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“Our evolving digital age can be our next Carnegie moment or it can be a Library of Alexandria moment. It is up to us”. Brewster Khale, Digital Librarian, Internet Archive.
April 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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They are wannebe Barons von Harkonnen.
The face of an actor playing the fictional character of the evil Baron von Harkonnen from Frank Herbert’s Dune series. He is staring balefully to some spot off-screen. The fictional Harkonnens are far-future hyper-Nazis.
March 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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That famous picture of WWII Nazis burning books? Those were books from “perhaps the first trans-inclusive research institute in the world” yet as @margaret.bsky.social reminds us in this excerpt “nothing is fated, not ever”. So let’s note the first pattern: it starts with limiting sexual expression.
It’s a bad moment to be someone who reads history books for a living. It’s a bad moment to have an eye for pattern recognition. It’s a bad moment to remember that the first big famous Nazi book burning started on May 6th, 1933, when the German Student Union marched on the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin, perhaps the first trans-inclusive research institute in the world. Accompanied by a brass band, the fascists trashed and looted the place. Four days later, Nazis returned and burned twelve or twenty-five thousand books from the research library. It’s a bad time to remember that fascism has always been anti-intellectual and anti-queer. It’s also, though, a particularly bad time to mistakenly believe that history repeats itself. It doesn’t. Certain patterns and themes and codas and choruses re-emerge time and time again, but the song of history sounds different out of every throat. What has happened before is not fated to happen again. In fact, nothing is fated, not ever.
March 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM