Retour au sol raboteux

Actually, I wrote a short presentation of her book and I know a good video about it, but both in French... So, it probably won't be of any use for you.

When I wrote that, Medina was almost the sole writing on it but I suppose you can find way more resources on CyberSyn online today

A cybernetic project of centralized coordination of production in Chile developed by cybernetician Stafford Beer during the Socialist Allende gov (around 1970-1973)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...

Eden Medina wrote about that (mitpress.mit.edu/978026252596...)

How Doug Ford Plans to Dismantle Ontario’s Most Popular Provincial Park More than half of the Wasaga Beach shoreline could be opened to development

Doug Ford plans to dismantle Ontario’s most popular provincial park.

More than half the shoreline of Wasaga Beach could be opened to development.

pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-pl...

29 FINISTERE LE FAOU (1976) pays des crêpes salées sucrées au froment & blé noir & des hortensias une vieille cité qui doit son nom aux puissants seigneurs du fou, possede encore de vieilles maisons du 16eme siecle pleines de charmes devenues pr bcp des crêperies

Reminder of evidence that WAS included in the trial: - EM's weight at the time - Texts between EM and her colleague where she didn't disclose anything (used to suggest she's lying) - Suggestions by the defense team that EM wasn't actually drunk, that she lied about falling outside the bathroom at Jack's, that Foote was wearing pants when he did a "fun party trick" over her body (not face) and that she wasn't hit but rather playfully and consensually "tapped" on the butt.

Reminder of evidence that was EXCLUDED from trial: - The 2022 Hockey Canada investigation interviews with the players, which included statements that Foote was naked from the waist down when he did the splits over EM's face and that EM fell outside the bathroom at Jack's - Text from a witness immediately after the event that said "[Dube] was smacking that girl's ass so hard. It look like it hurt so bad."

And yet, during the Hockey Canada trial, we saw rape myths on full display across five teams of defense lawyers. At no point did the judge correct such myths. The judge DID make sure to remind the jury that they were to disregard signs outside that said "Justice for survivors", though. Interesting what counts as biasing. Or rather, WHO counts.

PLUS! Due to a precedent setting ruling from the Ontario Superior Court in 2024, expert witnesses in trauma are no longer allowed to be called by the Crown in sexual assault trials. The Court decided that expert testimony in that area is "unnecessary and confusing" and that "instruction against the myth-based reasoning is sufficient".

Thanks to the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres for synthesizing exactly why the Hockey Canada trial set EM up to fail.

Ah mais c'est dans cet article qu'il y a la note de bas de page sur le bouquin de Lahire ! Où je me disais "on l'avait vu venir" et il link en bas de page son entretien médiocre avec Nikoski. Formidable, formidable

Il est en roue libre depuis un certain temps non ?

Je l'avais vu monter des arguments transphobes en s'appuyant sur l'avant-dernier ouvrage de Lahire (les structures fondamentales) il y a de ça une dizaine de mois

Rough summary of the French clip: • He was fishing on the Canadian side of the border, he's fished this lake for 40 years • The USCG ship pulls up and says "turn off your engine", he complies. • USCG says "you're on the American side", they start getting aggressive, yelling orders, talking about how they're going to impound his boat. • He says he knows this lake and he's not on the US side but, hey, if you guys want to interrogate me, we can do it back on shore, not out here in the open water • The USCG ship blocks his path back to the north, and begin pushing him backwards southward, toward the US side. The man believes they were trying to push him to the border so they could justify the arrest. • It seems he tries to get around their boat to go back north. At some point their boats collide and the much larger USCG boat capsizes his fishing boat. He says he nearly drowned. As he was in the water, the USCG was more concerned with tying his boat to theirs than trying to rescue him. • They detained him, took him to the American side, fingerprinted him, didn’t give him a phone call.

I'm muting this because there are only so many hundred times a guy can bear having the words "What in the ACTUAL fuck" in his mentions

but I will note the original CTV article is fairly scant on details, this French interview has more details: www.noovo.info/video/je-me-...

here's a rough summary:

YouTube video by CBC News Exposing fascist fight clubs training for 'race war' in Canada

🧵 Last week, CBC released an article on Active Clubs and Second Sons in the Hamilton area, as well as this video investigation.

