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The United States Postal Service has announced its latest batch of stamp art, including one honoring science fiction luminary Ursula K. Le Guin by artist Donato Giancola, which will be released later this year.
The stamp, the Postal Service says in its release, is the 33rd installment of its Literary Arts series, which has featured such authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald (1996), Mark Twain (2011), and Walt Whitman (2019). The stamp features a portrait of Le Guin taken from a 2006 photograph, as well as a scene from her famous novel
The Left Hand of Darkness.
We are delighted to announce that the 33rd stamp in the US Postal Service Literary Arts series honors Ursula. Stamp release will be later this year, date TBD. From then on, all our letters will be three ounces! Thank you @USPS for this distinction. https://t.co/H0jw1KmhUbpic.twitter.com/NA8Yz7I7fl
I’d love to see Lambert or someone more computer literate than me comment on the Signal piece regarding its CIA origins: https://yasha.substack.com/p/signal-is-a-government-op-85e The argument “it’s open source, so the end to end encryption is pure” seems to be the argument thrown back against the piece, but I don’t think you can trust anything on the internet anymore. It’s all monitored, it’s all collected. As long as Lambert knows what day it is, just kidding. Yesterday Signal seemed to go down and I’m wondering why.
The article on microbiomes and Covid makes sense to me. I found that I was getting far less sick and less often when I started keeping chickens and coming into contact with them every day. It also helped with generalized anxiety that I’ve struggled with my whole life, that and cutting out simple carbohydrates. I’m convinced that healthy microbiomes are a huge key to how a body functions and that we’re only just discovering how they work.