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Reading about the Harriet Tubman's and John Brown's of the world is as close as I've come to a spiritual experience. Just a complete depth of devotion to a justice they would never live to experience. Impossible to truly embrace without being overcome by emotion.

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
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Honestly a wonderful position to be in because it lets President Ocasio-Cortez to do the Terror while credibly committing to it being a one-off. bsky.app/profile/segy...

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

We have gotten really into civil war history but this time as total partisans for the Union.

(See the work of @djinnandtonic.bsky.social )

I'll be honest, this isn't about AI at all, it's about the increased expectations of productivity put on tech workers due to a declining rate of profit. all these new tech cos have sky high 9/9/6 expectations for workers; AI is, like all things, just a convenient proxy for exploitation.

I fully expect some bluesky scolds to come screaming into the replies here.

Image from 1588’s "The Various and Ingenious Machines of Captain Agostino Ramelli" depicting a ferris wheel style contraption that used epicyclic gearing to keep all its lecterns pointed at the correct angle.

Renaissance scholars used a "book wheel" to move between sources at hand.

"I believe that in our shock and revulsion, our collective
determination to prevent further horrific attacks may change our Nation in fundamental ways that will eventually surprise and dismay all of us."
Sen Robert Byrd (D-WV), speaking against the creation of DHS, 2002
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For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.

The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

Insane people are running the govt: "The extraordinary discussion was a window into the deep-seated fears and unconventional ideas animating the allies that Trump has apparently brought into his administration. It also showed the blend of religious fervor and paranoia...."

By the time you're 35 you should have:

*A cute face
*Chubby waist
*Thick legs
*in shape

yt screenshot: "why stomping wigglers glitches super mario world" by retro game mechanics explained

i can answer that for you. the cruelty of men deforms the world

Next Superbowl halftime should include a recreation of the confederate surrender at Appomattox while Jefferson Davis flees the scene dressed as an old lady.

Dodge Charger painted in Union colors with an American flag and "General Grant" on the roof

only $30k to clack the first deputy of the GRU is a fucking BARGAIN. that’s mattress warehouse prices. that’s the ashley’s furniture of hitters

Nuremberg is the minimum position

Macbeth: SHIT

Grand Slam Puerto Rico?

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Make a shot chart like it's steph curry 3s

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

Using unethical technology to show that actually Jurassic Park is a safe and fun place is an interesting choice

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

Just take those old records* off the shelf!

*jurisprudence around congressional war powers

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Times article has an incredible illustration