Zoë "C" @zoec@deadinsi.de

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dans l'optique de sortir un peu de la solitude / dépression dans laquelle je m'enfonce, je cherche à "rejoindre" une asso queer qui dispose de locaux où on peut venir se poser / s'investir, si vous avez des refs ou que vous voulez bien booster, je suis preneuse !

if your assigned gender at birth had been different, do you think you would still have ended being trans?

@GustavinoBevilacqua No! Forever pot race ;p

Today’s card is Justice, with a wake-up call. Time to examine your choices and think about the consequences they bring, for yourself and others. Are you doing what’s right? Or are you just drifting through?

pork. 150,000 lbs. of stock fish. 550,000 lbs. of biscuit. 72,000 lbs. of soft

I just read "The Charisma Machine", a postmortem anthropological field study about the one laptop per child program. The book hit home.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/charisma-machine

**That is definitely a must-read if you feel ideologically tightly bound to free software and/or the constructionism learning theory**. It's a painful albeit necessary read.

The book starts by documenting the project's inception at the MIT media lab and linking it to the wider constructionism ideology. The OLPC project's main goal is to distribute a laptop per child to third-world countries. The laptop is expected to act as a trojan horse, pushing children to learn how to program/creative endeavor home in spite of an "outdated and primitive school system". The idea is the charisma alone of the laptop's hardware would lead children to creatively explore the device without any educational help.

The second part of the book actually documents the most "successful" deployment in Paraguay through the NGO Educa Paraguay. It highlights the social and infrastructure-based shortcomings of the deployment that lead to this project being a total failure. Not only the children did not experience the expected charisma of the machine, but the school and teachers/educa educators became the project's biggest allies.

The last part show how despite this obvious failure, OLPC and Educa managed to massage the reality to make it fit the constructionism promises and make look the project like an overall success.

This summary is of course an over-simplification of the 200 pages book, you should read the whole thing.

As always with Mit press, it's impossible to get a hold of a decently priced paperback copy of the book outside of northern America. You can find the epub on zlib ;) https://fr.fr1lib.org/book/11635102/8f85b9

“In a way the lionization of show, don’t tell, almost inevitably leads to the logic of a filmic literature. After all, internality often involves telling the audience how somebody feels. As “Show, Don’t Tell” becomes a hard rule, it’s not hard to see how an audience of would-be authors with an insufficient grounding in literature but a lot of exposure to television will inevitably interpret that to turn the page into a kind of screen.”

https://simonmcneil.com/2022/01/15/notes-on-squeecore/

if i were playing wordle i'd simply type sator arepo tenet opera rotas followed by the correct word