If tracking murders in late medieval London, York, or Oxford is your thing, boy, do I have some maps for you. https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/

The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps
Yeah, this is fun!
https://sashamaps.net/docs/maps/roman-roads-original/

A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
This year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/04/tech-layoffs-2023-list/

A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, researchers report.
https://www.futurity.org/stretchy-e-skin-robots-touch-3215532/

Japan inches closer to same-sex marriage
Three cities in Japan will begin registering same-sex couples the same way that they register heterosexual couples in common-law marriages. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15283332

Tiny orchid flowers pollinated by tiny flies https://phys.org/news/2024-03-tiny-orchid-pollinated-flies.html

How the investigation into a grisly murder shocked 19th-century France and framed the scientist as an accomplice.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-case-against-charles-darwin/

While some major companies, including Boeing and UPS, continue to demand that their employees return to the office five days a week, for a growing number of today’s organizations, that policy is shaping up to be the exception rather than the rule.
https://pgsignal.com/2024/06/04/return-to-the-office-where-are-we-now/

What to Know Before You Implement Public-Facing APIs

A public-facing API is a good way for others to connect to your systems. But don’t start building one until you answer these questions.
https://www.growthaccelerationpartners.com/blog/what-to-know-before-you-implement-public-facing-apis

I really need to lose some weight, but I've just got too much on my plate right now.

Mamma Mia! An oral history of a Thoroughly Fun Movie. C'mon, you should indulge yourself by reading this.
https://www.vogue.com/article/oral-history-of-mamma-mia

Poets’ Odd Jobs
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either,” Robert Graves famously said.
https://poets.org/text/poets-odd-jobs

"If teachers could indoctrinate students, more people would use apostrophes correctly."--Adam Rothman

“The Thread of Memory” is a new online and in-person interactive experience that uses AI to animate archival photos, create 3-D type effects, automatically generate captions, and geographically reposition photographs as close as possible to their current location in order to superimpose maps from 80 years ago onto those of today.
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/80-years-after-d-day-microsoft-uses-ai-to-enhance-archival-materials-and-keep-memories-alive/

This is funnier than it deserves to be #kubernetes https://cloudnativenow.com/social-facebook/kubertenes-mixtape/

Four in five CISOs have been told to downplay a potential risk’s severity. https://securityboulevard.com/2024/06/cisos-and-senior-leadership-at-odds-over-security/