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@julesh unpopular opinion, but I think the Prolegomena to Any Future Manifesto is key to understanding some of his later writing, even if it's only a minor work.

Yesterday I told my kids that you can write any number with ones and zeros. They told me this was impossible.

So I showed them the binary number system using the same setup they had used for the base 10 number system. They told me it didn't make any sense and it was impossible.

Then I drew a picture of me and them separated by a river. I wanted to communicate numbers to them across the river and all I had was a box with light bulbs mounted on it. After two examples (of communicating their ages), they completely understood and started working out how I could send other numbers.

#math #kids

@mekkaokereke okay thanks

But do you disagree specifically with historians that she supported and fought for the vote for both Black women and white women?

I understand you think she's a bad person, and I know there have been a lot of articles recently focusing on the conflict. That's I think a good debate about judgment and the things we should value.

But it kind of sounds like you believe she only supported the vote for white women or only fought for their right to vote, which is an empirical claim I haven't seen anybody make yet.

@mekkaokereke I'm sure you know this, but the standard history is that Susan B Anthony was a lifelong abolitionist and supporter of Black rights including universal suffrage. Are you saying that story is incorrect in important ways?

At least in the standard telling, there was a struggle within AERA where one group decided that strategically they couldn't get both Black suffrage and female suffrage and they asked the feminists to stand down while they worked exclusively for the Black male vote.

From Wikipedia

> After the Kansas campaign, the AERA increasingly divided into two wings, both advocating universal suffrage but with different approaches. One wing, whose leading figure was Lucy Stone, was willing for black men to achieve suffrage first and wanted to maintain close ties with the Republican Party and the abolitionist movement. The other, whose leading figures were [Susan B.] Anthony and Stanton, insisted that *women and black men should be enfranchised at the same time* and worked toward a politically independent women's movement that would no longer be dependent on abolitionists.

(emphasis mine)

Is this wrong? Thanks

I agree that in general there is a history of white supremacy in various feminist movements.

@michaelenger @phiofx a fork of Firefox is the only plausible solution IMO since they have a battle-tested browser.

Someone should convince the Rust community to revive the Servo project

@clacke ADHD and ASD are closer than a lot of people realize. For example here's an accessible write-up on some of the genetics research

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-reveal-new-insight-into-the-genetic-causes-of-autism-and-adhd/