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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Design for Living was a revelation. Turns out sexual intercourse did not, after all, begin in 1963, "between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP".

I went to check my memory on the poem's wording and the Google AI was very helpful:

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

As citations-needed reminds us . . .

And what the 2024 nominee, Kamala Harris, who, you know, the presumptive or leading nominee for 2028, she’s she signaled she’s going to run again. One would be curious what she would say about this. She has not commented. She lost the election about seven months ago. Has not commented at all on Gaza, except twice to hand-wring about Israeli hostages. She’s not opposed anything Trump has done with respect to the genocide in Gaza, not publicly at least. She hasn’t publicly condemned anything that Trump has done with respect to Iran. And the bombing happened last night. Since then, she hasn’t issued a statement. She hasn’t condemned it. She hasn’t opposed it. Now, a lot of people say, Oh, well, Harris would have been better than Trump. Again, very possible, but the one person in the world who could solve this mystery, which is Kamala Harris herself, has yet to criticize Trump on the subject of Israel at all.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

1893 rang a bell for me because that was the year the Western Federation of Miners was established. There's a lot of interesting research to be done on the early attempts to organize in western mining towns, and the Couer d'Alene strike of 1892 and the subsequent founding of the WFM (which later helped found the IWW) would make for a perfect stopping point for your narrative.

The first volume of Philip Foner's history of American labor takes place entirely within your time period (it ends with the founding of the AFL), so you can mine that for other ideas that could be worthy of a paper.

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A great book that just came out last year, Dylan Penningroth's Before the Movement, uses local archives (in Virginia and Mississippi mainly) to investigate how Black Americans made use of the legal system before the Civil Rights Era. The first few chapters may give you ideas of something to investigate in your own state's archives - how people even without formal rights went about getting married and divorced, slaves who owned property, lawyers who catered to Black clients, etc.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hm. I found one that has that phrase from a site that's been previously linked on here.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Was it this one? It doesn't explicitly say anything like "the third military in the world by power" but it's the best candidate I can find of recent vintage.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like to cite China's life expectancy chart and the ways people handwave that are fascinating. "Oh, so that's what's most important to you?" I mean . . . literally what else is there?

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, I know, but it's especially satisfying to hate these people and I thought the "I know better than those fools" combined with "Communists are still in power in Russia" was very funny.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

I'm both a leisure enjoying gent and a zero-income nag

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd politely suggest that if you're trying to dispel correct claims that you're a fascist from a fascist country, maybe don't wave an American flag as you square off against human rights advocates?

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He asked for an MS-13 and they drew an MS-31

 

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The film was a pretty great allegory of what it must have been like to be an Uncommitted delegate at the DNC.

 

Nearly 200 water faucets in Oakland public schools had levels of lead that exceeded district standards, sparking outrage among staff who criticized district officials this week for failing to immediately notify school communities about results found earlier this summer and spring. It’s unclear how long students were exposed to the tainted taps.

Out of the 1,083 faucets and fountains tested, nearly 83% fell below the district’s limit of 5 parts per billion, or ppb, meaning they were safe, but 17% were above the limit. Federal standards are more lenient than Oakland’s standards, at 15 parts per billion, but 70 taps in the districts also failed to meet that requirement, in some cases by a wide margin.

 

Worth another listen on this, the day of Harris's coronation.

 

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One connection stood out: While Dr. Shuren regulated the booming medical device industry, his wife, Allison W. Shuren, represented the interests of device makers as the co-leader of a team of lawyers at Arnold & Porter, one of Washington’s most powerful law firms.

Dr. Shuren signed ethics agreements obtained by The Times that were meant to wall him off from matters involving Arnold & Porter’s business. But it's not clear how rigorously the ethics agreements were actually enforced. His wife’s law firm refused to provide a list of clients — and the agency had no legal authority to require it, said Michael Felberbaum, a spokesman for the F.D.A.

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But safety issues multiplied on his watch. The most urgent F.D.A. recalls of devices that can cause serious injury or death have ticked up, to nearly 100 so far this year, from 29 in 2012, the first year such measures were tracked in an agency database. In March, a heart device was recalled after 49 deaths were linked to a specific concern.

Reports of device-related injuries soared to 900,000 in 2023, up from about 190,000 in 2012, according to Device Events, a company that makes F.D.A. data user-friendly for subscribers.

His wife represented Theranos, as well as a breast implant manufacturer whose products were linked to a "rare form of lymphoma."

 

Adams is saying this a false allegation because the plaintiff "has a history of filing lawsuits." Imagine trying this as a criminal defendant. "Your honor, I don't remember assaulting this particular person, and in any case the District Attorney has a history of prosecuting people."

Wishing a very do-not-do-this to Eric Adams and his bootlickers at the New York Times.

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Note - libgen.rs still works for downloads on Mirror #2. But nothing new is being uploaded. Get 'em while you can, or try annas-archive.org .

Popular shadow library LibGen appears to be struggling with technical problems. Regular book downloads stopped working last weekend and remain unavailable. The reason for the issues are unknown but, for now, internal troubles at the site seem more likely than a copyright-related enforcement action.

