Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life
Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe that sits in its own “supra-kingdom” of life foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered by new sequencing technologies.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-a-newfound-kingdom-means-for-the-tree-of-life-20181211/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18710486

The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention

Oh how I wish I was better at remembering what i read!

READING TIME: 12 MINUTES
We are not taught how to learn in school, we are taught how to pass tests. The spacing effect is a far more effective way to learn and retain information that works with our brain instead of against it. Find out how to use it here.

fs.blog/2018/12/spacing-effect/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706280

I lent my tiny tablet (ok, a phone with no sim) to a friend, so I gave it a factory reset. Just got it back, so I gave it another reset.
Sadly, it's not supported by anything I can find to give it new open firmware (BLU - very cheap and likely backdoored...).
I wonder how functional it can be with zero google login and fdroid?

android: even the damn keyboard wants to call home with 'anonymized snippets'.
Finding all the effing landmines in android is as much fun as win10. And apple. And any other damn thing a corporate finger gets into.

NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott

Interesting: The NAACP has returned a donation from Facebook and called for a daylong boycott of the social network Tuesday following revelations of how its platform was used to manipulate black voters in the 2016 presidential election.

They want a boycott of fb and twit Tues, Dec. 18th.

https://www.axios.com/naacp-returns-facebook-donation-calls-for-boycott-c60ef129-457d-4847-80e3-1d7fdb5764dc.html

I'd like to do my part, but I boycott 24/7/365 so I doubt they'd notice my absent absence :-)