Links, Saturday 31st Jan

Video game makers are doing a better job of managing their in-game currencies right now than Eurozone governments are doing with the euro. Vox

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A good rundown on the systematic miscarriages of justice that happen in the US legal system (starting from elected judges who campaign on the promise of being "tough on crime"). Cracked

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Good piece about the illogical and moralising regulations governing strip club licencing in the UK. These regulations are actively harming workers. Vice

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They may be going overboard here in trying to identify a single small factor that made a big difference, but these are still some interesting stories Cracked

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LOL, these are brilliant

"You’re going to have to go through the asteroid belt you’d hoped to avoid at the beginning of this journey." The Toast

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This is a serious national problem. In South Africa medical professionals are systematically denying women termination of pregnancy services to which they have a legal right. It is absolutely shameful that women in this country are still being forced to use improperly trained and unregulated "backroom" providers. M&G

Links, Wednesday 28th January

"the EU/IMF strategy for dealing with the aftermath of the 2008 crisis is in tatters. They have destroyed centrist politics in Greece: first by forcing political leaders to sign up to austerity, then acquiescing as those political leaders indulged in their tradtional game of graft, patronage and double dealing." Channel 4

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Bummer, it seems that e-cigarettes deliver considerably more formaldehye (a carcinogen) than regular cigarettes. The overall risk profile may still be better though, since formaldehyde is by no means the only carcinogen in cigarette spoke. Perhaps this problem could also be fixed by improving the technology? NEJM

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"So now that Mr. Tsipras has won, and won big, European officials would be well advised to skip the lectures calling on him to act responsibly and to go along with their program. The fact is they have no credibility; the program they imposed on Greece never made sense. It had no chance of working." NYTimes

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Wowzers, in 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, race riots escalated to the point where white pilots dropped *firebombs* on black neighbourhoods (in addition to all the white folks starting fires on the ground). There was mass destruction, with as many as 300 people dying. Cracked

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Alongside the offensive language, can we note the irony of Cumberbatch empathising with black actors who find it difficult to get roles... having himself recently taken a role originally written for a person of South Asian origin? Guardian

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Reading this, it occurs to me that those lists of "famous people you wouldn't believe are scientologists" typically neglect to mention that even these famous and wealthy people are very likely, at least in some respects, also victims of extremely violent and manipulative organisation.

"Taylor brought Travolta into the church, but, having since defected, admits that his allegiance isn’t entirely voluntary: After years of spiritual “auditing”—the process by which members reveal their deepest secrets and desires in order to go “clear”—the church has enough dirt on Travolta to keep him loyal." Slate

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You all know I support a basic unconditional income, but it matters how the policy is designed. It's definitely unrealistic to expect that all means testing could be eliminated immediately, and *some* means testing would probably have to exist even in the longer term (a person with a serious disability, for instance, would probably require more than the standard rate). Guardian

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It's a mystery to me that the people who devote the most energy to actually thinking through the long-term consequences of policies are also prepared to say "just vote with your heart" come election time. Hell, if you're a proper radical, you probably think electoral politics is a mere mockery of real democracy, so *all* voting is tactical voting. Guardian

Links, Monday 26th Jan

This is so typical of South Africa - the people in charge aren't willing make a very simple compromise that would go along way to recognising the dignity of poor working people.

"Brink, Johnson, Beukes and their colleagues work for Sannicare, which has a portable toilet cleaning contract for the City of Cape Town. They spend the whole day emptying and washing the portable toilets, sluicing the contents and the dirty water down a drain in the floor of the depot. At the end of their shift they have to leave without taking a shower.

There are showers at the depot, but the City of Cape Town keeps these locked and reserved for municipal employees. There is a canteen at the depot but it is also used by the City council employees only, and no contract worker is allowed to eat inside." Groundup

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"Here’s a strange thing about freedom as recognition. In SA, the experience of this freedom has, for many, taken the form of fantastical voyage, or, to say the same thing in another way, it has taken the form of watching, with a combination of sympathy and longing, a voyage somebody else is making.

