Grâce à @hist_myth je découvre cette excellente série d’essais très fouillés qui remettent Sparte définitivement à sa place (et en profitent pour ridiculiser avec jubilation l’horrible et fasciste _300_).

Et cette conclusion, 👨‍🍳👌:

“Sparta was – if you will permit the comparison – an ancient North Korea. An over-militarized, paranoid state which was able only to protect its own systems of internal brutality and which added only oppression to the sum of the human experience. Little more than an extraordinarily effective prison, metastasized to the level of a state. There is nothing of redeeming value here.”

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/

#sparte #fantasmefasciste #histoireancienne #grece #debunk

# Introduction

Right, it's time to start the big #debunk! This is a story of #mathematics, #education and one Smart Man. It is a debunking of the arrogant proclamations of SmartmanApps (a maths teacher who lacks both knowledge and pedagogical skill) as well as a lesson in the limitations of education, and hopefully along the way I’ll highlight some interesting areas of mathematics that are not illuminated by a high school #maths education, but which nevertheless are quite accessible. The intended level is that of a curious high-school student. I will attempt only to give the necessary details, so if you are left feeling like you need a reference, or more information, let me know and I’ll gladly point you in the right direction.

I acknowledge the audience for this will be small, but it nevertheless needs to be done. (It's certainly unlikely that the user in question will read it, as despite at first having an apparently limitless capacity to reply with new claims, and raining scorn on those who gave up replying or blocked him for their own sanity, he nowadays seems to block anyone who engages with him for more than a handful of posts - including me).

The first topic (in the thread below to avoid clogging your feed) will simply be the real numbers, and how the number 0.999… illuminates the mathematics of them.

Oh, and since it's fitting... #MathsMonday :)

[Veille 📣] Vélos à Paris : La grande pagaille ! (Debunk CNEWS) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVQDzNyt5Ww

Bonne vidéo qui démonte le biais pro-automobile d’un reportage (très représentatif des reportages sur la mobilité urbaine).

L’automobile prend toute la place, pue et pollue !

Lien vers cette entrée dans ma veille : https://links.vulgarisons.info/shaare/In5tQQ
Toute ma veille est disponible ici : https://links.vulgarisons.info/
#mobilité #automobile #vélo #débunk #vidéo
#links #veille

„Love with your heart, but use your head for everything else.“

Captain Disillusion ist on Nebula! 🥳
https://nebula.tv/captaindisillusion

So I joined and subscribed. Found Tom Scott (@tomscott, https://www.tomscott.com) and Rob Words (Robert Watts from https://robwords.com) there as well. 👍

#debunk #visualfakery #vfx #SpecialEffects #alanmelikdjanian #internalan #captaindisillusion #TomScott #robertwatts #robwords #nebula #nebulatv #youtube #youtuber #visualeffects #videoediting #criticalthinking #skepticism

Qui sont les vrais sceptiques? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceany2XSZCs

Un épisode à la fois hilarant et très éclairant sur le #scepticisme et son histoire, avec une chute merveilleusement ironique! Et on y découvre un Thomas Durand excellent en #SextusEmpiricus, philosophe pyrrhonien, un rôle qui semble taillé pour lui, avec un discours qui massacre à la tronçonneuse tout le travail de la #TeB, qui consiste justement à dogmatiser la #zététique en la réduisant à du #debunk de #charlatanisme.