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Open Thread, 05/26/2019

I’m having issues with the server load on this website in the past week. No idea what’s going on…I suspect that it has to do with WordPress plugins. I’ve tweaked caching and added Cloudflare. We’ll see.

Since this website is kind of intermittent right now, remember to bookmark or note:

* My newsletter.
* My content (RSS).
* Follow me on Twitter.

As you can see I’ve replaced the Twitter widget with pinboard. I still check Twitter for direct messages but have started phasing that out as a way to communicate with people in a reciprocal two-way fashion.

Speaking of Twitter, a friend who is a professor at a major research university told me that first-year graduate students, on the whole, were not interested in joining Twitter. Some of this is probably generational (the youngest of these students are probably “Generation Z”), but some of it might be that Twitter has a reputation for nastiness.

What books are you reading?

4 thoughts on “Open Thread, 05/26/2019

  1. I’m reading Leo Africanus. So far so good! It manages to capture the ‘alien mindset’ of past peoples much better than most historical fiction.

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