Freedom defined this way surely cannot last forever. Slowly, invisibly, it loses its charm. There comes a time when people tire of watching the journeys of others. They come to ask why they themselves are standing still. I told the audience in Bergen that SA was reaching this point." Business Day

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Wow, beautiful Slate

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Misandry champion

"Gallan told the newspaper that her "secret to a long life has been staying away from men. They're just more trouble than they're worth."" HuffPost

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The ECB does a good thing (however, notice the Germans in bizzaro-land warning about the dangers of inflation, while inflation runs at *half* the target rate!) Guardian

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These are all actually pretty cool Cracked

(Though why they can't just say "things that look pretty cool in slow motion" escapes me)

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Disturbing account of how tensions between foreign shop owners and locals in Soweto eventually escalated into xenophobic violence and looting this week. Daily Maverick

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"Tony Blair wrote to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to thank him for the “excellent cooperation” between the two countries’ counter-terrorism agencies following a period during which the UK and Libya worked together to arrange for Libyan dissidents to be kidnapped and flown to Tripoli, along with their families." Guardian

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Interesting discussion of same sex unions in early modern Europe and North America. Guardian

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Ha, why am I even surprised by this stuff any more?

"Fake engine noise has become one of the auto industry’s dirty little secrets, with automakers from BMW to Volkswagen turning to a sound-boosting bag of tricks. Without them, today’s more fuel-efficient engines would sound far quieter and, automakers worry, seemingly less powerful, potentially pushing buyers away." Washington Post

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Hmmm, a suggestion that the power crisis in SA is attributable more to lack of transmission capacity than generating capacity, in which case building more power stations won't necessarily solve the problem. A worrying prospect indeed. Business Day

Links, Thursday 22nd January

In the Netherlands, a televised alert was issued warning people about the 'Superman' tablets containing deadly PMMA (instead of relatively innocuous MDMA). In consequence, no-one died from the pills. In contrast, although health agencies in the UK received the same information, no warning was given and 4 people died. Just goes to show what a difference aggressive harm reduction measures can make. Guardian

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"One of the most glaring threats that HONY makes to humanity lies in its pretension of representing all of its diversity through the lens of a single individual. While claiming to define the population of New York, it presents a whitewashed image of an earnest, vibrant city that takes place predominantly in Manhattan, during the day. The individuals featured are only those Stanton feels comfortable approaching, those he deems interesting enough to photograph, who do not take offense to an intrusive white man’s request to commodify their images." Warscapes

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That awkward moment after you make "benefits tourism" a central plank of your political platform, and then it turns out that your own citizens receive more in benefits from other EU countries than the reverse... Guardian

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Legalised marijuana in Colorado: basically a huge success. Slate

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[CW for simulated child sex abuse]

Animated child pornography presents an interesting conundrum, in that no-one is harmed in the making of it, but it satisfies a desire that is repugnant. We're quite rightly horrified by *actual* child abuse! In some ways the debate parallels the case of simulated violence in movies/video games. Basically two schools of thought arise: the "reinforcement theorists", who think that enjoying a simulation of a activity reinforces people's inclination towards it, and so makes them more likely to engage in the reality; and the "dissipation theorists", who think that enjoying the simulation somehow dissipates the underlying urge harmlessly (kind of like a Freudian "hydraulic" theory). The two mechanisms may of course both be acting at the same time (simulation could reinforce the impulse but nevertheless alleviate actual harm on average if similar simulations are in fact always present to satisfy it).

Anyway, it's interesting that the different theories broadly line up with conservative vs liberal political impulses, but are (at least in principle) empirically testable. BBC

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In case anyone missed the news, the South African National Aids Council has come out strongly in support of sex work decriminalisation.

