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One hundred and three years after Appomatox, Jacqueline Kennedy comforts Coretta Scott King on morning of her husband’s funeral, today 1968:
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"Innovation or breaking inertia is not done for the sake of doing something new. It's done in order to remove a significant limitation." —Rami Goldratt discusses the relationship between inertia and innovation with @TheKrisCox bit.ly/40lYfQ6 #tocot #innovation #podcast
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via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/03/10/world…

Traute Lafrenz, Last Survivor of Anti-Hitler Group, Dies at 103 (Published 2023)

As a member of the White Rose, a small anti-Nazi resistance group, she used peaceful tactics to try persuading Germans to turn against Hitler.

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Jose J. Ruiz@josejorgeruiz2 Mar 2023
Raj Sisodia, author of Conscious Capitalism was asked last Monday why they chose the word Conscious. The answer also included a wonderful explanation of what awakening (or being woke) means. #woke #conscious #consciouscapitalism
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Among my companions this morning, The Black Crested Titmouse, Carolina Wren, Northern Cardinals, Eastern Bluebirds, Morning Doves, Carolina Chickadees, Chipping Sparrows, Northern Mockingbirds, American Robins, a Downey Woodpecker, and a Red Tailed Hawk.
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Guadalupe county, central Texas, south of Austin about the same distance as Seoul is from North Korean artillery installations; just east of San Antonio, about as close as Kherson is from where Russian rain fire.
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Kit Yates@Kit_Yates_Maths3 Mar 2023
Buried in WhatsApp conversations between then-prime minister Boris Johnson, his scientific advisers and Dominic Cummings, is an exchange which is arguably even more worrying than this headline-grabbing stories. Johnson's fundamental maths mistake... 🧵1/22
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CNN
@CNN26 Feb 2023
Actor Bryan Cranston explains why he thinks the phrase "Make America Great Again" could possibly be construed as a racist remark.
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Sahn Lam
@sahnlam26 Feb 2023
Stack Overflow is a multi-tenant monolithic application serving 2 billion monthly page views across 200 sites. Here are some amazing stats:
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Martin Fowler
@martinfowler16 Feb 2023
I've long argued that, if you're looking to comparing programming to anything, then writing laws and contracts is closer than most. I really like how @schneierblog frames vulnerabilities in tax regulations schneier.com/blog/archives/2…

Hacking the Tax Code - Schneier on Security

The tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input—financial information for the year—and produces an output: the amount...

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Stewart Brand
@stewartbrand31 Jan 2023
Here's our six-minute video on what's involved to move ahead with bird gene-editing and eventually de-extinction. youtube.com/watch?v=4A_tsZEG…
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i love this slide so much, read it twice, three times, daily. from chrisgagne.com/1255/mary-pop…
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nora bateson@NoraBateson14 Dec 2022
The internet needs a new vibe. Not grumpy. Not sales. Not cats. Not food pics. Not polarizing. #affectionforlife
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Ewa🇵🇱@Ewa224005 Dec 2022
Replying to @LvivJournal
He was a wonderful man. We will miss his positive energy. 🙏 xitter.cf/Seveerity/status/15880…
Seveer of the 95th rifles@Seveerity3 Nov 2022
Couple of videos from our favourite Pole! I'm so glad he's doing OK, he's looking a little stressed here but still seems in good spirits.
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It's not just you. US healthcare, already a bureaucratic nightmare of buck-passing and price-gouging, has gotten *far* worse. Private equity firms have created regional health-care monopolies that don't just rip patients off - they're *killing* us. 1/
A hospital Emergency Room parking lot. In the center of the image stands an ogrish, top-hatted, cigar-chomping capitalist caricature. He is standing at a podium, yanking a lever made from a golden dollar-sign. The front of the podium bears a red cross. He holds aloft an elderly man in a hospital bed. Image: Rae Allen (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/raeallen/6224775722/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Videoplasty (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patient_Care_Cartoon.svg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

ALT A hospital Emergency Room parking lot. In the center of the image stands an ogrish, top-hatted, cigar-chomping capitalist caricature. He is standing at a podium, yanking a lever made from a golden dollar-sign. The front of the podium bears a red cross. He holds aloft an elderly man in a hospital bed. Image: Rae Allen (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/raeallen/6224775722/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Videoplasty (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patient_Care_Cartoon.svg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

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Carl Bildt
@carlbildt13 Nov 2022
I have seen it before, it’s now with new pictures as well, and I can see it many times! 🇺🇦 xitter.cf/SlavaUk30722777/status…
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