My friend is looking for a resource to become fluent in French, he is forced to work with it. Asked to find a certain book, but it is not yet pirated on the resources of the wiki. My guess is that pirates have better alternatives for such a thing, so I'm launching a discussion.
I only ever heard about the book "Minna no Nihongo" in the context of learning Japanese.
I think the whole premise of Duolingo that learning a language means translating to and from it is bonkers. I know multiple languages at various levels, and every time to speak I create my sentences in the target language directly. Translating is a totally different skill set
Not really about piracy, but doing language exchanges is a great way to learn a language. You teach someone your language, they teach you theirs. It's free and it gives you more knowledge than any book. Natural languages don't work with strict rules usually, natives speak by feel, the only way to learn that feel is by interacting with people.
There are some limitations though: often native speakers don’t have a deep understanding of the grammar rules they use, because they use them intuitively. So sometimes learning this way makes it a bit foggy. I often use this technique when I’m already familiar with the target language, At a basic level.
That's exactly why you want to do this. When people speak casually or are making jokes, nobody speaks with grammar in mind. Gathering this intuition for the language is exactly what I'm looking for when learning.
And a lot of native speakers just straight up use incorrect grammar. eg loads of native English speakers say things like "could of", use "then" instead of "than", use punctuation incorrectly, do incorrect sentence structure, etc.
I don't mean to be prescriptive about language. Of course it evolves based on usage. But in any formal environment, such as an academic environment, there are still certain defined and canonised English grammar rules that you would be penalised for breaking, and most learners want to learn those rules even if most casual speakers don't follow them.
You just look for people who are interested to learn your language, any place where people communicate can work. Maybe hit some groups for learning the language you know and try to find people who speak the language you want there.
I personally play VRChat, there are a number of language learning groups there. Though, the culture of the place is certainly not for everyone.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
I used to use HelloTalk but it's a bit annoying now due to trying to lock more things behind paywalls. Italki is another common one. Just find any language learning/exchange discord, like TheMoeWay and others.
What is the book called? I can try searching for it.
As for learning languages, I find that a combination of structured lessons (from an instructor or recommended course book) with speaking practice (with someone you know or through a language exchange program) works best. Other things that help are watching films or series in your target language, listening to music and translating the text.
There are a lot of language learning resources on the site i use. I did a whole Michel Thomas advanced audio course for portuguese that helped me learn the basics. What's the title of the french book your friend is looking for?
If you visit enough russian warez sites you will learn what Скачать means. Usually that's the second language of the pirate world after broken english.
I just hung out with spanish speaking people and used duolingo (back when it was good) until I could speak and understand spanish. That way takes years though. I would recommend including structured classes for anyone who isn't an auditory learner.
They've changed it a bunch and they rely on AI more now. When I took it it was more like sentences and conversations repeated over and over. It may still be ok but I don't think it's as good as it was.
I had already written at length about the topic, but the OP I had replied to seems to have deleted their post so I'm just going to do it again.
My native language is Turkish. I reached basic English fluency when I was ~14 years old and I'm currently doing Japanese immersion with my comprehension rate of the Japanese content I consume being around 90% (mostly video game content and anime). I achieved this primarily by consuming interesting content in my target language. I didn't go to any language classes at all in both cases, and school itself likely only made my English skills worse.
This technique essentially aims to replicate how people acquire their first language when they're babies, which essentially means lots of comprehensible input and no output initially. Input comes first, output comes a few thousands of hours later, similar to how it takes 4 years for a human baby to have acquired the language just enough to be able to start speaking. How language acquisition itself works can be explained like this.
Though in the case of adults this can take much less time with the help of flashcards, dictionaries, and reading (you should not start reading from the get-go though). And getting that much input is thankfully much easier in our age because of the Internet, and essentially all you need to do is watch interesting, comprehensible (visual cues help a lot) content in your target language. You should aim for 10,000 hours of comprehensible input for basic fluency, which would take around 4 years at 7 hours per day, or more unrealistically 1.5 years at 18 hours per day.
I haven't yet come across any guide other than Tatsumoto's that promotes using only libre tooling for language acquisition, so that's why I primarily recommend his website.
Well, everything depends on balance and what is easy for him. If he likes reading more than watching/listening, then maybe a textbook is the way to go, or vice versa. Sorry that I can't provide specific language tips, I'm a Japanese learner 😅
General Tips:
Decide if a textbook is right for you. Check online reviews and YT videos of people going through/teaching based on that textbook. If you like it, get it. For me, I value textbooks solely for teaching grammar, structured learning, and giving me a few prompts to follow. I feel it's hard to just learn grammar from reading in my case, as a lot of rules I would've flew over my head or been hard for me to comprehend on my own without isolating is first. Beginners might not even know how to ask a question about a grammar point.
YT is your friend (unfortunately) to find all kinds of videos, both for learning and for immersion
Immersion might take a bit to reach, but you can start with simple children's books. Some countries might have free to read online books if the copyright has expired on it. Play games, watch TV, listen to songs, literally do anything involving the target lang. As I said though, people preach immersion from day one, but it might be hard. I like to think of textbooks, YT tutorials, and learning material as the crutches that help to prepare you for immersion. If you start reading kids books and wanna pull your hair out cause you can't understand everything, then pick up some learning material. There might be a website specific to your language for graded material based on difficulty.
Find a local or online community to practice and learn with. Could be a forum board and weekly discord calls like I do. Libraries and local classes probably exist too. There's one I was too shy to use that encourages in-person meetups in your city.
No single resource is gonna solve your problems. If an app or textbook or YT channel claims they alone can get you fluent, and worse, in a few months, run away. It's a marathon (at least fluency anyway), so don't worry if you're not doing the most optimized learning routine. All languages take a certain amount of time, and you can only slow yourself down, not make a new record. But don't spend all week fretting if you picked the best method or not, cause you'll fall into the pit of "learning about learning" instead of "learning a language."
Specific Tools:
Yomitan: Browser extension that lets you do dictionary lookups on a word on any page you're reading. Supports several languages, just download dictionaries for your language (these can be found without needing to pirate, at least in my case)
Anki: I keep gushing over it lol. Free flashcard tool that uses SRS to help you memorize better. I use it to make flashcards of frequently used words I encounter in the wild.
YouGlish: Various languages, checks YT vids for the word you entered to figure out how natives say it. I also use this to make flashcards sometimes.
I was studying French too (I really should get back into it). My plan was to learn all of the most used vocabulary, the grammar and then aggresively use the language. Read books, watch YouTube videos, chat with folk online. Best way to learn a language is to use it.
I learnt French through textbooks and then once I had a good grasp of grammar, reading French children's literature with a dictionary. I don't know if that's the "best" way, but it worked.
Fwiw I mostly learnt English by just reading English books and not having a clue what was going on for a couple years but eventually got it. However I was a young child when I did that, so my ability to learn new languages was much better. I could probably do the same as an adult, but it would take me a lot longer. Don't underestimate the brain's ability to learn even without direct "teaching" like a textbook gives you.
