For a very long time, the same “serious movies” got taken seriously decade after decade. The new list, however, marks several radical shifts from the accepted wisdom. ($) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/02/arts/sight-and-sound-best-movies-of-all-time.html

Crocodile Grok: 10 Interesting Ways to (Almost) Die in the Wilderness. https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/wilderness-environmental-medicine-reports-2022/

Wikipedia founder, @jimmy_wales, is going head-to-head with Twitter CEO Elon Musk who has accused the encyclopedia site of having a left-leaning bias. https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-wikipedia-twitter-twitter-files-1849869127

People have taken to social media to express their surprise after discovering nutcrackers are actually used to crack nuts.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/people-shocked-to-discover-what-nutcrackers-are-actually-for/

Fun fact: the MP3 file format is as old today as 8-track tapes were when MP3 was invented.

How to transcribe audio with Microsoft Word https://www.popsci.com/diy/transcribe-audio-microsoft-word/

Ah those were the days. When the richest men in the world sought to impress us by jumping chairs rather than dominating the global narrative. https://www.instagram.com/p/BvSprShHLFs/

"MOOCs are the most visible part of a broader trend that concerns the digitalization of many aspects of people’s lives, education included." https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/12/15/what-happened-moocs/ideas/essay/

Tracing Kubernetes Adoption, From Inception to the Cloud

Among the factors contributing to developers’ growing reliance on #Kubernetes are its hybrid cloud capabilities, team-friendly portability, and cost-consciousness for cloud deployments.

https://redis.com/blog/kubernetes-adoption-inception-to-cloud/

Interactive fiction is a fascinating genre of storytelling using complex graphs you might normally see in your computer science homework. https://ifcomp.org

In 2008, CIO (and Daniel Dern) invited noted science fiction authors Larry Niven, Robert Sawyer, Nancy Kress and Charles Stross to share their thoughts on technology-related predictions, including lessons learned in the “business” of imagining what the future might be like. #sciencefiction #futurology
https://www.cio.com/article/278944/innovation-what-science-fiction-writers-have-learned-about-predicting-the-future-of-technology.html

I laughed! Elton Johnukah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Z4WE-kt64

OMG you cannot even post a mastodon URL on Twitter now. Or counter.social -- it warns you that this site may not be safe. WTF.

Thirty years after it came out, it remains the best-selling single of all time by a female artist. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221109-i-will-always-love-you-the-power-ballad-that-changed-music

For 10 days this winter, teenagers can receive up to $250 to build a hardware project @hackclub. Check it out https://hackclub.com/winter/

The year was 1385, and the young Jadwiga (also known as Hedwig) (1373/1374–1399) was just twelve years old. Fatherless, and separated from her mother, she sought divine guidance to lead her toward the correct choice. Should she marry her first betrothed, William of Hapsburg, or should she wed the much older Jogaila, the Grand Duke of Lithuania?
https://daily.jstor.org/the-marriage-myths-of-jadwiga-of-poland/

My company sends out good holiday care packages.

By which I mean: Most of it is chocolate.

The entire history of Doctor Who in one tapestry (2013) https://www.creativebloq.com/inspiration/entire-history-doctor-who-all-one-tapestry-11135322

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A confession of sorts: During my mom's funeral, when the rabbi read from the psalm, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life," I thought: My mother would name two cats Goodness and Mercy just to see if they'd follow her.