David W. Brown
@davidwbrown.com
Author of THE MISSION and THE OUTSIDE CATS (forthcoming).
✍️ Words for the New Yorker, &c.
🐈 Animal rescue is my thing.
🔐 Signal: dwb.11
🔗 https://davidwbrown.com
📍 New Orleans, but I have friends everywhere. 🌹🍉
✍️ Words for the New Yorker, &c.
🐈 Animal rescue is my thing.
🔐 Signal: dwb.11
🔗 https://davidwbrown.com
📍 New Orleans, but I have friends everywhere. 🌹🍉
Enron feels quaint and charming in comparison to what’s happening today
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Enron feels quaint and charming in comparison to what’s happening today
So AI is the F-35 of cyber warfare?
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
So AI is the F-35 of cyber warfare?
Ethical use of AI! What a comical notion. 🤦♂️
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Ethical use of AI! What a comical notion. 🤦♂️
This is the most obvious scam in human history, to create a product nobody wants. It all ends with the U.S. government killing social security and writing Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and the rest a nice bailout check for them to spend on sleek new yachts that attest to their business genius.
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is the most obvious scam in human history, to create a product nobody wants. It all ends with the U.S. government killing social security and writing Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and the rest a nice bailout check for them to spend on sleek new yachts that attest to their business genius.
Reposted by David W. Brown
Yep. People are talking about the latest Frankenstein film.
But Mary Shelley was also an abolitionist, and she and husband Percy abstained from sugar because it was produced with the the labor of enslaved people.
"In every pound of sugar used… consuming two ounces of human flesh,"
- William Fox
But Mary Shelley was also an abolitionist, and she and husband Percy abstained from sugar because it was produced with the the labor of enslaved people.
"In every pound of sugar used… consuming two ounces of human flesh,"
- William Fox
How Percy Shelley Stirred His Politics Into His Teacup
In 19th century Britain, keeping sugar out of tea became a political statement against slavery. The sugar boycott was no easy choice for the radical poet, who hated slavery but loved tea.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Yep. People are talking about the latest Frankenstein film.
But Mary Shelley was also an abolitionist, and she and husband Percy abstained from sugar because it was produced with the the labor of enslaved people.
"In every pound of sugar used… consuming two ounces of human flesh,"
- William Fox
But Mary Shelley was also an abolitionist, and she and husband Percy abstained from sugar because it was produced with the the labor of enslaved people.
"In every pound of sugar used… consuming two ounces of human flesh,"
- William Fox
*rolls up sleeves* “And for my next trick, I will have the DOJ investigate Democrats on the Epstein list—a list that I said did not exist.”
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
*rolls up sleeves* “And for my next trick, I will have the DOJ investigate Democrats on the Epstein list—a list that I said did not exist.”