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Three episodes of our "On Auschwitz" podcast explain the history of development of the Auschwitz system. Listen to head of our Research Center Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz talking about:

🔹 Beginnigs of the Auschwitz concentration camp

https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-1-The-beginnings-of-Auschwitz-e1161cf/a-a5k4gp7

🔹 Construction of Auschwitz II-Birkenau and development of mass extermination in gas chambers

https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-4-Transformation-of-Auschwitz-concentration-camp-into-an-extermination-center-e13bat2

🔹 Auschwitz III-Monowitz

https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-9-Auschwitz-III-Monowitz-camp-e17o9si

#Auschwitz #history #podcast #education #ww2 #Holocaust @histodons

"Out of 100 avatars I generated, 16 were topless, and in another 14 it had put me in extremely skimpy clothes... I have Asian heritage...My white female colleague got significantly fewer sexualized images. Another colleague with Chinese heritage got results similar to mine."

Incredibly important story from Melissa Heikkilä about how the viral AI avatar app Lensa repeatedly undressed her without her consent, and its grotesque fetish for Asian women.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/12/1064751/the-viral-ai-avatar-app-lensa-undressed-me-without-my-consent/

Liao Yiwu: "a female student dressed in black wearing a black mask held up a piece of blank white paper in front of her chest and stood silently before the steps of the Drum Tower at the center of the Nanjing Communication University campus. A cold wind was blowing, but she remained motionless as a statue. After a while, a political counselor ran over and took the blank paper from her hands. A passer-by asked, "Blank paper is no threat. Why take it away?"

The student remained motionless, holding the superfluous "blank paper" in both her hands."

I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"

What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.

ICYMI: Trailblazing Black feminist organizer, advocate, and social entrepreneur (before there was such a thing) Dorothy Pittman Hughes who among her many accomplishments co-founded Ms Magazine has died at age 84. May she Rest in Power with the ancestors #blackmastodon #feminism #progressivepolitics #advocacy https://www.essence.com/culture/dorothy-pitman-hughes-obituary/

1/ DESPICABLE, PREDICTABLE AND INTENTIONAL: CNN. Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, has fled his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon Musk’s campaign of criticism against him, culminating in Melon appearing to endorse a baseless accusation that Roth was sympathetic to paedophilia.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-roth/index.html

The Great Barrington Declaration was not "science," it was a political document.

Its authors never wrote out their plan with specifics and supporting evidence. When asked *in a court of law* to elaborate they could not.

Combatting every single stupid thing these fascists say is how they want you to waste your time. Stop falling for the micro and focus on the macro.

Here is list of #FOSS projects on #mastodon that are worthwhile to follow
- Inkscape;vector drawing; @inkscape
- Openproject;project management; @openproject
- ownCloud;content collaboration; @ownclouders
- Nextcloud;remote collaboration; @nextcloud
- Gimp;image editor; @GIMP
- Thunderbird;communications command center; @thunderbird
- LibreOffice;office suite; @libreoffice
- Joplin;notes and to;do; @joplinapp
- Rocket.Chat;chat app; @RocketChat
- Signal;end;to;end encrypted messaging; @signalapp

Looking for a regional-focused #mastodon instance?

Check out https://masto.town ! (h/t @brendan)

And if you operate a regional instance, do add your server to the list!

#LocalMastodon
#RegionalMastodon

Okay. I took the @jeffjarvis recommendation and turned on the Advanced mode. Recommended.

Don't ever let someone scold you with "you're holding it wrong" when it comes to how you use #Mastodon.

I follow... *checks profile* ...a metric fuckton of people.

Some of those barely follow anyone. Some don't post at all. And some post constantly, narating the story of their lives.

And I'm fine with all of that. I don't mind the volume or the noise. I know how to find the signal now. All I want is to help people make connections.

This is a social network. But what that means is up to you.

French banker Albert Kahn created one of history's most important photo collections before being bankrupted by the Great Depression. https://www.rferl.org/a/color-photos-archive-planet-albert-kahn-history/32166970.html

The Mary Gay House in #DecaturGA has been renamed https://decaturish.com/2022/12/junior-league-of-dekalb-county-officially-unveils-new-name-of-mary-gay-house/

I've always found Elon Musk to be annoying, obnoxious, and awful; now I'm pretty sure he's just straight-up evil (not that there are a whole bunch of non-evil billionaires out there).

What he's doing over on Twitter right now targeting Yoel Roth is just disgusting. Just QAnon/Pizzagate/Satanic Panic shit, and he knows it. I worry this won't end well.