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It's Time for an RSS Revival (excerpt from: https://www.wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader/) BRIAN BARRETT GEAR 03.30.2018 08:00 AM After years of letting algorithms make up our minds for us, the time is right to go back to basics. Image may contain Cone Logo Symbol and Trademark EMILY WAITE THE MODERN WEB contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there's no panacea for what ails this internet we've built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that's been there all along but has often gone ignored. Tired of Twitter? Facebook fatigued? It's time to head back to RSS. For many of you, that means finding a replacement for Digg Reader, which went the way of the ghost this month. Or maybe you haven't used RSS since five years ago, when Google Reader, the beloved firehose of news headlines got t...

I wish they taught us this as kids in our history books. What was for me one of the the most boring subjects in school, is actually one of the most interesting if history books actually reported what and why things happened in reality. From an opinion piece in washington post: George and Martha Washington enslaved 300 people. Let’s start with their names. from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-and-martha-washington-enslaved-300-people-lets-start-with-their-names/2020/06/26/d3f7c362-b7e7-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab In this portrait, George Washington (1732–1799) is shown standing on a bluff above the Hudson River with his enslaved personal servant, William Lee, on horseback behind him. In this portrait, George Washington (1732–1799) is shown standing on a bluff above the Hudson River with his enslaved personal servant, William Lee, on horseback behind him. (John Trumbull/The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection) Image without a caption Opini...