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Inside: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk"; and more!
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Inside: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/19/lov…
#Pluralistic 1/
Today (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series
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On Weds (Mar 22), I'm doing a remote talk for the @IFTF's "Changing the Register" series:
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On Weds (Mar 22), I'm doing a remote talk for the @IFTF's "Changing the Register" series:
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Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk": Why today's Luddites should be smashing apps.
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#OTD in 1865 the Thirteenth Amendment passed the House of Representatives, sending it to the states for ratification. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States “…except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."
The amendment ended race-based chattel slavery in America, but did not rid the nation of forced labor, which exists through America’s prison system today. #13thAmendment #Constitution #slavery #HistoryMatters #CivilWar #USCivilWar #AmericanCivilWar #PoliticalHistory #knowhistory
Congress abolished slavery in Washington D.C. in 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation outlawed slavery in rebelling states Jan. 1, 1863 and former rebel states were forced to ban slavery in new state constitutions. Republicans in Congress still wanted a Constitutional Amendment.
The @librarycongress has a fantastic Civil War collection. In it includes three manuscript volumes that document daily life in Washington, D.C., by U.S. Patent Office examiner Horatio Nelson Taft (1806-1888).
There are 1240 digitized pages of this collection, and they're amazing to scroll through! Be patient- the images force you to brush up on your paleography skills! (Thank you to @librarycongress staff for transcribing them!)
The documents include a"report of President Lincoln's assassination based on accounts Taft received from friends and particularly his son, Charles Sabin Taft, a US Army surgeon who was in Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was shot." (LOC)
Trump supporter #RayRoseberry is threatening to blow up his truck on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court. Capitol Police are negotiating. He was livestreaming it on Facebook till his profile was taken down
The last post Ray Roseberry shared on his Facebook page before he started live streaming his #libraryofcongress bomb threat, was a video post from @DonaldJTrumpJr stirring up his supporters against Biden.
He has a criminal history & is threatening to blow himself up with propane. His truck is filled with US coins in multiple bags.
He says bomb was built by a military vet & he is 1of 5 "southern Patriots" already in the area & he's just the beginning.
He says bomb was built by a military vet & he is 1of 5 "southern Patriots" already in the area & he's just the beginning.
Person allegedly involved in the bomb threat #RayRoseberry has an open facebook and it looks like he may have been planning this since at least May. #LibraryofCongress SS thread below in case they get removed
Throwback to the time it was revealed that Clint Eastwood directed a movie based on a book written by a secret leader of the KKK.
Asa Earl Carter “formed a paramilitary unit of about 100 men known as ‘the Original Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy” and “was arrested in 1957 in connection with a Klan shooting” link.gale.com/apps/doc/BOSYD…
In 1956, his group attacked Nat King Cole on stage in Birmingham, Alabama during a concert and castrated a random black man as a “warning to ‘uppity’ Alabama Blacks.” timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…
On #MemorialDay we rededicate ourselves to honoring the service of the nation’s men and women in uniform, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice for us and for our nation.
I’m so proud to represent the many brave Vermonters who serve in their communities and far from home, and I’m sharing some reflections about those who gave their lives so that others might live. #MemorialDay
Cpl. Edward Wilkin was born in Burlington and served in the Army in WWII. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his superb fighting skill, dauntless courage, and inspiring actions when…
