few days later, someone quotes a now-private account which attributes it to Wilde.

Two tweets showing the phrase.

A year or so earlier, in 2011, a Juventus Football fan posted this proto-version of the phrase:

https://twitter.com/Salah_Almutairi/status/103342577440399360

The Origin?

But, perhaps there is a little truth in the quote.

In 1882, Oscar Wilde gave a lecture - "The English Renaissance of Art" - in New York City. During which, he said:

Satire, always as sterile as it is shameful and as impotent as it is insolent, paid them that usual homage which mediocrity pays to genius

Which can be seen (in very low fidelity) in the New York Tribune, January 10th 1882:

A low resolution scan of a newspaper.

A few months later, he signed an autograph with the slightly more pithy:

Satire is the homage which mediocrity pays to genius.

Sadly, it does not appear to have been an original bon mote.

Going back even further

A year before, in 1881, the Michigan Medical News published a column saying:

Furthermore if Dr. Roberts' has copied "verbatimly" from Dr. Leonard there is in that fact another ground for congratulation, for is not plagiarism the most subtle form of flattery? It is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius :

Perhaps Wilde was unlikely to be reading medical journals. But there are earlier publications

In 1872, a list of sayings was attributed to the American judge Frederick Grimke:
Envy is the homage which mediocrity pays to genius.

Even earlier is this entry from The Dublin Magazine from 1842:
La Rochefoucault said that "Hypocrisy was the unconscious homage that Vice paid to Virtue ;" may we not say too that Plagiarism is the homage that Mediocrity pays to Genius. If this be true. Dr. Kane has obtained the suffrage of the small as well as that of the great.

That's a good decade before Oscar Wilde was born. It is possible that, as he was born and grew up in Dublin, the phrase was in common parlance then.

So what have we learned?

Everyone loves a cool quote. And people feel smart when they are told a "hidden truth" behind it. It's the same thing that lights up the brains of conspiracy theorists; there's a second meaning which the world doesn't know but has been revealed to you.

But this, it turns out, is not by Oscar Wilde. Both halves of the quote pre-dates him by several decades. The quote that Wilde did give is about satire, rather than imitation. And even that wasn't original.

But the Internet is a machine which mercilessly mingles quotes until a new meme was born.

"I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse."

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/no-oscar-wilde-did-not-say-imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery-that-mediocrity-can-pay-to-greatness/

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@kopper oh its not animaged :(

also, the RE:thing was not on the initial thing. INTERESTING

#I-am-in-the-way-of-adding-quotes-to-wafrn -is-mastodon-too-if-I-understand-it-correctly -on-their-roadmap

masukomi, to random
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Our business mastodon instance was on v4.0.2. The current version is 4.2.3

That's 3 upgrades: 4.0.2 -> 4.1.0 -> 4.2.0 -> 4.2.3

It took about 20 minutes to complete the first one... For the second one I have to also install Elasticsearch.

This .... kinda sucks, and makes me VERY thankful that I don't have to deal with this on this server (masto.host handles it). I'd transfer the business one to them but that's pretty manual & requires way more executive function & memory than I have.

mastohost,
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@masukomi No problem at all, just saw that number and thought I would jump in to correct it.

Regarding the others, I can't say. There are several. Only looking at the Mastodon documentation list https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/#so-you-want-to-run-your-own-mastodon-server there are new ones that I hadn't seen before.

@adarsh

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snazzypurpleman, to VintageOSes

Been a while since I’ve done anything pixel art, so here is another clown drawing!!!

#I’ve-drawn-so-many-clowns -so-many -one-isn’t-wearing-makeup-tho -all-the-same-clown

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Programming in 2023 be like … 😒

alcea,
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You are forgetting one very little important :

is filled with selfrighteous correctathon ppl who think everyone is " " " " .. Etc

I stopped coding years ago as I knew getting the I needed would be inflexible with the way the then day web worked.

is stupid AI with smart data.

People put too much stock in

Who "" " #c etc ?
Dunno ?

