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Things Worth Remembering: Lady Liberty's Open Arms (Joe Nocera/The Free Press)
https://www.thefp.com/p/things-worth-remembering-lady-liberty-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p20#a250706p20

Remembering Ralph Munro, five-term Washington secretary of state and statesman • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/03/20/remembering-ralph-munro-five-term-washington-secretary-of-state-and-statesman/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #25For25:SoundsOfTheCentury
Errollyn Wallen & Chaos Quartet:
🎵 Remembering 2012
#ErrollynWallen #ChaosQuartet

Remembering Marty: Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer reflects on legacy of late dad on Father's Day

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/remembe

"""
Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
#MacIntyre

Setting aside copyright/commercial/other aspects, a thought about writing blog posts that LLMs train on. When people write posts, they (a) feel good about helping others, and (b) hope to get some credit and visibility for doing so.
When mediated through LLMs, no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might comment, thank, share, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people remembering the author, posting on HN, etc.
That is, it totally destroys the incentive str…

#ListeningClub I love this song but ever since I learned it’s about a little afternoon delight with a stranger I cringe at remembering my parents listening to it in a coffee shop in London.

remembering my parents advice that "nothing good happens after midnight" as I binge a 13-ounce bag of granola out of boredom instead of going to bed

remembering what open source was like before it was called “open source” https://lobste.rs/c/9i6xqh

I use a Cloudflare tunnel which, among other things, requires a 2FA code. A code number that I was not receiving... Why? Because I'm so stupid that I was using the old Proton Mail domain (protonmail.com) instead of the new one (proton.me), not remembering that my Cloudflare account was associated with the latter.
I am the weakest link in my own chain.

Woke up to email from Montreal that they have a new parking payment app.
The old one is called “P$Mobile”—good luck remembering that when you’re trying to pay for parking—so maybe this is a step up.
"Proudly 100% made in Quebec” (if you don’t count the XKCD tower of dependencies… sure… I guess). 🙄
Immediately: email input that isn’t designated as such so the keyboard is wrong.
Second thing: it thinks the password I used is too long at >20 characters. This is n…

I rarely share anything behind a paywall, but I'll make an exception for this obit for William Langewiesche. His writing was second to none. I read his father's Stick and Rudder as a ten-year-old (or so) and top-notch writing appears to have been a family trait. We've lost one of the best.
https://www.

Remembering Melissa Hortman.
#melissahortman #minnesota

Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
#MacIntyre

El cuadragésimo séptimo šlbum de estudio del norirlandés Van Morrison, publicado a sus tiernos 79 años. «Remembering Now» se llama el nuevo disco.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0D59iQ2RU24tUzm48aeJAR

Work is playing ABBA on loop and I’m remembering being at ABBA Voyage with @…. Fun times!

Went over to the neighbors this morning for coffee on the porch. A little gathering of neighbors they host once in awhile.
Noticed his wife was not remembering well, we attributed it to the fact we are all getting a bit on the old side.
I gave her a bar of soap I made and explained it was chocolate soap. Made with cocoa butter, cherry kernel, almond and avocado oils and colored with cocoa powder and smelled and looked like a chunk of chocolate. Explained she should test it on her…

Things are all set for the Fysh.Org server migration later today.
Announced window is 12:00-17:00 UTC (so 13:00-18:00 BST).
I'll reply in this thread (hopefully remembering to set the posts as Unlisted/Quiet Public) with progress as and when I remember and have time.
#FyshOrg

📝 Stephanie M. Wyatt remembers Dr. Toni Craven
https://eileencampbellreed.org/2025/06/08/guest-post-remembering-dr-toni-craven/
https://cdn.some.pics/adjb/68472e088bdde.jpg

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#JazzRecordRequests
- Remembering Art Pepper, Wes Montgomery and Ella Fitzgerald
Join our community of jazz lovers. Alyn Shipton is waiting for your requests: email jazzrecordrequests@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dcd8