Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

@akjcv ideally people would understand git before they used git but unfortunately modern software development,

@akjcv do you know of any actual controversy regarding Han unification coming from a Chinese context? my understanding is that it is primarily Japanese users who get upset about it, and Chinese users are lightly in favour, especially(?) since simplified and traditional forms of characters are always given different codepoints. but i haven't seen much evidence either way, and would be interested in reading more words from a Chinese perspective

@coriander i work for the university of california so i was following it very closely when it all went down

@coriander i would hope they signed considering what UAW 4811 has gone thru

@coriander but anyway more broadly, if the race is decided before the election even happens, the least you can do is give the elected official a more interesting mandate than “do whatever you want”, and this applies broadly

i know the idea of elected officials receiving mandates thru elections is outdated here in estados unidos, but maybe we should resurrect it

@coriander if you live in washington and vote democrat for president you are literally throwing away your vote

@akjcv https://musicbrainz.org/doc/LinkedBrainz is probably a place to start

@akjcv i ask these questions because i do not think that acknowledging that whiteness destroyed our homeland and erased our culture means that we should submit, call ourselves rootless, say we have no homeland and no culture. whiteness has destroyed many homelands and many cultures and most do not have the privilege of submitting. as someone born in north america, i have never seen the geography which my tongue developed to communicate within (a geography which no longer exists). but this is not so unusual. many others speak with foreign tongues.

i think the comparison to diaspora is not too far off, personally. and i think this also informs the relation to the land we are on: it is not our land; we do not speak its language. at the same time, it is the land which nurtured us; we have a debt to those who can return the favour. (we ourselves cannot, not yet.)

but i don’t see this as such a permanently sad thing, necessarily. we CAN support the caretakers of the land which raised us. we CAN build an international community which provides care and support to human beings. without being able to directly support the land, we have to make a choice as to what we WILL support. but i think we can still choose well, we can still support good things and live a life with purpose.

@akjcv i find it interesting that this person says “It is a million specific places that human communities must relate to, each of them different” and yet, (1) never bothers to actually position THEMSELVES, speaking only of a nameless forest and childhood memories which could be transposed across any number of forests and any number of childhoods, and (2) goes on to talk about “white people” as tho they are all the same, or at least, presently, mostly interchangeable. is that right? certainly, white people are bound together by their mistakes, their colonialisms and settlements, their historic wielding of power; that is what makes them white.

but were all the people who walked those paths the same people? or were they, as the contemporary american scholars would have it, a great many different people, who gave up (or were pressured to give up) their individual identities in exchange for a privileged, and more liveable, place in society’s orders?

and do all those who descend from those people form the same people? or is there, perhaps, a difference between those who grew up in the humid midatlantic swamps versus the cold deserts of the inland northwest? is the land not also, perhaps, part of what raised us, and part of the culture to which we belong? (i think the piece is arguing in favour of this one)