ICE Is Functioning Like an Occupying Army. I Know Because I Served in One.
https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-functioning-like-an-occupying-army-i-know-because-i-served-in-one/?utm_campaign=davidaugust.co…
They see an SUV. “Is it ICE??” They see a car slow down. “I bet it’s ICE!” They see tinted windows. “I saw ICE!!”
ICE is the boogeyman to little kids now. Just in case anyone out there is in ICE is starting to wonder, “Are we the baddies?,” well, you are literally terrifying the children.
And in case you’re in it for the racism and relishing the thought of little Black and brown children being scared — no, you are the boogeyman to •all• the kids. They’re not afraid of drug dealers now. They’re afraid of you.
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Welcome back - been busy the last days with meeting friends etc 🙂
But I wanted to show some more #photos from the #Lotharsteig in the #nationalparkschwarzwald . Different from …
AMS-IX kehrt den USA den Rücken
AMS-IX, einer der größten Internet-Knoten, zieht sich aus den USA zurück. Worauf sich der Fokus jetzt verlagert und wie der DE-CIX die Lage in den USA bewertet.
https://www.hei…
#Tatort Siebenschläfer aus #Dresden - und Dank Tatort nun dieses Gedicht von Thomas Brasch (1945-2001)!
Tatort: https://shorturl.at/TQPdS
peace is privatization, peace is javier milei, peace is U.S. economic interests, peace is netanjahu, war is peace
Fun observation: The CONFIG and CALIB registers on the PIC12F683 contain 12 documented bits each.
The physical die layout, however, contains 25 fuse cell instances not 24. So there is one undocumented bit, perhaps a chicken bit for something or an extra calibration setting, or maybe a parity check over some or all of the other fuses.
If it's an actual config bit my money is on bit 5 of CALIB which is documented as unimplemented/RAZ.
Maybe it's not? Or maybe it's…
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Day 18: Mark Oshiro
Having just learned that Oshiro is nonbinary, they're an instant include on this list. In veering extremely heavily towards YA, and losing a spot that would have gone to an absolutely legendary mangaka, anime writer, or feminist philosopher, but "Anger is A Gift" and "Each of us a Desert" are just that good, and I'm trying to steer a bit towards towards lesser-known authors I respect.
I already mentioned "Anger is a Gift" above, but to recap, it's a painful, vivid, and beautifully honest story of queer love, loss, and protest against an oppressive system. CW for racist police murder, intergenerational trauma, and police brutality against highschool students. It's a book a lot of Americans could benefit from reading right now, and while it's fiction, it's not fantasy or sci-fi. Besides the themes and politics, the writing is just really solid, with delicate characterization and tight-plotted developments that are beautifully paced.
To me "Each of us a Desert" is maybe even more beautiful, and Oshiro leaps into a magnificent fantasy world that's richly original in its desolation, dark history, lonely characters, and mythical magic. Particularly the clearly-not-just-superscription but ambiguously-important/powerful magical elements of Oshiro's worldbuilding are a rare contrast to the usual magic-is-real-here's-how-it-works fare, and pulling that off a all as they do is a testament to their craft. The prose is wonderful, probably especially so if you speak Spanish, but I enjoyed it immensely despite only knowing a few words here and there. The rich interiority of the characters, their conflicts both with each other and within themselves, and the juxtaposition of all that against origins in cult-like ignorance allows for the delivery of a lot of wisdom and complex truths.
Between these two books, so different and yet each so powerful, Oshiro has demonstrated incredible craft and also a wide range of styles, so I'm definitely excited to read more of their work and to recommend them to others.
I'm also glad to have finally put a nonbinary author on this list; the others I had in mind won't make it at this point because there's too much genre overlap, although I'll include them in my didn't-make-it list at the end. I've now got just 2 slots left and have counted up 14 more authors that absolutely need to be mentioned, so we'll see what happens.
#20AuthorsNoMen