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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 22:02:47 JST 
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Michael Schilliger, "«Anyone can become a torturer. And all of us, in some way, already know how to torture» – Interview with Jonathan Luke Austin" https://www.nzz.ch/english/all-of-us-in-some-way-already-know-how-to-torture-ld.1867657
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Histoires Mythiques (hist_myth@mastodon.top)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:29:26 JST 
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Hello ! Ce samedi, comme promis, et pendant que le livre VI de Tite-Live me regarde d'un air désapprobateur finir Ursula Le Guin, voici un petit fil sur les sources de la mythologie (et un peu de l'histoire) gréco-romaine !
D'où tire-t-on les mythes greczetromains, pourquoi existent-ils en mille versions, d'où certaines sont plus connues que d'autres et toutes les questions que jamais, jamais vous ne vous seriez posées sans moi, un THREAD ⬇️
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Inscius (inscius@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:38:39 JST 
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Rumor has it some old statues seek re-erection in the coming years. #sources #nojoke
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 02:30:29 JST
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Mireille Roddier, "Degrowth, Energy Sobriety, Low-Tech: Towards an Architecture of Conviviality" https://placesjournal.org/reading-list/degrowth-energy-sobriety-low-tech-towards-an-architecture-of-conviviality/
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 12:50:48 JST
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If you're looking for an early description of this peculiar U.S. fascism now prevalent in the GOP and MAGA, you can find it here:
Tom Junod, “The Sore Winners: Will America’s Super Minority Sink Us All?” (Esquire, October 27, 2010) https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a8800/sore-winners-102710/
And if you want to know how today's "Hillbilly" J.D. Vance and the white-working-class-victimization-turned-angry-and-spiteful crowd fits into the above mentioned beginnings of the Tea Party movement, read here:
Meredith McCarroll, "J.D. Vance and the Myth of White Exceptionalism" (New Lines Magazine, January 10, 2023) https://newlinesmag.com/argument/j-d-vance-and-the-myth-of-white-exceptionalism/
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DW Innovation (dw_innovation@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 00:55:17 JST 
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"#FactChecking requires the right and ability to find #sources, read widely and interview experts who are free to speak candidly — all as part of a rigorous #methodology and process. (...) Fact-checking is part of a free press and high-quality #journalism, and it contributes to public #information and #knowledge."
From the #IFCN 's "Sarajevo Statement" – which comes at a time when free speech, transparency, and the preservation of information are under massive pressure.
https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/2024/global-fact-statement-sarajevo/
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 18:23:09 JST
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Craig Silverman (ed.), "Verification Handbook: An Ultimate Guideline on Digital Age Sourcing For Emergency Coverage." https://verificationhandbook.com/downloads/verification.handbook.pdf
Craig Silverman (ed.), "Verification Handbook For Investigative Reporting: A Guide To Online Search And Research Techniques For Using UGC And Open Source Information In Investigations" https://verificationhandbook.com/downloads/verification.handbook.2.pdf
Main website: https://verificationhandbook.com/
Haven't looked into both texts yet but they sound helpful to foster one's skills in critically using media.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 00:26:04 JST
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John Spencer, "Memo to the 'Experts': Stop Comparing Israel's War in Gaza to Anything. It Has No Precedent | Opinion" https://www.newsweek.com/memo-experts-stop-comparing-israels-war-gaza-anything-it-has-no-precedent-opinion-1868891
John Spencer, "Israel Implemented More Measures to Prevent Civilian Casualties Than Any Other Nation in History | Opinion" https://www.newsweek.com/israel-implemented-more-measures-prevent-civilian-casualties-any-other-nation-history-opinion-1865613
Helpful explanations. No need to believe it all but it adds historical and tactical aspects one should keep in mind.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 01:18:26 JST
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International Energy Agency, "Electricity 2024 : Analysis and forecast to 2026" https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2024
Download (pdf) : https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/6b2fd954-2017-408e-bf08-952fdd62118a/Electricity2024-Analysisandforecastto2026.pdf
Executive summary : https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2024/executive-summary
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 08:45:39 JST
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Franziska B. Schönweitz et. al., "Solidarity and reciprocity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal qualitative interview study from Germany" https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-17521-7
This looks promising. What furthered and what hindered collective solidarity in the face of a pandemic?
