ixi

ixi, 1 year ago to internet

"To keep us addicted, many of the websites and apps we use fuel the same neural circuitry used by cocaine and slot machines.
But RSS feeds allow you to consume content in a way that's free from any distractions or sneaky cocaine strategies.

They allow you to see only the content you want to read right there in the feed, in its entirety, and without all the fancy ads or triggering comments."

https://openrss.org/blog/rss-feeds-may-be-better-for-your-mental-health

#RSS #OpenRSS #SocialMedia #MediaConsumption #MentalHealth

ixi, 5 months ago to mastodon

It would be nice to have an option to automatically delete your replies to other people's deleted posts.

Lack of context and all, these monologues with the void rarely offer any worthwhile input for me personally anyway.

#Mastodon #WhatsMissing

ixi, 8 months ago to random

The cognitive dissonance of some 'progressive' accounts sporting Ukrainian support flags, anti-fascist badges or claiming to be queer allies™ posting, boosting and faving takes favouring/legitimising the recent Hamas/Islamic Jihad attacks on Israel. 🙈

ixi, 8 months ago to random

bassam.social is begging for a heavy dose of reporting and a domain block, it seems...

https://bassam.social/notice/AaXPCuYSq558n0TuRU

#Antisemitism
#HateSpeech
#FediBlock

ixi, 7 months ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

From his recent book "Trouble in Paradise":

"In a strictly homologous way, the Zionist defenders of the Israeli policy want us to know that they control the media (TV and press), preventing too much critique of Israel to appear in them; however, while we are allowed to know this
(in order to fear the Zionists’ power), we are not allowed to talk about it publicly
—the moment we do it, we are accused of Antisemitism."

#Antisemitism #Žižek #FrankfurterBuchmesse

ixi, 1 year ago to random

"I run #AnnasArchive, the world’s largest open-source non-profit search engine for shadow libraries, like SciHub, #LibraryGenesis, and ZLibrary.
Our goal is to make knowledge and culture readily accessible, […]and preserve all the books in the world"

"In this article I’ll show how we run this website, and the unique challenges that come with operating a website with questionable legal status, since there is no “AWS for shadow charities”."

https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html

#OpenAccess #SciHub #ZLibrary

ixi, 1 year ago to PetBirds German

:blobcataww:

"I build little people out of acorns and sticks, then photograph them in the wild with real animals.
Join me as I share my process of building and photographing.
Learn more and buy prints at www.davidmbird.com."

https://youtube.com/channel/UC6q7I1DD2Jv5Ur9UEIavIrA/

#birds #wildlife #critters

video/mp4

ixi, 7 months ago to random

'Maria También' tells the story of Iranian women prior to the revolution of 1979.
Celebrating their creativity, freedom and ability to express themselves.

The women in the video are all part of a large network of artists, singers, dancers and songwriters who have been either exiled or silenced since the revolution.

Khruangbin hopes to bring these remarkable women back into the spotlight and honour the artistry of silenced women everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hlGqj3ImQI

#JinJiyanAzadî #Khruangbin

The music consists of sharp, crisp drums, a weaving guitar melody and a soft, punctuated bass. A female voice whispers 'Maria, Maria', creating a groovy and seductive piece of music. The video opens with the sound of newsreaders describing Persia as 'rising in the world', Tehran as 'leaning more west than east' and miniskirts bringing 'a new freedom of expression'. Pre-80s archive clips of female artists, singers and dancers are edited together - then, at the push of a button by a man in a control room, the performers disappear, leaving an empty stage. The final scene cuts to a modern Iranian shop window with long subdued froral dresses and hijabs. Several women in black hijabs walk by. One of the women stops briefly to look at some items, with her is a little girl wearing a headscarf and bright red pink clothes.

ixi, 10 months ago to DaftPunk

"Daft Punk intended to make a video for the song "Human After All", but the footage they shot for it was expanded to create the film Daft Punk's Electroma instead.

The only official statement given by Daft Punk at the time was: "We believe that Human After All speaks for itself".

De Homem-Christo later said that choosing to be silent was the biggest mistake they had ever made."

