Understand and speak – Harold Jarche

Last Friday of each month, I organized some of the observations and ideas shared on social networks. I call it Friday finds.

Note: regular readers may have noticed that my blog articles are rather rare at the moment. I take a break in blogs throughout the summer and I intend to be back this fall. There are more than 3,500 older positions still available to travel here.

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape from being in the ranks of the madmen.” —Marcus aurelius (121-180 after JC)

The empty brain

We are organizations, not computers. Surmit it. Let's move on to the company to try to understand us, but without being burdened by unnecessary intellectual baggage. The IP (information processing) metaphor had an execution of half a century, producing some or even any information along the way. The time has come to press the deletion key.

“The greatest lesson that the conservatives-fascist has learned about the media is that it is not necessary to have a total control of the level of censorship, at least in the perspective of a fascist takeover. They only have to flood the shit area. Make the truth and expertise not relevant and people abandon, trying to make the difference and believe everything they want.

When no one trusts the media and the government – and when the media and the government continue to prove unworthy of confidence – people will retire from localized subcultural bubbles, based on people around them as a reference point. This means that there will still be, for example anti-fascist and anti-capitalist groups online and in person, but they will be more isolated and ignored and will have more difficulty organizing a mass movement beyond themselves, especially if the prevailing standards work against them. »» –Nowhere

Traffic engineers build roads that invite accidents because they rely on obsolete research and defective data

In 1998, “The Simpsons” joked on the canyonero, a SUV so large that they obviously joked. At that time, it was absurd to think that anyone who would lead something that was “12 yards long, two large ways, 65 tonnes of American pride”.

In 2025, this joke is not far from reality.

And our reality is the one where more pedestrians and cyclists are killed in the American streets at any time in the past 45 years – more than 1,000 bikes and 7,500 pedestrians in 2022 only.

The size of the vehicle is a large part of this problem. A recent article in the urban economist Justin Tyndall revealed that the increase in the front height of a vehicle of about 4 inches (10 centimeters) increases the chances of pedestrians by 22%. The risk increases by 31% for female pedestrians or those over 65 and 81% for children.

Rojava Revolution: Women's Liberation, Democracy and Ecology in northeast Syria

Over the past decade, the most in-depth social revolution of the 21st century has taken place in northeast Syria in northeast, commonly known as Rojava. Although still largely unknown, today, around a third of the Syrian territory is not governed by a nation state, but by a federation of participative local councils officially known under the name of Democratic Autonomous Administration in the North and East of Syria (Daanes). Despite the conditions of constant war and isolation, the inhabitants of Rojava build and defend a society rooted in the principles of direct democracy, the autonomy of women, cultural diversity, the cooperative economy and social ecology.

Scientific American: We hit the peak denial. Here is why we cannot divert ourselves from reality

Most times, the company puts pressure on people not to see, hear or talk about the elephant in the room. To maintain our own “cognitive tranquility”, we have updated, malignons and shoot the messenger because they remind us of what we would prefer to ignore. Just look at the doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, the ecologist Rachel Carson and the NFL player and the social justice lawyer Colin Kaepernick. Indeed, people are regularly punished to be exact.

These tactics are the way we get used to so many bad things, from mega-play to insurrections.

So what can we do with our “ignore more, be careful, everything is fine!” era? We have to stop activating it. It starts by being more attentive to our “daily ignorance” and “daily” – like this pinch that we feel when we know that we must click on a worrying title, but instead make it exceed.

Stop the thief, By Peter Linebaugh

That day, on June 16, 1531, the English king Henri VIII modified the laws on the vagrancy he brought the previous year, which were essential in the creation of the working class. People have launched community land that were not in employee work were designated as vagabonds, and during their first offense were to be whipped, then on the second whipped with half a sharp half and on a third offense, they had to be executed. These laws and similar laws promulgated across Europe, supported by intense violence of the state, have created a class of people forced to sell their work to survive: the working class.

Karl Marx described these legal mechanisms in volume 1 of his work, capital: “Thus, the agricultural people, first expropriated with strength of the soil, driven out of their houses, transformed into vagabonds, then whipped, marked, tortured by terrible grotally laws, in the discipline necessary for the wage system.” This expropriation has been extended around the world by violent colonialism.

Rather than being a natural state as it is often represented, the creation of the working class has been fiercely resisted for hundreds of years, and is indeed still to this day in certain regions.

AUGIE Ray on Long dimensions wearing lost IQ points: current threats that you do not know

Large interview:

I must emphasize that there are, in fact, places that have installed all these: fresh air, filtering and UV germicid. Do you know where they are?

Or?

PA: The White House, Congress, Downing number 10, Parliament, Reichstag and which. All our leaders have these protections and procedures in place.

But not our schoolchildren.

The school where the children of the former CDC Rochelle Wainsky director go, they have these upgrades.

Helen Mirren via @Rustybertrand