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There was, en route to greener pastures, a small house in the city
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was born in Maryland. She has a valid U.S. birth certificate, medical and immunization records, and sworn affidavits.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
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The only time we need to “optimize” is time with the people we love because life is short and precious and our time together is fleeting, and we can’t get it back
December 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The only time we need to “optimize” is time with the people we love because life is short and precious and our time together is fleeting, and we can’t get it back
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
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One data center campus in Pennsylvania will use as much power as the entire city of Philadelphia.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Analysis | Supersized data centers are coming. See how they will transform America.
These AI campuses consume more power than major U.S. cities. Their footprints are measured in miles, not feet.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
One data center campus in Pennsylvania will use as much power as the entire city of Philadelphia.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Every squishy center-leftist who had “legitimate concerns” about some youth transition needs to face facts: there was no counterparty you could negotiate on the margins with. The other side wants trans people not to exist. It’s that simple.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Every squishy center-leftist who had “legitimate concerns” about some youth transition needs to face facts: there was no counterparty you could negotiate on the margins with. The other side wants trans people not to exist. It’s that simple.
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"[Workers at major companies] are asking, why do I have to use something that doesn't work? Well it's because capitalism demands eternal growth. Milton Friedman's ghost haunts every trader, Ronald Reagan pops out of the toilet every so often, this is what we do here."
Love the mental imagery.
Love the mental imagery.
Spoke with Times Radio about the AI bubble, and how I think it might be bigger and uglier than the dotcom bubble (though the after-effects will be...different)
youtu.be/C35bMFVDrlo
youtu.be/C35bMFVDrlo
AI bubble: ’This is so much worse than the dot-com bubble’ | Ed Zitron
YouTube video by Times Radio Tech
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"[Workers at major companies] are asking, why do I have to use something that doesn't work? Well it's because capitalism demands eternal growth. Milton Friedman's ghost haunts every trader, Ronald Reagan pops out of the toilet every so often, this is what we do here."
Love the mental imagery.
Love the mental imagery.
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“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
![Tweet by Nico Reznick, AT NicoReznick on 20 June 2025 reads:
“There is a simple test to see if someone should qualify for assisted dying:
If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.
[hashtag] AssistedDyingBill [hashtag] assistedsuicidebill”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ltsziuodekvpalwz7r6x44c/bafkreifb75ozlukb4tmji3stoy5rigxacp7obmzxfdaljpc4kns252e4uq@jpeg)
December 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
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An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.
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What's retired Mountain Goats bassist Peter Hughes up to lately? Glad you asked. He's writing about Ryusuke Hamaguchi film Drive My Car (2021) for @alloymag.bsky.social, the autojourno website for people who understand that the intrusive pop-up ad model is bad. alloymag.com/drive-my-car...
Review of Drive My Car
This week, Peter Hughes swaps crashes and jumps for an emotional crashout.
alloymag.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What's retired Mountain Goats bassist Peter Hughes up to lately? Glad you asked. He's writing about Ryusuke Hamaguchi film Drive My Car (2021) for @alloymag.bsky.social, the autojourno website for people who understand that the intrusive pop-up ad model is bad. alloymag.com/drive-my-car...
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Today a harrowing excerpt from A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon by Eric King (PM Press 2026). It's a harrowing but steadfast look inside one of the most notorious prisons in America one of the most punitive and carceral countries in the world.
Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon
A Clean Hell by Eric King
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today a harrowing excerpt from A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon by Eric King (PM Press 2026). It's a harrowing but steadfast look inside one of the most notorious prisons in America one of the most punitive and carceral countries in the world.
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i am admittedly not the most knowledgeable about how things work in this realm but data centers seem incredibly ripe for luddite style sabotage
computer going to take my job? no. i’ll pour water on it
December 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
i am admittedly not the most knowledgeable about how things work in this realm but data centers seem incredibly ripe for luddite style sabotage
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If the average American could read a book, and ever read a book on the history of Korea and the United States' involvement in the history of the nation, I like to think they'd feel such intense shame that their heads would explode Scanners style, if the average American could experience shame
that and the folks in South Korea are generally fairly fond of the United States and wish us well because:
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If the average American could read a book, and ever read a book on the history of Korea and the United States' involvement in the history of the nation, I like to think they'd feel such intense shame that their heads would explode Scanners style, if the average American could experience shame
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God I love Minneapolis so much.
December 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
God I love Minneapolis so much.
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Minnesotans face off against ICE as they target Somalis.
December 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Minnesotans face off against ICE as they target Somalis.
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this episode has a fantastic discussion about the counterinsurgent use of "that's illegal" and some great thinking about the pitfalls of "no kings" type mobilization. has me thinking differently about coalitional politics. highly recommend -- 25 minute teaser link in the thread below!
