1. Recently, an Australian-Palestinian friend was invited to appear on television to discuss the situation in Gaza. His white interviewers posed all the usual questions: Can you defend what we’ve seen from Hamas militants? How has the Palestinian cause been helped by this violence? Do you defend Hamas? They probably expected a defensive reaction from him, but calmly, in his smooth Australian-accented English, my friend had already turned the interview on its head. “I want to know why I’m here today, and why I haven’t been here for the past year,” he said gently. [n+1 mag]
And because this week is Eid: How do we celebrate a joyful holiday when our country is responsible for ongoing terrible suffering? by Nathan J. Robinson
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- I can't sleep, by Paul Biggar
- Theo flew a Palestinian flag. First he was doxed, then came the bomb!
- Three months into a livestreamed genocide, we must ask—what does all this looking do? by Sarah Aziza
- ‘What use is this court if it can’t stop the war?’ Gazans react to ICJ ruling
- Inspired by Jewish groups that cast criticism of Israel as antisemitism, Hindu American organizations are advancing a concept of “Hinduphobia” that puts India beyond reproach
- A Textbook Case of Genocide: Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza.
- An Anti-Palestinian Crackdown Across Europe
- The First Week
- The Second Week: Some rest in hallways, others under the rubble. Some have names on their wrists to identify them, others had no such luxury. Some succumb to their wounds, all to Western avarice.
- Letters From Gaza, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- I Was Blissfully Planning My Engagement Party. Then the Bombs Started Falling. I live in Gaza, so now I just dream of surviving.
- ESG Funds are Supposed to Be Socially Conscious Investors. Why are they investing in weapons manufacturers making arms for Israel?
- You Can’t Be A “Lesser Evil” When You’re Sponsoring A Genocide by Caitlin Johnstone
- A Group of Artists Just Replaced the MTA’s Ads With Pro-Palestine Posters
- Professor Montag gave a talk at Occidental College arguing that "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism." For Palestine Uncensored, he recounts the ADL's campaign to get him fired as retaliation.
- When discomfort is perceived as danger, protest is seen as harassment. Politicians Don’t Feel Unsafe, They Feel Uncomfortable
- The Iron Dome is global – and so is the resistance
- To Save Israel, the US is Destroying the International System It Once Constructed
- Why be so focused on Israel anyway while Indonesia occupies West Papua, China, Tibet, and Russia Ukraine? The answer is that universities like MIT are complicit in Israeli apartheid but espouse public commitments to human flourishing. And because of Israel’s unique and historic dependence on American public finance, arms, and diplomacy, students at American universities have leverage over Israel to a degree we simply don’t have for the people of West Papua, Tibet, or Ukraine.
- Are we indeed all Palestinians?
2. LGBTQIA+, gender
In the endless craven defenses of colonial domination, queer and feminist solidarity with the Palestinian struggle is met with contempt. Focusing solely on gender and sexuality entertains a dangerous logic that some gendered or sexualized life is more vulnerable, and therefore more precious, than others.
- Very good banners and placards throughout the article: "You can't pinkwash colonialism," "Queer as in Free Palestine (crow images)"
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- My Year of Finance Boys by Daniel Lefferts
- Class Is Central to Gay Politics -- an interview with Roger Lancaster, author of the new book The Struggle to Be Gay — in Mexico, for Example.
- “Nik, kita masih butuh nggak sih sejarah perempuan?”
- Suara Kita - Tentang Kami
- Amia Srinivasan on Utopian Feminism (Conversations with Tyler Ep. 132)
- COWEN: Should women’s chess, as a segregated activity, continue to exist?
- SRINIVASAN: I don’t really have a view on that.
- COWEN: Isn’t it odd not to have a view on that?
- SRINIVASAN: No, I don’t think it’s odd to not have a view on something about which there has been a great deal of ink spilled. There are philosophers and theorists of games and sports in general, who spend a lot of time thinking about how we should organize competitions, gaming competitions in particular. I don’t know what it means to be opposed to segregation as such. I think there are interesting questions here. I don’t play chess, and I don’t follow competitive chess, so I don’t really have a view.
