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Arthaey Angosii @arthaey
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So I'm reading "IBM and the Holocaust" for the book club at work (I <3 that my *office* picked this book!).

It is so far from "old news" that it's scary.
Capitalists who care only about profits, who are not at all deterred by the knowledge of the profound suffering, death, and outright murder that they are directly enabling…

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Technology that makes it easier, more efficient, and more omniscient for people to be surveilled and tracked. No way for the people to meaningfully opt out. No way to undo it, once it had been unleashed…

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The whole world is aware of the atrocities. Protesting and boycotting, with little impact on actually *stopping* anything…

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Tech employees contributing, often ignorantly, to the terrible capabilities of technology. And even if they'd put 2 + 2 together and quit or become whistleblowers, would it have been enough to stop anything?

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People who should have fled sooner, before it was too late, but they didn't realize it was really that bad until it *was* too late. People who didn't flee far enough, who just got swallowed up again as the terror expanded…

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It's hard being an optimist when you also study history and try to be a realist. :(

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A Redditor on @askhistorians has a great answer about Hitler's oratory skills (he played to each audience, matching accent, register, references; he started calm but pulled audiences in emotionally)… reddit.com/r/AskHistorian…
But the post really hits close to home these days in going over the background of Hitler's public positions and his support:
"Hitler was loudly racist, shockingly proud of himself and had a history of violence and anger. … none of Hitler's faults were secret, or without commentary. Nobody voted for Hitler without knowing he was an anti-semite."
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I can't help but think that most men would be able to non-harassingly interact with women if only they cared about listening to women's experiences too.

Funny, the men I feel completely safe with? They seem to listen. Huh. Who would have predicted!
In this age of #MeToo, some folks cry, "Oh no, now you've made it unsafe for me to even talk to women!" I've crashed alone on a new friend's couch & shared a tent with two coworkers. Was fine!

The problem isn't #MeToo. It's people who put their desires above others' boundaries.
It's pretty simple. ASK people what they want, AND THEN LISTEN.

That's how you avoid harassnent: learn their boundaries & graciously respect them.

Folks retaliating against #MeToo don't want to listen, or else can't stand the discomfort of realizing they haven't been listening.
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Why aren't cargo jeans more common?
...one of these is not like the other.
Can I just hand-sew patch pockets onto jeans and voilà cargo jeans? Is there anything more to it than that?
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[Thread] Based on recent discussions with @SamuelSokol, @TarikCyrilAmar, and @AuschwitzMuseum over the continued debates regarding the "naming" of concentration camps in Poland, I've decided it's time for a thread, b/c this is not about history but the present in Poland.
What has many Poles (and state-run museums) up in arms, is ANY connection of the word "Poland" with Holocaust sites (and more broadly behavior- hence the "correction" above.) They particularly rail against the term "Polish" death or concentration camps. edition.cnn.com/2018/02/01/eur…
The argument is that Poles did not establish or run these camps...which is absolutely correct. But the problem is, no one really thinks Poles built Auschwitz, etc. Sure, there are ignorant people out there or some students, but I defy you to find a scholar making this argument.
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Here's a thread about the books I read this year!

#reading #books #libraries #readingrainbow
1. "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff. Yes, I hate-read this book in a matter of days. Problematically, Bannon comes across as an articulate, insightful source and not an arch nationalist parasite. Will Wolff's depiction be hagiography in the future?
2. "The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control" and "The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America" by Theodore Allen. Who knew how important Bacon's Rebellion (1676) was to the history of racism?
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Reading CLOUDS OF WAR, the 2nd of Brooks Kubik's old-school weightlifter novels.

ME. "You're improving as a writer"
BK. "Thanks!"
ME. "Book one's pure infodump, but this is a fun opening with your hero attempting an elusive PR -- what's next?"
BK. *smiles, grasps infodump lever*
Book 2 so far:
1) old-school weightlifter routines
2) old-school weightlifters breathlessly recounting the latest feats of other old-school weightlifters to their friends who are ALSO old-school weightlifters
3) old-school weightlifters saving people with Heroic Feats of Strength
My favorite ridiculous part of Book 2 so far is when two of the weightlifter heroes save a boy from a terrible car wreck

and immediately give the crowd of onlookers a sales pitch for the equipment sold by the York Barbell Company
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Two serving Jewish Labour councillors have spoken out for the first time to expose the “extraordinary” levels of “institutional anti-semitism” in Momentum’s Haringey heartland in north London - thread 👇

thetimes.co.uk/article/jewish…
Joe Goldberg and Natan Doron said they had been repeatedly abused to their faces by pro-#Corbyn #Labour members — including fellow councillors — with crude allusions to their race or insulting references to the #Holocaust 👇
Goldberg the council’s cabinet member for economic development was accused by #Labour councillor of “bagel-barrel politics”

Same councillor said academy schools comparable to “Kristallnacht”, the Nazi pogrom in which 1,400 synagogues were attacked & dozens of Jews murdered 👇
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1/ I finished @nntaleb's new #book Skin in the game, and here are my learnings, insights and notes.

Warning: this thread is going to be huge.
2/ Human systems are systems within systems, interacting in complex ways. No article / paper / logic can capture all interactions of such systems and their evolution over a non-trivial amount of time.

So fear one shot, large scale interventions (such as invasions, UBI, CRISPR)
3/ People with fuck you money should call out famous or powerful people when they are wrong
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Here's a woman at an anti-nazi protest in Dallas. Yes, she's holding her relative's prison garb from the #Holocaust. #NoNazis
Here's the permanent marks of an evil bureaucracy.
Here are the shoes of Auschwitz victims.
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