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Editor in chief of #Russia Novaya Gazeta Europe on exile posted a lengthy comment on the Russian “historic exhibition” at the #Katyn massacre memorial, about which I wrote a week ago:
The concept of ‘Spanish shame’ is widely known, but today I am experiencing ‘Medinsky’s shame’. It is a phenomenon that is difficult to define, where impostors representing your country commit unimaginable acts of villainy on a historic scale in order to justify their claim to power.
The Russian Military-Historical Society (RMHS) has sent a new delegation to the Katyn memorial complex, the site of the mass execution of Polish prisoners of war by NKVD officers. The new leadership is not sitting idly by and has already announced an exhibition entitled ‘Ten Centuries of Polish Russophobia’, which will take place right next to the graves of the murdered Poles.
Looking back over the atrocities committed by the Russian authorities in recent years, it is difficult to immediately think of an equivalent. This is not direct military aggression, nor is it the state’s extermination of its own citizens – here we are talking about something perhaps even more shameful.
Together with #Hitler, the Soviet authorities partitioned #Poland, deported and killed countless people, and in 1940 shot Polish prisoners of war. Afterwards, for decades, they pretended they had nothing to do with it, claiming that Hitler’s punitive forces were supposedly responsible for the shootings.
Rumour has it that the mighty Soviet Union behaved like a pathetic drunkard who hides his escapades from acquaintances because he is ashamed and afraid to admit to them. It was only towards the end of Gorbachev’s perestroika that they had the conscience to make a confession, when TASS published a statement to that effect in 1990. This was a step towards reconciliation with the Polish people, which is impossible without honesty. The USSR joined Alcoholics Anonymous fifty years after the deed was done.
In 2000, a memorial complex was opened at the site of the crime in the Smolensk region, and since then a wealth of archival documents has been published. And now, after numerous attempts to pretend that nothing had happened, the collective shame has spoken out loud and clear.
It turns out that ten centuries of Polish Russophobia are to blame for everything! It turns out that it wasn’t the #USSR that formed an alliance with Hitler to destroy Poland, and it wasn’t the #NKVD that committed war crimes, but simply that Poles are such innate Russophobes.
There is a huge mutual interest among intellectuals in Poland and Russia; take, for example, the figure of Adam Michnik, who published a joint book of conversations with Alexei Navalny. When people in Russia are jailed for calling for peace, Poland is the first to come to the rescue and save Russians from torture – hundreds of people have been able to leave the country since February 2022 thanks to the Polish government.
In a normal world, Poland is Russia’s key cultural and economic partner in Europe. But to achieve this, we must stop lying like the RMHS. It is deeply shameful.
Source: https://xcancel.com/kmartynov/status/2044408053299077541?s=20
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-black-seed-issue-1#toc21
Rewilding and Reconnection
For most green/anti-civilization/primitivist anarchists, rewilding and reconnecting with the earth is a life project. It is not limited to intellectual comprehension or the practice of primitive skills, but instead, it is a deep understanding of the pervasive ways in which we are domesticated, fractured, and dislocated from our selves, each other, and the world, and the enormous and daily undertaking to be whole again. Rewilding has a physical component which involves reclaiming skills and developing methods for a sustainable co-existence, including how to feed, shelter, and heal ourselves with the plants, animals, and materials occurring naturally in our bioregion. It also includes the dismantling of the physical manifestations, apparatus, and infrastructure of civilization. Rewilding has an emotional component, which involves healing ourselves and each other from the 10,000 year-old wounds which run deep, learning how to live together in non-hierarchical and non-oppressive communities, and deconstructing the domesticating mindset in our social patterns. Rewilding involves prioritizing direct experience and passion over mediation and alienation, re-thinking every dynamic and aspect of our reality, connecting with our feral fury to defend our lives and to fight for a liberated existence, developing more trust in our intuition and being more connected to our instincts, and regaining the balance that has been virtually destroyed after thousands of years of patriarchal control and domestication. Rewilding is the process of becoming uncivilized.
For the Destruction of Civilization!
For the Reconnection to Life!
#anarchy #BLACKSEED a green anarchist journal
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-black-seed-issue-1#toc21
Rewilding and Reconnection
For most green/anti-civilization/primitivist anarchists, rewilding and reconnecting with the earth is a life project. It is not limited to intellectual comprehension or the practice of primitive skills, but instead, it is a deep understanding of the pervasive ways in which we are domesticated, fractured, and dislocated from our selves, each other, and the world, and the enormous and daily undertaking to be whole again. Rewilding has a physical component which involves reclaiming skills and developing methods for a sustainable co-existence, including how to feed, shelter, and heal ourselves with the plants, animals, and materials occurring naturally in our bioregion. It also includes the dismantling of the physical manifestations, apparatus, and infrastructure of civilization. Rewilding has an emotional component, which involves healing ourselves and each other from the 10,000 year-old wounds which run deep, learning how to live together in non-hierarchical and non-oppressive communities, and deconstructing the domesticating mindset in our social patterns. Rewilding involves prioritizing direct experience and passion over mediation and alienation, re-thinking every dynamic and aspect of our reality, connecting with our feral fury to defend our lives and to fight for a liberated existence, developing more trust in our intuition and being more connected to our instincts, and regaining the balance that has been virtually destroyed after thousands of years of patriarchal control and domestication. Rewilding is the process of becoming uncivilized.
For the Destruction of Civilization!
For the Reconnection to Life!
#anarchy #BLACKSEED a green anarchist journal
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-black-seed-issue-1#toc11
The Rejection of Science
Most anti-civilization anarchists reject science as a method of understanding the world. Science is not neutral. It is loaded with motives and assumptions that come out of, and reinforce, the catastrophe of dissociation, disempowerment, and consuming deadness that we call “civilization.” Science assumes detachment. This is built into the very word “observation.” To “observe” something is to perceive it while distancing oneself emotionally and physically, to have a one-way channel of “information” moving from the observed thing to the “self,” which is defined as not a part of that thing. This death-based or mechanistic view is a religion, the dominant religion of our time. The method of science deals only with the quantitative. It does not admit values or emotions, or the way the air smells when it’s starting to rain—or if it deals with these things, it does so by transforming them into numbers, by turning oneness with the smell of the rain into abstract preoccupation with the chemical formula for ozone, turning the way it makes you feel into the intellectual idea that emotions are only an illusion of firing neurons. Numbers themselves are not truth but a chosen style of thinking. We have chosen a habit of mind that focuses our attention into a world removed from reality, where nothing has quality or awareness or a life of its own. We have chosen to transform the living into the dead. Careful-thinking scientists will admit that what they study is a narrow simulation of the complex real world, but few of them notice that this narrow focus is self-feeding, that it has built technological, economic, and political systems that are all working together, which suck our reality in on itself. As narrow as the world of numbers is, scientific method does not even permit all numbers—only those numbers which are reproducible, predictable, and the same for all observers. Of course reality itself is not reproducible or predictable or the same for all observers. But neither are fantasy worlds derived from reality. Science doesn’t stop at pulling us into a dream world—it goes one step further and makes this dream world a nightmare whose contents are selected for predictability and controllability and uniformity. All surprise and sensuality are vanquished. Because of science, states of consciousness that cannot be reliably disposed are classified as insane, or at best “non-ordinary,” and excluded. Anomalous experience, anomalous ideas, and anomalous people are cast off or destroyed like imperfectly-shaped machine components. Science is only a manifestation and locking in of an urge for control that we’ve had at least since we started farming fields and fencing animals instead of surfing the less predictable (but more abundant) world of reality, or “nature.” And from that time to now, this urge has driven every decision about what counts as “progress”, up to and including the genetic restructuring of life.
#anarchy #BLACKSEED a green anarchist journal
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-black-seed-issue-1#toc11
The Rejection of Science
Most anti-civilization anarchists reject science as a method of understanding the world. Science is not neutral. It is loaded with motives and assumptions that come out of, and reinforce, the catastrophe of dissociation, disempowerment, and consuming deadness that we call “civilization.” Science assumes detachment. This is built into the very word “observation.” To “observe” something is to perceive it while distancing oneself emotionally and physically, to have a one-way channel of “information” moving from the observed thing to the “self,” which is defined as not a part of that thing. This death-based or mechanistic view is a religion, the dominant religion of our time. The method of science deals only with the quantitative. It does not admit values or emotions, or the way the air smells when it’s starting to rain—or if it deals with these things, it does so by transforming them into numbers, by turning oneness with the smell of the rain into abstract preoccupation with the chemical formula for ozone, turning the way it makes you feel into the intellectual idea that emotions are only an illusion of firing neurons. Numbers themselves are not truth but a chosen style of thinking. We have chosen a habit of mind that focuses our attention into a world removed from reality, where nothing has quality or awareness or a life of its own. We have chosen to transform the living into the dead. Careful-thinking scientists will admit that what they study is a narrow simulation of the complex real world, but few of them notice that this narrow focus is self-feeding, that it has built technological, economic, and political systems that are all working together, which suck our reality in on itself. As narrow as the world of numbers is, scientific method does not even permit all numbers—only those numbers which are reproducible, predictable, and the same for all observers. Of course reality itself is not reproducible or predictable or the same for all observers. But neither are fantasy worlds derived from reality. Science doesn’t stop at pulling us into a dream world—it goes one step further and makes this dream world a nightmare whose contents are selected for predictability and controllability and uniformity. All surprise and sensuality are vanquished. Because of science, states of consciousness that cannot be reliably disposed are classified as insane, or at best “non-ordinary,” and excluded. Anomalous experience, anomalous ideas, and anomalous people are cast off or destroyed like imperfectly-shaped machine components. Science is only a manifestation and locking in of an urge for control that we’ve had at least since we started farming fields and fencing animals instead of surfing the less predictable (but more abundant) world of reality, or “nature.” And from that time to now, this urge has driven every decision about what counts as “progress”, up to and including the genetic restructuring of life.