In our latest, @nhold.bsky.social returns to the show to discuss the way law creates the bounds of “justifiable” violence and consecrates brutality, and why deportation is wrong, no matter the circumstances
www.patreon.com/posts/144753...
www.patreon.com/posts/144753...
Political Imagination and Appeals to the Law w/ Nate Holdren (12/01/25) | The Death Panel
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December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
this episode has a fantastic discussion about the counterinsurgent use of "that's illegal" and some great thinking about the pitfalls of "no kings" type mobilization. has me thinking differently about coalitional politics. highly recommend -- 25 minute teaser link in the thread below!
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After Car - Alloy
A new book explores options a less car-dependent world.
alloymag.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Reading about Utah's plan to forcibly detain homeless people in facilities it swears are not prisons but rather "accountability centers"
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Reading about Utah's plan to forcibly detain homeless people in facilities it swears are not prisons but rather "accountability centers"
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If anything the human need to fill unused brain power with *something* is why we are where we are in every sense.
December 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
If anything the human need to fill unused brain power with *something* is why we are where we are in every sense.
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There's that stupid "fact" about capacity:
"The average person processes more data each day than a person in the 15th century did in a lifetime"
And it's just not true! We're taking in different data then the 15th century guy, and we don't treat the brook or the sunset as the useful data that it is
"The average person processes more data each day than a person in the 15th century did in a lifetime"
And it's just not true! We're taking in different data then the 15th century guy, and we don't treat the brook or the sunset as the useful data that it is
if I was a 12th century Cluniac monk I never would have gotten to passively watch files download at 25 MB/s and would have had to content myself with observations of babbling brooks, fields of wheat swaying in the wind, sunsets, etc
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
There's that stupid "fact" about capacity:
"The average person processes more data each day than a person in the 15th century did in a lifetime"
And it's just not true! We're taking in different data then the 15th century guy, and we don't treat the brook or the sunset as the useful data that it is
"The average person processes more data each day than a person in the 15th century did in a lifetime"
And it's just not true! We're taking in different data then the 15th century guy, and we don't treat the brook or the sunset as the useful data that it is
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I keep saying we all need to be sand in their gears
10:00am ICE chased a guy to an apartment building. Crowd gathered. Rapid response arrived. By 3:30pm 30 agents there, & used chem munitions & gassed the n’hood*
5 hours
Eventually 30 agents
1 guy
Neighbors & rapid response were sand in the gears
10:00am ICE chased a guy to an apartment building. Crowd gathered. Rapid response arrived. By 3:30pm 30 agents there, & used chem munitions & gassed the n’hood*
5 hours
Eventually 30 agents
1 guy
Neighbors & rapid response were sand in the gears
Happening right now. Community members in Elgin, IL are in a standoff with Feds who are trying to abduct their neighbor.
ERO guy in picture on left just peppered sprayed person I screencapped.
ERO guy in picture on left just peppered sprayed person I screencapped.
December 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I keep saying we all need to be sand in their gears
10:00am ICE chased a guy to an apartment building. Crowd gathered. Rapid response arrived. By 3:30pm 30 agents there, & used chem munitions & gassed the n’hood*
5 hours
Eventually 30 agents
1 guy
Neighbors & rapid response were sand in the gears
10:00am ICE chased a guy to an apartment building. Crowd gathered. Rapid response arrived. By 3:30pm 30 agents there, & used chem munitions & gassed the n’hood*
5 hours
Eventually 30 agents
1 guy
Neighbors & rapid response were sand in the gears
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NEW TIRED. We talk about big corporations demonstrating they straight-up don't care anymore, scratch the surface on CAFE regs making cars worse, and talk about the most beautiful form factor money can buy... if you're lucky. PLUS: an update on Peter's Peugeot 505? www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
Episode 98: Here's A Wagon, Get On It | Tired
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December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
NEW TIRED. We talk about big corporations demonstrating they straight-up don't care anymore, scratch the surface on CAFE regs making cars worse, and talk about the most beautiful form factor money can buy... if you're lucky. PLUS: an update on Peter's Peugeot 505? www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
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Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
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“Guzmán’s daughter was still in the NICU, unable to eat or breathe independently. The doctors had planned a meeting to review the baby’s prognosis and care plans… As Guzmán went to buckle her seatbelt, she looked out the window and noticed they were surrounded.”
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.
19thnews.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“Guzmán’s daughter was still in the NICU, unable to eat or breathe independently. The doctors had planned a meeting to review the baby’s prognosis and care plans… As Guzmán went to buckle her seatbelt, she looked out the window and noticed they were surrounded.”