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Posted on Friday September 3, 2021
Lately I've been trying to find less-than-toxic methods of keeping up with current events. My prior dependence on Twitter and Reddit was deteriorating my mental health, so I abandoned them a couple of months ago.
Having gotten interested in open-source software over the last decade, I've found myself enjoying the simplicity of mailing list digests. Enough mundane emails find their way into my inbox on a daily basis that seeing such notifications doesn't trigger any kind of a stress response in me; I just get around to them when I feel like it. I get to read interesting, thoughtful correspondence written by fellows with whom I share interests. This low-pressure, minimally-invasive sort of social media respects my boundaries while simultaneously connecting me with people and subjects I care about.
As a means of staying up-to-date on current events while maintaining the respectful distance of mailing list digests, I thought it would be a rewarding side-project to build a RSS-to-email feed aggregator.
You can find the source code + documentation here.
This was also an opportunity to learn to use a couple of C libraries I'd never directly utilized, namely libcurl and libXML2.
It was a fun project to work on, and I enjoy getting emails generated by it each morning. It feels good to be able to say I've finished a project, more or less.
Here's an example of what the resulting digests look like:
A Life for Anarchy: A Stuart Christie Reader This collection of articles has been put together as a tribute to his life by the Kate Sharpley Library collective. https://enoughisenough14.org/2021/09/02/a-life-for-anarchy-a-stuart-christie-reader/ ----- Urgency in Ecological Crises – with Peter Gelderloos [Video, English subs] In this episode of Anarchist Voices, Peter Gelderloos talks about how he believes we can best face the environmental +disaster and climate catastrophes that surround us. https://enoughisenough14.org/2021/09/02/urgency-in-ecological-crises-with-peter-gelderloos-video-english-subs/ ----- In Contempt #8: #ShutEmDown2021; Running Down the Walls 2021; Biden Expanding Repression; Kinetik Justice on Hunger +Strike This month’s column comes out right in the middle of two separate ongoing calls to action. Across the so-called US, +Jailhouse Lawyers Speak have put out a call for abolitionist demonstrations under the banner of “Shut ‘Em Down +2021,” running from the 50th anniversary of George Jackson’s killing on August 21st to the 50th anniversary... Read +Full Article https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-8/ ----- This Is America #147: Anti-Frat Action Goes Wild; Daryle Lamont Jenkins on Current Terrain; Philly ABC; Organizing +Offline Welcome, to This is America, September 1st, 2021. On today’s episode, first we speak with Daryle Lamont Jenkins about +his recent travels to New York for an antifascist film festival and Portland for a mass convergence against the +Proud Boys. We talk about fighting the far-Right in a post-J6 world, the need to build alternatives... Read Full +Article https://itsgoingdown.org/this-is-america-147/
If you would like to use this tool, want to suggest any improvements to it (or have made any yourself), I would love to hear about it.
Here is an unrelated photo of a lizard that I took on Sunday
Thank you for reading.
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