Pirate Rosetta Stone software. Then fund cideos of people speaking the language slowly so that you can learn the sound of it. They say learn the most common 1000 words.
After years of legal skirmishes, an ambitious strategy by film studio Voltage Pictures, to sue alleged BitTorrent pirates through a reverse class action in Canada, has been permanently shut down. The Federal Court of Appeal ruled that these cases, where IP addresses are the main initial evidence, are unsuited to this legal approach. Furthermore, the proposed methods for mass notification are deemed unlawful.
In occasione del festival Perlanera 2025 ho finalmente avuto il piacere di conoscere di persona Franco Schirone. Abbiamo avuto un’amabile conversazione, spesso interrotta dalle giuste e rimostranze di altr* compagni* che, gentilmente, mi facevano notare come stessi “monopolizzando” l’attenzione di Franco; attratto dalle comuni passioni e dalla sua disponibilità nella condivisione delle conoscenze.
Il festival “I senza Stato” mi ha offerto anche l’opportunità di ottenere una copia de “Il popolo tiranni più non vuole – Leggi eccezionali e domicilio coatto nell’Italia di fine Ottocento”, scritto dallo stesso Schirone e da Mauro De Agostini per Zero in condotta. Il libro è un prezioso strumento di lotta e apprendimento utile a riconoscere le brutte intenzioni di cui è lastricata la strada verso uno stato sempre più repressivo. In tal senso è inquietantemente attuale. Le similitudini tra i decreti sicurezza che si susseguono negli ultimi anni e le leggi speciali di oltre un secolo fa sono troppo evidenti per essere ignorate.
Chi legge vive cinquemila anni
Ma la storia che voglio raccontarvi oggi è diversa. Potremmo quasi dire che legge tra le righe o meglio nell’immagine della copertina. È una storia che spiega bene quella “immortalità all’indietro” caratteristica dei libri, di cui parlava Umberto Eco. Appena preso il nuovo libro ho effettuato i soliti, abituali gesti. L’ho rigirato tra le mani, attivando i meccanismi di piacere stimolati dal profumo e dal suono delle pagine fino a soffermarmi sulla copertina. Ed è stato proprio in quel momento che il viaggio ha avuto inizio.
La copertina è una foto dei relegati politici nell’isola di Lipari inviata all’«Avanti» in data 28 gennaio 1899. Nell’osservarla sono stato attratto da una faccia diversa dalle altre. Forse per la bombetta british o per l’espressione scanzonata. Fortunatamente Schirone e De Agostini hanno provveduto a inserire tutti i nomi dei relegati rappresentati. Vi lascio immaginare la sorpresa nello scoprire che il volto che aveva attratto la mia attenzione corrispondeva a un conterraneo; riportato nella trascrizione come “Poni di Pizzo Calabro”.
Chi era “Poni”
Ho subito voluto saperne di più e mi sono lanciato alla ricerca di chi fosse Poni. Qual era la sua storia? Perché era stato relegato? Era socialista o anarchico? Qual era stata la sua attività politica? Cosa aveva fatto prima e dopo del confino a Lipari? Molte domande ma pochissime risposte. Si, perché nonostante l’accuratezza del libro, comprensivo di un’appendice con l’elenco dei relegati nelle varie isole, non trovavo nessuna informazione aggiuntiva su Poni di Pizzo Calabro.
Una prima relazione, forse!!!
Nell’elenco in appendice di cui sopra trovai, oltre al Poni, un altro calabrese. Anche lui relegato a Lipari e addirittura reggino, come me. Un anarchico su cui invece risultano molte informazioni a disposizione; Giovanni Battista Olandese. Era lui il Poni? Magari aveva dato delle generalità approssimative nel momento in cui la foto era stata inviata all’«Avanti»? Se si per quale motivo? Perché dire Pizzo se era di Reggio? Ma soprattutto chi era Olandese?
Giovanni Battista Olandese
Grazie al lavoro della Biblioteca Serantini vengo a conoscenza di alcuni importanti elementi. Olandese era nato a Reggio Calabria nel 1868. Dal 1892 al 1914 fu sempre attivo in azioni e agitazioni anarchiche per le quali subisce diverse incarcerazioni. Il suo sostegno alla causa del deputato Giuseppe De Felice, vittima della repressione di Crispi, gli costa financo il domicilio coatto a Lipari dal quale verrà prosciolto nel 1900. Il suo nome risulta anche in un elenco stilato e pubblicato da Errico Malatesta su «L’Agitatore».
Su Olandese devo aprire un’ulteriore e affascinante parentesi. Io e Schirone siamo legati anche dalla recente pubblicazione di una mia raccolta poetica “Fondamenti di Utopia” per la quale Franco Schirone ha curato la prefazione. Questa raccolta mi ha permesso di conoscere – grazie all’interesse comune per l’anarchico di Palizzi “Bruno Misefari” – il colto Domenico Principato, autore di due tesi di laurea sulle società segrete e propagatore di cultura locale nell’area grecanica. Domenico è una fonte inesauribile di informazioni e conoscenze storiche che riguardano anarchici e socialisti calabresi del passato e gli ho chiesto qualche aiuto nella ricerca.
Franca Olandese Versace
Domenico mi racconta una storia interessante che ancora una volta mi fa rendere conto di quanto poco i reggini sappiano della propria città. Giovanni Battista Olandese nel 1920 ebbe una figlia, Franca Olandese. A Reggio Calabria, Franca è conosciuta semplicemente per essere stata “una sartina, madre di Gianni Versace, da cui il figlio apprese le doti sartoriali.” Ma era molto più di questo.
Franca Olandese Versace, era infatti, a cavallo degli anni 50’ del 1900 una donna di grandissima cultura esoterica. Custode di segreti e di conoscenze a cui si affidava l’alta borghesia reggina dell’epoca. Domenico la definisce come paragonabile, per cultura, alla più famosa e cronologicamente precedente Helena Blavatsky. Grande donna della seconda metà dell’800 che affermò anche di essere stata ferita durante la battaglia di Mentana (3 novembre 1867) tra le file dei garibaldini. Conoscendo le passioni e la vastità del sapere di Gianni Versace (che prese il nome dal nonno materno) è probabile che oltre alle doti sartoriali, Franca avesse trasmesso al figlio anche le conoscenze esoteriche a sua volta probabilmente apprese dal padre. Scoperte affascinanti che dimostrano quante vite si possono vivere entrando nei dettagli di un libro…ma da dove eravamo partiti?
Chi era Poni?
Olandese e Poni erano la stessa persona? Quando una strada è troppo forzata per dare i risultati attesi forse è il momento di provarne un’altra, partendo da zero. Ovvero dal libro.
