THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Reading brings us unknown friends.”

— Honore de Balzac

BIRTHDAYS:

65 BC Horace, Roman poet renowned for his lyric odes, satires, and epistles that blended Greek literary traditions with Roman sensibilities during the Augustan Age.

1731 František Xaver Dušek, Czech pianist, harpsichordist, and composer, born in Chotěborky, Vilantice, Kingdom of Boehmia. Sonata XXII in F major

1765 Eli Whitney, American inventor, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer renowned for devising the cotton gin in 1793, a machine that efficiently separated cotton fibers from seeds, thereby transforming cotton processing from a labor-intensive task into a mechanized operation.

1861 Aristide Maillol, French painter and sculptor.

1865 Jean Sibelius, Sibelius, was a Finnish composer and violinist whose orchestral works bridged late Romanticism and early modernism. Finlandia (Prom 75)

1926 Joachim Fest, German historian, journalist, and author whose works focused on the rise and nature of National Socialism.

1947 Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong-born British entrepreneur, media proprietor, and pro-democracy activist of Catholic faith.

MISCELLANEOUS:

THIS IS THE SORT OF THING I LIKE TO SEE AI BEING PUT TO USE FOR. NASA spacecraft were vulnerable to hacking for 3 years and nobody knew. AI found and fixed the flaw in 4 days

REMINDER:

In the future, before locking things down again (including free speech and the freedom to assemble), the authorities might want to reacquaint themselves with the following:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration