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Bans of and challenges to reading material in K-12 schools have been on the rise since 2021,
when the American Library Association and PEN America noticed a sharp uptick in the number of books on the no-no list.
The classics of the banned-book genre remained
— “Brave New World,” “Animal Farm,”“Beloved”
— but those were joined by an escalating list of picture books of two-dad families, young-adult novels tackling race or suicide, graphic novels in which teens make inf…

Why not just ban all the books?
Keyword searches for "justice" and "pride" drive what ideas are being kept from kids.

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Databricks agrees to acquire Panther Labs, its third cybersecurity acquisition; Panther was valued at $1.4B when it raised a $120M Series B in 2021 (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/databri…

Une autre policière, harcelée sexuellement, a dénoncé l'auteur des faits en 2021. Il a été licencié. Des collègues se sont alors retournés contre elle. Il est arrivé que son repas de midi soit jeté Š la poubelle. Ses chaussures noires ont été maculées de couleur au vestiaire. Cette policière est aussi partie.

Klimaat enorm aan het drammen met talloze overstromingen en hitterecords
https://speld.nl/2021/07/29/klimaat-enorm-aan-het-drammen-met-talloze-overstromingen-en-hitterecords/

#Microsoft is intentionally bricking all #OfficeforMac 2019/2021 installations
https://www.

"Eine wichtige Rolle dabei spielt die Initiative 706. Sie geht auf ein Jugendzentrum im Pekinger Universitätsviertel zurück und hat mittlerweile einige Ableger in Europa. Xiyu ist seit elf Jahren in Deutschland und hat die Gruppe in Berlin 2021 mitgegründet. Der Name leitet sich von der Hausnummer des Zentrums in Peking ab. Das 2012 gegründete Hostel dort entwickelte sich über die Jahre zum Ort des Austauschs für Studierende und Denker, um gesellschaftliche Themen zu diskutieren."

from my link log —
Support for IPv6 link local addresses in browsers.
https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/ipv6-link-local-support-in-browsers/
saved 2021-11-18

That made me check my Apple Watch model (couldn't remember). Turns out I have a series 7, bought in 2021. It's 5 years old. I had no idea, I still thought of it as "almost new"
#applewatch

(2021) The Defensive Activation Theory: REM sleep as a mechanism to prevent takeover of the visual cortex https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.632853/full So we should disrupt REM sleep for better masteri…

Frontiers | The Defensive Activation Theory: REM Sleep as a Mechanism to Prevent Takeover of the Visual Cortex
Regions of the brain maintain their territory with continuous activity: if activity slows or stops (e.g., because of blindness), the territory tends to be ta...

US SEC filing: Vanguard marks down Ola Consumer's valuation to ~$70.3M; Ola, which faces intense competition from Uber and Rapido, was valued at $7.3B in 2021 (Kunal Manchanada/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/vanguard-marks-down-olas-valuation-to-70-mn-…

Vanguard marks down Ola Consumer's valuation to $70 Mn
US-based asset management company Vanguard has sharply marked down the valuation of ride-hailing company Ola to approximately $70.3 million.

Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job
A convicted Jan. 6 rioter who later said that he regretted his participation in the U.S. Capitol attack
has been hired by the Trump administration to work inside a Pentagon office that manages highly classified military operations,
according to four people familiar with the matter.

The appointment of Elias Irizarry,
who was 19 at the time of the riot in 2021,
to a post in the Defens…

Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job
The Trump administration’s appointment of Elias Irizarry, who was 19 at the time of the Capitol attack, has alarmed some in the Defense Department.

from my link log —
How we knew space is a vacuum.
https://sky-lights.org/2021/06/14/qa-how-we-knew-space-was-a-vacuum/
saved 2023-03-12

Capitol rioters clamor for payouts from Trump’s new #AntiWeaponizationFund despite backlash.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-capit

Capitol rioters clamor for payouts from Trump's 'anti-weaponization' fund
Many of the convicted rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are clamoring for payouts from the nearly $1.8 billion settlement that the Trump administration has set up for people claiming to be victims of a weaponized government. Whether they'll be eligible for any money remains an open question. The political and legal backlash to the administration's move hasn't dimmed the celebratory response from Capitol rioters. Some are staking claims to the money even though the government hasn…

celebrate bobsday 85 with 18 hours of dylanological pleasures! live tapes! covers! novelties! WTFs! the past 6 frow show @… blowouts:
2021: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/104186

from my link log —
Fontemon: the world’s first video game in a font!
https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html
saved 2021-03-19 https://dotat.at/:/E…

Craig Abbott believes “Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough”:
https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/our-css-isnt-opinionated-enough/
Which of course I agree with and link from on of my posts:

Our CSS isn't opinionated enough
Why styling on semantics and roles could make accessibility harder to skip

from my link log —
A tour of safe tracing GC designs in Rust.
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe-tracing-gc-designs-in-rust/
saved 2021-06-19

from my link log —
Foreign Data Wrappers for migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
https://www.migops.com/blog/2021/02/15/role-of-foreign-data-wrappers-in-migrations-to-postgresql/
saved 2021-04-06

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