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The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term #ConcentrationCamp a name symbolic of #atrocity, so when British #colonizers once again visited the idea of #ForcedRelocation of #IndigenousPeoples to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with #NewVillages. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in #Malaya during the 1950 #MalayanEmergency. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.
#Britain lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million #Chinese in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.
When the Malay #CommunistParty received support from armed #guerrillas from Malaya and #China, the British, intent on restoring #Imperial rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist #insurgents would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.
The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didn’t receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.
Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated #CollectivePunishments directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. #Deportation without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.
En cosas que no entiendo: Una empresa con muchos centros pequeños puede hacerles la vida imposible a sus trabajadores porque siendo los centros pequeños no pueden organizarse sindicalmente?
Las tres empleadas de la juguetería Afede en Ansoáin convocan una huelga indefinida
El paro comenzará el 25 de noviembre | Están abiertas a negociar con la empresa una mejora salarial, de jornada y de condiciones sociales | La dirección ha comenzado a embalar el producto de la tienda desde el pasado lunes
En empresas que tengan en la misma provincia o en municipios limítrofes dos o más centros de trabajo cuyos censos no alcancen los 50 trabajadores, pero en su conjunto lo sumen, se constituirá un comité de empresa conjunto. Cuando unos centros tengan 50 trabajadores y otros de la misma provincia no, en los primeros se constituirán comités de empresa propios y con todos los segundos se constituirá otro.
Mastodon, if you have to do starter packs, *please think about consent* for people being added to starter packs. The bluesky starter packs may be great for new accounts trying to find their people, but it has not necessarily been fun for people who've been added to starter packs without their knowledge. I feel like a couple thousand people looking for a coffee shop have suddenly turned up in my living room.
As fun as this list is, I forgot one:
* Despite all this progress on Mastodon, even more innovation will happen in the Fediverse services outside of Mastodon.
El impacto es "enorme", advierten los especialistas, con un nuevo derecho a una "audiencia previa", que modifica el procedimiento para despedir y anticipa muchos litigios sobre sus detalles
the fucking audacity of white american latinos calling us Puerto Ricans gringos lost in an island so we can have the privilege to cleaning up their fucking fascist messes.
GO DEAL WITH YOUR ANTI-BLACK GWANABÍS DE MIERDA AND KEEP NUESTRA PATRIA OUR OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTHS
who they hell are you to call us gringos?
we Puerto Ricans are a nation. FULL STOP.
we aren't Americans. we have American Citizenship.
don't you go disrespecting us like that.
we aren't here to clean gringos' fascist messes.
And here's an hour of one of Larry King's interviews with Gork, president of the planet Fringas, who made several appearances on his show. The YouTube video mistakenly credits Gork as being voiced by Robin Williams. This is incorrect; Gork was voiced by Herb Cohen, one of King's best friends since childhood and the author of "You Can Negotiate Anything." This clip claims to have been recorded from WCAU, now WPHT out of Philly. WCAU started carrying the Larry King show around 1981 after it had been airing on WWDB. WWDB was not only one of Philly's all-talk stations but it was unusual in that it was also an FM station. I have recordings of this station from 1979, some of which I've already digitized and would like to share them with Philly talk radio enthusiasts.
oo radio history, I live in toronto ontario canada and miss listenign to regular physical radio. We used t get some of Philadelphia's stations like the big talker aroudn 1220 I think it was at night.
@robini71 @Angela2000 Yep, I have fond memories of WCAU back in the day. They did a lot of local talk as well as a long-running evening show called Radio Cllassics where they'd play several OTR shows. My dad and I both enjoyed that show and my dad won a few prizes from it by answering trivia questions. I think one of them might have been a tin of Riceman pretzels.
@Angela2000 Yep, WCAU was 1210 and I'm not surprised you picked them up from Canada. I remember picking up one or two Canadian stations; wasn't one of them 900 CHML in Hamilton?
@techsinger You're welcome. There were several stories from his life that he often played on his show. I once had all of them on tape but I have since found copies of them from the Internet Archive.
Thanks very much, once again. I did hear him in the 90s on radio for quite a few years, but it wasn't every day and I don't remember hearing the stories. I appreciate the chance.
Awww I totally understand that. I have a friend who, when remembering prior days would often say "I wanna go home." I always knew what she meant and now do even more so than when she used to say it to me. I wanna go back often on many levels.
Today is the birthday of Larry King, who was born on November 19, 1933. In my teen years, I listened to a lot of local talk radio in the Philly area but the Larry King show was one of the few shows that aired during that time which was national. There was something about that show that just captivated me. I loved Open Phone America, where he took calls about any topic from 3:00-5:30 AM Eastern time. He had a guest on for three hours and he was a master at interviewing. He could even interview his own daughter and made it so interesting. His daughter Chaia sadly also passed away. I even called Larry at his hotel when he was in Philly and talked with him for around ten minutes. I read both of his autobiographies. I wish more recordings were publicly available from his show on Mutual. He was my favorite radio talk show host and one of our best interviewers. Here's a link to a blog post that I wrote about him when I learned of his passing. davidgoldfield.wordpress.com/2…
Introduction After opening the Mail app on my iPhone this past Saturday the first email to greet me was from a good friend of mine who informed me that Larry King had passed away. I immediately ope…
Larry King was one of a kind. He was my middle of the night companion when I couldn’t sleep in college. I never did call into Open Phone America. Fun fact: Unless he got one toward the end, he never had a toll-free number. I’m a little embarrassed to say I still remember the call-in number all these years later.
