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i often see good and interesting articles posted around here, or read things on-line that seem very c-spam but don't have an appropriate thread. you might also be interested in: the periodicals thread the book thread imagineing this thread being for informational/educational/thought-provoking stuff, rather than takes about which social fascist should be the 2020 dem candidate or whatever. you could also request stuff maybe? to start us off, here's an article about the beautiful yugoslavian wwii memorials which are ghosts of a multicultural, modernist-socialist dream: https://failedarchitecture.com/mortal-cities-and-forgotten-monuments/   and here's something i'm currently reading, about scientists being fuckin dumb a lot of the time: https://aeon.co/essays/the-blind-spot-of-science-is-the-neglect-of-lived-experience as far as web sites go, www.popula.com has a lot of great stuff that wouldn't be published in other places. This piece on the history and symbolism of walls is excellent: https://popula.com/2018/11/14/walls-against-heaven/ for a request, i'm always on the lookout for ppl being mean to steven pinker and other race scientists. 
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Good thread idea, thanks Looking for a Taibbi-esque take on the grifting aspects of Brexit
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Jan 12, 2019 16:49
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You may want to check out the Periodicals Chat thread as well: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3859434
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this is a good long-form article diving into the creepiness of the Wonderful Company and how it intertwines and sometimes conflicts with both Beverly Hills social liberalism or whatever you wanna call it and somewhat more straightforward Central Valley racism. and also water A Kingdom From Dust, by Mark Arax. i'll just quote the first paragraph to try to get yalls appetites whetted quote:The GPS tells me to take Interstate 5, the fastest route through the belly of the state, but I’m partial to Highway 99, the old road that brought the Okies and Mexicans to the fields and deposited a twang on my Armenian tongue. The highway runs two lanes here, three lanes there, through miles of agriculture broken every 20 minutes by fast food, gas station, and cheap motel. Tracts of houses, California’s last affordable dream, civilize three or four exits, and then it’s back to the open road splattered with the guts and feathers of chickens that jumped ship on the slaughterhouse drive. Pink and white oleanders divide the highway, and every third vehicle that whooshes by is a big rig. More often than not, it is hauling away some piece of the valley’s bounty. The harvest begins in January with one type of mandarin and ends in December with another type of mandarin and in between spills forth everything in your supermarket produce and dairy aisles except for bananas and mangoes, though the farmers here are working on the tropical, too. it was discussed a few weeks ago but people were saying they'd heard about it on a podcast so i figured ppl might want to read it with their own eyeballs 
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Jan 12, 2019 19:37
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new york times long read on paleogenomics vs archaeology/anthropology/indigenous peoples https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html quote:There thus reigns, in the world of ancient DNA, an atmosphere of intense suspicion, anxiety and paranoia, among archaeologists and geneticists alike. In dozens of interviews with practitioners of both disciplines, almost everyone requested anonymity for fear of professional reprisal. Many archaeologists described a “smash and grab” culture in which hopeful co-authors source their bones by any means necessary. quote:In Reich’s view, quibbles about which skull did or did not fit which skeleton in an ancient tropical cemetery in a land he had never visited were entirely beside the point. He was doing large-scale, broad-brush work, and it was up to the archaeologists to add their fine filigree of detail. quote:A thought experiment might help to illustrate this. Imagine that the written history of our current era were lost to time, and paleogenomicists of the future were trying to explain the peopling of North America on the basis of a few bones that dated from between the 16th and 20th centuries. If these bones included the descendants of British, Spanish and French colonists as well as those of Yoruba slaves, the researchers might conclude that European migrants arrived together with African migrants and that their “sex-biased admixture” created the people known henceforth as Americans. From our perspective, those geneticists wouldn’t exactly be wrong about all this — but nobody would accuse them of being right, either. also added links to the periodical + book threads in the op exmarx has issued a correction as of 14:50 on Jan 19, 2019 |
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Jan 19, 2019 14:25
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comprehensive takedown of the bill gates "actually, things are fine and getting better" movement https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty  quote:Remember: $1.90 is the equivalent of what that amount of money could buy in the US in 2011. The economist David Woodward once calculated that to live at this level (in an earlier base year) would be like 35 people trying to survive in Britain “on a single minimum wage, with no benefits of any kind, no gifts, borrowing, scavenging, begging or savings to draw on (since these are all included as ‘income’ in poverty calculations).” That goes beyond any definition of “extreme”. It is patently absurd. It is an insult to humanity. the author was also on a really good episode of the citations needed podcast a while ago https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-58-the-neoliberal-optimism-industry
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Feb 10, 2019 11:07
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Op thanks for the trhead but I dont read the news a lot because its stupid. Lol
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There haven’t really been any good articles lately. I’ll post in this thread if I find a good one
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