Read Folding a round paper plate into square box by Matt Maldre (Spudart)
Most origami starts with a square sheet of paper. The corners of the square are integral to shapes and folding lines. Would it be possible to fold a ROUND sheet of paper into a SQUARE box? And not just any ordinary round sheet of paper, but a PAPER PLATE. Maybe your blueberries are rolling off …
And of course he’s got some Xerox art in here as well! 😉
Read Open is Cancelled by A bee with a blog (Medium)
Before you read this, I want you to go and take a peek here. Stay with it until the end.
A dramatic reframing, and apparently a very much needed one. This (and the referenced article within it) are a must read.

I’ll have to think about this and revisit the broader idea a couple of times to really digest it.

Read The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy (Boston Review)
Seeking to discredit those who wish to explain the persistence of racism, critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project insist the facts don’t support its proslavery reading of the American Revolution. But they obscure a longstanding debate within the field of U.S. history over that very issue—distorting the full case that can be made for it.
Incidentally when I read this article, I saw a pop up of a book by the paper that is an anthology of essays presumably published by the site. Is this becoming a common thing now to help create ancillary streams of revenue for newspapers and magazines? I saw one the other day for a series by Colin Woodard as the first.

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Read What to Watch for in WordPress in 2020: Community Hot Takes (Impress.org)
The great thing about WordPress and the WordPress community is that we build it together. The features and code, the opinions, aspirations, goals, and hard work of each member of the community pushes it forward.  Following up on our first “What to Watch for in WordPress in 2020” piece, we wante...
Read The Disintegration of the American Presidency (The Atlantic)
The president’s job is to oversee the whole of the executive branch, but under Trump the inverse is happening.

The tweet, in fact, was the 1,163rd entry in a thread that began back in April 2017

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Article bookmarked on January 21, 2020 at 01:01PM

Read Get your RSS feeds and podcasts in one place with this open source tool (Opensource.com)
Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.
Read Did George Washington’s false teeth come from his slaves?: A look at the evidence, the responses to that evidence, and the limitations of history (washingtonpapers.org)
George Washington‘s false teeth were not wooden, as you may have heard. They were actually made from a variety of materials, including human teeth. According to the accounting record in Mount Vernon’s Ledger Book B, the teeth may have been pulled from Washington’s slaves.
His teeth apparently came from slaves… ugh.