Otter, otter@lemmy.ca

It’s worth a read, but if you don’t have time

What makes this revival uncomfortable is its timing. Phyllis could not respond. Her family, largely gone. There was no one left to correct the record or explain the circumstances. The image became a blank screen onto which modern viewers projected assumptions about drug use, morality, and personal failure.

Yet when her life is examined even briefly, those assumptions collapse. There is no evidence that she was a habitual drug user. No record of repeated arrests. No trail of chaos or criminality. Instead, there is a woman born into economic uncertainty, injured young, living through wartime upheaval, briefly targeted by an unjust legal system, and then settling into a quiet, unremarkable life.

The insult survives because it is easy. The truth requires effort.

The Reddit comment that circulates alongside Phyllis’s image captures something essential about her case. In 1944, freedom was conditional. It depended on fitting into social expectations, on being legible to authority, on not attracting the wrong kind of attention.

The same laws that ensnared Phyllis were used disproportionately against the poor, women, and people of colour. Their eventual repeal is often celebrated as progress, but repeal does not undo the damage done to those who lived under them.

Phyllis Stalnaker did not become a symbol in her lifetime. She did not campaign, protest, or write memoirs. Her story matters precisely because it is small. It reminds us how many lives were quietly constrained by laws that have since been forgotten, and how easily a single photograph can erase complexity.

Her revival online offers a choice. She can remain a joke, or she can be recognised as what she was: a woman shaped by her time, subjected to its injustices, and deserving of more than a label.

I think he still has majority voting power in Facebook

Yeah I guess there should be rudimentary markdown to LaTeX translation programs, right?

I haven’t tried any, but I would think so yes. You can probably run a script over the files to accomplish the same thing :)

If it helps, a number of courses at my university used open source git based textbooks. For example, you can replicate this Statistics textbook using any static site generator designed for documentation: https://moderndive.com/ (https://github.com/moderndive/ModernDive_book/)

• https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/
• https://www.mkdocs.org/
• https://vitepress.dev/

We use vitepress for our docs: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

Or you can get even simpler by using plain markdown files organized into folders.

In my opinion, it’s better to start off simple while writing the content since then you can pick a tool based on what type of formatting you end up needing

LaTeX has been around for a lot longer, and Typst is one of the projects looking to replace it

Typst is a lot more intuitive and easier to use, but it might be missing some packages and tools that were designed for LaTeX.

For your purposes, I think it would work just fine

I think there is a good number of people who are interested, it’s just harder to get involved in it as a hobby without having time/money to throw around.

Also this is my first post on Lemmy, so I’m sorry if this is out of place here.

Nope you’re good, and welcome :)

Is there a robust test suite?

Merge, test, merge, test, patch, merge, test

Oh good point 🤦

So maybe instead, we can clear all local + remote branches and tags, create a blank branch, delete main, rename the blank branch to main, then delete .git

Although the OP says that we can merge anything, and we might not have access to mess with branches

Goodbye fedecan.ca

I’m not sure about the git history wipe, I can’t test it myself right now

I did ban jaknapton earlier today but didn’t have a chance to reply here. We also banned itzbasicallystormy@lemmy.wtf just now.

For emkata2564@futurology.today, the downvotes no longer register for communities on our instance but they do seem to show up for those on other instances. We will put together a few messages to various admins to let them know to ban those accounts and keep an eye out for similar signups.

Thank you!

We did ban the user from lemmy.ca, are you seeing something different?

https://lemmy.ca/u/emkata2564@futurology.today

https://lemmy.ca/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=29304867

Thank you for the tag. I can confirm that both @petru@futurology.today and @areetx@lemmy.world appear to be a part of the same harassment / vote manipulation circle, and have been banned + content removed.

I also checked for downvotes in the past 24 hours, and those two are the only accounts that match the pattern. Looking through the data, AGM does not appear to be related to this circle. From what I can see, AGM is a regular user that coincidentally downvoted some comments on that other post where this started. Please don’t tag their user account, as they don’t seem to be involved in this.

I am sorry that this is happening to you, and I’ve passed on the method I used to identify these accounts to the rest of our team.

I’ll include the relevant parts of your other comment below, but remove it to untag the other user:

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areetx voting history https://lemvotes.org/user/areetx@lemmy.world

Petru voting history https://lemvotes.org/user/petru@futurology.today

They explain where the confusion comes from in the first two paragraphs.

Different wavelengths of light do affect some biological processes, and circadian rhythms are affected by light. From what I understand, there is some consensus that the brightness of the light source can affect sleep. There is no consensus on whether some wavelengths of light are better than others, but it was a reasonable thing to explore.

I think we need more education and practice on how to write good (or acceptable) alt text. I think people don’t know what to write, rather than not wanting to. Some potential solutions, not necessarily mastodon specific

• display the alt text for everyone, so that people can learn techniques over time
• create (or link to existing) easy to understand guides on what to include, and how to write alt text

Reading the article, it sounds like they are consolidating a few existing umbrellas under one that covers everyone.

Ultimately, as long as they have the resources to fund the remaining people who were falling through the cracks before, this will be a good thing. Having one system reduces some of the bureaucracy of multiple similar systems, and people are more likely to get care once everyone is familiar with the universal coverage. Both of those things will save resources in the long run + make the community healthier