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Tunisie: 30e Prix Abou Al Kacem Chabbi - Pour garder vive la flamme du poète de la "Volonté de vivre"
C'est dans l'oasis de Tozeur, ville natale d'Abou Al Kacem Chabbi, que les organisateurs de cette manifestation ont planté une gigantesque tente caïdale sur le parvis du mausolée de l'illustre poète, pour recevoir leurs nombreux invités parmi les mondes des finances, de la culture et des arts, et des médias. Pour célébrer ses 140 anniversaires, la Banque de Tunisie (BT) savait qu'elle disposait d'un grand atout et n'a pas hésité à l'utiliser de la meilleure manière.
Multiplicative Generalized Reverse CE-Derivations Acting on Rings with Involution
H. E. Bell and M. N. Daif, “On centrally-extended maps on rings,” Beitrage zur Algebra und Geometrie, vol. 57, pp. 129–136, 2016. View at: Google Scholar M. S. Tammam El-Sayiad, N. M. Muthana, and Z. S. Alkhamisi, “On rings with some kinds of centrally-extended maps,” Beitrage zur Algebra und Geometrie, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 579–588, 2016. View at: Publisher Site | Google Scholar B. Bhushan, G. S. Sandhu, S. Ali, and D.
The End of the Road
Photo by Sergi Dolcet Escrig on Unsplash A good writer knows better than to stretch their story beyond its natural conclusion, and for myself and this blog, the writing was on the wall for about a year and change, and I was just scared to embrace it. Shortly after Covid hit — and from anecdotal observation, I gather this has not been only the case for me — viewership took a massive hit across the board after what was a pretty bountiful 2019.
Twitter Derangement Syndrome
There’s something distinct about the experience of using Twitter that renders human beings completely unrecognizable when contrasted against their meatspace selves. It’s been already established that social media warps the way we present ourselves online because it optimizes for engagement, but Twitter in particular filters our every thought and emotion in a way that I can only describe as eerily familiar, yet unorthodox all-the-same.
The Culture War Treadmill Is Exhausting
It feels like since Donald Trump was gone from the White House, cultural discourse collapsed into a singular narrow continuum from which only a few items at a time can gain traction, but their gravitational pull is as strong as political scandals of the highest order in yester…
An Enthusiast’s Review of Forza Horizon 5
Courtesy of Playground Games and Xbox Game Studios. It’s been a while since I took a look at a game in as much detail as you’re about to see, but I’ve had so much fun with the latest entry in the Forza Horizon series that I couldn’t deny myself the courtesy.
You Do Not Want Facebook’s Metaverse
Having witnessed Mark Zuckerberg making a fool of himself at Georgetown University a few years ago, Facebook’s announcement of a name change to “Meta” carried with it the same unwitting pomposity.
Revisiting the Verge PC Build, Three Years Later
Few events quite carried the magnitude and breadth of online backlash as the Verge PC build.
Twitch Chat Is Awesome
While pepega moments are unavoidable, it still is plenty pog. Tracing back the history of online exchange since its earliest days, Twitch chat is as defining and quintessential an experience as it can get.
Dave Chappelle and the Hubris of The Comedian
Imparting upon some hidden truth through satire that the wider public is often too wary to share is crucial to comedians’ role as part of the global commentariat.
Attempting To Understand r/neoliberal
What you seek to get out of politics largely depends on why you’ve gotten into it in the first place–for some, the pursuit of an elusive utopia at the expense of mass appeal is a worthwhile project despite obvious feasibility concerns, but others aren’t so imaginative about the future of politics that they choose to stick with norms pre-established and maybe do small iterations here and there where needed.
Lucifer’s Ending Was Damn Near Perfect
Spoilers ahead for Lucifer and the Good Place. If you’ve not finished both shows, I’d highly advise against reading this entry. It’s been the tragedy of modern television that shows ever rarely get to tie up their every loose knot at the end, but Lucifer is resoundingly not of that sort. It would’ve been the case a few years ago if Netflix didn’t pick up the show after Fox cancelled it, but the writers and cast were able to carry the story through its final stages.