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Starting last weekend, regular LibGen downloads suddenly stopped working. The outage suggests that there’s a problem with the storage servers, but there’s no official explanation.

The lack of communication doesn’t come as a complete surprise. A few months ago, the site already appeared to have some internal struggles. The person in charge of the site’s coding has reportedly been ‘inactive’ for a while.

This personnel issue may explain the database errors and technical trouble that resulted in broken functionality a few months back. It may also explain why new torrents are not being added on a weekly or daily basis. Presently, the latest torrent archive on the site dates back to April.

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Five tenants unions from around the country convened Tuesday to announce the launch of a new national organization to take on the power of multistate real-estate capital. The Tenant Union Federation marks the first major national effort at tenant organizing in 40 years.

. . .

Billing itself as a ​“union of unions,” the federation is seeding a movement that hopes to turn tenants into a political force that can’t be ignored.

At the local level, the group’s five founding unions have already racked up an impressive streak of wins spanning a wide range of organizing tactics.

In the last year, the Louisville Tenants Union passed far-reaching restrictions on public funding contributing to gentrification in Louisville; KC Tenants defeated a billionaire-backed stadium tax in Kansas City; Bozeman Tenants United banned new short-term rentals and elected one of their own as mayor in the Montana tourism hotspot; the Connecticut Tenants Union negotiated a collective bargaining agreement with one of New Haven’s largest landlords and Chicago’s Not Me We won ballot referenda backing a landmark anti-displacement ordinance covering the area surrounding the new Obama Presidential Center.

 

I promise this is true. Will answer what I can without giving away too many clues about the athlete.

Edit: @JoeByeThen@hexbear.net is the winner of this thread, meaning he has paper-scissors-rocked his way to victory over an Olympic gold medalist.

 

visible-disgust I hate Adam Gopnik.

Championed most effectively by Angela Y. Davis’s “Are Prisons Obsolete?” (2003), the cause may seem no more realistic than the defund-the-police movement that sang so loudly four years ago, at a cost to progressive candidates.

This is a lie: "There’s only one problem with this: there is no empirical basis for this claim in any of the above comments or reports. No studies, no evidence, not even [anecdotes are] ever provided."

Indeed, in a political moment like this one, worrying about the niceties of progressive reform at all may appear as self-distracting as a beachgoer worrying about sandcastle architecture as the sea pulls back on the brink of a tsunami.

Oh, fuck you.

It is also Du Boisian, it must be said, in the way that it gravitates toward class and economic explanations for phenomena not always well suited to them. Davis and others insist that the real villain of mass incarceration in the U.S. must be late capitalism or neoliberalism. In truth, we could empty our prisons tomorrow, and Apple and Google and Amazon and the rest atop the high heap of American enterprise would scarcely notice.

Writer for magazine whose logo is a fop with a monocle really hates class reductionism for some reason

Products from prison labor may slip into the supply lines, but corporations, as a rule, would prefer that they didn’t, since this results in more bad publicity than profit. Inmate labor tends to be done in the service of prisons themselves or government clients like state D.M.V.s. (There’s also the private-prison business, but it’s a shrinking one and houses a small fraction of the incarcerated population.)

The free market would never allow slave labor! i-love-not-thinking And, hey, did you know that private prisons are irrelevant because they don't have the market valuation that Apple does?

There are, in any event, a great many free-market countries in the world, and very few are marked by overstuffed prisons. Mass incarceration remains a distinctively American problem. On the other hand, plenty of anti-capitalist societies have turned to mass incarceration—we speak of the “American Gulag” in honor of another, and nobody looks to Pyongyang for models of penal enlightenment.

There are more incarcerated people per capita in the United States than there were in any non-WWII portion of the gulag's existence. And those incarcerated have a lower life expectancy. (Right? I need help verifying this; I think it's a combination of two studies rather than a single unified study.) EDIT: See this post by @Awoo@hexbear.net

Pre-capitalist societies lacked mass imprisonment, but then—what with all the beheadings, beatings, and banishments—the people they considered criminals weren’t around long enough to be imprisoned.

As usual, the experiences and practices in indigenous cultures are ignored, because the arc of history is a semicircle that only includes Europe. international-community-1international-community-2

Sered’s points are sometimes vitiated by the weight of her pieties; her prose suggests someone constantly looking over her shoulder, like a driver going well below the speed limit but still glancing back nervously in fear of a traffic stop, or, anyway, reproach from a captious political ally. What sin might this next sentence commit?

Any problems with the prose of this book must be because of cancel culture!

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Reminder that Adam Gopnik wrote a book about how sad he is that his daughter has better politics than he does. : "A specter is haunting the straight white liberal sixtysomething American dad—the specter of his damn socialist kids. A generation that grew up eating Cold War propaganda with their cornflakes confronts one in which socialism regularly outpolls capitalism, and it’s happening across the breakfast table. New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik’s new book, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, is a manual for the dad side, a work of rousing reassurance for open-minded men who are nonetheless sick of losing political debates to teenagers whose meals they buy."

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