Cape Town local politics are absolutely poisonous, as evidenced by events at the first city council meeting of the year. First, the motion to rename Table Bay Boulevard after FW de Klerk was passed, a move that mayor Patricia de Lille described as "progressive". Second, and more troubling from a constitutional perspective, ANC councillors were effectively barred from the meeting by several means (including literally being physically barred from entering the meeting room). IOL
Discussed by Jacques Rousseau here
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Any thoughts as to the plausibility of this? With all the shenanigans on the part of the various South African security agencies, it's pretty hard to sort fact from fiction, tbh. IOL
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Good piece, about the lack of non-derogatory terms for LGBTQI people and practices in indigenous South African languages, and how this is related to colonialism and the lack of institutional support for scholarship in these languages. HOLAA
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This is helpful, as I certain found a lot of the coverage around this confusing.
"an American first lady went to a Muslim country and followed completely normal protocol by going unveiled. There was very little reaction within that country, and no reaction among her hosts. The American media completely freaked out, got a number of basic facts wildly wrong, and did so all in a way that insulted that country and its citizens by perpetuating racist stereotypes." Vox
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Although Greece's national debt is extremely high as a percentage of GDP, because most of this debt has long maturities and relatively low interest rates, it only pays 4.3% of GDP to service this debt. Compare this to the UK, which pays about 3% of GDP. This is the headline figure to bear in mind when we talk about the necessity for debt relief or the plausibility of ending austerity. FT
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What the United Front (the political formation created by NUMSA) is up to these days, including a much more forthright condemnation of xenophobia than we've seen from either the ANC or the EFF. Daily Maverick
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Huh. An entire Truman Show village in the Netherlands designed to make people with severe dementia feel at home. Atlantic
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"I am so fucking confused about what kind of sex other feminists think I should have in order to be liberated. Want my authentic opinion? I care a hell of a lot more about labor practices and ethics on porn sets than I do about if I have to fake an orgasm on camera or not." Tits and Sass
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"Shortly after he was sworn in, Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras found himself inside the Maximos Mansion without some basic necessities. “They took everything,” he said. “I was looking for an hour to find soap.”
Traditionally, a defeated Greek prime minister will wait until their successor has been anointed to wish them well. But Antonis Samaras was in such a rush to go that he even failed to leave the Wi-Fi password." Guardian
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A mind-boggling rundown on some recent research about the placebo effect. Including the fact that it still works even if patients are *specifically told* that what they're receiving is a placebo. Cracked
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Linguists *are* pretty hardcore. XKCD
Discussed by Jacques Rousseau here
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Any thoughts as to the plausibility of this? With all the shenanigans on the part of the various South African security agencies, it's pretty hard to sort fact from fiction, tbh. IOL
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Good piece, about the lack of non-derogatory terms for LGBTQI people and practices in indigenous South African languages, and how this is related to colonialism and the lack of institutional support for scholarship in these languages. HOLAA
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This is helpful, as I certain found a lot of the coverage around this confusing.
"an American first lady went to a Muslim country and followed completely normal protocol by going unveiled. There was very little reaction within that country, and no reaction among her hosts. The American media completely freaked out, got a number of basic facts wildly wrong, and did so all in a way that insulted that country and its citizens by perpetuating racist stereotypes." Vox
>>><<<
Although Greece's national debt is extremely high as a percentage of GDP, because most of this debt has long maturities and relatively low interest rates, it only pays 4.3% of GDP to service this debt. Compare this to the UK, which pays about 3% of GDP. This is the headline figure to bear in mind when we talk about the necessity for debt relief or the plausibility of ending austerity. FT
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What the United Front (the political formation created by NUMSA) is up to these days, including a much more forthright condemnation of xenophobia than we've seen from either the ANC or the EFF. Daily Maverick
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Huh. An entire Truman Show village in the Netherlands designed to make people with severe dementia feel at home. Atlantic
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"I am so fucking confused about what kind of sex other feminists think I should have in order to be liberated. Want my authentic opinion? I care a hell of a lot more about labor practices and ethics on porn sets than I do about if I have to fake an orgasm on camera or not." Tits and Sass
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"Shortly after he was sworn in, Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras found himself inside the Maximos Mansion without some basic necessities. “They took everything,” he said. “I was looking for an hour to find soap.”
Traditionally, a defeated Greek prime minister will wait until their successor has been anointed to wish them well. But Antonis Samaras was in such a rush to go that he even failed to leave the Wi-Fi password." Guardian
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A mind-boggling rundown on some recent research about the placebo effect. Including the fact that it still works even if patients are *specifically told* that what they're receiving is a placebo. Cracked
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Linguists *are* pretty hardcore. XKCD
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