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On this day in 1771, James Somerset escapes slavery, leading to the Somerset v. Stewart decision in Britain that validates his self-liberation and terrifies the slave owners in the colonies who went on to fight for independence as the United States of America.
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![As I said at the outset, my intent with this piece is to light a beacon, send up a signal flair that there exists at least one other who looks out into the world and abhors what they see. I do, to my core, believe that the mass adoption of LLMs and the violence inherent to that mass adoption is not inevitable. [quote begins] So long as there exist those of us who refuse this world of death machines there will be a struggle against the tools and systems that maintain and reproduce that world. So long as that struggle continues nothing is inevitable. [/quote ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cdoz5axt3jacndeh63raarqf/bafkreihmyocqsl5l5f7afdtq7tqhf564wwha657xwubmfkqxffbqd5bvxa)
