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We initially set out to write a
David-vs.-Goliath narrative
about the town’s response to the
COVID crisis.
But there came a turning point
at which we realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany than COVID-19.
They were about #race and #power.
In the week…

I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 46404 nodes and 643319 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Russia’s December oil and gas revenue set to drop to lowest level since 2020, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/14/russias-december-oil-and-gas.html

The US CFTC withdraws its 2020 guidance on the "actual delivery" of a digital asset, aiming to support broader access to regulated crypto markets (Micah Zimmerman/Bitcoin Magazine)
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/cftc-scraps-overly-complex-crypto-rul…

CFTC Cuts ‘Outdated And Overly Complex’ Crypto Guidance
The CFTC is withdrawing outdated crypto delivery guidance, paving the way for updated rules amid expanding oversight.

Mars 2020 Entry Descent Landing
A 3D animation in real time on your web browser from NASA's Mars exploration in 2020.
🌌 #nasa

7 years ago, I got a room full of people in Sheffield to sing the red flag, o tannenbaum and o christmas tree simultaneously, while I played with the chords in @… (they all have the same tune)
More info here:

from my link log —
SELECT WAT FROM SQL;
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/select-wat-from-sql/
saved 2020-04-17 https://

"Converting debts into income streams for third parties is the true basis of the finance industry. It's the means by which socially useless intermediaries extract ever-mounting rents from the productive economy" -- @…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 13.11.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind …

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/pipe-bomb-suspect-told-fbi-believed-2020-election-conspiracy-theories-rcna247544
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p35#a251205p35

Browns fire head coach Kevin Stefanski after 6 seasons https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6812748/2026/01/05/browns-fire-kevin-stefanski-nfl/

As one might expect El Cheato appointed judges rule in favor of trump far more often than do judges appointed by prior presidents.
But the amount of that imbalance is beyond astounding.
From the NY Times:
"Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor"
Which causes me to repeat my suggestions, from year 2020, about how we can remove power from those judges by using a technique well practiced elsewhere - redefining jobs and "rubb…

Pinterest agrees to acquire tvScientific, a CTV ad platform that automates and optimizes ad buying; tvScientific was founded in 2020 and has raised ~$60M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/exclusive-pinterest-to-acquire-ctv-ad-co…

Exclusive: Pinterest to acquire CTV ad company tvScientific
It's Pinterest's first acquisition since 2022.

Cat Flowbee! @… https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115839544124655751

"Robert L. Glass wrote a book in 1998 called “Software 2020”, currently rated with only one star… by the author himself. In his review (written in 2017) he justifies this abysmal record because of a simple observation: none of the predictions in the book turned out to become a reality."
https://deprogrammaticai…

Robert L. Glass
Robert L. Glass wrote a book in 1998 called "Software 2020", currently rated with only one star… by the author himself. In his review (written in 2017) he justifies this abysmal record because of a simple observation: none of the predictions in the book turned out to become a reality.

Trump Misleads on Deportations and Inflation in First ‘60 Minutes’ Interview Since 2020 https://ground.news/article/trumps-60-minutes-interview-was-a-master-class-in-negotiation

Aaron Rodgers achieves Pittsburgh's 'vision', bringing Steelers first division title since 2020 https://www.nfl.com/news/aaron-rodgers-achieves-pittsburgh-s-vision-bringing-steelers-first-division-title-since-2020

Browns fire head coach Kevin Stefanski following six seasons in Cleveland https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-fire-head-coach-kevin-stefanski-following-six-seasons-in-cleveland

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Della Reese:
🎵 Come On, A My House
#NowPlaying #DellaReese
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

from my link log —
libcpu: a library to emulate several CPU architectures using LLVM.
https://github.com/libcpu/libcpu
saved 2020-04-14 https://dotat.a…

GitHub - libcpu/libcpu: "libcpu" is an open source library that emulates several CPU architectures
"libcpu" is an open source library that emulates several CPU architectures - libcpu/libcpu

from my link log —
Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?
https://www.fastly.com/blog/quic-handshake-tls-compression-certificates-extension-study
saved 2020-05-19

Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast? | Fastly
QUIC promises a built-in, low-latency handshake. But can it achieve its promise alone? Let’s look at the value of handshake compression in helping QUIC achieve fast startup performance.