I’m with you except I do think e-textbooks would still be a good thing. Most of my engineering class had shoulder or back pain from lugging textbooks back and forth each day.

But I can’t learn or remember if I don’t have to write things down so I’m all for “taking notes” by hand.

A graphic in pink, blue, and green that illustrates how recent many Black History events are to the current day -- ranging from 1619 to 2024.

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.

I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.

1 square = 1 year.

I’m shocked, shocked.

Wait till the impact of making a ton of their lower income users broke becomes obvious.

Because gambling so often ends that way.

A friend tried to tell me that right now 1 in 5 Londoners gets mugged on a regular basis.

My jaw dropped. “What the heck news sources are you on these days?” I said.

I told her that in the face of renewed interest in the EU the forces of evil are back in operation in the Uk.

The rich that is.

These are warehouses. Where are the water supplies going to come from? Where will the human waste products be handled and treated?

Warehouses are built to support maybe a few dozen people using water and waste.

If the local people don’t raise a stink there will soon be a stink.

Since their so-called customer support has been spectacularly useless any time we needed it in the past, I don’t imagine most users will even notice when AI starts botching things.

Better tell the employers who fired almost everyone I know over the age of 55 through “redundancies” and “right-sizing” over the past 30-40 years.

My Dad’s generation and mine.

People forget that Rubella (once called German Measles) causes birth defects when pregnant women catch it.

Because that hasn’t happened to people in NA for a long time.

It’s part of the MMR vaccination.

We are in crazy times.

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Voting: A Right, Not A Privilege, For Now Republicans want to change that with the SAVE Act

First, read this and learn about the SAVE Act. Then call your senators. We can’t afford to let them impose a poll tax on our right to vote. joycevance.substack.com/p/voting-a-r...

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

Will Fox be updating their story on this and giving it the same amount of airtime as they did initial arrest?

People who blithely state “we should get rid of X regulation” should be invited to spend a month in a country (or even a US state) where that regulation does not exist or is not enforced.

Live where the people there actually live.

That might learn something very uncomfortable.

This move will end up affecting all of the items I mention over time. That is their goal.

I am thinking he didn’t understand the question. At all.

I mean, saying it’s okay if you breathe poisoned air, or eat poisoned food, or drink poisoned water, because you will be able to pay the doctors, assuming you survive the poison, is some kind of answer.

That’s, like, almost all of it. 😔

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Every year the BLS does a benchmark revision which incorporates new and more detailed information. This year's revision suggests that 2025 was a far worse year than earlier estimates suggested, and total job growth was less than half that suggested by the initial estimates.

ok this dude seems awesome

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

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Millions? Did he say they have removed “millions”?

Hinkley Point C plan could save 90% of fish being sucked into pipes, study finds Scientists find £700m underwater acoustic project, likened to a ‘fish disco’, could save 44 tonnes a year Scientists have found that plans to use a “fish disco” to deter migratory marine life from the nearby Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor could help save 90% of fish from the power plant’s water intake pipes – but the solution is set to cost its developer £700m. EDF Energy, which is building the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant in Somerset, said research it commissioned from scientists at Swansea University had found that using an acoustic deterrent system helped to ward off the “vast majority” of fish it tagged for the experiment. Continue reading...

Hinkley Point C plan could save 90% of fish being sucked into pipes, study finds

There is no way that the food, water and waste infrastructure exists in these facilities for what is intended.

Local communities should be outraged at what is happening inside, but also what will be happening outside, if these are indeed all converted to prisons.

Gonna be bad. For certain

Oura, hello.

Any chance you can make a hinged version for those of us with large knuckles or once broken finger joints?

I need a large size to get over the finger joint but then it slides around on the finger

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.

She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.

She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

The reviews and vendors seemed real. The “burglary within 4 miles of your house” thing as well as “white car cruising our street” seemed pretty paranoid, and often fake.

Your

The thing that blew my mind was “we will have all these things installed on you vehicle but you will have to pay us to actually use them”.

Because there is no way they would make some cars with the heated infrastructure and others not in the same markets.

Crazy

There it is. The very last BOOK WORLD.

I’m still in shock that Jeff Bezos, the man who is everything he is today because of selling books, would abandon readers like this.

I grieve for The Washington Post and everything that has been stripped from it.