"[in Poland & Hungary] populist parties have always relied on farmers, and they haven’t done much for farmers at all in the last couple of years,” said Scott Reynolds Nelson, a historian at the University of Georgia...'Suddenly they’re trying to do something quick to get farmers on their side, and a very simple thing to do is to threaten to cut off' Ukrainian grain." https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/20/ukraine-grain-europe-eu-import-ban-poland-hungary/
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Dad, historian, tireless layabout. wrote: Steel Drivin' Man, Nation of Deadbeats, Iron Confederacies, & OCEANS OF GRAIN
Garibaldi’s Homeopathic BikeI'm worried about crime, so I asked a friend from Texas what I needed to defend my home. He said a 9mm, a couple of clips, and a box of shells. I put it together pretty quickly. Still not sure how it's supposed to work, though...
Adi RobertsonIt’s very funny to me that the dominant Twentieth Century conception of AI was a slightly awkward nerd with an inhuman mastery of facts and logic, when what we actually got is smooth-talking bullshit artists who can’t do eighth-grade math.
A less famous painting by Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780):
#JohnMastodon watching twitter explode
Joshua WoodGood summary/analysis of recent events at Twitter by John Gruber
https://daringfireball.net/2022/12/i_wish_i_could_tell_you_this_is_not_all_about_twitter
Paul FordIf it behooves you, instead of thinking any more about Twitter—hit us with some PDFs, some incomprehensible sociology, a fact about your town, some poetry no one cares about, political theory that will never land, obscure social history, climate links, math things, some tech so obscure 20 people use it. We want your inner noise. Just push the gas on your own ephemeralism and launch us into the future.
Uncle Duke 
ProPublicaA partial list of our reporters you can follow on Masto:
•Caroline Chen @carolinechen
•Annie Waldman @AnnieWaldman
•Perla Trevizo @Perla_Trevizo
•Jeremy Schwartz @JeremySchwartz
•Emily Hopkins @emilyhopkins
•Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong
•Mariam Elba @mariamelba
•Jessica Lussenhop @lussenpop
•Ellis Simani @emsimani
•Justin Elliott @elliottjustin
•Max Blau @maxblau
•Andy Kroll @andykroll
•Kartikay Mehrotra @kartikay
•Jeremy Kohler @jeremykohler
•Neil Bedi @neilbedi
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Pamela Merritt@Nelsonhist Yes! Such an amazing writer.