One of my friends is a mod of a very large subreddit that went private for the blackout. Last night she received a message saying that she had been stripped of her moderator rights and the subreddit was taken public again. To be very clear, the subreddit members had specifically voted in favor of going private.
It seems like reddit will stoop lower and lower to try and break the blackout. I'm seething.
Some thoughts on how we might situate the current political conflict in the longer-term history of democracy, both from a U.S. as well as from a transatlantic perspective.
What We Are Fighting Over:
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-we-are-fighting-over
On May 6, 1933, Nazi stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) broke into this library, looted the building, killed at least one of the occupants, and hauled the majority of its books outside for a public book burning in the streets of the Opernplatz. Joseph Goebbels gave a speech to 40,000 people about "protecting our nation's children".
The photo has become an icon of Nazi German brutality and fascism. It is shown in school textbooks worldwide above the caption "Nazi book burnings, 1933". It is often published in news stories and social media whenever the subject of banning books arises.
What is not often mentioned in those stories is the SUBJECT of the burned books. The building was the Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The first of its kind, dedicated to studying trans people and trans identities, and performing gender confirming surgery for a number of patients. And the books that were burned were trans histories and trans patient records.
Remember, they came for trans people first.
I think a genie should grant the wish of every "Return to Tradition" guy posting on the internet, and they should all awake tomorrow in the time-period of their choice, in the nation or city they romanticize most from the past.
--as a servant, woman, or indentured laborer.
My girlfriend's kids came over today while I was watching a Japanese show. The following conversation ensued:
Child: "What are you doing?"
me: "Practicing Japanese"
Child: "Why don't I understand any of the words?"
me: "...because it's in Japanese?"
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NASA is launching a mission to say sorry to all the aliens.
They are calling it Apollo G.
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