Dr Billy Ralph wrote a letter in response to a feature article (below) by Kathy Sheridan in the Irish Times this weekend. “In many ways, this is the story of how a family with two teenage children negotiated a devastating diagnosis and chaotic illness together.” “It could also be read as a 300-page rebuke to those who contended that the CMO and head of the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) didn’t live in the “real” world.

Good morning! If Emma Chamberlain’s viral home tour made you feel conflicted last week, I have a few ideas about why. And if you’re someone who enjoys decorating but finds the current state of interiors a little hollow and depressing, I have a suggestion. (Substack tells me this newsletter has too many photos to fit in an email, so you may have to click into the web browser to view them all.

My first semester of college, I had a neighbor who had a nice stereo system. I don’t know anything about stereo systems to I have to take her word that it was nice, or at least expensive. My neighbor set up her CD player and speakers inside her closet, against the interior wall that separated her closet from my closet, and when she played music loudly, which she liked to do, especially at night, it thumped right into my room.

The study of the French Revolution has evolved in many different directions since the bicentennial of 1989. Like historical studies in general, it has taken the “global turn,” relating developments in France to world-wide patterns of imperial expansion, commerce, migration, intellectual exchange, and conflict (this shift led me, nearly a decade ago, to write an article urging a degree of caution: not every significant event in revolutionary France is best explained by the global context).

For the first time ever, I present to you… Every single “Linux Sucks” video. All in one place. From the very first one (in 2009) all the way up through the most recent one (just recorded a few weeks ago, in 2022). As I was going through, cataloging and uploading all of these, I found it absolutely fascinating to look at how much things have changed in the Linux world over the last 13+ years.