We must find moments of joy in the horror of our present. Joy is not a prize for getting through it all—joy is a tool that enables us to get through the horror. Our joy is an act of resistance.
joy as resistance
We must find moments of joy in the horror of our present. Joy is not a prize for getting through it all—joy is a tool that enables us to get through the horror. Our joy is an act of resistance.
joy as resistance
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Le Chagrin et la Pitié : Analyse d'un Film Révolutionnaire
Ce document de synthèse analyse le film documentaire Le Chagrin et la Pitié de Marcel Ophuls, en s'appuyant sur les perspectives et témoignages présentés dans le documentaire d'ARTE. Sorti en 1971, Le Chagrin et la Pitié a provoqué une rupture fondamentale dans la mémoire collective française concernant la période de l'Occupation.
Les points essentiels sont les suivants :
• Destruction du Mythe Résistancialiste : Le film a été le premier à confronter frontalement et à déconstruire le mythe gaulliste d'une France majoritairement unie dans la Résistance.
Il a révélé une réalité bien plus complexe, faite de collaboration, d'attentisme, d'ignorance volontaire et d'actes héroïques isolés.
• Une Méthodologie d'Interview Novatrice : Marcel Ophuls a développé un art de l'interview unique, mêlant douceur apparente, humour et questions incisives.
En transformant les témoins en "personnages" au sens fort, il a créé une "dramaturgie du témoignage" qui expose les ambiguïtés et les contradictions de la période.
• Censure et Succès Paradoxal : Initialement conçu pour la télévision, le film a été refusé par l'ORTF, la télévision d'État, au motif qu'il "détruit des mythes dont la France a encore besoin".
Cette censure a paradoxalement amplifié son impact, le transformant en un événement culturel majeur lors de sa sortie en salles, où il a connu un immense succès public.
• Un Catalyseur de Mémoire : Le film a déclenché un débat public sans précédent sur la responsabilité de l'État français et de citoyens français dans la collaboration et la déportation des Juifs.
Il a ouvert la voie à de nouvelles œuvres cinématographiques et aux travaux d'historiens comme Robert Paxton.
• Héritage Politique et Sociétal Durable : L'onde de choc du film a eu des répercussions à long terme, influençant la société française dans son rapport à son passé.
Son héritage est perceptible jusque dans le discours de Jacques Chirac en 1995, reconnaissant officiellement la responsabilité de l'État français dans la Shoah, un discours considéré comme un prolongement direct du travail de mémoire initié par le film.
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Un Séisme Cinématographique et Culturel
Le 14 avril 1971, une petite salle de cinéma du Quartier Latin à Paris projette pour la première fois Le Chagrin et la Pitié.
Ce documentaire, réalisé par Marcel Ophuls, alors âgé de 42 ans, offre une "vision décapante" des années d'Occupation, loin de la mythologie héroïque officielle.
Produit par les télévisions allemande et suisse, il est rapidement acclamé à l'international, acheté par 27 pays et sélectionné aux Oscars.
En France, cependant, l'accueil est radicalement différent. L'ORTF (Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française) refuse d'acheter et de diffuser ce qu'elle considère comme un "film hérétique".
Cette décision déclenche de violentes controverses et érige le film en symbole d'un "duel entre la génération post-68 et le pouvoir".
Le film devient célèbre, paradoxalement, parce qu'on ne l'a pas montré à la télévision.
Le titre lui-même, inspiré par le témoignage d'un résistant qui confie que ses sentiments les plus fréquents furent "le chagrin et la pitié", est décrit comme "extraordinairement romanesque" et "impitoyable", reflétant la complexité d'une période où les lignes morales étaient brouillées.
Rien ne prédestinait Marcel Ophuls à briser le mythe gaulliste, si ce n'est son parcours personnel.
Né en Allemagne en 1927, fils du cinéaste Max Ophuls, il fuit le nazisme avec sa famille pour la France, puis pour Hollywood.
Devenu citoyen américain, il rentre en France après-guerre.
Après des débuts comme assistant réalisateur et une amitié avec François Truffaut, il connaît un échec commercial qui le pousse, "très à contre-cœur" et pour des "raisons alimentaires", à rejoindre la télévision française en 1966.
À l'ORTF, au sein de l'équipe de l'émission "Zoom", Ophuls développe son style.
Utilisant les nouvelles technologies légères (caméra 16mm, enregistreur Nagra), il pratique un "journalisme subjectif", allant à la rencontre des Français (femmes, ouvriers, jeunes) et perfectionnant ce qui est décrit comme un "art de l'interview".
Le projet initial est une suite à deux émissions sur Munich 1938, visant à explorer les conséquences de l'Occupation. Le mouvement de Mai 68 et la grève qui s'ensuit à l'ORTF interrompent le projet.
Ophuls, ainsi que les producteurs André Harris et Alain de Sédouy, sont licenciés.
Le groupe trouve refuge auprès d'une nouvelle société de production suisse et Ophuls convainc la télévision allemande (NDR) de financer 70% du film.
Le tournage est lancé au printemps 1969, né de la censure et de la nécessité de trouver du travail ailleurs.
Marcel Ophuls rejette l'étiquette de "cinéma vérité", qu'il juge "horriblement prétentieux".