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 02:44:29 JST
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Ofir Hauzman, " 'Sinwar isn't a psychopath, but a cunning narcissist' " https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/hyw00ksu00a
The interview stresses the difference between full-fledged psychopathy and malignant narcissism (which borders on psychopathy). Sinwar, Yassin, and other leaders of terrorist groups are capable of impulse control, delay of gratification, and utter brutality in following thgeir goals. If they were psychopaths, they wouldn't be able to run such highly effecitive organisations.
Also important is the emphsis of "secondary psychopathy", i.e., that children raised in organised crime familes and terrorist circles often learn those values and even adopt imitations of such psychopthic behaviour although they may not clinically be malignant narcissists or borderline psychopaths.
To me this latter reminder is important as it seems to confirm a bit a thought I was having on authoritarian societies, be it Nazi-Germany, Russia, or Gaza: That there is no significant distinction between populace and regime, esp. not the one typcially made (and used as exculpation) between terrorist regime and suffering but innocent poplace. (I admit that by that I cannot explain the existence of the obvious resistance movement in Iran.)
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 01:23:35 JST
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Nicola Davis, "Gut microbes may play role in social anxiety disorder, say researchers" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/27/gut-microbes-may-play-role-in-social-anxiety-disorder-say-researchers
Interesting links.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 23:32:14 JST
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This looks promising:
Edward Jeremiah, "The Development, Logic, and Legacy of Reflexive Concepts in Greek Philosophy", Journal of the History of Ideas
Vol. 74, No. 4 (October 2013), pp. 507-529. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43290159
«When and for what purposes does reflexive language enter the philosophical lexicon and become a key component of its discourse, and why do philosophers lean so heavily on reflexive concepts? My argument will limit itself to literal reflexive concepts, in other words concepts articulated via the use of reflexive pronouns, and proposes that the formation of reflexive ideas is primarily shaped by two philosophical goals: firstly, the attempt to think totalities, and secondly, the search for foundational principles, whether they be ontological, epistemological, or ethical. Reflexivity appears to be a general structural tendency of foundational principles and totalities. If this is true, then it can be shown that some of the contemporary philosophical systems which claim to either deconstruct or replace the hierarchies of traditional metaphysics do so mostly in a superficial sense. The essential skeleton of ancient thought is conserved, and with it the conceptual magnetism foundational ideas display for reflexivity. This argument highlights a crucial continuity between ancient and modern philosophy, while at the same time locating an important difference. Though reflexivity is important for both as a primary ontological process, ancient philosophy treasures self-identification, but modern philosophy self-differentiation, as the foremost operation of being. Finally, I suggest that the reflexivity of philosophical "beginnings" (archai) reflects the human being as a reflexive subject.»
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 03:57:56 JST
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Philippe Benoit, "From ‘peak oil’ to ‘peak energy’: What might the world expect?" https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4315138-from-peak-oil-to-peak-energy-what-should-the-world-expect/
«The International Energy Agency now projects oil, gas, and coal use will all peak this decade. This constitutes a dramatic shift from the last 150 years when the thirst for fossil fuels persistently rose. But now this growth is nearing its end sooner than many expected, driven in part by a surge in renewables.
This significant event, however, masks a more striking possible future: One in which total global energy use peaks and energy’s weight in world affairs diminishes. [...]
In a broader sense, just as history has included the stone, bronze and iron ages, we have been living since the Industrial Revolution in an energy age. But this age, during which energy has dominated so many economic, geopolitical and other dimensions, may be coming to an end with peak energy.»
A bit confusing is the author's talk of "energy peak" which seems to lumb together energy and electricity demands. Thus, whereas I can see a decline in energy demands, I don't see them with regard to electricity demands. (Esp. with all the decarbonisation of industries necessary to accomplish mitigation with climate change.)
