Many famous works entered the Copyright Public Domain today.

Scroll down a ways to see the intriguing story of the Sherlock Holmes copyright litigation.

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

#Copyright #PublicDomain #SherlockHolmes

I love closing out the year with this. 😊

On December 31, 1995, exactly 27 years ago today, legendary cartoonist Bill Watterson published his final 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip.

How beautiful and appropriate it was, and a timeless reminder of what we have before us in 2023. ❤️

Happy New Year, ya'll!

Oregon is facing a population drop for the first time in 30 years because deaths outpaced births to the point where in-migration, which dominated the state's growth, wasn't enough.

Oregon's average age is 39.5.

The US is 38.1.

Oregon's future is about to hit everywhere.

At the rate of US population aging, it looks like the US is only about 5-7 years behind Oregon demographically, at the most.

By 2030, the US could be looking at a population stagnation unless we see an immigration surge.

Good morning! I hope you have a great last week of 2022. Here's your final Monday ice update of the year - #Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the 5th lowest on record (JAXA data).

• about 10,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 630,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,190,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,520,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More real-time sea ice graphs: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/

RT @[email protected]

The probability of below freezing temperatures by Saturday morning is high everywhere but the western U.S.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GCarbin/status/1606411484698918912

Gonna write this up in longer form, but folks complaining that the $45bn Ukraine costs are high miss two key points:

1. The direct costs in (US) military aid are surprisingly small; in the order of $19bn this year, and $10.8bn committed (so far) for next year

2. The indirect economic costs of the Russian war to the US economy (i.e. to the private sector not via the government) are in the order of $600-700bn per year. To pick a random company, it's nearly $6-10bn in costs to Apple *alone*.

Friend: How's it going.

Me: My house is aunted.

Friend: Haunted?

Me: Sssshhhh. *whispers* No, aunted. Quiet. They'll hear you, and make you eat.

Good news: a hitherto lethal disease can now be more or less cured.

Bad news: the disease is so rare that no one wants to commercialize the therapy.

Good news: regulatory structures can be fixed more esily than children's missing immune systems. But will we?

RT @[email protected]

Gene therapy trial shows promise for treating ‘bubble boy’ syndrome. Now comes the hard part https://trib.al/aD3KuL7

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/statnews/status/1605704178801819651