Historian & author of seven books on US history including WHY THE NEW DEAL MATTERS and WINTER WAR: HOOVER, ROOSEVELT, AND THE FIRST CLASH OVER THE NEW DEAL. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird. http://ericrauchway.com pfp by Daniel Mackie
Just want to drop this bit of nativist paranoia about Italians here. Check out the labels.
Kevin M. KruseIn recent weeks, congressmen like Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) have leveled racist attacks against immigrant communities in their districts. As I note in CAMPAIGN TRAILS, a century ago those same racist attacks were being made against people named Emmer and Rulli.
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Dare Obasanjo“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
For clarity in journalism, the go-to identifier should be "Elon Musk, centibillionaire tech CEO and leading far right agitator."
Greg SargentAdding to @jamellebouie.net: We think Musk's "zero died" claim is perfectly consistent with and even reinforces his messaging to the global fascist movement. It's a form of far right coding that simply denies the humanity of all impacted by ethnic cleansing policy: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
Adding to @jamellebouie.net: We think Musk's "zero died" claim is perfectly consistent with and even reinforces his messaging to the global fascist movement. It's a form of far right coding that simply denies the humanity of all impacted by ethnic cleansing policy: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
<sound of hundreds of historians riffling through their notes to find pithy quotations about the last time China armed a US opponent>
Carl Quintanilla(Reuters) - Iran is expected to receive within weeks a first shipment out of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired-air-defence missle launchers, three sources familiar with the deal told Reuters .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/china/...
as @dsquareddigest.bsky.social said, "Good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public acceptance"
Dr. Erika Graham-Goering'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'
I could even go for, as a factual statement, that he's a prominent public intellectual. The second assertion is less defensible and the third utterly indefensible.
Jacob T. Levy' "Ross is one of the preeminent public intellectuals in America today, a thinker of uncommon rigor and a journalist of deep empathy," Bilton said. ' So those are words that have happened. www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minu...
“Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project”
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?www.nytimes.com
