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I'm not sure, but the grand-parent might be drawing from Hakim Bey's distinction between Net and Web. This is from TAZ, The Temporary Autonomous Zone (1991): We’ve spoken of the Ne…

I think itake understands this and was making a point (an important one at that). Douglas R. Hofstadter made the same point (perhaps more eloquently) in "A Person Paper on Purity i…

Portugal decriminalised drugs in 2000 and this is regarded as a better solution. Drug use is treated as a health issue rather than a crime issue, and the results are better. See he…

It also appears to be similar to Jakobson phatic function (checking if the channel is working).

>Please, we can discuss art theory without political dimension. Bourdieu discusses this very point in the Preface of The Rules of Art . "(...) countless are those who forbid sociol…

The excessive detail is a necessity and a precaution. Researchers need that information (textual genetics or any art history for instance, maybe future archeology). A message can't…

I use Scribus. It can be rough around the edges, but I've made everything with it (magazines, pamphlet, art books...). https://www.scribus.net/

French Guyana (1) (=part of the EU) requires a 10 day old yellow fever vaccination on entry. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever#Compulsory_vaccin...

Speaking for France, but I suspect it is the same elsewhere: back in the day, the license exam was to build your own radio and operate it in front of an inspector, so it might be a…

Science is faith based for the non-scientific. As you put it yourself, it is about trusting studies and the institutions that produced it (including whatever in them creates the in…

I only ever look for old links in my mailbox (I either save them or send them to someone). So I use the Linkdrop add-on : one click, and it sends a daily e-mail with the links. Eve…

Another study on homemade masks: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t... "Both masks significantly reduced the number of microorganisms expelled by voluntee…

Somewhat connected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21818730

Bloomberg received a release from vinci.group instead of vinci.com according to Le Monde's article. https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/12/16/l-agence-...

Galileo being right or wrong is not really pertinent for PG's argument. See this piece of his text appearing as a html comment: "When you suppress heresy, you silence not just your…

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cave…

r/woke is a flavour of r/thathappened focused on parents embellishing their kid's achievements. That said, it is interesting how we imagine (maybe expect) the next generation avoid…

Common baguette is regarded as a low quality, industrial version of "real" bread (in France). Some traditional bakeries still use ancient methods (and flour and yeast), the bread i…