The season’s shifting 🍂☀️
Catch up reading
Amandine’s edits
Challenging the Cult of Monoculture, by Barney Pau
In Nature, strength and resilience come from diversity, so why would it be different for the human paradigm? In this piece for MOLD magazine published online, Barney Pau parallels how the monoculture mentality, rooted in the unnatural harvest practices, has also transposed into minds and ways of thinking, specifically in the context of queerness. I loved Pau’s words. Note that MOLD is divesting from the internet and archiving its content from June this year. It is an unfortunate turn of events as it is an insightful and graphically beautiful publication.
The Technology That Actually Runs Our World, by T.M. Brown
We tend to complain about the algorithm from social media, the cultural kind, but did you know there are many other algorithms making decisions for us? And, surprise, this technology that has replaced human work is far from being neutral and comes with fundamental issues, including racism. In this piece for the Atlantic, T.M. Brown identifies which domains algorithms are operating, including social and banking departments, and demonstrates why they are creating prejudicial treatment, eroding the viability of public pursuits.
US & European big oil profits top a quarter of a trillion dollars since the invasion of Ukraine, by Global Witness
The war in Ukraine dominates the news outlets here and does seem to be, pardon my unusual language, a sort of clusterf*ck. However, we are exposed to a significant amount of information these days that travels fast and is equally forgotten, so it is worth looking back at older information with the eyes of retrospect. And the case of Ukraine, coming back to this 2024 press release from Global Witness, it bears the question, who benefits from the crimes of this war, really? The usual suspects.