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\nHave you seen the old man
\nIn the closed down market
\nKicking up the papers
\nWith his worn out shoes?
\nIn his eyes, you see no pride
\nHand held loosely at his side
\nYesterday’s paper
\nTelling yesterday’s news
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To state the obvious, these times have been different.<\/p>\n

I have continued my obsession with reading all kinds of news, from all kinds of sources, reading literally thousands of headlines every day, and delving into items that intrigue me.
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So many of those items relate to dismay about the new adminstration destroying our country (world?). Some report on effective resistance. A few offer suggestions for constructive paths forward.<\/p>\n

The activist in me wants to encourage others to read the items that seem worth reading, but what is the best vehicle for doing that?<\/p>\n

All of the social media and authoring platforms, Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, BlueSky<\/a>, Mastodon<\/a>, Substack<\/a>, … have their positives and negatives. I had been tending to primarily use Facebook, because of reach, but (a) wondered whether to depend on Facebook preserving the content and (b) wondered how visible\/buried the content is.<\/p>\n

One of my influences has been Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American<\/a>. Typically, just before midnight central U.S. time, I receive the email version of her Substack, dated that day. If I read it after midnight, it is yesterday’s news, but usually inciteful, thorough, and worth reading.<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s News<\/a> seems my answer, at least for now:<\/p>\n

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  1. kewus.net\/yesterday<\/a> is hosted on a server I control, backup, …<\/li>\n
  2. kewus.net\/yesterday<\/a> is very simple WordPress — well-known technology — plus the Web monitoring tools I’ve crafted over last three decades will help<\/li>\n
  3. I think I have a methodology for daily postings that will be easier for me, less intrusive on all the other things I do\/want to do\/hadn’t been getting done.<\/li>\n
  4. I can (plan to) send the daily posts to Facebook, Twitter, BlueSky, Mastodon, Substack, …<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For now, this site will likely be primarily a news aggregator, but I may start adding original content. I almost entirely avoid paying for subscription material, and try to use Internet Archive Wayback Machine<\/a>, Archive.today<\/a>, private browsing, etc. to glean the essence from paywalled content. It seems that many paywalled sites will let text only browsers such as lynx<\/a> bypass the paywalls to see the text content.<\/p>\n

    In so far as seems appropriate, citations are included from sources I typically disagree with or worse: Wall Street Journal, Fox News, …<\/p>\n

    I don’t plan to let kewus.net\/yesterday<\/a> displace writing elsewhere<\/a> on separate topics: technology, music, …<\/p>\n

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    About the “kewus” domain name: I originally was looking for a domain for link shortening with YOURLS<\/a>. Short domain names fetch premium prices these days, but kewus.net was available at a standard price. Karl E Wohhg<\/a> is one of my pseudonyms, so kewus was originally an acronym for “Karl E Wohhg’s URI Shortener,” but now I think of it as “Karl E Wohhg’s Utility Site.”
    \n    Derivation of “Karl Z. Wog” (thanks to M.I.T.)<\/a>
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    Have you seen the old man In the closed down market Kicking up the papers With his worn out shoes? In his eyes, you see no pride Hand held loosely at his side Yesterday’s paper Telling yesterday’s news To state the obvious, these times have been different. I have continued my obsession with reading all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7202,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/7202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}