Anarchici di Calabria
Nel flusso della ricerca e consumato dal piacevole tarlo del mistero da risolvere, decido di cercare altre storie di anarchici e socialisti calabresi dell’epoca. L’obiettivo era trovare compagn* attiv+ politicamente e impegnat* nelle necessarie lotte per un mondo più giusto. Necessarie allora come oggi. Da una ricerca generica mi imbatto in un anarchico di cui avevo letto nel libro come narratore delle torture da lui subite durante il confino ma, stranamente, assente nel famoso elenco dei relegati di cui abbiamo già parlato. Il suo nome era Francesco Perri.
era stato confinato a Lipari nel periodo della foto;
usava firmare i suoi articoli sull’«Avanti» con dei pseudonimi.
Sembrava fatta. Mancava solo una conferma. Trovare un articolo di Perri sull’ «Avanti», sull’ «Avvenire Sociale» o magari su «La Gogna» nel quale si fosse firmato con lo pseudonimo Poni. Niente di tutto ciò. Resto comunque convinto della possibilità che Poni e Perri fossero la stessa persona e decido di mettere a conoscenza della mia ricerca proprio Franco Schirone.
Dopo qualche scambio ricevo finalmente il messaggio tanto atteso…
Risolto il problema: ho ingrandito a 400 la foto, NON È PONI MA PERRI
Sono ancora pervaso da un senso di autocompiacimento quando Franco mi chiama spiegandomi che i nomi erano stati trascritti con un piccolo errore a causa della scarsa leggibilità nella fotografia originale. Come si evince dalla copertina, i nomi dei relegati sono scritti a mano proprio in calce alla foto e Perri – poco visibile – era stato riportato come Poni.
Conclusione
Come scrivevo all’inizio, questa piccola e divertente ricerca ci insegna la bellezza e la magia dei libri. Ogni pagina può contenere infinite storie. Nei libri anche un “errore” può portarci a seguire il maestro dubbio sulla cattiva strada. La cattiva strada della libertà e della conoscenza che può elevare la nostra condizione umana solo se impariamo a goderne i passi, vedendone gli incroci come prospettive per nuove illuminazioni.
Francesco Perri (anarchico) [Pizzo Calabro (Vibo Valentia), 22 gennaio 1879 - Roma, 6 maggio 1935] Figlio di Rocco e di Caterina Tarsia, famiglia di condizione sociale abbastanza agiata.
“Fondamenti di Utopia” di Daniele Fiorenza è una raccolta di poesia militante che non cerca compromessi, ma colpisce dritto al cuore dell’ingiustizia. Versi potenti che incitano alla disobbedienza e alla lotta, svelando le ipocrisie del potere e celebrando l’urgenza di un’utopia concreta. Un’opera che brucia di rabbia lucida e solidarietà, perfetta per chi cerca una voce autentica e ribelle nella poesia contemporanea.
Fondamenti di Utopia di Daniele Fiorenza
Una raccolta di poesia sociale, politica e ribelle
“Fondamenti di Utopia” di Daniele Fiorenza non è una semplice raccolta di versi; è un manifesto poetico, un grido di disobbedienza che non ammette compromessi. Lontano dal lirismo fine a sé stesso, ogni parola è un colpo diretto al cuore dell’ingiustizia, inserendosi con forza nel solco della poesia anarchica e militante. È una voce che incarna un’urgenza profonda, sia personale che collettiva: quella di rompere il silenzio, di reagire e di lottare.
Qui, la poesia sociale prende corpo, si fa rabbia visione audace. Le parole si trasformano in strumenti di liberazione, torce accese in una notte di indifferenza. Fiorenza non si limita a denunciare o a raccontare; egli immagina, ma soprattutto incita: a non cedere alla rassegnazione, a custodire la memoria, a rifiutare la delega, a riconquistare dignità, tempo e spazio. Come recita un verso emblematico della raccolta, “l’utopia non è un’illusione, è un orizzonte in fiamme da raggiungere con le mani sporche di vita e il cuore libero da catene.”
Daniele Fiorenza, figura attiva nell’ambito anarchico come membro del collettivo intersezionale ControCultura e collaboratore del blog Magozine.it, infonde nella sua opera una profonda consapevolezza sociale e politica.
Apre il volume l’introduzione di Franco Schirone, libero ricercatore la cui profonda conoscenza della storia dell’anarchismo e dell’anarcosindacalismo è testimoniata da opere come “La Resistenza sconosciuta” e “Per la Rivoluzione Sociale. Gli anarchici nella Resistenza a Milano”.
Struttura del libro: due anime, un’unica voce di resistenza
La raccolta si articola in due sezioni distinte, eppure intrinsecamente connesse, che riflettono la duplice natura del progetto poetico: da un lato la rabbia collettiva, dall’altro la radice personale e territoriale. Entrambe le anime si fondono in un’unica, potente voce di resistenza.
Oltre lo steccato: Il Fronte Lirico Politico e Sociale Questa prima parte si presenta come un vero e proprio assalto lirico ai centri del potere. Le poesie di “Oltre lo steccato” denunciano con veemenza le violenze sistemiche, lo sfruttamento indiscriminato, il razzismo dilagante, il cinismo mediatico, la repressione statale e le inquietanti complicità tra poteri economici e religiosi. La scrittura è diretta, impellente, pensata per scuotere le coscienze. Qui la poesia politica diventa autentico linguaggio di lotta, la poesia libertaria uno strumento di disvelamento, e la poesia di denuncia sociale si erge a voce corale degli emarginati. I versi sono colpi precisi contro le gabbie ideologiche, inviti a insorgere, testimonianze di un’umanità ferita ma indomita.
Radici: Un Viaggio nell’Identità, Territorio e Coscienza Anarchica Nella seconda sezione, “Radici”, il tono muta, ma l’intensità non diminuisce. È un viaggio più intimo, che si immerge nel vissuto personale, nel legame profondo con la terra d’origine e nella memoria familiare e storica. Le poesie esplorano il significato complesso dell’essere anarchici nel mondo contemporaneo, frammentato e spesso disorientante, partendo da un’identità meridionale troppo spesso oggetto di marginalizzazione e stereotipi. È una poesia personale che non rinuncia alla lotta, ma la nutre di una consapevolezza radicata, di un senso di appartenenza e di un amore tenace per tutto ciò che resiste: luoghi, volti, storie. La radice, in questo contesto, non è un mero rifugio, ma uno slancio vitale verso un futuro da reinventare, libero da ogni forma di padronanza e confine.
Temi centrali: rabbia, insubordinazione e solidarietà
Le poesie di “Fondamenti di Utopia” sono animate da una rabbia lucida, da un’insubordinazione consapevole e da un profondo senso di solidarietà umana e politica. I temi affrontati attraversano i conflitti sociali del presente con un linguaggio tagliente e radicale, senza mai perdere l’empatia verso chi subisce l’oppressione.
L’opera è una denuncia frontale al potere in tutte le sue manifestazioni: economico, statale, religioso, patriarcale. La poesia anticapitalista di Fiorenza svela impietosamente le interconnessioni tra dominio e complicità mediatica, tra profitto e devastazione sociale. In testi come “Il titolista”, “Padrone bianco, lavoro nero” o “Insorgiamo”, la rabbia si trasforma in strumento di lotta, la parola in barricata. Le condizioni di sfruttamento dei lavoratori, il razzismo istituzionale, la criminalizzazione del dissenso vengono smascherati con versi duri e visionari, all’interno di un progetto poetico che è anche una lotta sociale dichiarata.
Fiorenza intesse con forza la memoria storica con le tragedie contemporanee: dalla strage di Cutro alla Palestina, dalla Resistenza antifascista alle lotte per i diritti dei migranti. La poesia diventa così un atto di attivismo culturale, capace di resistere al tempo e di decifrarlo. In componimenti come “Oltre lo steccato” (dedicata a Cutro), “Umani nel vento”, “Garibaldi, che hai fatto!”, l’autore rilegge la storia dal basso, con uno sguardo profondamente antifascista, decentrato e solidale. È un invito a ricordare, ma anche ad agire: la poesia, qui, è una voce collettiva che reclama giustizia e dignità per ogni essere umano.
Stile e linguaggio
Il tratto distintivo di “Fondamenti di Utopia” è senza dubbio il suo linguaggio diretto, popolare, viscerale, che si nutre di ironia pungente, sarcasmo dissacrante e una spiccata musicalità. Daniele Fiorenza non edulcora né abbellisce; la sua scrittura mira a ferire l’indifferenza, a strappare il lettore dalla comodità del giudizio passivo. La sua voce poetica è tagliente e militante, eppure profondamente umana, modulandosi con efficacia sulle diverse sfumature del vissuto.
Tra dialetto, ironia e forza musicale
L’inserimento del dialetto calabrese in alcuni componimenti, come “E ritorno alla lira” o “Oltre lo steccato”, non è una mera scelta linguistica, ma un vero e proprio atto politico, un richiamo viscerale alla terra, alla marginalità e alla dignità di chi è stato storicamente escluso. Il tono è spesso ironico, parodico, dissacrante, come emerge chiaramente in poesie quali “Il titolista” o “Armando Zecconia”, dove la comicità si tramuta in feroce denuncia.
La musicalità dei testi, evidente anche nelle “cover poetiche” ispirate a canzoni popolari come “La canzone del bambino nel vento” o “Il pescatore”, rafforza il legame con l’oralità e la tradizione popolare. Questo approccio rende la raccolta un contributo originale nel panorama della poesia contemporanea italiana, rifiutando l’accademismo e schierandosi apertamente dalla parte degli ultimi.
Poesie esemplari da non dimenticare
Versi che lasciano il segno
In Fondamenti di Utopia ci sono testi che si imprimono con forza nella memoria, veri e propri emblemi di una poesia sociale d’autore capace di restituire senso alla parola “impegno”. Alcune poesie si ergono come monoliti: documenti emotivi, storici e politici di un presente che brucia sotto i nostri occhi.
Oltre lo steccato: la poesia per Cutro
Tra le più toccanti, Oltre lo steccato è una poesia scritta in dialetto calabrese e dedicata alla strage di Cutro. Il testo mescola disperazione, denuncia e lirismo amaro. L’uso del dialetto non è solo stilistico: diventa carne e territorio, dolore e identità. È un lamento funebre e una rivolta, un’accusa contro le responsabilità istituzionali e l’indifferenza sociale. Non è solo poesia per ricordare, ma per non permettere che l’orrore venga normalizzato.
Per (Gino) Strada: il lutto che si fa lotta
Un altro testo memorabile è “Per (Gino) Strada”, omaggio a una delle figure più radicalmente umanitarie del nostro tempo. Fiorenza scrive con affetto, rabbia e gratitudine, evitando qualsiasi retorica. La poesia smaschera l’ipocrisia dei politicanti che disprezzano in vita ciò che celebrano ipocritamente dopo la morte. È un testo che commuove, ma anche scuote, ricordandoci che la coerenza ha un costo, e che la vera eredità di Strada risiede nelle mani di chi continua a disobbedire con amore.
Altri testi emblematici
La settimana santa, Insorgiamo, Il titolista o Alla fiera ammazzagenti sono altri esempi potenti di una poesia che non si accontenta di raccontare: grida, accusa, rifiuta. In ognuno di questi componimenti, Fiorenza mostra come la poesia possa ancora essere atto politico, strumento di memoria, voce collettiva.
Valore politico e culturale dell’opera
Poesia come strumento di trasformazione
Fondamenti di Utopia non è solo una raccolta poetica: è una dichiarazione di intenti, un terreno fertile dove la poesia e l’impegno civile si intrecciano in modo indissolubile. Daniele Fiorenza non scrive per abbellire il mondo, ma per trasformarlo. I suoi versi non cercano consenso, ma coscienza. Ogni poesia è una crepa aperta nel muro dell’indifferenza, un invito a riscoprire la forza del dissenso.
In questo senso, l’opera apre una prospettiva culturale rilevante nel panorama della poesia politica italiana contemporanea, fungendo anche da strumento pratico di riflessione e azione. Il richiamo all’autogestione e al rifiuto della delega è costante: la voce lirica incita a prendere parola, a organizzarsi, a resistere al potere che disgrega e divide. La poesia diventa così azione collettiva, gesto comunitario, possibilità concreta di costruire un’alternativa.
Verso un’utopia politica concreta
Quella che Fiorenza propone non è un’utopia astratta, ma un orizzonte di lotta da raggiungere con “le mani sporche di vita”. Le sue poesie richiamano la giustizia sociale, la dignità dei lavoratori, la solidarietà tra oppressi, ma anche la libertà come pratica quotidiana, l’antifascismo come dovere etico, la comunità come risposta al disfacimento individualista.
In un tempo in cui il linguaggio è spesso neutralizzato dal marketing o ridotto a slogan di propaganda, Fondamenti di Utopia restituisce alla parola la sua carica più sovversiva: quella di poter cambiare il mondo. Con dolore, sì, ma anche con ostinata speranza.
L’utopia come orizzonte possibile
La poesia come atto di insorgenza
Fondamenti di Utopia è un libro che non si limita a descrivere il mondo com’è, ma si ostina a immaginare come potrebbe essere. In un presente segnato da fratture, disuguaglianze e paure normalizzate, la poesia di Daniele Fiorenza si fa insorgenza consapevole: non urla nel vuoto, ma prende posizione, semina visioni, apre passaggi.
Qui la resistenza attraverso la poesia non è una metafora, ma una pratica concreta: ogni verso oppone il gesto creativo alla violenza sistemica, ogni parola cerca di strappare la realtà all’apatia. L’utopia politica evocata non è evasione, ma tensione concreta verso una trasformazione radicale, da costruire con lucidità e determinazione, giorno dopo giorno.
