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Independent interface design researcher. Writing a book on designing novel interactive visual abstractions (novel ui concepts) for new ways of learning, teaching, explaining, discovering, inventing things online

Same handle name at bluesky

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Penrose : Create beautiful diagrams just by typing notation in plain text.

https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/

h/t @chrisamaphone

"Our goal is to make it easy for non-experts to create high-quality diagrams and provide deeper insight into challenging technical concepts"

impactology, to random
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Lebanese fashion designers are a class apart 👌😍

Elie Saab, Zuhair Murad, Sadek Majed, Love how they experiment with drapery

Especially Sadek Majed 😍

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iamliam, to random
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First Interface Café newsletter is going out today! The Doubleshot is split into two sections: practical tips and an exploration of something more theoretical. Subscribers get bonus content too 💌

interfacecafe.com if you wanna sign up so you don't miss it 😎

impactology,
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@iamliam Signing up right now!

impactology,
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@iamliam If you liked Verbeek then you should definitely check out the work of Catherine Adams

https://interfacecafe.com/read-this-what-things-do-peter-paul-verbeek/

https://www.perlego.com/book/3488923/researching-a-posthuman-world-interviews-with-digital-objects-pdf

Also Albert Borgmann and Ivan Illich

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"The ethical and theological question of what it means to be Jewish post Gaza will be one of the defining questions of the Jewish world in decades to come. I wrote about it in today's Haaretz" — Mikhael Manekin

https://archive.ph/TndVC

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"But the very idea of violating the Sabbath to create more hunger and as a means of punishment or coercion is alien to Jewish rabbinic tradition and would undoubtedly have baffled our sages. However, in Israel, it is an increasingly mainstream ethical position. To be a good Jew is to put the collective punishment of Palestinians ahead of basic observance. Recently, Rabbi Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Zfat, even wrote a special prayer for those blocking humanitarian aid"

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"It demands the expulsion or total submission or death of Palestinians. It sees all those who argue with it as traitorous or weak. Palestinian suffering is dismissed. Religious soldiers recite our holiest prayers while blowing up mosques. There is no room for remorse, skepticism, or introspection"

impactology,
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"The only sin is not giving full rein to our innermost vengeful desires. Restraint is godlessness. Shockingly, this worldview is not some fringe ideology, it's what is currently blocking a hostage deal and prolonging the war with two of its adherents in the Cabinet: Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich"

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"For years, religious right extremism in Israel was characterized as "wild weeds." But those weeds have long since turned into a forest, with the movement of the religious right moving into positions of power throughout the Israeli government, military, and judiciary"

Lot of parallels with India in terms of rise of Hindutva in our institutions as well via BJP

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"Liberal Zionists around the world have not offered a serious challenge to the theology of the right; they have chosen instead to moderate it"

"But these strategies misunderstand the source of the religious right's appeal: The religious right offers a consistent ideological justification for a policy that is flagrantly anti-democratic"

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"Instead of taming it, those who wish to fight for a moral future for the Jewish tradition must confront religious right theology on its terms and offer a rigorous alternative. We must because it is a moral aberration that leads to the justification of death, starvation, and hunger. We must because it is a fundamental transgression of the Torah and a desecration of our tradition"

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"To confront it, we must return to our ethical traditions that have been attacked and marginalized. We must rethink issues such as exile and return, exclusivist land ownership and land sanctity, and our view of Jewish relations with non-Jews, especially Palestinians"

"We must relearn our traditions of skepticism about war and fear of violence. We must confront the right's political theology honestly, constructively, consistently, and radically. Both theoretically and institutionally"

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Israel's Finance Minister and de facto governor of the occupied West Bank called for the "total annihilation of Gaza" yesterday

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-30/ty-article/.premium/smotrich-calls-for-no-half-measures-in-the-total-annihilation-of-gaza/0000018f-2f4c-d9c3-abcf-7f7d25460000

https://twitter.com/MairavZ/status/1785571421487317329

impactology, to random
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"Standing Together (Hebrew: עומדים ביחד, Omdim Beyachad; Arabic: نقف معًا, Naqif Ma'an) is an Israeli grassroots movement that aims to bring together Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli communities"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Together_(movement)

https://twitter.com/MonicaLMarks/status/1788029736117047599

impactology, to random
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Let's say the anti-netanyahu protests in Israel leads to removal of netanyahu, who's gonna come after him from the likud?

Would they be any less genocidal when members of his own party have made genocidal statements (presented even at ICJ)

The one party that seems sane is Hadash, but look at the number of seats they get in knesset — 4 out of 120.

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112399341202998625

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadash

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impactology,
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The focus should be to increase these numbers, what can be done for that. I wish that is what folks talking about the israeli left spoke about.

