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#NowReading Mario Puzo's Superman, which has finally surfaced and is making the rounds. 
Krypton sequence is largely the same, tho sets up a slightly different group of baddies. Kru-El is such an 80s action figure name.
Puzo had a reputation for being a bit of a sloppy writer who didn't like to do multiple drafts, and so far the text definitely has that choppy feel of being typed up from either handwritten shorthand or stenographer notes.
MIT is reinstating its testing requirement.
Their announcement has some odd tortured logic that's worth evaluating. #nowreading
mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we…
Their announcement has some odd tortured logic that's worth evaluating. #nowreading
mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we…
What's interesting is that though they site the research foundation of this decision a bunch of times, no research is ever actually given.
I'd love to see their studies on the predictive validity of the tests in their schools.
I'd love to see their studies on the predictive validity of the tests in their schools.
This is also really weird.
Their claim is that NOT having a test that has biased socio-economic outcomes CREATES a barrier to socio-economic equity.
Their claim is that NOT having a test that has biased socio-economic outcomes CREATES a barrier to socio-economic equity.
#nowreading Démanteler le capital ou être broyés, de Tom Thomas
« La spécificité de la situation actuelle, telle que révélée au grand jour par cette crise, réside dans le fait que nous sommes entrés dans une époque où les facteurs de dévalorisation prennent, structurellement, tendanciellement mais de façon néanmoins irréversible…
.. progressivement le dessus. C’est pourquoi la crise ne peut être que chronique, au-delà d’éventuelles courtes périodes de reprises aussi éphémères que superficielles. De sorte que le capitalisme ne pourra plus se survivre que dans la dégradation de toutes les conditions de la…
We are a Shruti and Smriti Sabhyata after all. Audiobooks are the future - a thread.
“There are many ways of reading a book, not telling others what you’re reading everyday is one of them”, I added this as a comment on a post of a certain highbrow female who would make it a point to share quotes from books thrice a day with a #NowReading tag.
I have always considered reading and writing, a solitary thing. And if your mind is pre-occupied with the thoughts of updating your social media feed, you can’t read. Or write.
#nowreading Contre Lordon. anticapitalisme tronqué et spinozisme dans l’œuvre de Frédéric Lordon, de Benoît Bohy-Bubel
Lordon : un « «post-capitalisme» [qui] reste bien un altercapitalisme qui ne s'assume pas, c'est-à-dire une variante de la société capitaliste, éventuellement « mieux régulée».
Lordon : un « «post-capitalisme» [qui] reste bien un altercapitalisme qui ne s'assume pas, c'est-à-dire une variante de la société capitaliste, éventuellement « mieux régulée»…
#VendrediLecture Plaisir honteux de Michelle Desaulniers aux éditions @remue_menage.
#nowreading #jelisquebecois #inceste #trauma
Je vous mets des passages en thread, qui reprennent bien les bases concernant l’inceste et cette question. Toujours bon à rappeler ! ⤵️
#nowreading #jelisquebecois #inceste #trauma
Je vous mets des passages en thread, qui reprennent bien les bases concernant l’inceste et cette question. Toujours bon à rappeler ! ⤵️
Des chiffres dérangeants.
(Si y a bien la biblio à la fin du livre je mettrais toutes les références)
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(Si y a bien la biblio à la fin du livre je mettrais toutes les références)
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Réponse physiologique du corps même quand on est enfant (different évidemment de la maturité psychique) & la manipulation émotive des agresseurs dans les cas d’inceste. ⤵️
#NowReading La Lutte de classes, organe de l'Union communiste (IVe Internationale) — octobre 1942 / mai 1947 #archiveLO
(archives également en ligne ici : marxists.org/francais/barta/)
(archives également en ligne ici : marxists.org/francais/barta/)
15 octobre 1942 — ECHEC A LA RELEVE IMPERIALISTE !
"70 années de parlementarisme ont pu cacher en partie aux ouvriers et paysans de France la nature rapace et sans scrupules de leur impérialisme ; les événements actuels dévoilent complètement son rôle vis-à-vis de la "nation".
"70 années de parlementarisme ont pu cacher en partie aux ouvriers et paysans de France la nature rapace et sans scrupules de leur impérialisme ; les événements actuels dévoilent complètement son rôle vis-à-vis de la "nation".
"Le grand Capital, qui exploitera la France aussi longtemps que les ouvriers et les paysans ne se seront pas emparés des moyens de production, considère la "nation" comme un simple moyen : instrument de pillage mondial quand il est assez fort pour se mesurer directement avec...
#NowReading a great article on "learning loss"
"Of course, the term "learning loss" comes from the language of test enthusiasts."
forbes.com/sites/johnewin…
"Of course, the term "learning loss" comes from the language of test enthusiasts."
forbes.com/sites/johnewin…
I love this, especially “an increase in correct responses is gain; a decrease is loss.”
Exposing so many of the problems that plague the way we use test scores and draw inappropriate conclusions from them.
Exposing so many of the problems that plague the way we use test scores and draw inappropriate conclusions from them.
#nowreading L'âge du capitalisme de surveillance, de Shoshana Zuboff (éd. Zulma) | on my #instagram : instagr.am/p/CJjOMz7AWwi/
Face à un capitalisme qui contrôle tjrs + individus & société, l’auteur sans rire compte sur “des droits & des lois” et demandent au “peuple” d’apporter son soutien aux “politiques publiques” & à “cx qui font les lois”... Mais lisons-la pr ses constats sur l’évolution en cours...
Le capitalisme de surveillance : "une force dévoyée guidée par de nouveaux impératifs économiques qui méprisent les normes sociales et annulent les droits fondamentaux associés à l’autonomie individuelle, qui sont essentiels à la possibilité même d’une société démocratique...
#nowreading “Over the past decade,” Ruth S. Barrett writes, “the for-profit ecosystem that has sprouted up around athletic recruiting at top-rung universities has grown so excessively ornate, so circular in its logic, that it’s become self-defeating.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Even before i dig into the article let me add a few images
Keep in mind that CT is one of the richest states in the union
Your personal experiences with money make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.
Fascinating response to the story came from the nephew of a Chinese worker: My aunt worked several years in what Americans call “sweat shops.” It was hard work. Long hours, “small” wage, “poor” working conditions. Do you know what my aunt did before she worked in these factories?
#NowReading "Vaccinnated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases". The story of Maurice Hilleman, whom you have probably never heard of. He is the father of the modern vaccine.
These pages of the book are wow!! Spellbinding piece of history of how Pasteur gave the first successful rabies vaccine to Joseph Meister, a 9-year old boy bitten by a rabid dog. This was at a time when people with rabies were hunted down and murdered.
How was this vaccine made?By drying the spinal cords of rabbits who had died of rabies. It had been tried in dogs and was found to be effective, but had never been given to a human.
#nowreading Naissance de la Grèce. De Minos à Solon (3200 à 510 avant notre ère), de Brigitte Le Guen (sous la dir.) | on my #instagram : buff.ly/32eJ7to
Le premier âge du bronze (3200-2200) : développement 1) de la production agricole (traction animale, aires de vignes et d’oliviers domestiqués, produits laitiers, fibres animales, etc.), 2) des échanges > mécanisme de distinction sociale, avec création de pouvoirs centraux.
Mais 4 « cultures » distinctes :
- en Crête : le minoen ancien (prépalatial, protominoen). De gdes sépultures collectives circulaires (utilisées pendant des siècles) qui deviendront les sites des futurs palais (au minoen moyen). Ds ces tombes, de bijoux en or (trésor de Mochlos)
- en Crête : le minoen ancien (prépalatial, protominoen). De gdes sépultures collectives circulaires (utilisées pendant des siècles) qui deviendront les sites des futurs palais (au minoen moyen). Ds ces tombes, de bijoux en or (trésor de Mochlos)
#NowReading War in 140 Characters
Particularly interesting to compare vis a vis current situation
Will be tweeting extracts I find relevant
Particularly interesting to compare vis a vis current situation
Will be tweeting extracts I find relevant
"Social media, I understood, had opened up for individuals vital spaces of communication once controlled exclusively by the state.”
“extraordinary ability of social media to endow ordinary individuals, frequently noncombatants, with the power to change the course of both the physical battlefield and the discourse around it.”
“Watchmen” is rightfully regarded as a classic of the medium and a meticulously structured masterpiece.
However, I’ve always loved Moore’s pitch black sense of humour and grim juxtapositions.
It’s a darkly funny comic book.
(Watchmen #1.)
However, I’ve always loved Moore’s pitch black sense of humour and grim juxtapositions.
