Let us begin with a ruling that the paramilitary group the Proud Boys have forfeited their name and logos to the church their leader attacked while he was in Washington, D.C. in December of 2020. Since the group refused to pay a judgment against them for several million dollars from the attack, a judge has ruled that the group has to forfeit something of value to make up for the money, and has thus awarded the church the rights to the name and associated logos of the group.
A history of braille systems, from the Perkins School for the Blind, which has some fascinating parts about how many different codes and forms for getting the blind to be able to read text before the dot systems, and that there were more than a few dot systems involved before a certain amount of standardization, and then compression, was adopted for use. I have seen braille dots and felt them, and I even have a bookmark somewhere from our State Library that offers services to the blind and those who have difficulty reading standard print that has the alphabet on it (so it would probably only be useful for Grade 1), but it would definitely take time and extra sensitivity in my fingers to get used to reading the dots, like any other thing.
After here, there's still yet more of the next few weeks of an administration that seems determined to destroy everything it touches, through malice, even if that malice turns out to be incompetence as well. There will be other things, I promise, by the end, but there's going to be a lot of politics in between.
( An awful lot of politics )
Last out for tonight, a library of craft patterns and craft pattern publications in the public domain.
And Soemone finally pushing back against the idea that technology and screens are all causing our brains to rot and become mush. Convenient scapegoats are convenient, but there's at least some research out there that's not taking the idea as a given and trying to fit their data to it.
Which I pair with the suggestion made in the 1950s that philosophy as it is studied in most Western nations relies on the bachelorhood of many of its greats, and that reliance is a weakness woven into the structure of those philosophical traditions.
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A history of braille systems, from the Perkins School for the Blind, which has some fascinating parts about how many different codes and forms for getting the blind to be able to read text before the dot systems, and that there were more than a few dot systems involved before a certain amount of standardization, and then compression, was adopted for use. I have seen braille dots and felt them, and I even have a bookmark somewhere from our State Library that offers services to the blind and those who have difficulty reading standard print that has the alphabet on it (so it would probably only be useful for Grade 1), but it would definitely take time and extra sensitivity in my fingers to get used to reading the dots, like any other thing.
After here, there's still yet more of the next few weeks of an administration that seems determined to destroy everything it touches, through malice, even if that malice turns out to be incompetence as well. There will be other things, I promise, by the end, but there's going to be a lot of politics in between.
( An awful lot of politics )
Last out for tonight, a library of craft patterns and craft pattern publications in the public domain.
And Soemone finally pushing back against the idea that technology and screens are all causing our brains to rot and become mush. Convenient scapegoats are convenient, but there's at least some research out there that's not taking the idea as a given and trying to fit their data to it.
Which I pair with the suggestion made in the 1950s that philosophy as it is studied in most Western nations relies on the bachelorhood of many of its greats, and that reliance is a weakness woven into the structure of those philosophical traditions.
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