James Joyce was famously banned / #blocked #banned in USA. So this woman in year 2026 goes around banning USA people who discuss James Joyce? Is that the Irish mindset?
https://crimereads.com/banned-books-ulysses-joyce-morris-ernst/
In the early 1930s, James Joyce’s Ulysses was the most notorious banned book in the United States. Using a stream-of-consciousness style to describe twenty-four hours in the life of a lower-middle …
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: Bebelplatz, Berlin.
This memorial marks the site of the Nazi's book burning, May 1933.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/book-burning
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"They think that God is a tiny, little conservative being who would point guns at people's heads just for going to school." - July 12, 2013. ملاله یوسفزۍ
This is little different that Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451: destroying millions of books to create Claude, who helps people to stop thinking for themselves.
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Benj Edwards: #Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its #AI models: Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”
#books #bookburning #Google #Fahrenheit451 #dystopia #chatbots
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/
Today in Labor History January 30, 1933: German President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor. Almost immediately, Hitler began his attacks on labor, with his Sturmabteilung (paramilitary) raiding and burning union offices and assassinating labor leaders, while the police looked on. In May, 1933, he created the German Labor Front, a fascist labor organization to replace the gutted unions. They sent many of the labor leaders to concentration camps and abolished collective bargaining and union elections. Also in May, 1933, the Nazis also attacked and destroyed the Institute for Sexual Sciences, home to the world’s first trans medical clinic, which performed the world’s first sexual reassignment surgeries, for Karl Meir Baer, in 1906, and Lili Elbe, in 1930-1931.
Whether or not you think the comparison of Trump’s United States with Nazi Germany is a valid one, both came after trans people almost from day 1. And Project 2025 very directly targets unions and labor activism. So, if your workplace isn’t already organized, it’s past time to get started.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascsim #hitler #union #concentrationcamps #assassination #police #collectivebargaining #lgbtq #trans #transrightsarehumanrights #homophobia #transphobia #censorship #bookburning #bookban #freespeech #trump #project2025
A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In the democracies of the world, the passion for freedom of speech and of thought is always accentuated when there is an effort anywhere to keep ideas away from people and to prevent them from making their own decisions. One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education and thus make it impossible for them to understand what is going on in the world as a whole. […] The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-05-11), “My Day”
More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…
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In the democracies of the world, the passion for freedom of speech and of thought is always accentuated when there is an effort anywhere to keep ideas away from people and to prevent them from making their own decisions. One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to…
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