"It also draws 6,000–10,000 far-left Jewish voters during national elections"

What percentage of the anti-netanyahu protestors would be willing to vote for Hadash, those would qualify as the "left".

Not just replacing one genocider with another.

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Meet the Israeli Jews Who Will Vote for the Arab Ticket

Thousands of Israeli Jews, many of them young and educated Tel Avivians, are casting their ballots with the country's perennial underdog.

https://archive.is/20231013064210/https://www.haaretz.com/2015-03-17/ty-article/.premium/jews-voting-for-the-arab-list/0000017f-eff1-d497-a1ff-eff1041e0000

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Biden’s Increasingly Contradictory Israel Policy By Isaac Chotiner | The New Yorker

A former State Department official explains Administration’s sharpening public critique of Israel’s war & simultaneous refusal to “impose a single cost or consequence.”

https://archive.ph/bkfxG#selection-453.0-459.174

"if you’re asking me: Do I think that Joe Biden has same depth of feeling & empathy for Palestinians of Gaza as he does for the Israelis? No, he doesn’t, nor does he convey it. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that"

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Hindutva’s consolidation of a varna autocracy is destroying the republic by Hartosh Singh Bal | The Caravan

https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/tyranny-will-worsen

"The Cong has chosen to think a focus on governance would be enough to unseat Modi. They have been aided in this by intellectuals & the liberal media, largely upper-caste, that continues to believe Modi’s defeat is another article on joblessness away" — Hartosh Singh Bal

https://twitter.com/HartoshSinghBal/status/1788087542622867508

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US pauses weapons delivery to Israel over Rafah offensive concerns: Reports | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera

"As a result of that review, we have paused one shipment of weapons last week. It consists of 1,800 2,000-lb (900kg) bombs and 1,700 500-lb (225kg) bombs,” the official said"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/8/us-pauses-weapons-delivery-to-israel-over-rafah-offensive-concerns-reports?traffic_source=rss

Almost a ton of 1800 bombs just 1 shipment!?!😨

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An Open Letter to the UCLA Community from Jewish Faculty and Staff

https://sites.google.com/view/ucla-jewish-faculty-staff/

Wow

"Jews who support the liberation of Palestine must not be devalued: We reject the notion that those Jews who embrace and work with the people of Palestine, whether in Palestine or in the United States, have sacrificed their Jewishness. We emphasize the view that many Jews who embrace pro-Palestinian work regard themselves as fully Jewish and act as Jewish people of conscience"

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"Critiques of Israel are not presumptively antisemitic: Israel does not represent all Jews. While the signatories have profound disagreements about the State of Israel, we agree that it is dangerous to frame all critiques of the state or government of Israel, or all critiques of Zionism, as antisemitic"

"We also reject the narrative pitting Jews against pro-Palestine protesters. This narrative ignores the diversity of the Jewish community and the presence of Jews within the protest movement"

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The Problem Isn’t Just Netanyahu. It’s Israeli Society By Mairav Zonszein

Despite blaming the prime minister, a large majority of Jewish Israeli citizens support his destructive policies in Gaza and beyond.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/02/netanyahu-gaza-palestinians-war-israeli-society/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuB5SeahL-E

"There really is such a diminishing left in Israel. I mean look at the polling, less than 2% thought that Israel was using too much Firepower in Gaza after they obliterated and decimated the entire Gaza Strip" — Abby Martin

impactology, (edited )
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@tb ok

"we need to acknowledge and encourage the people on the ground who are most likely to make it happen"

I agree, that's why I asked you where could I read about those people.

TIL about the Hadash Party and it's MPs Ayman Odeh, Aida Touma-Suleiman, Ofer Cassif, Youssef Atauna.

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112399341202998625

Ofer Cassif especially has been raising his voice https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112399454843952516

Also came across news on folks who refuse to join IDF

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112399318618720063

impactology, (edited )
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@tb

I was simply sharing the resources I came across on the Israeli left, expecting you'd share more. But it seems you are more interested in being antagonistic towards me.

Also FYI the anti-netanyahu protestors are not something I was looking for, it was the Israeli left who specifically are against the genocide, the occupation and the apartheid.

Also in this entire interaction I haven't been snarky or condescending, you have

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if i was deep within the humanities and wanted to write something that would a) convince people of the value of the humanities and b) actually push back against pernicious forces in the world i'd write about how deeply entwined the university is with various power structures and how the only way that those from the humanities can actually achieve their mission is through becoming para-academics, ideally working in the service of helping people enact social transformation

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@Tiempo @mutual_ayyde

Yes, latin america for sure

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