I really want to think that I’m the type of child who benefitted the most with PBS:

I:

• Grew up in a small village under-served by traditional media.
• Attended public schools in the 87th poorest county in Ohio with books that were sometimes 30 years old (I had books in High School that my mom used.)
• Grew a love of math and Science from shows on PBS like Square One, which Mathnet helped me fall in love with Dragnet, NOVA, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego which taught me about geography.

Thinking about this more doesn’t make me want to put something on a pedestal…but it does make me feel like I’m not special, and that PBS did it’s job. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting – CPB – was dismantled today, unceremoniously. I hope and pray that one day, we can give kids a chance like I got to succeed.

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Personal note:

While I love volunteering and helping others, I choose to spend my time at organizations that I want to spend time at. I understand that there will always be politics in the things that are out there any time where you have a group of diverse minds with different goals, but, I always hope that the goals of the non-profit can come first: helping others learn, sharing our love of teaching with others, and helping other non-profits by providing resources and support so that they can perform their missions in the community.

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As most of you know, I’m a linux nerd. I do use some macOS and windows for my work life, but 99.9% of what I do is based off of Linux. With that said, while there are somewhat out of the box solutions for installing windows, there’s not really a piece of software that’s open source that’s out there that does everything that I want. Fog Project fits some pieces of the puzzle, netboot.xyz is really strong when it comes to Linux Management, but, doesn’t really give me any dashboard nor any way to really manage it outside of a docker container, which doesn’t really fit my workflow, and while there are OS specific solutions that are out there for Debian and RHEL, I’m looking for something that can automate a lot of the normal workflow specific things for me:

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Quick Information at a glance:

• ISBN: 9781668033012
• Author: Gianna Toboni
• Pages: 320
• While I did copy this review on my Librarything profile, please consider this the official review.

The Book, My thoughts, and is it a good read.

“The Volunteer” is a sobering book about the capital punishment machine in America, the attempts to whitewash it in the form of lethal injections, the fight between departments of corrections and the anti-capital groups trying to get restrictions on how the drugs can be used in correctional settings, and the story of Scott Dozier – a former death row inmate in Nevada who tried to force the state to execute him – as told by Gianna Tobini, a Vice reporter.

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I spent some time today working on getting my blog updated, including adding the list of Slashpages to my blogs that I manage.

New pages include:

• /about – a page all about me…
• /ai – a page on my website that describes how you use, or don’t use, AI.
• /cannon – an encapsulation, in list form, of those things that have most shaped me. A sort of annotated bibliography of influences.
• /colophon – a page that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies
• /death – a page with instructions for family and friends in case of my demise
• /defaults – a list of the apps I use for various tasks, usually based on the list from Hemispheric Views 097
• /ideas – things I want to make, or concepts am considering
• /interests – what I’m passionate about and what excites me.
• /junk – host an indie-web yardsale
• /nope – a list of things I don’t like or don’t want to do
• /shoebox – A bit of website where for the odds-and-ends.
• /someday – things I someday would like to achieve, accomplish, explore, experience, create, learn, understand
• /verify – a page on my website to list and prove my online identities
• /where – a place to let others know about my current location
• /why – an opportunity to say what I care about, what direction you’re heading, and how I hope to exist in the world. A minifesto on the purpose of my site, or my work
• /yep – a list of things I agree with or will do

A lot of content for one evening…

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