#anarchy #BLACKSEED a green anarchist journal
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-black-seed-issue-1#toc11
The Rejection of Science
Most anti-civilization anarchists reject science as a method of understanding the world. Science is not neutral. It is loaded with motives and assumptions that come out of, and reinforce, the catastrophe of dissociation, disempowerment, and consuming deadness that we call “civilization.” Science assumes detachment. This is built into the very word “observation.” To “observe” something is to perceive it while distancing oneself emotionally and physically, to have a one-way channel of “information” moving from the observed thing to the “self,” which is defined as not a part of that thing. This death-based or mechanistic view is a religion, the dominant religion of our time. The method of science deals only with the quantitative. It does not admit values or emotions, or the way the air smells when it’s starting to rain—or if it deals with these things, it does so by transforming them into numbers, by turning oneness with the smell of the rain into abstract preoccupation with the chemical formula for ozone, turning the way it makes you feel into the intellectual idea that emotions are only an illusion of firing neurons. Numbers themselves are not truth but a chosen style of thinking. We have chosen a habit of mind that focuses our attention into a world removed from reality, where nothing has quality or awareness or a life of its own. We have chosen to transform the living into the dead. Careful-thinking scientists will admit that what they study is a narrow simulation of the complex real world, but few of them notice that this narrow focus is self-feeding, that it has built technological, economic, and political systems that are all working together, which suck our reality in on itself. As narrow as the world of numbers is, scientific method does not even permit all numbers—only those numbers which are reproducible, predictable, and the same for all observers. Of course reality itself is not reproducible or predictable or the same for all observers. But neither are fantasy worlds derived from reality. Science doesn’t stop at pulling us into a dream world—it goes one step further and makes this dream world a nightmare whose contents are selected for predictability and controllability and uniformity. All surprise and sensuality are vanquished. Because of science, states of consciousness that cannot be reliably disposed are classified as insane, or at best “non-ordinary,” and excluded. Anomalous experience, anomalous ideas, and anomalous people are cast off or destroyed like imperfectly-shaped machine components. Science is only a manifestation and locking in of an urge for control that we’ve had at least since we started farming fields and fencing animals instead of surfing the less predictable (but more abundant) world of reality, or “nature.” And from that time to now, this urge has driven every decision about what counts as “progress”, up to and including the genetic restructuring of life.
#anarchy #BLACKSEED a green anarchist journal
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-black-seed-issue-1#toc11
The Rejection of Science
Most anti-civilization anarchists reject science as a method of understanding the world. Science is not neutral. It is loaded with motives and assumptions that come out of, and reinforce, the catastrophe of dissociation, disempowerment, and consuming deadness that we call “civilization.” Science assumes detachment. This is built into the very word “observation.” To “observe” something is to perceive it while distancing oneself emotionally and physically, to have a one-way channel of “information” moving from the observed thing to the “self,” which is defined as not a part of that thing. This death-based or mechanistic view is a religion, the dominant religion of our time. The method of science deals only with the quantitative. It does not admit values or emotions, or the way the air smells when it’s starting to rain—or if it deals with these things, it does so by transforming them into numbers, by turning oneness with the smell of the rain into abstract preoccupation with the chemical formula for ozone, turning the way it makes you feel into the intellectual idea that emotions are only an illusion of firing neurons. Numbers themselves are not truth but a chosen style of thinking. We have chosen a habit of mind that focuses our attention into a world removed from reality, where nothing has quality or awareness or a life of its own. We have chosen to transform the living into the dead. Careful-thinking scientists will admit that what they study is a narrow simulation of the complex real world, but few of them notice that this narrow focus is self-feeding, that it has built technological, economic, and political systems that are all working together, which suck our reality in on itself. As narrow as the world of numbers is, scientific method does not even permit all numbers—only those numbers which are reproducible, predictable, and the same for all observers. Of course reality itself is not reproducible or predictable or the same for all observers. But neither are fantasy worlds derived from reality. Science doesn’t stop at pulling us into a dream world—it goes one step further and makes this dream world a nightmare whose contents are selected for predictability and controllability and uniformity. All surprise and sensuality are vanquished. Because of science, states of consciousness that cannot be reliably disposed are classified as insane, or at best “non-ordinary,” and excluded. Anomalous experience, anomalous ideas, and anomalous people are cast off or destroyed like imperfectly-shaped machine components. Science is only a manifestation and locking in of an urge for control that we’ve had at least since we started farming fields and fencing animals instead of surfing the less predictable (but more abundant) world of reality, or “nature.” And from that time to now, this urge has driven every decision about what counts as “progress”, up to and including the genetic restructuring of life.
#anarchy #BLACKSEED a green anarchist journal
-
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-black-seed-issue-1#toc11
The Rejection of Science
Most anti-civilization anarchists reject science as a method of understanding the world. Science is not neutral. It is loaded with motives and assumptions that come out of, and reinforce, the catastrophe of dissociation, disempowerment, and consuming deadness that we call “civilization.” Science assumes detachment. This is built into the very word “observation.” To “observe” something is to perceive it while distancing oneself emotionally and physically, to have a one-way channel of “information” moving from the observed thing to the “self,” which is defined as not a part of that thing. This death-based or mechanistic view is a religion, the dominant religion of our time. The method of science deals only with the quantitative. It does not admit values or emotions, or the way the air smells when it’s starting to rain—or if it deals with these things, it does so by transforming them into numbers, by turning oneness with the smell of the rain into abstract preoccupation with the chemical formula for ozone, turning the way it makes you feel into the intellectual idea that emotions are only an illusion of firing neurons. Numbers themselves are not truth but a chosen style of thinking. We have chosen a habit of mind that focuses our attention into a world removed from reality, where nothing has quality or awareness or a life of its own. We have chosen to transform the living into the dead. Careful-thinking scientists will admit that what they study is a narrow simulation of the complex real world, but few of them notice that this narrow focus is self-feeding, that it has built technological, economic, and political systems that are all working together, which suck our reality in on itself. As narrow as the world of numbers is, scientific method does not even permit all numbers—only those numbers which are reproducible, predictable, and the same for all observers. Of course reality itself is not reproducible or predictable or the same for all observers. But neither are fantasy worlds derived from reality. Science doesn’t stop at pulling us into a dream world—it goes one step further and makes this dream world a nightmare whose contents are selected for predictability and controllability and uniformity. All surprise and sensuality are vanquished. Because of science, states of consciousness that cannot be reliably disposed are classified as insane, or at best “non-ordinary,” and excluded. Anomalous experience, anomalous ideas, and anomalous people are cast off or destroyed like imperfectly-shaped machine components. Science is only a manifestation and locking in of an urge for control that we’ve had at least since we started farming fields and fencing animals instead of surfing the less predictable (but more abundant) world of reality, or “nature.” And from that time to now, this urge has driven every decision about what counts as “progress”, up to and including the genetic restructuring of life.
#anarchy #BLACKSEED a green anarchist journal
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The Blob (1988) (Limited Edition Steelbook 4K Ultra HD) Available October 1
#horror – #horrormovies – #TheBlob – #ScreamFactory – @Scream_Factory – The Blob is back in this horrific tale about a vile, malignant life-form that crashes to Earth in a cozy, rural American town called Arborville. Untroubled by conscience or intellect, the Blob does only one thing—and it does it well. It eats anything and eve…
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#radio ↓↓ German version far below the English one ↓↓ #radio
Feels like summer now in Berlin → that's a perfect time for a new issue of
RADIO IRRTUM!,
the strange #underground radio show that gently carries your soul into the abyss of sonic insanity… and back to reality (summer!) like a cool strong breeze out of place, out of time — just there. 4U.
2night, 2023-06-10 at 8:00PM (UTC+2) at Alex Berlin (FM 91MHz / stream: https://www.alex-berlin.de/audio/radio-livestream ).
Don't be afraid about that German language aspect - it's a show 2 raise ur attention for new unheared #music all over the audible spectrum - music that has priority above all other things!
This time most of the 1st half wont be intellectually challenging that much ;) — music 4 your stomach, so 2 say — cuz it's about time 2 shake what u've got! ;)
With...
• #psychedelic #pop as if the EMF came back like phkn' time travelers
• #Rap which is shaking hands with air plays
• a #ClubBanger, and OMG, it absolutely BANGS!
• #Bass meets distorted techno
• #Industrial electronic from a cave to dance yer brains out to
• dirty #EBM which is actually more electro and acid, but still
And suddenly: 2nd half! With…
• Contemporary #experimental classic with mesmerizing clarinets
• experimental noize (some say #MusiqueConcrète - but it's about beer, really)
• #PostWave #MadeInSwitzerland as if #17seconds are still ticking
• #Phemale #HardcorePunk
• Pop #Punk
• #cosmic psychedelic stoner spirit prairie jazz (I don't exaggerate!)
• #Shoegaze which is #notStereolab but could very well be
As always I'll post the playlist after the show here. If u have questions during the show - I'll gladly answer (if I'm not away — but then I'll still answer but later!)
One more thing: The host of this very show is also taking part with his own track at the #Fedivision (just have say this, else no one will notice — I know for a brutal fact there will be fierce competition this year!)
↑↑↑ English version above, the German one is still below ↓↓↓
Ich muss das verdammt kurz machen, sonst reichen meine 3000Zeychen nicht aus!
Also Passuff. Is Sommer. Zeit für
RADIO IRRTUM!,
Das treibt Eure Seele sorgsam in den Abgrund des akustischen Wahnsinns, aber auch wieder zurück (Sommer!).
Heute, 10.06.23 um 20 Uhr auf Alex Berlin (FM 91MHz / Stream: s.o.).
Erste Hälfte wird intellektuell nich so herausfordernd ;) kuck:
• unbelievable POP
• Rap
• ClubBanger
• Bass trifft verzerrten Techno
• Industrieelektronik
• Electro + Acid = EBM
Und plötzlich Hälfte Zwo:
• sanft-noisy Klarinettenspiel
• Musique Concrète
• PostWave
• Hardcore
• Präriejazz
• Shoegaze
Playlist nach der Show genau hier. Fragen einfach stellen — ich antworte (vielleicht später).
Und: Der Moderator der Sendung nimmt mit einem eigenen Stück am #Fedivision Dingens teil (musses sagen, sonst kriegt das niemand mit, denn ich weiß: Das wird diesmal ein brutal hochwertiger Wettbewerb!) -
#radio ↓↓ German version far below the English one ↓↓ #radio
Feels like summer now in Berlin → that's a perfect time for a new issue of
RADIO IRRTUM!,
the strange #underground radio show that gently carries your soul into the abyss of sonic insanity… and back to reality (summer!) like a cool strong breeze out of place, out of time — just there. 4U.
