Liam Hogan

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Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant. Researching Slavery - Memory - Power. Blog > https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/ Support my work > http://ko-fi.com/liamhogan

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I always keep these words by Jamie Kalven in mind: people.chicagoreader.com/who/jamie-ka... Retreating is so seductive.

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Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.

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How far will the fossil fuel industry go to protect itself from climate impacts it helped cause? A $21 billion liquefied natural gas plant in Louisiana will be surrounded by a 26-foot-high steel sea wall to stave off rising seas.

A rising fortress in sinking landwapo.st Rising seas and steel walls test the strength of a Louisiana coastal gas development, raising questions about flooding, climate change and community impacts.

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When I first saw this I thought "no, that can't possibly be true." But alas, the Times did indeed choose today of all days to publish a right winger's recycled piece about how they don't vote, failing to mention that the author basically thinks absolutist theocracies are cool.

On INDEPENDENCE DAY they published this. ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 2024 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE. I'm furious.

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

Frederick Douglass: "America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." (1852)

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I read the other day that the Dáil has ventilation set at 10 changes per hour, while many of us are left trying to create ad hoc workplace ventilation by propping doors open with chairs.

We have learned so much about how viruses transmit over the past four years & yet none of the passive yet effective measures (better ventilation, HEPA filtration) have been adopted as new standards. An opportunity to future proof our buildings & workplaces let slip away. www.rte.ie/news/2024/07...

Covid rates were a third higher in deprived areas - ESRIwww.rte.ie A new report has found that Covid-19 infection rates were more than a third higher in the most deprived areas of Ireland, relative to more affluent areas.

"The fascist project was to remake human beings into a new kind of ruthless, hard, pitiless entity [and] to expunge humanitarianism from the political system and from people’s consciences." - Richard J. Evans

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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"At least 200 candidates from both the left-wing alliance and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition pulled out of the contest...in order to unite behind those remaining contenders with the best chance of beating Le Pen’s nationalists" www.politico.eu/article/fren...

French election: Rivals unite against Le Pen’s far rightwww.politico.eu Hundreds of candidates from Macron’s camp and the left-wing alliance withdraw in an effort to keep the National Rally out.

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Worse, they see it as something that actively corrupts society

The MAGA movement will not be shamed by pointing out the basic features of a liberal pluralist democracy. They don't believe in any of it. They see it as a weakness, something that merely holds them back or slows their efforts to reshape their world.

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Official act. Immune.

"Long live the Irish Republic": Thomas Paine, James Napper Tandy and General Kilmaine celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Paris (1798) #StPatricksDay

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“The account remains available on Facebook and Instagram where it has more than 1 million followers. Meta spokesperson Erin McPike said the company is reviewing the content and will remove any of it that violates its policies.”

TikTok And YouTube Remove Videos Of Drones Harassing Homeless Peoplewww.forbes.com BumsNDrones, a social media account which posts aggressively shot drone videos of people experiencing homelessness has again been banned by TikTok, though it continues...

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This is a profile of a man who does not believe in human freedom. The world is nothing but overlapping hierarchies and if you do not sit at the top of one then you must be made to serve those who do. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

The Billionaire Bully Who Wants to Turn Texas Into a Christian Theocracywww.texasmonthly.com The state’s most powerful figure, Tim Dunn, isn’t an elected official. But behind the scenes, the West Texas oilman and lay preacher is lavishly financing what he regards as a holy war against public ...

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it's funny to be looking up a major and extremely well studied event in medieval history and have google scholar direct me to a masters thesis at harvard and an undergraduate senior paper at liberty university.

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recall that Tesla was caught automatically disengaging automation one second before impact so they could pretend half-cooked automation wasn't at fault, so the idea that we even have an accurate count of fatalities is preposterous

Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first ‘Full Self-Driving’ fatalitywww.washingtonpost.com Hans von Ohain, a Tesla employee, died in a crash in 2022 when his Model 3 suddenly veered off the road.

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the erosion of the internet seems like one of those gradual-sudden shifts over the last year, as AI drowns out any useful information

New: When someone dies, Google is filled with clickbait articles about their death — even non-celebrity, private individuals. Even children. I wrote about the cruelty of SEO obituary spam, and how sites are now using generative AI to produce even more content. www.theverge.com/24065145/ai-...

When a funeral is clickbaitwww.theverge.com AI-generated obituaries are beginning to litter search results, turning the deaths of private individuals into clunky, repetitive content.

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Today the Irish Examiner published my piece about the hellscape of platform manipulation and spam that is the modern web. In it, I highlighted that such actions materially benefit Twitter. Now, for the first time in 14 years, I've been suspended by Twitter. For "platform manipulation and spam".

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"Quietly and with little fanfare, the idea of building new publicly owned housing for people across the income spectrum has advanced...not the kind of public housing most Americans are familiar with: It has a sleek fitness center, multiple gathering spaces, and a...pool" www.vox.com/policy/2024/...

What if public housing were for everyone?www.vox.com Local governments are trying a new way to address the housing crisis.

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I recently learned that in Norway, when someone asks "how's it going", the standard answer is "up and not crying" and we should adopt this asap

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Reminder to new users here: The Books Unbanned initiative, which provides teens and young adults across the US with eBook access, now involves Seattle Public Library, Boston Public Library, Los Angeles County Library, San Diego Public Library & Brooklyn Public Library.

Reminder to new users here: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey...stuff.

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Literally, like, literally (The Haldeman guy here is Musk's grandfather)

You would have a more accurate idea about Elon Musk's politics if the only fact you knew about him was that his grandfather was a chiropractor who chose to move from Canada to Apartheid South Africa than by reading every glossy magazine fluff profile of him ever written

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We are officially open to the world! Bye bye invites 👋 techcrunch.com/2024/02/06/b...

Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Bluesky looks and functions like Twitter at the outset, but the platform stands out because of what lies under the hood.

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the collapse of google search as a useful source of accurate information is a boon to screenwriters everywhere. "why didn't they just google the house to see if it was haunted" they did and the top ten entries were identical automatically generated real estate ads on different seo-scumming websites

With a referendum in Ireland on the ‘women in the home’ clause in our constitution due later this year, I’m going to share my thread from the other place which shows the contemporary opposition to this, as well as the attitudes of those in favour. www.nwci.ie/index.php/le...

National Women’s Council welcomes referendum on the family, family care and ‘women in the home��...www.nwci.ie NWC to consult with members on proposed wording on ‘family care’