Les Holt

@lesholt

Wordsmith. Working in / on that window of regulation; squeegee conversations abound. Banner image: systemic /sĩ-stēm'ĩk 🌐 ✍️ 🇨🇦

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Les Holt@lesholt· Jul 1

Always informative and interesting, your work. The Managed Scoop raised a curious synonym re ‘funneled’ “…a public announcement funneled through one person or publication.” Roget’s: smoke passage Seems especially relevant today. Also interesting, Roget’s delineation between scoop and scoop,the

From Roget’s Thesaurus ©️1977

Roget’s p.1192 schematic–score
scoop
n, news 558.3; piece 55.3; pit 257.2
v, excavate 257.15, transfer 271.16
news: Class Six: Intellect > III Communication of Ideas > Modes of Communication > news

scoop, the
information 557.1; the facts 1.4
information: Class Six: Intellect > III. Communication of Ideas > B. Modes of Communication > information
the facts: Class One: Abstract Relations >
I. Existence > A. Being in the Abstract > existence

Roget’s p.976 fundamentalism–fussy
funnel
smoke passage 396.18 Class Four: Matter > II. Inorganic Matter > C. Liquids > 396 Channel > funnel > smoke passage

Les Holt@lesholt· Jan 13

Later before they left Brian made certain I understood that whatever sphere of discourse I fancied I shared with any interlocutor, I was wrong. Brian said (admiringly, I thought), "Did you write that story?" I started to answer, when he continued,"Or did you type it?" —The Writing Life Annie Dillard

Photo of the book The Writing Life by Annie Dillard on a table top

A favourite quote from the book:
Later, before they left, Brian made certain I understood that whatever sphere of discourse I fancied I shared with any interlocutor, I was wrong.
Brian said (admiringly, I thought),
"Did you *write* that story?"
I started to answer, when he continued,
"Or did you type it?"
— The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Les Holt@lesholt· Jan 5

Housing First Pathways Housing First Institute Dr. Sam Tsemberis founder Housing IS A HUMAN RIGHT Five Principles and a video Rain City Housing First youtu.be/pwdq2VWavtc

Pathways Housing First Institute

https://www.pathwayshousingfirst.org

Dr. Tsemberis founded Pathways to Housing in New York City in 1992 based on the belief that housing is a basic human right. Based on the belief that people experiencing homelessness and struggling with mental illness or addiction should not have to prove they are housing ready. And based on a program philosophy founded on love, respect, and creating possibilities.

At Pathways to Housing, Tsemberis and a team that included program participants and advocates for consumer rights and housing rights, developed the model that came to be known as Housing First. A program that provides immediate access to permanent housing and person-centered supports to people experiencing homelessness and struggling with problems of mental health and addiction.

Dr. Tsemberis leads the Pathways Housing First Institute which provides training and consultation to service organizations, city, county and national governments, and collaborates with provider agencies and educational institutions across the globe.

Pathways Housing First Institute

https://www.pathwayshousingfirst.org

Dr. Sam Tsemberis

Housing IS A HUMAN RIGHT
As developers of the Pathways Housing First model the Institute is the premier provider for training, implementation support, program fidelity assessment, and research. We provide workshops, webinars, program site visits, and consultation. As a co-host of the Housing First Partners Conference the Institute is a resource for national and international networking among providers of Housing First programs and a resource for publications, videos and other educational training resources.

Pathways HOUSING FIRST INSTITUTE

https://www.pathwayshousingfirst.org

Dr. Sam Tsemberis

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT

FIVE PRINCIPLES
CONSUMER CHOICE: Choice in housing and services emphasis self-determination

SEPARATION OF HOUSING AND TREATMENT: Immediate access to housing without treatment or sobriety as prerequisites

PROVIDE SERVICES TO MATCH NEEDS
Program provides or coordinates services

RECOVER ORIENTED SERVICE PHILOSOPHY: Ongoing, positive, hopeful, affirming support

SOCIAL COMMUNITY INTEGRATION: Supporting a life in the community like everyone else

Les Holt@lesholt· Dec 28

Merriam-Webster: Misinformation “as in lie” Antonyms & Near Antonyms fact honesty truth truthfulness confirmation veracity truism verification validation verity authentication substantiation

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 26

A note to self (mostly): Am surprised at lack of data on literacy @ourworldindata.org with @maxroser.bsky.social is phenomenal, yet a 2023 literacy set has “No data” for Canada, USA, Australia, NZ. Online News Act, maybe? CUPE Fact Sheet: Literacy Stats in Canada, Sep 2024 cupe.ca/fact-sheet-l...

https://ourworldindata.org/literacy

Contents
Literacy rate, 2023
The share of adults aged 15 and older who can both read and write.

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 26

Thanks for this. May I always remember those of us with “Broken Words.” “Illiteracy doesn't sit on its own." — Peter Calamai 1987: BROKEN WORDS Why five million Canadians are illiterate. The Southam Literacy Report Table of Contents direct and revelatory “Typesetting”

BROKEN
WORDS
Why five million
Canadians are illiterate.
A Special Southam Survey
[The Southam Literacy Report 1987]
Front cover of 82-page booklet, all words in blue type on a blueish-gray background.

The first word “BROKEN” is scored through as if it’s a paper torn thru its middle from left to right.

There is a photo of a hand holding a pencil on a lined page. A paragraph is being written, its words are faint, and difficult to read. The title is legible—it reads “A Magic Ending”

BROKEN WORDS
Why five million Canadians are illiterate.
A Special Southam Survey
[The Southam Literacy Report 1987]
Foreword by Peter Calamai

This booklet contains articles about literacy that originally appeared in newspapers across Canada during September, 1987. Many are based on the extensive findings of a national literacy survey of 2,398 Canadian adults commissioned by Southam Inc. While the survey provided the first real statistics about the state of literacy in the country, interviews with more than 100 literacy workers and learners also put a human face on a problem that affects one in four adults.

Illiteracy has often been called the hidden problem. In Canada, it's not so much hidden as ignored. As these articles make clear, both the provinces and the federal government have received repeated warnings about widespread problems with reading and writing.

But Canadians don't have to wait for government to act. Individuals can make a difference. Some ways you can help are described in this booklet.

What the reader won't find here, however, is a simple answer: that low literacy can be blamed on a lack of phonics in the primary grades, or on immigration, or on some ill-defined "learning disabilities"

If the solutions to illiteracy were that simple, Canada wouldn't have five million adults who need help.
Peter Calamai

Peter Calamai
Even for a journalist used to big projects, it was an overwhelming assignment.
Peter Calamai spent five months criss-crossing Canada and the United States, interviewed more than 100 literacy experts, educators and bureaucrats, and devoted countless hours talking to illiterate Canadians.
Add to that seven revisions of the Southam Literacy Survey questionnaire that eventually went into 2,398 Canadian homes and you get a picture of Calamai's life since March. The 44-year-old national correspondent for Southam News says it was the most satisfying - and rewarding - assignment in a career that began with the police beat at the Hamilton Spectator in 1966.
"I had no idea how pervasive illiteracy is."
What impressed Calamai most about his assignment was the diversity of illiterates in Canada.
"I met a lot of people I would never have guessed were illiterate. These are articulate and seemingly confident people who simply cannot read or write very well.
"Some illiterates were total wrecks. But even then their illiteracy was part of a larger group of problems. Illiteracy doesn't sit on its own." Calamai is one of Canada's most honored journalists.
He is a three-time winner of the prestigious National Newspaper Award, most recently in 1985 for his reporting of the Supreme Court of Canada.
He joined Southam News in 1969 as an Ottawa-based science writer. Four years later, he began a series of postings in London, Vancouver and Nairobi, ending up back in Ottawa in 1983 after eight months on a Southam Fellowship at Massey College in the University of Toronto.

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 24

What a beautiful piece of writing Preaching to The Choir is! I am grateful for your gift this evening. You not only write beautifully but also pose essential questions, and help us in reaching answers, solutions, without which action would be limited or impossible. Thank you.

HARPER’S MAGAZINE
November 2017 Issue
[Easy Chair]
Preaching to The Choir
by Rebecca Solnit

https://harpers.org/archive/2017/11/preaching-to-the-choir/

“What matters is that some of us act. In 2006, the political scientist Erica Chenoweth set out to determine whether nonviolence was as effective for regime change as violence. She found, to her surprise, that nonviolent strategies worked better. Organizers were enthralled by her conclusion that only around 3.5 percent of a population was needed to successfully resist or even topple a regime. In other words, to create change, you don’t need everyone to agree with you, you just need some people to agree so passionately that they will donate, campaign, march, risk arrest or injury.”

“Our lives are governed by great questions.”
Artwork ~ Photography
Les Holt
In June 2005, at a conference set on the harbourfront of Lake Ontario, the thirteenth largest lake on the planet, Barbara Marx Hubbard, the great visionary and futurist, began her remarks to us with, “My life has been governed by great questions.” Her words, the indisputable truth of them, have stayed with me since. May I always remember them.
~~
Additionally, the great quote of Clementine Paddleford: “Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”
~~
The words combined inspired me to this piece, drawings of the human spine manipulated to form question marks.
✌️

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 21

I listen to the recording of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech “Beyond Vietnam — A Time To Break Silence” yearly. Some years I need to listen more than once. 2024 is one of them. Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, NYC Recording plus transcript at www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlk...

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence

Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

“Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message -- of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise, we must choose in this crucial moment of human history.”

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 17

TY What @theonion.com & loved ones of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims have accomplished is powerful & humbling esp in the face of Jones who owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for endlessly mercilessly calling the massacre a hoax www.sandyhookpromise.org/who-we-are/a...

Screenshot of expanded description from AP video:

CEO of The Onion's parent company reacts to buying Alex Jones' Infowars

Associated Press
Nov 14 2024
Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron said satirical news publication won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3CoUW4i

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 17

Always in awe of our planet’s moon. No matter where we are on this vast globe, we stand beneath it, and all the while it is “shining”or not, waxing or waning, it is moving our oceans’ mighty tides, faithfully, endlessly. Imagine. Here, three humble photos of our year 2024’s last supermoon.

“November’s Moon”
24-hours post full, the last supermoon of 2024 rises over an evening’s sparkling city scape. The shot is three-quarters charcoal grey sky lit up by the incredible moon, which is surrounded by a caramel tinged aura.
No filters applied.
Photo by Les Holt ✌️

“November’s Moon, too”
Same setting moments later, it seems I set the camera to “blur” setting. (No such setting, no idea how I managed this hazy, out-of-focus shot.
The brilliant full moon is topmost in the frame, almost fully in focus, but the rest of the lights from the faraway night time city scape have absolutely bounced into a full-on kaleidoscopic dance in the foreground, different tones and hues, looking almost like coins, all lit up and glowing. Magical. Quite a tableau, at least to me.
Photo by Les Holt ✌️

“November’s Moon, Three”
Much like the first—“November’s Moon”—but this one fuller and softer, as if a mist around the moon had expanded and swirled, and was cascading down to the city, where Taylor Swift is playing the second of six Eras Tour stops in Canada’s largest city.
Photo by Les Holt ✌️

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 15

☀️ Yes, a little good news, for sure. Poetic, even. Also, perhaps a PSA in a way. (Related: TIL a clinical term I didn’t know existed: frank delirium.) It’s great you’re here!

Psychiatric adverse effects of corticosteroids
Thomas P Warrington et al. Mayo Clin Proc. 2006 Oct.
Abstract
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17036562/
Psychiatric adverse effects during systemic corticosteroid therapy are common. Two large meta-analyses found that severe reactions occurred in nearly 6% of patients, and mild to moderate reactions occurred in about 28%. Although disturbances of mood, cognition, sleep, and behavior as well as frank delirium or even psychosis are possible, the most common adverse effects of short-term corticosteroid therapy are euphoria and hypomania. Conversely, long-term therapy tends to induce depressive symptoms. Dosage is directly related to the incidence of adverse effects but is not related to the timing, severity, or duration of these effects. Neither the presence nor the absence of previous reactions predicts adverse responses to subsequent courses of corticosteroids. Corticosteroid-induced symptoms frequently present early in a treatment cycle and typically resolve with dosage reduction or discontinuation of corticosterolds. In severe cases or situations in which the dose cannot be reduced, antipsychotics or mood stabilizers may be required. This review offers an approach to identifying and managing corticosteroid-induced psychiatric syndromes based on the type of symptoms and anticipated duration of corticosteroid treatment.

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 15

Clearance Rack: 🌎 PLANS FOR WORLD DOMINATION Me: !! Clerk: Me: Is this the sale price? Clerk: Yep. *Real* leather. Me: Pretty good deal, world domination and all Clerk: You know it's blank, right? ~><~ True story. #StepRightUp #EverythingMustGo Forever grateful for Tom Waits & Steely Dan

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 13

We need a new alphabet. Here’s mine. “A New Alphabet” (Spoiler: Z is always for Zebra) 🦓

A is for A New Alphabet:
A is for Abundance thru Z is always for Zebra
Les Holt
🐾
💕
A is for Abundance
B is for Blessing
C is for Caring
D is for Dharma
E is for Ease
F is for Friends
G is for Grace
H is for Helping
I is for Info
J is for just
K is for Kindness
L is for Lift-up
M is for Mercy
N is for necessary
O is for Open-hearted
P is for Positive
Q is for Quantum
R is for Responsive
S is for Sustenance
T is for Truth
U is for Understanding
V is for Voice Validation Value & Vision
W is for Wondrous
X is for Xtra Special
Y is for Yes
and
Z is always for Zebra
🐾
💕
LH January 2019
Continuing to work on A New Vocabulary

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 11

Thank you for this. Thank you for sharing along the telling, the music. “Incarcerated at Heart Mountain” Its own, deep, deep remembrance

Dedicated to my "Japanese Grandma" Joy Teraoka and her bandmates in the George Igawa Orchestra who performed around the state while incarcerated at Heart Mountain, WY between 1942-1944.

Thank you to Joy Teraoka, Denise Teraoka, Yone Fukui and the Mizutas for their interviews, friendships, memories and archives.
Thank you to the archivists who look after the following collections for helping to preserve and teach this important American story:
George Yoshida Archives at the Japanese American Historical Society
Kondo Collection
Okumoto Collection
National Archives and Records Administration
CSU Fresno TOMO Foundation
National Museum of American History
Washington State University
Japanese American National Museum

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 11

“Mobile”

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 9

Without downloading new pics where are you mentally? (1995, The Unconscious Civilization, John Ralston Saul, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Massey Lectures Series)

Back cover of book text

CBC MASSEY LECTURES SERIES
THE UNCONSCIOUS CIVILIZATION
Our society, John Ralston Saul argues in the 1995 Massey Lectures, is only superficially based on the individual and democracy. Increasingly it is conformist and corporatist, a society in which legitimacy lies with specialist or interest groups and decisions are made through constant negotiations between these groups.

The paradox of our situation is that knowledge has not made us conscious. Instead, we have sought refuge in a world of illusion where language is cut off from reality.
Reconnecting language to reality, clarifying what we mean by individualism and democracy, making these realities central to the citizen's life, identifying ideologies in order to control them, these are among the first elements of equilibrium which Saul proposes in these lectures.

JOHN RALSTON SAUL is the author of the best-selling Voltaire's Bastards and The Doubter's Companion. His other books include the novels The Paradise Eater, The Next Best Thing and The Birds of Prey. He lives in Toronto.

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 6

…um, does this help? “The difference is that the calm technologies offer me the space to focus my attention and perceive that shift happening. This experience is a joy, and an increasingly rare gift.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... (A search result for info overload)

Les Holt@lesholt· Nov 4

“Bird(s) on A Wire.” Walking the hills of the highlands. Leonard Cohen territory. youtu.be/BqGArXHDOKY

“Bird(s) on A Wire.”
photography les holt

Deep in the end of December, six years ago, twelve birds huddled high over head on one of three wires running above the treetops, a bank of bushy bushy evergreens coated with snow.
The tone is matte, the hue almost a silvery black~white. Sky filtered deliberately to sepia.
Walking the hills of the highlands that day.

Leonard Cohen territory.
https://youtu.be/BqGArXHDOKY

Les Holt@lesholt· Oct 30

“Heart”

Les Holt@lesholt· Oct 23

Chloe, your painting “Telly” is broadcast perfection—a full summary without words of television ❤️ Brings to mind Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves To Death and Kurt Vonnegut’s spoken intro to the song “Racing Away” on 1 Giant Leap by Jamie Catto & Duncan Bridgeman www.jamiecatto.com/1-giant-leap

RACING AWAY ~ 1 Giant Leap
Jamie Catto & Duncan Bridgeman
Spoken Intro Kurt Vonnegut
TV is enough. It’s providing artificial friends and relatives to lonely people. What, what it is is a recurrent family. It’s the same friends and relatives [and they] come back week after week after week after week. And they’re wittier and they’re better looking and they’re much more interesting and they’re richer than your real friends and relatives.

https://www.jamiecatto.com/1-giant-leap

Les Holt@lesholt· Oct 22

“Following CBC’s Liberal majority projection, former PC cabinet minister Jeff Carr, who resigned under Blaine Higgs’s leadership, said Higgs should apologize to Liberal premier-designate Susan Holt.” www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Higgs should apologize to Holt, says former PC cabinet minister
2 hours ago News
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6541969
Duration 1:51
Following CBC’s Liberal majority projection, former PC cabinet minister Jeff Carr, who resigned under Blaine Higgs’s leadership, said Higgs should apologize to Liberal premier-designate Susan Holt.