Video credit to Thermometer10

#DaftPunk #Electro

"The two lead characters appear as the robotic forms of Daft Punk. One wears a silver helmet and the other wears a golden one. An opening scene shows the duo driving in a 1987 Ferrari 412 with its license plate displaying "HUMAN". After passing through a Southwestern United States landscape, the duo arrives by car at a town in Inyo County, California. The town's residents are also shown to be robots physically identical to the two main characters, but at different ages, with different clothing and alternating gender. The pair drive to a high-tech facility where liquid latex is poured over their heads. The latex is shaped into human-like faces with the aid of prosthetic appliances and wigs. The resulting look caricaturizes the members of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. When the two leave the facility, the locals of the town are shocked by their human appearance. The townsfolk gradually begin to chase the duo, whose faces eventually melt in the sun. The two take cover in a public restroom where the gold robot discards his ruined mask, then encourages the reluctant silver robot to do the same. Exiting the restroom they appear as robots again."

ixi, 1 year ago to random

For the time being consider blocking direct messages from people you don't follow.

Log in through your browser and go to Settings/Preferences/Notifications and tick the box "Block direct messages from people you don't follow" and save.

#Spam #SpamBots #FediTips

ixi, 9 months ago to random

"During the Great Depression, Detroit and its auto-industry suffered an exceptional amount.
After the stock market crash of 1929, around 80 percent of the industry was no longer producing and by 1932 large numbers of citizens were dying of starvation.
The Ford Motor Company, one of the richest employers, had laid off two-thirds of its employees.

On the morning of 7 March 1932, 3,000 former and current Ford workers and other unemployed members of the community gathered on the outskirts.
1/4

ixi, 7 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Trying to stomach the recent "hero" statements from Hamas/PIJ terrorists¹

The Clash - "Tommy Gun"

"An' we can watch him make it on the nine o'clock news
Standin' there in Palestine lightin' the fuse"

"You'll be dead when war is won
But did you have to gun down everyone?"

"You can be a hero in an age of none"

"So let's agree about the price
And make it one jet airliner for ten prisoners"

"I see all the innocent, the human sacrifice
And if death comes so cheap
Then the same goes for life"

ixi, 7 months ago to random German

Oh wie schön, "Persepolis" wird laut Pressemitteilung in der kürzlich erschienenen 4K-Restaurierung wohl auch wieder ins Kino gebracht.

https://kinomeister.de/persepolis-4k-uhd-blu-ray-dvd-digital-kino/

Statt des Trailers hier noch der alte Teaser, der meiner Meinung nach noch gelungener ist. (Alt-Text in der Reply)

"In der Comic-Verfilmung Persepolis zeigt Marjane Satrapi, wie sie ihre Kindheit im Iran während und nach der Revolution '79, zwischen Moderne und Islamismus, erlebt hat."

#Persepolis #MarjaneSatrapi #IslamischeRevolution

video/mp4

ixi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Already intrigued by the title card for "Deutsches Haus", which uses the Tannenberg font as a shadow.

Subtle but very effective.

"German House/The Interpreter of Silence follows Eva, a young woman in 1963 Frankfurt, as she takes a job as the interpreter for the first Auschwitz trial of former SS officers.
It’s only here that she fully begins to grasp the true horrors of the Nazi regime and starts to uncover a personal connection to the camp."

#DeutschesHaus #TheInterpreterOfSilence

ixi, 5 months ago to random

“Jews cannot fight antisemitism alone.

The victim cannot cure the crime.

The hated cannot cure the hate.

It would be the greatest mistake for Jews to believe that they can fight it alone.

The only people who can successfully combat antisemitism are those active in the cultures that harbour it.”

• Rabbi Sacks

#Antisemitism

ixi, 8 months ago to RSS

I know, a choice between plague and cholera BUT I would rather people chose Threads than BlueSky as their walled garden of choice.

BlueSky is still a closed silo with no account/invite.

And there are no plans to make the AT protocol it uses interoperable with ActivityPub(AP)¹ ².

Meta's Threads should at least be compatible with AP³, and could be scrapeable for RSS bots like Twitter is via Nitter e.g.

There are already working RSS feeds (for a fee!) for Threads accounts, for example⁴.

#RSS

ixi, 3 months ago to random

40 years ago today, Dead Can Dance released their self-titled debut.
The start of one of music's most intriguing artistic collaborations.

