Four Quick Links for Friday Afternoon

16:53

Interesting essay on The Gilded Age. "Every period drama is ultimately a confection. Because to tell the truth how it really was, how it truly was, would be too much. Implicating." [blgtylr.substack.com]

100 year-old National Park Service Ranger Betty Reid Soskin retires after remarkable career. [nps.gov]

The Macrodata Refinement interface from Lumon Industries. I'm gonna win so many finger puzzles this month! [lumon-industries.com]

I'd missed that the Webb Telescope snapped this photo of a star taken as part of its alignment process. It's not a scientific image, but it does include galaxies in the background that we'd previously been unable to capture. [cosmosmagazine.com]

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