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Supreme Court formally dismisses major abortion appeal, allowing emergency abortions to continue in Idaho, a day after the opinion was posted in error. cnn.com/politics/live-news/sup

This article describes Generative AI as “an excitable junior engineer who types really fast.”

Also, good stuff herein regarding team development. stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/10/

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)

This Victorian dictionary collects the cant of thieves, the slang of costermongers, and many other argots. publicdomainreview.org/collect

'A woman should cast off her shame together with her clothes': What women in ancient times really thought about sex bbc.com/culture/article/202406

Among households in the United States, 68% are owned and 32% are rented, based on estimates from the American Community Survey in 2021. That breakdown isn’t uniform across the country though. In Maine, almost 80% of households are owned, whereas in California, less than 60% is owned. flowingdata.com/2023/08/25/ren

"Over the course of eight months and an estimated $700 (mostly in travel expenses), he was able to claw back what all other methods had failed to render: his personal Facebook account." engadget.com/how-small-claims-

Barcelona plans to enact a citywide ban on all short-term rentals to address complaints that tourism is to blame for a local housing crisis and soaring rents.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Should any of you happen to be shopping for cat litter... I tried this premium brand and I liked it. At least I liked it when it was free. amzn.to/4eByy63

Some red (formerly white) wine discovered in an urn in Spain has been deemed the oldest wine to have ever been found in liquid form. theguardian.com/science/articl

We make this @Nigella_Lawson recipe often. It's so easy! Note it doesn't need to marinate. I add feta to the salad, usually leaving out the pita. nigella.com/recipes/zaatar-chi

Jimmy Webb was driving through the high plains of northwest Oklahoma when the inspiration for his biggest-ever song came to him. musicradar.com/news/glen-campb

When the FBI Art Theft Program investigated one man’s collection, it began a project to return objects and remains to their rightful homes.
sapiens.org/culture/fbi-repatr

Car allergic to vanilla ice cream

I recall reading this story way back in the 80s. It's still instructive and entertaining.

cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carprob

My Amazon review of _Lilac Girls_: 5 stars

Are you ready for a WWII novel to fall into, and from which you will not emerge until you close the back cover? This'll do it. amzn.to/4chBMu3

@AskTheDevil I was so SO lucky to find people to guide me, early on.

And I still screwed up, of course.

Thousands of photos taken over the last 50 years at Milwaukee’s oldest gay bar are now in the hands of the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project. wpr.org/news/milwaukee-oldest-

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