This article is a documentary.

Also, you'll laugh.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-comments-are-in-the-google-doc-linked-in-the-dropbox-i-sent-in-the-slack

DocuSign has revealed that it’s laying off 6% of its workforce, impacting some 400 employees.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/06/docusign-lays-off-6-of-workforce-as-reported-private-equity-takeover-talks-stall/

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NFL cheerleaders make as little as $12 an hour for games. https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/how-much-do-nfl-cheerleaders-make-49333317

Scientists are still grappling with how and why violent twisters form. Will new technology and computing power help? https://knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2023/quest-to-understand-tornadoes

Normally, the toothbrushes would have used their connectivity for tracking and improving user oral hygiene habits, but after a malware infection, these toothbrushes were press-ganged into a botnet.

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages

Pinball Map is a high-quality user-updated pinball locator for all the public pinball machines in your area. And it has an API!
https://pinballmap.com

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Ferrets: The World’s Cutest Working Cable Guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL4zI6rXjI4

Overheard: " If you pay monkeys to type more or less randomly in hopes that you’ll get Shakespeare, be aware that they may deliver Fox News first…"

An interactive toilet map to find accessible toilets, baby changing facilities, and community toilets​​​​​​​​​​​ in London #InternetIsWonderful https://www.mapping.cityoflondon.gov.uk/geocortex/mapping/

No longer a cache cow https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/

A nurse is on her way home. She and pulls a thermometer out of her pocket, looks at it for a second, and says, “Great, now some asshole’s got my pen.”

>> Last year, tech companies laid off more than 260,000 workers, according to layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi, cuts that executives mostly blamed on “over-hiring” during the pandemic and high interest rates making it harder to invest in new business ventures. But as those layoffs have dragged into 2024 despite stabilizing interest rates and a booming job market in other industries, the tech workforce is feeling despondent and confused.

(gift link) https://wapo.st/492HLkX

How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants
Suriname’s Saamaka Maroons still grow rice from seeds an ancestor escaping from a plantation carried in her hair. Now a gene bank seeks to widen use of the rare species to help fight the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/29/rare-rice-species-suriname-saamaka-maroon-slavery-climate-resilience

South Dakota tribe bans governor from reservation over US-Mexico border remarks https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/04/south-dakota-us-mexico-border-00139485

Minesweeper with an irregular grid https://polyreplay.com/minesweepertwist

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