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Happy International Fountain Pen Day! 🖋✒
One of the best podcast apps just got bought by some of the biggest podcast producers
Owning their own pieces of distribution is going to be key to their long term interests. This is a brilliant move.
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Marco (marcozehe.de)My name is Marco, and I’m working as the Mozilla accessibility QA engineer and evangelist. I joined Mozilla on December 3rd, 2007. Initially working from within the QA team, I transferred to the newly founded dedicated accessibility team in April of 2011. Before my full-time employment, I voluntee...
👓 Why Do Americans Stay When Their Town Has No Future? | Bloomberg
Family and community are the only things left in Adams County, Ohio, as the coal-fired power plants abandon ship and the government shrugs.
A stunning long read here. The problems presented in this story are multi-faceted and are a good microcosm of some of the major complex issues that America is facing. There’s economic, cultural, and political.
I particularly find it interesting how very little that any politician was able to generally offer here. Unmentioned generally is the Trump administration which during the campaign promised to do more for the coal industry, but apparently those cries here have gone unheeded. I suspect that those who have been pulled into Trumpism will be generally left unsupported and will end up needing to change camps again. The real question is to where will they go for help? The divisiveness of the two party system will have to have some sort of change for things to get any better, particularly as the inevitable changes of globalization continue apace.
Also addressed here in part is the subtle changes in the “American Spirit” which don’t seem to be widely written about or reported on.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Donald Trump’s Lies About the Popular Vote”
The president-elect seems to feel threatened that more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton.
📺 "The Americans" ARPANET | FX via Amazon
Directed by Kevin Dowling. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Annet Mahendru, Susan Misner. Philip uses his agent Charles Duluth to help him gain access to an early precursor to the Internet so that the KGB can bug American government communications. Nina faces the threat of a potential FBI polygraph exam, bringing her closer to KGB colleague Oleg.
Not sure I’m following the plot that Nina is suddenly involved with Oleg after she’s hated him so much. I suppose I’m waiting for her to manage to pown both of these bozos…
A brief introduction to TiddlyDesktop, a new cross platform application for working with TiddlyWiki directly on the desktop on Windows, Mac and Linux. Get TiddlyDesktop from https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyDesktop, and see http://tiddlywiki.com for more details about TiddlyWiki.
ThreadReaderApp announces support for Micropub
ThreadReaderApp (threadreaderapp.com)1) Get PDF archives of all your own threads
2) Publish your threads to blog using Micropub
We are providing these for free to help authors spread their work!
@knightcolumbia hack and hew as hard as I might, I can’t find the real RSS feed for your website. Could you kindly have someone update it and provide the appropriate link in your footer? Thanks!
🎧 Containers Episode 3: The Ships, The Tugs, and The Port
You know you’ve always wanted to ride in a tugboat as it pushes around a huge cargo ship, right? Well, that’s what we do in Episode 3. We go inside working life on the San Francisco Bay to see how brutal competition among shipping companies threatens the viability of the small businesses that ply the waters. Meet a tugboat dispatcher, a skipper, and the first female captain of an American freighter. It’s a case study in how globalization works and our first look at the challenges the port faces.
https://soundcloud.com/containersfmg/episode-3-the-ships-the-tugs-and-the-port
📺 "House of Cards" Chapter 58 | Netflix
Directed by Michael Morris. With Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Campbell Scott. In the midst of uncertainty, suspected Russian forces take over an American station in Antarctica. Meanwhile, a damaging news leak could hurt Frank.