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How St. Louis became known as 'Mound City' despite settlers razing those monuments

1 year 10 months ago
Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville hosts about 350,000 visitors each year. Much less well-known are the sites where 27 monuments once stood in St. Louis. The mounds, carefully constructed and engineered by Indigenous people between 800-1350 CE, were destroyed by white settlers to make way for urban development during the 19th century. In her new book “Mound City,” historian Patricia Cleary details the history of those mounds, the strange paradox of local settlers claiming the moniker of “Mound City” while destroying them, and their contribution to the cultural identity of St. Louisans and Americans across the country today.

Meta Moves To More Directly Connect To ActivityPub, But Is It Really Open?

1 year 10 months ago
Meta is actually making moves to live up to its promise to integrate Threads into the open ActivityPub standard used by a variety of “fediverse” platforms such as Mastodon and Pixelfed. It’s a fundamental boost to the concept of protocols over platforms, but it’s still not entirely clear how “open” Meta is really going to […]
Mike Masnick

The Supreme Court hobbled the power of the SEC today. But what about everyone else?

1 year 10 months ago
The Supreme Court has decided to leave their two biggest cases for the last day of the term. Apparently they want to drop them Friday morning and then get the hell out of Dodge. I'm not quite sure what that means. But in the category of big-but-not-world-shaking decisions, today they published their opinion in Securities ...continue reading "The Supreme Court hobbled the power of the SEC today. But what about everyone else?"
Kevin Drum