Tribal leaders and Native people say the senator is an ally — and they support her look at her ancestry. But hardly anyone asked them.
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👓 First on CNN: Hundreds of TSA screeners calling out sick | CNN
Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports
👓 Professor Emeritus David Henderson dies in accident | Cornell Chronicle
Professor Emeritus David Wilson Henderson, whose commitment to mathematics education stretched into retirement, died Dec. 20 in Delaware, at age 79.
👓 PW Takes Over the Millions | Publishers Weekly
PWxyz, parent company of 'Publishers Weekly,' has acquired the online magazine the Millions, as well as its website TheMillions.com, for an undisclosed price.
👓 2019 Book Industry Predictions: The Butterflies Will Flap Their Wings | Smashwords
Welcome to my annual publishing predictions. I’ll start by sharing some thoughts on the state of the indie nation and then I’ll jump int...
This post is very anti-Amazon and has an IndieWeb flavor. Sadly, it comes mostly from the perspective of yet-another-silo that is competing with Amazon. A better and more holistic solution would be for them to be supporting authors owning their own platforms for publishing and distribution.
There’s also a useful question brought up here about the idea of discovering new authors and new books. It’s a similar problem faced by websites and other online content in general. Silo’s general nature and the algorithms they can bring to bear have solved some of the discovery question (for their own enrichment). Solving this from an indie perspective isn’t just useful from the website content perspective, but it’s also very important for the book sales perspective.
👓 Collaborative resource curation | Hypothesis
Recently we decided to keep better track of tweets, blog posts, and other web resources that mention and discuss our product. There are two common ways to do that: send links to a list maintainer, or co-edit a shared list of links. Here’s a third way, less common but arguably more powerful and flexible: tag the web resources in situ.
👓 Mary Poppins Returns: How accurate was Lin-Manuel Miranda’s accent, rhyming slang, leeries? | Slate
“If he'd gone to some proper cockney, like me, we'd have got a bit more background.”
👓 The story behind the gas lamps and leeries in ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ | Business Insider
In 'Mary Poppins Returns', Lin-Manuel Miranda plays a lamplighter. Here's the history behind the lamps and the profession.
The Victorian periodical The Westminster Review wrote that the introduction of gas lamps would do more to eliminate immorality and criminality on the streets than any number of church sermons. ❧
👓 Silicon Valley pledged to break up the boys’ club of investing in 2018. How did it do? | Recode
Venture capitalists spent 2018 welcoming women to the fold, but the welcome has been fitful, uneven and, scariest of all, tentative.
Lack of diversity is going to be like the cigarette problem of the early 70’s. We know that it’s bad for us, but in the present it doesn’t seem as significant on a marginal individual basis. But worked on over decades it will make us and our society much healthier and richer for having solved for it.
👓 Watched: “Future of the open web and open source” by @webdevlaw and others | Amanda Rush
I suspect that, as a general rule, open source treats the open web the same way that corporate software companies like Apple or Microsoft treat open source: It’s existence and that there are people to take care of it for you while you do the flashy stuff...
👓 Impact of Rose Parade Float Fire, Chaotic Ending Still Being Felt | Pasadena Now
The fire which disabled the Chinese American Heritage Foundation’s “Harmony Through Union” Rose Parade float Tuesday is still under investigation by the Pasadena Fire Department. The fallout from the parade’s chaotic ending caused by the float’s blaze and breakdown may continue for a while, however.
The incident left tens of thousands of parade-goers along the length of the parade route bewildered as it caused delays and the premature appearance of the closing act as the parade stretched over thirty minutes past its television timeslot.
They spend such a large chunk of the article on the unseen South Pasadena float and didn’t bother to throw in a photo of it?! Such a missed opportunity.
👓 Scots Word of the Season: ‘Leerie’ | The Bottle Imp
Leerie n. a lamplighter, who lit gas lamps in towns and cities (before electric light)
The word leerie is perhaps best known nowadays from the nostalgic poem ‘The Lamplighter’ by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). The character, ‘Leerie’, is depicted as a romantic wanderer who charms th...
I have to wonder if traffic on the site has picked up for this word based on the recent opening of the film Mary Poppins Returns?
It seems that leeries are just as pictuesque and poetic in other incarnations as they are depicted in Mary Poppins Returns. Why the romanticism for such a menial and dirty seeming profession?
👓 Progress on eradicating polio has stalled – Infectious disease | The Economist
Cases caused by viruses derived from the vaccine are a growing worry
👓 Side-effect: Vaccine-derived polio | Economist Espresso
The steady countdown to zero new cases of polio has stopped, and last year even went into reverse,
I wish the GOP could rise to its challenges, but there have been too many lies for too long.