Posts by benjamingeer@zirk.us
(DIR) Post #AWVRV9PZ9mMnBayhXM by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-06-09T06:14:10Z
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@CitizenWald I liked David Bell’s interpretation of this in The Cult of the Nation in France, that the revolutionaries were aware that the nation in whose name the revolution had been carried out didn’t exist, so they were searching for ways to create it, and this led them to create nationalism as a religion.
(DIR) Post #AWVYGXtOYOA0Rqug0u by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-06-09T07:29:58Z
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@CitizenWald And in Peasants into Frenchmen, Eugen Weber argues that most people in France didn’t see themselves as French, and that this changed very slowly, with widespread adoption of the French language from about 1880 and especially with WWI, in which many soldiers met others from outside their region for the first time and had to communicate with them in French. It’s unfortunate that this history has hardly made a dent in national myths, almost 50 years later.
(DIR) Post #AXj3iXBOkZc767rJWi by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-07-15T17:45:39Z
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@grammargirl Cardamom is good too (a favourite in Egypt)
(DIR) Post #AY45E6InTcc8KlOm2K by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-07-25T21:11:31Z
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@grammargirl It’s even found its way from English into French. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/impacter
(DIR) Post #AYjXPT7FwQMKiF8Y9Q by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-08-14T21:10:24Z
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@todayilearned @AnnaAnthro Um, are you thinking of the one by Mendelssohn? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_March_(Mendelssohn)
(DIR) Post #AYqcxqTw8f7i2mnE4O by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-08-18T07:10:13Z
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“In 2019, fully 40% of total U.S. emissions were associated with income flows to the highest earning 10% of households.”Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance | PLOS Climate https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000190 #climate
(DIR) Post #AZ61Wd9gzTO77QqI7c by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-08-25T16:46:40Z
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US Billboard Campaign Blasts Fossil Fuel Giants for Causing Extreme Heat https://www.commondreams.org/news/billboards-fossil-fuels-heat #climate
(DIR) Post #AZteRGo53W8BnrNUDg by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-09-18T12:16:25Z
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Ancient Roman statues had interchangeable heads"In certain cases, the ancient Romans sculpted statues so that the heads were interchangeable.... This was especially useful when a new emperor assumed power, particularly if the previous emperor had proven unpopular or if he was a political opponent whose memory the new incumbent wanted to erase. The heads could be easily swapped and the statue would continue to be publicly displayed."https://greekreporter.com/2023/09/17/ancient-roman-statues-headless/#historyvia @rogueclassicist
(DIR) Post #AZthyYNb2bS3itYJXM by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-09-18T15:38:17Z
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New EU Rules: Smartphones and Tablets will follow new ecodesign requirements by June 2025 https://repair.eu/news/new-eu-rules-smartphones-and-tablets-will-follow-new-ecodesign-requirements-by-june-2025/ #RightToRepair
(DIR) Post #AaAYSkCsDOhlLOR6RM by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-09-26T18:25:38Z
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“LEILA is a European cooperative project, which aims to promote the translation and dissemination in Europe of contemporary Arabic literature.” https://leila-arabicliterature.com/the-leila-project/what-is-leila/ #Arabic #literature #translation
(DIR) Post #AaSENRHTDN2X1Duovw by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-10-04T21:20:24Z
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“My sister, whom I haven’t seen for more than two years, told me she was going to cross the sea in a rubber dinghy. She hung up, not wanting to hear what I thought.... A few minutes later I tried to call the unfamiliar Turkish number back, but the phone had been turned off…. It’s not easy to say goodbye to half a century of your life and wait for someone you love to drown.”Some works by the late Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa: https://arablit.org/2023/10/03/remembering-a-giant-5-by-khaled-khalifa/ #Syria #literature #Arabic
(DIR) Post #AbKekv4ai0LOgkHD4y by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-10-31T14:41:22Z
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@Pr_Logos Ce sont deux de mes livres de cuisine préférés, je les utilise souvent
(DIR) Post #AbRWUcnoV8DsgygNA8 by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-11-03T22:11:42Z
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@grammargirl I often think of the thankless task of the handful of volunteers who maintain the time zone database that the whole world relies on. https://onezero.medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-guy-in-california-keeps-the-worlds-computers-on-the-right-time-a97a5493bf73
(DIR) Post #AbapDIGnEbJXdlKHVA by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-11-02T13:46:15Z
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@smallcircles @echo_pbreyer How did the EU parliament agree to this?
(DIR) Post #AbapDL20y0H8CnR1No by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-11-02T14:09:23Z
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@smallcircles @echo_pbreyer Allowing governments to intercept encrypted web traffic sounds like a real cause for concern to me, and is exactly what the EU parliament has been opposing in the negotiations about #ChatControl. The signatories of the open letter are scientists and researchers at major research institutions, not companies. #Chatkontrolle
(DIR) Post #AcXiuxcLOvEec4N94S by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2023-12-06T15:50:35Z
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Polish hackers figured out that a train manufacturer had programmed its trains to break down after certain dates, or if they were serviced at another company's workshop.https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/attn @jon @echo_pbreyer #trains #RighttoRepairEurope #InfoSec #railway #Poland #Polska
(DIR) Post #AhupXFYAtLEeR8bFNw by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2024-05-06T06:09:12Z
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L’époque « Jim Crow » : quand le « terrorisme racial » sévissait aux États-UnisAprès l’abolition de l’esclavage aux États-Unis en 1865, un puissant système raciste s’est employé pendant des décennies à dominer, reléguer et tuer les Noirs. C’est l’ère « Jim Crow ». De cette période, le sociologue Loïc Wacquant élabore un modèle sociologique pour penser la domination raciale.https://abos.mediapart.fr/optiext/optiextension.dll?ID=40lTv038G4pFPcY3D%2ByyNqTLrj07vn%2BRIreiIkbSNHplpDnsBiSR6Eq6TRDqogxd2loIB8hO5il1RVPV_vHf4eC9Cw1hJVRwMj#USA #racisme
(DIR) Post #AireKauzjv4cxt53dQ by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2024-02-26T21:14:06Z
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@clive @mousebot @LaChasseuse For an influential interpretation of what people like Le Corbusier were doing with public space and why, I recommend Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott.
(DIR) Post #Aj3PmAkgNXZsrdcG0W by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2024-06-18T14:00:12Z
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@rms Completely off-topic: is it just me, or does that Stanford University courtyard look a lot like the courtyard of Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo? #architecture
(DIR) Post #Ajj55uSGjNskkEBnzk by benjamingeer@zirk.us
2024-07-08T10:19:53Z
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Sur un mur à Montreuil #FrontPopulaire #NFP #France