Just put in a Github pull request for the first time in quite a while - fixing a one-character typo in a README file. The perils of being an editor never end.
Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook
Cue the Streisand Effect.
“Tree Gremlin”
Olympus TG6, f/4.9, 1/100s, ISO 250. Yesterday at Mount Pisgah.
“Sweet Smells”
Olympus TG6, Ultimaxx .43x Wide Angle Lens, f/4.9, 1/160s, ISO 100. Yesterday at Mount Pisgah.
E.P.A. Declares ‘Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’
If you’d rather die than support this administration, Trump’s stooges will be happy to make that happen faster.
“Spring is Near the Ground”
Olympus TG6, Ultimaxx .43x Wide Angle Lens, f/4.9, 1/400s, ISO 400. Yesterday at Mount Pisgah.
Nebraska lawmakers advance bill allowing parental notification for school library checkouts
More performative legislating. Do they seriously think any student over the age of 10 can’t find whatever book they want for free on the internet?
The fact that they’re idiots doesn’t make this a good thing.
Finished reading: A House Divided, by Pearl S. Buck. 📚 I inherited a 10-volume signed limited edition of some of Buck’s works. As far as I could tell, they’d never even been cracked open. Well that’s just silly, and I’ve been working my way through. Simple, slow, and lush reading, wildly out of fashion, and quite enjoyable. This is the third volume of the Good Earth trilogy, tracing the fortunes of the Wang family across three generations. Buck’s writing seems to capture much about a Chinese culture now long-vanished, though how can I know how true-to-life the portrayal is?
More Republican Nonsense
Restore Medicaid’s intent: Prioritize the most vulnerable over able-bodied childless adults
Prepare for a lot of this ahistorical nonsense as the Republicans ramp up their effort to give money to billionaires by taking it away from everyone else. In fact, Medicaid grew out of Harry Truman’s push for universal healthcare and was envisioned as one of the first steps (along with Mediare) on that path by Lyndon Johnson, who was a savvy enough politican to get what he could passed instead of waiting for perfection.
All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of products
Personally, I look forward to the (unlikely) day when generative AI goes the way of the Cuecat and Microsoft Bob.