Instead of instituting a ban or seeking to diminish voices seeking political change, leaders would be better served by building a culture that handles political differences in the workplace more productively. Let’s look at why that is — and how to do it well. https://hbr.org/2021/07/dont-ban-politics-at-work

Honestly, I could go a while without using emojis. Or memes. https://uxdesign.cc/what-happened-when-i-stopped-using-emojis-23be7dfdd006

"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better." -- T.S. Eliot

Rindlaub’s Betty Crocker ads hammered home this message of sentimental domesticity, promising that if women felt ‘troubled’ by the world outside their front doors, relief was just a cake away. https://aeon.co/essays/from-home-to-market-a-history-of-white-womens-power-in-the-us

A simple blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer before any clinical signs or symptoms of the disease emerge in a person is accurate enough to be rolled out as a screening test, according to scientists." https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/25/blood-test-that-finds-50-types-of-cancer-is-accurate-enough-to-be-rolled-out

Understanding Total App Security, a primer https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/understanding-total-app-security/

How did Virgil’s words survive into the present? And how were they once read, during his own life and the succeeding centuries? Alex Tadel explores Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefacts.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/reading-like-a-roman

The new use for abandoned coal mines

"Nowadays we're heating a couple of warehouses, a distribution depot, a local bakery, and soon a nearby car showroom too," says Black.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210706-how-flooded-coal-mines-could-heat-homes

"From afar, the gray-roofed neighborhood looks like something out of a Disney movie—perhaps Beauty and the Beast—but, upon closer inspection, Burj Al Babas boasts an eerie post-apocalyptic feel." https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/haunting-photos-reveal-massive-abandoned-town-disneyesque-castles

Okay, it was stupid, but still I giggled.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9rXxI1yZCN0

This map shows you what indigenous land you’re living in. https://native-land.ca

"Penelope, this letter serves to formally document your failure to comply with household regulations, and your lack of adherence to workspace polices." https://www.popsugar.com/pets/man-funny-written-hr-complaint-about-his-cat-47374736

Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents
It was a conscious choice on the part of “Frodo” and “Sam” to include the many moments when they express love for each other, and it reads much in the same way people from the past delicately referred to their same-sex relationships: wanting to acknowledge their truth while obeying the conventions of the time.
https://www.polygon.com/lord-of-the-rings/22550950/sam-frodo-queer-romance-lord-of-the-rings-tolkien-quotes

The Pulp Tarot: a new tarot deck inspired by midcentury pulp illustrations. https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/the-pulp-tarot.html

For a 2019 study, University of Milan researchers collected and analyzed 440 recordings of “meows emitted by cats in different contexts”: when brushed by their owners, when isolated in an unfamiliar environment, and when waiting for food. https://zenodo.org/record/4008297#.YOC7ni2cZ-U

I have a writer -- @carolpinchefsky -- working on a how-to guide, itemizing the steps in redesigning a form/process to move from paper to a digital workflow. “A lot of processes duplicate ‘the way we’ve done it’ without rethinking the problem. I want to collect useful expert advice from industry authorities and people who have learned lessons the hard way.”

What should she include?

This aura around a holy figure's head expresses their glory or divinity and can be seen in art across the world. There are many variants, including rayed haloes (like that on the Statue of Liberty) and flaming haloes (which feature in some Islamic Ottoman, Mughal and Persian art), but the most distinctive and ubiquitous is the circular disc halo. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210623-the-halo-a-symbol-that-spread-around-the-world

For the cat staff.

https://twitter.com/Manglewood/status/1411492221522792451

If you had to distill the amazement of Ohtani to one sentence, it would be this: he hits the ball harder than Juan Soto (92.5–92.3 mph exit velocity), throws harder than Yu Darvish (95.4–94.8 mph), and runs faster than Randy Arozarena (28.9 -28.7 sprint speed). He leads the major leagues in home runs and bunt hits. (He is 4-for-4 when bunting for a hit, an unmatched success rate.) #baseball

https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/07/05/shohei-ohtani-is-better-than-babe-ruth-the-opener