Sa méthode consiste à créer une "dramaturgie du témoignage" où les personnes interrogées deviennent de véritables personnages.
Il aborde ses sujets "en douceur, en rigolant", utilisant parfois l'"humour juif" pour désarmer, mais son approche est fondamentalement sans concession.
Il laisse ses témoins "dérouler leurs pensées", manifestant une forme de respect pour leur parole tout en maintenant une distance critique, voire un "manque d'empathie".
Cette approche permet de révéler les fissures, les non-dits et les justifications a posteriori.
Le film est construit autour d'une mosaïque de témoignages qui, mis en regard, créent une vision polyphonique et troublante de la France occupée.
*pétainisme, * Milice, et * Résistance.
Témoin(s)
Rôle / Statut
Thème Principal du Témoignage
Les frères Klein
Commerçants
La banalité de l'antisémitisme et le manque de solidarité. Leur annonce dans Le Moniteur pour se déclarer "catholique" et non "juif" est une séquence phare.
René de Chambrun
Gendre de Pierre Laval
La défense sophistique de Vichy, argumentant que le régime aurait sauvé une partie des Juifs français.
Ophuls le confronte directement à la caméra sur le droit moral d'un État à "choisir entre deux groupes humains".
Christian de la Mazière
L'engagement fasciste assumé ("jeune fasciste").
Son témoignage, qualifié de "glaçant" et "authentique", crève l'écran et met mal à l'aise toutes les consciences.
Il conclut le film par un appel à la prudence adressé à la jeunesse de 68.
Pierre Mendès France
La dignité face à la persécution.
Son récit de l'arrestation de son père et de la naissance de sa fille, qu'il n'avait jamais vue, est un moment d'émotion intense.
Les frères Grave
Paysans résistants
L'héroïsme ordinaire et modeste. Leur témoignage sur les débuts de la résistance en Auvergne, où ils chantaient L'Internationale car Pétain avait annexé La Marseillaise, illustre l'engagement populaire.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Le regard extérieur et moral. Il juge sévèrement l'État français pour avoir "renié le droit d'asile traditionnel de la France" en livrant des ressortissants qu'il devait protéger.
Témoins des "tondues"
La séquence, associée à une chanson de Brassens, est qualifiée de "transgressive" et a profondément marqué les féministes émergentes de l'époque.
La direction de la télévision d'État justifie sa décision de ne pas diffuser le film par une phrase devenue célèbre :
"Ce film détruit des mythes dont la France a encore besoin."
Cette déclaration révèle une volonté explicite du pouvoir politique de maintenir une version officielle de l'Histoire, occultant les aspects les plus sombres de la période.
Une opposition significative est venue de figures respectées, notamment Simone Veil.
Ayant elle-même survécu à la déportation, elle estimait que le film "entachait de collaboration l'ensemble de la société française" et ne rendait pas justice aux nombreux Français courageux qui, sans être des résistants armés, avaient aidé des Juifs.
Les commentateurs du documentaire suggèrent que sa position, bien que sincère, a servi de paravent aux "pétinistes à Légion d'honneur" de l'ORTF.
De nombreux anciens résistants ont également fait pression, craignant que le film ne donne une "mauvaise image de la France".
Le film expose la présence au sommet de la société de figures de la collaboration.
Une séquence montre René Bousquet, secrétaire général de la police de Vichy et organisateur de la rafle du Veld'Hiv, devenu après-guerre un puissant directeur de la Banque d'Indochine.
La banque a contacté les producteurs suisses pour leur demander de supprimer le passage en échange de contreparties financières, ce que ces derniers ont refusé.
Cette affaire illustre à quel point les responsables de l'époque étaient encore en poste et influents.
Le Chagrin et la Pitié a provoqué un "basculement mémoriel".
Il a forcé la société française à regarder en face la collaboration de l'État et le comportement d'une partie de sa population.
Pour la première fois, la parole se libère, comme en témoigne le nombre sans précédent de lettres envoyées au journal Le Monde en 1971, où les citoyens débattent avec passion de la période.
Le film a rendu impossible de "remettre la poussière sous le tapis".
Aux États-Unis, le film sort en 1972 dans un contexte marqué par la guerre du Vietnam et le scandale du Watergate.
La critique américaine y voit un miroir, posant la question : "Dans des circonstances comparables, avons-nous bien agi ?".
Le film change également la perception américaine de la Libération, révélant que les GIs ont débarqué non seulement dans un pays occupé, mais aussi dans un pays qui avait "sereinement organisé sa collaboration avec l'occupant".
Le film est considéré comme un "facilitateur" qui a permis l'émergence d'autres œuvres traitant de l'Occupation sous un angle critique, comme Lacombe Lucien de Louis Malle ou Monsieur Klein de Joseph Losey.
Il a également préparé le terrain pour l'accueil du livre de l'historien américain Robert Paxton, La France de Vichy, qui, par une approche archivistique, confirmait les conclusions du film.
Ophuls et Paxton sont vus comme partageant le même "esprit" en osant juger Vichy.
L'impact du film s'étend sur plusieurs décennies. Le débat qu'il a ouvert est considéré comme une étape essentielle menant à la reconnaissance officielle de la responsabilité de la France.
