misc

misc, 4 days ago

This post brought to you by me trying to use Obsidian and so much feeling not-quite-but-almost.

misc, 4 days ago

I think I want something like an outliner where I can "star" items I'm ready to tackle, and all starred items appear in another view, a today agenda, where I can freely drag and drop items to reorder them, according to the order they make sense to tackle that day. And it all syncs between Mac and iPhone.

misc, 4 days ago

Things for Mac and iPhone has been working nicely for me at the second part of that, but fails for me at the planning part, where I'd really like an outliner.

misc, 4 days ago

@fabianschaar exactly!

misc, 4 days ago

@austinha exactly!

misc, 9 days ago

@rejinl Someone just called me Erik! No idea how that could have possibly happened

misc, 10 days ago

Obviously there are degrees, and that matters … but let's see how much farther that dial turns in the coming months

misc, 10 days ago

@TCatInReality The scenes from New York last night shook me a lot, and news I'm waking up to from LA seems pretty bad too!

misc, 10 days ago

@TCatInReality At least in NY, Adams seemed like an eager participant. In LA they seem to have chosen to allow counter protestors to attack the encampment. If Mayor Bass doesn't approve of that call, she should say so. If she doesn't, out of intimidation or genuine agreement, I think it's fair to say "government under the control of fascists" to at least some extent (a greater one than I thought 24 hours ago)

misc, 11 days ago

Looking at it more positively, even if the campaign against Substack didn't kill them, or even render their name irredeemably toxic on the left, it created space for competitors and interrupted the consolidation of Substack's brand as a synonym for all blogs.

misc, 11 days ago

@ernie @Klaxun And beyond that, are ideologically committed to Silicon Valley's increasingly reactionary flavor of libertarianism.

misc, 11 days ago

@gl33p Kinda how I'm looking at X alternatives too, lately.

misc, 12 days ago

@oberlin Follow the students' instagram for updates: https://www.instagram.com/oberlin4palestine

It took ten years of student activism, including the construction of an encampment, for Oberlin to finally agree to divest from institutions and corporations complicit in South African apartheid. Oberlin demonstrated both its willingness to take a moral stand and its ability to screen investments with its divestment from fossil fuels. It has now been 75 years since the Nakba of 1948. The state of Israel has been found to plausibly be committing genocide by the International Criminal Justice Court and has ignored calls from the U.N. Security Council for an immediate ceasefire.
Oberlin's website asserts: "In accordance with Oberlin's history of action in response to 'instances of human suffering, natural calamity, and injustice,' the Board will consider proposals for divestment from entities that contribute to activities that 'shock the conscience.'" The conscience of the Oberlin community is beyond shocked. And that shock compels us to act. We will build community around education, advocacy, and solidarity through robust programming, including: • Vigils • Poetry and Literature Readings • Art Builds • Teach-Ins • And More
Our organizational team is comprised, in part, of Jewish students, who write," Within the promise of "never again" lies our responsibility to use our Jewish voices and bodies to stand up for what we believe is right. "Never again" means never again for all people. It is through this lens of "never again" that we condemn the way our names and our ancestral grief are being weaponized as rhetorical shields for the Israeli occupation of Palestine." Oberlin's Jewish student activists are the grandchildren of survivors of genocide and the descendants of people held at the hands of state-sanctioned anti-Jewish violence. It is precisely because of this history that they stand in solidarity with Palestine. To read more from Oberlin's Jewish students visit the Oberlin Review for an open letter.

misc, 5 days ago

Playing with Streamlabs … not free, but looks like it will let us multi-stream to Instagram, Twitch, and (ugh) X for our next action, and Twitch has fixed urls/ native-ish embeds in Bluesky, so that should work better for Bluesky and Mastodon.

misc, 5 days ago

Would like to do #Owncast or #Peertube as well, but the #Streamlabs iPhone app seems to have only one slot for a custom RTMP server and Instagram takes that up.