Since the start of the year, more than 50,000 positions have been slashed at over 200 tech companies, according to tracking website Layoffs.fyi. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/laid-off-techies-struggle-to-find-jobs-with-cuts-at-highest-since-2001.html

The Keanu Reeves Whoa API: https://whoa.onrender.com/

Chloe Gordon looks at the evolution of cursive in society and design.
https://www.printmag.com/typography/the-curious-case-of-cursive/

Capturing the Tenacity and Persistence of the Mesquite

This article has gorgeous photography, worthwhile aesthetically even if you only scan the words.
https://texashighways.com/travel/photography/capturing-the-tenacity-and-persistence-of-the-mesquite/

TIL the Filipino word "Namamahay": when you can't sleep well because you're in an unfamiliar environment (such as a hotel room) and your body is still adjusting.

"Few foods can tell us more about life in 20th-century America than the wobbling jewel of domestic achievement: the Jell-O salad." https://www.seriouseats.com/history-of-jell-o-salad

Researchers are teaching cows to pee in designated places where the urine can be collected and neutralized, sharply reducing methane emissions.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/mooloo-cows-toilet-trained-methane-urine-emissions/

A large set of open source illustrations, handy for landing pages, mobile apps, or presentations.
https://illlustrations.co/

Ha!

While e-books purchased by consumers can last into perpetuity, libraries need to renew their leased e-material. https://apnews.com/article/libraries-ebooks-publishers-expensive-laws-5d494dbaee0961eea7eaac384b9f75d2

A Machine Learning algorithm walks into a bar.

The bartender asks, "What'll you have?"

The algorithm says, "What's everyone else having?"

"Armed with projectile frankfurters, some unruly Phillies fans began chucking their favorite Hatfield meat during a game last year, and the dogs soared like cans of corn throughout the stands and onto the field." https://apnews.com/article/philadelphia-phillies-hot-dogs-889d4ce003734551d2091bca85163d5d

“‘Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.’”—A. A. Milne

Antidepressants or Tolkien character? https://antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app/

Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
An interactive exploration of how long things take. https://samwho.dev/numbers

100 years later, long-lost Clara Bow silent film found in Omaha parking lot https://www.wowt.com/2024/03/08/exclusive-100-years-later-long-lost-silent-film-found-omaha-parking-lot/

Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to date one mass grave to between the late 1400s and early 1600s, and found shards of pottery and coins dating from the later end of that range at the site.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/06/europe/mass-grave-nuremberg-germany-scli-intl-scn/index.html

An eleventh-century text describing the Cluniac sign language reveals that they had a rich vocabulary related to food, including:

For the sign of bread
make a circle with the thumb and
its two adjacent fingers, because
bread is customarily round.
https://www.medievalists.net/2024/03/bread-middle-ages

Surely, this will fix everything!
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/elon-musk-says-xai-will-open-source-grok-this-week/