Thats right.
Ppl are loving their reflection too much to see the giants shoulders they stand on

And.
If you love and .
Seeing your babies out in the is a

fields, to food
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Haven’t made tacos in a while, and was missing them. Sous vide parcooked ground beef with red peppers and onions, seasoned with cumin, oregano, chili powder, paprika, roasted garlic powder, and salt, thickened with a little cornstarch slurry (ran out of the usual rice flour thickener I use and it’s backordered). Served with lettuce, tomato, homemade guacamole, grated cheddar, leftover brown rice, and Newman’s pineapple salsa. ...
https://www.unsellingconvenience.com/post/730395126175809536/havent-made-tacos-in-a-while-and-was-missing

doctorcrimson, (edited ) to politicalmemes in Reaganomics

Reagan gutted federal oversight boards from the FCC to the SEC, he was explicitly the anti-regulatory president who preferred self-regulated corporations. Reagan lowered the highest tax rate from 70% to 37%, and due to the aforementioned changes these companies were able to use the excess funds on Stock Buybacks rather than reinvesting into the industries. The US Federal Government has been rocking back and forth in and out of massive federal deficit, last having a surplus under the short Clinton administration, as a result the Federal Government is constantly cutting or limiting social programs like food, healthcare, veterans care, retirement funds, etc. Reagan was a turning point in wages in the United States, and while that isn’t necessarily directly his fault there is no debating that his presidency aligns perfectly with the beginning of the current ever widening wealth gap and wage stagnation, likely because of the aforementioned stock buybacks taking priority over investment in the business. USA Industry has not taken off in the ways he expected it would, in fact since the 80s the USA has floundered compared to the EU or China in terms of industry, as a measure of GDP Growth Rate, and prosperity, as a measure of average health and happiness. One other factor than Reagan in this might be the Civil Rights Movement from the 60s, more than a decade before Reagan, which has lead down the long path of political polarization of congress as a result of Democrat President Lindon B Johnson being the one who signed the Civil Rights Act as well as several Welfare laws including the creation of the S.N.A.P. food stamps. Still, Reagan severely damaged Campaign finance laws while fighting to end all limits to campaign finances, which also lead to politicians with more access to wealth having much better chances of getting into office and somewhat more political polarization on the basis of average campaign contributions being skewed. Under Reagan, the American Antitrust policy eliminated all section 2 cases of Monopoly, under his administration several large brands dominated markets in ways often compared to the Gilded Age market concentrations that preceded the Great Depression.

One step in the right direction to fix some of what Reagan broke would be to enact something like H.R.1 For the People Act that the Democrats put forward after retaking the Congressional House, but it was left to die under the Mitch McConnell senate leadership, then it was left out to dry in the 48D:50R senate divide despite 2 Independents caucusing with the D to make 50:50 and Vice President giving the tiebreaker vote to select a Democrat speaker, theres still not really enough support to pass large scale meaningful reform.

## the TLDR version is he intentionally damaged our politics and regulatory systems in a way that we are not capable of fixing without some massive change in our society. Fuck Reagan.

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Too many of us are ending our statements with “so.”

We need to work on this.

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LolaCat, to curatedtumblr in so funny
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pukicho

(Screenshot of a tag)

funny

This is the most fucked up tag you can put on a joke post. No exclamation point, all lowercase, nothing. You’ll never know if this is sarcastic or genuine. I don’t know if they hate me or they liked the post, I just don’t know.


pukicho

(Screenshot of a tag)

glad that pukicho has made another post

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Office Small Talk Is Excruciating. It Doesn't Have to Be - Productivity software may have killed the watercooler, but chitchat is still the best way... - https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-make-small-talk-hybrid-office/ /howtoandadvice ...

Sebastian, to mastodon German

Seit gut zwei Monaten betreibe ich einen Mastodon-Server. Im vergangenen Herbst hatte ich erstmals zu internen Zwecken angefangen, mich intensiv mit dem Thema zu beschäftigen. Gut ein halbes Jahr habe ich gebraucht, um sagen zu können, dass ich recht fit für diesen Zweck bin.

Was bedeutet Single-User-Instanz? Für Lai*innen vereinfacht ausgedrückt: Auf meiner Domain https://Pertsch.social läuft die Software – und der einzige Account ist von mir; weitere Leute können sich nicht registrieren. Der Server ist – genauso wie die großen Mastodon-Instanzen – im gesamten erreichbar und quasi gleichwertig zu den anderen. Die Freiheiten und volle Kontrolle zu haben, bringt einige Vorteile mit sich.

Häufiger bekomme ich die Frage, was das denn kostet, wie viel Speicherplatz das einnimmt und wie aufwendig das ist, auch in der Hoffnung, dass man es für sich selbst als Anreiz herunterbrechen könnte.

Nun, wer mit einer einfachen und pauschalen Antwort gerechnet hat, den muss ich enttäuschen. Tatsächlich gibt es einige Faktoren, die bei Kosten, Zeit und Arbeit eine Rolle spielen. Die letzten beiden Punkte hängen auch stark von der eigenen Expertise ab.

