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📖 Read pages i-13 of Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana by Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross.

The introduction lays out where this intends to go pretty well. This comparative look at history should itself make an interesting contrast to some of the Ibram X. Kendi I’ve been reading lately. I’m quite curious to delve into the particular cases and histories they’ll be laying out. ​

​Becoming Free, Becoming Black book cover

My newest IndieWeb desire: The ability to watch and simultaneously screencapture, gif-ify, and otherwise live note a movie with commentary and quotes on my website (roughly in real time without distracting from it too much) the way Bix has done with The Desk Set on Twitter. I’d love to do it as a running collection perhaps. Maybe not too dis-similarly to the way that ThreadReader app presents it.

Do any television sets do automated screencaptures or gifs yet? And can anyone post from a television set to their website? Where is the micropub client for that? I want to see movie reviews like this. Film Threat perhaps?

Marty’s app Kapowski is maybe a start for this? I used to have a DVD tool on my computer that would do screencaptures relatively easy, but who has those anymore? Anyone else have ideas?

Screencapture of Tracy and Hepburn in the movie The Desk Set.

It’s drizzling down here, but 4,683 feet up (and a scant 4.167 miles from the front door) it’s snowing!

The view from the webcam on the 9th floor of the Caltech Millikan library about 4.8 miles in the other direction.
The view from the webcam on the 9th floor of the Caltech Millikan library about 4.8 miles in the other direction.
Weather graphs for Mount Wilson today indicating a temperature of 29 degrees F.
Weather graphs for Mount Wilson today indicating a temperature of 29 degrees F.
A view of snowy evergreen trees from Mount Wilson's web cam.
A view of snowy evergreen trees from Mount Wilson’s web cam.
A web cam image partially occluded by snow build up, but with a snow covered Wilson Observatory in view.
A web cam image partially occluded by snow build up, but with a snow covered Wilson Observatory in view.

 

Mount Wilson elevation: 5,713 ft
My elevation: 1030 ft

I love that Charlie provides a wealth of different things you can subscribe to from her website. My favorite is not just her “firehose”, but how she describes it in her code:

<link data-react-helmet="true" 
rel="alternate" 
type="application/rss+xml" 
title="Subscribe to everything (and I mean EVERYTHING - it is a fucking firehose)" 
href="https://www.sonniesedge.net/rss/everything.xml"/>

I wish more people provided multiple custom feeds for the content on their websites. 

In Charlie’s case, I vote for  subscribing to EVERYTHING!