"Sanac chief executive Fareed Abdullah said that ... the fact that sex work was illegal in South Africa made it difficult to address the “heavy social stigma” associated with the profession, as well as their low access to health services." M&G

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"That October [of 1993], De Klerk became the first SA – and perhaps only – head of state, let alone Nobel Peace Prize nominee, publicly to claim credit for a massacre." IOL

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The map and the territory... Vice

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"The pernicious, toxic and inescapable lifelong effect of being disciplined physically – either to the point of abuse, or to the point that the distinction between acceptable and unacceptable blurs in your mind – is that you almost have to say you turned out fine, just to redeem the fact of being who you are. That you “turned out fine” is the only way to make sense of having once felt total terror or uncontrollable shaking rage at the sight of one (or both) of the two people expected to care most for you in the world. The thought that you might have ended up relatively OK or perhaps even better without all that fear is almost unbearable: the suffering only doubles if you admit that it truly had no purpose." Guardian

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Complex, moving piece by a woman who has experienced clitoridectomy/FGM (her preferred terms), and how this has affected her relationship to sex, her family, and her religious community. The Big Round Table

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Interesting article on the art of inventing new names for things. Good stuff in here about the physical and emotional connotations of different sounds (fricatives convey speed or motion, for instance). NYTimes

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"A woman earning a couple of hundred quid for engaging in consensual photography is the least offensive thing in The Sun." (Whore)dible

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Interesting thesis, that early capitalist institutions and practices in Europe were substantially borrowed from the Islamic world.

"Crusaders and religious orders settling in Palestine observed other Islamic practices and institutions that proved useful back home. When a certain Walter de Merton in thirteenth-century England vested assets to endow an institution for educating scholars in Oxford, the terms of the legal agreement to all intents and purposes replicated those of a waqf to set up a madrasa. By then, waqfs had been in operation for many centuries in Islamic societies, but in England the concept had never been applied before." Islamic Commentary

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Good piece. It's pretty well established by now that dieting and other forms of behavioural weight management just don't work. Yet doctors continue to harass fat patients about losing weight. Would they be plying them with drugs that had a *97%* failure rate?

"I have been fat my whole life. So when healthcare professionals ask me—in the middle of a consultation about something completely unrelated—whether I know that my BMI is too high and whether I’m engaged in any weight management, I’m always a little surprised when they act like they might be the first to have ever brought it up. As if I might have made it through my 30 years without ever once noticing that I was fat and that some people think that fat is bad." BMJ

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Apologies for the weird framing of this article, which no doubt has something to to with Telegraph editorial policies (what the hell does Germaine Greer have to do with anything?!). The basic claim is, however, quite interesting. It argues that labour shortages brought about by the Black Death increased the economic bargaining position of women in Western Europe, with lasting positive effects on their social position. It sort of reminds me of the situation around WW1 and WW2, which brought about increased demands for labour and thus increasing impetus for women's rights. Telegraph

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I'm sure there are minor issues I'd disagree about, but overall I think the English/Welsh Green Party have a pretty great platform Guardian

(However, while the UK retains a plurality voting system, it remains advisable to vote strategically. Here is a list of constituencies that the Greens are actively contesting, and I'd suggest checking up-to-date polling information before casting your ballot. If you happen to be polled, it's probably advisable to state your *favourite* party, even if you might vote for another party strategically - this indirectly allows you to signal voting intentions to other voters, thus building a "critical mass" that can switch over from strategic to preference voting en masse)

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I'm all for restorative/transformative justice as a general principle, but it makes me somewhat cynical to see it disproportionately being applied to overprivileged scumbags who can afford decent legal representation. Why don't we pilot the experiment with truly desperate perpetrators who could really do with a more supportive judicial process? IOL

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Huh. Apparently a Charlie Hebdo cover mocking the murder of protesters in Egypt during the July 2013 coup is protected free speech, but a cartoon mocking the murder of Charlie Hebdo journalists is “defending terrorism". I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that MOCKING PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN MURDERED IS A TERRIBLE THING TO DO, but probably shouldn't be a crime one way or the other.

Electronic Intifada

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*sings* I see your truuuue colours shining through... *sings* Guardian

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"In private, most TSA officers I talked to told me they felt the agency's day-to-day operations represented an abuse of public trust and funds." The Week

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One woman's experience of forced plural marriage in a fundamentalist Mormon sect. Cracked

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Amartya Sen makes a strong case for state-financed universal healthcare provision in developing countries.

