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"A total of 203,946 employees have been laid off across more than 165 tech companies worldwide since the start of 2024, with firms such as Dell, Intel, and Tesla leading the cuts." bestbrokers.com/stock-brokers/

A new Supreme Court case could potentially hand Arizona to Donald Trump.

This article is a good explainer.
vox.com/scotus/367701/supreme-

He's actively trying to lose Pennsylvania. There's no other explanation.

My Amazon review of _The Rhine_, by Roland Recht

It's a gorgeous coffee-table book with lots of church art and architecture. Not a tourist guide. But did I mention that it's gorgeous?

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Sometimes I am positive that cookbooks manufacture new recipes. I've had Nigella's _Forever Summer_ cookbook for so long that the spine has fallen apart, but I never made this recipe.

Until now.

What took me so long? It's fast to put together, uses easy-to-acquire ingredients (it worked fine with frozen fish), and scratched our, "I want something _different_" itch.

nigella.com/recipes/kerala-fis

Archaeologists say an unearthed copper earring likely came from European explorers who made up part of the "Lost Colony" in modern-day Roanoke Island, North Carolina. 13newsnow.com/article/news/loc

Odeuropa is an online database of scents from 16th- to early 20th-century Europe culled from historical literature and art. odeuropa.eu

Five centuries or so before the popularity of coffee as a hot beverage, a mysterious ingredient began to appear in Arabic books on medicine and botany. The descriptions of this ingredient were very similar to our familiar coffee. But rather than drinking this ingredient, it was mostly used for cleaning and freshening the hands. atlasobscura.com/articles/coff

Eight hours of department store Christmas music

If you want to get a head start on torture season.
youtube.com/watch?v=nQKlEkKXBz

Eight hours of department store Christmas music, what could be better? (Anything. Anything would be better than that.) youtube.com/watch?v=nQKlEkKXBz

"Crucial correspondence involving the Nineteen Eighty-Four author and Observer correspondent is being offered for sale on the open market, following a decision in 2018 by the publisher’s parent company to sell the archive because the warehouse was closing." theguardian.com/books/article/

Roll Mobility allows users to filter the kind of accessibility they're looking for. The app then color-codes public places from green to red based on its accessibility. rollmobility.com

Geotab asked landscape photographer James Q. Martin to pick the ten most scenic routes from America’s 50 loneliest ones. #4 is Arizona's US Route 60 through the Navajo Nation. geotab.com/americas-quietest-r

On August 15th, 2024, Cockroach Labs announced in [cockroach-proprietary] that they would be changing to a strictly proprietary model: on November 18th, 2024, the BSL code will be relicensed to be source-available but otherwise proprietary (that is, requiring a license to use). rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/

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