• Cool fact of the week: We Used To Have 6 More Letters In Our Alphabet.
• Nation with Crumbling Bridges and Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall. The satire burn is strong with this one.
• How Much Sugar Can You Avoid Today? This is tricky.
• France gives workers ‘right to disconnect’ from office email. The US needs this BADLY.
• The Wrong Way to Speak to Children. Food for thought.
• Republicans call Obamacare a ‘failure.’ These 7 charts show they couldn’t be more wrong. Also, psst, ACA and Obamacare are the SAME THING. Because apparently some anti-Obamacare who have ACA people don’t realize that!
• Dan Rather Scolds WSJ For Refusing To Call Trump On Lies.
• The Internet Archive’s Trump Archive will ensure that Trump’s U-turns and lies can always be challenged.
• I’ve left Twitter. It is unusable for anyone but trolls, robots and dictators. “I hate to disappoint anyone, but the breaking point for me wasn’t the trolls themselves – it was the global repercussions of Twitter’s refusal to stop them. The white supremacist, anti-feminist, isolationist, transphobic “alt-right” movement has been beta-testing its propaganda and intimidation machine on marginalised Twitter communities for years now.”
• Related: Rodrigo Duterte’s Army of Online Trolls.

Things of Note:

Nothing much to note this week, actually. Days happened. Meals were eaten. Work and chores done. That’s about it. This new year is starting out a bit slow over here.

How are things hanging in your world?
 

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