One thought on the argument's applicability to South Africa: he argues that healthcare provision is often relatively cheap in poor countries because it's relatively labour intensive and wages tend to be low there. However, SA is one of the most unequal societies in the world, and  expanded public provision means luring doctors away from lucrative private practice. How much more difficult does this make things? Guardian

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Preach

"the second world war is, for British culture... a comfortable bolthole for some wish-fulfilment, where our judgment is always sound and our strength only boosted by the severity of the test. It would be much more fruitful for us, in the quest for self-awareness, to make films about the Boer war, but for some reason we never do. Downton Abbey, likewise, pretends with the odd subplot to have something to say about haves and have-nots, but is in fact telling a very photogenic, undemanding story about wealth." Guardian

Links, Friday 16th January

[TW for police violence]

Police work: shooting kids, standing around watching them bleed out, tackling family members who try to give assistance. Also this:

"Officer Loehmann, 26, who fired the fatal shot, had quit a suburban police force after his supervisors determined two years ago that he had had a “dangerous loss of composure” during firearms training and was emotionally unprepared to cope with stresses of the job. The Cleveland police acknowledged that they had never reviewed the previous police personnel file of Officer Loehmann." NY Times

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Horrible story about the first concerned effort to document the camp-based Holocaust in Western Europe, and how it was suppressed by the UK government. (I add the qualifier to emphasise that the camps were not  the full story of the Holocaust - the Einsatzgruppen, who operated in Eastern Europe, murdered comparable numbers of people, but left less documentary and physical evidence. And fewer surviving witnesses.) Guardian

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Good piece on the intellectual connections between intersectional feminism and animal rights activism. Everyday Feminism

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This is just horrible. This journalist followed around a police squad around for the whole of NYE in Hillbrow. They aggressively searched people, broke down doors, broke up parties, destroyed or confiscated property, just generally made life unpleasant for residents. They didn't uncover evidence of a single actual crime - the closest they came is finding one guy who was carrying a pair of scissors, which they think identifies him as a possible mugger. This is a community with real problems, and obviously people shouldn't be throwing bottles from balconies. But how is this sort of confrontational policing supposed to address any of these problems? The police are conducting a war against this community, not trying to help it. I think it's telling that the only times the author reports anyone actually being *hit* by projectiles is when they were specifically aimed at police vehicles.

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"Police originally thought Bathily was a conspirator when he managed to escape through a goods lift. “They told me, ‘get down on the ground, hands over your head’. They cuffed me and held me for an hour and a half as if I was with them,” he added. Once freed he was able to give them details of the layout of the store and where people were hiding." Guardian

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Some resources about the rescue industry, aka "white saviour industrial complex". Storify

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Response to Russell Brand's poorly thought out views on drug policy reform.

"The ‘addiction-as-disease’ model is highly contested, since it is based on an arbitrary and changeable set of ‘symptoms’ that principally revolve around the labelling of people who use drugs as sick and dangerous, disempowered, and unable to exercise agency, choice, and self-determination." INPUD

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"One of my oldest and kindest friends from Paris, a man with a beautifully aristocratic last name, made a point the other day that seems to have become one of the default rationales: “But Charlie Hebdo offended everyone the same. My grandmother, who is a practicing Catholic, will tell you they are harsher with the Pope than with anyone else.” While this may even be true, Anatole France had the right of it when he said, “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”" N+1

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[TW: emotional abuse]

Long, but insightful, piece about emotional abuse in the context of a poly relationship. Really good at underlining how guilt can paradoxically be used as a weapon of control by an abuser. Medium

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Good piece by Feminist Fightback. 

"Women, Black and Queer workers turned to feminism, antiracism and gay liberation, not because they couldn’t find a trade union or a Marxist group to join, but because existing forms of politics (predicated upon the white male subject) failed to respond to their needs as workers. Of course, there were many complex reasons why worker militancy went into retreat from the 1970s onwards, but the notion that this was due to all those selfish, feminist and gays preoccupied with their identitarian agenda is ridiculous. The rich, multiple and various currents of feminist/anti-racist/Queer politics that have emerged over the last forty years or so should not be viewed as a threat to class struggle, but, to the contrary, as a way to make struggles around class and labour at the point of production more effective, more widespread and more powerful."

