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After last week's book that I wanted nothing so much as to disintegrate, I'm really enjoying this week's reading. I'd like more political economy/history of capitalism - ahem, colonial economism - like this please. @…

Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism - Aaron G. Jakes
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt's emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt's Occupation tells for the first time the story of that financial expansion and the devastating crises that fo…

Wow, what a historical treat! While walking through midtown Manhattan today, I found this revolutionary era #ulock. After the Sons of Liberty toppled the statue of George III in Bowling Green, they raced uptown on their fixies. One of them must have locked up here. Truly amazing. #BikeTooter

Good Morning #Canada
Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo, from London Ontario, was a Canadian bandleader, violinist, and hydroplane racer! Lombardo formed the Royal Canadians in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert and Victor, and other musicians from his hometown. Over 5 decades the Lombardos are believed to have sold approximately 300 million records. But their biggest hit was recorded on …

Guy Lombardo made Auld Lang Syne a tradition
Sometimes in history great forces come together in such a memorable way that they can never be forgotten.

Swedish Beams -- The Story of Particle Accelerators in Sweden
Volker Ziemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07088 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Swedish Beams -- The Story of Particle Accelerators in Sweden
Even though many of the experiments leading to the standard model of particle physics were done at large accelerator laboratories in the US and at CERN[1] many exciting developments happened in smaller national facilities all over the world. In this report we highlight the history of accelerator facilities in Sweden which was home to the highest-energy cyclotron in Europe for some time in the early 1950s. [1] For a brief history of this story see: V. Ziemann, Beams -- the Story of Particle Ac…

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enjoyed this review/essay about "going underground," a recent literary/political history of the term #underground, & excited to (eventually) read the book itself. https://www.public…

Subterranean Worlds and Liberatory Futures - Public Books
The metaphor of the underground as political is rooted in the spatial undergrounds of nineteenth-century America.

Imagine it's 1999 and Polaroid is trying to upsell you on gendered photo editing software

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Attached: 1 image Police snipers made an appearance today atop the Indiana Memorial Union on Indiana University's campus. Students on IU's campus have setup a Liberation Zone protest and demand their university divest from Israel inline with BDS. They also make specific mention of a local miltary partnership with Crane Naval Base which has a key roll in supplying large munitions to Israel. 📸 TW: @BenSharpie64 https://linktr.ee/iudivestnow #IU #IUDivest #Indiana #Bloomington #FreePalest…