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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time SMH my head⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eighty years since the first Moscow Trial

  When the first Moscow Trial began, Trotsky was under virtual house arrest in Norway. Under pressure from the Soviet Union, the Norwegian Labor Party was attempting to muzzle Trotsky and prevent him from answering the slanders of the trial. A new voice soon emerged, however; Lev Sedov, Trotsky’s son, published in the Bulletin of the Opposition what was to become The Red Book on the Moscow Trial. Sedov meticulously examined the details of the trial and exposed them as a fraudulent attack on genuine revolutionaries.

  By April 1937, Trotsky had organized a counter-trial in the form of the Dewey Commission in Mexico, where Trotsky was now located after expulsion from Norway. The voluminous refutation of the first two Moscow show trials (a second occurred in January 1937) is presented in the book Not Guilty. The two concluding points state: (22) “We therefore find the Moscow trials to be frame-ups. (23) We therefore find Trotsky and Sedov not guilty.”

  In carrying out these trials, Joseph Stalin was launching an assault on the legacy and the actual leaders of the first successful socialist revolution. As the Bonapartist leader of an increasingly counterrevolutionary social layer, the Soviet bureaucracy, it was not enough for Stalin to expel these Old Bolsheviks from the party and persecute them with exile or imprisonment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t seem to be the case. As far as I can tell, the law only covers realistic digital imitations of a person’s likeness (deepfakes), with an exception for parody and satire. If you appear in public that is effectively license for someone to capture your image.

• No machine (or person) can replace the exercise of thinking for yourself.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love learning to play new songs. What starts as some dots on a page becomes a dance in my hands as the music comes to life.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Music as magic is a wonderful motif! I saw an image post circulate that suggested using photos of orchestra conductors as visual reference for drawing spellcasters. The image spoke for itself: the degree of focused intensity and direction in their posture fits the concept perfectly.

  I never really felt like the “creative” type; that was always my dad and my brother. I’ve always been more interested in the “analytical” minded subject: mathematics, natural sciences, computer programming and logic.

  Ironically, my journey in music really began after I chose to cut contact with my dad, arguably the biggest musical influence in my life beginning from early childhood. I take this as spiritual validation that I made the correct choice leaving behind his narcissistic bullying and abuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love learning to play new songs. What starts as some dots on a page becomes a dance in my hands as the music comes to life.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I play a mandolin. It’s neat that it is tuned the same as a violin, because that makes the very expansive repertoire music arranged for that instrument available to me as well. I’ve been learning mainly folk music, but I may dabble in classical more as I continue.

• I love learning to play new songs. What starts as some dots on a page becomes a dance in my hands as the music comes to life.
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