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oatmeal

@oatmeal@emacs.ch

I’m into Emacs, Org, Linux and Free Software, Photography and Jogging. For anything non tech I use @oatmeal

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anneapplebaum, to random
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This, by McKay Coppins, is really, really good.

On Romney:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/mitt-romney-retiring-senate-trump-mcconnell/675306/

oatmeal,
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@anneapplebaum I'm pretty sure it must have been worse than this: "Romney had come to dread the GOP caucus meetings. They had a certain high-school-cafeteria quality that made him feel ill at ease."

louis, to apple
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In one and a half hours starts the Apple event. They will announce that the iPhone will now be even more expensive, because it has even more emojis, with even less hardware.

Millions will applaud.

And Tim Cock will go home that night, being $40.000 richer than yesterday.

oatmeal,
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@louis true… but… I’ve been hoping to move over to android but there’s no way I will have a controlled phone to begin with, and then there’s the question of usability etc. I’ve stopped checking what google devices are available, but I’m assuming the UX will be subpar. On the other hand, I got rid of my Mac/MacBook for one and Dell (for the time being).

oatmeal, to Israel
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Israeli Arab/Jewish gay couples living in Israel face serious challenges. Khader and Aviv made it against all odds and are together already 7 years. Now they’re looking to start a family via a process (in the USA). In addition to their own contribution, they need NIS 200,000 to start the process, which would cost NIS 650,000.

Already raised ₪80,798 out of ₪200,000 goal (40%) by 239 donors.

https://my.israelgives.org/en/fundme/KAbaby

@israel @palestine

oatmeal, to histodons
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@histodons @israel @palestine re-watching “The Oslo Diaries” (2018), there’s a feeling of missed opportunity shared by many liberals, both Israeli and : If it wasn’t for the extremists, on both sides, peace was achievable. But was it really?

The idea that the Palestinians need to negotiate clawing back parts of their homeland (in whichever geopolitical circumstances led to them losing it), might be the explanation why such negotiations were doomed from the start. It was negotiated by Israeli and Palestinian liberal intellectuals, not particularly representing the tolerance for compromise in their respective communities, on the premise that an undeniable right of Jews to settle in Palestine.

Was wondering, what if next round should start with which parts of pre-1948 Ottoman Palestine should the Palestinians give to an Israeli state, if at all? Just saying 🙄

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/493110-the-oslo-diaries

kentbrew, to chrome
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Infosec friends are unanimous: if you're using Chrome, you want to visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off Ad Topics, Site-Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement.

IMPORTANT: you must do this for each of your Chrome profiles, since it's not a global setting.

oatmeal,
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@kentbrew or… not use chrome? It’s also bloated and you can’t install many useful privacy improving extensions.

oatmeal, to tv
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yes these spin-offs are getting ridiculous, but it’s too hot to worry about that 📺

Sherifazuhur, to egypt
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Egypt is killing the history of its City of the Dead @egypt

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/egypt-city-of-the-dead-sisi/

oatmeal,
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@Sherifazuhur horrifying

oatmeal, to random
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The irony of and ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas: Jews 'are NOT Semites'

Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin: German are NOT Semites but Aryan.

Yet Abbas in an antisemite, even though this idea is not really new (research: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3543), while Israel is naming buildings after the leader Ruppin, who personally met with Himmler's mentor, Hans F. K. Günther.

Arthur Ruppin's Concept of Race
In: Amos Morris-Reich, Israel Studies , Fall, 2006, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Fall, 2006), pp. 1-3.

oatmeal,
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@KarunaX @histodons @israel @palestine I think it'd be very difficult to claim it's a "race" indeed, for the reasons mentioned, or an even an ethnic group. Many converted to Judaism along the way, like they did to Christianity. As a secular Israeli, I feel more familiar with an Israeli-Palestinian than a with a Haredi, or an ultra-Orthodox Jew living in Brooklyn.

Yet there are some commonalities between certain groups of Jews, like Tunisian Jews (Djerba considered one of the oldest communities outside the Hoyland), or the Nash Didan community (who maintained their Aramaic for centuries in the diaspora). Both are claimed to be direct descendants of the Jews of the Babylonian exile or prior. Not sure how much of it is based in scientific research.

The real problem, I think, is Israel insisting on taking ownership of Jews and Judaism, and claiming to represent them, or protect them from anti-Semitism, while its own actions are clearly the problem. It's been the problem since its inception with the aid of a colonial power,. Ethnic cleansing of Palestine was very much part of the bigger plan of people like Ben Gurion.

oatmeal,
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@KarunaX @histodons @israel @palestine interesting reply and it’s wonderful that you can talk from experience. But it’s important to remember that Jewish existence in the Holyland predates the arrival of pogrome refugees from Eastern Europe (retroactively called 1st alya) in the 2nd half of the 19th century. If there’s any “openness” it’s of native Jews and Muslims living in Palestine accommodating what turned out to be an invasion of sorts (of alien people (to the region and it’s history) backed by cynical colonial arrangements.

oatmeal,
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@inquisitormundi @palestine @histodons @israel “created for them”, stated nonchalantly, it is really disturbing. The idea of some sort of Jewish supremacy, which pushes aside everybody else’s history and rights, is such a pathology still, btw even with Israeli liberals, it’s really astonishing.