In un tempo in cui anche l’immaginazione sembra colonizzata, Fondamenti di Utopia difende il diritto di sognare con i piedi piantati nella terra. È un libro che non si legge soltanto: si attraversa, si ascolta, si porta con sé. E ci ricorda, senza retorica, che la poesia militante non ha bisogno di alzare la voce per farsi sentire. Basta che continui a dire la verità.
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Ukraine imposessanctionsagainst 94 individuals, 5 entities, including captains of Russia’s shadow fleet. President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on Aug. 3 imposing sanctions against 94 individuals and five legal entities, primarily targeting the captains of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” vessels.
Zelensky appointsnew headof Ukrainian Air Force after year-long vacancy. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the appointment of Lieutenant General Anatoliy Kryvonozhko, who has been serving as the Air Force’s acting head since the end of last August.
‘Work on lists is ongoing’ — Ukraine, Russia preparing toexchange 1,200 POWseach, Zelensky says. Work is ongoing between Ukraine and Russia as the warring parties prepare to each exchange 1,200 Prisoners of War (POWs), President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Aug. 3.
Ukraine’s law enforcement uncovers drone procurementcorruption schemeinvolving lawmakers. Oleksii Kuznetsov, a member of parliament who belongs to Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, allegedly accepted kickbacks for inflating military contracts. He has been dismissed from his parliamentary faction pending the outcome of the case.
Trump saysenvoymay visit Russia ahead of peace deal deadline. U.S. President Donald Trump said that his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, may travel to Russia on Aug. 6 or 7 — just days before a deadline for Moscow to reach a peace deal with Ukraine or face secondary tariffs targeting its oil exports.
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Trump aide accusesIndiaof financing Russia’s war in Ukraine. In an Aug. 3 Fox News interview, senior Trump aide Stephen Miller accused India of helping fund Russia’s war in Ukraine by continuing to import oil from Moscow.
German politician calls for reduced benefits forUkrainian refugees. Markus Soder, Prime Minister of the German state of Bavaria, has called for an end to citizen’s allowance payments for Ukrainian refugees, proposing that new arrivals instead receive reduced benefits under the country’s Asylum Seekers Benefits Act.
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The unidentified civilians "armed with bats and metal pipes, damaged a vehicle and inflicted bodily injuries on a soldier" as the officer was attending to enlistment activities, officials allege.
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Is Briar a good option for encrypted messaging and file transfer?
After the Matrix file upload limit thing, I'm looking to move away from the messages stored on a server paradigm both to avoid having to pay for file uploads and because it doesn't make sense to host files on a server indefinitely if they're only intended for one other person and don't need to be kept for very long.
In Briar, it's only possible to send images - not any other file, as of this writing.
They have a very clear stance on not rushing releases, and focusing on security and stability rather than features, which is laudable, but on the flip side that means one must probably wait for months, if not years, for new features.
you connect with people like a normal app that isn't going to scare your family off, not trying to get them to put in GUIDS
it has all the creature comforts, attached/embedded photos, markup, attached files, attach pictures, share your location for 10 minutes (I'm on my way), history editing, deleting
it has concurrent multi device support, so you can get messages on your phone, tablet, and desktop at the same time
There's a full desktop client (Electron, i think 🤮 but it works)
the dev team is small and they seem to like to work more on features than user issues. development is slow
multi-person groups work fine
It's still the best E2E messaging system I've found; the only one my mom, wife, and sisters-in-law reliably use.
I just want them to focus on fixing the sketchy DHT that seems to cause every problem.
Good for certain scenarios but not for the everyday use, I would love to see that adaptability improved for the "chilling common situations" in the future.
SimpleX is my main atm, it can transfer files effectively.
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I have uploaded the photos I took at Saturday’s DCI Williamsport show in Williamsport, PA to my Smugmug account. You can view them at this link or via the galleries below.
In order to prevent a quorum, state representatives in the Texas House are leaving the state to combat what one Democratic lawmaker called "the rot at the core of our broken political system."
The UK government programme to force AI into everything has reached the Ministry of Justice, with the ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’! If they can bodge something with AI, they’re going to. [Ministry …
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As I write this, I'm sitting on an airplane flying over the Canadian prairies on my way home from Vancouver, BC.
What an amazing group of individuals, who took the time out of their extraordinarily busy lives to see, hear, and learn about the fediverse!
As I write this, I'm sitting on an airplane flying over the Canadian prairies on my way home from Vancouver, BC.
What an amazing group of individuals, who took the time out of their extraordinarily busy lives to see, hear, and learn about the fediverse! The connections made and ideas discussed were so important, and you could feel the energy in the air.
You'd think after a solid six hours a day in a lecture hall would be enough, but at every opportunity in between, there were lively discussions about ActivityPub and the fediverse. It turns out when you get all of us in a group together we can talk and continue to talk about the open social web for ages.
I now have a to-do list about a kilometer long, they all need to get done ASAP!
Thank you to reiver@mastodon.social for organizing this conference, all of those who helped out and participated, and all those who attended.
From now on, whenever someone points a camera to me, I'll picture jaz@toot.wales saying "say FEEEEEEDIVERSE".
#FediCon has rejuvinated my enthusiasm for running a Mastodon instance and has even prompted me to dedicate a brain cell towards expanding our user base. Thank you to all the organizers, speakers and participants.
@devnull Did you happen to speak to anyone about the future of SocialHub while at FediCon? Did your impressions match what Johannes reported in the reboot vs. shutdown topic?
for one reason or another SocialHub is not that platform.
I'm curious to hear those reasons in some detail, ideally from the horses mouth. Whether here, in the verse (I'm @strypey at mastodon.nzoss.nz), or elsewise (contact info in the profile for that account). That helps us figure out what needs to be done differently. No need to worry about upsetting me, I respect absolute candour, and commit to replying both honestly and respectfully. julian:
activitypub topics should take place on the fediverse itself.
I agree. As @how said in the against fragmentation topic, SH is part of the fediverse. But it also offers things that ephemeral micro-posting chatter doesn't, not least permanent archiving for later reference, and an entry point for newbies. If it's not doing a good job, let's talk about why, and do something about it.
One thing we could experiment with, if you're keen, is a complete mirror of the existing SH using NodeBB. With full archives, and full federation so anything posted to one can be read on both. That way people can use their forum interface of choice to participate (as well as being able to use other apps via AP federation). It also ends the problem of the existing SH being a SPoF, and thus a source of tension and territorial conflict.
On a recent episode of the Dot Social podcast, John O’Nolan of Ghost said; “For the size of the group [working on federating long form articles], which as you say is not large, man, we are spread across Mastodon DMs sometimes, an email thread other …
discussion of activitypub topics should take place on the fediverse itself.