@Thumper1964 Actually, in the early days of the Larry King show they had four call-in numbers. 703 685-2190 and 2180, one was for the Eastern time zone and the other was for the Central time zone; can't remember which one was which. 685-2177 was for the Mountain time zone and 685-2185 was for the Pacific time zone (99% sure of that but someone please set me straight if my memories are scrambled.) Eventually, he just had one number for everyone, which I think was 2177.
David, we recorded a lot of his shows most of them old radio guests and sports guests. It might take a while but, we can share them with you possibly by drop box?.
@JohnGassman John, that would be fabulous, but only when your time allows for it. There's absolutely no rush for it. The shows with guests from radio would be great.
"Empire of Death" epitomized RTD's approach to season finales that he deployed to popular (if not always critical) acclaim during his first stint as showrunner. What happened this time?
Remembering the late William Russell on what would’ve been his 100th birthday, who played one of the Doctor’s first companions, Ian Chesterton, in the very first Doctor Who adventure, An Unearthly Child, which originally aired on the BBC in 1963. #DoctorWho
I hate this bullshit service, even more after reading their ableist response to this person: 'I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind' michaels.world/2023/11/i-was-b… #HCaptcha
Also known as: why you shouldn't trust a company who makes their product intensionally inaccessible with allowing you an accessibility workaround Update: I've been informed that hCaptcha now has a text captcha option.
Tune into our newest episode of the Nation’s Blind Podcast where our hosts are joined by Jonathan Mosen, former producer and host of the Bolotin award-winning Living Blindfully podcast and our incoming executive director for Accessibility Excellence. They discuss Access On, our new podcast that focuses on the role that technology plays in living the life we want. Jonathan also provided advice and tips for new podcasters: nfb.org/resources/publications…
A study asked 50 doctors to make six different diagnoses for medical conditions. "Doctors who did the project without AI got an average score of 74%, doctors who used AI got an average score of 76%, and ChatGPT itself got an average score of 90%." "AI didn’t help doctors using it as much as anticipated because physicians “didn’t listen to AI when AI told them things they didn’t agree. Most doctors couldn’t be convinced a chatbot knew more than them." #LLM #AI #ChatGPTqz.com/chatgpt-beat-doctors-at…
Believe me, it does sound amazing. It’s just when you see all these articles claiming this and that with no easy way to verify what they say, the questions arise! At the end of the day though it matters little until we see an impact in real people’s lives.
You did understand my question. I understand the premise. I just don’t want to assume, hence always asking… I’ll look at the article. Thanks for the link!
That’s cute… I wonder what sort of AI Jesus he/she/it is? Does their Jesus incorporates an encoder, decoder or both? I assume their Jesus is a multi-modal bot / agent? LOL mastodon.social/@Richard_Littl…
I give up. Now there's a Swiss church that has an #AI Jesus....
"Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing religious life at a small church in Lucerne, Switzerland, where a virtual Jesus is caring for the concerns and needs of the faithful."
Hold on... Isn't this from the film THX 1138?
Good god, we're living in a low-budget 1970s dystopia.
Here's a link to my RNZ Nine to Noon interview about the unfinished business I leave behind as I leave New Zealand. Yes, it's been an emotional week since the PM dropped his ableist grenade into the apology. rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/…
An award winning disability advocate, honored for services to the blind community, is quitting New Zealand - saying it's the worst country in the western world in which to be blind.
Did you really say this: “…it is the worst country in the western world in which to be blind.” Or is it just a sensational heading? I am sure I could point to a few contrary examples in the Western world, but then again, I never lived in New Zealand, so what do I know… :)
@vick21 I mean, I went to high school in college in Mexico. Believe me when I say it wasn’t exactly shits and giggles. The first University I applied to straight up told me they wouldn’t accept me because of my blindness. That they could not accommodate my needs.
Around 10 months ago I commented on the Flathub metadata guidelines being quite critical of some key parts and now it turns out Flatpak app developers also a...
Wow, I just spent the last few hours workshopping this unfinished PR with Claude. I get why AI is bad for unverified research and the like, but that I as a CMake know-nothing and after not getting help on the CMake forums was able to get a thing mostly building on Android when the build originally crashed a minute or 2 in, working through multiple problems and obscure CMake issues, kind of blows my mind. github.com/duckdb/duckdb_spati…
Thanks to #345 for getting this started. I took a slightly different approach:
The NDK prebuilds seem to ship with static zlib, so I hack CMake to find those. I also tweak the dependencies on Andr...
I give up. Now there's a Swiss church that has an #AI Jesus....
"Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing religious life at a small church in Lucerne, Switzerland, where a virtual Jesus is caring for the concerns and needs of the faithful."
Hold on... Isn't this from the film THX 1138?
Good god, we're living in a low-budget 1970s dystopia.
Čau lidi na modrém nebi i modrém slonovi :) Mám v plánu obnovit psaní newsletterů - o tom, co dělám a co vařím, co roste a zraje v přírodě i na zahradě, jaké budou v nejbližší době akce a svátky, o přírodním stavitelství, o vztazích...
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This release contains some minor tweaks and some user-contributed features and fixes, most notably the ability to choose the amount of columns to display in the home screen and a fix to retain the search state when rotating the screen or opening a card.
nobody noticed the cheating, not even I 🙈 that screenshot was from the previous release, 2.32.1 – the index at the repo browser was not yet updated. So here's the one for 2.33.0, with results arrived from 2 builders so far.
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