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Anthropic abandonne sa promesse de sécurité fondamentale au milieu d’un combat sur la ligne rouge de l’IA avec le Pentagone
🔴 L'entreprise Anthropic se soumet au dictat du gouvernement américain
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change
#USA #gouvernement #Pentagon #armée #guerre #surveillance #contrôle #militaire #IA #Anthropic #chantage #servitude #affaire #diktat #dictat #CNN #média

#52booksin52weeks Bookface - The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud #power #Corruption #ambition #Inequality #isolation #Revenge #servitude #slavery #freedom #yafantasy #yabooks #bookstagram #booktok #booksky #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

A quotation from Cicero

He won over the ignorant masses with shows, building projects, largesses, and banquets. His followers he bound to him by rewards, his opponents by an apparent clemency. In short, he succeeded in bringing a free country, partly because of its fear, partly because of its passivity, to an acceptance of servitude.
 
[Muneribus, monumentis, congiariis, epulis multitudinem imperitam delenierat; suos praemiis, adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat. Quid multa? Attulerat iam liberae civitati partim metu partim patientia consuetudinem serviendi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 45 / sec. 116 (2.45/2.116) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #juliuscaesar #acquiescence #breadandcircuses #freedom #masses #passivity #politicalpower #populace #power #rewards #servitude

#travail #salariat #capitalisme #servitude #exploitation #anticapitalisme #anarchie #anarchisme #émancipation...

🆕 ★ LE TRAVAIL OU LA SERVITUDE ÉRIGÉE EN RELIGION...

" Dans cette religion du travail, tout le monde rivalise de piété : les libéraux vendent le « mérite », les sociaux-démocrates prônent le « partage », l’extrême-droite érige le labeur en devoir national. Même les critiques les plus virulentes du capitalisme s’arrêtent rarement à la racine du problème : ce n’est pas la mauvaise répartition des richesses qui est le problème, mais le fait même de transformer la vie en production forcée.

Servitude volontaire : comment on nous apprend à aimer notre cage (...) "

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https://www.socialisme-libertaire.fr/2025/03/le-travail-ou-la-servitude-erigee-en-religion.html

#travail #salariat #capitalisme #servitude #exploitation #anticapitalisme #anarchie #anarchisme #émancipation...

🆕 ★ LE TRAVAIL OU LA SERVITUDE ÉRIGÉE EN RELIGION...

" Dans cette religion du travail, tout le monde rivalise de piété : les libéraux vendent le « mérite », les sociaux-démocrates prônent le « partage », l’extrême-droite érige le labeur en devoir national. Même les critiques les plus virulentes du capitalisme s’arrêtent rarement à la racine du problème : ce n’est pas la mauvaise répartition des richesses qui est le problème, mais le fait même de transformer la vie en production forcée.

Servitude volontaire : comment on nous apprend à aimer notre cage (...) "

▶️ Lire la suite...

https://www.socialisme-libertaire.fr/2025/03/le-travail-ou-la-servitude-erigee-en-religion.html

#travail #salariat #capitalisme #servitude #exploitation #anticapitalisme #anarchie #anarchisme #émancipation...

🆕 ★ LE TRAVAIL OU LA SERVITUDE ÉRIGÉE EN RELIGION...

" Dans cette religion du travail, tout le monde rivalise de piété : les libéraux vendent le « mérite », les sociaux-démocrates prônent le « partage », l’extrême-droite érige le labeur en devoir national. Même les critiques les plus virulentes du capitalisme s’arrêtent rarement à la racine du problème : ce n’est pas la mauvaise répartition des richesses qui est le problème, mais le fait même de transformer la vie en production forcée.

Servitude volontaire : comment on nous apprend à aimer notre cage (...) "

▶️ Lire la suite...

https://www.socialisme-libertaire.fr/2025/03/le-travail-ou-la-servitude-erigee-en-religion.html

Tying #PTO to #student #loan #repayment and #forgiveness is next level #indentured #servitude even for #America

https://fortune.com/2025/07/05/best-employer-benefits-student-loan-borrower-workers/

Tout #peuple qui s'endort en #Liberté, se réveillera en #servitude (Alain)

Il faut arrêter de se demander #de #quel #côté de l' #Histoire nous aurions été, et commencer à se demander #de #quel #côté de l' #Histoire nous voulons être #aujourd'hui ?

@salomesaque
@salomesaque.bsky.social

https://mamot.fr/@talou/113997595890586310

‘We have to look at racism, first of all, as a weapon of the ruling class.’
~Angela Davis

#USPol #USPolitics #politics #history #slavery #Restoration #colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #racism #raceMaking #America #USA #Virginia #labor #exploitation #capitalism #work #poverty #ownership #democracy #TheSouth #whiteSupremacy #elections #vote #LiberalDemocracy #AngelaDavis #trumpism

#Involuntary #servitude still exists in California. -- A ballot measure in November could change that

If voted into law, #Proposition6 would ✅ abolish forced labor as a criminal punishment in the state’s prisons

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/california-prop-6-prison-slavery-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#LaBoetie #Discours de la #Servitude #Volontaire

https://mastodon.social/@cobrate/113533024083701231

#Comprendre #Reflechir #Livre #mastolivre #amreading #bookstodon #laboetie

"It is to the political benefit of the existing system to keep whites, especially poor whites with little more than their whiteness to be proud of. It makes for a predictable political group. Whites thus managed will vote and flock to issues as reliably as tides."

