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Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 01. April 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 29. #Atombombe "Lime". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

A long time ago, when I was still going to school, I often thought about some class or other: "What's the point of this? I'm just wasting time on stuff I won't ever need. And my grades are going down because of it." So I supported all these bright ideas like having schools work the curriculum out with the industry.
Nowadays, I know better. The purpose of school is not to produce ready-made employees. It's to give people a wider perspective. Perhaps they won't use most of what they learn there, perhaps they'll have bad memories of some classes, but that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that you learn how to learn, how to reason, how to think.
I hate what's been happening to schools lately. They are becoming conveyor belts: we throw children on them, throw specific knowledge at them and see what sticks, we do exams and classify them. We expect to get a thoughtless laborer at the end, someone ready to take a specific job immediately.
A human whose only purpose in life is mindless labor and mindless consumption. Metaphorically, someone who's just going to spend their time off by drinking beer in the front of the TV and breeding more babies. Babies who will eventually become more cogs in the machine, fueling the infinite growth, trying to prevent this mindless system from falling apart.
#AntiCapitalism

Schöne Geschichte eines wiedergefundenen Films in der Library of Congress #loc:
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/lost-19th-century-film-by-melies-dis…

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 29. April 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 35. #Atombombe "Ochre". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

It's not simply that the Anarchist Library has some shitty stuff in it, though that's important too. It's that failing to take intersectional feminist critiques seriously will make us miss critical opportunities to critique and ultimately undermine this system.
We should not be missing this, because failing to miss this critique at this time *is missing our opportunity in this moment.*

Weird feeling as while looking to answer to the question "how do I get the coordinates of the minimal value of a numpy.ndarray ?", found that I already asked that question ten years ago: https://laurentperrinet.github.io/sciblog/p…

@… & I (along with a few others) are running #InstallFest #2 for folks in/near Ōtautahi/Christchurch who're feeling uncomfortable in their digital existences and want to free themselves from a dependence on US Big Tech &/or become more self-sufficient. …

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 27. Mai 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 42. #Atombombe "Discus Thrower". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 25. April 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 34. #Atombombe "Pin Stripe". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 23. April 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 33. #Atombombe "Fenton". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests