Geeky tech. Chocolate. What's not to like? https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cocoa-press-pre-orders-in-april-fall-shipping

Officially magenta doesn't exist. There is no wavelength of light for magenta, meaning the human brain literally makes it up, but how? https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0f00wp9/magenta-the-colour-that-doesn-t-exist

The sandy landscape of Joshua Tree feels like the perfect backdrop for Bonita Domes – a sci-fi-style compound on the market for $2.1m. If you want to ‘try before you buy’, Bonita Domes is also available to rent via Airbnb, priced at $488 per night. https://thespaces.com/a-star-wars-esque-dome-home-has-hit-the-market-in-california/

Sometime in the last few years, tracking and tracing became their business. Like many corporations out there, Walt Disney Studios spent the last decade transforming into a data company. https://www.publicbooks.org/data-free-disney/

This is the third incident I have encountered in which ChatGPT is convinced that the author is dead.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/02/chatgpt_considered_harmful/

After Dark Screensavers in CSS https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/

What’s a menty b? Why are TikTokers adding -ussy to everything? What does it mean to be told to touch grass? You might be sorry you asked, but we’re going to explain it all. https://www.dictionary.com/e/2023-slang-trends-rizz-ussy/

Should You Pay for Antivirus Software? These Experts Say No
A device’s built-in security is often enough, but stay on top of updates and passwords, writes @robpegoraro https://www.aarp.org/home-family/personal-technology/info-2023/antivirus-paid-free.html

"Superman, an illegal alien, had come millions of miles not to be featured on the front page of the Daily Star, but to save mankind from itself, its ugly awful self." https://lithub.com/how-two-jewish-kids-in-1930s-cleveland-altered-the-course-of-american-pop-culture/

The producer harbored a shocking secret: a civil war that had roiled the production internally over the issue of slavery, with one group of screenwriters insisting on depicting the brutality of that institution, and another faction trying to wash it away. https://theankler.com/p/gone-with-the-wind-the-explosive

"In training, they forced me to listen to the Barney I Love You song for 45 minutes. I never want to go through that again," one US operative told Newsweek. (from 2017) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40090809.amp

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This is an ultralow-power chip designed to run neural networks that monitor video and wake other systems when it spots something important. That may be its core purpose, but the NDP200 can also mow down the spawn of hell, if properly trained.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/syntiant-chip-plays-doom

In this week’s recap of the American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute, the response to book bans was a resounding…we don’t have solutions.
https://bookriot.com/giving-up-is-not-an-option-book-censorship-news-march-3-2023/

Via Giant Military Cats: First shipment of Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Giant Military Cats to Ukraine.

With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone. https://apnews.com/article/moon-time-zone-space-2b0124415c14755e08a58e1b5ed5362a

Because of the extreme fingerboard length and string thickness, the musician plays the octobass using a system of levers and pedals. The levers engage metal clamps that are positioned above the neck at specific positions, which act as frets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7xoXfceKeg&t=16s

Overheard: "The moon must be in Gatorade."