Ruth
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Greed is poison. Scarcity is a capitalized myth. Creation is beautiful. We are our own worst enemy and greatest advocate. Information wants to be free. Gender, sexuality, race, and religion do not supersede humanity.
The next James Bond should be Gary Oldman in his Jackson Lamb persona.
As high-profile websites vanish, it’s a reminder that the web has no built-in archival layer. But some publishers are now blocking the Wayback Machine. What’s at stake if the web stops being archived? Our new FAQ explains: preserving the public record matters. 🌐📚 help.archive.org/help/faq-pub...
FAQ: Publishers Blocking the Wayback Machine – Internet Archive Help Center
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If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful.
Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.
In many ways, storytime is the heart and soul of the library: not only does it bring together caregivers and children, but it showcases your local public library’s commitment to your community with respect to early literacy and child development. buff.ly/fLHHj4C #Libraries #Storytime #Children
Library Storytime: It’s a Lot More than just the Story
Library Storytime: It’s a Lot More than just the Story
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Tell me more about how terrible student loan forgiveness is the problem.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo agoSpirit Airlines is preparing to shut down after a $500 million government bailout fell apart, WSJ reports
Dems should be running on UBI and M4A. The time to go big is now.
Fun stuff in the youth services department at Pearl Bailey Library.
U.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Minnesota BWCA: Sen. Smith says she will hold senate floor in protest of vote to remove protections
U.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
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Currently listening to Senators Smith and Klobuchar go to bat for the Boundary Waters. I appreciate their late night effort, but am near tears as I listen to them talk about its importance and the major threat against it. Hasn't our state suffered enough? www.savetheboundarywaters.org
Protect the Boundary Waters from sulfide-ore copper mining.
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Klobuchar pulled hard on Minnesota history while holding the floor, noting she is standing at the desk of Hubert Humphrey, who introduced the bill that was later signed to protect the Boundary Waters.
Live: Smith plans hourslong Senate speech against measure to open mining near the Boundary Waters
If passed, the legislation would head to President Donald Trump’s desk for a signature.
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JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:
Can we please stop pretending like Vance ever did anything approximating diplomacy or governance prior to being VP?
The elementary school down the road was renamed from a plantation owning enslaver of kidnapped and imprisoned humans to Katherine Johnson and I'm so grateful. She's one of my favorite people of all time.
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 4mo agoLet it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space. And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
What an amazing thing to witness. So proud of NASA and the US Navy and everyone that has worked on this mission over many years. Congratulations to the parachute folders and the tile manufacturers. Etc. Etc. You’re amazing. And congratulations to the amazing crew of Artemis II.
Just over here watching the live broadcast for the re-entry of the Artemis II crew. Told my husband that I will likely cry no matter what. As a Gen-Xer, I already have some space feels. It will all be better when the capsule has splashed down and the astronauts are safe.
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal
Cuba is not in a crisis because it is communist or has an authoritarian government, it’s having a catastrophic humanitarian crisis because the United States is carrying out an illegal siege against the island with the goal of starving and killing thousands for financial gain.
Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.
Lake Tahoe isn’t sure where it’s power will come from after the next ski season
The area’s longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand.
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The Evergreen Project is pleased to announce the release of Evergreen 3.15.11 and 3.16.5.
Evergreen 3.15.11 and 3.16.5 released
Thanks to the March release team: Michele Morgan (NOBLE), Gina Monti (Bibliomation), Martha Driscoll (NOBLE), and Galen Charlton (Equinox) as well as the individuals and organizations who contributed and sponsored the improvements released today.
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Does anyone know of any recent studies around the effectiveness of different extrinsic (e.g. financial) vs intrinsic (e.g. community altruism) motivators for open source contributors? Asking for me, a friend, and also the rest of the OSS community.
Henrietta Lacks was a Black woman whose (ovarian) cancer cells were used wo her/her family’s consent. Her cells are what would become the HeLa cell, the first immortalized human cell line & one of the most important in medical research. #BackHistoryMonth
