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I finished BABEL tonight and, no exaggeration, this is one of my all-time favorite novels—the literary equivalent of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE in the sense of using genre fantasy to comment on the human situation in profound ways. It's the most powerfully anticolonial, anticapitalist work I've ever read. It made me want to build a barricade and take up arms against empire. A masterpiece.
in reply to David W. Congdon

loved that film so this book is going on my to-read list. thanks for recommending


LIVE NOW: The @NASA_Orion spacecraft has launched from @NASAKennedy and the #Artemis I mission is underway. Watch coverage of Orion’s first outbound trajectory burn on the way to the Moon. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxW…


Check out additional images from the launch of @NASA_SLS and @NASA_Orion on the #Artemis I mission 📷 - flic.kr/s/aHBqjzG1pG #NasaHQPhoto


LIVE NOW: The @NASAArtemis I mission is en route to the Moon. Hear from NASA leaders on the events of this morning and what's next for @NASA_Orion. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1jMKg…


Want some application suggestions or tips & tricks for #linux? We share these kinds of picks each week on #DestinationLinux!

You can now see all of the picks we've ever done by going to destinationlinux.org/picks

#opensource #linuxtips #tech




Meet the members of the #Artemis Red Crew. Ahead of liftoff, they went into the blast danger zone to ensure the @NASA_SLS Moon rocket could launch safely.


LIFTOFF! @NASA_SLS and @NASA_Orion launch on their first flight, the #Artemis I mission. Keep checking back for more launch images 📷➡️flic.kr/s/aHBqjzG1pG #NasaHQPhoto


Moonbound! #Artemis I has completed its trans-lunar injection, a propulsive maneuver that accelerates the @NASA_Orion spacecraft to more than 22,600 mph (36,370 kph) and propels it on its path to the Moon.


The @NASA_SLS rocket has reached main engine cutoff, or MECO, in the mission timeline. The RS-25 engines have powered off and the core stage has separated. @NASA_Orion is now in orbit.


Singer @JoshGroban and jazz pianist @HerbieHancock performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” in honor of the historic launch of the #Artemis I mission around the Moon.


LIVE NOW: The @NASAArtemis I mission is en route to the Moon. Hear from NASA leaders on the events of this morning and what's next for @NASA_Orion. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1jMKg…


We are going. For the first time, the @NASA_SLS rocket and @NASA_Orion fly together. #Artemis I begins a new chapter in human lunar exploration.


New York Times reported on 2 individuals who were wrongfully blocked from their Google accounts.

Read our blog to learn about this eye-opening story and what it could mean for you.

#PrivacyWednesday

nextcloud.com/blog/nyt-reports…




What makes Nextcloud stand out among other solutions?

First of all, it's the User Experience, shares Dr.-Ing. Thomas Hildmann, from Berlin Institute of Technology.

This and more about Nextcloud in this exclusive customer interview:

vimeo.com/manage/videos/748721…





Nearly 50 years elapsed between these two photos. #WeAreGoing!!! ⬇️ #Apollo17 at 12:33 a.m. ET on Dec. 7, 1972 ↘️ #Artemis I 1:47 a.m. ET today #NASAhistory



in reply to Muse

update from Reuters
"The Associated Press news agency, which had initially cited a senior U.S. intelligence official as saying Russian missiles had caused the blast in Poland, later quoted U.S. officials as saying initial findings were now that blast was caused by Ukrainian air defence missiles."



#Artemis I Update: We are extending the countdown hold at T-10 minutes while the launch team estimates how much work needs to be done. This means we will slip into the two-hour launch window, and will share a revised launch time when it is confirmed. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1jMKg…


LIVE NOW: The #Artemis era of exploration begins today with @NASAArtemis I, the first integrated test flight of the rocket and spacecraft that will bring humanity to the Moon. Watch @NASA_SLS and @NASA_Orion embark on their first voyage. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1jMKg…


Cellist @YoYo_Ma performed a rendition of “America the Beautiful” with the Philadelphia Orchestra (@PhilOrch) to commemorate the launch of #Artemis I to the Moon.