2night, 2023-06-10 at 8:00PM (UTC+2) at Alex Berlin (FM 91MHz / stream: https://www.alex-berlin.de/audio/radio-livestream ).
Don't be afraid about that German language aspect - it's a show 2 raise ur attention for new unheared #music all over the audible spectrum - music that has priority above all other things!
This time most of the 1st half wont be intellectually challenging that much ;) — music 4 your stomach, so 2 say — cuz it's about time 2 shake what u've got! ;)
With...
• #psychedelic #pop as if the EMF came back like phkn' time travelers
• #Rap which is shaking hands with air plays
• a #ClubBanger, and OMG, it absolutely BANGS!
• #Bass meets distorted techno
• #Industrial electronic from a cave to dance yer brains out to
• dirty #EBM which is actually more electro and acid, but still
And suddenly: 2nd half! With…
• Contemporary #experimental classic with mesmerizing clarinets
• experimental noize (some say #MusiqueConcrète - but it's about beer, really)
• #PostWave #MadeInSwitzerland as if #17seconds are still ticking
• #Phemale #HardcorePunk
• Pop #Punk
• #cosmic psychedelic stoner spirit prairie jazz (I don't exaggerate!)
• #Shoegaze which is #notStereolab but could very well be
As always I'll post the playlist after the show here. If u have questions during the show - I'll gladly answer (if I'm not away — but then I'll still answer but later!)
One more thing: The host of this very show is also taking part with his own track at the #Fedivision (just have say this, else no one will notice — I know for a brutal fact there will be fierce competition this year!)
↑↑↑ English version above, the German one is still below ↓↓↓
Ich muss das verdammt kurz machen, sonst reichen meine 3000Zeychen nicht aus!
Also Passuff. Is Sommer. Zeit für
RADIO IRRTUM!,
Das treibt Eure Seele sorgsam in den Abgrund des akustischen Wahnsinns, aber auch wieder zurück (Sommer!).
Heute, 10.06.23 um 20 Uhr auf Alex Berlin (FM 91MHz / Stream: s.o.).
Erste Hälfte wird intellektuell nich so herausfordernd ;) kuck:
• unbelievable POP
• Rap
• ClubBanger
• Bass trifft verzerrten Techno
• Industrieelektronik
• Electro + Acid = EBM
Und plötzlich Hälfte Zwo:
• sanft-noisy Klarinettenspiel
• Musique Concrète
• PostWave
• Hardcore
• Präriejazz
• Shoegaze
Playlist nach der Show genau hier. Fragen einfach stellen — ich antworte (vielleicht später).
Und: Der Moderator der Sendung nimmt mit einem eigenen Stück am #Fedivision Dingens teil (musses sagen, sonst kriegt das niemand mit, denn ich weiß: Das wird diesmal ein brutal hochwertiger Wettbewerb!) -
#radio ↓↓ German version far below the English one ↓↓ #radio
Feels like summer now in Berlin → that's a perfect time for a new issue of
RADIO IRRTUM!,
the strange #underground radio show that gently carries your soul into the abyss of sonic insanity… and back to reality (summer!) like a cool strong breeze out of place, out of time — just there. 4U.
2night, 2023-06-10 at 8:00PM (UTC+2) at Alex Berlin (FM 91MHz / stream: https://www.alex-berlin.de/audio/radio-livestream ).
Don't be afraid about that German language aspect - it's a show 2 raise ur attention for new unheared #music all over the audible spectrum - music that has priority above all other things!
This time most of the 1st half wont be intellectually challenging that much ;) — music 4 your stomach, so 2 say — cuz it's about time 2 shake what u've got! ;)
With...
• #psychedelic #pop as if the EMF came back like phkn' time travelers
• #Rap which is shaking hands with air plays
• a #ClubBanger, and OMG, it absolutely BANGS!
• #Bass meets distorted techno
• #Industrial electronic from a cave to dance yer brains out to
• dirty #EBM which is actually more electro and acid, but still
And suddenly: 2nd half! With…
• Contemporary #experimental classic with mesmerizing clarinets
• experimental noize (some say #MusiqueConcrète - but it's about beer, really)
• #PostWave #MadeInSwitzerland as if #17seconds are still ticking
• #Phemale #HardcorePunk
• Pop #Punk
• #cosmic psychedelic stoner spirit prairie jazz (I don't exaggerate!)
• #Shoegaze which is #notStereolab but could very well be
As always I'll post the playlist after the show here. If u have questions during the show - I'll gladly answer (if I'm not away — but then I'll still answer but later!)
One more thing: The host of this very show is also taking part with his own track at the #Fedivision (just have say this, else no one will notice — I know for a brutal fact there will be fierce competition this year!)
↑↑↑ English version above, the German one is still below ↓↓↓
Ich muss das verdammt kurz machen, sonst reichen meine 3000Zeychen nicht aus!
Also Passuff. Is Sommer. Zeit für
RADIO IRRTUM!,
Das treibt Eure Seele sorgsam in den Abgrund des akustischen Wahnsinns, aber auch wieder zurück (Sommer!).
Heute, 10.06.23 um 20 Uhr auf Alex Berlin (FM 91MHz / Stream: s.o.).
Erste Hälfte wird intellektuell nich so herausfordernd ;) kuck:
• unbelievable POP
• Rap
• ClubBanger
• Bass trifft verzerrten Techno
• Industrieelektronik
• Electro + Acid = EBM
Und plötzlich Hälfte Zwo:
• sanft-noisy Klarinettenspiel
• Musique Concrète
• PostWave
• Hardcore
• Präriejazz
• Shoegaze
Playlist nach der Show genau hier. Fragen einfach stellen — ich antworte (vielleicht später).
Und: Der Moderator der Sendung nimmt mit einem eigenen Stück am #Fedivision Dingens teil (musses sagen, sonst kriegt das niemand mit, denn ich weiß: Das wird diesmal ein brutal hochwertiger Wettbewerb!) -
#radio ↓↓ German version far below the English one ↓↓ #radio
Feels like summer now in Berlin → that's a perfect time for a new issue of
RADIO IRRTUM!,
the strange #underground radio show that gently carries your soul into the abyss of sonic insanity… and back to reality (summer!) like a cool strong breeze out of place, out of time — just there. 4U.
2night, 2023-06-10 at 8:00PM (UTC+2) at Alex Berlin (FM 91MHz / stream: https://www.alex-berlin.de/audio/radio-livestream ).
Don't be afraid about that German language aspect - it's a show 2 raise ur attention for new unheared #music all over the audible spectrum - music that has priority above all other things!
This time most of the 1st half wont be intellectually challenging that much ;) — music 4 your stomach, so 2 say — cuz it's about time 2 shake what u've got! ;)
With...
• #psychedelic #pop as if the EMF came back like phkn' time travelers
• #Rap which is shaking hands with air plays
• a #ClubBanger, and OMG, it absolutely BANGS!
• #Bass meets distorted techno
• #Industrial electronic from a cave to dance yer brains out to
• dirty #EBM which is actually more electro and acid, but still
And suddenly: 2nd half! With…
• Contemporary #experimental classic with mesmerizing clarinets
• experimental noize (some say #MusiqueConcrète - but it's about beer, really)
• #PostWave #MadeInSwitzerland as if #17seconds are still ticking
• #Phemale #HardcorePunk
• Pop #Punk
• #cosmic psychedelic stoner spirit prairie jazz (I don't exaggerate!)
• #Shoegaze which is #notStereolab but could very well be
As always I'll post the playlist after the show here. If u have questions during the show - I'll gladly answer (if I'm not away — but then I'll still answer but later!)
One more thing: The host of this very show is also taking part with his own track at the #Fedivision (just have say this, else no one will notice — I know for a brutal fact there will be fierce competition this year!)
↑↑↑ English version above, the German one is still below ↓↓↓
Ich muss das verdammt kurz machen, sonst reichen meine 3000Zeychen nicht aus!
Also Passuff. Is Sommer. Zeit für
RADIO IRRTUM!,
Das treibt Eure Seele sorgsam in den Abgrund des akustischen Wahnsinns, aber auch wieder zurück (Sommer!).
Heute, 10.06.23 um 20 Uhr auf Alex Berlin (FM 91MHz / Stream: s.o.).
Erste Hälfte wird intellektuell nich so herausfordernd ;) kuck:
• unbelievable POP
• Rap
• ClubBanger
• Bass trifft verzerrten Techno
• Industrieelektronik
• Electro + Acid = EBM
Und plötzlich Hälfte Zwo:
• sanft-noisy Klarinettenspiel
• Musique Concrète
• PostWave
• Hardcore
• Präriejazz
• Shoegaze
Playlist nach der Show genau hier. Fragen einfach stellen — ich antworte (vielleicht später).
Und: Der Moderator der Sendung nimmt mit einem eigenen Stück am #Fedivision Dingens teil (musses sagen, sonst kriegt das niemand mit, denn ich weiß: Das wird diesmal ein brutal hochwertiger Wettbewerb!) -
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“Think of grief, anger, worry as bricks or planks of wood. Stop staring at the materials, half believing they were delivered to you by mistake, half expecting a truck to haul them away. Accept that these are your materials right now. Start building.”
– Maggie Smith, from her book Keep Moving
I’ve been feeling a lot of grief, anger and worry since the morning of November 6th 2024, when the results of the US presidential election were announced. Never in a million years I would have expected a convicted felon, an openly xenophobic, racist, transphobic misogynist and insurrectionist to be voted by half the country and allowed to ascend – yet again – to the most powerful job in his country. All this aided and abetted by a group of tech billionaires.
Four years is a long time. But it can also go by fast: ask this to any parent of a small child. As they say: the days are long but the years are short.
Instead of wallowing in this grief and anger, I have resolved to make this time – these four years – matter. It makes me feel better and more empowered to set some high goals, so that by January 2029 I could look back and think to myself: I have grown and helped others during these tumultuous four years. I made good use of that time.
Thus, “my so-called sudo life”.
What does “my so-called sudo life” mean?
sudo (short for “superuser do”) is a command on Unix systems that grants “superpowers” to a user, allowing them to execute commands with elevated privileges, like an admin.
This cartoon by xkcd was the first Linux joke I ever got:
I found it apt to name a blog about my new journey of (mostly tech) resistance and empowerment after that command line.
