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Estelle Platini

"Modern civilisation has a number of extremely delicate and highly interconnected components whose graceful degradation is effectively impossible."

It is "much easier to break things than to build them up. The government administrations of Britain, France and Germany for example, were set up at a time in the nineteenth century when the rising middle classes demanded a properly functioning state[…]. It took perhaps a generation for professional, neutral public services to fully emerge."

"Forty years of globalised neoliberalism have broken our societies, our economies and our political systems, and we no longer have the ability to put them back together."

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Brave New Europe · Aurelien - The End? - Brave New EuropeThere must be some way out of here … surely? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack A scene from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame The original idea behind these essays when I started them three years ago, was that [...]
#civilService#statehood#bureaucracy
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Matthew Conroy

I learned about cycling-related Eddington numbers recently.

Your Eddingon number is the largest integer n such that you have ridden at least n kilometers on at least n days (not necessarily consecutively: any days at all).

I wrote some code to find mine.

With data from 2001 to 2024, my Eddington number is 102. (I rode for many years before 2001, so my true number is somewhat (maybe just a little) higher, but records are scarce.)

So, I have ridden at least 102 kilometers on at least 102 days, and I have not ridden at least 103 kilometers on at least 103 days. In fact, I've ridden at least 103 kilometers on 101 days, so I'll need to do that just twice more to get my Eddington number up to 103. Sounds like a nice goal for 2025.

One can also use miles. An amusing thing to note is that you cannot simply convert the Eddington number in kilometers to the Eddington number in miles as you would a distance.

My Eddington number in miles is 68. 68 miles is about 109 kilometers, so my Eddington number in miles is both larger and smaller than my Eddington number in kilometers.

One can, of course, apply this to running, walking, swimming, or really any other quantifiable activity. What would be some interesting activities to apply this to?

One can also restrict the time period and look at one's Eddington number for, for example, single years. In the period 2001-2024, my (km) numbers ranged from 25 to a max of 61. The last time I was at or above 40 was 2017 (I've been in a slump since then).

Let me know if you'd like the (simple) code I wrote to calculate these numbers.

Let me know your Eddington number(s)!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_E

en.wikipedia.orgArthur Eddington - Wikipedia
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Estelle Platini

Au Ve siècle, Benoît de Nursie écrit la charte de son ordre (les Bénédictins) : "Ora et labora" (Prie et travaille). Il instaure le ménagement (devenu #management) : les moines encadrent ouvriers-lais et machines.
Ces usines se répandent en Europe avec les monastères.

#PMO, épisode 9 : floraisons.blog/face-au-monde- @histoire

Références :
#GIMPEL Jean. La révolution industrielle du Moyen Âge. Seuil, 2002.
PIÈCES ET MAIN D’ŒUVRE. Terreur et possession. L’Échappée, 2008
#MUSSO Pierre. La Religion industrielle. Fayard, 2017

Floraisons · Face au monde-machine — avec PMO - FloraisonsUne série de podcasts avec Pièces et main d’œuvre (PMO). Plongez dans la riche aventure intellectuelle et historique de l'écologie anti-industrielle.
#productivité#stress#méthode
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Estelle Platini

Julie #Billaud: Administrative techniques devised to engage parties to a conflict "are changing as a result of external sources of pressure for ‘evidence-based programming’, turning personalised case-based monitoring into a new form of ‘audit culture’ based on statistical evidence. Paradoxically, relying on numbers to realise the utopia of ‘humanising war’ makes the very ‘humans’ who are supposed to benefit from it disappear from view."
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researchgate.net/publication/3 @ethics @sociology #RedCross #conflict #bureaucracy #humanitarian #quantification #technocracy #quantitative

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ripley

An#Introduction for a new instance as I'm fleeing #MastodonLol 's collapse. Hiya I'm a DJ and a scholar (professor/teacher/researcher/writer) into #Djing #abolition #scifi #disabilityjustice #criticalracetheory , #laborjustice #anticolonial (or un- or de- ) moves, and thinking about #quantification #ethics (I am NOT an ethicist or philosopher), (critical) #IPlaw #technology and other structures of power. I try to live my values as best I can, stand up for whats right, build and connect, support and develop structures of #care, (that requires that we) dance and eat good food. I write about #pirateradio #surveillance #soundsystemculture
I'm based in #philly . I learn from, love, and am newly a home-sharer and #caregiver to my elderly and awesome mother. Currently mourning a beloved #dog (I do also love #cats and #capybaras ). I play and listen to many genres, longtime faves include #jungle #dancehall #dub #ukgarage #kuduro #gqom #dembow #soca #rocksteady #breakcore #champeta #cumbia #footwork for djing I lean strongly towards heavy #bass and broken/swung/triplet beats.

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Jelena Brankovic

Time for an #introduction! 👋

Hi! I'm a sociologist interested in things like #competition, #rankings, #quantification, #comparisons, #organizations, and a bit of #history.

My research has been mostly on universities, higher education, science, and related.

I will generally stick to these topics, but will also happily digress into random posts feat. food, travel, expat life, complaints about academia, and frequent attempts at humor.

If you wanna know more or have a chat, drop me a message!

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