I agree. As @how said in the against fragmentation topic, SH is part of the fediverse.
imo this is one of those points that sounds better than it actually is. being "on the fediverse" or "part of the fediverse" is a meaningless term without providing specifics. what actually matters here is the distribution and aggregation of resources (posts, threads, and so on). it's not broadly useful to have discussions about activitypub "on the fediverse" if those discussions never end up being seen by the people who want to see them.
for a discussion to end up on socialhub, one of the following needs to happen:
either someone notifies socialhub that their post should be aggregated
or socialhub crawls the fediverse and proactively aggregates posts
again, it's a distribution problem. keeping socialhub "in the loop" is necessary if you want your post to end up on socialhub. this can happen via fedi or it can happen via web ui. but it's automatic if you do it via the web ui, whereas if you do it via fedi you have to remember to send your post to the appropriate actor. the UX of participating in actual threads and including aggregators is very bad in the current fedi softwares -- usually, you have to include a mention of the actor who manages the thread in every single post you care to end up there, and there isn't a straightforward way to make that actor aware of old posts. this is why federation without any additional considerations is bad -- it leads to context collapse. you can't consider only federation, but instead you need to consider federation how, and with whom, and with which expectations.
for these reasons, i can't agree that "discussions of activitypub topics should take place on the fediverse" unless/until the fediverse becomes aware of the concept of discussions as separate from reply trees, and subsequently knows where to send all relevant notifications.
On a recent episode of the Dot Social podcast, John O’Nolan of Ghost said; “For the size of the group [working on federating long form articles], which as you say is not large, man, we are spread across Mastodon DMs sometimes, an email thread other …
a, we may be talking about slightly different things.
My assertion is that discussions about ActivityPub should take place on the fediverse*.
I think you are asserting that SocialHub discussions shouldn't take place on the fediverse.
And so sure, there is zero ability for SocialHub to proactively pull in posts, but that's a failure of the software, not of the fediverse in general. (FWIW that failure is present in NodeBB too, even though we do have existing discovery tooling.)
I'll admit that it's hard to consume long running discussions on typical microblogging software, and additional steps need to be taken to keep SH in the loop, but that doesn't mean discussions don't happen there.
Because you know as well as I do that discussions do happen there organically, and often, too.
* Additional considerations about "which fediverse" is out of scope of this statement
agreed that it's not broadly useful to have discussions that aren't seen by people who want to see them. It's a two-way problem, keeping SocialHub in the loop and keeping everybody else in the loop as well. It's a good example of what I was talkingn about in the other thread: it's useful to get input on the question of whether or not SocialHub discussions are currenlty meaningfully "on the fediverse" from people who don't have SocialHub accounts!
I'm not sure you need to be able to fully pull in discussions that are happening elsewhere ... for example a link aggregator that combines links to interesting discussions elsewhere with discussions of its own that others can participate isn't as smoothly integrated but could still be useful.
Being able to have threaded, categorized long-form discussions that people who have accounts elsewhere can broadly participate in certainly seems like something that a lot of people want. If that's not possible with current fediverse software then (a) that's disappointing but also (b) now's as good a time as any to work on improving it and this is as good a use case as any.
By contrast it seems to me that most of the potential audience doesn't want non-federated threaded, categorized long-form discussions enough with the people currently active on SocialHub to participate on any kind of regular basis on SH.
Yeah. I have no idea how to follow SocialHub discussions Mastodon account. I see this post because I'm following you, but it's disembodied -- I don't see the rest of the thread. And I can search for @community@socialhub.activity.rocks but its profile is empty.
Not only that, If I'm reading it over there, and see something I want to reply to from here, doing the "copy this URL" trick doesn't work. Does that mean I'm not in the fediverse??? Hard to know, but in any case I haven't yet figured out how I can participate in discussions there except by replying to somebody I follow.
@julian@community.nodebb.orgI don't want these posts cluttering up my home feed, I just want to be able to read and participate in the conversations. On Bluesky there's an ATProto feed that's got a bunch of discussion, I can check it when I feel like it (and people who want to can add it to their home feed) and reply
@julian Also, speaking of fixable deficiencies, my edits here don't seem to propagate to SocialHub . Without knowing the code I'm confident it's fixable because my edits did propagate to the NodeBB thread at community.nodebb.org/topic/189… , great to see!
Yeah. I have no idea how to follow SocialHub discussions from my Mastodon account. I see the post I'm replying to you because I'm following you, but it's ...
Are those the same Boeing planes that are losing parts during flyghts? and having engine fires during takeoff? the same ones that are now and then crashing with hundreds of people on board? And the most ridiculous excuses are being invented to cover up a real USA aviation scandal? Well, fine time to boycotting Vuelig.com too.....
Article is in German; it’s an interview with the head of Zotter (an Austrian chocolatier). Also in the article: “We don’t dare invest in the US any more. The uncertainty is too great. Every additional 1% makes the chocolate more expensive, and ultimately someone has to pay for it.”
[h1][strong]Con [url=http://citiverse.it]citiverse.it[/url] abbiamo portato [url=https://citiverse.it/categories]i gruppi locali Facebook in un luogo[/url] senza tracciamento![/strong][/h1]
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Puoi usare Citiverse.it come Forum, ma le iscrizioni sono ancora soggette a invito. Da oggi è disponibile anche la nuova interfaccia a schede.
Ma se hai un account del Fediverso (Mastodon, Lemmy, Friendica, etc) puoi seguire le località di Citiverse.it inserendo il link della comunità nella casella di ricerca del tuo software federato e seguendola. Se vuoi aprire una nuova conversazione dal tuo social, puoi menzionare la comunità
con la chiocciola + il nome della comunità + @citiverse.it.
Per esempio, se vuoi aprire una conversazione su "Roma" puoi menzionare @roma@citiverse.it
Citiverse, la città dei social liberi, è l'alternativa aperta e italiana ai gruppi di Facebook dove è possibile parlare con persone della tua città o della tua tua organizzazione.
Per chi lo visita direttamente dal sito, Citiverse è un Forum; ma per chi lo usa dal Fediverso, Citiverse è un'istanza qualsiasi, ma con le "categorie" del Forum che diventano "gruppi Activitypub", come le comunità Lemmy.
Al momento abbiamo creato una settantina di comunità, suddivise per macrocategorie.
Volete visualizzarle dal vostro account Mastodon? Eccole qua:
NB: alcune potrebbero sembrarvi vuote, perché i messaggi che "contengono" si vedono solo dopo che le avete seguite.
Vogliamo far diventare Citiverse un'alternativa ai gruppi Facebook, ma per farlo abbiamo bisogno che sia una comunità attiva: Se la discussione è scarsa, nessuno prenderà in considerazione citiverse.it! Quindi:
1) seguite le comunità e partecipate alle discussioni con il vostro account federato 2) se volete una nuova comunità, chiedetecela 3) e se volete iscrivervi al forum, in questa fase, dobbiamo inviarvi l'invito via email
Citiverse, la città dei social liberi, è l'alternativa aperta e italiana ai gruppi di Facebook dove è possibile parlare con persone della tua città o della tua tua organizzazione.
