alex

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Basically asking: who is the Wikimedia Community? Readers? Developers? Contributors?

And how can we serve them if we can't define who they are?

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Manifesto for a Humane Web (humanewebmanifesto.com)
 

We are already making change, but to make more we need to reaffirm the foundations of the web: that the web is for people. We need to go out and shout from the rooftops that the web can be different. To do so effectively, we all need to be the change we want to see in the web. I do this by being myself on my personal website, and by sharing my writing on my site actively.

 
[–] alex@jlai.lu 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Countries in the Americas? Not sure what you don't understand.

[–] alex@jlai.lu 1 points 7 months ago

Paris doesn't need new housing, it just needs to keep upgrading its existing apartments :)

Otherwise yes sounds right.

[–] alex@jlai.lu 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They correspond to the larger eras in French economy.

  • Industrial revolution
  • Entre-deux-guerres, a period of strong urbanization and a huge push towards social housing. I suppose they included WW2 cause nothing was built there anyway.
  • 1946 to 1970 is "les trente glorieuses", the time of rebuilding everything, which means everyone had a job and could afford a house or apartment.
  • The oil crash in 1973 ushered in a more modern era, usually more left-wing after May 68 and with the election of Mitterrand in 1982.
  • The 1990 one is around when we elected a right-wing president and the public policies vastly changed.
  • 2005-2006 was starting to get tough because of oil again, I believe. It is also around the beginning of the US subprime crisis, of which the consequences affected us all too.
[–] alex@jlai.lu 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why do you post this here for trans people to see? What will this achieve exactly, outside of making our days a bit worse?

[–] alex@jlai.lu 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The book is called Free, I'm not trying to promote anything and really have nothing to gain. I'm just sharing my book reviews and felt like this might be good to share with people interested in European countries and cultures :)

[–] alex@jlai.lu 4 points 8 months ago

Just started The daughter of Doctor Moreau yesterday.

Before that, Rana Joon and the one and only now was absolutely wonderful and I really recommend it.

[–] alex@jlai.lu 1 points 8 months ago

yes I am indeed Bitch

[–] alex@jlai.lu 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have no recommendations but please know that Gender Trouble is actually a psyop book written only to melt the brain of people who attempt to read it (/s)

I just can't get my head around this monster of a book!

[–] alex@jlai.lu 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As I said, I get a certain number of books (about one third) from perusing stacks. I am generally against « over optimization » in community spaces − I enjoy serendipitous discovery, finding out things exist while I'm there and stumble upon them, and would not spend that time on a computer. I do place holds on all the other books I get :)

[–] alex@jlai.lu 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I've checked out 38 books last year, and I'm not the only person who checks out books :) I also got a bunch of them from browsing shelves, not from looking for them specifically. Let's fight for more community spaces − if we have enough, libraries will be able to be actual libraries!

[–] alex@jlai.lu 2 points 9 months ago

Proud of you!

The US two-party system is such an aberration to me.

[–] alex@jlai.lu 8 points 9 months ago

Yeah, Anna's Archive bragged about doing it (and they did great).

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