#nonce is two separate nouns:

Nonce (1) means: The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
(Etymology 1 is inherited from Middle English nonse, nones.)

Nonce (2, in Britain and Ireland) means: A sex offender, especially one who perpetrates against children.
(Etymology 2 is dated 1975, in British criminal slang.) French equivalent: #pointeur

More: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonce

#Screens "train us in convenience, which is training in predictability, in the facade of certainty. And when that facade inevitably breaks, we often find ourselves at sea.

"In the brilliant and ever-relevant Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott outlines the many ways states fail; principle among them is an obsession with putting things in order, with simplification and efficiency. More often than not, that efficiency translates into brittleness and weakness, into systems so fragile they break the moment something unanticipated arises."

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/make-life-possible

Les réseaux en péril : destructions, subversions et sabotages (XIXe-XXIe siècles)

Par B. Thierry et V. Schafer
https://shs.cairn.info/revue-flux-2019-4-page-7

> les réseaux comportent un grand nombre de vulnérabilités communes en dépit de leur diversité. [...] Comportent-ils des vulnérabilités spécifiques contre lesquelles il faudrait se prémunir et comment sont-elles négociées, évaluées, gérées ?

Fragile Computing: How to Live With Insecure Technologies by @lkocksch

> Computer security, the author argues, is part of living in the Anthropocene – an age of damaged more-than-human relations. As such, doing computer security means not striving for technical solutions, or individual awareness, but living with fragility

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-9807-4

Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy

Ali Nobil Ahmad: https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-stiftungen-genocide-gaza-censorship

There is a protest at 1pm in Dublin to request Ireland to "publicly denounce Germany’s role in the criminalisation of pro-Palestinian voices, and Germany’s active participation in genocide in Palestine. Ireland must lead by example in Europe, immediately enacting the Occupied Territories Bill".

https://braveneweurope.com/open-letter-to-the-government-of-ireland-condemning-the-failure-of-the-irish-government-and-eu-to-publicly-denounce-germanys-repeated-contraventions-of-international-law-and-active-role-in-ge

Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"

Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/

After youth movements:
“To not tell those stories out of shame only serves to cement the destiny and ideology of those educated within Zionist institutions"

https://vashtimedia.com/zionist-youth-movements/ @supremacy

Protest tomorrow in Dublin + Call for Ireland and the EU to denounce Germany’s repeated contraventions of international law and active role in genocide

https://braveneweurope.com/open-letter-to-the-government-of-ireland-condemning-the-failure-of-the-irish-government-and-eu-to-publicly-denounce-germanys-repeated-contraventions-of-international-law-and-active-role-in-ge @eu @israel

#NGOs #funding vs. #NeverAgain in #Germany

"Fifteen Israeli NGOs said it ‘would be instrumentalised to attack and constrain German funding for our human rights work’."

"The resolution calls for immigration, asylum and criminal law to be tightened to combat antisemitism, and for universities, where antiwar activists have occupied buildings and set up encampments, to be granted wider powers to discipline and expel students. All levels of government are asked to prevent the financial support of projects and organisations – Documenta is mentioned as an example – that ‘spread antisemitism, question Israel’s right to exist, call for a boycott of Israel or actively support the BDS movement’. The IHRA definition is to be considered ‘authoritative’. The new resolution cites the 2019 BDS text as its model, ignoring a parliamentary assessment from a year later, which found that if that resolution had been formulated as legislation, it ‘would not be compatible with the fundamental right to freedom of expression and would therefore be unconstitutional’."

"With a non-binding resolution, recipients of state funding will be drafted, willing or unwilling, as enforcers. Curators, convenors of academic conferences and charity administrators will be expected to screen and blacklist any partners or collaborators who could be seen to violate the IHRA guidelines. An old social media post or a signature on a petition could result in funds being withdrawn."

Ruairí Casey: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/november/questions-of-funding

"Male street harassers seem to view and treat women as though we are public spectacles."

@juliaserano wrote: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/street-harassment-women-public via @Akki

@ewisniowski
I certainly cannot explain #phenomenology but i have let go of struggle.

Here is my simple take:
• we cannot "know" reality;
• conceiving "things" treats nature as objects;
• instead we may accept that we are part of nature;
• we may even listen to ourselves for deciding about ourselves instead of deciding for the rest.

Here is a practical take: https://mastodon.world/@joie/112207714881361569

@philosophy