Quinn Norton: https://medium.com/message/how-white-people-got-made-6eeb076ade42 @supremacy

#USPol #history #slavery #deportation #colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #racism #raceMaking #America #USA #Virginia #labor #exploitation #capitalism #QuinnNorton #work #sociology #poverty #ownership #democracy #TheSouth #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #antiRacism #parliament #House #Congress #vote #LiberalDemocracy

“With its rapidly increasing population, religious and royal wars, Irish ethnic cleansing, and fear of rising crime, Britain excelled among the European imperial powers in shipping its people into bondage in distant lands. An original inspiration had flowed from small-scale shipments of Portuguese children to its Asian colonies before the Dutch supplanted the Portuguese as the world's premier long-range shippers. Vagrant minors, kidnapped persons, convicts, and indentured servants from the British Isles might labor under differing names in law and for longer or shorter terms in the Americas, but the harshness of their lives dictated that they be, in the worlds of Daniel Defoe, "more properly called slaves." First in Barbados, then in Jamaica, then in North America, notably in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, bound Britons, Scots, and Irish furnished a crucial workforce in the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 1618, the City of London and the Virginia Company forged an agreement to transport vagrant children. London would pay £5 per head to the company for shipment on the Duty, hence the children's sobriquet "Duty boys." Supposedly bound for apprenticeship, these homeless children—a quarter of them girls—were then sold into field labor for twenty pounds of tobacco each.”

― Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People

#colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #England #Britain #GreatBritain #UK #USA #Atlantic #deportation #NellIrvinPainter #quotes #citation #history #slavery #enslavement #EuropeanCulture #Barbados #Jamaica #agriculture #Virginia #Maryland #Pennsylvania #colonies #serfs #slaves #adultDomination #adultism #children #vagrancy #WestIndies #Caribbean #DutyBoys #homeless

“Slavery in Anglo-Saxon Britain applied not merely to the captives themselves, for slave status could also be inherited, as had been the case among the Thracians of antiquity. We cannot know how many of the British poor sold themselves and their children into bondage, but the number must have been significant, for attempts at reform were made repeatedly. Kings Alfred the Great and Canute (1014–35) tried, with uncertain success, to restrict slavery, especially with regard to daughters. Nonetheless, about one-tenth of the eleventh-century British population is estimated to have been enslaved, a proportion rising to one-fifth in the West Country. So embedded were slaves in the economy of the British Isles that the Catholic Church, quite a wealthy institution, owned vast numbers of them.”
― Nell Irvin Painter in "The History of White People" (2010)

#Catholic #Church #AngloSaxon #Britain #servitude #bondage #England #NellIrvinPainter #racialization #slavery #enslavement #Europe #MiddleAges

"Of course, one day the indentured period would end and the servant would be free. That is one of the fundamental differences drawn between white indentured servitude and black slavery. One was a temporary condition; the other was perpetual. Except that huge numbers of white servants didn’t live to see the day of freedom. In the early days, the majority of servants died still in bondage. Moreover, the bulk of those who did outlive their servitude ended up no better than when they’d arrived. They would emerge from bondage landless and poor (p. 111)."
― Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, "White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America" (2007)

#colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #England #Britain #UK #USA #Atlantic #deportation #Race #NellIrvinPainter #quotes #citation #racialization #history #slavery #racism #raceMaking #enslavement #whiteness #White #EuropeanCulture #truth #supremacy #whiteSupremacy

"By this time in the seventeenth century, those who came from the British Isles, both men and women, outnumbered the Africans in the tobacco fields; even in the middle of the century, when the settler population in #Virginia numbered about 11,000, the Africans accounted for only about 300. Any one of them - African, English, Scottish or Irish - should count himself lucky if he outlived his contract. Of 300 children who came from Britain between 1619 and 1622, only 12 were still alive in 1624."
… wrote #NellIrvinPainter in her book "The History of White People"
cited by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, "White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America" (2007)

#colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #England #Britain #UK #USA #Atlantic #deportation #Race #NellIrvinPainter #quotes #citation #racialization #history #slavery #racism #raceMaking #enslavement #whiteness #White #supremacy #whiteSupremacy

“It is difficult to picture the rich, hard-nosed advisors of James I being overly concerned about the rights of vagabonds and felons. But this was a period that was especially suspicious of arbitrary acts by the Crown against individuals. There was no law enabling the crown to exile anyone, including the baser convict, into forced labour. According to legal scholars, the Magna Carta itself protected even them. The Privy Councillors therefore dressed up what was to befall the convicts and presented the decree authorising their transportation as an act of royal mercy. The convicts were to be reprieved from death in exchange for accepting transportation.” (p. 71)
― Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, "White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America" (2007)
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@history @histodons
(to be continued) 🧶

#raceMaking #RoyalMercy #JamesI #history #learning #learn #slavery #deportation #colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #England #Britain #UK #USA #White

#quotes #anarchie #obeissance #EliseeReclus #servitude #tardi

Servitude: the thread about why James Craig’s New Town isn’t as regular as he would have liked

Have you ever wondered why at the far western end of Queen Street, where it meets North Charlotte Street, the regular, right-angled Georgian grid of the First New Town does something odd and has a bevelled corner? You have? Great! Lets find out why that is.