Un intervenant établit une continuité directe : "Il n'y a pas de discours de Chirac en 1995 s'il n'y a pas le chagrin à la pitié."
Ce discours, où Jacques Chirac déclare que "la folie criminelle de l'occupant a été secondée par des Français, secondée par l'État français", marque l'aboutissement du processus de mémoire que le film avait brutalement initié 24 ans plus tôt.
C'est la preuve qu'un film, "somme toute assez rare", peut "changer les choses" et "changer des vies".
food is used as apolitical weapon” and proposed a countermeasure: “if you have a pig in yourbackyard, if you have some vegetables in your garden, you can feed yourselfand your family, and nobody can push you around.”
The philosophy aligns with tofu's rise as a self-sufficient, plant-based protein alternative embraced by other protest movements. Underscores the idea that controlling your food system is essential to political freedom—ideas that tofu later came to represent in white counterculture.
Young people were especially at the center of these changes. Theyrecognized the ways that institutions—from partisan politics to the militaryto corporations—had failed them
Tofu's popularity among youth represented a rejection of industrialized, processed, corporate food systems. Provide an alternative to mainstream systems—communes, cooperatives, etc.
The food waste contributed to thesense of oppression among these downtrodden people, their sense of injusticeand their feelings of “wrath” growing heavier with each pile of burning oranges.
Burning food supply, not give it to people in need --> causing the sense of oppression among people --> eventually resistance.
Although some immigrants welcomed assimilation as a way of fittingin, others resisted the patronizing reform efforts. Italian immigrants inparticular had little interest in cooking instruction even as they attendedsettlement house classes and clubs on other subjects.
Resistance from the immigrants to the forced cultural assimilations, cling to their traditional foods
Enslaved people onthese ships often used the refusal of food as a tool of resistance, subjectingthemselves to starvation or throwing themselves overboard to escape theirbondage
Resistance against enslavers
Key information about the life of Alix Sophie Deguise
Vgl [[On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder]] (2017 I think)
the question is why are the mitochondria not doing their job why is the self not responding to insulin 00:05:34 that's the issue different tissues different reasons but the main one is the liver
for - question - health - insulin resistance - why aren't mitochondria within cells not responding to insulin?
question - health - insulin resistance - why aren't mitochondria within cells not responding to insulin? - The fat cells are being stored in the liver, resulting in - fatty liver disease - The liver stores the fat cells floating in blood (triglycerides) then recirculates it back to the cells. - The cells and liver are caught up in a vicious cycle of "hot potatos" with the fat cells.<br /> - (See Stanford explainer video above)
insulin takes glucose from the blood and also fats from the blood in the form of triglyceride 00:03:11 and stuffs it in cells for a rainy day
for - health - insulin and insulin resistance - simple explanation - to - insulin resistance - clear and simple explainer video - Stanford University health - insulin - simple explanation - insulin stores sugars and tryglycerides floating around in the blood into cells. - more detailed explanation - when blood glucose rises, then beta cell of pancreas start to secrete insulin to bind to glucose and put into cells for storage - Watch this clear, short video explaining insulin resistance from Stanford University - https://hyp.is/4Ymu4D1ZEe-jFfeB23zicA/docdrop.org/video/U1cr14xffrk/
metabolic syndrome
for - health - insulin resistance - metabolic syndrome
health - insulin resistance - metabolic syndrome - When your mitochondria doesn't work, it results in insulin resistance - Metabolic syndrome includes an enormous variety of the major diseases afflicting modernity - up to 75% of the diseases that affect modern humans and - up to 75% of today's health care costs - and includes - type 2 diabetes - hypertension - dyslipidemia - cardiovascular disease - cancer - dementia - fatty liver disease - pollycystic ovarian disease - (he didn't include strokes here but he mentions throughout his talk)
for - personal health - metabolic disease - insulin resistance caused by mitochondria dysfunction - interview - Dr. Robert Lustig - health - dangers of sugar in our diet
summary - Robert Lustig is a researcher and major proponent for educating the dangers of sugar as the root cause of the majority of preventable western disease - He explains how sugar and carbs are a major variable and root cause of a majority of these diseases - It is useful to look at these bodily dysfunctions from the perspective of Michael Levin, in which all these diseases of the body are problems with lower levels of the multi-scale competency architecture - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=michael+levin%2C+multi-scale+competency+architecture
insulin resistance is actually 00:01:14 Downstream of something even more important that we will talk about called mitochondrial dysfunction
for - health - insulin resistance - a symptom of mitochondria dysfunction
but as the situation continues it may require more and more and more insulin to get the same amount 00:02:40 of glucose into the cells
for - key insight - health - insulin resistance
key insight - health - insulin resistance - This is the key to the mechanism by which insulin levels increase in the blood. - As our diet places higher levels of glucose in the blood, the pancreas responds by releasing more and more insulin to process this elevated level of insulin and the cells respond, - but the cells, especially surrounding the organs no longer store fat when a certain threshold of high insulin is reached - high amounts of visceral fat around the organs is then accompanied by fat being released by the cells into the blood stream, elevating triglyceride levels - The liver then starts to take this up and if there are now elevated trigycerides in the bloodstream, the liver and cells get locked into a vicious cycle of fat release
for - explanation - insulin resistance - Stanford University
explanation - insulin resistance - Standard University - great explanation from Standford University
from - Prof. Emeritus Robert Lustig on root cause of insulin resistance - https://hyp.is/RFJQrj1aEe-nIQu5Sj1fyw/docdrop.org/video/WVFMyzQE-4w/
the vast majority of hypertension high blood pressure the root cause is insulin resistance metabolic disease
for - health - heart - majority of hypertension and high blood pressure is caused by insulin resistance metabolic disease
many of these patients had high lipids and high blood pressure and they were given beta 00:28:25 blockers and thide diuretics which as you know also have the same consequence as the statins do in in exacerbating insulin resistance
for - health - heart - Beta-blocker/thiazide diuretic combos
health - heart - Beta-blocker/thiazide diuretic combos - This combo lowers the blood pressure by - removing excess water and salt from the body and - slowing the heart rate. - These only mask the symptoms CAUSED BY INSULIN RESISTANCE
you can take these medications you can expose yourself to the risk of the medications 00:26:57 or or you can change the way you eat you can deal with the true underlying problem insulin resistance
for - health - heart - root cause of heart disease - lifestyle choices - dietary choice
health - heart - root causes of heart disease - lifestyle choices - dietary choice - root cause of insulin resistance is poor diet with too much sugar and carbs and other variables such as excessive alcohol - dietary changes can shift lipid particles to large, fluffy LD particles - high sugar and carbs is a main factor leading to insulin resistance
to - Root cause of insulin resistance - interview with Robert Lustig - https://hyp.is/l14UvjzwEe-cUVPwiO6lIg/docdrop.org/video/WVFMyzQE-4w/
We need to rebuild a world outside of the grip of the globalist organisations behind the coup, outside of the grip of fascist corporations who would destroy us and the planet for power and profit, outside of the grip of the unelected billionaires parasite class, far from the grip of the corrupt governments who think they are gods and we are their canon fodder, who pretend they care about our welfare while destroying our lives. These people are our civil servants but we have let them act as our masters for too long.
We need to go off the grid, off their evil grid, outside of the control of these psychopaths, these leeches, these parasites who have been bleeding us dry for too long.
they control everything, so its hard to find ways to effective resistance…
ive been thinking about this hell on earth for 20 years, and the bottleneck i found are human relations. we just have no fucking clue, how to arrange human relations to create stable groups.
im afraid this is no accident, but deliberate sabotage from above: they dont want slaves who are well-organized, self-sufficient, free. george carlin: “They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people, capable of critical thinking. … They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs”
possible solution: Pallas. Who are my friends. Group composition by personality type. https://milahu.github.io/alchi/src/whoaremyfriends/whoaremyfriends.html
Given the already describedstrains on the Jews, the negative effect of the heat, and thegreat overloading of most of the cars, the Jews attemptedtime and again to break out of the parked train cars, asdarkness had already set in toward 7:30 p.m.
Withthe coming of deep darkness in the night, many Jews escapedby squeezing through the air holes after removing the barbedwire.
0:24 "what does rebellion look like?" -- answering the question "who are my friends?" -- the system hates my answer so much that cops are threatening to throw me in jail for distributing my book for free in public here in germany...
effectively, my solution is tribalism, secession, small states, "nationalism", groups of 150 people (dunbars number) im permanent competition to each other, including permanent tribal wafare, because many small wars are better than few large wars, and because "pacifism" is a lie, pacifism is only playing for time and always leads to large wars.
Goblin mode? china calls this "tang ping" (lying flat) or "guo re tze" (just pass the day, survive this day) (via serpentza on youtube) -- aka: escapism, second life, mentalism, mind over matter, knowledge is power, living in your head, idealism, high life, city life, depression, apathy, passive resistance, pessimism, nihilism, ignorance, "i dont care", Hikikomori, NEET, MGTOW, hedonism, stupid and happy, ...
Lying flat - China's Silent Revolution<br /> by serpentza<br /> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWl7njLlXLU
ps: only faggets wear socks without shoes
“Actuallythe impact of letters from the front, which had been regarded as ex-traordinarily important, has to be considered more than harmfultoday,” he noted: “soldiers are pretty blunt when they describe thegreat problems they are fighting under, the lack of winter gear . . .insufficient food and ammunition.”
With smuggled letters, private diaries,and secret archives, Jewish victims made enormous efforts to leavebehind accounts of the atrocities the Nazis were committing.
