Rasmus Fleischer / is on Nostr

Historian & writer, Stockholm.

Swedish account: @rasmusfleischer

Last Notes

2024-12-03 10:43:16

- reply

@nprofile…n90q This might be less paradoxical than it sounds. We have to factor in the generational divide which tends to limit the consumption opportunities of younger population. Then it's not that strange to be in favor of degrowth as a collective project, while individually acting within the constraints of the current system.
Particularly, the generational divide (on a global scale) is related to housing. But maybe older people living extravagantly does not count as "consumption"?

2024-12-02 00:07:43

For some reason, Internet Archive mistook a book about #Sahara for a book about #Sahra Wagenknecht.
https://archive.org/details/biografievonsahr0000unse/page/n3/mode/2up
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/113/580/310/011/298/255/original/0cd65d88201f2e14.png

2024-11-14 14:01:19

Yes. This is a depiction of me in the new "fictional" tv series The Pirate Bay.
(The comment is not written by me but by another person in the band.)
#voxvulgaris #thepiratebay
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/113/481/657/991/493/173/original/907542aa8dbe26b7.png

2024-11-14 12:24:03

Anna's Archive: "The critical window of shadow libraries"
https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html
"Unfortunately, the advent of LLMs, and their data-hungry training, has put a lot of copyright holders on the defensive. Even more than they already were. Many websites are making it harder to scrape and archive, lawsuits are flying around, and all the while physical libraries and archives continue to be neglected.
We can only expect these trends to continue to worsen, and many works to be lost well before they enter the public domain.
We are on the eve of a revolution in preservation, but 'the lost cannot be recovered'. We have a critical window of about 5-10 years during which it’s still fairly expensive to operate a shadow library and create many mirrors around the world, and during which access has not been completely shut down yet."
#piracy #shadowlibraries #archives #librarians

2024-08-05 20:24:48

- reply

@npub1te7…3dzs Norwegian was certainly not a surprising answer

2024-01-20 12:07:22

"Inquiry: Anarchists and the War in Ukraine"
https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/en/online-content/156
"Polish and Czech anarchists … also support us, but we did not feel any support from anarcho-syndicalists, … Instead, we hear from them about … how Ukraine is a NATO puppet. I was upset by the French, Spanish, Italian, and Greek anarchist movements. As it turned out, many of them got their information from Russia Today.
...
The war did not in the least change the point of view of Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian anarchists. We have all known that Russia is an imperialist and fascist empire, that Lukashenko’s pro-Kremlin dictatorship in Belarus is fascist, and that Ukraine is an island of freedom among the countries of the former USSR."
–– Davyd Chychkan, anarchist in Kyiv

2023-07-19 08:28:06

- reply

@npub1hpc…hjn3 All right, thank you (I really don't know celebrities by look haha).
Anyway, there are of course plenty of historical examples also of colonialism within Europe, where ideas of white supremacy were not as central to legitimize colonial rule. Just think about Finland, Ireland or Ukraine. So it'd be wrong to assume that decolonization must always and everywhere be first of all a BIPOC thing.

2023-07-19 08:10:31

Recently a meme pic has been floating around, showing a dinner table at an academic "conference on decolonization" featuring only white-looking people.
Does anyone know the origin of this pic? Like if it was a real conference, or just made up for fun?
(Curious because I think I'm about to write something on current uses of the decolonization concept.)
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/110/739/719/617/472/089/original/62c3045bfae54803.png

2023-06-07 06:25:46

Колективи Солідарності (Solidarity Collectives) supports both military and humanitarian work in Ukraine. Manifesto: https://www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/manifesto-en/
Support their work, buy the Antifa Shirt of the Month: https://www.bonfire.com/solicol/