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#OtD 22 Dec 1988 Brazilian rubber worker activist, environmentalist and Indigenous rights advocate, Chico Mendes, was assassinated in his home by rancher, Darly Alves Da Silva, for trying to protect the Amazon rainforest. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/p…
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The Scholar

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Publisher: Far Distant Future Publishing"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."—Albert Einstein The scholar is a new class that excels in building a repertoire of knowledge, skills, and talents, and applying…


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I am LOVIN' all the art you are posting. Like my own personal gallery. I'm going to show my mom. Thank you for doing this.
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I am so glad we are on the same wavelength. I'm going to relax with the dogs and read.


Massiv Attack stabil:

“We said no to #Coachella for next year because again, we’ve been there once, and once was enough. It’s in Palm Springs. It’s a golf resort built on a desert, run on a sprinkler system, using public water supplies. Mental. If you want to see something that’s the most ludicrous bit of human behavior, it’s right there.”

stereogum.com/2291189/massive-…





J'ai lu ce livre avec frisson il y a des années. J'apprends qu'il est adapté en série sur Arte : "Evil". Pas encore vue mais le livre m'avait fait beaucoup réfléchir, notamment parce qu'il donne à voir la face noire de l'enseignement mutuel qui est si souvent encensé à gauche en France, comme la méthode idéale, démocratique.
Il n’y a pas de méthode pédagogique miracle contre les rapports de domination
@EditionsAgone

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in reply to Laurence De Cock

le thème me parle. Mais tout ce que je trouve c'est une série qui se passe dans l'internat de Stjernsberg. C'est bien cette série ?


Over 2,500 people staged a rally in the city of Okinawa on Sunday to protest sexual assaults on local girls by U.S. servicemen stationed in the prefecture of Okinawa. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/… #japan #okinawa #usmilitary #sexualassault #women039sissues #rape


Serie Two years and twelve projects as Community Manager at rOpenSci

Project 4 - Community Events: Organizing different types of events is part of my job as Community Manager. Here is a recap of the kind of event I have been organizing for @ropensci.org

yabellini.netlify.app/blog/202…

#OpenScience #OpenSource #CommunityManagement




From The Guardian.

Charles Dickens Museum showcases its collections to celebrate centenary


By Caroline Davies.

Items in special exhibition displayed for first time include copy of David Copperfield taken by Scott to Antarctica


A seal blubber-stained copy of David Copperfield which survived Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s 1910 expedition to Antarctica and a draft of Charles Dickens’s public letter announcing his separation from his wife will form part of an exhibition marking the centenary of the opening of the writer’s former London house as a museum.

Hundreds crammed inside the Georgian terrace in Bloomsbury in 1925, spilling on to the pavement, as 48 Doughty Street was saved from demolition 55 years after the death of its most famous resident.

A century later at the Charles Dickens Museum, the family home where Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, a new centenary exhibition will showcase its collections, with some items seen for the first time.

theguardian.com/books/2024/dec…



"1b. Mom

yr nose is my nose.
& you are holding a rose when the sun comes
& shines in your eyes & you plant seeds in the snow."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
yr nose is my nose by Abigail Swoboda (2022 Voicemail Poems) tinyurl.com/p5psj59r

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Die Krähen-Eskorte lässt sich auch von Gegenwind aus der Hölle nicht abschrecken! 🥺

#KrähenContent #KrähenLiebe


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

the closest this article gets to mentioning NordStream 2:

Faced with some of the world’s highest energy costs, expensive labor and onerous regulation, many big German companies are simply upping stakes and relocating to other regions.
in reply to miz [any, any]

That's right, the elephant in the room cannot be mentioned because then people might start asking who committed the biggest act of industrial terrorism in Europe since WW2.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

it's presented like weather or the natural state of things, you're not allowed to ask why the energy costs are high

reminds one of O'Malley-Dillon and Plouffe and Cutter talking about "PoLiTiCaL hEaDwInDs"

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in reply to miz [any, any]

It does seem like people are starting to clue in though. At first, most people didn't see impact on their daily lives and that made state propaganda effective, but now as the material conditions continue to decline it's becoming less palatable by the day.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

It also honestly just reads like standard US news media propaganda that comes up whenever they want something to be privatized, whether that's Venezuela's oil, Chile's copper, Chinese industry, the VA, USPS, public schools, etc. It's basically an underhanded threat and an attempt to lay the groundwork for justifying gutting European public services.

What's more, the Nordstream bombing is far from the only act of sabotage the US has done to Europe, which also includes stuff like the Ukraine war itself, suspicious fires at ASML plants, and the Suez canal blockage where the ship (for some reason) drew a giant penis before beaching itself.

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in reply to Carcharodonna [she/her]

Thing is that Europe is a capitalist economy and people who own companies will make decisions that increase their profits. You can't compare Europe to China or Venezuela because the nature of the economy is not the same here. You are completely right that the US has been systemically undermining Europe though. The US has no interest in Europe becoming a competitor.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Thing is that Europe is a capitalist economy and people who own companies will make decisions that increase their profits.


I agree and I don't want to sound like it's just US vs EU here, because there are plenty of capitalists in the EU of course who would certainly love to have more "austerity" and gut public services with as little public backlash as possible. I'm just saying I've seen similar propaganda in the US my entire life, often directed at institutions in the US, and a lot of times it shares similarities with how the US media also treats certain foreign governments.

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in reply to Carcharodonna [she/her]

Oh yeah, no argument that the article is very clearly doing propaganda to justify the austerity that's coming. Basically, the way I look at it is that there are two things at play here. First is that capitalists who own the means of production are going to use the economic crisis in Europe as an opportunity to drive austerity policies. Second is that capitalist own media is going to do a propaganda blitz to condition the public to accept that.



What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world than a reflection of our growing ignorance. Embracing that truth is leading to a rethink of everything from rational decision-making to the limits of machines.

By Zack Savistky

quantamagazine.org/what-is-ent…

#books #science #physics #entropy

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in reply to Project Gutenberg

It seems like you are confusing the definitions of entropy of physics with that of information theory. It is a common confusion given the same name, but they are very different ideas.
in reply to pdiff1

@pdiff1 just to remind you that this article was published by Quanta Magazine