I've been carrying this book, by @andreapitzer.bsky.social, around with me as I think there's no better explanation of the current moment we're in here in the US It traces the history of concentration camps, started by the Spanish in Cuba in the 1890s followed quickly by the US in the Philippines

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Good list of good folks!

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Alt: a full page of text with an m-dash is judged likely AI at 99% confidence. Then the exact same page is run through the exact same scorer with a single change: the m-dash replaced by a colon. This is judged human-written at 97% confidence. AI detectors are as bullshit as “generative” AI.

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a perplexing number of authors appear to operate under the assumption that two names being cognate means the deities necessarily evolved from each other; but surely a root could serve independently as a basis for a theonym in different languages at different points in time...

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This is what they've done.

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