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Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Some career news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically reduced the company’s workforce.

I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting.

But this time, alone.

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they
live.
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-94
#library #gop #censorship

As expected, #twitter failures starting to show up at user level of service.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-down-thousands-users-downdetectorcom-2022-12-29/

We are getting endless error messages on Twitter, it's either

"Something went wrong. Try reloading."

or

"Something went wrong, but don’t fret — it’s not your fault. Let’s try again."

Glad it's not our fault (maybe we should tune the space lasers) but this doesn't look good...

#Twitter #meta