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Mildred Fish-Harnack (1902 - 1943)

Tue Sep 16, 1902

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Mildred Elizabeth Fish-Harnack, born on this day in 1902, was an American literary historian, translator, and anti-fascist organizer in Nazi Germany. She was the only American woman executed on direct orders from Adolf Hitler.

Born in the United States, Fish-Harnack moved with her husband Arvid to Germany to continue her studies, eventually ended up at the University of Berlin. During her time there, Fish-Harnack became interested in the Soviet Union and communist thought.

In her lectures, Fish-Harnack encouraged her students to use Karl Marx as a "practical solution to the evils of the present". Amid financial difficulties at Berlin University and the rising Naz

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/42251761

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Archived

Full details, including technical material and download links, are available at the GFW Report. The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments.

[...]

The largest leak linked to the Great Firewall of China surfaced online, with nearly 600 GB of material allegedly containing source code, internal communications, work logs, and technical documentation from groups said to be involved in building and maintaining the system.

The data was leaked by Enlace Hacktivista, previously linked to the Cellebrite data leak. The collective claims t

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I have no idea what to make of this. Who’s pushing this? Certainly not Pooty-Poot’s monkeyboy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35862380

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35835400

After 1620

There’s a big downside for Trump and Republicans blocking the release of Epstein Files like the Senate Republicans just did, again, on Wednesday. There’s how it makes their complicity in covering up for pedophiles really fucking obvious, but also, new details keep on drip-drip-dripping out, keeping the story in the news. And none of the drips make anybody look good. Especially not Jeffrey Epstein’s former best friend, Donald J. Trump!

The latest dump is a tranche of 18,000 barely literate emails Bloomberg News acquired from Epstein’s Yahoo inbox, proving — once again, in case her whole trial and dozens of witnesses saying she participated and perjury charges were not enough— that Ghislaine Maxwell was a liar-liar-pants-on-fire when she said she knew nothing about Jeffrey Epstein’s little-girl rape-trafficking club.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/27357646

A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.

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"These cases will not be bound over to the circuit court," Simmons, a state district court judge, said. "Each case will be dismissed."

Simmons said the Michigan Republicans involved in the effort were trying to seek redress after Trump’s loss and attempted to perform their civic duties.

"The prosecution would like the court to believe that these named defendants were savvy or sophisticated enough to understand fully the electoral process, which the court does disagree because the document that was presented doesn't even align with the level of sophistication that they want me to believe," she said before announcing her decision.

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cross-posted from: https://tucson.social/post/2212969

A 32-year-old man Mexican man died of unknown causes on Sunday after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a private prison in Arizona, authorities confirmed.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35381746

Original 33 Expelled (1868)

Sun Sep 03, 1865

Image: A statue commemorating the Original 33 on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol, titled "Expelled Because of Color" (1973) [Wikipedia]

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On this day in 1868, Georgia state legislators voted to expel all black members of the General Assembly during Southern Reconstruction. A 25 mile march in protest, led by Phillip Joiner, was attacked by a white lynch mob.

The "Original 33" were the first 33 African-American members of the Georgia General Assembly who were elected to office in 1868, during the Reconstruction era. They were among the first black state legislators in the United States. 24 of the members were ministers.

After most of the legislators voted for losing

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”

He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and fin

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1. Most political consultants are not media experts, and overwhelmingly, they do not understand how to build trust with audiences. And unfortunately, the bulk of the well funded Dem media projects are run, not by experienced media entrepreneurs or journalists or influencers who've proven they know what they're doing, but by political consultants and ex political consultants.
2. Because these things are run by political people and not, say people with newsroom experience, they wildly underestimate the importance of transparency in building trust, and wildly overestimate the downside of disclosure.
3. As a function of this, they think media and advertising are the same thing, and that traffic and audience are the same thing. They think of spending and investing in media as a tactical strategy that can be tied to electoral cycles. When my cofounders and I first started talking to people about The Barbed Wire, one of the first questions we got was about what the newsroom would yiel

Wired has a story by Taylor Lorenz about Chorus, which is a Dem backed influencer agency, attempting to recruit influencers with $8000 a month retainers and contracts that stipulate that they not disclose that they're being paid by the group. Taylor has written about Chorus before, and in particular, a disastrous attempt to fly a bunch of influencers to D.C. where they essentially dumped them at the Rayburn building and told them to knock on doors for interviews. (The influencers were not paid for this, and were understandably under the impression that the group would arrange interviews for them. They also had to front the cost of their own travel and submit content in order to be reimbursed.) 

Per today's story: 

Creators told