Les Holt@lesholt· Oct 22

Tho Politico chose to run it, the article-headline is AP Still, we read of a pogrom in process, the decimation of a people Eiland: “The water will dry up” DN!: “Israel…killed four water engineers who were traveling to make repairs to the water infrastructure” www.democracynow.org/2024/10/21/g...

“FOREIGN AFFAIRS”
Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians
Israel’s prime minister would also seal off humanitarian aid to the region.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/13/netanyahu-mulls-plan-to-empty-northern-gaza-of-civilians-00183574

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
10/13/2024 11:25 PM EDT

“They will either have to surrender or to starve,” Eiland said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re going to kill every person,” he said. “It will not be necessary. People will not be able to live there (the north). The water will dry up.”

He believes the siege could force Hamas to release some 100 Israeli hostages still being held by the group since its Oct. 7 attack that triggered Israel’s campaign. At least 30 of the hostages are presumed dead.

Human rights groups are appalled.

“Collateral Damage”- Hundreds of Patients Trapped in North Gaza as Israel Intensifies Siege | Democracy Now!

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/21/gaza_dr_ayaz_pathan

AMY GOODMAN: Dr. Pathan, we just have reports that Israel has killed four water engineers who were traveling to make repairs to the water infrastructure near Khan Younis. According to Oxfam, they were traveling in a clearly marked vehicle when they were attacked. If you can talk — I mean, the horror of them being killed is horrifying enough, but the fact that they were trying to fix the water infrastructure, what that means, how devastated the infrastructure is, leading to disease, including polio?

DR. AYAZ PATHAN: Yeah. So, absolutely. I think water and the safety of the water is something that UNICEF has looked at, and I think on the order of 98% of the water that is available is not considered good for human consumption. So, now you take an injured population, a sick population — even in the cases that are medical, for example, say, pneumonia or something along those lines — the ability to be able to take care of these patients without something as simple as water, to be able to clean wounds, to be able to hydrate people, is a huge issue.

Les Holt@lesholt· Oct 20

Ah yes, and the Ministry of Ketamine, hailing from planet Ketaminian. “The Company’s overall goal is to solve the ketamine shortage problem in the U.S.”

“The Company’s overall goal is to solve the ketamine shortage problem in the U.S. and anticipates the commercial launch of ketamine in 2024, and will meet the FDA’s strict manufacturing guidelines and FDA-approved prescribing label. KETARX™ will be produced in the U.S. in a cGMP manufacturing facility that is DEA certified and inspected by domestic and international regulatory agencies, including the FDA and EU EMA.

“Following the FDA approval and launch in the U.S., the Company will pursue international approvals to support the global demand for ketamine.”

Les Holt@lesholt· Oct 14

Food insecure population USA: 44,151,000 —Feeding America 2022 Total population Canada 41,744,759 —StatsCan, today Average meal cost USA $3.99 Annual food budget shortfall USA $33,119,578,000 Musk on Cybercab™️®️©️💲: “These will go into production some time in 2026 and cost less than $30,000 a pop”

FEEDING®AMERICA
2022 Overall Food Insecurity In The United States
“Overall” refers to all individuals, including children, regardless of race or ethnicity

Food Insecurity Rates
https://map.feedingamerica.org
Map of USA, superimposed w graduated scale from light to dark green
0-13.0%
13.1-26.0%
26.1-39.0%
39.1-52.0%
52.1-65%

FOOD INSECURE POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES
44,151,000

AVERAGE MEAL COST IN THE UNITED STATES
$3.99
ANNUAL FOOD BUDGET SHORTFALL
$33,119,578,000

Les Holt@lesholt· Oct 14

“Environs”

Les Holt@lesholt· Oct 5

Love at first listen: me & Steely Dan, not knowing then that life—compassionate life—is not a theory or ideology but a way of being In Reuters yesterday, the shuddering coupled words “luckless Palestinian” … why? Why add luckless? SD’s “luckless pedestrian” out of frame youtube.com/watch?v=9YxK...

