📣 New Podcast! "28 December 1962: SF dockers boycott apartheid cargo" on @Spreaker #apartheid #california #history
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/28-december-1962-sf-dockers-boycott-apartheid-cargo--68813168
How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014)
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/how-we-found-out-about-cointelpro/
#HackerNews #COINTELPRO #Exposure #History #CivilLiberties #Activism #2014
Dane 🇮🇪🏴☠️🖖⚛️☮️☸️🕉️
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#introduction I am new here. My brother @jaforbes tells me it is customary to do an opening post of things I find interesting or likely to discuss in the future. Here is my list: #democracy #ai #eng #engineering #osint #geopol #math #mathematics #humanrights #compsci #history #philosophy #space #australia #japan #bluemountains #science #tech #anu #unsw #uts #physics #uai #agi #nafo #peace #ukraine #taiwan #photography #tdd #andor. I have friends everywhere. I hope that you'll join me.
#introduction I am new here. My brother @jaforbes tells me it is customary to do an opening post of things I find interesting or likely to discuss in the future. Here is my list: #democracy #ai #eng #engineering #osint #geopol #math #mathematics #humanrights #compsci #history #philosophy #space #australia #japan #bluemountains #science #tech #anu #unsw #uts #physics #uai #agi #nafo #peace #ukraine #taiwan #photography #tdd #andor. I have friends everywhere. I hope that you'll join me.
📣 New Podcast! "27 December 1831: Christmas rebellion escalates" on @Spreaker #christmas #history #jamaica
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/27-december-1831-christmas-rebellion-escalates--68813164
@ai6yr yeah, and you really don't want to stop for dinner up there because you might end up being dinner.
@carlmalamud @ai6yr
Brings to mind the best kids’ book on the Donner Party
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party 💀 🍽️
https://blackhillsparks.org/shop/park-stores/scotts-bluff-national-monument/nathan-hales-hazardous-tales-donner-dinner-party/
#comics #history #ya
Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian's Wall
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/study-roman-soldiers-battled-parasites-at-hadrians-wall/
#HackerNews #Parasites #Roman #Soldiers #Hadrians #Wall #History #Science
Lewis Carroll Computed Determinants
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/07/10/lewis-carroll-determinants/
#HackerNews #LewisCarroll #Determinants #Math #History #Computation #HackerNews
The Hidden Battle that Saved Ukraine by William Spaniel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh9xT9d6SJU
Chip Butty
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"In 1958 [Daphne Oram, "visionary pioneer in electronic music"] co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a studio set up to create sound effects and electronic scores for radio and TV. On the wall she pinned a passage from Francis Bacon’s 17th-century utopia New Atlantis about imaginary sound-houses where scientists manipulate echoes, invent new instruments and transmit sound “in strange lines and distances”."
What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? (1985)
https://www.straightdope.com/21341789/what-happened-to-all-the-gold-spain-got-from-the-new-world
#HackerNews #gold #history #Spain #NewWorld #treasure #exploration
Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/james-baldwin-joan-didion-92ny-recordings.html
#HackerNews #JoanDidion #KurtVonnegut #Literature #History #Tapes
"In 1958 [Daphne Oram, "visionary pioneer in electronic music"] co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a studio set up to create sound effects and electronic scores for radio and TV. On the wall she pinned a passage from Francis Bacon’s 17th-century utopia New Atlantis about imaginary sound-houses where scientists manipulate echoes, invent new instruments and transmit sound “in strange lines and distances”."
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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Sam Wilson
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Not a deep dive, but interesting glance at non-university-based history data sets:
‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research
Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestors
Not a deep dive, but interesting glance at non-university-based history data sets:
‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research
Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestors
📣 New Podcast! "26 December 1904: Baku strike" on @Spreaker #azerbaijan #baku #history
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/26-december-1904-baku-strike--68813161