THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

BIRTHDAYS:

1291 Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet. Firmissime fidem, and “Tribum que / Quoniam secta / Merito hec patimur”

1785 George F Kersting, German painter.

1795 John Keats, English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

1832 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

1920 Dick Francis, British jockey and detective writer.

MISCELLANEOUS:

INTERESTING. My Suggestion for a SpaceX Faster Return to the Moon Plan

ABOVE THE CLOUD COMPUTING, SO TO SPEAK. An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit

IN THE FUTURE, BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN AGAIN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT WANT TO ACQUAINT THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration