lmmarsano

How does that work: can you show us? Did you like it?

Capitulate like weak-ass bitches, get treated like bitches.

They did that, too.

The lengths to which administrators have been willing to go also suggests their actions are not mere capitulation, but rather a strategic alignment with the Trump administration.

On March 5, nine Barnard students were arrested for staging a sit-in to demand the administration reverse the prior expulsions of three student activists. Soon after, Columbia updated its public safety protocols to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, on campus without a judicial warrant in the case of “exigent circumstances.”

Then, on March 8, Mahmoud Khalil, a recent master’s graduate who was a lead negotiator with the Columbia administration during the Gaza solidarity encampment, was detained by ICE.

Columbia never responded to his email pleading the university for protection the day before his detainment.

On March 11, Ranjani Srinivasan, an international graduate student whose visa was revoked by the Department of Homeland Security on the spurious charge of being “involved in activities supporting Hamas,” fled into hiding and eventually to Canada after Columbia withdrew her from her Ph.D. program and the university’s campus security allegedly allowed ICE into her apartment.

Two days later, Columbia allegedly allowed ICE into the dorm room of Yunseo Chung, a junior at Columbia who was arrested at a pro-Palestine protest.

That same day, 20 more students were expelled, including Grant Miner, the president of the student workers union.

The Trump administration had delivered what Katherine Franke, a Columbia faculty member forced into early retirement for her pro-Palestine views, called a “ransom note.”

It gave the university a week to, among other things, suspend or expel student activists, centralize disciplinary procedures in the Office of the Provost, implement severe restrictions on public assembly, adopt the definition of anti-Zionism as antisemitism, and impose administrative oversight of the Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies Department as well as the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the university’s Tel Aviv program.

Columbia not only acquiesced to all the demands of said letter, but exceeded Trump’s dictates by suspending faculty governance of the Center for Palestine Studies

Cowards & bitches lacking principles & integrity.

Can we just punch people with fist-size heads who wear top hats & $ lapels?

That seems like less work.

Seems fun: any tips on how to best go about that?

Absolutely.

Maybe it’s a lack of social intuition, or just a failure to grasp the bigger picture but too often, the left underestimates the power of cultural resistance. Ridicule, art, memes, jokes these are tools that shape perception and cut authoritarianism down to size.

The right certainly uses this tactic against the left. Look at all their cringe viral memes, online propaganda targeting generation z/α, & trashy displays on their cars & clothing.

You need to right click, or use keyboard shortcuts to do anything with your highlighted text, unless your browser is getting in the way. Some websites do also get in the way.

You're willfully misreading: those operations are available.

The illustrative story

I doubt any early OS designer went “Pure selection is useful on its own. Let’s ship that without the ability to do anything to it.”

should have made the question clear.

You can't name a single OS now or in history where pure selection is possible yet no operations on the selection are available. It always existed for the sake of enabling operations on selections and never for its own sake. That it's an abortable, multistep process is beside the point: aborting it every time isn't the purpose. You're taking an incidental part of the design that was always a dependency for something else & treating it as a feature unto itself, which it never was. The use case for pure selection is fairly weak.

As stated before, it's a fair question whether the underlying issue (whatever leads people to purely select text) isn't better addressed by accessibility (a design that doesn't tempt them to purely text selection). In any case, an accessible design wouldn't obscure selections.

Like this?

That's pretty good: could that go in the OP body or is editing not possible?

Not in the OP. For primarily text content, images of them are pretty pointless: there are links to source, quotes, etc.

That's a pleasant idea: best ways on going about that?