Wanderthread Redux (Part 1)

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Some debate happening recently on Black Twitter re: the boundaries of Blackness.

Thread:

Incidentally, Indigenous Australians often use “Blak” instead of “Black” as a means of highlighting both their commonality and difference from other parts of the Black world.

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A pair of snippets from Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley that might be of interest to old Boingers.

Whole Earth Catalogue:

Wired:

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“Solve”.

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For a couple of years now, I’ve been intermittently and unsuccessfully trying to discover who was the original source of the “speaking truth to power” meme.

Apparently it was this guy:

…who I already knew of, because he wrote this:

Good excerpt here:

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

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