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A bunch of cool links

From all parts of the Internet, mostly in English (title between “”) or French (title between «»). These are articles, websites or capsules that present something in a nice or clever way, are well-sourced or have an effective style, and that in my opinion are worth your time if the subject interests you!

Political commentary

« Critique de la raison gorafique » (2021)

[Le] gorafique, c’est le délabrement de la langue hégémonique du capitalisme néolibéral (la LCN) en situation de crise organique.

Historical myths

“This isn't Sparta” (2019)

An historical presentation of the Spartan society that attempts to balance against the fantasized vision depicted in pop culture (i.e. the movie 300.

Nature

“Reading the weather”

Vaccines

“Vaccines: A Measured Response” (2021)

Engaging documentary on the roots of the scare against vaccines, focuses mostly on Wakefield's MMR scare and his buddy Fudenberg, bridging at the end with COVID-19.

« Antivax - Les marchands de doute » (2021)

Similaire au documentaire de hbomberguy ci-dessus mais en français, donc pour la famille ou les copain·e·s récalcitrant·e·s.

Cryptocurrencies, Web3, NFTs, the cringiest timeline

“Web3 is going great”

A fantastic aggregator for all the failures in the crypto/nft/defi world.

“The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive” (2021)

Probably the article resonating the most with how I feel about the latest blockchain grotesque invention.

As the visual manifestation of cryptocurrency, NFT art combines the nuanced social awareness of computer programmers with the soulful whimsy of hedge fund managers.

“Play-to-earn” and Bullshit Jobs (2021)

In spite of being presented as the future of work by some venture capitalists, the incentives just don’t make sense. Floors don’t have to be swept in the metaverse unless they’re designed to need sweeping.

“Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs” (2022)

A 2h-long video squeezing a lot of financial system issues, from the 2008 crisis to NFT issues, picturing how the latter does nothing to prevent the former from happening again.

Crypto currency does nothing to address 99% of the problems with the banking industry because those problems are patterns of human behavior. They’re incentives, they’re social structures, they’re modalities. The problem is what people are doing to others, not that the building they’re doing it in has the word ‘bank’ on the outside.

Web 2.0 has its issues

“The web browser I'm dreaming of” (2021)

“Old CSS, new CSS” (2020)

Placebo

“24/192 music downloads and why they make no sense” (2012)