[SC 2.4.4] Back to sharing links
I'm back in the United States and I'm back to sharing links.
The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg!
Finally, some answers.
The Worst Kind of Corporate Greed
"Today’s Neanderthals have figured out how to efficiently wring maximum profits out of people with disabilities."
Who Goes Nazi?
Something to think about in the next four plus years.
UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war
Live as of two days ago.
This elephant learned to use a hose as a shower. Then her rival sought revenge
Elephants are so dang smart.
The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write.
Someone once mentioned calling it the "new job factor" instead of the "bus factor", and yeah, let's start calling it that.
I Ching with a Side of Gin? Chinese Drinkers Head to Spiritual Bars
Interesting!
AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive
The next five years of code quality is gonna be wild.
Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work From Home
I hope they get the shit sued out of them.
The flavour of mechanisation
"It tastes like the growing network of global shipping routes, and the increasing rotational speed of well-lubricated industrial machinery."
What I want from Mozilla
This was a sobering read, and then I read this.
Michael Keaton kept saying “I’m Batman” during ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ fight scenes
The title is the content, but also: incredible.
Bear downs 36 beers, passes out at campground
And speaking of incredible.
St. Paul to wipe out medical debt for 32,000 residents
More of this.
AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
"It’s difficult for researchers to probe commercial models as most are proprietary black boxes, she said. And companies don’t have to disclose patterns or biases in their results, creating a void of information around the problem."
Who’s Boring Now? The Corporate Capture of our Fight Against Boredom
I can't remember the last time I felt bored, and that's… not good.
‘It brought me to my knees’: The Hum – a mysterious phenomenon that’s baffled the world for decades
It's wild that I haven't heard of this before!
Notes App Epiphanies
I wish these had alt text descriptions, but it's also an interesting collection.
Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
I'd watch a HBO series on this.
Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit
Huh!
Return-To-Office Push Could Make Workplaces ‘More White And More Male,’ Expert Warns
Another in the long line of absolutely horrible things that the pageantry that is RTO is.
Here's a few links I squirreled away while processing the election results. Maybe they'll be helpful for you, too: