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Many of you will fondly remember the people and products from Raised Dot Computing. Their newsletters are archived and nicely indexed. What made them unique was that they didn’t just discuss RDC’s products but products from other assistive technology companies as well, including their competitors. Because of this their newsletters are another great resource for learning about the history of blindness assistive technology.
https://www.duxburysystems.org/downloads/library/news/

—@DavidGoldfield

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Ron DeSantis' own book targeted under Florida ban law by Matthew ChapmanMatthew Chapman (Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism)
Florida Democrats are attempting a new stunt, reported The Daily Beast this week: using Gov. Ron DeSantis' landmark law allowing parents to remove books from schools to ban the governor's own publication."In a clever bit of trolling, Florida Democrats are subjecting DeSantis’ new tome — 'The Courage...

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One of the reasons christian literalist ways of interpreting Jewish texts is often asinine is that paleo and biblical era Hebrew did not have vowels. It had root consonants, and the interpretation of a word depended on context, not text. And each set of consonant roots has a WIDE range of interpretations.

Take the word chametz – one interpretation is leaven (yeast), but the root itself means puffed up or inflated, as well as harsh, vinegar, oppressive, and distasteful, and so on. Each root has a full circle of meanings depending on the vowels and tense *you* choose to insert, as well as the topic of the surrounding text – each root of those words also having a wide range of meanings. And those vowel insertions are man-made, not scripture. Not “god’s word.”

Men’s interpretations.

Literalists cherry pick what interpretation they want, and insist that is “THE” meaning, when it is no such thing.

https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/clearing-out-how

#Mazeldon #Hebrew #Passover #Chametz #linguistics #spirituality

—@ShekinahCanCook