Dec. 24th, 2019

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Looks like we have some new ones to add, care of the IAU's NameExoWorlds project. Some of the relevant details and links can be found here:

https://www.space.com/iau-unveils-new-stars-planets-names-indigenous-languages.html

http://www.nameexoworlds.iau.org/final-results

If you're wondering about Canada's winning entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awasis

http://galaxymap.org/dr2/index.html?search=HD%20136418&tileset=SGD&distanceEstimator=bj

From the Nēhiyawēwin language...what we settler-born Canadians of a certain age-range were taught to call "Cree".

All of this remains subject to approval by whatever species we might end up finding calling those planets "home", of course!
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A lot of us remember reading the Barlow manifesto on cyberspace.

I'm certain that Vladimir Putin must have read a Russian translation of that document at some point between 1996 and now and decided the whole thing was blasphemous from the word "Пойти"(1). Well, now his quest to rebuke Barlow has taken another lurching step forward to its stated goal of a "sovereign Internet". Some of the details can be found care of the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50902496

They look at mainland China's "Great Firewall" as a aspirational role model, of course. In error...of course. It's one more facet of Putin's quest to remake the rest of humanity in the image of his choosing, right along with the impositions of Trump and Brexit manipulations (among others suspected with various degrees of certainty). It will have to be dealt with, preferably to his dissatisfaction and to the whole world's betterment.

I don't pretend to the needed expertise to help with this project, though.


(1) "Go" in English.
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So...here is us again. Those of us still here, anyway.

It's been a wild year, running the full range of emotion from joy to despair.

I wish you the best possible greetings of the Season, by whatever Name(s) you choose to honour it. I wish you peace, hope, wisdom, freedom, justice, and love. If you do not find them, may they find you and may it bring joy to you when they do.

The Tree

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