- Irony of a faggot policeman by Hiero Badge
- Acexistential by Lilaeleaf [OJST]
- How I Went Back To The Closet by Charlie Anders
3. International
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.More links
- Why Haven’t the Protest Movements of Our Time Succeeded? Vincent Bevins’ new book looks back over recent uprisings of our time and reviews what they accomplished—and what they didn’t.
- “Made in America” Never Meant More Ethical
- Did an Alphabet Make Korea More Verbal?
- In the Central African Republic, researchers found an astronomical death rate. Scaling for population size, this toll would amount to a loss of more than two New York Cities. And yet, the world outside of Africa is barely aware that CAR is a country.
- Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat with raised metal roofs to let out the hot air.
- Matt Lakeman's Notes on El Salvador
- Panera wasn’t always known as a corporate purveyor of murderous lemonade.
- The Long Reach of the Walmart-Walton Empire
- Prabowo promotes cassava on the world stage, but in Borneo his pet project has failed
The Mathematical Phrase that Melts My Brain: What the heck does “three times less than” mean?
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- The Remains of an Ancient Planet Lie Deep Within Earth
- Why are some mushrooms magic?
- What Science Can Learn from Car Mechanics' Five Whys.
- For a Nature paper, the scientists dug down through the causes of diabetes. First: Why do beta cells inside the pancreas secrete less insulin, leading to diabetes? Diabetic pancreas had smaller blood capillaries, which makes it more difficult for nutrients to reach the beta cells. But why? A capillary shrinks over time. They had to figure out what might have happened before they shrank. The early-stage diabetics had slight changes in genes associated with cilia. But why? They began to look for a “hub gene.” And they found it in RFX6.
- The Cell Is Not a Computer
- Reinventing the Dinosaur
- Jalapeño Peppers Are Less Spicy Than Ever
- Making Cells Young
- How much should academics engage with the public?
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
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- Manifesto for posting online in 2023
- Less TikTok, More Screaming - social media therapists & feeling nothing as an epidemic
- The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams by Andy Baio
- In the Shadow of Silicon Valley by Rebecca Solnit
- When I learn to live as a machine—by choice or otherwise—I become increasingly incapable of attending to the world. This might be because I am simply moving through life at a pace that prevents me from properly attending to the world. Maybe it’s because I’ve placed $3500 goggles on my face.
- What is Easy on a Laptop is Hard on a Touchscreen
- How the Blog Broke the Web
- Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster.
- Excel Never Dies
- Hot take: It’s okay if we don’t consume all of the world’s information before we die.
- Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in your browser
- Generative artificial intelligence is poison for an internet dependent on algorithms.
6. Environment and Climate
BREAD-IGC Virtual PhD Course on Environmental Economics: conservation, climate adaptation, renewables, international actions, migration, pollution, inequality, economic impact, sea level rise.
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- Inside India’s Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River
- Why Isn’t Solar Scaling in Africa? by Todd Moss
- Can Seawalls Save Us?
- What? The Sun isn't always shining?!
- How Does Throwing Soup Get Us to Climate Policy Changes?
- Riders in the smog
- Carbon casting
- “I can tell you that most people I know who use Gesit [Indonesia’s e-bike brand] no longer use the brand’s original battery.”
- Climate change is making herding routes in the Sahel increasingly volatile. Workers in the Garbal call center are able to review data to help herders.
7. Economics and Development
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- Economic Growth - Donation suggestions and ideas
- Do poor countries need a new development strategy? Bangladesh and Southeast Asia are defying the economists who say industrialization is dead.
- BOOK: Causal Inference for The Brave and True
- Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? Co-location produces knowledge spillovers, but people may lapse into groupthink. A mismatch between the needs and interests of twenty-somethings in the Bay Area and non-college-educated workers elsewhere may also be causing too much “inappropriate” technology. Papers and patents are becoming more deferential to previous work.
