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akshar 🕊️
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if you want to do a universal healthcare spoken word track, I’m your guy
absolutely classic night with @durrymusic.bsky.social

lyrics, performance, stage production come together seamlessly to capture the essence of this era - “big kids living in an old man’s world.”
For me, the promise of social media was experiencing reality at any distance - sharing your real thoughts with real people, and experiencing and seeing theirs in return, at global scale.

Not sure how much of that remains after the internet is flooded with a firehose of AI slop/unreality at scale.
Clarendon sounds like someone is playing GTA V outside your window
Locking this prediction in: the script for “The Fountain of Youth” was written by ChatGPT
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Celebrate Autumn
Montgomery City, MO
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Sixty years ago during Freedom Summer, a daring effort to register Black Mississippians to vote, three young civil rights workers were ambushed and killed by the Ku Klux Klan.

Today, this small Mississippi town is still grappling with what happened.
‘You must know this story’: Why Freedom Summer’s murders matter today
During the 1964 effort to register Black Mississippians to vote, the Klan killed three civil rights activists. The atrocity still reveberates.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Donald Stevens, now 97, was the youngest of the three. Stevens lost one brother to D-Day and another in Germany. But he put life back together with the help of a French family that honors their sacrifice.
His brothers died in WWII, but French admirers keep their memory alive
Donald Stevens, 97, lost one brother to D-Day and another in Germany. But he put life back together with the help of a French family that honors their sacrifice.
wapo.st