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  • duckduckgo and ISP spying

    A handy graphic explains encryption connection and duckduckgo searches.

    via Gabriel Weinberg on quora.

  • Liberty and Love

    Maria Popova on Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mills via Adam Gopnik‘s A Thousand Small Sanities:The Moral Adventure of Liberalism.

    “With an eye to the perilous erasures with which history is often rewritten — history, I continue to insist, is not what happened, but what survives the shipwrecks of judgment and chance” – Popova

    “Recognizing that intimate life is an accommodation of contradictions, they understood that political and social life must be an accommodation of contradictions too. The accommodation was their romance. That meant that social accommodation could be romantic, too. Love, like liberty, tugs us in different directions as much as it leads us in one. Love, like liberty, asks us to be only ourselves, and it also asks us to find our self in others’ eyes.” – Gopnik

    There are echoes of blackness’s moral underpinnings, here, as found in Moten and in Glissant.

  • Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series

    Via Forum, Spring 2018.

    The LibraryPress@UF, an imprint of the University of Florida Press and the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, is proud to announce the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series.  This series makes available for free 39 books related to Florida and the Caribbean that are regarded as “classics.” It is made possible by
    the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Humanities Open Book Program.  Books in the series highlight the many connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. They show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers throughout the region. They examine topics important to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, urban development, and tourism.

    Read books in the series for free at http://ufdc.ufl.edu/openbooks

     

  • House Plants That Naturally Clean the Air in Your Home

    Via NASA’s Interior Landscape Plants for Indoor Air Pollution Abatement, September 15, 1989.

    Wikipedia’s graph. Lovethegarden’s illustration.

  • Roses for the home

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    Roses for the home
    by United States.: Dept. of Agriculture

    Publication date 1963
    Topics Roses.
    Publisher Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
    Collection ufgdp; univ_florida_smathers; americana
    Digitizing sponsor University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation
    Contributor University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
    Language English
    http://uf.catalog.fcla.edu/uf.jsp?st=UF004953185&ix=nu&I=0&V=D&pm=1
    Bookplateleaf 0003
    Call number A 1.77:25/4
    Camera Canon 5D
    Identifier rosesforhome00unit
    Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1cj9gn54
    Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0
    Page-progression lr
    Pages 26
    Ppi 300
    Scandate 20120313160424
    Scanner scribe8.nj.archive.org
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    via archive.org

    Reitiration of USDA Farmer’s Bulletin Volume no.750, 1932. Roses for the home by Mulford, Furman Lloyd.

  • The 9-Minute Strength Workout

    Via nytimes’s Well

    Set #1: Bodyweight Squat, Push-Ups and Mountain Climber
    Set #2: Plank, Bodyweight Split Squat and Single-Leg Hip Raise
    Set #3: Burpee With Push-Up, Single-Leg Toe Touches and Leg Raises

  • Black Panther Party, 50.

    “… we hate oppression.” Booby Seale. via Power!

    Original Rainbow Coalition. A movement coalesced in 1966, still resonates.
    More resonance. A kind of resonance.


    Mercury News. Time. Oakland Museum of California.

  • Police

    We need better and more open statistics, in order to improve the police. This story underlines the gap.

    After Ferguson, it became apparent that the official government count of the number of people killed by police was low; it was off by about 50 percent. So journalists started counting. The Washington Post counted 990 people shot dead last year, a quarter of them black. This year is on about the same pace. But Klinger says we need more details about every instance of deadly force, even when no one dies.

    The Washington Post : 2015 database – 990 people shot dead by police. 2016 database – 707, so far. Methodology. On Github.

    Black Lives Matter calls to defund (which does not mean to eliminate) and to prioritize the use of police departments.