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Pretty sound article. The drop in oil prices is a rare moment of political possibility, and governments should use it to stop subsidising fossil fuel production and consumption and start taxing it.

"The most straightforward piece of reform, pretty much everywhere, is simply to remove all the subsidies for producing or consuming fossil fuels. Last year governments around the world threw $550 billion down that rathole—on everything from holding down the price of petrol in poor countries to encouraging companies to search for oil. By one count, such handouts led to extra consumption that was responsible for 36% of global carbon emissions in 1980-2010." Economist

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Ha, yes.

"Woman: I just want to be left alone when I walk down the street.
Dude: THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER WAY FOR ME TO INTERACT WITH A WOMAN" Medium

Links, Saturday 10th January

Yay, a new antibiotic on the horizon! Guardian

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Ha, this is good. On the oft-repeated canard that Islam "needs a reformation" on the grounds that this would obviously produce a separation of church and state.

"But no one seems to be calling for an Islamic Henry VIII to reinvent Muslim society — and that isn’t just because the king had a penchant for beheadings. There is no getting around the fact that Henry technically transformed England into a theocracy. The king declared himself England’s supreme political and religious leader, the very role that Islamists imagine a caliph would enjoy. (To this day, Queen Elizabeth vies with the Dalai Lama for the title of World’s Most Endearing Nominal Theocrat.)" Foreign Policy

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Would you rather live on $100k a year now, or in 1964 (holding the *nominal* amount fixed)? How about $20k a year? This interesting little thought experiment illustrates how technological progress has exacerbated rather than alleviated the effects of growing nominal income inequality. Marginal Revolution

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Catching up stuff from a few days ago... The UK government denied the UN special rapporteur on violence against women access to the Yarl's Wood immigration detention facility, presumably because she would in fact have found significant evidence of violence against women. Can we talk for a second about how abhorrent this is? Guardian

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“We always say that, for us, conservation is all about killing things.” New Yorker

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This confirms all my prejudices and I'm not even sorry. Slate

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Your cat probably doesn't like you, and probably doesn't even like being petted. 

"Finally, there's some evidence, turned up by Mills, that many cats don't actually like being petted by humans at all. In a 2013 study, he and other researchers measured levels of stress hormones in cats, with the intention of figuring out whether having multiple cats in the same household is a bad idea. That didn't turn out to be true, but they did find that the cats who allowed themselves to be petted had higher stress levels afterward than the cats who disliked it so much that they simply ran away." Vox

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This is unbelievable. Boko Haram have just massacred more than 2000 people in a single attack on a town in northern Nigeria :( :( Washington Post

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Huh. In 2007, while President Ahmadinejad was very publicly denying the Holocaust, Iranian state TV was broadcasting a hit show *about* the Holocaust, including sympathetic portrayals of French Jews in danger of deportation. The story is loosely based on the life of Abdol Hossein Sardari, an Iranian consular official who saved the live of hundreds of French Jews by issuing them fraudulent Iranian passports. WSJ

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More Iran trivia... Apparently it's normally considered very rude to accept a give the first time it's offered - you should refuse three times, allowing the giver to insist. Here is my favourite quote from the article:

"It is possible to ask someone not to t'aarof ("t'aarof nakonid"), but that raises new difficulties, since the request itself might be a devious type of t'aarof." Wiki

Links, Wednesday 7th January

I can't pick only one quote out of this - it's basically a litany of systematic abuses of sex workers committed police, prosecutors and judges in NYC. This in a jurisdiction which is now supposedly focussed on "protecting victims of trafficking".