Criticism of the disruption of publicorder was widespread, but should not be taken completely at facevalue. It undoubtedly veiled deeper moral objections that were oth-erwise difficult to articulate in Nazi Germany
ventuallythe criminal charges that relatives threatened to bring against hos-pitals, the dismay of local townspeople who wondered why the pa-tients “are never seen again”—“in one south German village, peas-ant women refused to sell cherries to nurses from the local statehospital”—and finally, in August 1941, the open denunciation ofinvoluntary euthanasia by Clemens August von Galen, the Catholicbishop of Münster in Westphalia, prompted Hitler to order the spe-cial killing centers dismantled.
he sterilization proceedings put the voices ofvictims into the historical record, an unusual occurrence in NaziGermany. Whether they were “pleading or imploring, beseechingor threatening, complaining or accusing, bitter or outraged, fright-ened or self-confident, resigned or enraged, oral or written, rhymedor unrhymed,” the appeals were generally free of the “condescend-ing” scientific language of biological racism
Thus, for leading opponents of the Nazis, and for the Jews andother minorities that the regime tormented, there seemed to be littlealternative but to abandon Germany altogether. Since most exilesnever returned, Germany’s political and intellectual life continuedto be structured by the Nazis long after their defeat
lack of dissenting voices means nazis shape everything
“Ifonly the good old days would come back again, just one more time.Why do we have to have this dreadful war, which has disrupted ourpeaceful lives, broken our happiness, and dissolved all our big andlittle hopes for a new house into nothing?”
But when the German cheers wouldnot stop, “Hitler sensed a popular mood, a longing for peace andreconciliation.” This was also an indication of the general content-ment with things as they were.
However, Germans did not want the war Hitler was determinedto wage in order to gain living space and empire.
contradiction between german desire and hitlers aspirations, they agree w/ what hes doing for the country in terms of prosperity but are reticent abt possibly sacrificing all of that in wartime
what he saw was an increas-ingly Nazified community in which neighbors now took notice ofKarl’s behavior and club members adjusted their own. What Karlwas resisting as he stood alongside his wife was the pressure to con-form, if only for the sake of appearances.
Our overuse of antibiotics has led to what may be thebiggest such problem so far: the emergence of antibiotic-resistant andmuch more dangerous bacteria. Similar things happened when attemptsto eliminate malarial mosquitoes using DDT caused them to acquireDDT resistance; malarial parasites likewise acquired multi-drug-resistant genes.
Just as mosquitoes can "acquire" (evolve) DDT resistance or bacteria might evolve antiobiotic-resistance, might not humans evolve AI resistance? How fast might we do this? On what timeline? Will the pressure be slowly built up over time, or will the onset be so quick that extinction is the only outcome?
Journalist Anna Nemtsova on Russian public society decline and losing hope after the post-Soviet period optimism wrt change. Places the turning point in 2011/2012. I worked in Moldova briefly then, and they were aiming to divert their exports to anyplace else than Russia. Kyrgyzstan had just had a revolution in spring 2010 (both towards democracy and Russian influenced). 2014 I wasn't allowed to travel from Kyrgyzstan through Moscow as P had not been seen in public for a week or two, while the Donbas conflict took place (MH17 was shot down a few months earlier). Late 2012 Russia signed onto OGP to withdraw ealry 2013 https://www.opengovpartnership.org/stories/russia-withdraws-from-open-government-partnership-too-much-transparency/ faving a controlled openness (through registered entities) above individual rights. Russia's foreign agents law is also from 2012. So seems to chime with my own experiences.
34:00 potential to be special, choosing path of least resistance
Protecting and practicing fallow time is an act of resistance; it can make us feel out of step with what the prevailing culture tells us.
Rest is Resistance
Fallow time, I like that wording
the deer reminds Chris of the trick-ster tales, that it suggests he must use his wiles to escape
the deer strikes back
Wagner emphasizes thatsuch animal tales often provided coded ways of imparting strategies forresistance and that this story has historical connections not only to the tropeof the speaking animal from African trickster mythologies like the spiderAnansi, but also perhaps, to Aesop’s animal fable
The novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler said he avoided reading books written by someone who didn’t “take the pains” to write out the words. (It used to be common for writers to dictate into a recorder then have an assistant transcribe those words.) “You have to have that mechanical resistance,” Chandler wrote in a 1949 letter to actor/writer Alex Barris. “When you have to use your energy to put those words down, you are more apt to make them count.”
Ro, C. (2021, November 1). Why mandatory vaccination is nothing new. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211029-why-mandatory-vaccination-is-nothing-new
Iketani, S., Liu, L., Guo, Y., Liu, L., Huang, Y., Wang, M., Luo, Y., Yu, J., Yin, M. T., Sobieszczyk, M. E., Huang, Y., Wang, H. H., Sheng, Z., & Ho, D. D. (2022). Antibody Evasion Properties of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Sublineages (p. 2022.02.07.479306). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.07.479306
Kozlov, M. (2022). Why scientists are racing to develop more COVID antivirals. Nature, 601(7894), 496–496. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00112-8
Torjesen, I. (2021). Covid-19: Omicron may be more transmissible than other variants and partly resistant to existing vaccines, scientists fear. BMJ, 375, n2943. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2943
I don't understand the hesitation here to accept a really useful addition to rspec. Maintenance burden. Forseen internal changes required to do it. Unforseen internal changes required to do it. Formatter changes to handle new output status for a spec that passed and failed It's simply not a previously design use case of RSpec. It will be hacky to implement.
We already have a very wide configuration API. The further we expand it the more unwieldy it becomes for users. At this point we generally require new features to be implemented first as extension gems, and then to see support, before considering including them in core.
But systems of schooling and educational institutions–and much of online learning– are organized in ways that deny their voices matter. My role is to resist those systems and structures to reclaim the spaces of teaching and learning as voice affirming. Voice amplifying.
