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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 1h

I keep telling my son hes spoiled because the experience over the last decade is not what I grew up watching in L.A....

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Chad Moriyama @chadmoriyama.bsky.social · 1d

Would the NBA suspend him for this? Lmao.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 20h

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 2d

This is why they continue to be angry, even when the people they want a tally win control and try to do the things they want. Because that doesn't automatically change the culture and may even strengthen the cultural effects they hate!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 4d

Dude also provides post game comedy gold 2 nights in a row

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 4d

Struggling in the NLDS is what helped wake the team up to win it all laat year. Hoping the fight the Phillies put up helped the boys in blue focus for what's coming...

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 5d

a baseball player with the name jackson on his back is holding a bat over his head

ALT: a baseball player with the name jackson on his back is holding a bat over his head

media.tenor.com

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 10d

The 82nd fought in WWI but it wasn't an airborne unit until WWII. There weren't any parachute operations in WWI that I'm aware of.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 13d

🇳🇱 The Dutch Air Force F-35 did open the scoring by shooting down a Russian UAV.

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Chad Moriyama @chadmoriyama.bsky.social · 13d

There we go:

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 13d

Was that only on my cable (Spectrum in L.A.) or did ESPN really switch back to ESPN from ESPN2 w/o warning in the middle of the AB at the exact moment that Ohtani hit that HR so the entire country missed it live? Whatever producer is responsible from that should be hung from the 6th street bridge.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 17d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21d

From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:

Map showing Cambodia v Armenia battleground

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 23d

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 25d

It's an ugly win, and I'll take it of course, but we need more convincing wins heading into the playoffs or it'll be a short run. Dodgers playoff baseball already induces enough anxiety without the starters killing themselves to stretch deeper and every reliever stumbling through every at bat.

Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 29d

Not particularly relevant anymore....? We're literally debating whether it's the reason a major political activist was assassinated last week.

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 29d

It actually kinda seems like you've flipped from the normal position you take on all other political issues ("stop looking at the apparent straight-forward answer and consider the impact of the memes") and are now arguing that folks should be ignoring the effect of the too-online culture.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 13

Toby’s Spider-Man holding a train back from being destroyed with two strong ass spider webs

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · Sep 12

I don't think this is the guy because an operator that careful probably wouldn't be touching every railing in sight with his bare hands.

Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · Sep 11

I blame you

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · Sep 10

Time for Poland to announce a unilateral no fly zone over western Ukraine. Put the new F-35s to the test, loaded down with air-to-air missiles. Let Ukrainian air defense focus on the Easteen half of the country.