‘Babylon 5: The Road Home’ Voice Cast Unveiled
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/babylon-5-the-road-home-voice-cast-unveiled-1235483312/

So this is a thing, I guess. https://rotatingsandwiches.com

The light stays red until it senses an oncoming coming car, only changing green if the car is going the speed limit. FRED forces fast drivers to stop and gives them a chance to really reconsider their life choices. https://jalopnik.com/city-tests-traffic-light-that-only-turns-green-for-driv-1850419759

Microsoft Word users can now export documents to Amazon Kindle. Here's how.
I'm fairly sure that many of you could use this feature.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-word-users-can-now-export-documents-to-amazon-kindle/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j

This month is the 40th anniversary of the original G-Shock digital watch, and to help mark the occasion, Casio is releasing a bunch of variants based on the original design, including a model that packs it full of modern fitness-tracking technology and an optical heart rate monitor.
https://gizmodo.com/casio-g-shock-digital-watch-fitness-tracking-heart-rate-1850357822

Data shows hot dog prices range from $3 to just over $8 among stadiums with available price data.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2023/05/05/mlb-beer-hot-dog-prices-by-stadium-team-2023/11738342002/

New Alzheimer's drug slows disease by a third.
Experts said we were now "on the cusp" of drugs being available, something that had recently seemed "impossible."
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65471914

Presidents, they're just like us.

I just spent $600 on a limousine rental, and I just found out that doesn’t include a driver.
Spent all that money and I have nothing to chauffeur it.

What’s at stake in Carroll’s case is a question of equal claims to voice and narrative power, of citizenship under the law. [She] “is standing up and saying, ‘I claim my citizenship,’” said Linda Hirshman, the author of Reckoning, which traces the movement against sexual harassment. “We will see whether the state will respond by publicly recognizing that a common citizen, female, has the exact same citizenship as a former president of the United States.”
https://www.thecut.com/article/carroll-trump-rape-trial-me-too.html

"I wrote a list of all the things people should do when joining a marketing writers team."
Oh yes. This. This. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/2022/12/07/how-to-be-a-writer-on-a-marketing-team-without-sounding-like-a-jerk/

A Czech couple exchanged smart rings at their wedding, allowing them to see—and feel—each other’s heartbeat. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65322101

Uterine replicators are happening. (note for Bujold fans!)

"Dr. Hanna said he and his colleagues had taken fertilized eggs from the oviducts of female mice just after fertilization — at Day 0 of development — and had grown them in the artificial uterus for 11 days." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/health/mice-artificial-uterus.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03416-3

"Basically, Silicon Valley's valley new star is just an automated mansplaining machine. Often wrong, and yet always certain — and with a tendency to be condescending in the process. And if it gets confused, it's never the problem. You are." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence-automated-mansplaining-machine

Taking its name from the noble courts of Europe, the powder room was a designated space, in aristocratic houses, for the powdering of wigs that were a little worse for wear after an evening of revelry. https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/05/04/wig-holes-and-other-mysteries-of-powdered-hair-history-explained/

A survey of 339 maintainers of open source software projects found 60% of them classified themselves as unpaid hobbyists versus only 13% who said they earn most or all of their income from maintaining projects. https://devops.com/survey-most-open-source-software-maintainers-want-to-get-paid/

Not only was the coffin clock a real antique, but it held a real human skeleton. https://burialsandbeyond.com/2023/05/07/the-rocky-horror-coffin-clock/

I feel seen. https://twitter.com/AShvartsman/status/1653427364506812417

My hero: Guardian of Clarity. #amediting https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-03/guardian-of-grammar-says-its-ok-to-beak-some-rules/102296506