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Let me share my life’s story and why Apple's repair announcement is a big deal to me. Way back in 2003, I was trying to fix my clamshell iBook and googled for the service manual. All I found was sites that had been removed because of a DMCA takedown. /thread

Remembering and Honoring Oaklin Mixon eastvillagemagazine.org/2021/12/23/rem…

Truly a special day for our family to join so many friends & community members in celebrating the legacy of #Flint Mayor Floyd J. McCree! Thanks to the supporters of this project esp. Mayor Sheldon A. Neeley and Community Foundation of Greater Flint CEO Isaiah Oliver for their leadership.

20 ideas I can’t stop thinking about:

Okay, like virtually everyone else who studies social media, I'm fascinated by Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Let me say upfront: I have no idea what Twitter will be like under Elon's leadership and neither do you. But that's the point.

On New Year’s Eve I always think back to the emotions of Watch Night for the enslaved. As I argue in this essay for Zócalo Public Square Smithsonian National Museum of American History, freedom wasn’t granted but had to be sieved and defined by the people themselves. zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/12/30/pra…

"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

So what remains? "By their fruits you will know them." Pay less attention to ideology/theology as a marker of righteousness. Pay more attention to character and virtue, including a commitment to justice, kindness, and humility (Micah 6:8). /7

“It’s a jaw-dropping inditement on the historical and present failings of the country’s educational & political leadership. But it’s also a passionate call to action to remove the hold one educational theory — whole language literacy — has had” on US Ed. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…

A list of "Open Source alternatives to XXX" that I've saved in my bookmarks for the past 3 years. 30 tools 👇 → supabase.com - firebase → documenso.com - docu sign → cal.com - calendly → plausible.io - google analytics →