Heh
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Getting on board the train...
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Great piece on anti-languages. Fun bit of trivia: "naff" is originally an acronym meaning "not available for fucking"
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Reproductive labour and academia
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"So many questions went unanswered during those seventy-two hours [offline] —so many curiosities cast aside and forgotten without being pursued. I was less harried, I suppose, but I was also far less informed, and not as advanced in my understanding of all sorts of things that interested me. I felt as though I were standing still rather than moving forward. And while standing still for a while can be pleasant, it’s not without its drawbacks. Instead of feeling more relaxed, I mainly felt unfulfilled." New Yorker
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"Having a white actor in this film turned out to be a financial imperative" MIC
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"Every year my white friends “condemn all violence and intimidation” when lectures are stopped by the power of song and dance, but are silent when violence breaks out shortly after. Every year white people pretend they didn’t call the police." Daily Maverick
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“When economic development happens, metal scenes appear. They’re like mushrooms after the rain,” WSJ
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[TW: rape, sexual assault]
Very good and important article, really gets to the core of how sexual coercion plays out at an emotional level
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"the evidence of a link between childhood misfortune and future psychiatric disorder is about as strong statistically as the link between smoking and lung cancer." Guardian
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"Only when people can stop in the middle of the street to talk without fearing what may be bearing down on them will we have fully restored the social function of streets." Washington Post
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Interesting piece about the escalating costs of nuclear power, and how it might be contained. This might all soon be rendered irrelevant, of course, as the costs of renewables keep coming down...
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"We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do." Guardian
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Wow, someone in Sweden has opened an entirely automated, 24-hour convenience store
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Great piece of analysis - so much commentary on Nene's firing describing Des van Rooyen as an "obscure backbencher", neglecting to mention that he's the secretary of the MK Veteran's Association and thus an important member of the securocrat cabal who are slowly capturing the South African state.
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Chess visualised!
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Hardly a surprising result - the widely publicised campaign encouraging people to report on benefit 'fraud' has nothing to do with catching actual fraud, and everything to do with destroying solidarity and undermining the welfare system.
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"Data reliably shows we have more leisure time than in the past, not less... All of which isn’t to say that the epidemic is imaginary – we really do feel too busy, after all – but that the real problem is the feeling, not the sheer number of things on our plates." Guardian
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" If everyone with a pointless, wasteful, or destructive job simply refused to show up to it, we would learn a lot about how much of our time is taken up with “work” that has everything to do with our dependence on wage labor, and nothing at all to do with the things we need to run a decent society." Jacobin
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This story is frankly quite upsetting, but still amazing
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"Society needs to be deprogrammed, subverted, or queered, and that involves a process of unlearning and deconditioning white supremacist, cisnormative and heteronormative behaviour and values. Straight and cisgender people engaged in that work could be considered queer but I feel it's not a label/identity cis and straight people are entitled to claim, more one that they need to earn. In the same way cisgender men can't just declare themselves feminists, or white people can't just declare their activism intersectional, they have to be held accountable to the people society places beneath them." Vice
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A reminder that the founding issue of the religious right in the US was not opposition to abortion, but opposition to racial desegregation
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Getting on board the train...
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Great piece on anti-languages. Fun bit of trivia: "naff" is originally an acronym meaning "not available for fucking"
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Reproductive labour and academia
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"So many questions went unanswered during those seventy-two hours [offline] —so many curiosities cast aside and forgotten without being pursued. I was less harried, I suppose, but I was also far less informed, and not as advanced in my understanding of all sorts of things that interested me. I felt as though I were standing still rather than moving forward. And while standing still for a while can be pleasant, it’s not without its drawbacks. Instead of feeling more relaxed, I mainly felt unfulfilled." New Yorker
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"Having a white actor in this film turned out to be a financial imperative" MIC
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"Every year my white friends “condemn all violence and intimidation” when lectures are stopped by the power of song and dance, but are silent when violence breaks out shortly after. Every year white people pretend they didn’t call the police." Daily Maverick
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“When economic development happens, metal scenes appear. They’re like mushrooms after the rain,” WSJ
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[TW: rape, sexual assault]
Very good and important article, really gets to the core of how sexual coercion plays out at an emotional level
>>><<<
"the evidence of a link between childhood misfortune and future psychiatric disorder is about as strong statistically as the link between smoking and lung cancer." Guardian
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"Only when people can stop in the middle of the street to talk without fearing what may be bearing down on them will we have fully restored the social function of streets." Washington Post
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Interesting piece about the escalating costs of nuclear power, and how it might be contained. This might all soon be rendered irrelevant, of course, as the costs of renewables keep coming down...
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"We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do." Guardian
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Wow, someone in Sweden has opened an entirely automated, 24-hour convenience store
>>><<<
Great piece of analysis - so much commentary on Nene's firing describing Des van Rooyen as an "obscure backbencher", neglecting to mention that he's the secretary of the MK Veteran's Association and thus an important member of the securocrat cabal who are slowly capturing the South African state.
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Chess visualised!
>>><<<
Hardly a surprising result - the widely publicised campaign encouraging people to report on benefit 'fraud' has nothing to do with catching actual fraud, and everything to do with destroying solidarity and undermining the welfare system.
>>><<<
"Data reliably shows we have more leisure time than in the past, not less... All of which isn’t to say that the epidemic is imaginary – we really do feel too busy, after all – but that the real problem is the feeling, not the sheer number of things on our plates." Guardian
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" If everyone with a pointless, wasteful, or destructive job simply refused to show up to it, we would learn a lot about how much of our time is taken up with “work” that has everything to do with our dependence on wage labor, and nothing at all to do with the things we need to run a decent society." Jacobin
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This story is frankly quite upsetting, but still amazing
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"Society needs to be deprogrammed, subverted, or queered, and that involves a process of unlearning and deconditioning white supremacist, cisnormative and heteronormative behaviour and values. Straight and cisgender people engaged in that work could be considered queer but I feel it's not a label/identity cis and straight people are entitled to claim, more one that they need to earn. In the same way cisgender men can't just declare themselves feminists, or white people can't just declare their activism intersectional, they have to be held accountable to the people society places beneath them." Vice
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A reminder that the founding issue of the religious right in the US was not opposition to abortion, but opposition to racial desegregation
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