Man könnte Mastodon auf einem 60 Euro günstigen @Raspberry_Pi installieren, ihn an den Router zu Hause anschließen und wenn man eine schicke Domain haben möchte, hätte man nur noch dadurch laufende Kosten. Eine .de-Domain kostet rund zehn Euro pro Jahr. Nun grätscht aber wieder die Kompetenz rein, denn diese Umsetzung ist nicht ohne.

Bei kleineren Mastodon-Instanzen weit verbreitet, sind sogenannte virtuelle Server, die – oftmals im Gegensatz zu normalen Webhosting-Paketen – auch einen Root- und Shell-Zugang haben. Diese sind für die Installation erforderlich. Virtuelle Server gibt's schon für 5-6 Euro pro Monat (Kosten immer ohne Domain). Nach meiner Erfahrung sollten es aber schon mindestens zwei virtuelle CPU, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB (idealerweise auf ner NVMe SSD) für den Speicherplatz und eine Traffic-Flatrate für die doch recht unkalkulierbaren Datenübertragungen im Fediverse sein.

100 GB klingen für manche sicher super viel, aber trotz meines recht guten Tunings von Mastodon und auch des Servers und der regelmäßigen automatisierten Bereinigungen bei einem Vorhalt von vier Wochen werden derzeit bis zu 57 GB (ohne zusätzliche Relais) belegt. Alleine der Medien-Cache von Mastodon, also die zwischengespeicherten Medien anderer (!) Server aus dem Fediverse beträgt 34 GB.

Dashboards wie oder , die es häufiger auch nur als kostenpflichtiges Upgrade gibt, sind übrigens nicht erforderlich. Dadurch kann man die Kosten gut drücken.

Für eine Single-User-Instanz reicht also so ein Setting, das zusammen mit allen Kosten rund 20 Euro pro Monat ausmacht. Klar, mehr geht immer. Wie hoch die Performance sein muss, darüber kann man ewig streiten. Wie schon geschrieben, ein Pi reicht theoretisch aus. Wer bei nem virtuellen Server auf Sparflamme geht, kriegt das auch für monatlich 10 Euro gebacken.

Aber so oder so: Man muss Ahnung haben. Vieles zum Konfigurieren und Installieren läuft über die Kommandozeile, also nicht über eine Internetseite ab. So ‚einfach‘ wie ist es nicht. Man muss sich intensiv mit Linux beschäftigen und sich auskennen. Und selbst dann sollte man längere Zeit experimentieren.

Kommen wir zum Faktor Zeit, nachdem (!) man sich das Wissen angeeignet und den Server fertig eingerichtet hat: Im laufenden Betrieb hält sich der Aufwand in Grenzen. Neben der Mastodon-Software muss auch die Linux-Distribution, die Programme und der Server gewartet und auf den aktuellen Stand gehalten werden. Und es schadet auch nicht, sich regelmäßig bei Mastodon im umzuschauen. Dieser Aufwand ist zeitlich schwer einzukalkulieren.

Momentan sind es vielleicht drei Stunden Wartung pro Woche, wenn ich den Übersetzungskram, das Gedöns im GitHub und das allgemeine Interesse am Thema ausklammere.

Kosten, Zeit und Arbeit sollten also nicht unterschätzt und die eigene Expertise auch nicht überschätzt werden. Und diese Punkte dürften viele abhalten. Immerhin gibt es einige Webhoster, die eine interessante Lücke für Leute ohne Ahnung, die aber trotzdem einen eigenen Mastodon-Server haben wollen, schaffen: Für sich alleine, oder beispielsweise für die Familie oder eine andere kleine Gruppierung.

Man spricht dann von ‚Dedicated Mastodon Hosting Providers‘. Darin enthalten ist der Zugriff auf den Mastodon-Administrationsbereich und Aktualisierungen von Server und Softwares. Wegen des fehlenden Shell-Zugriffs sind die Konfigurations- und Tuning-Möglichkeiten aber begrenzt. Dafür muss man sich um deutlich weniger kümmern. Schon für sieben bis neun Euro (ohne Domain-Kosten) gibt es ein solches .

Fazit

:mf_Love_Heart:

Sebastian,

@ebildungslabor Eine Empfehlung habe ich nicht, aber hier gibt es beispielhaft ein paar Links: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/#so-you-want-to-run-your-own-mastodon-server Mastodon stand für mich als Twitter-Nachfolger recht früh fest und ich hatte seit September einen Account bei chaos.social und parallel angefangen, mich für eine eigene Instanz einzufuchsen. Alternativ sollte man sich mal Firefish (ehemals calckey) anschauen, aber Mastodon sagt mir zumindest weiterhin zu.

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