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Vincent Mousseau

vmousseau@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 7 months ago

Doctorant et travailleur social basé à Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Profitant d'un mode de vie à l'abri des algorithmes manipulateurs des géants du web.

PhD student and social worker based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Trying to live a life less controlled by the algorithmic manipulation of the tech giants.

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Charlene A. Carruthers: Unapologetic (2018) No rating

"Unapologetic is a 21st century guide to building a Black liberation movement through a Black …

We are fighting for our lives against formidable enemies, but we are optimistic and steadfast in the idea that we can learn to treat each other better. We are participating in various projects of abolition—abolition of prison, abolition of capitalism, and abolition of patriarchal violence. We are practicing and theorizing as we go. We are seeking to eradicate oppressive systems in the world. And all our effort is worth it.

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Hi all, here’s a little post since I just switched instances to social.coop.

Bonjour! I’m Vincent (they/them). I’m a , and social worker, student, and activist based in , the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq colonially referred to as , NS.

You’ll find me kicking around the and the rest of the internet:
Web: vincentmousseau.net
BookWyrm: @vmousseau@millefeuilles.cloud
PixelFed: @vmousseau@metapixl.com
WriteFreely: @vmousseau@paper.wf

Johann Hari: Stolen Focus (2022, Crown Publishing Group, The) 4 stars

Is your ability to focus and pay attention in free fall?

You are not alone. …

A study by the Pew Research Center found that if you fill your Facebook posts with “indignant disagreement,” you’ll double your likes and shares. So an algorithm that prioritizes keeping you glued to the screen will—unintentionally but inevitably—prioritize outraging and angering you. If it’s more enraging, it’s more engaging.

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Sayaka Murata: Convenience Store Woman (2019) 5 stars

Convenience Store Woman (Japanese: コンビニ人間, Hepburn: Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese author …

This was an interesting read, and I’m still processing it. This book had a surprisingly poignant emotional impact on me, especially with how it deals with feelings of belonging, sense of self, and structure. I’m looking forward to ruminating over it a little more.

Also, yay for a single-day read!

started reading Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata: Convenience Store Woman (2019) 5 stars

Convenience Store Woman (Japanese: コンビニ人間, Hepburn: Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese author …

A passage in Johann Hari’s “Stolen Focus” really stuck with me. To paraphrase, they cited a study that showed that people who read fiction are often more empathetic than people who don’t. While I consider myself an empathetic person, I don’t really read a lot of fiction, even though I would like to. It can be hard for me to let go of all of the stresses of the world to wander into a fictional world. But I’ll be damned if I don’t try!

I went to my local bookstore and asked one of the workers for their recommendations in terms of fiction, and they shared that this book really made them think after finishing it. I can’t think of a more glowing recommendation. Excited to start reading!

Rinaldo Walcott: On Property (2021, Biblioasis) No rating

At the heart of Black people's calls for abolition is the desire to bring to a close the racial terror that we are subjected to and have been subjected to on a continuous basis since Columbus's initial voyages to the Americas. It is out of those epochal crossings, which led to the colonization of the Americas and to the large-scale, forced movement of Africans to its colonies, that many of our current attitudes, prejudices, ideas, and practices of property, contract law, insurance, banking, government, city planning, travel, customer service; indeed, all the networked elements of modern society arose. Foundational to all of it is property—private and public. It is property and our liberation from it that sets abolition apart as a philosophy capable of transforming our understanding of how to live differently together and how to reimagine what life and living can and should mean for all humans. Abolition as both an idea and a practice, then, is as epochal for the future as Columbus's voyages were for our collective past.

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