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Here's some stuff for younger kids that haven't been mentioned yet:

Matthew Cordell is awesome. "Cornbread and Poppy" are cute, "Evergreen" is fun, but check out his whole catalog. Probably my favorite active author/illustrator.

"Nobody Likes a Goblin" by Ben Hatke

"The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess" by Tom Gauld

"The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown" under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald

”The Dark Tales of Lillebror Rabbit“ by Jonna Björnstjerna

"Les P'tites Poules" by Christian Jolibois

A little older, Ursula LeGuin is amazing, "A Wizard of Earthsea", "Catwings".

Site is intermittently giving me a 502, but when I can get there the main page says:

"We are experiencing massive site slowdowns and outages due to constant waves of up to 90,000 AI bots scraping the site for content. We are working hard to block them, but its hard to keep up on an industrial scale like this. They've been at it for over a month, but it has reached levels that we can't block. Please be patient--we'll figure something out!

Normally we'd expect a couple of hundred registered users online at a time using the forums, and a few thousand guests reading the news. This is what we're currently dealing with--90,000 AI scrapers, which constantly change IPs so we can't block them, and only a handful of actual people online, as nobody can access the site."

But have you heard anyone _talk_ about it? It's common knowledge that the industrial revolution was mills and steam engines and mechanization. In my experience almost no one knows about the other piece of the textile industry that drove industrialization.

It's not hidden, but I don't think it's commonly known.

This article resonates with me, even if it is sort of an ad for a school.

Has anyone had success opting their children out of a Google account/Chromebook in a public school setting?

The development of dyes was the genesis of the chemical industry, but no one really talks about that.

Fair, I mean, I still use fastmail :)

Normalization of deviance. While there may have been some pressure from corporate or whatever, my guess is that the pilot flying was the one who only got his type rating a few months ago and that he'd done this at least a few times before in another type and gotten away with it. Now in a bigger, less nimble craft, he didn't.

Or just end the lifetime tier and make people pay like fastmail did. If even the HN beloved fastmail would do it I pretty much expect it from everyone.

Obviously Dwellers.

A boiled egg with a bit of soy sauce and a banana. Preboil the eggs of you can't schedule your morning around boiling an egg.

In 1988 in _Atlanta_ my local public school finally got ceiling fans installed, thanks to the PTA fundraising. We never had AC. We had one window unit at home in my parents bedroom. It was fine.

Nitter got shut down yesterday too

If both those are true, then shouldn't we expect China to destroy them as part of first offensive?

Maybe not longer, but definitely harder.

Have you checked out ListenBrainz?

The thought occurred to me some 25+ years ago that today's landfills will be tomorrow's mines. I hope it isn't true but taking the very long view I'm afraid it will be.

Why is this on a whole separate domain and why can't I use my Kagi account to comment? Why do I have to sign up here? Why haven't I seen any messaging from Kagi directly about this? This seems really weird.

Sadly I would argue that most do, about most of the things, most of the time. See the Propaganda Model.

Things like Iran are sadly the exception, as far as my experience goes.

Long, long ago when humans rode dinosaurs to work.

Slop-y indeed

People do! But you have to sit there and buzz your lips to make a trumpet make sound, but for a guitar you just have to shake the strings. And the sound coming from the amp will do this shaking, completing the feedback loop. So it's mostly portable stringed instruments that get this treatment. There are some violin players that play with feedback effects. I hear Jon Rose is one but I am not familiar with his music. Folks like Jean Luc Ponty and Jerry Goodman make ample use of guitar pedal effects in their violin. And there's a YouTuber out there who plays with them on her harp.

You would likely also need to get a Chinese driver's license.

Fascinating, thank you for taking the time to post this!

... So pay your server for ripping off their employer?

Originally switched to fastmail in '03 or so because they used perl. Kinda sad they sunset my "lifetime" plan but _guess_ I understand.

Where they depend on wood for heat they are more likely to have efficient stoves that completely burn the wood. Smoke coming out of the chimney is "firing for the crows" and wasting fuel.

As much as it angers me to say it, I do believe it is an eggcorn.

Have you seen "The Fall"?

Are they really better quality now? Honest question.