Modeling annotation and note taking can allow students to see that their voices matter in conversation with the "greats" of knowledge. We can and should question authority. Even if one's internal voice questions as one reads, that might be enough, but modeling active reading and note taking can better underline and empower these modes of thought.
There are certainly currents within American culture that we can and should question authority.
Sadly some parts of conservative American culture are reverting back to paternalized power structures of "do as I say and not as I do" which leads to hypocrisy and erosion of society.
Education can be used as a means of overcoming this, though it requires preventing the conservative right from eroding this away from the inside by removing books and certain thought from the education process that prevents this. Extreme examples of this are Warren Jeff's control of religion, education, and social life within his Mormon sect.
Link to: - Lawrence Principe examples of the power establishment in Western classical education being questioned. Aristotle wasn't always right. The entire history of Western science is about questioning the status quo. (How can we center this practice not only in science, but within the humanities?)
My evolving definition of active reading now explicitly includes the ideas of annotating the text, having a direct written conversation with it, questioning it, and expanding upon it. I'm not sure I may have included some or all of these in it before. This is what "reading with a pen in hand" (or digital annotation tool) should entail. What other pieces am I missing here which might also be included?
Al Newman. (2022, March 8). @danaparish @jennybluebird2U To your point: Https://t.co/CsULpIACoI [Tweet]. @AlNewman_. https://twitter.com/AlNewman_/status/1501056062262333441
Valter Longo, PhD has been studying an aspect of fasting and autophagy that is fascinating enough, I wanted to include it in it’s own section. One area of his research focuses on how fasting induces differential stress resistance to make chemotherapy far more effective. In a food scarce environment, normal cells become more resistant to oxidative stress, but cancer cells don’t. Remember, cancer cells are broken cells. Something went wrong with them and they are replicating out of control. Being broken means they don’t retain all the typical functions and protective mechanisms of normal cells, like antioxidant generation. That’s one of the reasons cancer cells switch their metabolism from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis even in the presence of oxygen. It’s known as the Warburg effect. There are many theories on why this happens, but one is because cancer cells are more sensitive to the reactive oxygen species created during normal metabolism. Eating creates an environment where cancer cells thrive and normal cells are stressed. Cancer cells need an environment rich with sugar, growth factors (like IGF-1) and amino acids like glutamine. For normal cells, metabolism creates reactive oxygen species and triggers an immune response to deal with all the pathogens riding along on top of your meals. However, when you fast, normal cells become 1000 times more resistant to reactive oxygen species, but cancer cells do not. This same starvation-protection also makes normal cells far more resistant to chemotherapy drugs.
So fasting helps protect healthy cells and weakens cancerous ones. That's cool. But then it says cacer clles need sugar, growth factors like [[IGF-1]] and amino acids like glutamine. The [[Carnivore Diet]] is going to increse IGF-1 and amino acid levels but should starve the cancer cells of sugar. Given Dr Clemens' success treating cancer with the [[PKD]] protocol I'm inferring that it's the triad that needs to be inn place and if sugar is missing then the other factors being elevated eoesn't matter that much.
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The punk movement is anti-establishment, with long ties to political activism and resistance, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate, anti-authoritarian, with a strong ethic of visibility and in-your-face active expression of these sentiments.
Perfectly expresses my orientation and my love of XTC.
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I've been wanting to read Zinn, so perhaps this is a good place to follow along? A sort of pseudo book club perhaps?
It's interesting to see Dan struggle with an obvious listicle article in Forbes as an authoritative source. This example is a great indicator that Forbes online has created far too much of a content farm to be taken seriously anymore. From what I've seen of it over the past several years it's followed the business model of The Huffington Post before Huffington sold it and cashed out. My supposition is that Forbes is providing a platform for people to get reach and isn't actually paying those writers to create their content.
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
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Resistance to colistin in Acinetobacter baumannii associated with mutations in the PmrAB two-component system
PmrAB
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If the react cargo cult didn't have the JSX cowpath paved for them and acclimated to describing their app interface with vanilla javascript, they'd cargo cult around that. It's really about the path of least resistance and familiarity.
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If you're wearing the same shoes as I have so many times before where you're trying to make yourself heard and do what you ultimately believe is in the organisation's best interests
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After all, the rise in antibiotic resistance doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have invented antibiotics at all.
It does mean though, that we should try to forsee unintended consequences and not dismiss skeptics without judging the merit of their skepticism with sound scientific discussions. It is famed that Alexander Fleming who discovered the first antibiotic - penicillin, mentioned the observation of resistant bacteria and advised caution in antibiotic usage. This caution went unheeded in the subsequent golden era of antibiotics where all alternatives like phage therapy were shelved from research and development. This is the real lesson we should learn
indicate that even low concentrations of just a single type of antibiotic leads to resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics.
I doubt this claim, do you mean they are correlated?
Overall, the low contamination level of antibiotics and high absolute abundance of ARGs indicated that ARGs previously introduced to an environment can self-amplify and persist in the environment
suggesting that STPs have become an important source of contamination for their receiving rivers
Read these references: Saying antibiotic resistance is proliferating in wastewater treatment plants
Additionally, the concentrations of antibiotics and the abundance of ARGs might increase after the sewage treatment process.
