"What makes Indian cuisine so exquisite is its tendency to bring together lots of different ingredients with flavor molecules that don't overlap. That's quite different from how Western cuisine works — previous research has shown that it relies on pairing ingredients that, at the molecular level, share lots of similar flavor compounds."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/how-snobbery-helped-take-the-spice-out-of-european-cooking

There are only three things that are difficult in programming:
1. Naming Things
2. Dates and Timezones
3. Knowing when to invalidate the cache
4. Off by one errors

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Run Diablo I in your browser
There goes YOUR day.
https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/

The Cody Enterprise put out a statement that framed the incident as an “advanced form of plagiarism” and said, “We now have a system set in place to catch AI-generated stories. We will have longer conversations about how AI-generated stories are not acceptable. We will hold our employees to a higher standard, and we stand by that.” https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2024/cody-enterprise-reporter-fake-quotes-artificial-intelligence

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A new paper [from November 2023] sets out recommendations to prevent us from over-empathising with AI chatbots to our detriment. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/249533/altering-language-help-deal-with-intelligence/

"Each of these films is one of the greatest according to just one voter in our recent Greatest Films of All Time poll." https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/lists/101-hidden-gems-greatest-films-youve-never-seen

The #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship provides mid-career cybersecurity professionals from diverse backgrounds with an opportunity to conduct independent policy research and analysis, find solutions for critical cybersecurity issues, and explore questions of diversity and the human side of cybersecurity.
https://www.newamerica.org/future-security/stmic-fellowship/blog-posts/call-for-applications-2025-sharethemicincyber-fellows-cohort/

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro explores sale. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/cybersecurity-firm-trend-micro-explores-sale-sources-say-2024-08-08/

How to Check Broken Links Using Google Sheets.
This might be helpful!
https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/google-sheets-check-http-status/

Long in the Bluetooth: Scientists develop a more efficient way to transmit data between our devices
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-bluetooth-scientists-efficient-transmit-devices.html

'Cisneros, for example, argued that what the Biden-Harris associated plaintiffs called an “ambush” and “assault,” among “other choice words,” was actually an exercise of First Amendment rights “in a demonstration of support for their favorite candidate for President of the United States,” Trump.'
https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/kkk-act-lawsuit-over-trump-train-surrounding-of-biden-harris-bus-days-before-2020-election-just-got-one-step-closer-to-trial/

I miss Linda Hirschman. I so wish I could ask her opinion about what's happening in the world.

“The arc of history does not bend towards justice; it more wiggles like a politician who discovers his cell phone has been hacked.” (Article from 2019.)
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/10/reckoning-with-the-metoo-movement-an-interview-with-linda-hirshman/

A very straightforward theory of how science works is “we discover things in order from easiest to hardest.” But what makes something hard to discover? https://www.experimental-history.com/p/on-the-importance-of-staring-directly

Twitter has been ordered to pay a record fine of more than €550,000 (£470,000) to a former senior employee at its European headquarters in Ireland, after it was found to have dismissed him unfairly. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/13/musk-ordered-to-pay-x-employee-470000-for-unfair-dismissal

"These newly digitized dime novels and story papers are now freely available, without restriction, from each partner’s digital library, the majority through NIU’s Nickels and Dimes, and can also be found through the Edward T. LeBlanc Bibliography hosted by Villanova." https://niutoday.info/2023/12/04/university-libraries-completes-street-smith-dime-novel-digitization-project/