You aren't supposed to wear white after Labor Day. But _why_? https://www.vogue.com/article/wearing-white-after-labor-day

A new AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s DOOM in real time https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/new-ai-model-can-hallucinate-a-game-of-1993s-doom-in-real-time/

A Short History of Computers in the Movies: Panel Lights, Spinning Tapes, and Lab Coats (2013)

Let's look at how the film industry has treated computing.

https://smartbear.com/blog/2013/a-short-history-of-computers-in-the-movies-panel-l/

Does this mean that the long, dark night of kale may finally be over?
https://www.foodandwine.com/watercress-health-benefits-8710408

“I am still a stutterer, by the way. I don’t say I was cured. I’m still a stutterer. I just work with it.” In his memoir, Voices and Silences, James Earl Jones wrote about how poetry helped him find his voice as a person who stutters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYDrQRiN2Y

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Mastercard to Acquire Threat Intelligence Firm Recorded Future for $2.6 Billion https://www.securityweek.com/mastercard-to-acquire-threat-intelligence-firm-recorded-future-for-2-6-billion/

The answer to a question you never knew you had.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/what-happens-when-you-touch-pickle-am-radio-tower

How cyber warfare compares to traditional warfare in wargames and tabletop exercises, and possibly in the real world. https://therecord.media/wargames-cyber-operations-jacquelyn-schneider-interview

TIL that during the 1930s, the WPA sponsored horseback librarians — all women — to visit rural Americans, bringing them books. https://boingboing.net/2019/02/11/reading-is-power-2.html

There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fisher.

The Victorian ‘Drink Maps’ Wielded by Anti-Booze Crusaders

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-drink-maps

A state judge struck down North Dakota’s ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable. https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-abortion-law-ban-ruling-30fedd2e4dec03da43bd3bcce60f867b

Origami Simulator https://origamisimulator.org/

Presidential debates as a musical
(gift link)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/opinion/trump-harris-debate-joseph-gordon-levitt.html

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Researchers have used information theory to analyze why Bach's music feels so compelling. They analyzed his compositions by converting them into information networks and found some patterns that may explain why he was so good. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2415469-mathematicians-have-finally-proved-that-bach-was-a-great-composer/

Michelle Phillips eating a banana during a Mamas and the Papas performance on Ed Sullivan because they had to lip sync
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNlwimUxUME

NASA Workmanship Guide for wire splicing https://workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/links/sections/407%20Splices.html