Noah Samsen Wants To Become BreadTube’s Mediator
It’s been a while since I was genuinely impressed by a fresh discovery on YouTube, and yet Noah Samsen managed to accomplish this nigh-impossible feat upon first viewing of an hour-long introduction to BreadTube, a space I’ve been documenting, covering and interviewed several subjects of for a few years now.
Vice Media Pivots, and Media Still Loses
In digital media, nothing seems a l’abris from spontaneous dissolution, and it seems like a good portion of Vice’s written news business is on the chopping block as news broke of mass layoffs in a bid to pivot to video.
Andrew Sullivan’s Tired Contrarianism
Everything on the internet rules by decree of capturing attention, and as it so happens, pursuing it nefariously can be most-lucrative. This is the playbook Andrew Sullivan has typically run–since his earliest days of writing on the internet, he’s amassed an audience for whom critical inquiry plays second fiddle to the allure of contrarianism. He’s like Glenn Greenwald in that way, but perhaps more intentional and less naive about the role he’s been playing in the blogosphere for the longest.
The Definitive Take On HasanAbi’s New House
To have Left Twitter pulsate under the heavy influence of yet another prominent leftist figure being scrutinized for something completely benign isn’t an uncommon occurrence, and if BreadTubers were mostly the victims of prior installments in this saga, now it’s streamers’ turn to pay penance–on Thursday, all hell broke loose as news of Hasan Piker buying a $2.74 million house in West Hollywood made the rounds, and it predictably devolved into a whole discourse on just how much are...
Nathan J. Robinson Dug His Own Grave
It’s not like leftist media hasn’t already been in a lamentable state, but the latest courtesy of Nathan J. Robinson bookends a saga one could only conceive of in fairytales. Once self-proclaimed vanguard of socialist ideals and the very author of a book titled “Why You Should be a Socialist” pulled a fast one on his staff at Current Affairs — one of very few still prominent leftist magazines in America — by firing almost every member when they tried to organize under a workers’ co-op.
Cass Eris Seeks To Marry Science With Leftism
On the merits of scientific discourse within leftist communities, the Intellectual Dark Web, content creation, and so much more. When starting a new creative venture, one can almost never foretell if the winds of good fortune mayblow their way.
TERFism Isn’t Just a Movement-It’s Also a Dogma
When framed like so, TERFs’ intense fervor does make a lot more sense. Courtesy of Flickr by Ted Eytan.
A Measured Look at the Lindsay Ellis Controversy
A Measured Look at the Lindsay Ellis Controversy There’s plenty to suggest it was an honest mistake rather than premeditated malice. Because social media’s topmost concern is engagement — however positive or negative it may be — expressing oneself unfiltered is a surefire way to break from tentative peace into all-out conflict for what rarely seems in hindsight like very much.
The Labor of Sex Workers, and the Dues They’re Owed
To be a sex worker, especially in America, is to sustain constant animosity from every corner of society while inhabiting its margins. The discourse surrounding sex work is supercharged with emotion — it makes sense since it fulfills such a primal need for human beings — but seemingly out of disinterest or lack of trying, passionate posturing always triumphed over tact and measuredness.
The Game Awards: All Spectacle and No Substance?
The gaming industry is now bigger than it’s ever been–as of 2019, it was worth more than music and film combined, making it the most lucrative player in entertainment. It was then only a matter of time before the spectacle of the Oscars and…
From GG to RT: The Transformation of Sophia Narwitz
How an ‘independent journalist’ sold her soul to the Kremlin. It’s not always that the opportunity to work on Vladimir Putin’s dime presents itself, but when long-term advocate of Gamergate Sophia Narwitz was prompted to take it, reservations about Russia Today’s editorial bottomline were apparently a secondary concern.
Jesse Singal and the Woes of Unchecked Hubris
To have a mediation layer between a writer and their audience does have its advantages, but it’s onethat early proponents of the blogosphere didn’t think was enough to warrant giving away what little power they had to media organizations–Jesse Singal was one such figure, and his writing well-after seven years at New York Magazine still comprises the hallmarks of a tentative, but mutually-beneficial relationship with an industry coming under increasingly-heavier fire for coddling his kind.