We are glad they’re covering this important topic, building on our years of work exposing these groups and their activities.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c66x...

Bientôt le reste 🤙

The Firestone posting we needed here (after that, it will be mandatory to do some Joanna Russ posting however)

Anarchism as Radical Liberalism: Radicalizing Markets, Radicalizing Democracy Classical liberalism emerged as a radical ideology, challenging the status quo of monarchy, mercantilism, religious tyranny, and the ancien regime. The liberals promoted two ideals, markets and democr...

"In Lavoie’s framework, democracy is not something expressed through a state with a monopoly on the use of force... Instead, democracy occurs through open discourse, debate, contestation, and interaction among citizens." - @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social

c4ss.org/content/49379

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.”

For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.

Well, I am also not found of "series" of novel, I prefer stories that end in max 2-3 books, so that must explain why. Because I have read 3-4 Le Guin, McKee Charnas, Russ, Delany, etc

Same, rare exception... I happen to read more than 5-10 papers & publications by the same person but books? (comics maybe?)

Not many authors in my mind right now... Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Marx, ... I have way more authors from which I have read 3-4 books however

Plage de Sainte-Anne La Palud, Plonévez-Porzay, baie de Douarnenez, le 13 juillet 2025

Non, ce n'est pas un green de golf. C'est la plage de Sainte-Anne-La-Palud, submergée par les algues vertes, comme une grande partie de la baie de Douarnenez, photographiée aujourd'hui.

Malgré ce panorama édifiant, des extensions d'élevages porcins sont en passe d'être autorisées dans cette zone.

YouTube video by Game Of Hearth Sexe et biomédecine #1 : Sexe : des constructions en biologie

Tenez M. @cedricstolz.bsky.social , je ne suis pas spécialiste, mais une collègue a fait une série de podcasts passionnants à partir de ses propres recherches. Ça s'appelle "Sexe et biomédecine"

- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymiu...
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD1R...
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCHv...

Et puis c'est bizarre de dire que le concept de "sexe" ou celui de "genre" n'existent pas. Ils ont une matérialité plus que discursive. Ils qualifient des vécus corporels et cognitifs très concrets : ça va du droit d'être reconnu d'un genre, aux études des inégalités sociales de santé selon le sexe

L'objectivation est un travail infini, mais c'est comme ça, le "champ biologique" n'est pas distinct du champ social. Ses frontières sont le produit d'un travail politique/institutionnel. Juste conserver la dichotomie sexe/genre participe à naturaliser ce travail

La question ne se pose pas ainsi. Une collègue m'expliquait qu'en génétique, il s'agissait de savoir si on gardait le concept de sexe. Peut-être le garder en travaillant à objectiver les dimensions sociales (comme le postulat de transitivité génétique, caractères seconds, reproductif, etc)

Lisez ce thread, c'est important. Puis allez voir Julia Serano (traduite !!), A. Fausto-Sterling, etc

En français, voir aussi "Des sexes innombrables", relativement bonne vulgarisation par Thierry Hoquet. Dans notre recension de Lahire on avait cité T. Crespo, P. Touraille... Le champ est vaste !!

Faire cela empêche le travail nécessaire d'objectivation des postulats sociaux dans le traitement des composants (non-imbriqués) des sexes dans les études biologiques (génétiques, gonadiques, gamétique, reproductif, etc). Idem pour l'intervention des matérialités corporelles dans les études de genre

Oh, je découvre avec ce post. Du coup, c'est une bonne recommandation ?

Picture composite of twelve landscape digital paintings.

hi #PortfolioDay

Rough digital painting of a little guy up a green and orange hill freeing some birds toward a huge cloud.

The Bird Keeper
#art

The Canadian government is going in on AI to make way for cuts to the federal public service. My bet is 18 months from now someone is going to get served by "MechaHitler" at a Service Canada and the the whole thing is going to end up with resignations and a Royal Commission.

Purée merde il a mon âge, et je n'ai pas encore publié cinq livres, qu'est-ce que j'ai fait de ma vie 😢

Oh mon dieu la couverture, étais-ce possible de faire plus caricatural ?

No, no, I had the same reaction but there is a city named Ontario in California

Everyday 7-9pm vibe: walking in the centre of Montréal with people joyfully wandering around (festivals, bars) when I am just trying to go home to finish the literature review of my thesis project