Wow, that is a strong and counter-intuitive claim. Is this rigorously determined?
wastewater treatment plants are hotspots for the release of antibiotics, and transmission of diverse antibiotic resistance bacteria (ARB) as well as ARGs into various environments
That's a strong claim, not backed by strong evidence
Recent findings have indicated that most ARGs could not be efficiently removed by traditional anaerobic digestion treatment
Ultimately, Pelosi is right to insist that a case must be made for beginning impeachment proceedings. But it’s her job to make that case, and failure to do so is a failure of omission. And failure to do so in a timely manner that would curtail some of the worst damage potentially produced by the administration is neglect.
Similarly, if we look at the history of the rise of Nazi Germany can we see how lack of direct resistance allowed Germany to end up in their ultimate situation with Hitler?
introduction of Cu to agricultural soil selects for Cu resistance, but also indirectly selects for antibiotic resistance in the Cu‐resistant bacteria
“Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Herman Melville
Ms. Massicot assigned this novella in her English class my junior year in high school. Fifty years later, Bartleby still informs my decision making everyday. Especially when responding to academics and educational institutions.
Adipose tissue is no longer considered to be an inert tissue that stores fat. This tissue is capable of expanding to accommodate increased lipids through hypertrophy of existing adipocytes and by initiating differentiation of pre-adipocytes. Adipose tissue metabolism exerts an impact on whole-body metabolism. As an endocrine organ, adipose tissue is responsible for the synthesis and secretion of several hormones. These are active in a range of processes, such as control of nutritional intake (leptin, angiotensin), control of sensitivity to insulin and inflammatory process mediators (tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), resistin, visfatin, adiponectin, among others) and pathways (plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) and acylation stimulating protein (ASP) for example). This paper reviews some of the biochemical and metabolic aspects of adipose tissue and its relationship to inflammatory disease and insulin resistance.
Resistance Realily is 'that which resists,' according to Latour's (1987) Pragmatistinspired definition. The resistances thal designers and users encounter will change lhc ubiquitous networks of classifications and standards. Although convergence may appear at times to create an inescapable cycle of feedback and verification, the very multiplicity of people, things and processes involved mean lhat they are never locked in for all time.
Questioning the infrastructural inversion via ubiquity, material and texture, history, and power shapes the visibility and invisibility of the infrastructure that society creates for itself.
Es ist aber auch Widerstand gegen den nicht ebenso leicht zu beschreibenden, weil sich liberal gebenden Totalitarismus des WWW selbst zu leisten.
Low BP was more prevalent in subjects with upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS) (23%) than in subjects with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) (0.06%), parasomnia (0.7%), restless leg syndrome (0.9%), or psychological insomnia (0.9%).
That's an extremely high rate of hypotension in UARS. This may be what I have. If UARS causes hypotension, then sleep apnea (SA) may be different because of its link to obesity.
Learning is a subversive act.
YES! In American schools you are indoctrinated with the premise: "There is no difficult material. There are only difficult learners." The "trial-by-failure" prevalent in the 70's and 80's, that if you repeat a subject you truly do not nor will not ever understand, Algebra in my case, you are somewhat "subversive" to the rest of classroom, the teacher and especially the school. Report card comments: asks too many questions/asks no questions, disruptive/sleeps in class, no effort given, won't get tutored after school labels the learner without labelling the conformity of the classroom: fit in or be shut out. Excellent point!
When Being-out-for-something comes up against resistance, and can do nothing but ‘come up against it’, it is itself already alongside a totality of involvements. But the fact that this totality has been discovered is grounded in the disclosedness of the referential totality of significance. The experiencing of resistance—that is, the discovery of what is resistant to one’s endeavours—is possible ontologically only by reason of the disclosedness of the world.
Heidegger: "The experiencing of resistance—that is, the discovery of what is resistant to one’s endeavours—is possible ontologically only by reason of the disclosedness of the world. " || Again, does this view of disclosedness / truth foreclose a technical resistance that is not appropriable by Dasein (i.e. that which remains 'crowded out' within the horizon though not, necessarily, excluded from it).
A beneficial impact of the fat quality on insulin sensitivity is not seen in individuals with a high fat intake (> 37E%).
This is likely do to the reduced carbohydrate intake rather than increased fat intake. Since carbohydrates generally insulin sensitivity, it's likely that this additional insulin resistance is acting as a confounder (as well as, presumably, a standard deviation widener). Thus, I would expect similar results during hypocaloric carbohydrate restriction.
heat trace (heating cable)
Heat trace or heating cable is used to warm or heat underground structures, storage tanks, vessels, and instrumentation in order to maintain a specified temperature or eliminate the possibility of freezing. Heat trace or heating cable accomplish this task by adding the amount of heat energy to the process fluid that is lost from the process fluid. It is desirable to maintain a certain temperature since higher temperatures reduce viscosity, enhance combustion, and prevent freezing or crystallization of the fluid. Within the oil and gas industry, elevated temperatures are required to separate the crude oil or raw natural gas to the surface and freeze protection is required to allow refining and distribution of the fluid (Thermon South Africa (Pty.) Ltd. ). Heat trace or heating cable often utilizes resistance wire to provide a medium for voltage to pass through. Due to the resistance of the wire, the heat trace or heating cable becomes warmer and is able to use this heat to warm the underground structures that it surrounds. One material used in resistance wires is nickel-chromium (Peterjohn, Melillo, Bowles, & Steudler, 1993). Heat trace has been used since the early 1900s to ensure the proper flow of petroleum, tar, and wax through pipelines. Since then, certain products within the petroleum and chemical industries needed to be kept between specific temperatures to ensure their quality. Today, the most commonly used heat trace medium is steam (Thermon South Africa (Pty.) Ltd. ).
