A list of some great links to follow:
KDO Rolodex 186
“A list of kindred spirits, friends, open web enthusiasts, role models, fellow travelers, and collaborators.”
#links #kottke #KDO %Rolodex
https://kottke.org/rolodex/
A list of some great links to follow:
KDO Rolodex 186
“A list of kindred spirits, friends, open web enthusiasts, role models, fellow travelers, and collaborators.”
#links #kottke #KDO %Rolodex
https://kottke.org/rolodex/
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Huntington's disease treated for first time
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It means the decline you would normally expect in one year would take four years after treatment, [..].
The first symptoms of Huntington's disease tend to appear in your 30s or 40s and is normally fatal within two decades.
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Wow, one might then very well merely die "with" it, instead of "from" it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro
via @kottke
#medicine #healthcare #HuntingtonsDisease #Huntingtons #kottke
If you ever had any doubts about what "free speech" really means to the right, read Leo Kottke's introduction to former Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah account of her firing from the newspaper. Free speech to them was, and always will be, a means of silencing those that disagree with their agenda.
#FreeSpeech #Kottke #washingtonpost
https://kottke.org/25/09/karen-attiah-the-washington-post-fired-me
My work on the web has always owed a lot to Jason Kottke. When I first started blogging at the end of 2003, he was my age, but already an elder on the blogging scene. A lot of my thoughts about blogging, the open web, owning your content, and publishing on your own site were shaped by or originated with him. And in the last few years, he’s been supportive of me and my work.
In fact, some of […]
You Commit Three Felonies a Day (2013)
https://kottke.org/13/06/you-commit-three-felonies-a-day
#HackerNews #YouCommitThreeFeloniesADay #FelonyAwareness #LegalSystem #CrimeSocialNorms #Kottke
Love these from Kent Hendricks' round up:
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14. Truckers in Maine received $5 million due to a missing Oxford comma in state law.
21. A black bear in Georgia died from a cocaine overdose. It was stuffed, and is now legally allowed to officiate weddings due to a loophole in Kentucky marriage law.
36. Massachusetts law requires fortune tellers be licensed to prohibit "pretended" fortune telling.
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