A list of some great links to follow:

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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

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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

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

Karen Attiah: “The Washington Post Fired Me”

Former Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah this morning on Bluesky: “I’ve been fired from the Washington Po

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The Thousands of Atomic Bombs Exploded on Earth

From Orbital Mechanics, a visualization of the 2153 nuclear weapons exploded on Earth since 1945. 2153! I had no idea there had

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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 […]

https://blog.hughhollowell.org/kottke-shoutout/

You Commit Three Felonies a Day

In a book called Three Felonies A Day, Boston civil rights lawyer Harvey Silverglate says that everyone in the US commits felonies

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Kottke on #uspol: Thoughtful comments from an O.G. blogger about covering the current awful political situation in the US
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A Programming Note

Hey, everyone. I just wanted to update you on what’s been happening here at KDO HQ. As you might have noticed (and if my inb

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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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Source links with back stories at:

https://kenthendricks.com/52-things-i-learned-in-2024/

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52 Things I Learned in 2024 - Kent Hendricks

Here are some of the most interesting things I learned this year.

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