It’s a darkly funny comic book.
(Watchmen #1.)
Interesting throughline to Lindelof’s “Watchmen” remix that I hadn’t considered:
The vigilantes of the “Watchmen” universe also started as cops who decided to wear masks, lending the follow-up some symmetry.
(Watchmen #1.)
The vigilantes of the “Watchmen” universe also started as cops who decided to wear masks, lending the follow-up some symmetry.
(Watchmen #1.)
#NowReading History of Monetary Systems by Alexander del Mar
#OldBookClub
#OldBookClub
“In the great states of antiquity money was a pillar of the constitution. In the republics of Greece and Rome it was a social instrument, designed, limited, stamped, issued, and made current by the State,—in short, invented, owned, and regulated by the State.”
Alexander del Mar
Alexander del Mar
Alexander del Mar
1,5 degré de + de réchauffement climatique, la moitié de l'humanité mourra. Lors de la COP 24, les dirigeants politiques ont sciemment décidé de sacrifier un quart de la population mondiale en plus en s'autorisant à aller jusqu'à +2 degrés... francetvinfo.fr/monde/environn…
#nowreading L’humanité en péril. Virons de bord, toute ! de Fred Vargas
« Depuis le protocole de Kyoto (1997), les trente dernières années de lutte contre le réchauffement climatique n'ont même pas permis d'inverser la courbe des émissions de gaz à effet de serre ! Ni même de les stabiliser ! »
#NowReading The Armies Of God, by Iain Buchanan - a study of how US foreign policy uses evangelical Christians as proxies to push their political, military, cultural and economic agenda.
“Never before has an imperialism had the capacity to destroy the earth - and leaders who are comfortable with the prospect.”
Very interesting, key member of the evangelical movement in US was Buchman’s Oxford Group, which inspired The Family that ministered to the White House for creating an elite who could impose “God Control”. Oxford Group was renamed Moral Rearmament. It’s headed by Rajmohan Gandhi.
[Notes on terminology]
"A package is not a library."
Library refers to:
- "A directory into which packages are installed"
- "That used by the operating system, as a shared, dynamic or static library or (especially on Windows) a DLL, where the second L stands for ‘library’."
"A package is not a library."
Library refers to:
- "A directory into which packages are installed"
- "That used by the operating system, as a shared, dynamic or static library or (especially on Windows) a DLL, where the second L stands for ‘library’."
"Installation takes a source package and installs it in a library using R CMD INSTALL or install.packages."
"Source packages can be built. This involves taking a source directory and creating a tarball ready for distribution"
"Source packages can be built. This involves taking a source directory and creating a tarball ready for distribution"
#nowreading Debt, by David Graeber
David’s teaches anthropology at LSE. He’s written other books like “Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value”, “Fragments of an Anarhist Anthropology” and “Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar”. He worked with OWS and coined the slogan “We are the 99%”
Book opens with a conversation David had with an activist-attorney who provided legal support for anti-poverty groups in London. David told her about his participation in the “global justice movement”, which the media usually calls “anti-globalization movement” 🤔🤔
The book that introduced me to Lila Bard #30DayBookChallenge - Favourite book in a series
#nowreading
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals
goodreads.com/book/show/1893…
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals
goodreads.com/book/show/1893…
What's the ONE Thing you can do this week that by doing it everything else would be easier or unnecessary?
Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow can you make your focus.
#nowreading Zero To One, Peter Thiel
Every moment in business happens only once - "the next X" won't do what X did
Today's best practices lead to dead ends
Tech is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less
Today's best practices lead to dead ends
Tech is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less
What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
3 bad egs:
Education is broken
America is exceptional
There is no God
People already agree with 1 and 2, and 3 is just taking a side in a familiar debate
What is Thiel's uncommon belief?
3 bad egs:
Education is broken
America is exceptional
There is no God
People already agree with 1 and 2, and 3 is just taking a side in a familiar debate
What is Thiel's uncommon belief?
#nowreading Your Money Or Your Life, Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
Nice positioning + good way to get readers invested on page 1
Book opens by talking about how shitty people are with their money and how life sucks these days. People spend too much and save too little, and rack up thousands of dollars of debt.
“To have savings is to be free.”
“We shift from ‘more’ to ‘enough’”
“To have savings is to be free.”
“We shift from ‘more’ to ‘enough’”
