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hayesstw

@hayesstw@c.im

Freelance writer, editor, teacher, missiologist, Orthodox deacon, Inklings fan, church & family historian, ubterested in theology & literature.

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jonny, to random
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You wont believe the number of stormtroopers theyre deploying against unarmed students unless you see it. This is just one side: at least 7 police departments with at least two layers at every point of egress, with several layers in back for rear control and rotation. They've got the army out against your kids for having the audacity to do whatever they can to stop a genocide

a wide (~50m?) staircase with maybe 20 rows of cops in full riot gear stare down a handful of unarmed students

hayesstw,
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@jonny How much disk space will you need to store all that stuff?

faab64, to photography

Hard to understand that the image is from an American university.

It's like images from some military junta but I guess calling for cutting funds to Israel is an unexcusable offense these days.


@palestine

hayesstw,
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@faab64 @palestine

Looks like the Euromaidan in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2014

badbede, to bible
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Last week, I led the bible study for our mid-week discipleship group which has been very popular with young adults in our church. There are a lot of new people who are new Christiains—it's great.

I was shocked to see that only myself and one other person had physical bibles. Everyone else (around 30 people) was reading the Bible on their phone!

There are advantages to a digital format, especially the ability to easily switch between different versions. The main disadvantage that I see is that it's more difficult for the reader to understand the context of what they're reading. The text becomes a database that you query and divorced from the chapters before and after. You don't get the sense of a book belonging to a particular section or genre grouping.

Am I a fuddy-duddy? Does it matter if people read from physical bibles or not?

#bible #biblestudy #bibleapp

hayesstw,
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@badbede
I have lots of hard copy Bibles, several differnet translations. But also have a king called eSword on my computer, which has a couple of English version, and Greek (LXX & NT). I find it useful for quick lookups, but not for reading. Printed copies are random access, you can page backwards and forwards.

Virginicus, to Tolkien

I wonder if might be the only writer of English who thought a “doom” could be positive, too. The OED includes only one example of it, in a translation of Homer. https://stephencwinter.com/2023/12/16/it-is-my-doom-i-think-to-go-to-that-shadow-yonder-so-that-a-way-will-be-found-frodo-thinks-about-providence-and-his-journey/

hayesstw,
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@Virginicus

A strange notion. Isn't a doom the judgement of a court? Aren't "good dooms" just judgements, rather than unjust ones?

hayesstw, to random
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The politicisation of authors like C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien seems to continue

https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/mere-ideology-the-politicisation-of-c-s-lewis/

Virginicus, to random

Now here's a question: Is it even possible to cancel Charles Williams, a writer so obscure that scholars have to write guides to help us normal people understand his writing?
https://theoddestinkling.wordpress.com/2023/10/27/dont-cancel-cw/

hayesstw,
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@Virginicus
I'm not quite sure what "cancel" means in that context, but reading that article would certainly discourage me from reading his books if I hadn't read them before, and gives the impression that if I listened to the talk and believed what it apparently says, I might, at the very least, drop them lower on the list of the books I want to reread.

hayesstw,
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@Virginicus

Not sure I agree with that. Williams's work is open to many interpretations -- see here:

https://khanya.wordpress.com/2017/05/11/the-chapel-of-the-thorn/

But please forgive the typos.

Mer__edith, to random
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Where I speak some advantages Signal has over the bigger richer rest of tech:

“We don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality”

https://restofworld.org/2023/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-messaing-privacy/

hayesstw,
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@Mer__edith
Facebook wouldn't let me post a link to this story at all.

hayesstw, to mastodon
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The article said nothing about other than how to ensure privacy. Privacy is the antithesis of social; if you're trying to tell people about a social network, then how to be antisocial on it is really the last thing you should tell them.

