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On a related noted, a friend Dr. Brett Derbes in History is currently compiling his graduate work into a book about prison labor, methods, and output in the Antebellum South and during the Civil War. Some of the things he shared with me in the process have been hard to stomach.

Would it be legally possible in the US circa 2022 and beyond to run a "silent prison" where no talking was allowed among inmates sun up to sun down & when working? That was actually part of a movement in prison management.

I just shake my head and hope for more efforts to rehabilitation and social acceptance such as the FL citizen result indicating a majority would like to restore voting rights to Felons in this modern world. Times can change!

Easily my favorite essay of the year. Unique, informative and casual in the way sitting around a table listening to an engaging guest tell tales and the visualization works immediately. Count me among the fans of this piece and author.

You do if you build it yourself! Hack the planet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8McUViPbh6M

P.S. just look at the new Koenigsegg electric motor. So much potential.

Hitting a college campus with a legitimately high speed OC level connection, a lax-internal network for connected machines, meant Napster and game servers went nuts on my campus turn of the 2000.

I still have a folder of miscellaneous files obtained from Napster by simply searching "remix" every few days. Yes, the quality is very hit or miss, but many I've never come across again, even in years of clubbing, videos online, etc. For example, this wound up in my collection:

https://www.discogs.com/Stina-Nordenstam-People-Are-Strange/...