TIL that a while back, the U.S. Geological Survey released huge amounts of Mars data in ready-to-use formats. You now can view Mars at high resolution with unprecedented ease. https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/it-easier-ever-view-mars-landscapes-high-resolution

HIVE MIND: Imagine you’re the manager hiring someone for a technical cybersecurity job. What non-obvious questions help you judge the candidate’s skill/suitability? What makes those questions useful?

That is, assume you’ve done the standard complement of job interview questions such as background and tool familiarity. I’m looking for stuff specific to some part of cybersecurity. It’s okay to get specific to your part of the field.

(This is for an article, but I don’t need to quote anybody.)

What can AI learn from the age of vacuum tubes?
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/vacuum-tubes-and-transistors/

Sharpley-Whiting says that the grand sweep of aspirations across time is exactly what a capsule should communicate. So as she, Smith and University Librarian Jon Shaw work together to design a time capsule that will convey a message to the future university community, they share tips about how to create your own.
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2023/06/07/how-to-make-a-time-capsule/

You've probably heard a statistics joke.

In a world-first, scientists had a "conversation" with a whale. The next task is to find out what they are actually saying. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240409-the-scientists-learning-to-speak-whale

Those late 1950s “quiz show scandals” not only inspired Julann Griffin’s idea for Jeopardy! but also have the most to tell us about this genre and American history in the mid-20th century. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/04/considering-history-lessons-we-can-learn-from-the-quiz-show-scandals/

Sophia d’Antoine, founder of cybersecurity startup Margin Research, died last week after she was hit by a car in New York City. https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/us-news/nyc-start-up-founder-sophia-dantoine-dies-after-being-mowed-down-crossing-ues-street/

POTUS puts the ‘fed’ in ‘fediverse.’ https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119353/joe-biden-threads-mastodon-activitypub-fediverse

It would, um, “champion the same values of ‘truth and traditional’ as The Epoch Times” and, er, “nurture in the next generation of media professionals,” ahem, “the highest standards of personal integrity, fairness, and truth-seeking.” https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/the-conspiracy-loving-epoch-times-is-thinking-about-opening-a-journalism-school/

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
– Pablo Picasso

Name the baby goats! https://www.phoenixzoo.org/goat-vote/

Standard Ebooks is “a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” https://standardebooks.org/

I was in a job interview. The manager handed me his laptop and said, "I want you to try and sell this to me."

I put it under my arm, left the building, and went home. Eventually, he called my mobile and said, "Bring it back here right now!"

I said, "$100 and it's yours." #jokes

Bills targeting book bans raise concerns about the penalties libraries could face
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/bills-targeting-book-bans-raise-concerns-penalties-libraries-face-rcna143635

How a small home garden can preserve traditional food-growing practices.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/through-gardens-these-native-communities-are-cultivating-a-solution-to-climate-change

"Our workflows and productivity metrics regularly ask knowledge workers for things that do not make good knowledge work." https://chelseatroy.com/2024/03/29/how-do-we-evaluate-people-for-their-technical-leadership/

"For some reason, fiction writers have an aversion to learning anything about the one thing that makes them money. That is copyright and licensing that copyright."
https://deanwesleysmith.com/fiction-branding-part-9/

Photographer Jan Erik Waider documents an array of remarkable frozen patterns in the lake at the edge of the Skaftafellsjökull glacier.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/jan-erik-waider-iceland-bubbles/