Alexandre B A Villares

@villares
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Hoje é dia de PUG-PE! #python #pythonusergroup

As we watch Elon Musk slide into rightwing radicalization in real time, I’m reminded of this 1941 piece by Dorothy Thompson.
“Who goes Nazi?”

In short: it is the people who love money and status and power that are at risk.
Those who resist the urge are the people who have a solid family life; a job they love for the work, not the money; a moral framework based on pluralism and equal access to opportunity.
Worth a read. #nazi #Twitter #liberal

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Harper's Magazine

Mastodon which is incredibly hot, supports RSS beautifully.

Just add .rss to any account to get the feed. Amazing!

https://mastodon.social/@davew.rss

Open that in your favorite feed reader. It’ll work.

Post a screenshot, say what the reader app is.

And pass this on to everyone who uses a feed reader.

Spread the word!

This is a huge deal for the open web.

I've been arguing that the Tory austerity policy from 2008 onwards caused Brexit by causing economic hardship, which again caused voter discontent leading to pro-Brexit votes as a form of protest. Now there's hard research data indicating that's exactly what happened.

You could argue (as I have) that the story of British politics from 2008 onwards is the tories punishing voters economically and voters then asking for more punishment.

https://econtwitter.net/@fetzert/109348821390260124

Thiemo Fetzer (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Did #austerity cause #Brexit? In the past weeks there was much talk in the UK on a return of #austerity. I am a Prof of Economics at Warwick University and I wrote a paper in 2018 that shows how #austerity was instrumental to bringing about #Brexit. This is a means of #introduction on here. Open Access ➡️ https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20181164 The paper shows that #austerity was a pivotal driver of #Brexit result. But that is only half the story: most likely there wouldnt have been an #EUReferendum ...

Econ (Twitter) Mastodon
I'm sad because #peek a very lean Linux screen recorder stoped working for me :(
I'm using RecApp and BlueRecorder now but they don't work as well for my needs.

#MastodonGuides Dec 2, 2022

Don't know how this one was missed earlier. A couple weeks ago Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis penned a really great getting started guide.

BuzzMachine: On joining Mastodon >>> https://buzzmachine.com/2022/11/21/on-joining-mastodon/

Plenty of excellent recommendations and tips. Good for anyone, and if you intend to be a power user, this plus EFF's guide including 2FA and verification are for you!
EFF's >>> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/how-make-mastodon-account-and-join-fediverse

#twittermigration #mastodontips
More Guides >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#1ad8

On joining Mastodon

An academic friend asked for help joining Mastodon. I wrote a detailed email in response that I thought it might be useful to others. I’m also going to teach a master class in Mastodon at my school…

BuzzMachine

O último #DigitalRightsDrinks de 2022 é já daqui a pouco!

#direitosdigitais #meetup

Crowdfunding experiment: If I get 10 new contributions at https://villares.gumroad.com I'll make a live coding video explaining some sketch from https://github.com/villares/sketch-a-day
#Processing #Python #py5 #CreativeCoding
(You can help with RT/boost or commenting about your favorite sketch!)
Alexandre B A Villares

teaching artist & researcher / artista-educador & pesquisador more about me at / saiba mais em http://abav.lugaralgum.com/

Gumroad
Terrific article from the Computer History Museum about the origins of PostScript (and, by extension, Adobe’s role in developing scalable digital type), including a link to ca. 1984 source code: https://computerhistory.org/blog/postscript-a-digital-printing-press/
PostScript: A Digital Printing Press

CHM publicly releases the source code for the breakthrough printing technology, PostScript.

CHM