4 Goals for the next 4 years
In the days following November 6th I sketched a plan – for my own self care: set 4 goals for the next 4 years – 2 internal (self-improvement) and two “external” (helping others).
Goal 1: learn Linux, a free, open source operating system to set myself free from Big Tech monopolies. Sub goal no. 1: become so proficient in Linux that I could create a Linux computer, a Linux tablet and a Linux phone for my child (when the time comes, she’s 3 now). Sub goal no.2: become so proficient I can host my own Fediverse instance.
Goal 2: learn a new foreign language. I’m already fully fluent in Italian (my mother tongue), English and French. I love how learning a new language feels energizing and allows you to better understand new cultures. Well, I haven’t officially picked a new language yet. It’s currently a toss-up between Spanish (which I already understand well, because it’s similar to Italian) and Japanese (my favorite country to visit and added bonus: I could interact with people on MissKey). For the challenge aspect I’m leaning towards Japanese… yet I acknowledge Spanish would be a more realistic goal.
Goal 3: start doing presentations in high schools and universities about the Fediverse and FOSS projects, in order to raise awareness about the toxic side of Big Tech and the free, open-source alternatives that already exist and are much better from an ethical / digital sovereignty point of view.
Goal 4: help make the Fediverse a more diverse place, safer and more welcoming for people of color.
The rebellion will be federated
In a previous blog post I wrote:
What do billionaires and kleptocrats want? Uninformed, impulsive citizens driven by emotions (fear, rage, anxiety) instead of critical thinking. This way, they are so much easier to manipulate – for the gains of kleptocrats.
And:
A healthy (in body and mind), active, frugal, sociable, mostly offline citizen who is highly educated and informed, in full control of their data, avoiding Big Tech’s platforms and algorithms, with a positive self-esteem and self-image, is probably persona non grata for [these] tech billionaires.
I found goals that will propel me forward for the next four years – with a sense of hope. And that feels awesome (amidst all this chaos and sorrow).
4 Years
I’m in the unique position of being able to measure time in comparison to a US presidential term: I was heavily pregnant during the January 6th 2021 U.S. Capitol attack; my child was born during the early days of the Biden presidency and will turn 4 after Trump is sworn in as president.
Over the course of 4 years I have seen my tiny human grow, get stronger and develop new intellectual and motor skills. So many skills! I remember when she could barely hold a spoon in her hand. Now she builds impossible structures with LEGOs. She went from being non-verbal and communicating through cries to… speaking two languages fluently. She actually loves correcting my French pronunciation from time to time (“rue” “en dessous”). We figured out she understands a bit of English, too, but keeps that knowledge secret from us.
You can grow and learn so much in four years.
Power
This is my so-called sudo life, where I am giving myself superuser privileges… and I look forward to seeing what kind of person I will be in four year’s time. More than anything, I hope I will be part of a community of like-minded people, working towards the same goals.
This blog – or journal – is for accountability… to keep me motivated on these goals. And to share lessons I learned, hoping to inspire others to take steps towards greater digital sovereignty.
It feels very Wizard of Oz like: “You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.”
We already have so much power. There has never been a better time to take on superuser privileges (with care).
I shared my goals. What will be yours?
Elena
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https://elenarossini.com/2024/12/introducing-my-so-called-sudo-life/
#BigTech #digitalSovereignty #empowerment #floss #foreignLanguages #foss #freedom #Japanese #languages #linux #mySoCalledSudoLife #Spanish
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Conference Report – ALA Annual 2025
Hey all. Apologies for the unintended hiatus here and the EXTREMELY belated conference report for ALA Annual this year. For health reasons (and travel snafu reasons I’ll get into later), ALA Annual was extremely hard on me this year, and it took me nearly a month and a half to shake off the ensuing brain-fog and fatigue. THEN everything kind of started happening at once in my life, including buying a condo apparently. But! I am finally feeling better, and finally have brain-space to write this extremely belated report. Unfortunately, due to afore-mentioned brain-fog it will be somewhat shorter than I originally planned since it’s been such a long time since the conference.
Much of my conference was eaten up by attending Council meetings in my capacity as Councilor-at-Large. This was my first time attending Council meetings in person, so that was an interesting experience. As I thought, being there in person allowed for greater access to discussions with other councilors in a less formalized environment. I had some good conversations, and got to see some people I hadn’t seen in person for a couple years. The meetings themselves were long and full of information. The full Council agendas are not yet available to the public, so I’ll just go over what I can remember. Day 1’s Council meeting had a lot of committee reports which I don’t remember, but one thing that came about was we voted to re-unify the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) and Young Adult Library Services (YALSC) divisions. It will be a slow transition, but is meant to begin soon I believe. We also heard from the Policy Manual Working Group about Policy Manual revisions, a few of which we voted on, but nothing too ground breaking there.
Day 2 of Council was again committee reports with action items appended. I can’t remember all of them clearly, but one that sticks out is the Information Technology Committee’s report and request that Council create an AI Policy Working Group to formulate a unified ALA Policy on AI in libraries made up of people from all major divisions, Council, and any others who wanted to be involved. I immediately volunteered and was confirmed just recently to be a part of that working group, so I’m sure I’ll bring further news about that here in the future. The Working group is meant to have a draft policy to Council by Annual 2026, but we will see if we get there or have to ask for an extension. That day also saw the report from the Intellectual Freedom Committee, as well as presenting for approval the final drafts of a bunch of Library Bill of Rights Interpretations, some of which I helped draft/edit over this past year. All were eventually approved, though some edits were requested and approval was given the next day I believe. All of those updated interpretations can be seen on the Interpretations page of ALA.Org.
Day 3 of Council was when we finally got to my Resolution, the Resolution Calling for Increased Awareness and Support of the Merritt Fund. I began organizing this resolution almost immediately after the 2024 Election Results were announced. I and others predicted, rightly, that personal and career attacks on library workers would escalate in the coming years, and I asked what ALA would do to support them materially, not just with resolutions and statements. This is when I learned of the Merritt Fund, which is a fund to support library workers who have been
- Denied employment rights or discriminated against on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, age, disability, or place of national origin;
- or Denied employment rights because of defense of intellectual freedom
This fund is available to all library workers, regardless of affiliation with ALA, and is funded primarily by donations these days. If you’re looking for a good way to support library workers, donating to this fund is a good way to do so. If you find yourself in need and are a library worker, I highly recommend applying for assistance through the Fund. My resolution called on all divisions and Roundtables to make the Fund more known to their members, as most ALA members I’ve mentioned it to, and indeed myself, have no idea it exists. This was my first resolution, though I couldn’t have done it alone. I had a lot of help from a lot of people over the months, especially from my seconder Nick Tepe, and from a host of others including the then-President-Elect Sam Helmick. There are too many to name, but I thank them all very much for supporting this endeavor. The Resolution passed unanimously, the only resolution to do so in all three days.
Day 3 was also the day we looked over and approved the new ALA Strategic Plan. It took a good bit of wrangling and some amendments, including by yours truly, to get everyone happy with it, but we did in the end. That finalized plan has since been released to the public, and is available for perusal on the ALA Strategic Plan page. There was some concern on implementing it as our Treasurer’s report had revealed ALA is currently some $8million+ in the red for a variety of reasons. But those of us who voted for it did so hoping that this plan and its implementation would help alleviate that financial shortfall. Implementation has already begun with President Helmick calling a Special Council session in September for us to vote on some streamlining of how the Divisions and Roundtables operate to cut down on election costs and such. More on that as it happens I guess.
Phew, all that business, but what about the FUN part of Conferences? Well, I did have some fun as well. I participated in a panel talking about my chapter in the new book Censorship is a Drag: LGBTQ Materials and Programming Under Siege in Libraries, which was part of an ongoing ALA series edited by previous ALA President Emily Drabinski. It went very well and I got to talk to a bunch of people afterwards which was nice. I also managed to attend a couple of panels, though not many. Most excitingly for me personally, I got to meet Maia Kobabe and get a copy of Gender Queer signed! I didn’t know it was happening until about an hour before e was due to begin signing at which point I zoomed over to be first in line. I had to get a new copy of the book because I hadn’t brought my special edition, so now I’ve owned 3 copies of that book (I gave one away to a friend though), which is a new record for me. I also spent some time exploring the Zine pavilion, talking to zinesters, reconnecting with people I’ve met or talked to before, and acquiring quite the haul of new zines. All the new zines prompted me to finally decide I needed a better way to store them than tossing them on a bookshelf and praying, so I finally got a preservation grade three-ring box with preservation sleeves to store all my zines in.
My new signed copy of Gender Queer. Meeting Maia was a dream come true!Overall it was a very good and successful conference, and having the ability to borrow a scooter every day was hugely helpful in rationing my energy. I had a good time…until it was time to come home. It took me 51 hours to get from Philadelphia to north central Florida, and about the only type of transport I didn’t use was a boat. I probably would have made it home sooner if I’d taken a boat. I ended up taking a train out of Philly to spend the night with my aunt in Washington DC and take a flight from Baltimore the next morning. It was a harrowing ordeal (and given that my mom had two subsequent trips both of which took her an extra day to get home from, I’m feeling a little cursed). When I made it home I had a full on chronic illness crash out and slept round the clock for a full day and a half, and I’ve been battling severe brain-fog and greater fatigue than normal. I also had two subsequent virtual conferences in the first 3 weeks after I was back, which further fatigued me. This has made me seriously consider whether I can travel alone anymore as well, as there were several times where I was stranded unable to get where I needed to go in the various airports due to disability. It has moved up my desire to get an electric wheelchair, and my attendance at ALA Annual 2026 may depend on that eventuality too. But here’s hoping, I really want to attend for the 150th Anniversary!