Anyway, an interesting piece with a lot of interesting links. Surely countering my musings on #peakrenewables with #peakenergy as the broader concept.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 09:08:05 JST
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 05:30:28 JST
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Валерий Гарбузов, "Для самопознания России необходимы знания, а не мифы" https://www.ng.ru/ideas/2023-08-29/7_8812_illusions.html
Valery Garbuzov, "Russia needs knowledge, not myths, for self-knowledge"
(About the author: Valery Nikolaevich Garbuzov - Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute for the USA and Canada Academician G.A. Arbatov RAS).
The points the author makes are not that different from those Western observers have held for years. Interesting is that this rather scathing critique of Putin and his regime, brought about in a historical narrative of Russia suffering from a post-imperial syndrome that makes her laspe into longings of greatness and imperial expansion that don't fit today's realities, is published in a Russian paper/online magazine at all.
Copy and paste it into an online translator.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 23:41:13 JST
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Yay! The new book from George Scialabba has arrived in the mail: "Only a Voice: Essays" (2023).
Rarely since the early 1990s (with the books by Michael Ventura) has an author from the U.S. influenced me that much.
Although his book review essays vary in quality, his style of presenting as a debate the views of selected authors which he confronts with each other to lead that discussion to the topics he's interested in, is of high intellectual and thus educational value.
Pursuing such "monologue-styled debates" publicly, in magazines and papers, continues a centuries-old tradition. To have his voice from the (more or less) progressive side is a rare exception to the dominance of the conservative tradition that found its master in the late works of Lionel Trilling (who started out as contributer to the Partisan Review).
It's good to see that Scialabba dedicates his new book to Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader and offers his thanks to people like Barbara Ehrenreich and Richard Rorty.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 20:18:30 JST
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Bewundernswerte Haltung.
Danke für den pointer auf https://www.wildcat-www.de/index.htm Kannte die/das noch nicht.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 22:59:57 JST
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In 1977 the German author Klaus Theweleit wrote a two-volumes account of #fascism which he called "Männerphantasien" / "Male Fantasies". Concentrating on the Freikorps soldiers of World War I, who roamed the streets of Weimar Republic and became a bedrock and driving force of the SA of the Nazi reign, he dives into their "fantasies", the absence of their own spouses and children, their pursuit of perennial war, of their "production of death" as a specific way of living. Other than various theories of fascism (Marxist, psychonalytic, etc.), Theweleit insists that the Freikorps men didn't pursue their actions because of delusions or of yearning for substitute enactment, but because they decided to live that way, because they wanted to do what they did. In that, Theweleit insists that "fascism" is not some aberration but ingrained in every "normal man", detectable in his way his prefers to treat women, minorities, communism, the working class...
The first volume of Theweleit's book was translated into English by Stephen Conway and published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1987. It can be found here: https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Theweleit_Klaus_Male_Fantasies_Vol_1_Women_Floods_Bodies_History.pdf
Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a foreword to this translation which I recommend to read. Some connections of themes, thoughts, and justifications sound dated today – in particular the argumentative jump from "male suppression of women" to "human exploitation of nature" (which was a common topos in the late 1970s to 1990s) – but in her preparation of the reader of what is to come in the book, she does a very good job.
The first idea that came to my mind reading her was to compare the depiction of the Freikorps men with the mercenaries of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s «Wagner (PMC)» as well as with the human rights violation by many in the Russian army vis-à-vis Ukrainian civilians. I'm earger to dive into Theweleit because his insistence of fascism and cruelty as deliberate choice is something that sounds very realistic. It may even provide further explanations why in totalitarian regimes the identification of regime and population is so strong till the end.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 21:32:13 JST
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Reading Klaus Theweleit's "Männerphantasien" (1977) ("Male Phantasies" https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Theweleit_Klaus_Male_Fantasies_Vol_1_Women_Floods_Bodies_History.pdf). Its collage technique is reminiscent of Susan Griffin's "Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her" (1978) https://archive.org/details/womannaturero00grif/mode/2up . Indeed, two authors, a year apart, probably not knowing each other, related topics but from different angles, in a similiar literary style. (Interestingly, John Brunner in his "The Sheep Look Up" (1972) https://archive.org/details/sheeplookup0000brun_t1i7 uses the same cut-up technique, although more thoroughly than Theweleit and Griffin.)
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