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Nas' 3rd spring of his career. Insane.
TIL about Edward Brooke, the first black person to be directly elected to the Senate when he was elected in 1966, serving two terms. A liberal Republican, Brooke co-wrote the 1968 Civil Rights Act and was the first Republican Senator to call for Nixon's resignation during Watergate. [source, comments]
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Good Idea: understand how much data was used to train the new LLM AI like ChatGPT or Llama
https://madebyv.in/linllms
Coming out of the Occupy movement, we initiated a dialogue with anarchists who had participated in similar assembly-based movements in Spain, Greece, Bosnia, Slovenia, Brazil, and elsewhere.

Our goal was to identify the ways that the decision-making processes we employed had facilitated or impeded social change, and to formulate an anarchist analysis of democratic discourse and models.

The result was our book, From Democracy to Freedom.

You can download the book here for free, or order a print copy:

https://crimethinc.com/democracy
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TIL that in the 1960s the BBC refused to play popular music for young people, which created the need for off-shore pirate radio stations [source, comments]
TIL that mowing American lawns uses 800 million gallons of gas every year [source, comments]
TIL: The Roman public baths called the Thermae existed in great number and were so popular, senators wishing to become a Tribune would pay all the admission fees for access on his birthday to garner fame. The Thermae also included a gym with weights for lifting and discus for throwing. [source, comments]
If properly applied and if tech giants actually would care, Musk would get banned for spreading this kind of antisemitic and neo-nazi conspiracies on social media. Too bad he owns one of these platforms now.