On this day in 1911, the Japanese government executed twelve anarchists, including radical journalists Kanno Sugako and Kōtoku Shūsui (shown), as part of a widespread crackdown on left-wing activism. Among those executed were Uchiyama Gudō, a Buddhist priest and socialist who spoke out against the Meiji government for its imperialism and advocated for conscripted soldiers to desert en masse.
The pretext for this crackdown was the “High Treason Incident”, a plot to assassinate the Emperor of Japan. The incident began when police searched the room of Miyashita Takichi, a young lumbermill employee, and found materials which could be used to construct bombs, concluding that there was a broader conspiracy to harm the imperial family.
On the basis of this plot, the Japanese government rounded up leftist activists from all over the country. 24 of the 26 defendants actually brought to trial were sentenced to death, despite the evidence against nearly all of them being circumstantial.
Among those executed anarcha-feminist journalist Kanno Sugako (some sources say she was executed on January 25th). At the age of 29, Kanno became the first woman with the status of political prisoner to be executed in the history of modern Japan.
Prior to his execution, Kōtoku Shūsui etched this message on the wall of his cell: “How has it come about that I have committed this grave crime? Today my trial is hidden from outside observers and I have even less liberty than previously to speak about these events. Perhaps in 100 years someone will speak out about them on my behalf.”
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Is clickbait supposed to make me feel like I’m going crazy?
Shit is creepy. Especially the AI stuff. Millions of near identical youtube videos with only slight variations. Hell world. This is hell. Art is dead.
I turned my youtube feed off a long time ago and only go there for specific things I want to see. And they just broke through uBlock on Chrome so idk how much longer I’ll keep using it. : (
It feels like the internet is almost gone. Like there just isn’t anything left
There’s still hexbear <3
Firefox doesn’t have ads still. It also lets you turn off the fyp page with an extension.
I think it starts to have that effect if you think about it too much (which in this context is more than not at all/slightly)
It’s fucking awful and everywhere now
You could try using this browser extension: https://dearrow.ajay.app/
It’s made by the same person who made Sponsorblock. It replaces clickbait Youtube titles and thumbnails with more accurate and descriptive (and less brain-melting) ones. All the replacements are user-submitted so it usually doesn’t fix everything. I try to add to the database if it’s missing stuff.
Thanks comrade
You’re welcome, hope it helps!
It’s not really creepy as much as it’s annoying as fuck. I don’t really see it much on YouTube since I’ve spent years curating the content I get recommended, hut on other social media sites it’s really rampant. Like I’ll see a post with the same wording posted by different pages with the only change being the image used for the post. AI/Bots/Content farms are a fucking plague on the internet.
I genuinely can’t watch selfie cam videos and like, ppl harassing others in public, so I study all that shit sociologically by speaking to fans etc 😶🌫️