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Why You Don’t Really Have a Billion Ancestors https://edintone.com/billion-ancestors/ Or pedigree collapse and the hidden web of shared ancestry. Not billions of strangers. @…

Why You Don’t Really Have a Billion Ancestors - Miscellanea Edintone
Explore pedigree collapse and the hidden web of shared ancestry, revealing millions of ordinary ancestors whose lives continue to shape us today.

Local. Elections. Matter.
In my city we have a vote today to push back against overreach by the state into local governance. There are just over 75,000 eligible voters.
Gainesville folks - take time today to tell the state to stay out of local governance. Vote Yes for Local Public Utilities.

4 Ingredients In 4 Minutes
Packed with simple tips, real-world kitchen hacks and easy meals anyone can make even on the busiest days...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/4-ingredients-in-4-minutes/

"A package’s value isn’t primarily its implementation code. Anyone can rewrite curl in Rust in a weekend, as Daniel Stenberg has heard many times. What they can’t rewrite is the twenty years of bug reports, the weird edge cases someone hit in production and took the time to fix, the arguments in issue threads that eventually settled on the right behavior. That knowledge is spread across the package’s history and it grew organically. No prompt captures it."
https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/30/will-ai-make-package-managers-redundant.html
Excellent piece by @…

Hungary’s Famous Thermal Baths Are Saving the Country’s Famous Grasslands from Desertification https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hungarys-famous-thermal-baths-are-saving-the-countrys-famous-grasslands-from-desertification/…

Hungary's Famous Thermal Baths Are Saving the Country's Famous Grasslands from Desertification
The Water Guardians blocked several channel switches along a canal, and brought thousands of gallons of spa water streaming down onto the land

Researching inequality – Northampton and the Welfare State https://edintone.com/northampton_1913-24/ Two studies of Northampton in 1913 and 1924 give us a detailed view of working-class life

Researching inequality - Northampton and the Welfare State - Miscellanea Edintone
Two studies of Northampton in 1913 and 1924 give us a detailed view of working-class life and economic conditions in on the eve of World War 1 and the somewhat better situation in the early 1920s.

It is definitely telling that the last "lesson" in my university IT security training is literally someone reading the entire acceptable use policy verbatim and the "evaluation" is clicking a button to acknowledge that you have read the policy.

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers https://edintone.com/work-housing-health/ In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe O

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers - Miscellanea Edintone
In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe Operatives Trade Union had 13,104 members; officials estimated that only 5% of adult workers were outside the union.

Rolling into 2026 like
https://youtu.be/uqAuKwKH6_Y

Paul’s Address Book app updated! https://edintone.com/pauls-address-book-app-updated/ My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a r

Paul's Address Book app updated! - Miscellanea Edintone
My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a refresh. More details here and you can try it and download it for free!