[SC 2.4.4] A nice change of pace
I am sending this week's newsletters from Chicago, which is a nice change of pace. I'm hoping to give the Bean the middle finger if I see it, as Anish Kapoor sucks.
Quantum mechanics: how the future might influence the past
Time is a flat circle
Woman's Runny Nose Actually A Brain Fluid Leak
😱
Experts say attacks on free speech are rising across the US
Censorship for thee and not for me.
Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine
I have this printer and endorse this review.
National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using it in science
One for the bookmarks.
A video game company made a bot the CEO, and its stock climbed
Something to think about with all these tech layoffs.
How Ants Became the World’s Best Fungus Farmers
There is only a tiny, itty-bitty subset of things that humans do that nature does not do already.
Tech Exec Steps Down After Quoting Mussolini in Company Email
Bye, Felicia.
Artificial Intelligence Is Booming—So Is Its Carbon Footprint
Thinking about this as my company rolls out AI for things that probably shouldn’t have AI applied to it.
The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews
People will do whatever the hell they want with open-ended inputs and that is both beautiful and terrible.
Gunned down and burned by the Nazis: the shocking true story of Bambi
In hindsight, it's not a surprise that Walt Disney buried the Holocaust allegory.
Feature: 40 Years Of Weird And Wonderful (And Just Plain Wrong) Super Mario TV Commercials
Decadent and depraved.
Something pretty right: The history and legacy of Visual Basic
I enjoyed this story, and its design.
Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over
To quote my Jewish grandmother, the fish rots from the head.
Scientists Are Preparing to Create a Traversable Quantum Wormhole
[[ Half Life intensifies ]]
Archive.org: Don't Copy That Floppy
The 90s were a helluva drug
Inside the lab that’s growing mushroom computers
Man, I love fungus.
The Supreme Court ponders a surprisingly difficult case about poop jokes
Kotgesetz * whipcrack *
This Dating Sim Will Help You File Your Taxes
I was going to give this grief, but "parasitic bottlenecks that deliberately complicate the tax filing process in order to make it unnavigable by ordinary people"? :chefs-kiss: