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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 websites, capsules, articles, books, periodicals, booklets, video channels, podcasts, etc, 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 “meta-articles” at the top.

You can also take a look at the logs I follow on the smolnet right here. So many cool online places!

Political commentary

Texts

The “Cool articles you should read” list from Beyond Neolithic Life

Lots of good articles from various authors, ported to Gemtext!

Blogs and posts

La pompe Ă  phynance

Le blog de Frédéric Lordon, économiste. Je suis un grand fan ! Pour donner un exemple au pif, cet article :

« Critique de la raison gorafique » (2021)

[Le] gorafique, c’est le dĂ©labrement de la langue hĂ©gĂ©monique du capitalisme nĂ©olibĂ©ral (la LCN) en situation de crise organique.

“War and Anarchists: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives in Ukraine” (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.

Traduction en français sur paris-luttes.info : « Anarchistes et guerre : Perspectives anti-autoritaires en Ukraine »

Media

Mediapart, journal d'information francophone

Mediapart est le principal journal que je lis, et surtout que j'Ă©coute via son Ă©mission quotidienne À l'air libre.

Le Média TV sur Peertube, vidéos d'information francophones

Un autre média que je suis réguliÚrement. Je mets leur Peertube plutÎt que Youtube parce que je trouve ça cool qu'ils aient pris le temps de monter leur propre instance !

Obligé, les sites de la mutu. Ce sont des sites participatifs d'informations militantes locales :

Paris-luttes.info pour la région parisienne

Rebellyon.info pour la région lyonnaise

Autres journaux indépendants :

Bondy Blog, informations autour de la Seine-Saint-Denis mais pas que !

International politics

Newspapers

I really recommend Le Monde Diplomatique, a monthly newspaper, in French but with an English translation.

Le Monde Diplomatique (French edition)

Le Monde Diplomatique (English edition)

Classes

Terrorism and Counterterrorism, a MOOC by Universitet Leiden (Netherlands)

I attended this course a long time ago and it has been eye opening in many aspects.

Articles

“How a crippling shortage of analysts let the London Bridge attackers through” (2017)

How automated and pervasive surveillance is pretty much useless against terrorism.

It’s people, not computers, who can identify terrorists before they strike.

Far-right, conspiracy theory, COVID

“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.

MĂ©ta de choc

Ce podcast traite de métacognition (pourquoi on pense ce que l'on pense), et donc plus généralement de théorie du complot, de pseudosciences, de sectes mais aussi de leurs implications politiques. En particulier je recommande ces entretiens :

« Une vie en anthroposophie » avec Grégoire Perra

« Complotisme : si loin, si proche » avec Marie Peltier

Anarchism, feminism, social justice

This section currently contains only French booklets I've read and appreciated. I want to add my favorite books on these subject here in the future.

Cette section ne comporte actuellement que des brochures en français que j'ai lu et apprécié. J'ai envie d'ajouter mes livres préférés sur ces sujets, un jour.

« Architecture et anarchie, un couple mal assorti » (2004)

Ou pourquoi nos villes sont nulles.

« La Brochourre » (2016)

Ou comment autoréduire du parmesan.

« Le Squat de A à Z » (1999, màj 2019)

Une brochure informative sur le squat. Les lois changeant réguliÚrement, dans un sens autoritaire, la brochure est pas forcément à jour avec les pratiques policiÚres et préfectorales, mais donne un bon aperçu de ce qu'implique une ouverture, l'organisation, le juridique, la politique.

« Squatter ou sauver ? Il faut choisir ; comment le libéralisme infiltre les squats anarchistes »

Un coup de gueule intéressant sur les pratiques dans les squats anarchistes.

« Contre l'amour » (2003)

Textes critiques sur l'amour romantique, passionnel, fusionnel. J'adore la petite piĂšce de thĂ©Ăątre « la tĂȘte contre le ventre » !

Permacomputing, low-tech, ecology with computers

Permacomputing wiki

Early stage but already a nice wiki to browse for inspiration!

LOW←TECH MAGAZINE (solar-powered website)

(always-online version in case the weather is bad)

Interesting magazine on anything low-tech and sustainable. I like that they often put the effort to imagine how inventions or reinventions would fit in society at large and not just in the workshop of enthusiasts.

Mr Mondialisation (French)

Un site d'information sur les problÚmes liés à la mondialisation : écologie, santé publique, alimentation, etc. Les dossiers sont assez complets et les analyses pertinentes.

Nature, botany, agriculture and permaculture

Agriculture

DIY Seeds

A free collection of videos teaching how to harvest seeds from a variety of flowers and fruits, and storing them for reusage in the next years.

ChaĂźnes Youtube francophones

Permaculture, agroécologie, etc

Les Sourciers, vidéos sur l'hydroponie

Observation

“Reading the weather”

Advice for weather reading by looking at the sky, with awesome ASCII art!

Art

As an absolute beginner, I suggest using only traditional media such as cheap pencil and paper, spending some time with black and white, understand some common pitfalls like symbol drawing.

“Drawing on the right side of the brain“ by Betty Edwards teaches you how to draw what you see and not what you think you see.

“Keys to drawing” by Bert Dodson teaches you technical basics another way.

“Fun with a Pencil” by Andrew Loomis teaches you construction basics; kinda old-fashioned but still good and actually fun.

“Perspective Made Easy” by Ernest Norling teaches you perspective basics (z-library search link because the book is from the 1939).

As a beginner, these are some of the books I've enjoyed. Of course at this point and for the rest of your artistic life, the most important thing to do will not be to read books but drawing everyday.

Online classes:

NMA (New Masters Academy) for traditional medium classes

CGMA (CG Masters Academy) for digital painting classes

Ctrl+Paint, a library of free videos about drawing with Photoshop

Youtube channels:

Alphonso Dunn provides a lot of interesting advice about drawing with pen & ink.

Cool places for references:

Atlas des régions naturelles, photos of France

Spomenik DB, photos of the Balkans

Line of Action, figure drawing practice tool

CroquisCafe, a Youtube channel for daily figure drawing

Computers

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

Expected features? Six items. Undesired features? Let's see!

“Old CSS, new CSS” (2020)

An easy history of CSS.

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

Audiophiles are wasteful.

« 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.

n-gate

You probably already know Hacker News, but do you know this TL;DR? (looks like they stopped posting though).

Gemini

Gemini links about Gemini!

Antenna, a neat aggregator for user-submitted feeds

Exploration Surprise! Three random capsule per day!

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.

History

Almost empty section. Do you know cool stuff I should read? Please let me know!

“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.