Mastodon is no harder to use than Twitter alias X, the main disadvantage is that there are fewer people with common interests to interact with. But if the first and most important thing people need to know is how to stop people from interacting with you, then it's just a little bit counterproductive, isn't it?

clive, to random
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"Let's Stop Calling It 'Content''

I first starting noticing the word "content" in the late 90s

Companies looking to put writing, animation, video or art on their web sites would call it "content"

It flattened innumerable forms of culture into a sort of goo, extruded from a tube

25 years on, the term "content" has metastasized, eating whole the way many people talk about -- think about -- culture.

Let's stop now

My essay: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lets-stop-calling-it-content-8410bf5f94a9

A free link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lets-stop-calling-it-content-8410bf5f94a9?sk=7a2668c44c31a4359876cfcd25a5f2d0

hayesstw,
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@clive

Back in the 90s when the web was young people started saying that in order to get people to look at web pages, and then come back and look at them again, they must have content. They must have something to say that people would want to read. By "content" they meant that -- something to say -- at a time when many people were putting up websites with no content but lots of jiggling graphics and other stuff to demonstrate their self-defined cleverness, but it was quite clear that they had nothing to say. You're n ot going back to look as yet another "animated" (ie jiggling") graphic thingy. So content was used to mean, well, content, as opposed not no content. It's got rather debased since then, but it did originally mean something.

hayesstw,
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@clive
I think the rot set in when people started advertising for "content-creators". That was getting it backwards.

You don't, or shouldn't, start a web site and then look for something to say on it. You first have something to say and decide whether a web site is a good medium for saying it. You may hire writers and graphic designers etc to help you say it better, but they are not "content-creators".

hayesstw, to Marriage
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Val Greene and I have now been married for 49 years, maybe we'll make the 50th after all.

https://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/priest-in-shock-wedding/

Priest in shock wedding

hayesstw, to random
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OK, who's interested in ?

arstechnica, to random
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NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens

NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/nasa-clears-the-air-no-evidence-that-ufos-are-aliens/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hayesstw,
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@arstechnica Well if there was evidence that they were "aliens" (legal or illegal) they would no longer be UFOs, would they?

killyourfm, to ai
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Looking for an AI chatbot that runs locally, doesn't send your info to corporate overlords, doesn't need a GPU, and doesn't need internet?

GPT4ALL is what you're looking for:
https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all

hayesstw,
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@killyourfm Will it run on Windows XP?

Ghostsheetz, to firefox
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Google is trying to make the internet unavailable to anything but chrome. Here are the most recent hostile moves by Google.

From: @nekohayo
https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/110775656176571435

hayesstw,
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@Ghostsheetz @nekohayo
Firefox tells me that Q___, based on Chrome, is unsupported, and lets me read but not comment with it. Maxthon used to work with Facebook, but hasn't for the last week -- it shows it to me for about 20 seconds, then jumps out again. Web site accessibility is getting to be a big problem.

rolle, to twitter
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216 Mastodon notifications when I woke up.
2 Twitter notifications.

It seems a retweet does nothing on Twitter nowadays?

hayesstw,
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@rolle
I got no Mastodon notifications, I've had 3-4 Twitter notifications every day, but then I find it harder to get into Mastodon.

grammargirl, to random
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🧐 Are you using "Begs the Question" correctly? 🤔 Learn the dos and don'ts of this logical fallacy. https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/begs-the-question/

hayesstw,
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@grammargirl The trouble with that is that it leaves is with no way of pointing out when someone actually begs the question.

hayesstw, to random
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Wondering whether to enrol this and some of my other books in the Smashwords Summer/Winter sale. On the one hand, I would verty much like some reviews, especially from people knowledgeable about the genre (children's adventure.fantasy). But past experience has shown that giving books away produces few or no reviews.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1167919

GrahamDowns, to books

"A home without books is like a tree without birds."

Would you agree?

@bookstodon

hayesstw,
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@eyrea @GrahamDowns

Do trees really get along just fine without birds?

Aren't some trees pollinated by birds?

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