This is what they did with the empty space where the IMLS booth should have been and wasn’t because of budget cuts/politics. People took pictures with it all weekend.#ALAAnnualConference #ALACouncil #bookSigning #books #conferences #librarianship #libraries #maiaKobabe #traveling
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Fall in love with captivating and passionate stories that celebrate Black women in STEM. Discover the enchanting world of #BlackSTEMRomance, where intellect and desire collide. #MakingSTEMSteamy #AfricanAmericanRomance #BookSky #BlackBookSky #contemporaryRomance http://CarlottaArdell.com
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Fall in love with captivating and passionate stories that celebrate Black women in STEM. Discover the enchanting world of #BlackSTEMRomance, where intellect and desire collide. #MakingSTEMSteamy #AfricanAmericanRomance CarlottaArdell.com
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Fall in love with captivating and passionate stories that celebrate Black women in STEM. Discover the enchanting world of #BlackSTEMRomance, where intellect and desire collide. #MakingSTEMSteamy #AfricanAmericanRomance CarlottaArdell.com
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Fall in love with captivating and passionate stories that celebrate Black women in STEM. Discover the enchanting world of #BlackSTEMRomance, where intellect and desire collide. #MakingSTEMSteamy #AfricanAmericanRomance CarlottaArdell.com
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Fall in love with captivating and passionate stories that celebrate Black women in STEM. Discover the enchanting world of #BlackSTEMRomance, where intellect and desire collide. #MakingSTEMSteamy #AfricanAmericanRomance CarlottaArdell.com
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Remembering the Women of the Black Panther Party
https://hyperallergic.com/793531/remembering-the-women-of-the-black-panther-party/
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Some Thoughts on Ten Years of Trial By Error
By David Tuller, DrPH
Ten years ago this month, I launched Trial By Error with a 15,000-word investigation of the misbegotten and fraudulent PACE trial, which purported to prove that graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) could cure what they then called chronic fatigue syndrome. And what an amazing ride it’s been for me—difficult and challenging at times, but always fascinating, rewarding and engaging, both intellectually and personally.
I have learned so much, have heard so many heartbreaking stories, and have met–whether in person or online—so many smart, funny, passionate and courageous people. I have also been deeply disturbed by the rampant and flagrant corruption in the editorial and peer-review practices of major medical journals, including those in the Lancet and BMJ stables. Not only have these august publications routinely failed to catch egregious methodological missteps, they have also routinely failed to take appropriate steps to fix problems once they’ve been pointed out. In many instances, their response to legitimate criticism can only be described as a blatant “fuck you.”
Back when, I never aspired to be the “chronic fatigue syndrome reporter” (or the “myalgic encephalomyelitis reporter”). I mean, who would have? But that’s what happened, and I am grateful that it did. Although I didn’t plan on spending an entire decade—basically, my 60s—on this project, it is hard now for me to imagine a more fulfilling or better use of my time.
The Lancet published the initial PACE results in 2011. Four years later, my initial PACE investigation appeared over the course of three days on Virology Blog, a popular science site hosted by my friend and colleague Vincent Racaniello, a microbiology professor at Columbia University. Given the length, the series was likely, for many patients, impossible to read without triggering major bouts of post-exertional malaise (PEM).
(As always, I need to point out that patients were aware of the trial’s fatal flaws long before I got involved; my work piggy-backed on their incisive and spot-on analyses of the research. I obviously owe enormous thanks to Professor Racaniello for supporting my project and allowing me to regularly hijack his site to disseminate my findings. I’m also grateful to Valerie Eliot Smith, a lawyer and longtime patient, and her husband, Robin Callendar; in addition to offering invaluable advice on legal matters, they suggested the name Trial By Error, which has stood the test of time.)
The publication of Trial By Error was very timely. A week later, Lancet Psychiatry published the PACE trial’s unimpressive long-term follow-up results, assessed on average 2.5 years after participants entered the trial. for the PACE trial. (The initial results were from the 12-month assessments.) This publication was another anti-scientific production from the high-powered triumvirate of lead authors—psychiatrists Michael Sharpe and Peter White, professors at, respectively, Oxford University and Queen Mary University of London, and Trudie Chalder, King’s College London’s factually and mathematically challenged professor of cognitive behavior therapy.
What was wrong with the follow-up study? Plenty. The authors chose not to focus on differences in long-term outcomes between the GET and CBT intervention groups and the comparison groups, since there were no such differences. Instead, they highlighted as their main finding that the intervention groups had maintained the (very modest) improvements claimed in the initial trial publication in The Lancet.
The fact that in the end the GET and CBT treatments provided no apparent advantage was relegated to a side-point—even though the results of interest in any clinical trial, even in follow-up, are the between-group differences, not whether the active intervention groups maintained their gains. In other words, presenting the follow-up findings as if they demonstrated the purported superiority of CBT and GET was a flagrant violation of scientific standards. It also represented a stark failure of the journal’s peer-review practices.
However, because Trial By Error had appeared the week before, some high-profile publications–such as Science (“Criticism mounts of a long-controversial chronic fatigue [syndrome] study”) and The Guardian (“Chronic fatigue [syndrome] patients criticise study that says exercise can help”)–reported on the Lancet Psychiatry paper and my expose in the same article. When these more balanced and nuanced media accounts appeared, it gave me great pleasure to imagine the dismay and shock they must have triggered in the three prominent academics in charge of PACE.
After all, these privileged and self-important investigators were used to glowing coverage of their work. From my perspective, some of this unwarranted praise could only be attributed to the British tradition of deference to authority—in this case, those who had risen to the level of. “professor.” In American English, “professor” is often used generically to designate anyone teaching students above the high school level. At Berkeley, for example, my students would routinely refer to me as their professor, even though I was officially a “lecturer.”
In the UK, it seemed to me, anyone anointed with an official professorship commanded unquestioning respect—whether deserved or not. In the case of the PACE authors and their colleagues, such respect was clearly not justified. Even so, patients challenging the study findings, no matter how cogent and accurate their arguments, were routinely portrayed as twisted and dangerous terrorists bent on tearing down the august domain of Science. In reality, the PACE authors and their ilk were the deluded batch, promoting bogus recommendations that posed enormous potential harm to patients, given the risk of prolonged bouts of PEM.
That an academic from a world-class research institution in the United States would call the trial “a piece of crap” and publicly rip a print-out of the trial to shreds was apparently outside these professors’ range of experiences and expectations. After the initial publication, QMUL declared that my work was triggering “internet abuse” and “reputational damage”—language that I interpreted as legal threats. Of course, I wasn’t sued then and I haven’t been since, even though British libel laws are far more biased toward the plaintiffs than in the U.S.
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Over the years, the PACE authors and their colleagues have made fools of themselves in trying to defend the indefensible. I could fill a book with tales of their stupidity and arrogance, but will just recount a couple of examples here.
Not long after the publication of Trial By Error, Professor Sir Simon Wessely, who had a major role in PACE although was not a listed author, immediately sought to support his colleagues with a misguided essay in The Mental Elf, a prominent site covering mental health issues. In the essay, called “The PACE Trial for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: choppy seas but a prosperous voyage,” Professor Sir Simon compared the study to an ocean liner that sets out from Southampton to New York. After a few mid-course “corrections,” he noted, the “HMS PACE” arrived at last at its intended destination.
(The essay did not mention me or Trial By Error, although the post was clearly an effort to debunk what I had exposed.)
This was an idiotic and ill-advised analogy. Apart from calling to mind the Titanic, it represented a fundamental misunderstanding of the point of clinical trials—this from someone who fancied himself an expert in research methodology. As my friend and colleague Steve Lubet, a law professor at Northwestern University in Chicago (now emeritus), wrote in an open letter to Professor Sir Simon posted as a blog:
“You compare the PACE Trial to an ocean liner plotting a course from Southampton to New York, and express satisfaction that it made the trip “successfully across the Atlantic,” despite course corrections along the way. But surely you realize that a randomized controlled study is not supposed to have a fixed destination, but rather should follow wherever the evidence – or the current, to maintain the metaphor — leads. You thus virtually admit that the PACE Trial was always intended to reach a particular result, and that adjustments along the way were necessary to get it there. Just so.…”
Oops. Busted! In his response to Professor Lubet’s blog post, Professor Sir Simon dribbled out some drivel and nonsense, but the damage was done.
For his part, the hapless Professor Sharpe also tried to challenge Trial By Error’s reporting—to little avail. One of my sources, Columbia University’s biostats professor Bruce Levin, had referred to some of the PACE trial’s methodological missteps as “the height of clinical trial amateurism”—a potent phrase that made me laugh. Poor Professor Sharpe apparently took umbrage—and months after Trial By Error appeared, he e-mailed Professor Levin to ask whether he’d actually described the research in this manner.
Professor Levin informed him that, yes, he did indeed say what I’d quoted him as saying, and he shared with Professor Sharpe some of the other sharp criticisms he’d made as well. After Professor Levin informed me of their exchange, I e-mailed Professor Sharpe and offered to provide him with contact information for the other academic experts I had quoted. Perhaps, I suggested, he might want to vet all of their quotes in the story and assure himself that they all genuinely viewed his beloved trial as bullshit. Professor Sharpe declined my offer.
That was all quite a while ago now. To the discredit of The Lancet, PACE has not been retracted. It has, however, been discredited—and good riddance. Since those early years, the PACE authors and their colleagues have exhibited increasing desperation to protect their intellectual and academic turf. They continue to pretend their research has been robust and meaningful, and view all their critics as losers, creeps or charlatans. (I think they place me in the latter category, or perhaps even all three.)
Whatever. These academics are classic examples of what are known, in literature, as “unreliable narrators.” Nothing they say or write can be taken at face value. Everything must be presumed to be geared toward protecting their inflated reputations and their privileged status. However, they have lost control of the narrative. They know that, and they are scared. They continue to bleat in protest, but their three-decade hegemonic reign in this domain is over. The world is moving on—yet they refuse to budge.
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Excavators say they've found a previously unknown Egyptian royal tomb in Luxor
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/15/1149342572/ancient-egypt-royal-tomb-luxor-archeology
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Fourteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2022
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@hacks4pancakes You overestimate how many people in the USA even understand the gap in privacy protections between here and the EU. If you're on #LinkedIn, check out the current brouhaha about LinkedIn opting in all non-EU residents into their #AI_ML #dataaggregation and training without notice and before updating their terms of service.
In the US, most non-enterprise #TOS contracts of adhesion basically make it our responsibility to stay on top of the changes anyway; most of the time individuals aren't even provided advanced notice. Simply continuing to use the service in ignorance implies agreement with any new terms. In addition, those terms almost always say you agree that they can be changed at any time, with or without notice, at the service provider's sole discretion.
