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creates semantic nodes and clusters #BILL #SNYDER #BANDLEADER www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q... AÉPIOT: INDEPENDENT SEMANTIC WEB 4.0 INFRASTRUCTURE (EST. 2009): allgraph.ro
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creates semantic nodes and clusters #BILL #SNYDER #BANDLEADER www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q... AÉPIOT: INDEPENDENT SEMANTIC WEB 4.0 INFRASTRUCTURE (EST. 2009): allgraph.ro
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Timothy Snyder: "Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity.
To see where we are, we must understand that people such as Tulsi #Gabbard, Kash #Patel, and Pete #Hegseth, had no business accepting their nominations, since they lack any qualifications. The fact that such people could be considered, let alone appointed, is a marker of superpower suicide."
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Timothy Snyder: "Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity.
To see where we are, we must understand that people such as Tulsi #Gabbard, Kash #Patel, and Pete #Hegseth, had no business accepting their nominations, since they lack any qualifications. The fact that such people could be considered, let alone appointed, is a marker of superpower suicide."
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Hype for the Future 119G: United States Route 11 in Pennsylvania, South of Shamokin Dam
Introduction Within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States Route 11 is situated within the Appalachian Mountains, often toward the eastern side of the Commonwealth from southwest to northeast and somewhat parallel to Route 220 to the north. Trajectory — Franklin County Within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the first county after crossing the Mason-Dixon Line that is covered is Franklin County, including the community of State Line within Antrim Township. Today, the Antrim […] -
Remember Walt Whitman
Heute in der Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung - 31. Mai 1819: Der Dichter Walt Whitman wurde geboren. Whitman brachte 1855 seinen ersten und berühmtesten Gedichtband, Leaves of Grass, auf eigene Kosten raus. Er wurde wegen seiner Sinnlichkeit als obszön kritisiert. Während des Bürgerkriegs meldete er sich freiwillig in #Krankenhäusern, um Verwundete zu pflegen. Viele glauben aufgrund seiner Schriften, dass Whitman schwul oder bisexuell war, obwohl dies von einigen Historikern bestritten wird. Oscar# Wilde traf Whitman 1882 in den Vereinigten Staaten und sagte dem Aktivisten für #Homosexuellenrechte George Cecil #Ives, dass Whitmans sexuelle Orientierung außer Frage stehe: „Ich habe noch immer den Kuss von Walt Whitman auf meinen Lippen.“ Whitman wird von vielen als Amerikas erster und größter #ichter angesehen. Er inspirierte viele, die nach ihm kamen, darunter Ezra #Pound, Langston #Hughes, #Kerouac, #Ginsberg, F#erlinghetti, Gary #Snyder und June #Jordan.
Whitmans Engagement für #Solidarität inspirierte viele #Linke der späten 1800er und frühen 1900er Jahre, darunter Emma #Goldman und die #WW, die Kopien von Whitmans Gedichten in Form des Little Blue Book an ihre Mitglieder verteilte. Bartolomeo #Vanzetti, Elizabeth Gurley #Flynn und Ralph #Chaplin bezeichneten Whitman ebenfalls als ihre #Inspiration. Er inspirierte auch den kubanischen Dichter und Revolutionär José #Martí sowie Pablo #Neruda und Jorge Luis #Borges.
Via: trueten.de
Quelle: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/114603241424442651 @MikeDunnAuthor #Literatur #Anarchismus #LBTQIA
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When he was in office, Trump went out of his way to find ways to hurt Amazon to get back at Bezos for unfavorable coverage in the Post.
Los Angeles Times editorial page editor #Mariel #Garza, along with journalists Robert Greene and Karin Klein, resigned from the paper after its decision not to endorse Harris,
💥and nearly 2,000 readers canceled their subscriptions.The Washington Post, too, has seen 💥about 2,000 subscribers bow out,
and fourteen of the newspaper’s columnists called the decision not to condemn Trump’s threats to the “freedom of the press and the values of the Constitution” “a terrible mistake.”Cartoonist Ann Telnaes published a blacked-out square, playing on the Post’s motto that democracy dies in darkness.
Readers are speaking out against the Washington Post for demonstrating what scholar of authoritarianism #Timothy #Snyder calls “obeying in advance” the demands of an authoritarian leader
(although Washington Post legal journalist Ruth Marcus, who signed the letter calling the decision a terrible mistake, pointed out that the Postitself was publishing the many letters of condemnation).“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given,” Snyder’s “On Tyranny” reads.
“In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
The aftermath of the Post’s decision demonstrated what scholars say will happen after such obeying.
Rather than winning favors, such a demonstration of weakness invites further abuse, as anyone who has watched Trump in action ought to know by now.Trump’s people pounced, with advisor #Stephen #Miller posting:
“You know the Kamala campaign is sinking when even the Washington Post refuses to endorse.”Trump then promptly went a step further, claiming that Democrats had taken part in “rampant Cheating and Skullduggery…in the 2020 presidential election” and warning that in 2024, “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again…. Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”
Trump’s threats are designed to convince people he is a strongman who will inevitably win the 2024 presidential election.
But to do that, he will have to go through the voters, who are demonstrating their enthusiasm for Democratic candidate Harris and her running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz.
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Should we be careful what we wish for in cheering Putin’s demise?
“Putin is really not our problem,” Historian #Tim #Snyder asserts.
“I mean, the last 30 years have shown quite clearly that we don’t actually have much ability at all to influence Russia . . . time after time we have demonstrated we don’t change anything inside Russia.”
He continues: “I find the #Prigozhin interlude honestly quite #reassuring, because it shows us that there are Russians who perfectly well understand the situation in Ukraine; that Russians are also capable of completely #forgetting about #Ukraine when there’s a #greater #stress — when there’s an actual succession struggle going on, all they talk about is themselves.
“We drive ourselves round and round in anxious circles about what Russia is thinking about this war, and we’re not letting ourselves realise that the Russians will find ways out for themselves . . . They don’t need for us to have our focus groups and our studies and our exit ramps. Anthropologically speaking, our exit ramps are not applicable to their highways, if you’ll forgive that stupid metaphor?”
He quickly alights on a more elegant turn of phrase: “It’s two different fairy tales, as the Poles say.”
In Russia, the west seems to forget it is not seeing a mirror nation-state to its own. It is a different #paradigm of #power altogether, driven by “Weberian notions of #charismatic #leadership”, says Snyder.
“The thing is, Russia can’t have a domestic policy,” Snyder muses. “The elite have stolen all the money, all the laws are corrupted, and there’s almost no social mobility or possibility of change in most Russians’ lives, so foreign policy has to compensate and provide the raw material — the scenography — for governance.”
https://www.ft.com/content/9a23b1a7-da4e-466b-99f4-9f7f369fe128