Kaputnik

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[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Since federation I don't see his posts on my feed as much anymore, I miss it

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've had this feature on my phone for quite a while since it's MIUI. But the issue I've had is that it will decrease the volume even when I'm connected to Bluetooth speakers or my car where it's easier to max the volume on the phone and control the volume on the speakers

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

For that price point I've had a really good time with using Xiaomi phones. Specifically the Redmi Note series. They're similarly cheap but they're built well and feel expensive, not with a plastic case or anything like that.

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 85 points 2 years ago

The idea that media companies in the the west are subservient to the interests of capital and the military industrial state isn't even a "tankie" take on the left. Similar ideas have been espoused by many people across the left, the most famous of which being Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky.

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

I don't even know how people are supposed to survive in this country anymore

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not a book but here's some sources I used when writing about it previously:

Seara Rey, Kian. “Rosa Hernández Acosta on the Cuban Literacy Campaign.” JSTOR Daily, (2021). https://daily.jstor.org/rosa-hernandez-acosta-on-the-cuban-literacy-campaign/

(This first one is especially interesting as it's an interview with someone who taught during the literacy campaign)

Leiner M. (1987) The 1961 National Cuban Literacy Campaign. In: Arnove R.F., Graff H.J. (eds) National Literacy Campaigns. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0505-5_8

Boughton, Bob, & Durnan, Deborah. “Cuba’s Yo, Sí Puedo. A Global Literacy Movement?.” Postcolonial Directions in Education 3, no. 2 (2014): 325-359. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289310152_Cuba%27s_Yo_Si_Puedo_A_global_literacy_movement

Boughton, Bob. “Back to the Future?: Timor-Leste, Cuba and the Return of the Mass Literacy Campaign.” Literacy & Numeracy Studies 18, no. 2 (2010): 58-74. https://doi.org/10.5130/lns.v18i2.1898

Herman, Rebecca. “An Army of Educators: Gender, Revolution and the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961.” Gender & History 24, no. 1 (2012): 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0424.2011.01670.x

Griffiths, Tom G. & Williams, Jo. “Mass Schooling for Socialist Transformation in Cuba and Venezuela.” Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies 7, no. 2 (2009): 30-50. http://www.jceps.com/wp-content/uploads/PDFs/07-2-02.pdf

Kempf, Arlo. “The Cuban Literacy Campaign at 50: Formal and Tacit Learning in Revolutionary Education.” Critical Education 5, no. 4 (2014): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v5i4.183269

Artaraz, Kepa. “Cuba's Internationalism Revisited: Exporting Literacy, ALBA, and a New Paradigm for South–South Collaboration.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 31, no.1 (2012): 22-37. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2011.00645.x

Lorenzetto, Anna, & Neys, Karel. “Report on the Method and Means Utilized in Cuba to Eliminate Illiteracy.” UNESCO. 1965. http://www.maestrathefilm.org/activos/educators/Lorenzetto%20UNESCO%20Study.pdf

McLaren, Peter. “Guided by a Red Star: The Cuban Literacy Campaign and the Challenge of History.” Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies 7, no. 2 (2009):52-65. http://www.jceps.com/wp-content/uploads/PDFs/07-2-03.pdf

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

From what I've found it sounds like the president of Nigeria has control over foreign policy, but the senate is required to consent to any treaties that are signed with foreign countries. Outside of that the president has final say and a military intervention would probably be under his jurisdiction without requiring the consent of the senate.

I don't know if that totally accurate, I'm not from Nigeria, that's just based on a quick reading

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I mean sure, but I wouldn't call soldiers going in with armour and armed with assault rifles brave when they're facing literal children and indigenous land defenders.

As much as I wanna give the land defenders credit and this photo is badass, I think there's a clear power imbalance that eliminates bravery. Like we wouldn't call the American soldiers at My Lai brave for attacking civilians

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

And how people still talk about how "brave" those soldiers were who went in to force people off their ancestral land in order to build a golf course

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Sure yea Canada is not genocidal within what...the last 15 seconds? Since the residential school system closed less than 30 years ago, starlight tours are not "officially" a thing anymore, and no indigenous women have been sterilised, murdered, or gone missing in the last 15 seconds

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

RuPaul leases to fracking companies on the fucking 60k acre ranch he owns in Wyoming

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