- World Bank Enterprise Surveys data for Indonesia
- Lant Pritchett on Economic Growth, Charter Cities
- 10 years of Earning to Give
- How Long Do Policy Changes Matter? (Much) Longer than EAs Have Assumed
- Academic research and policy research are two different things
- When economists ignore history - A new paper on apartheid fails to impress
- VoxDev as an educational resource: list of articles using specific approaches (natural experiments, diff in diff, RD, IV, RCT, calibrated models, heterogeneity.)
- A Curated List of WB Development Impact Blog Postings on Technical Topics
- https://about.peterhull.net/metrix
- Julian Reif's Stata coding guide
- https://causalml-book.org
8. Interpersonal
David Sedaris: Children now are like animals who have no natural predators left.
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- We Need More Of Weak Social Ties
- Kinda nice by Damola Morenikeji
- The Secret History And Strange Future Of Charisma
- Beware Ideologies That Tell You You’re Better Than Everyone Else: On the ugly fascist nonsense of Costin Alamariu, the ‘Bronze Age Pervert,’ and why objectively horrible ideologies somehow find adherents
- My Mom's Rules For Cults
- What I’ve learned in the past several months is that political organizing is deathwork.
- Now, after so many fuckups and failures, I’ve figured out what a lot of wiser people than me understood long ago: that building a life that contains just some of the basic components, let alone all of them, is incredibly hard, and that many—most!—people never manage to.
- I have this pet theory that I’ve shopped around a fair bit, that it’s much harder for financially comfortable people to make deep friendships.
- The main fear of lending money to friends is that in case they can’t repay you would lose both the money and the friendship.
9. The Convivial Society, The Overland Journal, Henrik Karlsson
I noticed with pleasure and considered with profit that I could do nothing but wait on the light and attend to its arrival. I could not rush the day or command it. All I could do was receive it. And, better yet, receive it with humility and gratitude. Learning to Receive the Day
- Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It
- Freehold by Elias Greig
- The whale ghosts by Elias Greig
- Someone once asked Gertrude Stein if she was a lesbian. Stein answered no, I just like Alice. Looking for Alice, Part 1, Part 3
10. Miscellaneous
Burial spaces at Forest Hill range from $3,950 for a grave with a flat marker—perhaps, perversely, the most affordable route to land ownership in Boston’s exorbitantly priced and low-inventory real estate market—up to $60,000 for above-ground internment in the exclusive Dearborn Pavilion.
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- Signs and symbols on the sides of ships tell stories about an industry few outsiders understand.
- Do children today have useful childhoods? School Is Not Enough
- That the ghost killed the girl in the horror movie’s spooky opening is not surprising—what kind of girl it was, that’s the amazing part.
- The backstory of that viral article on listening to Taylor Swift in prison
- Jack London - How I Became A Socialist (1905)
- In the name of the moon, I’ll destroy capitalism!
- How Gojek keeps its gig riders close — and away from unions
- GEN Z BEOWULF by JOHN-CLARK LEVIN
- The Political Economy of Dune
- https://hammerandhope.org
- Learn to love the moat of low status: How to be More Agentic
- Dreaming Awake by NK Jemisin (2012)
- As strange as it may sound, earning financial freedom is a lot easier for certain people than claiming that freedom once they have earned it. “I think I’m close to having enough money to jump into early retirement, but not quite." Why You’ll Probably Never Run Out Of Money
- How can we, as people who apply to jobs, schools, contests, funding, publishing houses, and so on, protect our own ambition? How can we soften the blow of rejection? One sensible strategy is to direct most of your efforts to things that don’t require other people’s approval. It’s better to spread out the psychological cost over many small attempts. But I don’t love it: it amounts to numbing ourselves, and that numbness can weaken the boost to ambition when we finally get a “yes.”
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