Andreas Lindholm

Jurist. Byråkrat. Har samhällsfrågor som hobby.

Oknuffade inlägg försvinner som regel efter en månad.

Blogg: https://andreassorterar.wordpress.com/about/
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2025-03-20 19:56:05 UTC

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For me, it is not an either/or, rather a trade-off. Tactile and olefactory experience versus, for example, convenience. There is no universal standard by which we can decide what is more valuable.
However, I tend to think that ebooks are actually superior to cheap paperbacks when we are talking 1,000+ pages.

2025-03-20 09:04:10 UTC

I have been reading ebooks for more than a decade now and really appreciate the format. I have also accumulated several readers: 2 Kindles, 1 Kobo and, most recently, 1 Onyx. The plan now is to become as independent as possible.
What reader(s) do you have?
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2025-03-02 18:26:37 UTC

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I don't think you are even trying to understand what I just wrote. Sorry, I only engage in good faith discourse.

2025-03-02 18:03:33 UTC

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Europe in the 2010's wanted to enjoy its own prosperity and "change Russia through trade" (Wandel durch Handel)–and Putin knew that and used that. Putinism is a maximalist vision of what Russia should be and will stop at nothing to achieve it.
Ultimately, Russia may collapse because it has depleted its human and economic resources, but no-one can tell exactly when that might happen.
Face it, some people don't _want_ to be reasonable.

2025-03-02 17:57:43 UTC

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United we stand, divided we fall. That's it, basically.

2025-03-01 20:27:43 UTC

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We may be on different paths here. The author is not out to criticise ideas or ideals that are sometimes described as woke, e.g., trans-inclusive feminism, as such but how those ideas are _used_ by "symbolic capitalists."
One of my take-aways is that they use the ideas in a way that does not threaten the status quo in any important way. People who claim that something called "wokeness" is a dangerous threat to their freedom are either wrong or disingenuous.

2025-03-01 19:33:16 UTC

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We may be talking about different things, due to how ambiguos the word "woke" has become.
I am well aware of the dictionary definition "aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues," but these days, at least where I am, the word is used in a pejorative sense, often by the right, without a clear definition, e.g., when someone like Ron DeSantis talks about the "woke mind virus."
I hear people talk about a nebulous "wokeism" or "woke movement."

2025-03-01 18:34:12 UTC

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It seems I have been blocked for posting antiwoke content.
I don't think that my post is exactly antiwoke, and as far as I can see, the book isn't either. Obviously, it is open to objections, as basically any academic or political work is.
However, I really can't say for sure, until someone explains what the antiwoke part is.

2025-03-01 11:28:35 UTC

If you still want to read about "woke," I can recommend _We Have Never Been Woke_ by Musa al-Gharbi.
Two important take-aways for me:
"Woke," whatever it is, is something that concerns mainly the urban academic middle class. Other people don't really need to worry about it.
The function of "woke" is mainly symbolic. The opinions may be genuine, but the willingness to effect real social change just isn't there. No "woke" revolution will ever take place.
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232607/we-have-never-been-woke

2025-02-07 13:48:52 UTC

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The app is not available in Sweden, but it is still a good suggestion. 🙂

2025-02-07 09:32:39 UTC

So now I have an Onyx Boox and can get my ebooks in a lot of places.
Are there any exciting vendors I should now about? I mean if I want to try something that is not Bezos, Kobo or Alphabet?
Being Swedish, I often buy ebooks from Bokon.
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2025-02-04 16:29:16 UTC

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● ANIARA by Harry Martinson is not a novel but an epic poem, an intensely sad one, about a spaceship lost in the depths of space, never to return to Earth (or Doris), which has been destroyed by Man, the "King of Ashes."
● ICE by Anna Kavan, a surreal story about a nameless narrator chasing the woman he loves through a world rapidly succumbing to a planetary ice age, while humanity tries to ignore its imminent demise.

2025-01-31 19:19:34 UTC

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And perhaps a little bit less evil than Amazon.

2025-01-24 13:02:37 UTC

Fallet Gelbhaar sabbar valrörelsen för Die Grünen.
Det som framstår som egendomligt med ungdomsförbundets inställning är inte att de håller på principen att tro på den som berättar att den har utsatts för övergrepp, utan att de skruvar principen så långt att den gäller till och med när det, som jag förstår saken, är oklart om de som ska ha drabbats ens existerar i sinnevärlden.
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wir-glauben-betroffenen-grune-jugend-sieht-im-fall-gelbhaar-keinen-grund-fur-unschuldsvermutung-13068085.html

2025-01-23 11:56:50 UTC

What would be a good book on the "politics of tech", meaning the political ideas of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, et al.?
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2025-01-21 09:18:43 UTC

Vad ska man använda i stället för WhatsApp?