Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was born on August 30, 1948 and raised in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, Illinois. In high school he excelled in academics and athletics. After Hampton graduated from high school, he enrolled in a pre-law program at Triton Junior College in River Grove, Illinois. Hampton also became involved in the civil rights movement, joining his local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His dynamic leadership and organizational skills in the branch enabled him to rise to the position of Youth Council President. Hampton mobilized a racially integrated group of five hundred young people who successfully lobbied city officials to create better academic services and recreational facilities for African American children.
In 1968, Hampton joined the Black Panther Party (BPP), headquartered in Oakland, California. Using his NAACP experience, he soon headed the Chicago chapter. During his brief BPP tenure, Hampton formed a “Rainbow Coalition” which included Students for a Democratic Society, the Blackstone Rangers, a street gang and the National Young Lords, a Puerto Rican organization. Hampton was also successful in negotiating a gang truce on local television.
In an effort to neutralize the Chicago BPP, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago Police Department placed the chapter under heavy surveillance and conducted several harassment campaigns. In 1969, several BPP members and police officers were either injured or killed in shootouts, and over one hundred local members of the BPP were arrested.
During an early morning police raid of the BPP headquarters at 2337 W. Monroe Street on December 4, 1969, twelve officers opened fire, killing the 21-year-old Hampton and Peoria, Illinois Panther leader Mark Clark. Police also seriously wounded four other Panther members. Many in the Chicago African American community were outraged over the raid and what they saw as the unnecessary deaths of Hampton and Clark. Over 5,000 people attended Hampton’s funeral where Reverends Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference eulogized the slain activist. Years later, law enforcement officials admitted wrongdoing in the killing of Hampton and Clark. In 1990, and later in 2004, the Chicago City Council passed resolutions commemorating December 4 as Fred Hampton Day.
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Thing I actually like about reddit vs old bbs: nested replies
It's better than the last-reply ordering of threads and sequential ordering of replies. It allows you to find relevant information faster that would be in the middle of a thread and does not privilege two people arguing in a thread as much.
However, it does mimic a physical space less (let's say a social lounge where people are talking across each other).
Bonus: No or rare signatures. God damn there's a lot of clutter
Bad: private ownership of platform, redditors
Bad for both: why search bad
Experiment idea: A chat system that includes branching replies, but also deletes every message/reply/thread after a day or so (server setting), as well as its attendant reacts etc, but replies will keep floating as new conversations until their 24 hours is up (maybe with an initial topic line, which can be changed). A sort of celebration of the impermanent flowing nature of conversations. (Snapchat Bad, but mostly for corpo reasons, not the conceptual idea of impermanent messages)
artificial digital impermanence is my enemy
threaded replies are pretty cool though
Nah, I think having a perfect record of every conversation you have is psychologically harmful, to say nothing of the security risk of having it all mediated by giant corporations. Not that there shouldn't be permanent accessible information, but the idea that all vaguely transitory conversation should be able to be able to be shoved in your face 5 years from now is... idk, I haven't seen particularly positive uses for it except in spousal abuse cases.
Hence, I think it's worth an experiment at least
Edit: I feel like I've explained things very poorly here.
I do not think whatever this system is is a replacement for all digital communication. I don't know why anyone would think I suggested that.
I do not think it would be desirable in all situations. For instance sharing information or technical data, which it feels like is increasingly migrating to discords instead of community run wikis, to say nothing of stack exchange memes. I don't know why anyone would think I suggested that.
What it's intended to replicate is the impermanence of an in person conversation. You're hanging out in a living room doing drugs or whatever, you'd feel pretty weird if someone started recording the conversation. What You have, what most people have, is the memory of the vibes of the conversation.
I don't even know if it has legs, just that I think the format is worth an experiment. It functionally exists in linear form on any irc server that doesn't back up logs.
This is a slap in the face to people searching for answers to obscure tech support questions
What