@gruber Oh noes! IMy #iPad Pro never seemed to be slow for anything... This is unexpected. (I probably thought this about my original Fat Mac in 1985.)
Speaking of which, the image is a B&W of the interior of my original Fat Mac (MacIntosh 512K: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_512K). Taken with a iPhone 14 Pro Max 1 second exposure.
Enlarge the image and look at the signatures of the original staff that made the MacIntosh a product.
I bought in 1985. While I do most of my writing on the iPad Pro, I wrote my early novels on this machine and thought it would last forever. I wrote my first novel on an Apple ].
Today in Writing History May 22, 1927: Author Peter Matthiessen was born. Matthiessen was an environmental activist and a CIA officer who wrote short stories, novels and nonfiction. He’s the only writer to have won the National Book award in both nonfiction, for The Snow Leopard (1979), and in fiction, for Shadow Country (2008). His story Travelin’ Man was made into the film The Young One (1960) by Luis Bunuel. Perhaps his most famous book was, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983), which tells the story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI’s war on the American Indian Movement. Peltier is still in prison (over 43 years so far) for a crime he most likely did not commit. The former governor of South Dakota, Bill Janklow, and David Price, an FBI agent who was at the Wounded Knee assault, both sued Viking Press for libel because of statements in the book. Both lawsuits threatened to undermine free speech and further stifle indigenous rights activism. Fortunately, both lawsuits were dismissed.
Today in Labor History May 21, 1935: Jane Addams died. Addams was a peace activist, sociologist and author. She was a co-founder of the ACLU and a leader in the history of social work and women’s suffrage. In 1931, she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1889, along with her lover, Ellen Gates Starr, she co-founded Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago. Eventually, the house became home to 25 women and was visited weekly by around 2,000 others. It became a center for research, study and debate. Members were bound by their commitment to the labor and suffrage movements. The facilities included a doctor to provide medical treatment for poor families, gym, adult night school and a girls’ club. The adult night school became a model for the continuing education classes that occur today.
Today in Writing History May 21, 1703: The authorities imprisoned writer Daniel Defoe for seditious libel. Defoe was most famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, and Moll Flanders (1722). However, he also wrote political pamphlets, including The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, which satirized how Tories handled religious dissenters by proposing that they all be exterminated. As a result, the authorities arrested and imprisoned him for seditious libel.
I have always found that the act of writing itself is what is most rewarding. That total immersion into your characters and their story. Write not for money or fame—your name in lights with people cheering—but to grow, to know yourself, to become. #writing#amwriting#writingcommunity#writer#author#writingtips#meditation
Today in Labor History May 19, 1989: Trinidadian Marxist historian and journalist C.L.R. James died. James was the author of The Black Jacobins (1938), Breaking a Boundary (1963), numerous articles and essays on class and race antagonism, West Indian self-determination, cricket, Marxism, & aesthetics. In 1933, he published the pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government. He was a champion of Pan-Africanism and a member of the Friends of Ethiopia, an organization opposed to fascism and the Italian conquest of Ethiopia. He also wrote a play about the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint L’Ouverture, the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History. Paul Robeson starred in the 1936 British production.
Just read Terry Pratchett: A life with footnotes.
Now I'm not the target audience for this, since I've never been a fan of biographies.
Still, if there was one I wanted to read it was this one.
As an aspiring writer of "Fantasy/Attempted Comedy", with a number of chronic illnesses, it felt relevant. ☺️
I finished reading Angela Sterritt’s memoir on our road trip. “Unbroken: My Story of Survival and My Fight for Justice and Hope for Indigenous Women and Girls” is incredibly powerful. You can order your copy today. 10/10 recommend: https://greystonebooks.com/products/unbroken
Today in Writing History May 13, 1944: Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin was born. Maupin wrote the novels over the course of nearly forty years, (1978-2014). He was one of the first writers to incorporate the AIDS epidemic into his novels.
Hey hi there just a reminder that with summer vacation from school coming, many kids will be missing what may be their only place to get meals. That’s why I leave snacks in Little Free Libraries around the neighborhood. Why children go hungry in a nation as wealthy as ours is a subject for another toot.
Today in Writing History May 11, 1916: Spanish author, fascist and Nobel laureate, Camilo Jose Cela, was born. He was a staunch homophobe and a supporter of Franco, fascist leader of Spain. During the dictatorship, he worked as a censor for the fascist state and as an informer for the secret police.
Space Nuts
I've already recommended this before, but I'm doing it again here because it remains my favourite. Run by host Andrew Dunkley (#radio host and #author) and Prof. Fred Watson (also author, and astronomer-at-large), #3space nuts dives into many space-related topics around the world and here in australia - ranging from supermassive black holes, to the latest crewed missions, to space telescope projects.
Unexplainable
Hosted by Noam Hassenfeld, Byrd Pinkerton and Brian Resnick (and many more), Unexplainable covers the may #scientific mysteries that riddle our universe. From havana syndrome, to predicting tornados, to resurrecting mammoths, identifying housebug species, this isn't your regular 'mystery' podcast. It dedicates itself to explaining (or 'unexplaining') such mysteries through interviews with the experts involved - and teaching you along the way. Unexplainable is run by the VOX media group.
99% invisible
99 percent invisible is hosted primarily by Roman Mars, with stories presented by the rest of the team - including Chris Berube, Jason De Leon, Emmet FitzGerald, and more. It focuses on topics related to #architecture, Urban planing and #Geograpy While that may sound boring, it strays from what you would consider such a scope would contain, and the stories that 99pi tells are truly fascinating - for example, island sheep adapting to a diet of seaweed, or how lotteries work, all the way to why captions are so terrible.
Today in Writing History May 9, 1946: Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist was born on this day. Along with her husband, she cofounded Belge publishing house. She published books on the Armenian Genocide and the human rights of Turkey’s Kurdish population. As a result, the government imprisoned her repeatedly. Amnesty International designated her a prison of conscience.