JFR The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore

The author of Tha Radium Girls has written a book about Elizabeth Packard, an extraordinary woman who was institutionalized by her husband for having opinions

Okay, that's way simplistic. This woman was exceedingly smart, educated, and a natural public speaker

Her husband was a conservative pastor in 1860, whose church was having a crisis between old and new doctrines to follow, and she was stirring things up, so he had her committed

She fought back, through her wit, her words, and powered by her faith, and eventually got a jury to declare her sane

Then she went after the system, and changed the laws of the land to protect her sisters from unscrupulous husbands and so-called psychiatrists

I found the story compelling, and the subject was really a woman before her time, where declaring that women should have equal rights was in itself a damning symptom of insanity

Definitely will read again

#books #bookstodon

I'm working on a side project involving a Raspberry Pi CM4. My Linux kernel configuration is pretty aggressively pruned. I'm also heavily using modules for things that aren't needed until after the root FS is mounted. Still, the kernel image is 9.2 MB uncompressed, or 4 MB compressed. How did we end up here? That size used to be huge for a kernel.

Seriously, it would be interesting to have a breakdown of which subsystems contribute the most to that size.

How cool is this?
I'm using the motion controls in my Dreamcast fishing controller to play Tennis on a game/system that predates the Wii by SEVEN YEARS!

#retrogaming #dreamcast #sega