bensmoif

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by bensmoif 18d ago
Big up Edward Tufte
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by bensmoif 2mo ago
It's stunning. The video speaks for itself. Please scale this up, like way up back of a truckbed size. This would be delightful to see spinning and running IRL. Then get a grant and make one as wide as a city street
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by bensmoif 2mo ago
1000%
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by bensmoif 2mo ago
Brother, no he did not liberate a single one of his own slaves. Some escaped and he did not pursue, but his final slave died under Benjamin Franklin's enslavement 9 years before Franklin himself died. Them facts you were looking for:
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by bensmoif 2mo ago
I'll accept your conceit but answer this: why didn't he liberate his slaves? If it's a wash, why keep humans in slavery at all? I think it's because, in his own calculus, he believed he needed to desecrate human beings,
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by bensmoif 2mo ago
My brother: trolls troll out of cynical cruelty, there are many children's books that can illustrate this clearly. Franklin's ability to speak plainly about the evils of slavery, in between his own acts of unspeakable cruelty, and
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by bensmoif 2mo ago
In this century we have a word for that kind of talk by slaveholders who professed some longing for abolition (Franklin. Jefferson, Washington, John Jay) but did not really wanna be inconvenienced: trolling.
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by bensmoif 2mo ago
I don't think it's irrelevant that a brilliant man like Benjamin Franklin may not have been able to achieve as much as he unmistakably did WITHOUT the heavy assistance of forced slave labor in his life, from cradle to grave. Prete
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by bensmoif 3mo ago
Really interesting, and a link to your GitHub with a "code coming soon". Please get us the tool already!
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by bensmoif 5mo ago
Oh yes to this! I spent yesterday morning working this out when it smacked me in the face
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by bensmoif 9mo ago
The tax is his shares, those shares become public assets, the government and (ostensibly) the citizens finally get a say in what the hell is happening with that guy.
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by bensmoif 9mo ago
The solution is obvious and simple: Tax wealth not work.
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by bensmoif 10mo ago
Following... My audiologist had the big talk with me last week and I guess I'm due to take care of my hearing...
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by bensmoif 2y ago
Please tell a story about the music ya'll chose for this, it's incredible.
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by bensmoif 2y ago
Am I going to be the first to bring up "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"?
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by bensmoif 2y ago
Bought one of these miniature kits years ago and kept it on my desk at work and goddamn is it cool and fun and works great! Really encourage any model machine nerds to get one.
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by bensmoif 2y ago
Many people believe what you're describing is the problem.
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by bensmoif 2y ago
Everyone who cares about the use of technology to conduct warfare, especially the corporate power leveraged to enhance the killing power of the state.
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by bensmoif 2y ago
This is an absolutely unhinged project idea. Great work