[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited from my diigo]
There's a soccer stadium in Brazil right on the equator where each team must defend their hemisphere. pic.twitter.com/GmvMrm50jQ
— Weird Science (@weird_sci) December 15, 2018
— JoRoan Lazaro (@JoRoan) December 13, 2018
December 14, 2008 pic.twitter.com/bJC3gFsaeL
— Haymarket Books (@haymarketbooks) December 14, 2018
Die letzten Tage des Kapitalismus.https://t.co/CB8k6KMVaX
— Anti. 🐘 (@AntiAll3s) December 14, 2018
This is fucking depraved. Just profoundly evil. https://t.co/PuDINakTOD
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) December 13, 2018
Following Strasbourg's attack, as usual, the time for reflexion, or even mourning, has been neglected to carry on the forced march to security measures, pretending to "defend democracy against totalitarianism" – while doing the opposite.
— La Quadrature du Net (@laquadrature) December 12, 2018
Purr-pendicular pic.twitter.com/0up9LNJWSr
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) December 13, 2018
Jetzt haben wir den Salat , Gelbwesten in Deutschland 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/QUexGfxwkX
— Monika Bassani ن (@Pisepampell) December 12, 2018
— Jessica 🔪 Jurassica (@sickbutsocial) December 12, 2018
.@ManUtd receives more than 43,000 homophobic comments after supporting @stonewalluk #RainbowLaces campaign:https://t.co/NSEcUCZYgQ pic.twitter.com/jVM7Fvvzvi
— Attitude (@AttitudeMag) December 10, 2018
I can't believe I'm having to say this again but literally no one in the streets of Paris is chanting 'We Want Trump' https://t.co/W8gZb0ucgq
— Katy Lee (@kjalee) December 8, 2018
#ifyouonlyreadtwo
[Edit: Somehow I forgot to post this yesterday]
Yuval Harari: Please Recognize Your Own Unacknowledged Fictions | Jeremy Lent – “Yuval Harari—I urge you to recognize your own fictions. The Earth itself now needs your advocacy. Please recognize that nature is alive; that there are alternative stories on offer; that there is a moral imperative at this moment to engage in helping turn around our civilization’s path to destruction.” To the point, these are exactly the unquestioned fictions in Hararis thinking.
Linkspopulismus: Cäsar und «Wir» – “Das aber kann auf Seiten der Linken keine nicht-pluralistische, antiliberale Demokratie sein, sondern nur die Radikalisierung der pluralistischen Demokratie, ihre Zurückeroberung − da stimme ich mit Mouffe überein − und Erweiterung auf alle Lebensbereiche. Die Klaviatur des Mythos spielt die Rechte besser, aber auch Selbstbestimmung, Demokratie, Offenheit und Pluralität eignen sich für eine affektive Besetzung.” Very powerful take down of Mouffe and the leftist populism she proposes.
#watch,
Al Jazeera Investigations – Generation Hate Part 1 – “In a two-part investigation, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit goes undercover to expose France’s far-right and reveals secret links between violent extremists and one of France’s biggest political parties.”
Official “Tainted Love” Dance Tutorial – “How-to instructions for the dance featured in the music video for Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love.”
listen and
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Bombs Away – “Released on: 2018-12-14”
Just One Note – “Is it illegal if you take just one note?”
#giletsjaunes
[In case you needed some more riot porn]
A Movement With a Future – “The gilets jaunes movement has presented a vision of France beyond Emmanuel Macron’s neoliberalism. Anticapitalists have to push it even further.” Let’s push.
If you want to understand the gilets jaunes, get out of Paris (the guardian) – “While some protesters are wreaking destruction in the capital, others are breathing life into rural France’s forgotten corners” The situation in rural France is more dire and more revealing.
The Roundabout Riots – “It is perhaps useful to think of the Gilets Jaunes events as an early climate riot, just as we understand much contemporary immigration to be driven by climate collapse. These two problematics — global circulation of populations and ecological crisis — will not simply serve as occasions to consolidate state power but are certain to converge, over the next decade, into something like “green nationalism” through a discourse of resource preservation and purportedly humanitarian provisions against climate refugees. There is no universalism that will not oppose this development through struggles for both open borders and for communal power in matters ecological.” A very orthodox marxist analysis, but it all helps trying to understand this protest.
Gelbwesten-Proteste in Frankreich – “Ein plebejischer Aufstand” – “Die Gelbwesten erinnern Präsident Macron nachdrücklich an die soziale Ungleichheit in Frankreich, sagt Raul Zelik. Nur auf den parlamentarischen Weg zu setzen, findet der Schriftsteller naiv – und begrüßt die neue „Wucht und Vehemenz“ der Straßenproteste.” Zelik adressiert die Gewaltfrage.
