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Three on the tree. Operator-assisted calls. Acoustic couplers. Betamax vs VHS. Compuserve vs America Online.Three on the tree. Operator-assisted calls. Acoustic couplers. Betamax vs VHS. Compuserve vs America Online.

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Until the call-ins, yeah…Until the call-ins, yeah…

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Reading an interesting dissertation on the evolution of corporate personhood in US law. 'Corporations are people too.' We all have an intuitive sense that the legal fiction here can be problematic in its implications. knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3479?...

The American Frankenstein by Frank Bellow (1873), "When Frankenstein Beheld the Hideous Monster He Had Created He Started with Terror and Disgust."
One major fallacy underlying contemporary scholarship on corporate personhood is the assumption that legal “person” meant the same in 1800 that it does today. This scholarship takes for granted that to be a legal “person” means that one is rights-bearing – and that these rights
include constitutional rights. Yet in the first half of the nineteenth century, rights, particularly constitutional rights, were not inherent to legal personhood. Rather, whole categories of legallyrecognized “persons” existed in American law whose rights were circumscribed by their status.5 During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the understanding of rights and legal personhood underwent a profound shift. Proponents of emancipation and equal rights for black Americans
argued that to be a “free” person meant that one possessed certain “fundamental” or “inalienable” rights to life, liberty, due process, and equal protection under the law, a belief that Reconstruction Era Republicans inscribed ...
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Looking forward to the sequel, in which a constitutional scholar and a guy arrested at the Capitol riot debate democracy.

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Janeway. I grew up on TNG, TOS,& VOY, but the strong women characters on Voyager changed my life as a kid. I don’t know if I’d be in Congress if that show wasn’t on TV. My dad was a huge Star Trek/Roddenberry fan & always talked about its social & political history. I could go on forever about ST 🪐

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Imperialist!Imperialist!

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Putting on body armor, gas mask, and combat boots to arrest a creative writing professor whose diet is mostly hemp

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People who skew center right on my FB feed are all clutching their pearls like it’s an Olympic sport over student protests, so I posted this.

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@jlundell.bsky.social
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