LIVE NOW: Teams are preparing to launch the @NASA_Orion spacecraft to the Moon aboard the @NASA_SLS rocket. Watch coverage of the rocket fueling process for the #Artemis I mission. Follow @NASAGroundSys for updates. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1vOxw…


Okay this right here is a big fucking problem I have with how many mastodonians engage with the critiques of mastodon by scholars of color and users of color:

masto.ai/@Pineywoozle/10935151…

The argument that history doesn't matter because we have an influx of users is unconvincing to me for a variety of reasons, which I'll enumerate below.

in reply to Dr. Johnathan Flowers

Here, I'm going to draw on Sara Ahmed and John Dewey: a history provides an account of where a thing is and how it functioned within the world that made it possible. A history also provides a record of the embodied habits of a space: it is what gives the space its shape and contour through the actions taken within it.

In short, histories allow us to understand the space and how we can and cannot move through it as well as the kinds of life the space supports.

in reply to Dr. Johnathan Flowers

This is important when you think about social media as spaces. So let's take Mastodon. The history of the ways that Black users have been treated, the ways that their instances have fallen, informs the future engagements of new Black users insofar as they indicate how Black users have been and will be positioned within a social space.
in reply to Dr. Johnathan Flowers

It also tells us something about how black users "unfold" and the points from which the space "unfolds" as a space.

To be clear, the treatment of Black users on mastodon, as indicated by the recurring cycle of discourse around CWs, quote tweets, and the policing of other ways that Black users make present their experience and identities, makes clear that the point from which mastodon unfolds is whiteness.

in reply to Dr. Johnathan Flowers

And the 'argument' she presents is bullshit, especially when you consider 1. the lengths the fedi community has gone to push out Black users specifically and 2. the silence of all the alleged good people she is alluding to.

One cannot say that history doesn't matter when a defining characteristic of the fedi up until now has been anti-blackness, which has been why so few Black users have stuck with the fedi until now.

That kind of conjecture is a big reason safety is such a concern, as so many people join the fedi. Bigots feast on 'progressive' whites giving the benefit of the doubt repeatedly.



Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

Link: floor796.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…




@Danny Pinebuds are coming soon!!


November update:
Community Q&A Nov 25th
Newsflash- community, dev and Pine Store news
#PineBudsPro available December 2nd - ready to use
#Ox64 boots #Linux - available in December
#Star64 available in coming weeks
#PineTime InfiniTime 1.11 & new apps

Blog post link:
pine64.org/2022/11/15/november…


in reply to Danny Martinez

:BlobCatSurprised: my body is ready, was just thinking that my ear buds are really janky and wondering what I want to get to replace them


The Manjaro team used my video about OpenSSL to talk about the swap to 3.0 forum.manjaro.org/t/stable-upd…


Journaling doesn't have to be about beautiful things. Sometimes it's about the stressful stuff too: socialwork.buffalo.edu/content…


No I Don't Think I Look Like Mr Beast #Shorts #CultOfTheLamb youtube.com/shorts/BDIG6NBCoO4


Ubuntu Snap Packages Are Slightly More Usable! #Linux #YouTube #Ubuntu youtu.be/9UORj3epiRs


Experiments and Observations on certain stony and metalline Substances, which at different Times are said to have fallen on the Earth; also on various Kinds of native Iron.

By Edward Howard, 1802.

archive.org/details/howard_met…



Hack, bringing back "toot"

#Feditip
If you are admin of your instance but only via the web interface, you can modify the "Publish" button back to "Toot!" with the following hack:
1) go to server parameters, apparence, and then locate the custom CSS textbox.
2) Add the following CSS code to hackily replace "Publish" with "Toot" or "Pouet" or whatever:
.compose-form__publish-button-wrapper button {
text-indent: -9999px;
line-height: 0; /* Collapse the original line */
}

.compose-form__publish-button-wrapper button:after {
content:'Toot!';
text-indent: 0;
display: block;
line-height: initial; /* New content takes up original line height */
}
and voilà! (thanks to this answer on stack overflow stackoverflow.com/a/22054588)



LIVE NOW: Teams are preparing to launch the @NASA_Orion spacecraft to the Moon aboard the @NASA_SLS rocket. Watch coverage of the rocket fueling process for the #Artemis I mission. Follow @NASAGroundSys for updates. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1vOxw…


Another spacewalk is in the books! @NASA_Astronauts Frank Rubio and Josh Cassada have successfully returned to the @Space_Station after a 7 hour and 11 minute spacewalk. The astronaut duo completed maintenance and updates needed on the ISS. Learn more: blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…

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