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"And once in a great while, someone will light a lantern—or even two—that will shine forth for democratic principles that are under siege, and set the world ablaze."
This is one Heather Cox Richardson's better than the normally great essays.
#History
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-18-2025

Happy , today I deployed a #Forgejo instance to manage my private code projects. I won't be using #Github anymore for my stuff, only to contribute to 3rd party projects.
I still have some pending work to configure the CI workers, but I'll leave that for next week.
Along the way I've learnt some stuff about #OpenTofu and networking. Enough to know that I still prefer to be on the dev side of the "devops" .

new book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history

It's #sourdough pretzeldog night
Last batch will have cheese
Also doing some pizza pretzels

Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous. (Olivia Hebert/SFGATE)
https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/signs-negative-history-manzanar-historians-20376758.php
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p178#a250617p178

Cowboys' CeeDee Lamb predicted to have historic, record-breaking season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-ceedee-lamb-predicted-historic-record-breaking-season

I learned¹ about the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature² that has more than 10000 books scanned and available online. Just great.
It is hosted by the University of Florida. So let's hope that it stays available, i.e. that the Republicans don't find the old children's books from 1750 to woke.³
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Open Culture (Official) (@openculture@toot.community)
Attached: 1 image Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/enter-an-archive-of-10000-historical-childrens-books.html

Lakers top list of most expensive team sales in U.S. pro sports history with $10 billion valuation

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lakers-

I finally managed to remove shorts from the #RSS feeds of YouTube channels.
The feed mixes shorts and regular video but thankfully #FreshRSS has an extension that can use the YouTube API to get the extra information it needs.
Way more complex than it should be in an ideal world but, hey, at least it works

Krugman:
❝What we’re looking at now isn’t the worst job market college graduates have ever seen. It is, however, the worst such market compared with workers in general that we’ve ever seen, by a large margin.
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We have low overall unemployment, only slightly above historic lows, but unemployment among college graduates between 22 and 27 at recession-like levels.
This has never happened before.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bad-times-for-college-graduates