Might be interesting to #pkm folks, even if only as a historical curiosity
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Double page d'un carnet A5. La page de gauche explique les spécifiés des pins, celle de gauche des sapins. Le fond est fait en aquarelle verte et ocre de façon asbraite. Sur la gauche et le milieu de chaque page, un dessin des épines des deux genres d'arbres sont dessinées et coloriées au crayon de couleur. Les noms anglais sont également inclus (pine pour pin et fir pour sapin). Un encadré en bas de la page de droite explique que "spruce" en anglais signifie "épiciéa" et non "sapin" comme minecraft nous l'a fait croire depuis depuis années.
J'ai fait une double page sur la différence entre les Pins et les Sapins dans mon carnet.
Source des infos et du texte : www.laculturegenerale.com/pin-sapin-di...
#art #aquarelle #watercolor #crayondecouleur #colorpencil #arbre #trees #pin #sapin #commonplace #commonplacing
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Text Shot: Congress was once the proud equal of the executive and judicial branches of our government. Now it stands drained of both power and respect, partly through abdication of its responsibilities and partly through the eager gathering of power by a burgeoning presidency. That phenomenon started with Franklin Roosevelt, and every President since has been unable to resist taking more decision-making responsibility on himself. The power to make war and to decide how our money is spent is no longer the unquestioned province of Congress … – “Fresh Blood for a Sick Congress,” Life, November 17, 1972, p. 42.
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“All our land was enriched with my treasures…in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us.”
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
#mcm #monochromemonday #kinkster #gaykink #bibliophile #readingissexy #gaykinkster #shibari #commonplacing #jockstrap
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"The post-[1968] invasion regime in Czechoslovakia spoke of 'normalization,' which nicely caught the spirit of the moment. What was, was normal."
– Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom (2018), chap. 2.
#Commonplacing #Reading
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– Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes!…
– Galileo: No. Unhappy the land where heroes are needed.
Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo," in Collected Plays: Five, trans. John Willet (Bloomsbury, 1995), scene 13.
#commonplacing #Brecht #heroes
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Text Shot: Democracy failed in Europe in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, and it is failing not only in much of Europe but in many parts of the world today. It is that history and experience that reveals to us the dark range of our possible futures. A nationalist will say that “it can’t happen here,” which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it. – Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (2017), chap. 19.
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Text Shot: When the American president and his national security adviser speak of fighting terrorism alongside Russia, what they are proposing to the American people is terror management: the exploitation of real, dubious, and simulated terror attacks to bring down democracy. – Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (2017), no. 18.
#reading #commonplacing #authoritarianism #RussiaIsATerroristState
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"When we take an active interest in matters of doubtful relevance at moments that are chosen by tyrants and spooks, we participate in the demolition of our own political order."
– Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (2017), no. 14.
#reading #commonplacing #authoritarianism
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Text Shot: You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individual—and thus the collapse of any political system that depends upon individualism. – Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (2017), no. 10.
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"It’s not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose—blatantly, to assert power over truth itself."
– Masha Gessen, quoted in Brooke Gladstone, The Trouble with Reality, (Workman Publishing, 2017), chap. 3.
#commonplacing
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Text Shot: Trump’s supporters, who felt increasingly anxious or displaced in the prevailing consensus reality, could see what was happening. But those of us who were relatively at ease—our field of vision was obstructed. So we scoffed and mocked as Trump put a half nelson choke hold on reality. – Brooke Gladstone, The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time (Workman Publishing, 2017).
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"Who would the strongman past and present be without those crowds that form the raw material of his propaganda? His secret is that he needs them far more than they need him."
– Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen, chap. 5.
#reading #commonplacing #propaganda #fascism
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"Propaganda is also a system of attention management that works through repetition." – Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen, chap. 5. #reading #commonplacing #propaganda
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"At its core, propaganda is a set of communication strategies designed to sow confusion and uncertainty, discourage critical thinking, and persuade people that reality is what the leader says it is." – Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen, chap. 5. #reading #commonplacing #propaganda
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Text Shot: We sometimes describe aggressors as “brainwashed” by propaganda that dehumanizes their victims, so much so they are “hypnotized” into committing atrocities. But what if the “dehumanising” propaganda rather legitimizes cruelty, makes it ordinary, and the aggressor sees the victims' humanity all too clearly? – Peter Pomerantsev, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (PublicAffairs 2024), chap. 4.
#Commonplacing #Disinformation #Propaganda #Atrocities #WarAndSociety
Cross-post from markstoneman.com/2024/12/17/we-sometimes-...
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![Text Shot: Did the [Ukrainians'] Russian relatives really “believe” [that the Bucha atrocity was fake]? That’s the wrong question. We are not talking about a situation where people weigh evidence and come to a conclusion but rather one where people no longer seem interested in discovering the truth or even consider the truth as having considerable worth.… Polls in Russia concluded that Putin’s supporters thought that “the government is right, solely because it is the government and it has power.” Truth was not a value in itself; it was a subset of power.
– Peter Pomerantsev, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (PublicAffairs 2024), chap. 4.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mjwlqv743vswabzoofno4ziq/bafkreifsu5zv5xp6chyx3lxzuyex6t5eg2jngniegncayklmlyuiciavea)
Text Shot: Did the [Ukrainians'] Russian relatives really “believe” [that the Bucha atrocity was fake]? That’s the wrong question. We are not talking about a situation where people weigh evidence and come to a conclusion but rather one where people no longer seem interested in discovering the truth or even consider the truth as having considerable worth.… Polls in Russia concluded that Putin’s supporters thought that “the government is right, solely because it is the government and it has power.” Truth was not a value in itself; it was a subset of power. – Peter Pomerantsev, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (PublicAffairs 2024), chap. 4.
#Commonplacing #Disinformation #Propaganda #RussiaUkraineWar
cross-post from markstoneman.com/2024/12/17/did-the-ukrai...
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Since I was a teenager, I like carrying with me a small notebook to write down interesting facts or quotations that I may want to remember or reread. I took this habit from my mum. This weekend’s collection of curiosities has been quite nice. 📖
#commonplacing
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Text Shot: Autocracy is a political system, a way of structuring society, a means of organizing power. It is not a genetic trait. Particular cultures, languages, or religions do not necessarily produce it. No nation is condemned forever to autocracy, just as no nation is guaranteed democracy. Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc. (Doubleday, 2024), chap. 1.
I file #quotes under #commonplacing on my blog. #authoritarianism #democracy #books
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". . . It was their relationship with media, with televisions, radios, books, blogs, which helped them to re-imagine themselves over and over."
Peter Pomerantsev, This is Not Propaganda (2019), part 6
#commonplacing
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Text Shot: The Kremlin switches messages at will to its advantage, climbing inside everything: European right-wing nationalists are seduced with an anti-EU message; the Far Left is co-opted with tales of fighting US hegemony; US religious conservatives are convinced by the Kremlin’s fight against homosexuality. And the result is an array of voices, working away at global audiences from different angles, producing a cumulative echo chamber of Kremlin support, all broadcast on RT. Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (New York: PublicAffairs, 2014), act 3, last section.
Peter Pomerantsev on Russian disinformation (2014)
#Commonplacing #Disinformation #RussiaIsATerroristState
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