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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-07-19 20:24:55

When he left the Soviet Union for a new life in America, the novelist never imagined he would live under another authoritarian regime.
Then Trump got back into power
... Is it time to move again?

‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’
When he left the Soviet Union for a new life in America, the novelist never imagined he would live under another authoritarian regime. Then Trump got back into power ... Is it time to move again?

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-05-19 17:41:46

"Yes, the Soviet losses were real. And yet it is truly tragic that these losses helped to subjugate nations longing for freedom, replacing one dictatorship with another. "
#history

The USSR occupied eastern Europe, calling it ‘liberation’ – Russia is repeating the crime in Ukraine
In the post-Soviet states, statues can be removed and street names changed. But achieving sovereignty of memory is far harder, says exiled Russian novelist Sergei Lebedev

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-05-04 12:35:59

"Twelve years after “As We May Think”, and simultaneous with the developments of the IBM 1401 and FORTRAN, copies of “Datamation” started popping up on selected newsstands. This magazine was the godfather of all programming magazines, and held its crown for 41 years (quite a few ages in computer time!), until being phased out as an online magazine in February 1998."

As We May Never Think Again
In 2010, a popular Argentine novelist, screenwriter, and blogger based in Spain called Hernán Casciari, got tired of dealing with publishing houses, editors, and mainstream media. He wanted to publish a magazine, but of a different kind. His idea of a magazine had very-well defined boundaries: high-quality content, no advertising, direct sales to the readers, and a luxury printed format. Against all odds, his idea worked: "Revista Orsai", kicked off as an experiment, and then became a staple a…

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-07 01:03:19

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FocusBeats
Novelist:
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#Novelist
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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-01 04:58:04

Morabo Morojele’s creative career was remarkable.
What wove his three identities together – musician, development worker and writer – was his conscious, committed pan-Africanism
and his master craftsman’s skill with sound:
the sound of his drums and the sound of his words as they rose off the page.
Through his books, and his (far too few) recordings, that beauty lives with us still.
Robala ka khotso (Sleep in peace)

Morabo Morojele: The social and political drum beats of the Lesotho jazz musician
The jazz drummer, novelist and development scholar died on May 20.