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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-20 at 21:40

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-19 at 23:38

Bucket list checkoff achieved: I visited #Ponyhenge in Lincoln, Massachusetts. As of today there are 52 hobby horses and rocking horses in the field at 47 Old Sudbury Road. No one knows why.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ponyhenge

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-19 at 13:40

The very best Nepo.

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-17 at 13:38

Hackaday's latest Forgotten Internet feature is on UUCP.

https://hackaday.com/2025/01/16/forgotten-internet-uucp/

[#]ComputerHistory #UUCP

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-16 at 13:49

I have been trying for a few years to befriend the corvids in my St. Paul neighborhood, with limited success. Now, staying in Groton MA in the house I used to live in here, I've gotten the local mrder interested in my offering of peanuts. (I couldn't find a way to make the iPhone ignore the screen and focus on the distance.)

[#]Crow #Corvid

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-16 at 12:44

A new survey by the state health department finds that 40% of Minnesotans who have had Covid report at least one Long Covid symptom months after the acute phase. Vaccination was associated with reduced chances of developing long-lasting effects.

https://www.startribune.com/long-covid-indeed-symptoms-linger-after-illness-for-four-in-10-minnesotans/601206061

https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/longcovid/docs/longcovidsurveyfs.pdf

[#]LongCovid

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-14 at 18:55

@ingrid

“I’m trying to live like I believe my own enjoyment is an occasionally acceptable goal.”

— Karawynn Long

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-13 at 16:51

One of the unanticipated little downsides to house-sitting: limits on endorphin rushes. The UPS, FedEx, USPS, Amazon truck is never for you.

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-08 at 15:33

If you have watched Timothée Chalamet playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, and want to know the true story of Dylan in that time in New York, England, and Newport, you could do far worse than listen to all 57 minutes of episode 130 of Andrew Hickey's magisterial podcast project, A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs.

Transcript:

https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-130-like-a-rolling-stone-by-bob-dylan/

Audio:

https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Episode-130-like-a-rolling-stone.mp3

[#]ACompleteUnknown #Dylan #500Songs

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-07 at 17:48

@tb making sense of Zuck's move:

“It seems like people aren’t quite putting 2 and 2 together yet. Meta has announced that it will (1) end fact-checking on Facebook, (2) flood the zone with AI bots, and (3) ‘getting rid of content restrictions on certain topics, such as immigration and gender identity, and rolling back limits on how much politics-related content users see in their feeds.’ ... [A]ssume these... moves, and others, are coordinated and strategic: coordinated inauthentic behavior, as Facebook puts it.”

https://counter.ink/blg/new/2025-01-07-facebook-faces-the-factlessness

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-04 at 14:26

Calypso bread.

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-02 at 11:14

HCR on #Y2K:

“Crises get a lot of attention, but the quiet work of fixing them gets less. And if that work ends the crisis that got all the attention, the success itself makes people think there was never a crisis to begin with.”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-1-2025?publication_id=20533&post_id=153957664&isFreemail=true

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2025-01-01 at 17:10

I always look forward to Tom Whitwell's annual list of "52 things I learned this year."

https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2024-75efffe44f15

Tom's previous lists:

2023 https://medium.com/magnetic/52-things-i-learned-in-2023-a3bbb9f9323d

2022 https://medium.com/magnetic/52-things-i-learned-in-2022-db5fcd4aea6e

2021 https://medium.com/magnetic/52-things-i-learned-in-2021-8481c4e0d409

2020 https://medium.com/fluxx-studio-notes/52-things-i-learned-in-2020-6a380692dbb8

2019 https://medium.com/fluxx-studio-notes/52-things-i-learned-in-2019-8ee483e6c816

2018 https://medium.com/fluxx-studio-notes/52-things-i-learned-in-2018-b07fc110d8e1

2017 https://medium.com/fluxx-studio-notes/52-things-i-learned-in-2017-d9fb0040bdcb

2016 https://medium.com/fluxx-studio-notes/52-things-i-learned-in-2016-299fd1e6a62b

2015 https://medium.com/fluxx-studio-notes/52-things-i-learned-in-2015-c5c74eed24e0

2014 https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2014-91fb546741cc

[#]ThingsILearned

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2024-12-31 at 21:40

Mug shot.

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2024-12-29 at 14:00

The Y2K panic of the 1990s reads as a punchline today, but for those of us who lived through it, it was serious enough. In retrospect it's easy to forget that we just did not know. The world dodged the bullet because companies and governments spent $100 billion remediating — the largest tech infrastructure project ever at that time. The sudden cessation of that spending contributed to the tech bust early in this century.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/12/28/npr-y2k-year-2000-preparations

https://tbtf.com//archive/1998-04-20.html#Ty2k

[#]Y2K

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2024-12-27 at 23:08

The satisfying annual ritual of updating copyright notices on legacy websites was simpler this year since I got out of the hosting business.

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2024-12-26 at 13:28

My niece and nephew gave me this tee shirt for Christmas. Think they're on to me.

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2024-12-24 at 13:40

Are there rereinsurance companies?

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2024-12-16 at 18:33

Hello #MNstodon — I just learned of this hashtag and wish it had been sooner.

Recently Heidi Li Feldman started an initiative to encourage Fedi people to meet up IRL, in order to start building supportive community for strength in the face of what is coming. I'm the only one from MN who signed up.

https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/113495959991743487

If you would be interested in meeting up, DM me please. I'm in St. Paul.

[#]MNstodon

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2024-12-11 at 00:12

@dillyd Whenever I see a striking nature photo in my feed, often times when I look it's you who has boosted it. Thanks so much.

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