Quobna Ottobah Cugoano était un esclave affranchi d’origine ghanéenne, figure de la lutte abolitionniste.
Son ouvrage "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery" (1787) ferait de lui le premier auteur anti-esclavagiste noir.
Conférence de Jennifer Pitts, Collège de France, 14 mai 2024 :
"Les Lumières et l’esclavage : Cugoano, Condorcet et les débats sur l’abolition à la veille de la Révolution"
#TIL that there are declared and undeclared spies, and apparently only spying while undeclared is frowned upon. I wonder, if it is enough to formally register for the role, or the spy has to show their spying licence when asked by authorities? Maybe suitable, distinctive spy-uniforms would simplify their hard and unrewarding job.
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Eine wohl sehr beliebte Fahrradklau-Masche: Fahrradbügel ansägen, möglichst unauffällig kaschieren und dann einfach „abernten“. Fällt kaum auf, vor allem wenn die Ständer sowieso beklebt sind oder man es eilig hat. Mir ausnahmsweise mal nicht selbst passiert – hat aber ein Polizist auf Fahrradjagd erzählt, jetzt auch mal in live gesehen. Da wundern auch die neulich vielen Metallspäne vor der Haustür nicht. #TIL#Fahrrad#Fahrradklau
Not only is it well structured, it also has support from more experienced djangonauts. Sadly, it has concluded for this year. If you're interested in #python and want to develop experience contributing to #OpenSource , then you may want to mark your calendar for next year.
The sun (and with that the earth) has only done about 20~30 laps around the galactic center, humans are not even close to a single lap. We'll likely will never complete one either... (takes 230 million years)
There are stars moving at the speed of about half the speed of light... (J0927 & J0927)
Today I learned that when you move countries, you cannot access any videos you purchased through Amazon anymore. It’s like you were expropriated.
It seems my dilemma is this: I have 1,500 Kindle ebooks in the USA region, and a few dozen Prime videos in the Germany region. To keep my books, I’ll need to keep my USA region (which always worked). To get access to my videos, I’d need to switch to Germany, even though I live in—Spain.
Today I learned: #nix-infect, to transform a vm from another distribution into #NixOS, mostly for cloud providers that don't offer this option! (Including #DigitalOcean and #hetzner). I am going to use it! :)
#TIL There's a recommended standard towards the usage of emojis in git commit messages. These are supposed to visually signal the nature of your commits:
I have previously been using certain text prefixes but this is indeed a better way based on visual recognition and it leaves more space to the precious commit message.
🐛 fixes a bug
🚑 means a critical hotfix
📝 updates documentation
♻️ refactors code
Like Robert Fisk, who died a couple of years agio, Pilger was a huge influence on both my attitude to journalism, and my approach to a number of geopolitical issues over the decades.
@VikingChieftain I vaguely remembered a store called Bread and Circus, which led me to look it up and tumble down down the rabbit hole of Whole Foods history.
On its way to becoming Whole Paycheck, they acquired a regional natural foods store in New England called Bread And Circus.
But when Whole Foods was first started as a tiny mom and pop operation, its name was SaferWay. 😂
All the huffing and puffing on the media about #section21 evictions in #England and the media fail to mention Scotland - maybe looking at Scotland would provide evidence and useful information......
Nah, have another press release from some lobby group or "opinion piece"