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On the news,

• [fr] Interdit d'interdire - Taddeï interviewe Gaël Giraud sur les conséquences économiques de l'épidémie. Solide et lucide Gaël Giraud, comme toujours.
• [fr] Tu mourras moins bête - Transpiration.
• [fr] Agnès Giard - Des femmes contre le droit de vote ? La citation concluant l'article s'applique à bien des choses, et me rappelle que je dois lire Bourdieu.

  S’il est vrai que la domination symbolique est une domination qui s’exerce avec la complicité du dominé, ou, plus précisément, avec la complicité des structures que le dominé a acquises dans la confrontation prolongée avec des structures de domination et à travers l’incorporation de ces structures, il est évident qu’il ne suffit pas de prendre conscience de ces structures.

  Il faut transformer profondément les dispositions acquises, par une sorte de rééducation, –celle qui est nécessaire pour perdre un « mauvais pli », une mauvaise tenue de raquette, un mauvais accent, etc., et on sait combien c’est long, et difficile, parfois– et, inséparablement, il faut changer les conditions de production de ces dispositions, de ces structures incorporées, et il faut donc changer l’ordre symbolique. – Pierre Bourdieu, 2002

• Coronavirus:
  • Peter Welch's Notes from Ground Two parts ways with a great description of the U.S.A, and neoliberal societies in general.

    Everyone is just trying to get through the next five minutes, and the only way we make any progress past this human issue is through functioning agreements and institutions that make us use the occasional five minutes to lock down a few hours or weeks of future five-minute intervals.

    It’s also a way to look at the whole system. A fragmented, anxious collection of competing drives, mortally addicted to the maximum possible motion of money, beginning to come apart, looking for a fix. Something non-addicted people don’t understand about addiction is how it changes the actions of the brain in which we’re so invested. My reason detaches itself from reality exactly as far as it needs to in order to justify self-destructive chemical satisfaction. It will argue with itself, as my kneecapped better nature struggles to make me fight through the withdrawal, but in the end, I get another fix, and my better nature gets another lesson in accepting defeat.

    If you look at the U.S. as an irredeemable money junkie, everything else clicks into place, including the future. We’re about to get the delirium tremens.

  • ... which finds additional echo as a public service as basic as their postal service (!) has been ravaged so much by de-funding and efficient-market-will-save-us prayers that it's about to bankrupt during these bad times. Hell, I don't even understand how such a thing can go bankrupt, and how it's up to politicians to "save" it. House to save postal service from bankruptcy as a result of coronavirus crisis.
  • Oh shit! The economy!! Thx Heinz.
  • [fr] IRIS - Éviter la crise après la crise: chantiers pour reconstruire l’économie.
  • [fr] IRIS & Clément de Gaulejac - Retour à la normale.
  • Kottke: People behave more cooperatively during disasters.
  • [fr/qc] IRIS - Après la crise : New Deal vert et emplois garantis.
  • Kottke: Cellphone data shows how quickly partying spring breakers spread across the USA.
  • xkcd: Pathogen Resistance.
• Scott Alexander: Legal systems very different from ours, because i just made them up.
• Tech:
  • Business Town! What Value-Creating Winners Do All Day™, An ongoing project attempting to explain our highly intangible, deeply disruptive, data-driven, venture-backed, gluten-free economic meritocracy to the uninitiated.
  • RPS: Watch this Half-Life: Alyx player's excellent juggling tricks.
  • An AI’s idea of a prank.
  • Reminder: Zoom video conferencing privacy & security practices are a joke: Zoom is leaking peoples' email addresses and photos to strangers, also: Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite misleading marketing, also: Zoom will siphon your personal information to facebook even if you don't have an account, also: Uncovering (local) security flaws in Zoom's latest macOS client, also: Zoom's macOS installer is bonkers, also: DF summary, also: Doc Searls trying to help: 1, 2, 3, 4. Then, Zoom announces 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues, but I'll believe it when I see it, especially the privacy bits. Also, Schneier: Security and privacy implications of Zoom, also: Zoom admits some calls were routed through China "by mistake", also: Thousands of Zoom video calls left exposed on open web.