"The responsibility of intellectuals is to speak the truth and expose lies."
–Noam Chomsky
#Chomsky emphasizes that those who have knowledge and influence must use their intellect to challenge falsehoods and reveal the truth. Intellectuals, whether scholars, journalists, or thinkers, have a duty to question power structures and educate the public. Silence in the face of deception allows misinformation to spread unchecked.
Also, looking for recommendations for more signs. Not sure how many more I'll be able to put together before #March8th, but I'd like to do something. Maybe something as hokey as "#KnowledgeIsPower" (with illustrations of books)? "#DefundCorporations"? Just a few ideas. I'd love to hear yours (and see your signs! SHOW ME YOUR SIGNS!)
#protests #50501movement #5050Protest #ProtestFascism
Amarone best vintages - The official rating of the best (and worst) Amarone vintages of the last 40 years. https://tinyurl.com/492h96yd via
@tasteverona_winetours
#amarone #vino #wine #wineworldnews #italy #wineknowledge #sommelier #knowledge #knowledgeispower
Tiny Apocalyptic Time Tip 
If you too feel uneasy about
the state of the world,
and you too worry about losing access to one of the greatest knowledge treasure of the internet,
Know that you can download an
offline copy of Wikipedia!
Here's how 
1. Download the free and open source software Kiwix (this will be your reader): https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
2. If you want smaller versions of Wikipedia, you can download them within Kiwix.
Within the app, go to "Categories" in the menu on the left, then browse to a topic/version you want. Scroll to the bottom for Wikipedia mini, for example. Click on it then click "Download" on the right 
3. Once you have downloaded a database, click on "Opened" on the left > database you want to search > "Open Main Page" on the right.
4. You can use the Search field on the upper-right to find topics like on online Wikipedia! 
5. If you want the full English version of Wikipedia (110GB), you might want to download it from the torrent file instead. Install a torrent client of your choice (I use Transmission).
Then, go to this page, click on "Download - 109.89 GB" blue button on the first result (size may vary overtime), then select "Torrent file": https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia
6. Once you have the torrent file, open it with your torrent client to start the download. This is BIG! Be patient! 
7. Once the download is completed, open your Wikipedia `.zim` file with Kiwix!
8. Magic! 
Extra Tip: You can download many other awesome knowledge files from the Kiwix Library! Personally, I also got the iFixit knowledge base! 
“Why Open? Because control is dangerous.” @Trishh at @everythingopen
Adding that libraries must be responsibly Open “If we want things to be Open, we have a responsibility to ensure everyone in the community has the ability to understand how to access these things safely.” 
You don't need a better note-taking system.
What you need is to develop a note-taking practice. Learn how to turn what you discover into knowledge that you can leverage for a lifetime, changing your perceptions and actions for the better
Breaking news!
We are joining forces with our interpreter colleagues to pool resources in the Knowledge Centre on Translation and Interpretation (#KCTI).
https://ec.europa.eu/kcti
#LanguageMatters #KnowledgeIsPower #xl8 #1nt
@EUInterpreters
@EU_Commission
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/translatores/status/1879846137836056662#m
On this day in 2001, the first Wikipedia article on 'Nupedia,' was created, marking the dawn of a revolutionary platform for collaborative knowledge-sharing! Let’s celebrate the power of community-driven information! #Wikipedia #KnowledgeIsPower #OpenKnowledge #Wikipedia
Guess he should go and take a flying leap…
Been using it forever and run a local media wiki database in my company for specific knowledge and that works great.
Knowledge is power and no narcissistic psychopath will take it away from us!
#Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn #BlackHistory lessons their schools don’t teach
By KATE PAYNE
Updated 12:15 AM EST, December 21, 2024
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — "Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statutes of #Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old #plantations turned into modern subdivisions that bear the same name. But many students aren’t learning that kind of Black history in Florida classrooms.
"In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won’t provide. They talk about #SouthFlorida’s #Caribbean roots, the state’s dark history of #lynchings, how #segregation still shapes the landscape and how #grassroots #activists mobilized the #CivilRights Movement to upend generations of oppression.
[...]
"When Sulaya Williams’ eldest child started school, she couldn’t find the comprehensive instruction she wanted for him in their area. So in 2016, she launched her own organization to teach Black history in community settings.
"'We wanted to make sure that our children knew our stories, to be able to pass down to their children,' Williams said.
"Williams now has a contract to teach Saturday school at a public #library in Fort Lauderdale, and her 12-year-old daughter Addah Gordon invites her classmates to join her.
"'It feels like I’m really learning my culture. Like I’m learning what my ancestors did,' Addah said. 'And most people don’t know what they did.'"
This tool is outstanding. Choose a topic that matters, and the site shows you where Project 2025 cites wanting to destroy it. WITH PAGE NUMBERS.
I know it's a fascist bible. You know it. Everyone knows it. But it's hard to talk about it if you have to read the entire thing. This site helps you be in the know without having to do that.
Every fucking chump ass cop doesn't know the laws very well - they are literally given less than 2 months of education on actual laws. Educate yourself on your local municipal, provincial & federal laws & #KnowYourRights better! That alone saves you from more #PoliceAbuses 
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Our Alphabet Quiz - Part 2 has just been posted on our website!
https://youknowwhatblog.com/quizzes/alphabet-quiz-part-2/
Our Alphabet Quiz - Part 1 has just been posted on our website!
https://youknowwhatblog.com/quizzes/alphabet-quiz-part-1/
Thanks to the Merlin Bird ID app, I now know exactly which bird is making it impossible to go back to sleep. #KnowledgeIsPower #birds
Very much looking forward to the sold out event getting ready to start:
Building Justice with Derecka Purnell
Join the CJC for a discussion on abolition and liberation for all peoples with lawyer, writer, activist and scholar Derecka Purnell.
By Community Justice Collective
Not a lawyer, so I don't get the PD/PE points, but still very much a topic of interest.
Happy Dusshera! 
Celebrate this auspicious day by enlightening ourselves with the power of education. Let knowledge be our guiding light as we conquer ignorance.
Attackers will work to know your network better than you do. They will find shadow IT, misconfigurations, weak authentication and unpatched devices containing n-days. Discover and fix it before them. #KnowledgeIsPower #KnowledgeIsSecurity
@persagen Keep the sectarian extremist rebels away from education!
Unnecessary to add, that President Ulysses Grant didn't want revanchist southern rebels to dictate & pervert the contents of library shelves or curricula of students.
"Resolve that neither the state nor nation, or both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, Pagan, or Atheistical tenets. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate."
— President & U.S. Army General Ulysses S. Grant —
