What did Australians do online in the 1990s? Shared bioinformatics data, made cyberfeminist zines, cruised the information superhighway …
"Understanding online history can be particularly difficult because many sites have long-since disappeared. However, archiving efforts like those of the Internet Archive and the National Library of Australia make it possible to look back and see how much things have changed, what concerns are familiar, and remember the everyday people who helped transform the internet from a niche academic network to a mass medium." - Kieran Hegarty in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-down-under-how-australians-made-the-early-internet-their-own-212542
For a book proposal I am currently working on (German, no proposal isn’t done yet because I keep reworking stuff, my agent hates me) I am thinking a lot about late stage capitalism and technologies, about how the kinda terminal economic system shapes the technologies it brings forward etc. And ...
The shadow rises, the Seanchan strengthen, and our characters face desperation.
In praise of “the gaiety of those who have nothing more to lose and so excel at giving.”
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A new movie sets its doomed entrepreneurs amidst 17th-century “tulipmania”—but historians of the phenomenon have their own bubble to burst
@gruber Tulipmania actually had rational components: the tulips were not worthless—they were highly valuable commodities (people paid a lot for the flowers) and it was apparently heavily exaggerated. The example of Tulipmania is kind of like the McDonald's burnt-by-coffee case, in which the woman wound up with permanent injuries and collected relatively little. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/ https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/16/13971482/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit-stella-liebeck
And a McDonald's franchise allegedly just did it again: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/20/mcdonalds-hot-coffee-lawsuit-2023/
A rag-and-bone man with his horse and cart on the streets of Streatham, southwest London in 1985 When Parisian garbage collectors went on strike in the Spring of 2023, suddenly everyone was talking and thinking about trash. Sanitation and waste management services are so commonplace for the major
"These unsung heroes teach us valuable lessons about resourcefulness, recycling, and the innate human spirit to make the most out of what others might consider worthless."
A chronicle of the historical significance of waste collectors across cultures, emphasizing their crucial role in early waste management, recycling, and their enduring impact on society.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/09/20/ode-to-the-rag-and-bone-man/ - via @feedle
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At age sixteen I began what would be a four year struggle with bulimia. When the symptoms started, I turned in desperation to adults who knew more than I did about how to stop shameful behavior—my Bible study leader and a visiting youth minister. “If you ask anything in faith, believing,” t...
In addition to anxiety, RTS can include depression, cognitive difficulties, and problems with social functioning. In fundamentalist Christianity, the individual is considered depraved and in need of salvation. A core message is “You are bad and wrong and deserve to die.” (The wages of sin is death.) This gets taught to millions of children through organizations like Child Evangelism Fellowship, and there is a group organized to oppose their incursion into public schools. I’ve had clients who remember being distraught when given a vivid bloody image of Jesus paying the ultimate price for their sins. Decades later they sit telling me that they can’t manage to find any self-worth.
We should be so lucky
"When the book The Mistaken Extinction was published in 1997 the idea that dinosaurs never went #extinct was controversial. This idea is broadly accepted now, though popular language still lags behind."
As paleontologist Julia Clarke says, “birds are living dinosaurs, just as we are mammals.”
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