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Librarian. Geek. Music is life. I block early & often. “Always fight for the user, never for the system.”— Cory Doctorow.
The GEO Group, Inc. weird in that it’s registered where it’s main HQ is (Florida). But the OG private prison company has many subsidiaries registered as DE biz entities, incl. prior acquisition Cornell Companies Inc. (notable for an absurdly evil logo) & GEO Reentry, Inc. (just absurdly evil) /fin
@sjgochenour.bsky.social - I got to attend this talk Leigh Bardugo gave about her book "The Familiar", a Sephardic fairy tale of sorts, set in 16th c Spain. It's well worth your time.
Bardugo worked with scholars at the University of Washington's Sephardic Studies program on some of the research for this book. She talked about this book at the 2024 Ladino Day celebration. Short article with a link to a video of the discussion below.
By Kathryn Medill On December 8, 2024, with the support of both the MELC Department and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, Dr. Canan Bolel organized UW’s annual Ladino Day, designed to celebrate Se...
Came here to recommend Felicia Grossman & Sacha Lamb but I see other folks beat me to it. :)
Exactly this. Housing as "investment" requires constant increase in prices, the faster the better. Housing as housing does not.
The deeper problem - perhaps the fundamental problem in this area - is that we have organized housing so that provision of a basic service is completely intertwined with a speculative asset market. The long run goal should be to disentangle them.
Years ago, during the Michael Brown uprising I started doing a dive into how our police forces are trained, how they're staffed and what the requirements were. I learned a number of things that shocked me pretty badly.
Cities hope to attract more police officers by cutting education requirements
Some cities hope that relaxing education hiring standards may solve lingering staffing shortages. Is that a good idea?
Just seeing this now. Really fascinating. Hungarians apparently still had measurable Yakut ancestry in the Middle Ages but by now are genetically indistinguishable from others in Central Europe, while Finns are still 10% Yakut
Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west, study finds.
The one really good photo I made at the Alhambra in the Nasrid Palace last week. Astonishing as the first time I saw it, the detail, craft and devotion is dizzying
Talked to a college friend about my summer visit in Delaware & getting to see another friend's son in a play at Longwood Gardens. Turns out her brother's kids were in the same play. Because it's Delaware, so of course they were. 😆
I'm never going to get through my library queue if people keep writing more good stuff! 😆
I know Ichiro left the Mariners to play for the Yankees, but there’s no way the fans anywhere else loved him as much as we do.
Not crying not crying not crying totally not crying #Ichiro