Alec Holowka Died, Gamergate Readying to Exploit the Tragedy
By A. Khaled The playbook of 2014-era Gamergate is being pulled out again. Tragedy-grifting has become Gamergate's main currency of choice. After dozens of women and non-binary people came out in stern opposition against sexual abuse, inadequate pay, and workplace discrimination - a predominant staple in the gaming industry-now a new...
I’ve Fully Settled Into Being a Hermit
Courtesy of Erik Mclean on Unsplash. Now that we’re back in the throes of COVID as the Delta variant sweeps across the globe, our long-held hope for a return to normalcy following a substantial uptake in vaccinations has become all but fictitious. Back in March of last year, I was already prepared for the worst–scenes from the United States weren’t particularly inspiring, so I had to anchor much of my daily in what didn’t require exposure to the outside world.
Medium Sucked My Creative Soul Dry
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash I’m now a few months removed from my transition to Substack after writing on Medium for north of four years, and I realized something I should’ve perhaps a lot earlier–while the jolt of excitement from seeing thousands of people read and share my posts on this platform was sweet, slaving over to satisfy its expectations was chipping away at my soul in a way that didn’t feel sustainable long-term, and even though I have only a few dozen subscribers on...
We Live in the Golden Age of Video Essays
Courtesy of Lindsay Ellis, Veritasium and Kat Blaque respectively. Often slipping our perspectives on the early days of user-generated content online is the fact that the medium is very young, so to have it even remotely figured out this early in its lifetime—especially in contrast to print, radio and broadcast television—is nothing short of miraculous.
Is a Focus on Identity the Way Forward for Democrats?
Contrary to conventional wisdom, darker skin complexion doesn’t always mean bluer politics.
Blaire White Profits off Trans Misery
Generating controversy is a playbook some have perfected to keep their audiences engaged in an era where distractions are plentiful, and few have quite mastered it as Blaire White.
Andy Mills’ Late Resignation Was Long-Overdue
A prime example on the pitfalls of prestige and clout in the media. There are few stories that quite capture the immense privilege some command in the media as Andy Mills’ unceremonious resignation from the New York Times. It’s illustrative of how the most powerful currency in media isn’t journalistic rigor or even an aspiration to change the world for the better, but rather a primal reliance on much clout amassed to silence critique, or worse yet get away with abuse.
Reddit’s Short-Lived Insurrection Against Wall Street
The fallacy of the free market was — if only fleetingly — fully laid bare. If the 2008 financial crisis hadn’t already exposed Wall Street for the crooks that they are, a collective of retail traders on the r/WallStreetBets subreddit did so even more flagrantly this last Wednesday.
Glenn Greenwald, Unwound by Success
When showered with praise for too long, one can become oblivious to their own faults. There was a time when Glenn Greenwald’s name would command respect, but it seems as though those days are but a distant memory.
3 suggestions to build a better US Citizenship and Immigration Services
An open letter to the Biden Administration, from a former USCIS attorney, arguing for a better agency, not just better policies The views expressed in this article were prepared in my personal capacity. They are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer. San Francisco Women’s March, January 21, 2017. Photo by Chandrashekar Raghavan. I was an attorney with US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) when Trump took office.
How Libraries Enable Reentry Post-Incarceration and Tend to Public Health Needs
Co-authored by Alan Inouye, American Library Association, and Emily Mooney, R Street Institute With COVID-19 impacting prison communities from Philadelphia to California, the Biden-Harris administration should focus on the reentry of just some of the two million people currently behind bars.
A Public Path for Big Tech
Putting people’s welfare before the pursuit of profit. On the heels of a devastating pandemic to small businesses and entire sectors of the global economy, Big Tech stands taller and stronger than ever before.
10 Ways to View the Creator Economy
How journalists see the new landscape of independents Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash By Elise Czajkowski 2020 has been a big year for journalists launching their own newsletters, podcasts, YouTube channels and other products. It’s not an easy path, and many are looking around for lessons and models.
The Rhetorical Minefield of Cyberpunk 2077
Clashing interests between media and the general public continue to fuel tension. With Cyberpunk 2077 set to release in a few days, the busy cogs of discourse have already begun turning at full speed — between reports of crunch, the game’s controversial marketing, and the massive build-up of hype since its debut trailer seven years ago, the game’s launch is already shaping up to be a moment of no satisfaction to any.