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This paranoia has some pretty deep roots
Mistrust. Paranoia
I am an outsider who thought that perhaps I could lay a set of parallel sidetracks next to the well-worn ones of System B, an underground railway designed to lift up, carry forward, and sustain those fleeing the plight of System B.
identity
escape
Juma, Calestous. 2016. Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies. Oxford University Press.
nalogies between teaching and various aspects of show business or guidance counseling are more often than not excuses for having abdicated the task
On why showy teaching is bad teaching p.3
De Man, Paul. “The Resistance to Theory.” Yale French Studies, no. 63 (1982): 3–20. doi:10.2307/2929828.
Always I AM there to pick you up, after the fall, although you do not know it at the time; firststraightening you out and then starting you onward again, by pointing out the reason for yourfall; and finally, when you are sufficiently humbled, causing you to see that these powersaccruing to you by the conscious use of My Will, My Intelligence and My Love, are allowed youonly for use in My Service, and not at all for your own personal ends.Do the cells of your body, the muscles of your arm, think to set themselves up as having aseparate will from your will, or a separate intelligence from your intelligence?No, they know no intelligence but yours, no will but yours.After a while it will be that you will realize you are only one of the cells of My Body; and thatyour will is not your will, but Mine; that what consciousness and what intelligence you have areMine wholly; and that there is no such person as you, you personally being only a physical formcontaining a human brain, which I created for the purpose of expressing in matter and Idea, acertain phase of which I could express best only in that particular form.All this may be difficult for you now to accept, and you may protest very strenuously that itcannot be, that every instinct of your nature rebels against such yielding and subordinatingyourself to an unseen and unknown power, however Impersonal or Divine.Fear not, it is only your personality that thus rebels. If you continue to follow and study MyWords, all will soon be made clear, and I will surely open up to your inner understanding manywonderful Truths that now are impossible for you to comprehend. Your Soul will rejoice singglad praises, and you will bless these words for the message they bring
I am supported through my healing, growing, learning, fashioning..........
to be able to be.. "a physical form containing a human brain, which I created for the purpose of expressing in matter and Idea, a certain phase of which I could express best only in that particular form."
It is only my personality that resists Truth.
lleged techn o - educational innovation is generally little more than a manifestation of the divergent interests of the stakeholders involved, with any convergence rarely linked to teaching or learning
convergent interests of stakeholders does not amount to innovation teaching and learning
“ Whatever happened to Instructional Technology? ”. With this publication , he highlighted a nd attempted to explain the persistent failure of ICT to penetrate the world of higher education, despite several decades of effort and massive inve stment (Geoghegan, 1994)
This may situate the problem quite deeply in the history of educational ict and support claims relating to the persistence of this problem in the face of numerous interventions.
As I said earlier, our dialoguing like this does constitute your connection with Reality, with Sanity, and you are now beginning to grasp why it is that the one who is dreaming must reach out, and why one’s Guide cannot enforce his or her presence upon the one guided. The one being guided has been engaging in the denial of Reality, the effective blocking of It, and that resistance cannot be penetrated. It isn’t actually a shell, but an insistence upon ignoring. And no one can penetrate an act of ignoring—you could say, an act of ignorance.
I need to reach out to my guide because I have been in denial of Reality and blocking it, I have been insisting on ignoring it.
Now, it is not necessary to be in a meditative state. At this point, it is helpful to meditate when the line of communication seems to be filled with static. It is the means of clearing the “sound” of resistance from the line of communication. Our connection is, indeed, definite, and you can hear me whether your ego is erupting or not.
It is not necessary to be in a meditative state to hear guidance although it can support the quietening of the thinking mind.
RAJ: Paul, do not resist that feeling, but simply do not invest too much attention in it. You can move away from it, where you will not be reached by the apparent dynamics of its meaning. Even if it does not appear to resolve anything from your present point of view, you will, nevertheless, be in the best position possible to have the answer be revealed as your conscious experience. I will ask you to do that this evening before you go to sleep, in preparation for the work we will do while you are sleeping.
Paul is feeling panicky.
Raj suggests the he allow that feeling and says don't resist and don't invest too much attention in it.
Here Raj is describing how to allow.
I describe this as “writing back” not in order to describe the volunteers as freely acting agents—we will see that this is far from the truth
like Foucault's idea that power structures predetermine forms of resistance, thus being absorbed back into the power structure?
A ‘Financial Katrina’ is unfolding, which conveniently (for the developers) threatens to wipe out low-income neighbourhoods on potentially high-value land in many inner-city areas far more effectively and speedily than could be achieved through emi-nent domain.
unplanned change that will allow the government to overcome initial resistance
First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
Feeling a lot of this frustration at white liberals these days.