No, the Georgians weren’t future-proofing the street corner here for a 20th century traffic engineer’s filter lane. This has to do with something much more predictable than that – land ownership disputes!

You see, when Town Council first had a plan of land ownership drawn up for the planning of the New Town, they didn’t actually yet own all the land on which they intended to build. In fact, they only owned about three quarters of it. Standing in the way to the west was “Allan’s Park“, owned by Dean of Guild Allan (Thomas Allan), and “Barjarg’s Feu” – owned by James Erskine, Lord Barjarg of Drumsheugh House.

Allan’s Park was relatively easy to acquire, and was done so by the time the above plan was released to James Craig and other prospective architects for the design competition in April 1766, but Barjarg’s Feu still formed a salient into it. But planning proceeded on the basis that the Council hoped to acquire the land anyway and James Craig’s winning entry therefore drew the western town blocks over it.

Building commenced at the eastern end within short order and by the late 1760s or early 1770s, the New Town was creeping westwards. By the time it reached the boundary of Barjarg’s Feu in 1785, in the vicinity of Castle Street, the the owner – by now styled Lord Alva having inherited that estate – agreed to sell to the council and the plan could continue uninterrupted (although it took until 1820 to conclude, and was not on entirely favourable terms for the Cityand subsequent proprietors). But if we look closer at the western edge of Craig’s plan, and compare it with what is on the ground, we notice that Queen Street should meet North Charlotte Street on a regular grid (it doesn’t) and both Queen Street and the city grid should extend for another block west from where it does (it doesn’t!). Something else stood in the way. (P.S. Charlotte Square was originally to be St. George’s Square)

So what went wrong? Well, it wasn’t just Lord Alva’s land in the way. In 1782, the Trustees of Heriot’s Hospital (who had sold much of the land for the northern portion of the New Town to the city) had sold a portion of land to Francis Stuart, 9th Earl of Moray and on this he had built for himself a mansion, Moray House, and laid out extensive gardens. And Moray wasn’t for selling, so the New Town plans had to be hurriedly altered to build around his land.

This explains why the north western corner could not be completed as planned, and why Queen Street stopped short at North Charlotte Street, but not why they build that awkward and incongruous bevel on the corner? Well that’s because of a little legal thing called “servitude”. What does servitude mean? “A right that an owner of heritable property has over property owned by another. A servitude runs with the land and not the owner“. The Earl of Moray and Lord Alva had servitude over each other that neither could built within 90 feet of their boundary. When Edinburgh bought the land from Alva, Moray maintained his servitude over it. And can you guess what the distance from the bevelled façade on the corner of Queen Street and North Charlotte Street is from the boundary with the Earl of Moray’s land? Yes, that’s right, it’s *exactly* 90 feet.

This old boundary cut through what is now Glenfinlas Street and explains why the pavement suddenly changes width about 1/3 of the way down – it was built at two different times.

It wasn’t until the intransigent Earl of Moray’s son began to be feu the ground in 1822 that the owners of the properties on the north side of Charlotte Square got the change to buy the rest of “their” gardens. The maps below show 1817 compared with 1849 (slide to compare). You can see at this time, a garden wall still existed on the old boundary at the very west of these gardens, and that the formal portions (marked out by the perimeter paths) also conform to the boundary.

You can find the result of this boundary dispute in other places too. It is the reason for instance that Randolph Lane takes an odd, irregular form if you follow it northwards.

Amazingly, the last of the legal niceties over this portion of land weren’t resolved along this boundary for almost 170 years! Those nicely cleaned and restored “Georgian” townhouses at 1-3 Glenfinlas Street? They were only built in 1990 to finally finish this corner of the New Town (almost) as planned.

There’s actually a few more of these incongruous and awkwardly non-right angles scattered through the New Town – it’s always about old boundaries. This thread details the Gabriel’s Road boundary and the line it still cleaves across the New Town. If you want to understand why any New Town street in Edinburgh isn’t on a right angle – overlay an old land boundary plan on it (in this case, the eastern end of John Laurie’s 1766 plan) and it will probably reveal the answer. Broughton Street and York Lane? Cathedral Lane and the foot of Leith Street? St. James Square and Gabriel’s Road? Truncated southern side of Abercrombie Place? Property boundaries are your answer.

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As the numbers of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas increased with the continued growth of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Atlantic #plantation economies, non-slaveholding whites could serve on patrols to help protect against slave rebellions.

http://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/africanpassageslowcountryadapt/introductionatlanticworld/new-world-labor-systems--europ
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#history #learning #learn #slavery #deportation #colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #racism #raceMaking #America #USA #Virginia #labor #exploitation #capitalism