A record number of S&P 500 companies mentioned “AI” on their Q1 2024 earnings calls: 201, up from 131 in the same period last year. https://sherwood.news/business/number-of-s-and-p-500-companies-mentioning-ai-hits-record/

Getting laid off when you're working remotely is a lonely, scary and sad experience. Sharing online is a way to cope. https://www.axios.com/2024/01/29/layoffs-videos-tiktok-remote-work

The Pass It On Awards empowers women in computing to launch or expand dream projects. Ten winners get a grant of $1,000 each and complimentary registration to Grace Hopper Celebration 2024. Applications are open.

(I'm not a judge this year, for the first time since 2010. But it's still a project that changes lives.)
https://airtable.com/appsqAHzHfimj5YVX/pagsi3ULAWNPGHhIB/form

MuckRock to SCOTUS: Requesting information is not a crime https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/may/29/muckrock-to-scotus-villarreal/

I said YES to a job offer!

TIL There’s no single explanation for why we get creeped out. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/science-creepiness-180957093/

Spoiler alert: the pigeon with its high-capacity microSD cards won Geerling’s data transfer race by a significant margin. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/yes-a-pigeon-is-still-faster-than-gigabit-fiber-internet

The Grand Egyptian Museum will occupy 500,000 square meters and showcase more than 50,000 ancient Egyptian artifacts.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-01467-w/index.html

Meet the Durand, the most influential wine opener of the moment. https://tastecooking.com/what-a-wine-opener-tells-us-about-a-wine-drinker/

"But crucially, AOL wasn’t the Internet. Like its competitors CompuServe and Prodigy, it was a closed loop that relied on individual computers to network with one another. From a technological standpoint, it was closer to a bulletin board system than emerging common Internet protocols."

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/aol-pretends-to-be-the-internet/

Scientists in China have turned regular old bamboo into a transparent material that’s also resistant to fire and water, and suppresses smoke. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1043562

Swiss scientists have invented a brand new kind of chocolate made of “cocoa fruit jelly.” The new concoction uses more of the cocoa fruit, making it healthier and more sustainable. https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/chocolate-new-type-cocoa-jelly

Something to keep in mind if you need to defend yourself from a male mouse
https://www.popsci.com/science/male-mice-are-utterly-terrified-of-bananas/

The French government created a website that lists the hotels, cafés, shops, restaurants and other public establishments that are accessible to people with disabilities.
https://acceslibre.beta.gouv.fr

AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1045862

Brooklyn Dodgers score card, opening day 1941 #baseball https://imgur.com/a/ccc9O1D

“What works for me is thinking of lettering in AR as designing mini-experiences, not just simple extrusions of 2D type restricted to four corners.”
https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/proto-typography-graphic-design-090424

I don't know why The Actor's Studio was never released widely. But the interviews were all astonishingly good, like this one with Spielberg.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjqe5

C. Gordon Bell, father of the PDP-8 and VAX, has died

https://thenewstack.io/c-gordon-bell-father-of-the-pdp-8-and-vax-has-died/

This AC/DC Thunderstruck Guzheng Cover is great. Recommended! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=564u39PJfUI