Hey all! My name is Tyler. I want to share a little #introduction post. It's so nice to be here! My interests include #airQuality #buildings #community #construction #darkSkies #design #historicPreservation #history #placemaking #stainedGlass and more. Can you recommend accounts to follow? In any case I've heard good things about Mastodon and the fediverse so I'm looking forward to connecting with folks.
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"Fascism: Here To Stay? How Do We End It?"
W/ #DavidShuster, an "Amped Up!" INTERVIEW w awesome historian/scholar on #authoritarianism, Ruth Ben-Ghiat!
https://www.blueamp.co/p/fascism-here-to-stay-how-do-we-end #politics #world #fascism #trump #us #usa #ai #donaldtrump #history #press #media #war #iran #israel #eu #tv #uk #russia #ukraine #middleeast #news
In Georgian London, a young Scotswoman purloins a handful of handkerchiefs to buy food.
235 years later, her several greats-grandson sits at a computer in the Antipodes, trying out #Daggerheart via Discord in the morning’s ungodly wee hours.
They told the Scotswoman her actions would have far-reaching consequences. She could never have imagined time zones, let alone how they’d affect her distant descendant’s sleep deprived taste in entertainment.
#History’s weird like that.
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Dear Canada - a love letter composed by # by #TimThompson, sports video editor.
#Canada #CanadianCulture #CanadianHistory #CanadianMusic #CanadianArt #DearCanada #TommyDouglas #AnneMurray #MichaelJFox #GordonLightfoot #Painters #GroupOfSeven #FirstNations #Art #Music #History #Culture
An effort to call a convention to amend the Constitution is focused on the national debt but could open the door to other changes — including making it legal for Trump to run for a third term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/constitutional-convention-congress-donald-trump-power?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Congress #USPolitics #Government #Law #History
Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
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Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in raids and sweeps.
#News #Trump #Immigration #ICE #Migrants #Immigrants #Detention #History
Finally took the time (my internet connection was down...) to watch Johan Grimonprez' documentary "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452174/
If you're interested in #Africa #History #UN #Jazz it's really worth your time.
If you want to better understand what happened when #Congo "tried" #Independence from #Belgium in 1960, how USA conspired to kill #PatriceLumumba and why there was a war in #Katanga, then there's a lot in this documentary, while listening to good music.
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If you need something to celebrate today, the Freedom of Information Act was signed into law #OnThisDay in 1966.
"It took [U.S. House of Representatives member John E. Moss] 12 years to get the FOIA through Congress [...] The Moss Committee took it upon itself to reform confidentiality policy and implement punishments for the overuse of classification by officials and departments."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)
I am proud to present you with an interview with an incredible @adapalmer straight from this year #Bazyliszek convention, now available as a #solarpunkPrompts special!
#solarpunk #history #scienceFiction #rome #climate #purity #writing #imagination #hopepunk #apocalypse
New today: It’s a different camp, different year, different creek, but the same story. This story—the one where the Hill Country experiences devastating and unexpected flash #floods following an intense period of extended drought—is a familiar one for those of us who grew up in the area. https://www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/
#Kerrville #KerrCounty #Texas #CentralTexas #flooding #history #environment #weather #politics #USpol #news #ClimateChange
A re-#introduction
I deleted my account here 2(?) weeks ago in an act of frustation and depresssion and now i restart again.
I'm a mid 30's #metal and #music Fan and dad from #austria, likes #pcgaming, #boardgames and #history. Also playing #bass and want to make music.
Sometimes I go #hiking and #running.
I toot, retoot and quote things i like, i follow people, who i think are interesting.
What Else?
Well essential i think, people shouldn't be cunts to each other
Love you all :)
I think seeing captured film reels from WWII in grade 10 social studies of bodies being bulldozed into mass graves by Nazi labourers and hearing classmates gasp, several of them breaking down, openly weeping, was a turning point in my view of humanity; I expect parents today would be outraged at such shocking material being put before schoolchildren...
#history #media #journalism #education #genocide
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While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression.
Here’s the real history.
https://www.propublica.org/article/history-income-tax-history-16th-amendment-trump-tariffs-great-depression?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
New #intro!
I’m a hyperjack musician, writer & video artist. My latest album, ‘Status’, is mainly about escaping Big Tech dystopia.
My website https://meljoann.com includes nerdy blog posts on Faircamp, Owncast & leaving mainstream social media.
Some stuff I love:
#musicProduction #videoProduction #books #experimentalMusic #electronicMusic #RandB #earlyMusic #improvisedMusic #science #knitting #history #scienceFiction #horror #alternativeComedy #anarchism #foss #linux #introduction
"There were no books on web design, no best practices."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/
Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".
