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    The leading AI models are now very good historians

    https://resobscura.substack.com/p/the-leading-ai-models-are-now-very The leading AI models are now very good historians Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean Benjamin Breen Jan 22, 2025 This is a post I began writing last year, but several things got...
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    The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development - An Empirical Investigation by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson

    https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.91.5.1369 American Economic Review ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online) About the AER Editors Editorial Policy Annual Report of the Editor Editorial Process: Discussions with the...
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    African Gives Fellow African a Much-Needed Black History Lesson

    7,658 views Jan 3, 2025 In this powerful video, an African man speaks directly to his fellow Africans, shedding light on the historical and ongoing oppression faced by Black Americans in the United States. From slavery to systemic racism, he explores the struggles, resilience, and triumphs of...
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    Garifuna Cultural Introduction

    @Sleepy Floyd @Belize King IDK if there are others....
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    Who's going to be Trump’s successor?

    Donald Trump is going to be 82 when he's supposed to (but not guaranteed) leave the presidency. He changed the Republican Party forever and there's no one that could really replicate his aura. Will the Republican Party collapse due to in-fighting that comes with a power vacuum? One of his kids...
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    In 1906, four men tried to build an upscale Black suburb near DC. White residents & developers shut it down before they could even fully start.

    https://www.whatimreading.net/p/maryland-belmont-black-suburb-historical-marker Maryland finally honors the Black suburb shut down by white developers In 1906, four men tried to build an upscale Black suburb. White residents and developers shut them down before they could even start. Phil...
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    40% of the world's population was white in 1900. Now they make up 15% and will make 8% in 2050

    :wow: https://www.theworldcounts.com/populations/continents/europe https://www.statista.com/statistics/1416454/united-states-population-ethnicity-1900/#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20had%20a,nine%20million%20people%20were%20Black...
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    Paramount Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years

    https://www.showbiz411.com/2024/06/25/paramount-shuts-down-mtv-website-wipes-history-after-20-plus-years Paramount Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years June 25, 2024 12:36 am By Roger Friedman Share MTV.com is gone. Kaput. Wiped off...
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    Is Allen Iverson The Most Popular, Influential Player To Never Win A Title In Sports History?

    Over the past four years I've been noticing a lot of people have been giving Iverson his flowers. Which is nice to see since a lot of young Generation Z brehs be slandering Iverson and his contributions to the game. I swear back in the day Iverson was like the damn President in my elementary...
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    154 history professors dropped a list of the greatest US presidents. Obama is no. 7 and Biden is no. 14

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Presidents/s/Hh3chmgs1G
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    Can someone explain population growth to me? How did Black Americans grow from 700k in 1790 to 48 million in 2024?

    I apologize if I offend anyone with this since I'm kind of drunk but how can a small number of people grow into nearly 50 million strong? As far as I know, the United States stopped importing African slaves in 1808, and they weren't any large scale Black immigration into the US until the 1960s...
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    Lyndon B. Johnson was the GOAT president for Black people

    Passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 Passed the Voting Rights of 1965 Created Medicaid and Medicare Established Affirmative Action as policy Declared war on poverty and passed the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and Elementary and Higher Education Acts of 1965 Passed the...
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    The early 90s were hell

    The amount of fukkery between 1990 and 1994:picard:
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    Merry Christmas from Nigeria, 1923

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Nigeria/s/jTUdWoyN9M
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    Its Bigger Than Hip Hop (Black American Music History Docuseries)

    :whew: its really mindblowing seeing the genres of music presented in this family tree format. It puts into perspective how much music was born out of FBA culture :wow:
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    The Inconvenient Truth of Taiwan’s First Peoples

    https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/19/taiwan-china-indigenous-peoples-tribes/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921 The Inconvenient Truth of Taiwan’s First Peoples Indigenous groups assert their own claims on a contested island. NOVEMBER 19, 2023, 6:00 AM By Margaret Simons, a principal honorary fellow at...
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    Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has died at 96

    https://www.youtube.com/live/0x7HY5lblMY?si=7AKzrNeJoBAVSncS https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/11/19/politics/rosalynn-carter-mental-health-activist-humanitarian-and-former-first-lady-dies-at/index.html
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    The Black Buffalo Soldiers Who Biked Across the American West

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-black-buffalo-soldiers-who-biked-across-the-american-west-180980246/ The Black Buffalo Soldiers Who Biked Across the American West In 1897, the 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps embarked on a 1,900-mile journey from Montana to Missouri David Kindy...
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    Six Triple Eight: The battalion of black women erased from history

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-66045635 12 hours ago World War Two IMAGE SOURCE,US NATIONAL ARCHIVES Major Charity Adams inspecting the first arrivals to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion By Oprah Flash & Amy Johnston BBC News, West Midlands The story of a...
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