#Antisemitismus: Der Begriff wird inzwischen so strapaziert, dass er jegliche Trennschärfe zu verlieren droht. Das erschwert den Kampf gegen wirklichen Antisemitismus.
Ein #Essay von Shelley Berlowitz
#Antisemitismus: Der Begriff wird inzwischen so strapaziert, dass er jegliche Trennschärfe zu verlieren droht. Das erschwert den Kampf gegen wirklichen Antisemitismus.
Ein #Essay von Shelley Berlowitz
"Last year, International Paper made 100 million boxes a day. So, in eleven weeks, a box for every person on Earth."
For Places Journal, Shannon Mattern writes about the history of cardboard packaging:
https://placesjournal.org/article/social-history-of-the-cardboard-box
"Reading these stories was never about inviting pain, frustration, or dismay for the sake of it. Nor, I suspect, was that the case for the writers who crafted them. As Aziza suggests, witnessing is about opening ourselves up to possibility."
Contributing editor Seyward Darby reflects on her year of reading in "The Wounds That Bind": https://longreads.com/2024/12/11/a-year-in-reading-the-wounds-that-bind/
**A linkless internet**
Collin Jennings
_“Most discussions of AI are concerned with how soon an AI model will achieve ‘artificial general intelligence’ or at what point AI entities will be able to dictate their own tasks and make their own choices. But a more basic and immediate question is: what pattern of activity do AI platforms currently produce? Does AI dream of itself?”_
https://aeon.co/essays/when-ai-summaries-replace-hyperlinks-thought-itself-is-flattened
#Essay #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Computing @ai
Today's Longreads Top 5:
-Reclaiming soil—and one family’s story
-A club of country collectors
-The rise of Big Headlight
-How saints are made
-An alphabetical ode to felines
From 04 Dec: You Are Not Paid For Your Time, Even If You’re An Hourly Worker. - And how that relates to quiet quitting, RTO, and automation https://ideatrash.net/2024/12/you-are-not-paid-for-your-time-even-if-youre-an-hourly-worker.html #business #economics #essay #tolerance #labor #rto #work
"Cats sense grief, a friend tells me, and move toward it."
For VQR, Sandra Beasley reflects on a life with cats—and without children:
https://www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/becoming-columns/i-am-cat-lady
I've compiled these lists of well-written papers, books,...; great courses on YouTube; nifty free software tools; free books; and much more over several years. Have a look, you may find them useful!
https://arghyadutta.github.io/resources.html #physics #computerscience #math #coding #visualization #essay #stories
I have a new piece at Vague Visages about Elaine May's disappointing men:
https://vaguevisages.com/2024/11/29/elaine-may-essay-director-filmmaker-male-characters-movies/
Emergency Prep: Introduction to Go-Bags
I consider myself a small-scale prepper. By this, I mean that I am not interested in preparing for 'the end of the world as we know it' (TEOTWAWKI) or stocking up on weapons for the 'inevitable civil war.'
But I absolutely am interested in having enough emergency supplies laid in for 'predictable emergencies' (plus a bit)....
https://jessmahler.com/emergency-prep-introduction-to-go-bags/
The first full #PanelByPanel is now out, and it's a couple of thousand words about #Superman, #socialism, and my love of DC's #AbsoluteSuperman.
I cover some fun angles here. Please check it out and share your thoughts: https://hpkomics.com/2024/11/panel-by-panel-my-socialist-superman/
The wonderful people at Overland have just published an essay of mine on the photographer Vivian Maier and the ethics of posthumous fame - might be interesting to folks here!
https://overland.org.au/2024/11/art-and-ethics-in-death-the-case-of-vivian-maier/
Nohara Shiro, until his death in 1981, was a #Marxist #historian specializing in Chinese history and #ChinesePolitics who had also become strongly involved in the movement to eradicate pre-war feudal and fascist influences from #Japanese education and learning. The essay translated here originally appeared in his 1960 collection, History and Ideology in #Asia (Ajia no rekishi to shisb). Despite his personal preference for #Marxism over anarchism, Nohara’s approach to the subject is quite open-minded. The strengths of his essay are its focus upon practical organizing attempts rather than intellectual activities, and its revelation of the considerable #anarchist influence upon Li Dazhao, whom the #Communist Party has long claimed as its own. Whilst most of the early intellectual exponents of the anarchist idea either drifted away into obscurity, were converted to Marxism, or joined the bandwagon of the nationalist movement (some even becoming outright fascists), the organizing activities described here often became the building blocks for the subsequent communist movement. Nohara’s work is thus invaluable not only for shedding light on the role of anarchism as an intellectual stimulus for the Chinese #revolutionary movement as a whole, but also for making clear the political debt owed the anarchists in terms of practical activities.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nohara-shiro-anarchists-and-the-may-4-movement-in-china
Oh wow. Just found out Redivider nominated my essay "Saddles in the Kitchen" for the Pushcart Prize. https://redivider.emerson.edu/saddles-in-the-kitchen/ #WritingCommunity #PushcartPrize #essay #memoir #IndigenousCreatives
How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa
"“There’s been this long-standing argument—and this is something that comes out of the colonial narrative—that parts of Africa have just always been food insecure because their agriculture, environments, or crops are inferior,” says Logan. But, as the data show, African farmers were knowledgeable and successful for thousands of years. Outside forces uprooted that security."
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/food-insecurity-west-africa-origins-colonialism/
#Essay #Anthropology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Colonialism #Food #Africa @anthropology @histodon @histodons
"I don’t need to bury my nose in my curls to confirm it, but I do it anyway. On mulukhiyah nights, I leave my parents’ house smelling different than when I arrived. The spices that hung in the air like a fragrant fog when I walked in are now living in my pores, between my lips, on my coat." —Kristina Kasparian on a beloved childhood dish and the meaning of family.
I'm done depressing myself tonight.
So, I'll leave here one of my favorite(?) writings on #AntiFascism from Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco:
Ur-Fascism(1994)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155829/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
"There’s something strange that happens when we try to set up boxes. As soon as we box something in, things start to seep through."
For Cleveland Review of Books, Leo Kim writes a meditation on boxes, borders, pottery, the Container Store, and more: https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/leokim-ancientjars
film, oct ‘24
# 165
TWST - THINGS WE SAID TODAY
dir Andrei Ujica, 2024
We’re all going to the World’s Fair.
#Doclisboa2024 #essay #documentary #archives #america #thebeatles #sheastadium #1964worldsfair #1964 #MusicHistory #culturalhistory