Also, by whom and of course why should the Palestinians, who’s land is already occupied by Britain, pay the price of the crimes committed by Europeans on European soil? Shouldn’t have the Jews resettled in their respective homelands first and than let them decide what to do?

Very few Jews wanted to immigrate to Palestine before the holocaust because the idea of a Jewish state did not appeal to them. Europe after WWII was even more antisemitic than it was before the war. And even then, some in my family, who survived the camps and went back to the Netherlands, didn’t want to go to Israel after its establishment. The ones who did arrive had really no choice.

oatmeal,
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@tzafrir @KarunaX @histodons @israel @palestine Throwing a list of massacres or random acts of violence against Jews (and conveniently Christians, to make sure we know who the real enemy is I suppose) is a practice suitable to the Hebrew Wikipedia. Events picked up randomly in the “what about” genre of trolling, is still silly. Why not go back to the crusaders and the massacre of all the Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem by Christians?

Pre nation-state Palestine was no better or worse than any other place around the Ottoman Empire. Conflict arose often due to western capitulations imposed on the ottomans by Europeans (and also Russia), which privileged some religious groups and created friction. Same pattern follows everywhere, as in North Africa for example.

You need the context.

oatmeal, to Palestine
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No more silence! The time to act is now. academics and USA public figures speak against the occupation of Palestinian Territories and the regime.

Notable signees:

Prof. Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani
Prof. Avraham Sela
Avraham Burg, former speaker of the Israeli parliament
Prof. Benny Morris

https://sites.google.com/view/israel-elephant-in-the-room/home

@israel @palestine

petersuber, to TeslaMotors
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The headline say it all.

"Elon Musk Blames Anti-Defamation League for Destroying Website He Ruined Himself."
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-blames-anti-defamation-league-twitter-advertisting-revenue-antisemitism-1234818503/

#X

oatmeal,
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@petersuber Yet, the should be scrutinized for spreading ... I wish it'd been someone else going after them.

oatmeal, to github
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Ghosting and improving usability while at it with
via @bins

https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub

caiocgo, to random
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    oatmeal,
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    @caiocgo @Linux_Is_Best I also use Microsoft's apps begrudgingly (University) in on Linux, works fine. I actually have Outlook installed as a "web app" using 's Web (Epiphany, chrome based) and it works fine, including notifications, drag and drop etc.

    oatmeal,
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    @danyeaw @caiocgo @Linux_Is_Best thanks meant WebKit indeed

    oatmeal, to emacs
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    Very rude awakening using out of the blue, tones of "Invalid ref" errors and end of file error during parsing 🙄​ and the database won't finish synching anymore, causing Emacs (28.2 and 29.1) to choke.

    I will move off org-roam eventually, I guess, but the timing of this mess is just very unfortunate.

    louis, to random
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    Just got a text message from an unknown number:

    Hello
    We have a shipment for you and would like to ask you if you are at home today for delivery? If you wish to deposit your shipment, we ask you to confirm this with the shipment number via text message.
    E.g. I hereby confirm that the shipment will be deposited in my mailbox or in front of the door.
    With kind regards
    2LCH8352+48000001

    Sure. 🤣​

    oatmeal,
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    @louis what’s the code at the end?
    Was selling some stuff on anibis the last couple of weeks. There’s so much scamming going on trying to get your real number it was crazy …

    oatmeal,
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    @louis I’m used to them saying they passed by but no one answered the door :)

    oatmeal, to emacs
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    In this video Prot show’s how to customise the Emacs mode line (the mode-line-format) to make it more useful and pretty.

    https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Qf_DLPIA9Cs

    Sherifazuhur, to palestine
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    Israel settlers rampage in Palestinian-Americans’ West Bank hometown – @palestine @israel

    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230727-israel-settlers-rampage-in-palestinian-americans-west-bank-hometown/

    oatmeal,
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    @Jeffrey_Smith @Sherifazuhur @palestine @israel USA funding is uniquely for Israel to purchase USA arms. I.e it’s a subsidy. It’s the American economy that’s profiting from war mongering. Of course Israel does the same if not worse.

    oatmeal, to palestinian
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    While researching Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim's activities, I came across this photo from his personal collection. The photo shows a gathering of the paramilitary scout movement al-Najjada (النجادة).

    It is one of many thousands of photos and various Palestinian heritage artifacts Israeli forces looted during the 1948 war. Most of it is still buried in Israel's various military archives, under restricted access or straight out misleading labels, so to make it difficult for historian to find them and build a fuller and richer social and cultural history of Palestinian society before 1948.

    @histodons @palestine @israel

    oatmeal, to academia
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    American Anthropological Association Endorses Resolution Supporting Rights & Boycotting

    https://www.anthroboycott.org/

    @israel @palestine

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    oatmeal,
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    @Xuxxux @israel @palestinian the Supreme Court is already a rubber stamp and always was whitewashing government illegal activity in the occupied territories.

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