ruff linkage 2017416 min read

[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited from my diigo]

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#ifyouonlyreadone – actually not read, I meant click.

Paperclips – Make them. Highly addictive clicker game.

24 Cognitive Biases stuffing up your thinking – “Cognitive biases make our judgments irrational. We have evolved to use shortcuts in our thinking, which are often useful, but a cognitive bias means there’s a kind of misfiring going on causing us to lose objectivity. This website has been designed to help you identify some of the most common biases stuffing up your thinking.” Great resource.

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U.S.P.S Postman Delivers Mail Santa Rosa Fires Drone Video By Douglas Thron October 10, 2017 – “Hours after the fires in Santa Rosa I filmed this postal worker still delivering the mail.”


‘Put Blood in the Music’: Essential doc on Sonic Youth, John Zorn & other 80s NYC noise musicians – “… in the late 1980s [Charles Atlas] put together a diverting documentary about the New York sound of the moment, with special focus on two budding stars from that scene, John Zorn and Sonic Youth. The movie is called Put Blood in the Music; the title derives from a comment made by Glenn Branca.”


Denki Groove – UFOholic – Cyriak does Horses.


Eminem Rips Donald Trump In BET Hip Hop Awards Freestyle Cypher – Why is this bleeped?

listen and


Yes, this is old, but they had in The Deuce, and it’s soooooo great.

#learn

Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy – “Many discussions of our technological future assume that the fruits of productivity will be distributed fairly and to the satisfaction of all. That is clearly not the case. Right now, the economic game is enormously fun for far too few players, and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.” Oh goodie, he finally discovered Keynes.

How Dan Deacon Collaborated With Rats To Make His Latest Film Score – “For Rat Film, a new documentary that explores Baltimore’s complicated history (as told through the city’s rat infestation), electronic artist Dan Deacon developed an elaborate system to get the rats themselves to make the music.” Music for rats made by rats.

The Prophet of Germany’s New Right – “From a tiny village in the country’s rural east, a leading nationalist intellectual builds a vision for the future of his movement across Europe.” The usual fare about Kubitschek, in english for once.

Facebook Says Its Fake News Label Helps Reduce The Spread Of A Fake Story By 80% – “BuzzFeed News obtained an email sent by a Facebook executive to its fact-checking partners that for the first time shared internal data about the program.”

Rohingya Recount Atrocities: ‘They Threw My Baby Into a Fire’ – Must read. Simple as that.

Catalunya: Facing Two Bad Options, Choose the Third : On the Showdown between Spain and Catalunya – “The Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, played for time today, suspending the declaration of independence mandated by the referendum in order to continue negotiations with the central government of Spain, the European Union, and presumably hardliners in his camp who desire to proclaim Catalan independence unilaterally. As these two sides face off, jockeying for position on the world stage, how should we relate to this conflict? We’ve translated another text from anarchists on the Iberian peninsula addressing this question.”

Black man beaten by Charlottesville Nazis has been charged with assault – “One of the men who beat Harris tried to get the Charlottesville police to arrest Harris as well. When the Charlottesville police declined, the Nazi found a sympathetic magistrate judge (the clowns of the US judicial system) to issue a warrant for Harris’s arrest.” Just unbelievable.

How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power – “However far-fetched that may sound, what identitarians like Mr. Spencer have grasped, and what ostensibly anti-racist thinkers like Mr. Coates have lost sight of, is the fact that so long as we fetishize race, we ensure that we will never be rid of the hierarchies it imposes. We will all be doomed to stalk our separate paths.” Very controversial, but in parts valid.

The Opioid Crisis – “White Despair and the Scapegoating of People of Color”

Worried About Trump’s Mental Stability? The Worst Is Yet to Come. – “[his] mental impairment goes deeper and is far more pervasive than people can understand when they are untrained in psychological matters. And that the worst is yet to come.” This nutter has the nuclear codes. Run!!!! But where to?

#oldiebutgoodie

“N’existe Pas” by Bruce Sterling (2014) – Bruce Sterling – ““Surveillance is always a philosophical matter,” said the paparazzo to the spy.”

#francais_deutsch_other

Diebe stehlen Niklas-Luhmann-Büste | Oerlinghausen – Neue Westfälische – “Die Bronzebüste des Soziologen Niklas Luhmann ist in der Nacht zum Dienstag gestohlen worden. Sie befand sich kurz vor einem Wechsel zur Villa Welschen” Auch interessant: Die Büste von Max Weber gleich daneben haben sie liegen gelassen.

Helmut Lethen: Jagd nach rechter Diskurshoheit – Kultur – “Kulturwissenschaftler Helmut Lethen gilt als 68er, dem das Aufbegehren der Neuen Rechten widerstrebt. Zu ihr gehört neuerdings auch seine Ehefrau.”

Die Angst geht um an der Falkenstrasse – “Bei der «Neuen Zürcher Zeitung» findet ein radikaler Umbau von oben statt. Erstmals sprechen prominente frühere MitarbeiterInnen der Zeitung: Unter Chefredaktor Eric Gujer herrschten ein Klima der Angst und ein ideologisch verengter Kurs.”

“Facebook hat da ein Monster erschaffen” – Ein Interview über Dark-Ads und digitalen Wahlkampf – “Nicht nur die Facebook-Seite ‘Die Wahrheit über Sebastian Kurz’ zeigt: Der digitale Wahlkampf bietet Möglichkeiten für Dinge, die wir in einem demokratischen Diskurs nicht wollen.”

Die Verführbarkeit der Journalisten – “Wie der russische Propagandasender RT, wie auch Erdogan, Trump und die AfD arbeitet die Weltwoche bzw. die SVP mit der bekannten Umkehrungslogik von Populisten: Kritik und Protest werden als Zensur uminterpretiert, Verleumdung und Hetze als Kritik und Verteidigung von Meinungsfreiheit dargestellt.”

„Ich kann euch alle haben.“ Maskulinitätsideologien und Rechtsnationalismus – “Lag der Fokus von Analysen zur neuen Rechten bisher vor allem auf Rassismus und Migrationsfeindlichkeit, wird jetzt zunehmend deutlich, dass Antifeminismus, Frauenverachtung und maskulistische Ideologien ebenfalls zentral, ja häufig der Ausgang für rechtsnationale Radikalisierung sind.”

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