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"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."--Thomas Jefferson, who obviously wasn't on Facebook

His own pitch letters note that Vonnegut thought GHQ would be an excellent training aid for future military leaders, including cadets at West Point. How are modern audiences to reconcile those words from the same man who wrote Cat’s Cradle? https://www.polygon.com/board-games/467103/kurt-vonnegut-ghq-lost-board-game-publisher-interview

How to flub (and not flub) group decision-making on technical teams
I know. She had you at "pizza."
https://chelseatroy.com/2024/10/22/how-to-flub-and-not-flub-group-decision-making-on-technical-teams/

"The digital repository is the first of its kind in Hawaiʻi that’s island-specific. It contains digitized versions of old yearbooks, reports, photos, maps, historic newspapers and more. Users can search the names of family members, keywords or locations." https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2024-03-07/digital-archive-of-molokai-history-launches-with-more-than-20-000-records

Building Zoltar by Hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC0qsSSdbxg

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Do CoSo "you are suspended" messages not give a reason why? @meheller wrote to me and @sjvn to say he'd been booted, and he has no idea what he'd done to offend.

(Note that I have not followed his account closely so I have no idea either.)

A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of the pages of a book; invisible when closed. The technique was employed by high end bookmakers throughout history, and in many cases, the hidden artworks went undiscovered for decades or even centuries after their creation. https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/11/05/there-might-be-a-secret-painting-hiding-in-that-old-book-of-yours

I feel seen.

This is not our cat.

It's a cat that my mother met in Bermuda in 1966.

"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." — Colonial American proverb

Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0
"I'm from another dimension. I mean, another–another dimension." https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/11/trying_ms_prerelease_os2_2/

The San Francisco Muni Metro's Automatic Train Control System (ATCS), one of the few remaining major systems still using floppy disks, is dropping the archaic technology as part of a massive upgrade. https://www.techspot.com/news/105295-goodbye-floppies-san-francisco-pays-hitachi-212-million.html

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.– Franklin D. Roosevelt

According to the latest statistics from the US Department of Agriculture, more than 40% of hens used for eggs in the United States are now cage-free, and 11 states have banned the practice of caging hens. https://www.humanesociety.org/blog/40-percent-hens-eggs-cage-free-united-states

I laughed!

"Sometimes something truly new to us, that no one has seen for thousands of years, is unearthed. In the case of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, no one seemingly had looked at this text for at least 1,500 years, maybe more." https://worksinprogress.co/issue/doom-scrolling/

Upwork announces $28M profit, slashes staff by 21% https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/upwork-announces-28m-profit-lays-off-21-percent-19861115.php

George Takei Reveals The Origin Of 'Oh My'
TIL...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A_kYMfGc4k

The whole setup was portable and they just hacked into a wire on a telephone pole, asked the operator to clear the line, and sent a photo scan via an analog modem. Ingenious! https://kottke.org/24/03/how-photos-were-transmitted-by-wire-in-the-1930s