I've spent this entire week explaining to people why LinkedIn is allowed to do that to us but not to you; why they won't get more than a slap on the wrist, if that, from any oversight body; and why our current copyright laws and precedents around software licensing basically ensure that LinkedIn, #Microsoft, #Google, and #OpenAI will continue to get a free pass on literally stealing people's data and intellectual property, making it "proprietary" and sealing people's data up behind an impenetrable paywall, and then selling a slurry of appropriated data (including their own) back to them at the highest price the market will bear.
That's not free-market capitalism. It's just corporate welfare for large companies, institutional stockholders, and chip makers, plus a dash of good ol' fashioned "Robber Baron" economics.
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Communication styles of BRICS countries within the SADC context is essential for making informed decisions, fostering effective collaborations, and successfully navigating the complex landscape of this regional bloc. It requires ongoing research, cultural awareness, and adaptability to thrive in the diverse and dynamic environments of these nations. @[email protected] ·Temporal Theology and Civilizational Time: An Interfaith Analysis of Easter, Islamic Calendrical Systems, and the Iran–Israel Paradigm
Author: Joshua Shipepe Hadula
Abstract
This paper examines the intersection of religious calendars, theology, and geopolitical identity through the lens of Easter in Christianity and its contrast with Islamic temporal frameworks. By analyzing the Christian lunisolar calculation of Easter alongside the Islamic lunar calendar, the study explores how differing conceptions of time reflect deeper theological divergences—particularly concerning the figure of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, the paper situates these differences within the contemporary geopolitical context of Iran and Israel, arguing that calendrical systems are not merely tools of timekeeping but expressions of civilizational identity, authority, and metaphysical truth. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship from theology, astronomy, and political thought, this work proposes that Easter functions as a symbolic fault line between Abrahamic traditions.
1. Introduction
Time, within religious traditions, is not neutral. It is structured, interpreted, and imbued with theological meaning. Among the Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism each employ distinct calendrical systems that reflect their doctrinal foundations. Easter, the central feast of Christianity, offers a unique case study: it is both astronomically calculated and theologically decisive, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In contrast, Islam rejects the crucifixion and resurrection narrative, thereby eliminating any theological need for an Easter equivalent. Judaism, meanwhile, situates its sacred chronology around Passover, a historical and covenantal event. These differences extend beyond ritual practice and enter the realm of civilizational identity, particularly in regions where religion and politics intersect, such as Iran and Israel.
This paper explores how Easter serves as an analytical bridge between theology, calendar science, and geopolitical consciousness.
2. The Christian Construction of Easter: A Lunisolar Theology
Easter is determined as the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This formula, formalized at the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, represents a synthesis of solar and lunar cycles. The result is a movable feast that aligns cosmic events with theological significance.
Scholars of calendrical studies argue that this calculation reflects an early Christian attempt to universalize time across diverse regions. By anchoring Easter to both celestial phenomena and doctrinal necessity, the Church established a rhythm that symbolized cosmic redemption. The resurrection of Christ is thus not only a historical claim but also a cosmological event embedded in time itself.
However, this system has historically generated disputes, particularly between Eastern and Western Christian traditions, highlighting the political dimension of temporal authority.
3. The Islamic Calendar: Lunar Precision and Theological Simplicity
Islam operates on a purely lunar calendar consisting of twelve months totaling approximately 354 days. Unlike the Christian system, it does not reconcile with the solar year, resulting in the rotation of Islamic holy periods—such as Ramadan—through all seasons.
This structure reflects a theological orientation toward submission (Islam) rather than cosmic symbolism. Religious observance is tied to the physical sighting of the moon, emphasizing human participation in divine command rather than abstract astronomical calculation.
Crucially, Islam denies the crucifixion of Jesus, asserting instead that he was raised by God. This theological position removes the need for a resurrection-based holiday. Consequently, the absence of an Easter analogue is not a deficiency but a reflection of doctrinal coherence.
4. Theological Divergence: Jesus as the Axis of Temporal Meaning
At the center of the Easter debate lies the identity of Jesus Christ:
- In Christianity, Jesus is the Son of God, whose death and resurrection redeem humanity.
- In Islam, Jesus is a revered prophet, neither crucified nor divine.
- In Judaism, Jesus does not occupy a central theological role.
This divergence produces fundamentally different understandings of time:
- Christianity views time as redeemed through a singular salvific event.
- Islam understands time as a continuous framework for obedience to God.
- Judaism interprets time through covenantal memory and historical continuity.
Easter, therefore, represents more than a date—it encapsulates competing metaphysical claims about reality, history, and divine intervention.
5. Calendars as Instruments of Power and Identity
Calendars are not merely technical systems; they are instruments of authority. Control over timekeeping implies control over religious practice, social organization, and historical narrative.
Academic literature highlights how early disputes over Easter were as much about ecclesiastical power as theological correctness. Similarly, modern states utilize calendars to assert identity. Iran, for example, employs a highly accurate solar calendar for civil purposes while maintaining Islamic lunar observances for religious life. This dual system reflects a synthesis of scientific rationality and religious tradition.
Israel, on the other hand, uses the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, aligning religious festivals such as Passover with both lunar cycles and agricultural seasons. The historical connection between Passover and Easter underscores a shared origin that later diverged due to theological developments.
6. Iran and Israel: Temporal Systems in Geopolitical Context
The modern political tension between Iran and Israel can be partially understood through their differing temporal and theological frameworks:
- Iran represents an اسلامی epistemology that denies the crucifixion and emphasizes prophetic continuity.
- Israel embodies a covenantal tradition rooted in historical memory and national identity.
Easter, positioned between Passover and often near Ramadan, becomes a symbolic intersection of these traditions. While not directly influencing policy, these temporal structures shape cultural consciousness and ideological narratives.
In this sense, calendar systems contribute to what may be termed “civilizational time”—a shared understanding of history and destiny that informs political behavior.
7. Academic Discourse and Interfaith Implications
Contemporary scholarship has increasingly recognized the importance of calendars in interfaith dialogue. Theological debates surrounding Easter often intersect with discussions on historical Jesus studies, scriptural interpretation, and comparative religion.
Efforts to unify the date of Easter among Christian denominations reflect a broader desire for cohesion, yet similar alignment across Abrahamic faiths remains unlikely due to foundational doctrinal differences.
Nevertheless, the study of these systems offers valuable insights into how religions conceptualize time, authority, and truth.
8. Conclusion
Easter serves as a focal point for understanding the intersection of theology, astronomy, and geopolitics. Its calculation embodies a Christian vision of cosmic redemption, while its rejection within Islam highlights a fundamentally different theological framework. When viewed alongside Jewish temporal traditions and the modern political realities of Iran and Israel, Easter emerges as a symbolic fault line in civilizational thought.
Ultimately, this analysis demonstrates that calendars are not neutral constructs but expressions of deeply held beliefs about the nature of reality. By examining how different traditions structure time, we gain insight into their broader worldviews and the enduring complexities of interfaith and geopolitical relations.
References (Selected)
- Stern, S. Calendars in Antiquity: Empires, States, and Societies. Oxford University Press.
- Nasr, S. H. Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present.
- Wright, N. T. The Resurrection of the Son of God.
- Rahman, F. Major Themes of the Qur’an.
- World Council of Churches. Frequently Asked Questions About the Date of Easter.
- Museum of the Bible. Astronomy, Calendars, and the Date of Easter.
- Akrami, M. The Iranian Calendar: A Scientific Perspective.
Deep Time and Civilizational Identity: A Comparative Study of Iranian Continuity, Western Modernity, and San Ancestral HeritageAuthor: Joshua Shipepe Hadula
Abstract
This paper examines the concept of “age” in human history by distinguishing between three overlapping but fundamentally different temporal frameworks: human ancestry, civilization, and modern statehood. Focusing on the Iranian plateau as one of the oldest continuous civilizations, Western Europe and the United States as relatively recent political formations, and the San peoples of Southern Africa as among the oldest continuous human populations, the study argues that historical “seniority” depends on the category of analysis. By integrating anthropological, archaeological, and historical perspectives, the paper demonstrates that while Iran represents long-term civilizational continuity, the San embody deep human antiquity that predates all known civilizations. This comparative framework challenges conventional narratives of historical development and re-centers Africa within the global chronology of humanity.
1. Introduction
Discussions of historical age often conflate distinct concepts: the antiquity of human populations, the emergence of civilizations, and the formation of modern nation-states. These categories operate on vastly different temporal scales yet are frequently treated as interchangeable in popular discourse. This paper seeks to disentangle these frameworks by examining three representative cases: the long-standing civilization of Iran, the relatively recent development of Western political states, and the deep ancestral continuity of the San peoples in Southern Africa.
By doing so, the study aims to clarify how different forms of historical continuity—genetic, cultural, and institutional—produce distinct claims to antiquity and identity.
2. Conceptual Framework: Three Dimensions of Time
To avoid analytical confusion, this paper proposes a tripartite framework:
- Ancestral Time – the continuity of human populations over tens of thousands of years.
- Civilizational Time – the emergence of organized societies with cities, governance, and writing.
- Political Time – the formation of modern nation-states and institutional systems.
Each operates independently, and no single society dominates across all three dimensions.
3. Iran and the Continuity of Civilization
The Iranian plateau is widely recognized as one of the oldest centers of continuous civilization. Archaeological evidence indicates the presence of complex societies as early as the fourth millennium BCE, including the civilization of Elam. Over time, the region saw the rise of successive empires—the Medes, Achaemenids, Parthians, and Sasanians—followed by Islamic dynasties that preserved and transformed earlier traditions.
This continuity is not merely political but cultural and linguistic. The persistence of Persian identity, despite invasions and transformations, illustrates a unique form of civilizational resilience. Scholars of Near Eastern history often emphasize that Iran’s historical trajectory represents an unbroken thread of statecraft, intellectual production, and cultural memory spanning over five millennia.
Thus, Iran exemplifies civilizational time, where institutions and cultural systems evolve yet maintain identifiable continuity.
4. Western Europe and the United States: The Emergence of Modern Political Time
In contrast, the political structures of Western Europe and North America are comparatively recent. While Europe hosts the remnants of ancient civilizations such as Greece and Rome, modern nation-states largely emerged after the early modern period, particularly following the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
The United States, established in 1776, represents an even more recent political entity. Its identity is not rooted in ancient continuity but in constitutional innovation and ideological principles such as democracy and individual rights.
