Amazing story on CNN around veteran Joe Harris, who died at age 108, serving in World War II in an elite force of Black paratroopers:
As the US Army was training the Triple Nickles to disarm bombs, the men were also being taught by the US Forest Service to become the first military smokejumpers.
More history at the National Museum of the US Army.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Although incredibly annoying because it hits me directly in the face while I'm working at my desk, the sun produces amazing shadows late in the evening this time of the year.
Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome.
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The Daily
• The New York Times
19 miles out from Lampasas.
And btw the it could be worse. 💥
A Smart Bear
• Jason Cohen
The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon, Costco, IKEA, Vanguard) is in leveraging intentional weaknesses.
In today’s post, Seth Godin captures something that I’ve been thinking about but have had trouble communicating well:
When someone makes an obvious mistake, it’s tempting to label them with a term that’s dismissive or even hurtful. A label is permanent, a noun, a way to sort and divide.
Labels have a dehumanizing effect.
Rolled out some Micro.blog improvements to uploads on the web today. For example, if AI is enabled there are auto-generated accessibility descriptions for photos, and now you can edit the description without first needing to use it in a post. Plus some more UI tweaks for uploads.
My son has had the worst luck with his car. A few weeks ago, broke down driving back from Arizona… after having it checked out at a mechanic. New radiator and other work in New Mexico. Now today, a similar problem out in the Texas hill country.
All the broken pecan shells are in one spot under the tree. Must be some happy squirrels living here.
I have a Canadian partner on the radiofreeameri.ca project, a founder of Tucows, who I've known for decades, Ross Rader. We've done work together in the past, it's great to be doing it again.
On the path we're on, no doubt Bluesky will come under the same kind of regulation law firms and universities are. And the shame of it is we could be using this time to spread out, distribute.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
Tariff Chaos (First) | When Family Members Believe Conspiracy Theories (Starts at 41:36) | How to Compost in NYC (Starts at 1:05:21)
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• The New York Times
The actor talks about his new film “The Friend,” his jerky past and what he doesn’t get about himself. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and
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Went looking for an old tweet and then got lost in the archive. I have all my tweets (mostly 2006-2012) on my blog and it’s like a snapshot of a different life. Still me, but so many things change.
How Bluesky hooks up via RSS into a powerful news system.
