Dear reader,

Michael Parenti died two days ago and I had not seen much Lemmy coverage of this loss. As a larger community, Lemmings tend to share a worldview that seeks awareness of less discussed ailments in history (at least those of us raised in cultures where the subjects are taboo and education precludes questioning). For some Lemmings, like myself, I lack the prior context for many of the more left leaning and anti-imperialist thinking - I found Parenti to have been my intro into this area. For folks inrerested in these, and many more topics, I would highly recommend folks unware of Michael Parenti to take a look into his enormous lifetime of work. His careful discussions on what has made the imperial order of the West so crushing to entire ideas, peoples, and countries was so helpful for me to understand some of what I was missing. For the unitiated I enjoyed starting with Blackshirts and Reds and the much beloved Yellow Parenti Lectures.

I just found a lofi bg version and now I must share it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ng4BMf-_FSQ

This may be more an ask than anything. To all the data nerds, or those that know them, in the public sector in the US: If you or those you know are working with large public datasets, please consider taking the steps necessary to ensure that data is not lost to the world. Between many institutional organizations local and abroad down to the many selfhosters out there, there are many places this data can continue to live, thrive, and serve the public that has not only paid for it to exist, but benefitted from its use. My mind immediately goes to all those scentific datasets necessary for helping analyze the state of our planet. Of these there are an incredible amount online only because of federal funding. The stakeholders are too great to count, but they are critical not only to the US but all those with access to do so. I can not fathom how much work and research has been made possible. I know this to be true of so much public data. Others may know more of specific needs and methods of preservation. This is a kind of book burning in an abstract sense that would be unrecoverable, too costly, or immensely difficult to restore. The hard work of the collectors, maintainers, and contributors should not be lost due to gross negligence and malevolence.

"And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;" John 2:15

John's account of praxis

Was this the moment we "jumped timelines"?

Coin values aside... in 2024: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSgRzCAtXA | sed 's/Revolutionaries/Reactionaries/'