This form of historical development reflects political time, characterized by rapid institutional formation, transformation, and reinvention. Unlike Iran, where continuity is emphasized, Western states often derive legitimacy from progress, reform, and modernity rather than antiquity.
5. The San Peoples: Deep Ancestral Continuity
The San peoples of Southern Africa occupy a fundamentally different position in human history. Genetic and archaeological evidence suggests that they are among the oldest continuous human populations, with lineage tracing back over 100,000 years. Their presence in regions such as present-day Namibia predates the emergence of agriculture, cities, and written language.
The San have maintained cultural practices, including hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies, oral traditions, and ecological knowledge systems, that reflect a deep connection to early human lifeways. This continuity represents ancestral time, extending far beyond the temporal scope of any known civilization.
Importantly, the San do not fit conventional definitions of “civilization,” yet their historical depth surpasses all state-based societies. This challenges hierarchical notions that equate complexity with antiquity or superiority.
6. Comparative Analysis: Overlapping Temporalities
A comparative view reveals that these three cases occupy different positions across the temporal spectrum:
- The San represent the origin and persistence of humanity itself.
- Iran represents the long-term development of organized civilization.
- Western states represent the recent emergence of modern political systems.
These are not competing claims but complementary dimensions of history. Each reflects a different aspect of human existence: biological survival, social organization, and institutional governance.
7. Reframing Global History
This analysis calls for a re-evaluation of dominant historical narratives that prioritize recent political power or technological advancement. By recognizing the deep antiquity of African populations such as the San, it becomes clear that Africa is not peripheral but central to the human story.
Similarly, acknowledging Iran’s long civilizational continuity highlights the importance of non-Western contributions to global history. Western modernity, while influential, represents only a brief phase within a much longer human timeline.
8. Conclusion
The concept of historical “age” is multifaceted and depends on the lens through which it is viewed. Iran stands as one of the oldest continuous civilizations, embodying millennia of cultural and political development. Western Europe and the United States, though powerful, are relatively recent constructions within the framework of political time. The San peoples, however, represent a deeper and more profound continuity—one that reaches back to the earliest chapters of human existence.
Understanding these distinctions allows for a more nuanced appreciation of global history, one that respects the diversity of human experience across different temporal scales. Rather than asking which society is “oldest,” it is more accurate to recognize that humanity itself unfolds across multiple, overlapping timelines.
References (Selected)
- Diamond, J. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
- Ehret, C. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800.
- Nasr, S. H. Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study.
- Smith, A. D. The Ethnic Origins of Nations.
- Stringer, C. The Origin of Our Species.
- Trigger, B. G. Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study.
Here is a fully strengthened academic transcript with named scholars, journals, and properly structured references (APA-style influence), while maintaining your original intellectual voice and framework:
Deep Time and Civilizational Identity: Extending the Timeline
Empire, Memory, and Global Accountability in Comparative Perspective
Author: Joshua Shipepe Hadula
Abstract
This transcript extends the tripartite framework of ancestral, civilizational, and political time by situating the British Empire and the Transatlantic Slave Trade within global historical chronology. Drawing on leading historians, anthropologists, and legal scholars, the paper argues that modern institutions—including the United Nations—face structural and epistemological limitations in addressing historical injustices rooted in earlier temporal regimes. By integrating interdisciplinary scholarship, the study advances a reframing of accountability across overlapping timelines.
1. Introduction: Expanding the Temporal Lens
The differentiation between ancestral, civilizational, and political time provides a critical methodological tool for historical analysis. Scholars such as Fernand Braudel emphasize the importance of the longue durée, while Immanuel Wallerstein situates modern global structures within capitalist expansion.
This study builds on these traditions by examining how empire, slavery, and modern governance intersect across temporal scales.
2. The British Empire and the Consolidation of Political Time
The British Empire represents a defining moment in the expansion of political time into a global system. Historians such as Niall Ferguson and C. A. Bayly argue that the empire accelerated globalization through trade, governance, and communication networks.
At the same time, postcolonial scholars including Edward Said and Dipesh Chakrabarty critique the epistemological dominance imposed by imperial structures.
Thus, the empire must be understood as:
- A system of global integration
- A mechanism of economic extraction
- A reconfiguration of indigenous temporalities into imperial governance
3. The Transatlantic Slave Trade as Historical Disruption
The Transatlantic Slave Trade has been extensively documented by scholars such as Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic and Walter Rodney in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
This system:
- Displaced over 12 million Africans
- Disrupted kinship systems and oral histories
- Created diasporic identities under coercion
Anthropologist Sidney Mintz further links slavery to the rise of global capitalism, demonstrating how plantation economies shaped modern consumption patterns.
The slave trade thus represents a rupture in ancestral time, where continuity is replaced by fragmentation and forced adaptation.
4. Royalty, Empire, and Historical Inheritance
The evolution of institutions such as the British Royal Family must be situated within imperial history. While historians like David Cannadine highlight the symbolic and ceremonial nature of monarchy, others point to its embeddedness within imperial systems.
Economic historians, including Eric Williams, argue that wealth generated through slavery and colonial exploitation contributed to European institutional development.
However, contemporary scholarship emphasizes:
- The diffuse nature of imperial wealth accumulation
- The distinction between direct and indirect benefit
- The persistence of symbolic authority beyond empire
Thus, modern royalty represents not a direct continuation of slavery, but a historical inheritance shaped by imperial structures.
5. International Law and the Problem of Historical Justice
The United Nations has acknowledged slavery as a crime against humanity, yet formal accountability remains limited. Legal scholars such as Antony Anghie argue that international law itself emerged within imperial contexts, shaping its limitations.
Key challenges include:
5.1 Non-Retroactivity of Law
As outlined in international legal doctrine, laws cannot typically be applied to actions preceding their codification.
5.2 State Sovereignty
The modern international system prioritizes sovereign equality, limiting enforcement mechanisms.
5.3 Political Economy of Power
As noted by Makau Mutua, global governance structures often reflect historical power imbalances.
6. Journals and Scholarly Discourse
The issues explored in this transcript are widely debated in leading academic journals, including:
- Journal of African History
- Past & Present
- Third World Quarterly
- American Historical Review
These publications collectively emphasize the need to integrate African perspectives into global historiography and reassess dominant narratives of modernity.
7. Reframing Accountability Across Time
Scholars increasingly advocate for multidimensional approaches to justice, including:
- Reparations discourse (see Hilary Beckles)
- Memory studies (see Aleida Assmann)
- Decolonial theory (see Walter Mignolo)
This approach recognizes that historical injustice cannot be resolved solely through legal mechanisms but requires:
- Cultural acknowledgment
- Educational transformation
- Economic redress
8. Conclusion
The integration of the British Empire into the broader temporal framework reinforces a central conclusion: historical significance depends on the dimension of time under consideration.
- The empire dominates political time
- Slavery disrupts ancestral time
- Civilizations like Iran sustain civilizational time
Modern institutions, including the United Nations, operate within political time yet are tasked with addressing injustices rooted in deeper temporal layers.
This tension defines the contemporary challenge of global justice.
References (Selected, APA Style)
- Braudel, F. (1980). On History. University of Chicago Press.
- Gilroy, P. (1993). The Black Atlantic. Harvard University Press.
- Rodney, W. (1972). How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Bogle-L’Ouverture.
- Williams, E. (1944). Capitalism and Slavery. University of North Carolina Press.
- Wallerstein, I. (1974). The Modern World-System. Academic Press.
- Anghie, A. (2005). Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law. Cambridge University Press.
- Beckles, H. (2013). Britain’s Black Debt. University of the West Indies Press.
- Chakrabarty, D. (2000). Provincializing Europe. Princeton University Press.
- Said, E. (1978). Orientalism. Pantheon Books.
- Mintz, S. (1985). Sweetness and Power. Penguin Books.
Here is your enhanced academic transcript with Namibia-specific case studies integrated at a scholarly level, maintaining your framework and strengthening its regional authority:
Deep Time and Civilizational Identity: Extending the Timeline
Empire, Memory, and Global Accountability in Comparative Perspective
Author: Joshua Shipepe Hadula
Abstract
This study extends the tripartite framework of ancestral, civilizational, and political time by incorporating Southern African case studies, particularly Namibia. By examining the British Empire, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and Namibia’s colonial and postcolonial experience, the paper demonstrates how global systems of power intersect with deep ancestral continuities. It further argues that institutions such as the United Nations face structural limitations in addressing layered historical injustices.
1. Introduction: Namibia in the Global Timeline
Namibia offers a critical lens through which to examine overlapping temporalities. While often positioned within modern political narratives, its history reflects:
- Ancestral continuity (San and early populations)
- Colonial disruption (German and South African rule)
- Modern state formation (post-1990 independence)
This makes Namibia a microcosm of global history, where deep time and political time collide.
2. Ancestral Time: The San and Deep Human History
The San people represent one of the oldest continuous human populations on Earth, with genetic lineages tracing back over 100,000 years.
In Namibia:
- Rock art sites such as Twyfelfontein reflect long-standing symbolic and cultural expression
- Oral traditions preserve ecological knowledge systems
- Hunter-gatherer practices illustrate continuity with early human lifeways
Anthropologists such as Richard B. Lee emphasize that San societies challenge assumptions that complexity only emerges through agriculture or state formation.
Namibia, therefore, anchors ancestral time at a global scale.
3. Colonial Disruption: German South West Africa
Namibia’s entry into global political time occurred violently under German colonization of Namibia, when it became German South West Africa.
This period culminated in the Herero and Namaqua Genocide, widely recognized as one of the first genocides of the 20th century.
Key features include:
- Systematic extermination policies
- Forced displacement into desert regions
- Concentration camps such as Shark Island Concentration Camp
Scholars like Jürgen Zimmerer and Benjamin Madley argue that this genocide prefigured later European atrocities, including those in World War II.
This moment represents a violent imposition of political time onto ancestral populations.
4. South African Rule and Apartheid Extension
Following Germany’s defeat in World War I, Namibia came under South African administration, extending the system of Apartheid into the territory.
Under this regime:
- Land dispossession intensified
- Racial classification systems were institutionalized
- Indigenous populations were confined to homelands
The struggle for independence was led by movements such as SWAPO, culminating in independence in 1990.
