Freitag, 13. November 2020
Spam
Manch spam-Emails sind interessant zu lesen. ZB:

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I am Barrister Fred Branson, a personal attorney to Late Ing. Alexander [lastname], a national of your country, and a former Director of Air Liquide operation USA, an Oil & Gas distribution company base in united States of America . On February 3, 2015, my client died together, with his wife and their only daughter on the New York's Train Crash, which unfortunately killed 6 people and wounded about adozen others.

My client had an account valued at about ($ 18.7 million dollars ) he deposited in a bank here in USA. I'm contacting you, so that you will stand as an appointed legal beneficiary (next of kin),since you have the same last name with my client and this amount will be paid into your account then I will come to your country, you and I will share the money 45% for me and 45% for you, then 10% for the Orphanage.

I don't want you to worry about the legal part of the transaction because I'll guide the transaction so that it will go in line with the law in our favor. I will need the following information from you to so that i will give you full details on how to achieve this ...
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Den Unfall gab es tatsächlich. Es ist niemand mit meinem Nachnamen unter den Verunglückten.

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Dienstag, 3. November 2020
Antiloch
Morgen, Kinder, wird's was geben ... Aus politischen Dingen halte ich mich raus, bin ja Gast in diesem Land.
Hier nur eine Email von der Uni: "We ... understand that the results of the presidential election will have broad impacts on the United States, current U.S. immigration policies, and the cultural and political climate that our international students, scholars and employees encounter. Leading up to the election, and following the election, we encourage our international community to seek resources to support their mental health and well-being as we navigate this period of anxiety and change."

Nachtrag (4.11.2020): Die US-Wahl ist noch nicht offiziell entschieden, aber Menschen auf Twitter meinen, sie wird auf Biden hinauslaufen. Unterdessen erzählte mir ein Kollege, die Menschen in Brasilien verfolgen die Wahl mit großem Interesse. Die Logik ist, daß sich das Ergebnis auf die Wahl in Brasilien widerspiegeln wird (Bolsanaro).

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Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2020
Gender wars
The gender wars of household chores: a feminist comic
"The French comic artist Emma illustrates the concept of the ‘mental load’. When a man expects his partner to ask him to do things, he is viewing her as the manager of their household chores".

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Montag, 5. Oktober 2020
Klima geht imma
How White Supremacy Caused the Climate Crisis
"Embedded in the theory of racial supremacy is the theory of human supremacy over nature, which has brought environmental calamity upon us."
Was meint Ihr dazu ohne es zu lesen?

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Freitag, 25. September 2020
echte Zufallszahlen
‘A Million Random Digits’ Was a Number-Cruncher’s Bible. Now One Has Exposed Flaws in the Disorder.
"A 1955 Rand Corp. book had a reputation as the go-to source for figures used by pollsters, analysts, researchers; engineer Gary Briggs has ruined it".
Auf twitter kann man den Artikel lesen, aber im Brauser muß man sich einloggen. Komisch.

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Montag, 21. September 2020
simple search
Heute mal wieder was zum Thema Genealogie:
Poznan Project
"Our goal is to transcribe the 19th century marriage records from the historic Greater Poland (then Prussian Province of Poznan) into a searchable online database."

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Sonntag, 20. September 2020
we are Homo Sovieticus
Retaining in the condition of east-west emigration.
"Polish sociologist, gardener, and immigrant Anna Zawadzka explores the convoluted ties between work and personal life in late capitalism, between the ivory tower of academia and the harsh conditions of groundskeeping, by critically focusing on the idealization and pathologization of labour."
Disclaimer: wie immer ungelesen

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Samstag, 19. September 2020
carbonplan
Carbon offsets burning
"In the middle of a record fire season on the US West Coast, the Lionshead Fire in Oregon burned through one of the largest forest carbon offset projects participating in California’s carbon market. Beyond the tragic effects on local communities and hazardous regional air quality, the expected carbon losses from this fire illustrate how California’s approach of using forests to mitigate climate change may need re-evaluation."

hashtag: firestarter

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Montag, 14. September 2020
Soldiering
"as I was a bad college student, I was a bad soldier, but for entirely different reasons" (Harlan Ellison; Foreword to 'A Friend to Man', p.88)

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Dienstag, 8. September 2020
covid-corona-blog #37: Nachtrag
Hier herrscht Münzenknappheit. Wir brachen Quaters für die Waschmaschine. Das scheint mit der Pandemie zusammenzuhängen: "A penny pinch: How America fell into a great coin shortage - For one more glimpse at these wild times, people might look in their car cup holders, wallets and piggy banks that are driving the nation's great coin debacle".

Haltet durch!


siehe auch: #36


Nachtrag: Bei der Bank gab es letztes mal jedenfalls nur eine Rolle a 10USD. Das reicht für 5x waschen. Das Problem sind aber auch die Waschmaschinen selbst. Wir finden, daß die die von oben beladen werden und bei denen die Rotationsachse senkrecht steht, einfach nicht so gut waschen.

Nachtrag (8.9.2020): Telepolis-Artikel lasse ich normalerweise von Tilly-Billy prüfen, aber der hat natürlich auch keine Zeit. Deswegen direkt:
Auf Epidemien folgen Unruhen und Aufstände
"Italienische Politologen haben historische Epidemien untersucht und gehen davon aus, dass auch nach der Corona-Pandemie die politische Instabilität stark zunehmen wird"

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