Interesting reads
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Zola Budd: After The Fall
Think you know the story of Zola Budd? Think again. Even if you remember how the barefoot prodigy broke world records, became a symbol of South Africa's oppression, and was blamed for Mary Decker's Olympic nightmare, her story has more heartbreak, more hard-fought redemption, and considerably more...
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Think you know the story of Zola Budd? Think again. Even if you remember how the barefoot prodigy broke world records, became a symbol of South Africa's oppression, and was blamed for Mary Decker's Olympic nightmare, her story has more heartbreak, more hard-fought redemption, and considerably more...
I remember that and the seppo media blaming the leader for tripping the girl behind her. Lunatics.
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@antipodean said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Think you know the story of Zola Budd? Think again. Even if you remember how the barefoot prodigy broke world records, became a symbol of South Africa's oppression, and was blamed for Mary Decker's Olympic nightmare, her story has more heartbreak, more hard-fought redemption, and considerably more...
I remember that and the seppo media blaming the leader for tripping the girl behind her. Lunatics.
There was an upset with a boxing match involving a Korean too which they got payback with in Seoul on Roy Jones jr
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@antipodean said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Think you know the story of Zola Budd? Think again. Even if you remember how the barefoot prodigy broke world records, became a symbol of South Africa's oppression, and was blamed for Mary Decker's Olympic nightmare, her story has more heartbreak, more hard-fought redemption, and considerably more...
I remember that and the seppo media blaming the leader for tripping the girl behind her. Lunatics.
There was an upset with a boxing match involving a Korean too which they got payback with in Seoul on Roy Jones jr
I always felt sorry for Roy Jones Jr but he handled himself with a grace that was surprising.
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@antipodean said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
If you've the stomach for it, check out live leak for examples of how high the Chinese venerate life. They're a different species. If you haven't been there, let me offer you one golden piece of advice; traffic laws mean nothing and a pedestrian crossing is an opportunity for you to play Russian roulette.
I crossed a couple of big ones just for the excitement, fucking carnage. Cars, trucks, buses and scooters coming at you from all angles no matter where on the road you are.
Just set a steady pace and keep walking
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Faustian deal? Via longform:
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Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Whatever its imperfections, Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is an original and brilliant work, and it arrives at a crucial moment.
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@gt12 I'll be reading that book I think. Enjoying a few books looking critically at modern capitalism. Currently reading on about how accountants broke it.
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Me too, ironically, it'll go on the Kindle list
That book sounds interesting, what's the title?
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@gt12 Bean Counters: The triumph of the accountants and how they broke capitalism. By Richard Brooks
It's okay, I'm only a 3rd of the way through, still in the history lesson stage. I'm interested to see his conclusions (although I can already guess)
Next on the list is Utopia for Realists. Pretty sure I'm not going to agree with many of that authors views, but I'm reading to broaden my understanding of the other side of my economic beliefs.
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I went down a rabbit hole and stumbled upon this (by the way there are some great songs called maybe tomorrow)
Unlocking the mystery of The Littlest Hobo theme song | A.Side https://ontheaside.com/uncategorized/unlocking-the-mystery-of-the-littlest-hobo-theme-song/
"Maybe Tomorrow" we'll know the truth of Canada’s favourite superhero dog.
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A well written article on Stuff
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The Inside Story of an American Warship Doomed by Its Own Navy
Investigation finds officials ignored warnings for years before one of the deadliest crashes in decades.
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I heard about this from a student who relaxes every night by watching people noisily eat snacks:
The dodgy, vulnerable fame of YouTube's child ASMR stars
Right now, children are filming themselves chewing, whispering and tapping to give their adult audience an ASMR buzz.
Fucking weiiiiiiiird.
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Copernicus, born 19 Feb 1473
Publish and Perish
As I announced yesterday I am playing away this week with a tasty post on astrology and astronomy on the excellent Forbidden Histories blog site. However the substitute bank here at The Renaissance…
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@Stockcar86 interesting article, thanks. Copernicus always make me think of the start of the first Blackadder
"History has known many great liars. Copernicus, Goebbels, St. Ralph the Liar. But there have been none quite so vile as the Tudor King Henry VII."
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Survivorship bias
A really long article, but lots of interesting history revealed on the way
Survivorship Bias
The Misconception: You should focus on the successful if you wish to become successful. The Truth: When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become invisib…
Probably the best well known story about survivorship bias was where to armor planes during WW2 - when they were examining returning planes, they decided it was best not t put armor not where there are holes, but where there are no holes, since that’s where planes can’t survive getting shot
Makes me think about anti-vaxxers - arguing that their grandparents never got vaccinated and survived just fine
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@Stockcar86 Drawing a long bow, but an fairly extraordinary fact is that the descendants of those who survived bubonic plague (in villages infected with it) are highly resistant to HIV.
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How a story gets killed
How Esquire lost the Bryan Singer story
On February 11, news broke that Millennium Films was delaying Bryan Singer’s Red Sonja, which was to begin production this year. This was, on the face of it, a remarkable turn of events. Singer’s Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, had just been nominated for five Oscars. It performed exceedingly well...
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I listened to the Podcast of this first (which could go in the podcast thread) - it's about a crazy Zimbabwean criminal who started off selling online legal pills somewhat illegally before.
The Mastermind Episode 5: He Got Greedy - The Atavist Magazine
A yacht called 'I Dream' washes up in Tonga with some drugs and a grisly cargo.
Whoops, here's the main page: https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind
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Not sure what thread to put this in
Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin busted in college admissions cheating...
TV actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among dozens of people charged with paying bribes to get their kids into top universities in a widespread college admissions scam, prosecutors...
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