ReadThinkBeGood
All about books and libraries, plus nature, gardening, museums, science, fiction, media literacy, lowcountry and SC stuff. Anti-authoritarian, anti-hate, pro-democracy. I like logical thinkers but also a bit of magic.
- Extremely bad news for historians, genealogists, librarians, students, and well, everybody
- Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
- Reposted by ReadThinkBeGoodInteresting thread. It made me think about how one longstanding problem for the Democratic Party since the 1980s has been its passive reliance on “the moral arc of the universe” to take us into a more just future…as if history was just naturally on “our side.” But moral arcs don’t bend themselves.
- Why are Dems—champions of every major policy advance since the New Deal—so deeply wedded to status-quo, poll-tested politics? The answer lies in Stafford Beers' 5-level Viable Systems Model: They lack Systems 4 & 5 dealing with future coordinating it with present. 1/25 www.salon.com/2025/05/10/w...
- Reposted by ReadThinkBeGoodThe corruption here isn’t even my biggest concern. The security risk!?! The security risk is astronomical and totally unfixable. Listening devices? Tracking devices!? Software backdoors!? Intentional AND unintentional!? Unmeasurable risk.
- I think we all know what the Trump presidential library foundation really is #emoluments