"We’ve got something weird between us, there is something between Brendan and I when we work together that is really strong, something I’ve never found with anyone else.
It hurts. There is pain, there are blessings, there are moments of great beauty." - Lisa Gerrard

07."Threshold"

#DeadCanDance #4AD #PostPunk #DarkWave #Gothic #LisaGerrard #BrendanPerry

ixi, 10 months ago to random

We Become What We Behold -
“ a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles.“

A short five-minute browser game about news and media.

Warnings for violence, blood, death and stress.

https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb

#WeBecomeWhatWeBehold #Game #NewsConsumption

ixi, 1 year ago to fediverse

@stevelord @schizanon

Yikes had no idea.
Thanks for the heads-up!

Plus the dev behind #Nostr("fiatjaf") stating "leftism is a disease" in his bio...

What a cesspool.

"#Soapbox is developed by a massive #TERF, boyfriend/husband to the founder, and co-founder of the transphobic, radical "feminist" hate-platform spinster.xyz. This is where all the TERFs migrated after the reddit ban of /r/gendercritical, /r/LGBdroptheT, ..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035682

ixi, 11 months ago to random

“Our cluster munitions have a much lower dud rate than the Russian cluster munitions,” Rep. Adam Smith told a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations in May.
“I’m not in favor of spreading cluster munitions around the world, but in this particular case the Russians are already doing that in Ukraine.”

"I'm so scared of what I saw.
I'm so scared of what I heard.
I'm so scared of what you say!"

Cluster Bomb Unit - Fear Of The Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJJerqYQZM0

#DBeat

ixi, 11 months ago to iran

[...]dass sich hier, an diesem Übergang von Terrorphilie zum Terrorakt, ein Bündnis von BDS-Aktivisten und dem iranischen Regime zusammenfindet.

Und dass der #Iran – seit langem als Terror-Finanzier bekannt – eine Zielkarte für Aktivisten erstellt hat, die sich aus der BDS-Kampagne rekrutieren.

Aktivisten, die nicht nur passiv boykottieren, sondern „zerschlagen“ wollen[...]

https://www.ruhrbarone.de/bds-der-terror-und-das-iranische-regime-eine-ermittlung-in-eigener-sache/221772/

#BDS

ixi, 1 year ago to random

"Today, millions of people still use RSS readers, but many times more use social-media sites and don’t even know that RSS exists.

When the primary way we read online is filtered through the algorithms of capricious corporations that can change what we see on a whim, both writers and readers suffer.

RSS is a reminder that it doesn’t have to be this way."

Source(Paywall):
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/social-media-algorithms-twitter-meta-rss-reader/673282/

Full text:
https://justpaste.it/cpi3f

#RSS

ixi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random German

Heute vor zehn Jahren veröffentlichten Messer "Die Unsichtbaren".

Noisiger deutschsprachiger Post-Punk hatte damals Hochkonjunktur und trotz unüberhörbarer Reminiszenzen an alte Genre-Größen traten Messer mit diesem zweiten Album endlich aus dem Schatten der allgegenwärtigen Vorbilder.

Immer noch ein gern gehörter Gast auf meinem Plattenteller.

Messer - Neonlicht

(Liedtext und das vom Sänger gemalte Cover folgt in der Reply)

#Messer #PostPunk

ixi, 1 year ago to fediverse

YES PLEASE!

"I think it would be a nice extension if you could create multiple bookmark lists, analogous to (normal posts) lists.

So you could organize your bookmarks by topics."

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/16595

#Mastodon #WhatsMissing

ixi, 7 months ago to random

"In einem Fernsehinterview in den 50ern sitzt Ingeborg Bachmann an ihrer Schreibmaschine und wird von einem Literaturkritiker befragt.
Seine Fragen zu ihrem Werk sind Kommentare, Bewertungen und Belehrungen.

Doch sie bleibt widerständig und sät Zweifel darüber, wer hier eigentlich wen verhört."

Szenisches Essay von Barbara Kaufmann über das Verhältnis zwischen weiblichem Schreiben und Literaturbetrieb, damals wie heute.

https://www.swr.de/swr2/doku-und-feature/das-verhoer-der-ingeborg-bachmann-swr2-essay-2023-10-15-100.html

#IngeborgBachmann
#BarbaraKaufmann
#SWR2Essay