In Part 2 of “Sick in a Hospital Town,” we look at how a century-old community hospital in Albany, Georgia, became the only hospital in town — and grew into a sprawling health care system by waging a yearslong battle to eliminate its competition.
https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-two/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Business #History #BlackHistory #Journalism
The Mother of All Demos was "a landmark computer demonstration of [...] many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
#OnThisDay #OTD #history #technology #computers #demo #MotherOfAllDemos
Dorking Cockerel, public sculpture in Dorking, Surrey, England.
An abandoned pottery factory, somewhere in #France
The small French #pottery works thrived for decades. It remained modest, while competitors expanded and modernised. While this gives the #ruins a quaint charm, it was certainly a major factor in their closure!
Inside, the upper floors have long rows of wooden racks stacked with 100s of moulds. Heavy pieces were moved on wooden carts along a rail system.
https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/industrial/faiencerie-s-pottery-s-france/
#Ceramics #Photography #France #History #AbandonedPlaces #Urbex
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#Auspol #USpol #History #ItalianHistory #Fascism #DodgyAndGreatLeaders
#Reading or more like dipping into
B. A. SANTAMARIA
ITALY CHANGES SHIRTS:
THE ORIGINS OF ITALIAN FASCISM
MA THESIS
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
1934
and am enjoying focusing on sentences and letting my mind mull over ideas while i do/ watch/ read other stuffs. this might become a thread with occasional ramblings.
i’m struck by some parallels with USA (how could one not be?) but for context am reminded mussolini had established himself as leader much earlier than hitler and was, in fact, admired by hitler. (i think a great deal of hitler’s success was down to goebbels.) both mussolini and hitler lived in a time when the ongoing war of ideas between communism and capitalism were front and centre.
the labels and the details morph and change over time, but when our previous opposition leader threw words like “liberal”, “commie” or “woke” around, i suspect it was really more of the same.
in the red corner, people who think governments can and should care about everyone, and in the blue corner, those who think individualism is essential to god’s grand design.
I wonder, sometimes, if the USA is one western country that never really had a “left” at all.
On the very first page of his thesis, Santamaria suggests the Italian public embraced fascism (and the idea of a strong leader) because parliamentary democracy seemed to suck.
(Echos of this in Trump’s “drain the swamp” rhetoric, and his now open contempt for the system altogether)
Discussing Mussolini, Santamaria goes on to say Lenin believed “the only man who could successfully rule Italy was the one who reproduced in himself the main characteristics of the great mass of Italians”
The USA has a problematic electoral system, and many people are disenfranchised in one way or another. I don’t want to slander an entire nation, but I do wonder how many people found it easier to identify with Trump than with Harris?
Closer to home, how well do we identify with this or that type of leader in Australia? Do we reject potential leaders more easily than we embrace them?
1975 in Australia was a disappointment, but I distinctly remember that, apart from the scare about whitlam overspending/ seeking dodgy loans from someone with a foreign name, a lot of people were fed up with having to vote, and all the campaigning that goes with more-frequent-than-usual elections.
#Introduction that I'm never happy with:
I joined Mastodon during the Second Great Twitter Migration of 2022, if that's what we're calling it.
You may know me from:
@alexicon@tech.lgbt (Oct 2022-Sept 2023)
@alex@firefish.lgbt (RIP) (Aug 2023)
@alex@xim.ca (Sept 2023-May 2024)
@alex@kitty.social (May 2024-Oct 2024)
@alex@anarres.family (Oct 2024-Aug 2025)
I'm a neurodivergent (AuDHD / GAD / cPTSD[?] 
), ace/aromantic pan/aegosexual, 40s year old from #Ottawa, #Canada. 🇨🇦
Interests include:
• #scifi (including #StarTrek & #DoctorWho)
• #Linux
• #history
• #genealogy
• #politics
• #travel (when I can afford to)
• ....way too many special interests.
(Please don't reply to the introduction post. Mentions or DMs are OK.)
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"The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the [Packet Radio Van] and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van
#internet #InternetHistory #InternetAge #PacketRadioVan #arpanet #history #OnThisDay #OTD
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"Interaction on the Web is a little like a mirror, like communicating with a manifestation of yourself. Because it is so chaotic, so decentralised, I find that using the Web becomes like communicating with a hardware version of me. It’s not exactly a doppelgänger, but an alternative version of myself."
We’re so sorry to hear that Guppe Groups have shut down.
@FediTips/115164286964463451
Guppe was a really big influence on us when we first joined the Fediverse and served communities across the Fediverse.
Fortunately, conversations and communities can continue! Here are 3 ways how:
1/3 Keep the conversation going by hopping over to Newsmast Channels:
Bookstodon 👉 Follow @books & use #books
Histodons 👉 Follow @history & use #history
Academic Chatter 👉 Follow @academia & use #academia
Photography 👉 Follow @photography & use #photography
