It’s worth a read, but if you don’t have time

What makes this revival uncomfortable is its timing. Phyllis could not respond. Her family, largely gone. There was no one left to correct the record or explain the circumstances. The image became a blank screen onto which modern viewers projected assumptions about drug use, morality, and personal failure.

Yet when her life is examined even briefly, those assumptions collapse. There is no evidence that she was a habitual drug user. No record of repeated arrests. No trail of chaos or criminality. Instead, there is a woman born into economic uncertainty, injured young, living through wartime upheaval, briefly targeted by an unjust legal system, and then settling into a quiet, unremarkable life.

The insult survives because it is easy. The truth requires effort.

The Reddit comment that circulates alongside Phyllis’s image captures something essential about her case. In 1944, freedom was conditional. It depended on fitting into social expectations, on being legible to authority, on not attracting the wrong kind of attention.

The same laws that ensnared Phyllis were used disproportionately against the poor, women, and people of colour. Their eventual repeal is often celebrated as progress, but repeal does not undo the damage done to those who lived under them.

Phyllis Stalnaker did not become a symbol in her lifetime. She did not campaign, protest, or write memoirs. Her story matters precisely because it is small. It reminds us how many lives were quietly constrained by laws that have since been forgotten, and how easily a single photograph can erase complexity.

Her revival online offers a choice. She can remain a joke, or she can be recognised as what she was: a woman shaped by her time, subjected to its injustices, and deserving of more than a label.

Thank you!

Last I checked, there wasn’t a good way to mirror playlists across different platforms. Maybe I’ll just post on here and ask if there are suggestions

I’m happy to pin a playlist if someone wants to maintain it :)

Otherwise we will probably make a playlist or two once all the nominations are in

Yeah I guess there should be rudimentary markdown to LaTeX translation programs, right?

I haven’t tried any, but I would think so yes. You can probably run a script over the files to accomplish the same thing :)

If it helps, a number of courses at my university used open source git based textbooks. For example, you can replicate this Statistics textbook using any static site generator designed for documentation: https://moderndive.com/ (https://github.com/moderndive/ModernDive_book/)

• https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/
• https://www.mkdocs.org/
• https://vitepress.dev/

We use vitepress for our docs: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

Or you can get even simpler by using plain markdown files organized into folders.

In my opinion, it’s better to start off simple while writing the content since then you can pick a tool based on what type of formatting you end up needing

LaTeX has been around for a lot longer, and Typst is one of the projects looking to replace it

Typst is a lot more intuitive and easier to use, but it might be missing some packages and tools that were designed for LaTeX.

For your purposes, I think it would work just fine

Is there a robust test suite?

Merge, test, merge, test, patch, merge, test

Oh good point 🤦

So maybe instead, we can clear all local + remote branches and tags, create a blank branch, delete main, rename the blank branch to main, then delete .git

Although the OP says that we can merge anything, and we might not have access to mess with branches

Goodbye fedecan.ca

I’m not sure about the git history wipe, I can’t test it myself right now

rm -rf *

git add -A
git commit -m "oops."

rm -rf .git
git init
git add .
git commit -m "bye."

git push origin main --force

I did ban jaknapton earlier today but didn’t have a chance to reply here. We also banned itzbasicallystormy@lemmy.wtf just now.

For emkata2564@futurology.today, the downvotes no longer register for communities on our instance but they do seem to show up for those on other instances. We will put together a few messages to various admins to let them know to ban those accounts and keep an eye out for similar signups.

Thank you!

!misleadingthumbnails@lemmy.ca

On that note, I should replace the AI generated community icon.

edit: Done, the icon is now the sushi bird. It works on two levels, since it also looks like a thumb nail 😄

We did ban the user from lemmy.ca, are you seeing something different?

https://lemmy.ca/u/emkata2564@futurology.today

https://lemmy.ca/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=29304867

Thank you for the tag. I can confirm that both @petru@futurology.today and @areetx@lemmy.world appear to be a part of the same harassment / vote manipulation circle, and have been banned + content removed.

I also checked for downvotes in the past 24 hours, and those two are the only accounts that match the pattern. Looking through the data, AGM does not appear to be related to this circle. From what I can see, AGM is a regular user that coincidentally downvoted some comments on that other post where this started. Please don’t tag their user account, as they don’t seem to be involved in this.

I am sorry that this is happening to you, and I’ve passed on the method I used to identify these accounts to the rest of our team.

I’ll include the relevant parts of your other comment below, but remove it to untag the other user:

http areetx voting history https://lemvotes.org/user/areetx@lemmy.world

Petru voting history https://lemvotes.org/user/petru@futurology.today

Cat just needs one solid killshot to win.

Cat might need three, if we are going off the assumption that it needs to take out all three hearts. Although I think octopi have one “brain” type organ

Welcome!

For the rules, could you use different formatting? A lot of users use mobile apps, and some of them don’t format markdown the way Lemmy does. The spoiler tag in particular doesn’t get rendered in a lot of them.

For example, this is what I see in Boost:

Perhaps you can do something like

## Rules

1: 😇 Be Nice!

- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: **friendly**

2: 👶 Keep it at PG

Which will format like this

Rules

1: 😇 Be Nice!

• Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly

2: 👶 Keep it at PG

You could also shorten some of them to make it more likely that people will read them. For example, moving this to the bottom of the rules section, or taking it out entirely:

Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanantly banned from posting.

I also liked the old sidebar’s guidance on “complete stories” because it sums up what this community is intended for and differentiates it from “comics” and “memes”. I don’t know if it needs to be stated explicitly, but you could potentially include it right at the top with the description line.

I’m also happy to help out if the moderation load gets too much to handle. Feel free to add my LW account if at any point the team could use more hands: https://lemmy.world/u/otter

There is deepwiki, which can give you a similar overview. You will need to do the subsequent animations yourself afterwards

Weird, it loads instantly for me. Maybe you have some settings that are blocking the page?