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Any experts on Tanzanian history? This new books seems to suggest that the Ujamaa programme was originally conceived around voluntary "villagization" and that the later, more coercive, phases of the programme was in some way forced upon Nyerere by local elites. This is contrary to what I remember being told, basically that Nyerere got impatient and pulled the trigger himself. I remember that Scott talks about it in "Seeing like a state", but can't remember his analysis of the political context. M&G Global Women's Strike

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Some good discussion of why philosophy as a discipline remains so apparently hostile to women and people of colour. Guardian

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Never forget: Drug criminalisation continues to kill people. It's important that we hold politicians and the law enforcement authorities accountable for this. Guardian

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God, this is terrifying. I remember kind of panicking the first time I ate mochi, feeling that I was choking. Turns out this was not a completely irrational fear! Guardian

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Interesting commentary on where the South Africa left (i.e. NUMSA and compatriots) is at politically. My own feeling is that the programme of the Brazilian Worker's Party (at least in its first decade or so) is probably a good model for South Africa. Thoughts? M&G

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An explanation of how cold whether may actually make us more susceptible to rhinoviruses (i.e. "getting a cold"). Globe and Mail

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The German government is so irrationality committed to austerity that it's pretty much giving away free money for the chance to run a budget surplus. Vox

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This I did not know. Harry Truman, who originally set up the CIA, later reckoned it had gotten too involved in nefarious activities, and argued it should be disbanded. Al Jazeera

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Just a reminder that the criminalisation of migration kills people, and that our governments need to be held accountable (both in Europe and South Africa). Here's a passage that really jumps out at me:

"The boats that reach Italian waters are often impounded, so smugglers prefer to make the trip using the most expendable vessels. This means the sailors sometimes force the migrants to move from new boats to smaller and older ones several days into their voyage – a frightening and dangerous procedure that risks overloading already rickety vessels. Survivors of the catastrophic sinking in September, which killed more than 300 off the coast of Malta, say the crash occurred after the migrants were asked to change boats."

So people smugglers are often *able* to convey migrants safely, but are basically disincentivized from doing so. Why not simply announce a policy that ships carrying illegal migrants will be escorted back to their port of origin, but never impounded? Why not, for that matter, just grant a certain number of visas to Syrian passport holders every month and let them catch a f*king flight?

Meanwhile:

"The European Union has scaled back its Mediterranean rescue operation, in the hope that a reduction in the number of coastguards will discourage migrants from attempting a voyage that claimed more than 3,000 lives in the past year."

Imagine if we took this "harm exacerbation" approach to other matters... "Smoking is bad for you, so to discourage it, we're now going to stop treating people for lung cancer". It's infuriating and frankly just surreal in its sheer wrongheadedness. Guardian

Links, Tuesday 6th January

Touching piece about racism in childhood. Guardian

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Good piece. It's reasonable to acknowledge that the stereotypical straight/white/male nerd is oppressed in his own way, while also calling him to account for his oppression of others. New Statesman

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Some interesting anecdotes about changing sexual mores during the British Industrial Revolution.

"The autobiography of Ellen Johnston offers an example of how factory work allowed her to raise a child outside marriage and dispense with a male breadwinner altogether. Ellen was born in Glasgow in the 1830s and started working in one of the city’s many cotton factories at the age of 11. By her late teens she was sexually active and before too long found herself expecting an illegitimate child. But it was not the disaster it might have been and Ellen appears to have made no effort to use the pregnancy to precipitate a wedding. Instead she embraced the prospect of single-motherhood. She ‘longed for the hour’ that her child would be born and was delighted to become ‘the mother of a lovely daughter’. After the birth Ellen lived with her mother, who took care of her daughter, while she returned to the factory to earn a living for all three." History Today

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Very interesting maps. I'd say Joburg is quite a bit denser than London, at least in the built-up parts. Vox

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This is a truly excellent takedown. Please do read [Discussion of transphobia, suicide]

"You don’t want to “sensationalize” a suicide in order to inspire “copycat suicides.” You don’t want to intrude on a private moment of grief. You don’t want to “politicize” something personal.

But hang on a bit. That, again, presumes that Leelah Alcorn’s death was an isolated incident. That suicide of transgender young people denied support by their parents is rare, and therefore inspiring new incidents—putting the thought in people’s heads—is the largest danger here. It presumes that there isn’t a massive epidemic of trans suicides already happening. It presupposes that the reasons for Leelah Alcorn’s death are mysterious, individual, and personal to her case and that there isn’t a huge, glaring societal problem that can only be addressed if we as a society take collective action."

Daily Beast
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Some aesthetically pleasing designs for power lines.

Viral nova