Namibia’s modern statehood thus emerges from prolonged resistance within political time.
5. Namibia and the Question of Reparations
Namibia stands at the forefront of global debates on historical justice. The Namibian government has engaged Germany in negotiations over recognition and reparations for the Herero and Namaqua genocide.
Key developments include:
- Germany’s formal acknowledgment of genocide (2021)
- Financial commitments framed as “development aid” rather than legal reparations
- Ongoing criticism from affected communities regarding representation and adequacy
Scholars such as Henning Melber highlight the tension between symbolic recognition and material justice.
This case illustrates the broader limitations faced by the United Nations and international law in addressing colonial-era crimes.
6. Walvis Bay, Trade, and Global Systems
The strategic port of Walvis Bay connects Namibia to global trade networks historically shaped by empire.
- Initially controlled by Britain, then South Africa
- Reintegrated into Namibia in 1994
- Serves as a gateway for regional and international commerce
This reflects how colonial infrastructure continues to shape modern economic geography, linking Namibia to global systems rooted in imperial expansion.
7. Comparative Insight: Namibia in the Global Framework
When placed alongside Iran and Western states:
- The San of Namibia represent ancestral time
- Colonial Namibia reflects imposed political time
- Independent Namibia embodies emerging statehood within modern systems
Unlike Iran’s long civilizational continuity, Namibia’s historical trajectory is marked by interruption, resistance, and reconstruction.
8. Reframing Global History through Namibia
Namibia challenges dominant narratives by demonstrating that:
- Africa is central to human origins and continuity
- Colonialism represents a disruption, not a beginning
- Modern states are recent overlays on ancient landscapes
This reinforces calls by scholars such as Achille Mbembe to rethink history beyond Eurocentric timelines.
9. Conclusion
Namibia’s history embodies all three dimensions of time:
- Deep ancestral continuity through the San
- Violent colonial disruption under German and South African rule
- Modern political reconstruction after independence
Its case underscores a central argument of this study: historical justice cannot be understood without recognizing the depth and complexity of overlapping temporalities.
The challenge for global institutions, including the United Nations, is not only legal but moral—how to reconcile modern governance with ancient and interrupted human histories.
References (Expanded, APA Style)
- Braudel, F. (1980). On History. University of Chicago Press.
- Melber, H. (2019). Understanding Namibia. Hurst Publishers.
- Zimmerer, J. (2011). Genocide in German South-West Africa. Merlin Press.
- Madley, B. (2016). An American Genocide. Yale University Press.
- Mbembe, A. (2001). On the Postcolony. University of California Press.
- Rodney, W. (1972). How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Bogle-L’Ouverture.
- Beckles, H. (2013). Britain’s Black Debt. University of the West Indies Press.
- Lee, R. B. (1979). The !Kung San. Cambridge University Press.
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So I'm having this intellectual vision moment right now
It has to do with something I'm going to call right left dysregulation versus left right dysregulation
It happens when you can for example breathe through one nostril but not the other or have an ache on one side or the other and it's generally correlative with the presence of inflammation in an organ or large amounts of matter going through the digestive tract at the same time on one side or the other ..when it's on the right side it's coming out of the small intestine up into the ascending colon through the appendix etc then it makes the jump from the right to the left with the transverse and depending on a host of factors that trip is fast or slow
So if you are holding back your food from the transverse colon or the transverse colon doesn't move quickly or your pancreas is swollen so it doesn't want to pass over the pancreas or the liver is swollen so it doesn't want to go past the liver etc gallbladder all of these things can slow things down and it's not the biggest of deals except it will produce a host of different symptoms
Some people can learn to ignore them most people learn to ignore them probably especially on a limited level when they get severe it's harder but doable as is demonstrated by my life
But I also think the more that they get ignored the more other things pop up and that's why I'm riding right now
Writing
I was having a decent morning the voice is doing mostly okay I'm slightly sluggish digestively which for me I'm think that it is the ileosecal valve not closing and the liver slowing things down more also my pancreas right now I'm feeling a little bit of a twinge now and then
Nothing serious it was my first day on solid food which was steak cubes slow cooked in stuff injera and a couple beans things
So it's not surprising it's a little off-kilter
But I spent a morning breathing into it especially because I had a very disappointing moment of spending money that I didn't have on a late fee that I didn't need to spend and me trying to escape this country I just it's easy for me to spiral I tooted about it earlier
But considering how well I sang yesterday I had to cheer myself up so that I could check and see if I wanted to sing today
So I lay down got stoned and watched some TV
And ray made noises like you wanted to go out even though he had pooped last night
So I took him out it was a little bit vexing and I had executive function issues about doing it because I was debating whether or not to feed him first but I decided empty him out and then feed him and he was nervous because he thought I was going to just leave him inside I had to start taking off my jacket in my shoes to make it clear I was staying before he would come back in because he's been conditioned to having to wait inside while I collect the free $20 from the farmers markets
I woke up this morning not needing to get stoned which is really rare that's the #teff #injera and no #gluten... My sense of smell is getting better, too
(It's so easy to lose prospective as a lifelong #bedrotter but I'm starting to notice smells in my apartment that might not have been unnoticeable to other people before (blush))
So I wasn't stoned didn't necessarily feel the need to was just going to focus on my breath because everything was a little stiff
Then I realized the thing about losing $30 (which would be another meal like this which would put me an even better capacity to control my body and therefore my mood and therefore The voice) tensed up and got mad ...and since my mood is very important to the voice I made the executive decision to spend some time in bed before I did anything else because when I get tense I slow down and become right left dysregulated and was trying to learn that mechanism it's easier when injera moves through gently.
So I watched Watson and it was beautiful this little Valentine love story that was told in december.. whatever
Gave Ray a nice walk he was happy came back in I'm repeating myself kind of
Fed Ray he was even happier and I was watching myself breathe In The mirror when there was a noise in the hall and Ray reacted and barked medium loudly and it was really painful
....this was about an hour ago I had to lie down to make it not hurt this was me feeling good and then all of a sudden I had this reaction because when my body tenses up as it is trying to relax and pass food through it's a jolt to the system that is excruciating once you start to become aware of it or are unable to avoid it
This is my explanation of one reason why people get overly sensitized to noises
Which is why the person above me is so stressful for me
In addition to me hearing the damage she is doing to her voice, all of the stomping and slamming is a jolt to the system every time and you can get locked in there
So me talking this out through this toot is my trying to understand it
But yeah that vision of right left (neuro) dusregulation versus left right dysregulation being more mechanical/medical (sigmoid/venal damage, pancreatitis) just came to me
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So I'm having this intellectual vision moment right now
It has to do with something I'm going to call right left dysregulation versus left right dysregulation
It happens when you can for example breathe through one nostril but not the other or have an ache on one side or the other and it's generally correlative with the presence of inflammation in an organ or large amounts of matter going through the digestive tract at the same time on one side or the other ..when it's on the right side it's coming out of the small intestine up into the ascending colon through the appendix etc then it makes the jump from the right to the left with the transverse and depending on a host of factors that trip is fast or slow
So if you are holding back your food from the transverse colon or the transverse colon doesn't move quickly or your pancreas is swollen so it doesn't want to pass over the pancreas or the liver is swollen so it doesn't want to go past the liver etc gallbladder all of these things can slow things down and it's not the biggest of deals except it will produce a host of different symptoms
Some people can learn to ignore them most people learn to ignore them probably especially on a limited level when they get severe it's harder but doable as is demonstrated by my life
But I also think the more that they get ignored the more other things pop up and that's why I'm riding right now
Writing
I was having a decent morning the voice is doing mostly okay I'm slightly sluggish digestively which for me I'm think that it is the ileosecal valve not closing and the liver slowing things down more also my pancreas right now I'm feeling a little bit of a twinge now and then
Nothing serious it was my first day on solid food which was steak cubes slow cooked in stuff injera and a couple beans things
So it's not surprising it's a little off-kilter
But I spent a morning breathing into it especially because I had a very disappointing moment of spending money that I didn't have on a late fee that I didn't need to spend and me trying to escape this country I just it's easy for me to spiral I tooted about it earlier
But considering how well I sang yesterday I had to cheer myself up so that I could check and see if I wanted to sing today
So I lay down got stoned and watched some TV
And ray made noises like you wanted to go out even though he had pooped last night
So I took him out it was a little bit vexing and I had executive function issues about doing it because I was debating whether or not to feed him first but I decided empty him out and then feed him and he was nervous because he thought I was going to just leave him inside I had to start taking off my jacket in my shoes to make it clear I was staying before he would come back in because he's been conditioned to having to wait inside while I collect the free $20 from the farmers markets
I woke up this morning not needing to get stoned which is really rare that's the #teff #injera and no #gluten... My sense of smell is getting better, too
(It's so easy to lose prospective as a lifelong #bedrotter but I'm starting to notice smells in my apartment that might not have been unnoticeable to other people before (blush))
So I wasn't stoned didn't necessarily feel the need to was just going to focus on my breath because everything was a little stiff
Then I realized the thing about losing $30 (which would be another meal like this which would put me an even better capacity to control my body and therefore my mood and therefore The voice) tensed up and got mad ...and since my mood is very important to the voice I made the executive decision to spend some time in bed before I did anything else because when I get tense I slow down and become right left dysregulated and was trying to learn that mechanism it's easier when injera moves through gently.
So I watched Watson and it was beautiful this little Valentine love story that was told in december.. whatever
Gave Ray a nice walk he was happy came back in I'm repeating myself kind of
Fed Ray he was even happier and I was watching myself breathe In The mirror when there was a noise in the hall and Ray reacted and barked medium loudly and it was really painful
....this was about an hour ago I had to lie down to make it not hurt this was me feeling good and then all of a sudden I had this reaction because when my body tenses up as it is trying to relax and pass food through it's a jolt to the system that is excruciating once you start to become aware of it or are unable to avoid it
This is my explanation of one reason why people get overly sensitized to noises
Which is why the person above me is so stressful for me
In addition to me hearing the damage she is doing to her voice, all of the stomping and slamming is a jolt to the system every time and you can get locked in there
So me talking this out through this toot is my trying to understand it
But yeah that vision of right left (neuro) dusregulation versus left right dysregulation being more mechanical/medical (sigmoid/venal damage, pancreatitis) just came to me
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