The Paul Brothers Are a Menace
Enabled by YouTube, the controversial creators spew rhetorical venom on the regular. Not a week goes by without the Paul brothers being involved in some kind of controversy, and it is by design — the two Viners-turned-YouTubers have perfected the art of drawing ire only to feed their brand, and ultimately their clout.
The BreadTube Controversy That Shouldn’t Be
The upper brass are once again the center of attention — this time for all the wrong reasons.
Left Twitch's Blinding Engagement Chase
Courtesy of Destiny on Twitch. It was April of last year since I’ve last spoken about Left Twitch and how perpetuity of conflict–supercharged by fans lustful for drama and creators hungry for engagement–was not going to advance the medium beyond a glorified platform for heated debate between ideological opposites.
The Farce of Independent Right-Wing Media
The right likes to paint itself as unbiased and neutral — but is it really? Grifting comes in multiple flavors, but none is more sour than what independent right-wing media engages in. Withstanding the nominal nature of its independence, it nonetheless purports itself to be a most-untainted conduit of truth even though there’s plenty pointing to the contrary.
AOC’s First Twitch Stream Is a Masterclass in Online Outreach
Digital campaigns are no longer what they used to be — it’s time for politicians to adapt. Before this pandemic, politicians substituting speeches on packed convention floors with Twitch streams would’ve seemed most-implausible; and yet, as is AOC’s habit with breaking the mold, she organized a stream with some of gaming’s most-coveted fixtures — as expected and given the young congresswoman’s notoriety among the younger electorate, the stream was a massive hit.
How Easy Is It to Change Someone's Mind?
Photo by Noah Buscher on Unsplash Have you watched the Social Dilemma on Netflix yet? If so, what was your reaction? A mere shrug, and yeah we all know or did you throw your devices out of the house? I was one of those that threw the phone to the other end of the room. Watching the show I had light bulb moments as to why you see the small dots wiggle when someone is replying to you. Obvious when pointed out, but. I. had. no. idea.
AOC’s First Twitch Stream Is a Masterclass in Online Outreach
Before this pandemic, politicians substituting speeches on packed convention floors with Twitch streams would’ve seemed most-implausible; and yet, as is AOC’s habit with breaking the mold, she organized a stream with some of gaming’s most-coveted fixtures — as expected and given the young congresswoman’s notoriety among the younger electorate, the stream was a massive hit.
Lucifer’s Past, and the Road Ahead
The show weathered a cancelation on cable TV and lived on to become a pop culture sensation. As DC Comics looked to populate the small screen with adaptations of its most-coveted characters, the Warner Brothers-owned entity cast its net wide across different networks to complement their theatrical offering as the competition with Marvel Studios was in full-swing.
Help us celebrate local journalism’s inspirational Black journalists
In a year when diversity in local newsrooms (or the lack of it) has never been scrutinised more, Behind Local News wants to celebrate the journalists who are inspiring others to join the industry. Lynda Moyo writes on how you can help: This list probably comes as no surprise in 2020 — the year of awakening.
Dr Disrespect: The Duality of a Gaming Man
A profile of gaming’s most coveted and polarizing figure. By all accountable metrics, Guy ‘Dr Disrespect’ Beahm is one of the most popular streamers period —he may rank on the lower side in terms of follower count, but where he lacks that, he makes it up with strong concurrent viewership on a consistent basis. With that much influence however comes the question of how to wield it, and judging by a recent untimely ban from Twitch, it’s not so clear he’s always given it his best answer.
Meet Tiffany Ferguson, YouTube’s Resident Internet Scholar
On privilege, wielding a platform responsibly, creative burnout, and so much more. To understand the internet, one must first understand its culture. For a long while, that effort was exclusively undertaken by academia and news media — that was until a new legion of content creators imparted upon some fresh wisdom based on their familiarity with the space, adding much depth to what was erstwhile tackled with crude simplicity. Tiffany Ferguson is one such creator.
The Lincoln Project Is No Savior
Reclaiming cultural stock is its main preoccupation — defeating Republicans is just an added plus. “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…and we will deserve it,” once said Arizona Senator Lindsey Graham of then-candidate Donald Trump, describing him as an existential threat to the Republican party.
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