There's a very long history of extremely effective labor saving tools in software.
Writing in C rather than Assembly, especially for more than 1 platform.
Standard libraries. Unix itself. More recently, developing games in Unity or Unreal instead of rolling your own engine.
And what happened when any of these tools come on the scene is that there is a mad gold rush to develop products that weren't feasible before. Not layoffs, not "we don't need to hire junior developers any more".
Rank and file vibe coders seem to perceive Claude Code (for some reason, mostly just Claude Code) as something akin to the advantage of using C rather than Assembly. They are legit excited to code new things they couldn't code before.
Boiling the rivers to give them an occasional morale boost with "You are absolutely right!" is completely fucked up and I dread the day I'll have to deal with AI-contaminated codebases, but apart from that, they have something positive going for them, at least in this brief moment. They seem to be sincerely enthusiastic. I almost don't want to shit on their parade.
The AI enthusiast bigwigs on the other hand, are firing people, closing projects, talking about not hiring juniors any more, and got the media to report on it as AI layoffs. They just gleefully go on about how being 30% more productive means they can fire a bunch of people.
The standard answer is that they hate having employees. But they always hated having employees. And there were always labor saving technologies.
So I have a thesis here, or a synthesis perhaps.
The bigwigs who tout AI (while acknowledging that it needs humans for now) don't see AI as ultimately useful, in the way in which C compiler was useful. Even if its useful in some context, they still don't. They don't believe it can be useful. They see it as more powerfully useless. Each new version is meant to be a bit more like AM or (clearly AM-inspired, but more familiar) GLaDOS, that will get rid of all the employees once and for all.
Well, is A* useful? But that's not a fair example, and I can actually tell a story that is more specific to your setup. So, let's go back to the 60s and the birth of UNIX.
You're right that we don't want assembly. We want the one true high-level language to end all discussions and let us get back to work: Fortran (1956). It was arguably IBM's best offering at the time; who wants to write COBOL or order the special keyboard for APL? So the folks who would write UNIX plotted to implement Fortran. But no, that was just too hard, because the Fortran compiler needed to be written in assembly too. So instead they ported Tmg (WP, Esolangs) (1963), a compiler-compiler that could implement languages from an abstract specification. However, when they tried to write Fortran in Tmg for UNIX, they ran out of memory! They tried implementing another language, BCPL (1967), but it was also too big. So they simplified BCPL to B (1969) which evolved to C by 1973 or so. C is a hack because Fortran was too big and Tmg was too elegant.
I suppose that I have two points. First, there is precisely one tech leader who knows this story intimately, Eric Schmidt, because he was one of the original authors of lex in 1975, although he's quite the bastard and shouldn't be trusted or relied upon. Second, ChatGPT should be considered as a popular hack rather than a quality product, by analogy to C and Fortran.
Oh, not at all. It would be very rude of me to describe C as a pathogen transmitted through the vector of Unix, so I won't, even if it's mostly accurate to say so.
Many high level systems programming languages predate C, like the aforementioned Fortran, Pascal, PL/I and the ALGOL family. The main advantage C had over them in the early 1970s was its relatively light implementation. The older, bigger languages were generally considered superior to C for actual practical use on systems that could implement them, i.e. not a tiny cute little PDP-7.
Since then C has grown some more features and a horrible standard filled to the brim with lawyerly weasel words that let compilers optimize code in strange and terrifying ways, allowing it to exists as something of a lingua franca of systems programming, but at the time of its birth C wouldn't have been seen as anything particularly revolutionary.
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When the Biden administration created a safety institute at the standards agency and then used it to run “x-risk evals, I think we kind of lost our way there,” he said. (“X-risk” is a shortened term for “existential risk” that’s associated with the idea that AI poses major threats to humanity.)
“To me, I think we need to go back to basics at NIST, and back to basics around what NIST exists for, and that is to promulgate best-in-class standards and do critical metrology or measurement science around AI models,” Kratsios said.
Kratsios’s comments about the body once known as the AI Safety Institute came a day after the White House released its anticipated AI Action Plan — which made dozens of recommendations to do things like deregulate and rid AI of “ideological bias” — as well as three executive orders that set parts of that plan into motion. The Thursday panel, moderated by CTA’s CEO and vice chair Gary Shapiro, was focused on those actions.
The discussion also followed the Trump administration’s move last month to rename the NIST-located safety institute to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, cutting “safety” from the name. That component was initially announced by the Biden administration in November 2023 at the UK AI Safety Summit and, over the next year, focused on working with industry, establishing testing agreements with companies, and conducting evaluations.
I get that he's most likely just "following orders" for Thiel and probably not really coming up with any of this policy, but I hate this guy so much. Thiel sure knows how to craft a good public scapegoat for when things inevitably go horribly wrong.
The remarks from the Office of Science and Technology Policy director came during a conversation with the Consumer Technology Association one day after the release of the White House’s AI Action Plan.
The U.S. wants to be China, even if it means repeating the same mistakes and destroying any semblance of civil liberty. We're on a fast track, and they don't care who they hurt or what rights they violate as long as they can feel like they won.
No, the Current U.S. Government along with the Uber rich backing don't want to be China, they want to Collapse America and bring about a "libertarian Utopia" where you have an uncountable collection of private kingdoms owned by whoever has the money to run the "private security" of these areas.
They looked at the company towns of the 1800s and saw a moral good, and like basically everything thy do, they have openly claimed as such, but everyone ignores it, just like project 2025 in the USA, The Leaked AFD papers in Germany, the UK Leavers, etc...
That's not what "libertarian utopia" is. Also Ayn Rand is not libertarian, more like fascist.
They want a "thief feudalism", it's a different thing. Libertarianism involves rights and freedom of association, while these people want sort of a mafia world.
I find it interesting, so many proponents of Libertarianism don't realize that the limits we put on these things they want to exist to stop people from creating neo-feudal fiefdoms.
Yes, Ayn Rand IS a Libertarian, yes the end result of Libertarianism is a government that is too weak to oppose any organized violence.
If a government is too weak to stop large scale organized violence you get warlords, of some form, in the modern case it's whoever has the most wealth to found the largest private army.
But hey, your not too far off the mark with the whole Nazi bit, after all the word Privatize was invented to describe what the Nazis did with state property.
She didn't call herself a libertarian and explicitly said she isn't, libertarians don't call her a libertarian and explicitly say she isn't, only people not knowing what the hell they are talking about call her a libertarian.
There's absolutely no reason to call her a libertarian. No matter how you'd want that to accuse libertarianism of whatever bad.
It's actually funny, there is a bunch of ideologies, all different, and like all of them not mainstream and not left are bunched by idiots under libertarianism just like this. Rand isn't libertarian (not even in history of her beliefs), Curtis Yarvin isn't libertarian (despite history of his beliefs), Silicon Valley bros aren't libertarian (despite them using the word sometimes to the confusion of everyone), and neither are Zelensky and Milei (I mean, there is some awareness of libertarianism in his approahes).
I find it interesting, so many proponents of Libertarianism don’t realize that the limits we put on these things they want to exist to stop people from creating neo-feudal fiefdoms.
Bullshit. You might also want to think who's "we" and what externalia does giving that "we" an ability to "put limits on these things" possess.
If a government is too weak to stop large scale organized violence you get warlords, of some form, in the modern case it’s whoever has the most wealth to found the largest private army.
A government is large scale organized violence and warlords.
But hey, your not too far off the mark with the whole Nazi bit, after all the word Privatize was invented to describe what the Nazis did with state property.
That claim would require sources, I doubt you have any.
She didn’t call herself a libertarian and explicitly said she isn’t
And North Korea calls its self democratic. Yet we don't call it a democracy. No, we define these categories by what they are/do/believe in/etc... and like it or not, Ayn Rand's Objectivism is 100% a component of libertarian ideology, Ayn Rand's beliefs are very much a core component of Libertarianism, and i'm sorry to inform you that many on that list of yours ARE libertarians, such as Milei. In the same way the Marx&Hegel were a cornerstone of communism.
But you are correct about Zelenskyy, he is not libertarian.
Bullshit. You might also want to think who’s “we” and what externalia does giving that “we” an ability to “put limits on these things” possess.
Standard Libertarian response that basically ignores the existence of anything outside the individual
Also, from the person who you believe isn't a Libertarian: The source of the government's authority is "the consent of the governed." This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose. -Ayn Rand, Galt's Speech.
A government is large scale organized violence and warlords. Spoken just like Rand herself! "Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury—the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death." The Virtue of Selfishness "The Nature of Government," The Virtue of Selfishness, again Ayn Rand.
(Summer 2006) - The concept of privatization attracted much attention in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as Margaret Thatcher's privatization policies were implemented in the United Kingdom.
Discussione "accessoria" al discorso musicale propriamente detto.
Da qualche tempo, più per pacioccare che altro, ho provato un paio di programmi per generare dei FLAC dai miei fidati CD. Specifico che preferisco sempre e comunque ascoltare i CD quando posso, a casa; in auto ho gli MP3 sul telefono.
Ho provato a fare il FLAC di una medesima traccia CD, ma sono venuti file di dimensioni diverse, dovute ai kbps, nonostante mi sembri di aver dato le stesse impostazioni ad entrambi. Tra l'altro, se lo usate occhio che la versione attuale di EAC non ha l'ultima versione del codificatore (xiph.org/flac/download.html), ho provato a metterla io manualmente nella cartella e funziona normalmente.
Reddit is working on a new unified interface that will merge its legacy search and AI-powered Q&A features, as well as make its search box more prominently visible in the app.
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in reply to Lime Buzz (fae/she) • • •“We do have a dedicated creative team & language professionals who prepare the lessons” according to AppStore review.
I use AirLearn over Duolingo which is trash when it comes to learning a language.
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in reply to Eq0 • • •And a lot of native speakers just straight up use incorrect grammar. eg loads of native English speakers say things like "could of", use "then" instead of "than", use punctuation incorrectly, do incorrect sentence structure, etc.
I don't mean to be prescriptive about language. Of course it evolves based on usage. But in any formal environment, such as an academic environment, there are still certain defined and canonised English grammar rules that you would be penalised for breaking, and most learners want to learn those rules even if most casual speakers don't follow them.
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in reply to TwilightKiddy • • •How do I get started with language exchange?
Any popular forums or an apps you recommend?
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in reply to IllNess • • •You just look for people who are interested to learn your language, any place where people communicate can work. Maybe hit some groups for learning the language you know and try to find people who speak the language you want there.
I personally play VRChat, there are a number of language learning groups there. Though, the culture of the place is certainly not for everyone.
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in reply to zaknenou • • •What is the book called? I can try searching for it.
As for learning languages, I find that a combination of structured lessons (from an instructor or recommended course book) with speaking practice (with someone you know or through a language exchange program) works best. Other things that help are watching films or series in your target language, listening to music and translating the text.
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in reply to zaknenou • • •If you visit enough russian warez sites you will learn what Скачать means. Usually that's the second language of the pirate world after broken english.
For books my first stop is Anna's archive
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in reply to zaknenou • • •Immersion. Books or apps won't teach them anything.
Here are some resources:
Input hypothesis
Tatsumoto's Guide to Learning Japanese (or any other language for that matter, just skip the kanji specific parts, and I wouldn't recommend joining their community)
Antimoon's Learner Reports
I had already written at length about the topic, but the OP I had replied to seems to have deleted their post so I'm just going to do it again.
My native language is Turkish. I reached basic English fluency when I was ~14 years old and I'm currently doing Japanese immersion with my comprehension rate of the Japanese content I consume being around 90% (mostly video game content and anime). I achieved this primarily by consuming interesting content in my target language. I didn't go to any language classes at all in both cases, and school itself likely only made my English skills worse.
This technique essentially aims to replicate how people acquire their first language when they're babies, which essentially means lots of comprehensible input and no output initially. Input comes first, output comes a few thousands of hours later, similar to how it takes 4 years for a human baby to have acquired the language just enough to be able to start speaking. How language acquisition itself works can be explained like this.
Though in the case of adults this can take much less time with the help of flashcards, dictionaries, and reading (you should not start reading from the get-go though). And getting that much input is thankfully much easier in our age because of the Internet, and essentially all you need to do is watch interesting, comprehensible (visual cues help a lot) content in your target language. You should aim for 10,000 hours of comprehensible input for basic fluency, which would take around 4 years at 7 hours per day, or more unrealistically 1.5 years at 18 hours per day.
I haven't yet come across any guide other than Tatsumoto's that promotes using only libre tooling for language acquisition, so that's why I primarily recommend his website.
Introduction to learning Japanese
Tatsumoto's guide to learning JapaneseNovaling
in reply to zaknenou • • •Well, everything depends on balance and what is easy for him. If he likes reading more than watching/listening, then maybe a textbook is the way to go, or vice versa. Sorry that I can't provide specific language tips, I'm a Japanese learner 😅
General Tips:
Specific Tools:
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in reply to zaknenou • • •I learnt French through textbooks and then once I had a good grasp of grammar, reading French children's literature with a dictionary. I don't know if that's the "best" way, but it worked.
Fwiw I mostly learnt English by just reading English books and not having a clue what was going on for a couple years but eventually got it. However I was a young child when I did that, so my ability to learn new languages was much better. I could probably do the same as an adult, but it would take me a lot longer. Don't underestimate the brain's ability to learn even without direct "teaching" like a textbook gives you.
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