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From all parts of the Internet, mostly in English (title between ââ) 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!
The classification and ordering of links is arbitrary. Most of the time, I place more recent articles or âmeta-articlesâ at the top.
The âCool articles you should readâ list from Beyond Neolithic Life
Lots of good articles from various authors, ported to Gemtext!
« Critique de la raison gorafique » (2021)
[Le] gorafique, câest le dĂ©labrement de la langue hĂ©gĂ©monique du capitalisme nĂ©olibĂ©ral (la LCN) en situation de crise organique.
âWar and Anarchists: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives in Ukraineâ (2022)
A summary of political issues within Ukraine, how left-wing groups and individuals try to articulate ideology and practical survival, the confusion around antifascism and the perspectives for anti-authoritarian groups. The article links to other pieces from both Ukrainian and Russian anarchists.
If war breaks out, we do not know if the anti-authoritarian movement will survive, but we will try to do so. In the meantime, this text is an attempt to leave the experience that we have accumulated online.
âThis isn't Spartaâ (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.
Advice for weather reading by looking at the sky, with awesome ASCII art!
âVaccines: A Measured Responseâ (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.
A fantastic aggregator for all the failures in the crypto/nft/defi world.
âThe Future Is Not Only Useless, Itâs Expensiveâ (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.
âPlay-to-earnâ and Bullshit Jobs (2021)
In spite of being presented as the future of work by some venture capitalists, the incentives just donât make sense. Floors donât have to be swept in the metaverse unless theyâre designed to need sweeping.
âLine Goes Up - The Problem With NFTsâ (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. Theyâre incentives, theyâre social structures, theyâre modalities. The problem is what people are doing to others, not that the building theyâre doing it in has the word âbankâ on the outside.
âThe web browser I'm dreaming ofâ (2021)
Expected features? Six items. Undesired features? Let's see!
An easy history of CSS.
« Yuka contre Open Food Facts ou le match retour de Britannica contre Wikipedia ? » (2019)
Un peu saoulé de voir des gens utiliser Yuka au lieu d'Open Food Facts, surtout aprÚs la lecture de cet article.
â24/192 music downloads and why they make no senseâ (2012)
Audiophiles are bandwidth wastrels.