Today I’m going for pure entertainment. Hermes is a Pandora player. Much lighter-weight than using the web interface. It’s simple, functional, free, and open source. All the Pandora functions are there in a compact window that you can float on top or hide out of sight.

China used those requirements to gain expertise and climb up the supply chain. And it worked. Now they own the entire process, and every design sent to them to build becomes a new piece of knowledge they own.

https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1159055303746424832

Coverture held that no female person had a legal identity. At birth, a female baby was covered by her father's identity, and then, when she married, by her husband's.

This is a fascinating article about how some stumps are stay alive by grafting their roots to other trees. In exchange for the energy derived from other trees, they provide water siphoned up at night when the other trees aren’t active. It’s not clear if the grafting happened before or after the tree was cut down.