La meilleure nouvelle de la journée : Le Général Spinoza, a.k.a. La Gaya Scienza, a.k.a. Toujours Une Île, j'ai nommé l'ami @martin est enfin de retour parmi nous ! Sa niouzletteur Absolument Tout https://absolument-tout.net/ et son fanzine Kimchi Overdose https://kod.nologos.net sont à mettre entre tous les yeux :)
"It isn’t that you don’t “get” tech, it’s that the tech you use every day is no longer built for you, and as a result feels a very specific kind of insane." https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Mon oncle, qui reste un Breton jusqu'à l'os (pardon : l'arête) malgré son échouage à Paris, m'a appris l'existence de Poiscaille, l'équivalent poissonnerie du panier de légumes AMAP. https://poiscaille.fr/ Que de la pêche côtière sans chalut, et les pêcheurs bretons avec qui en il a parlé en disent grand bien (ça leur évite la criée de Rennes, une vraie trotte quand on est de Crozon). Apparemment ça permet aussi de découvrir des poissons moins connus (et donc pas surpêchés).
Je connaissais qq dirigeants dont le décès a provoqué une liesse populaire spontanée (Thatcher, notoirement), mais des foules dans les rues pour la mort de qqn qui n'a jamais été dans l'exécutif national (député, député européen et conseiller régional), je crois que c'est une première pour moi.
Word & Parable of the day: Chesterton's Fence, example presented to defend the view point that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood. "The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable. It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question, if something set up by human beings like ourselves seems to be entirely meaningless and mysterious. There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease. " via https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/hpv-infections-friend-and-foe #wordoftheday
My father had a principle that was both opposite and similar: when you think up a great new idea, you must try and understand why it was not put into practice earlier, and the answer can't be "because everyone since time immemorial has been an idiot". Sometimes there is a satisfying answer, like: buildings couldn't have such a shape before the advent of reinforced concrete. If you really can't find an answer, assume it's a half-baked idea at best, because you're missing something.
Library du jour : PagedJS "Display paginated content in the browser and generate print books using web technology" https://pagedjs.org Une sorte d'alternative libre et WYMIWYG à Indesign. Merci au copain qui m'en a parlé aujourd'hui !
On m'a traitée de surcouche de Google (dixit Mitternacht), grande lubrificatrice sociale (lehasard), reine de la pulsion scopique (LPG), Adèle Blanc-Sec polymathe (Saintloup), Wikipedia avec des jambes (BlueCookie), Cruella du XXIe siècle (LPG), pro des savoirs obscurs (smwhr).Partage des tas de choses en lien avec la diversité esthétique de notre monde (Julianoe)Once in flight school I was laconic.Pinaillages, fulgurances et monomanies multiples.Héritier de temptoetiam @octodon.social