#learn
‘Donald’ Is Now One of the Top 25 Most Commonly Used Passwords (vice) – “Another year of horrendous, terrible, no good passwords is in the books.” Come on…
Dimensions.Guide | The Database of Sizes – “Dimensions.Guide is a comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our built environment.” Nice graphics project.
Canada Welcomes AI—But Not All ‘Black in AI’ Workshop Guests (wired) – “All week, Montreal has played host to 8,000 people attending the NeurIPS conference, which ends Saturday. But well over 100 researchers with tickets to attend the event or its associated workshops, including many who planned to present work, are absent due to visa denials or delays.” Shocking.
The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice — a startling sign of what’s to come (wapo) – “If the thinning trend continues, scientists fear an added boost to global warming.” Did I say, we’re doomed yet this week?
Researchers create first sensor package that can ride aboard bees – “Having insects carry these sensor systems could be beneficial for farms because bees can sense things that electronic objects, like drones, cannot. With a drone, you’re just flying around randomly, while a bee is going to be drawn to specific things, like the plants it prefers to pollinate.” Yes yes, very black mirror, but with a twist.
Sheryl Sandberg’s Trickle-Down Feminism Stands Exposed – “Trickle-down feminism is as much of a myth as trickle-down economics. The only things that have furthered feminist causes in living memory is collective action, unionism, and a refusal to pander to those in power.” Trickle-down anything, except in peeing, is BS,
How Anarchists Helped Californian Fire Refugees in a Walmart Parking Lot – “They say “mutual aid” is a better model for providing aid than traditional top-down charity work.” In crisis the best model reveals itself.
Human Terrain – “Over the past 30 years, the scale of population change is had to grasp. How do you even visualize 10 million people?” Lovely visualised interactive tool.
Crowdfunding site Patreon is purging far-right figures – “Crowdfunding site Patreon this week banned the accounts of several controversial public figures, part of a wider push by tech companies to de-platform users linked to the alt-right and far right.” Sargon of Akkad, Milo, Allsup de-platformed. I’d say that’s a good start. But Peterson and others keep pulling massive amounts from patreon.
I’m Sorry But This Is Just Sheer Propaganda (current affairs) – “The “manufacturing of consent” is still going on, and it is dangerous. If people are not shown George H.W. Bush’s bad acts, then slowly his son’s will disappear as well. In fact, they already are, to the point where a smart and savvy liberal like Michelle Obama can seem to have totally forgotten the Iraq War, hugging Bush and calling him her “partner in crime.””
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret (nyt) – “Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.” We so should delete them all. Should.
Genesis P-Orridge: fantastic transgressor or sadistic aggressor? (the guardian) – “Legacies place an artist’s fingerprints on scenes and communities, that linger even in their absence, and P-Orridge is certainly interesting enough to write a book about. But Fanni Tutti’s accusations are now part of this legacy – and anyway, with such an unruly personality, P-Orridge herself would likely reject a straightforward, purely celebratory account of her life. Histories of our artists must be written honestly and sometimes even painfully – otherwise our civilisation will truly be wrecked.” How my view of P-Orridge has shifted in recent years. Team Cosey.
#oldiebutgoodie
1. Change the Goal – 1/7 Doughnut Economics – An animated explainer of “doughnut economics”, read by Kate Raworth.
The antidote to civilisational collapse (the economist) – “An interview with the documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis” Despite the strange, leading questions on Harari and Peterson towards the end, this is a pretty revealing interview, Curtis sounds preachy. Not sure, if I’ll watch his films the same way after.
«Medien müssen begreifen, dass sie noch nie ausgewogen waren.» (medienwoche) – “Die Soziologin Franziska Schutzbach hat sich für ihr neues Buch mit der «Rhetorik der Rechten» auseinandergesetzt. Von den Medien fordert sie ein intensiveres Nachdenken darüber, welchen Raum sie eindeutigen Provokationen von rechts geben wollen.”
Kriminalisierung der Solidarität: Flüchtlingshelferin in Brig verurteilt – Amnesty International kritisiert Urteil scharf – “Die 72-Jährige hatte im Februar dieses Jahres einem schwer traumatisierten afghanischen Asylsuchenden, der bei minus 10 Grad im Freien schlafen musste und Erfrierungen hatte, über die Grenze geholfen.” Are you guys nuts?
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