A quoted paragraph from article:
Countdown to Middle East war?
How the region can step back from the brink
October 4, 2024
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/countdown-middle-east-war-region-can-step-back-brink-2024-10-04/

“The only reported death from Iran's two attacks was a luckless Palestinian hit by a missile casing that fell from the sky into the West Bank on Tuesday.”

1976 Geffen Records
The Royal Scam
Don't Take Me Alive
Steely Dan
Portion of lyrics
“Agents of the law
Luckless pedestrian
I know you're out there
With rage in your eyes and your megaphones
Saying all is forgiven
Mad dog surrender
How can I answer?
A man of my mind can do anything
I'm a bookkeeper's son
I don't want to shoot no one
Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon Don't take me alive”

Definition of luckless
adjective
1. Having or marked by a lack of good fortune;
unlucky. synonym: unfortunate.
Similar:
unfortunate
2. Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate;
unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune.
"a luckless gamester; a luckless maid."
Similar: unpropitious unfortunate
unlucky
3. Unsuccessful, in a failing manner.

Les Holt@lesholt· Sep 24

I was 18 when I first saw someone with a “prisoner number” inked on their forearm; a tattoo forced on them at the beginning of brutal dehumanization and horrors in the German Nazi concentration camps. I would see many many more, and would hear their stories as survivors of man’s inhumanity to man. 😓

https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschwitz-prisoners/prisoner-numbers/
“Prisoner numbers in the system of German Nazi concentration camps
The prisoner numbers have become a synonym of dehumanization that struck the deportees of the concentration camp. These numbers were to serve efficient "management" of camps, performed by the SS teams. Within the whole system of "state concentration camps" of Ill Reich, there was no a single rule of ascribing the numbers to the prisoners. Usually, there were subsequent numbers issued for the newly arrived prisoners (as it was in KL Auschwitz). In some camps (e.g. in KL Gusen or KL Buchenwald) the numbers of the deceased were ascribed again. In such cases, one number could belong to one or even three persons.
Prisoners transported from one camp to another obtained a new number every time. The number was used instead of last names on every day basis, as the spelling was often ambiguous, causing fuss in the documentation.”

Les Holt@lesholt· Sep 23

Thank you for posting this! “Far-right Rebel News not eligible for journalism tax credits, Federal Court rules…[finding that] less than one per cent of its content was original news” And, of 423 assessed news reports, “283 of the items were not based on facts” www.thebeaverton.com/2024/09/rebe...

Percent to Decimal Calculator
Enter a Percentage
1 %
Answer: = 0.01

Solution:
"Percent" means "per 100" or "over 100". To convert 1% to a decimal rewrite 1 percent in terms of per 100 or over 100.
1% = 1 over 100

1 over 100 is the same as 1 divided by 100.
Completing the division we get:
1 ÷ 100 = 0.01
Therefore, we have shown that
1% = 0.01

Les Holt@lesholt· Sep 20

“This force which you didn’t ask for, this destiny which you must accept, is also your responsibility…It is a total risk of everything, of you & who you think you are, who you think you’d like to be, where you think you’d like to go-everything & this forever” www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/13/j...

From Maria Popova
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/13/james-baldwin-the-artists-struggle-for-integrity/

Baldwin's most electrifying point is that the integrity of the artist is an analogue for the integrity of being human - the choice of the artist is a choice we each must make, in one form or another, by virtue of being alive:

I am not interested really in talking to you as an artist. It seems to me that the artist's struggle for his integrity must be considered as a kind of metaphor for the struggle, which is universal and daily, of all human beings on the face of this globe to get to become human beings. It is not your fault, it is not my fault, that I write. And I never would come before you in the position of a complainant for doing something that I must do... The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us.
Soldiers don't. Statesmen don't. Priests don't. Union leaders don't. Only poets

Les Holt@lesholt· Sep 11

TY always for what you bring to the conversation Yes to “Aspiration, principle, practice” Here, a Vanity Fair look at 2017’s “strategist who has fueled Trump’s firefight with the media” ref to ABC’s David Muir and the “blunt instrument” that is DJT www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01...