Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

In 2009, Esther Conwell was awarded the National Medal of Science for her contributions to understanding electron transport in semiconductors.

She narrates most of this lovely little video about her career and contributions:

https://youtu.be/AtUZsj-AfBs

Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for The Detective, of course, but he also wrote many non-Holmes stories.

A lesser-known fave is “The Doctors of Hoyland,” in which a man can’t wrap his head around a woman being a better doctor than him. All he can think to do is propose marriage, and she laughs him off to go do more Science. It holds up!

You can read it here: https://web.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/doctorsofhoyland.html

“Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.”
— Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born #OTD in 1859

Today's special edition of The Counteroffensive is focused on Daniel Montano, a pseudonym for a former US military servicemember currently fighting for Ukrainian forces.

He took this photo in Donbas on May 11, 2023, just a week and a half ago.

now this is french toast 🙃

Happy 20th anniversary to the Streisand Effect, courtesy of @mmasnick and Techdirt.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/20/twenty-years-ago-today-barbra-streisand-sued-a-photographer-and-the-streisand-effect-was-born/

PBS interviewed Michael J. Fox tonight and I just wept at how amazing a person he is. And this one sentence he said just riveted me…

ooof this sucks—disney+ is cancelling and memory holing a bunch of shows, including *The Mysterious Benedict Society* https://deadline.com/2023/05/disney-remove-series-streaming-disney-plus-hulu-big-shot-willow-y-dollface-turner-hooch-pistol-1235372512/

log(😅) =💧log(😄)

Earth at night seen from space.

Some more details on how Instagram is planning to build an ActivityPub compatible service... https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23730070/instagram-twitter-app-competitor-leak

One of the dumbest rules. Everyone needs to do this. My students are shocked at the ways journals discourage appropriate citation.

It's time again: We're now accepting apps from co-op startups for the next cohort of the Start.coop accelerator! Are you building a co-op:

- to reshape a sector w/ economic justice
- to close racial wealth gaps
- to unlock radical imaginations

Apply: https://www.start.coop/accelerator/apply

FCC adopta new rules to further expand call blocking requirements, which it says will "ensure even greater robocall protections for consumers."