"The social media platform formerly known as Twitter is worth almost 80% less than two years ago when Elon Musk bought it, according to estimates from investment giant Fidelity." ..."A recent global survey by Kantar found that a net 26% of marketers plan to decrease their spending on X next year, the steepest pullback from any major global ad platform."

I cannot think of another business example where someone so clearly tanked an organization.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/business/elon-musk-twitter-x-fidelity/index.html

"He seems to have an inordinate fondness for beetles."
-- John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, British geneticist and writer (1892-1964), when asked late in his life whether his studies had taught him anything about God that he might care to share (JBS Haldane was an atheist. Beetles comprise about a quarter of all known species.)

Voices in praise of solitude, of its ample creative and spiritual rewards, its primal sanities. https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/16/solitude/

Oh look, it's another underwear review!

Do I know how to party or what? https://amzn.to/3NeTxzj

A LEGO Turing machine
I can hear some of you shouting, "Shut up and take my money!" https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7

Top 10 cold murder cases solved using modern DNA analysis: https://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/resources/10-cold-cases-solved

In 1996, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts gave the classic Mary Tyler Moore theme song, “Love Is All Around,” a rock-and-roll twist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NI8WJ85EVw&t=151s

The imagery is linked to the iconography of Zoroastrianism, the state religion of the Sasanian empire, the last Persian empire before the early Muslim conquests from AD632. Scientific analysis shows that the silver from which it was made came from a mine in modern-day Iran. https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/01/amazing-viking-age-treasure-travelled-half-the-world-to-scotland-analysis-finds

One man's journey from state prison to a revered San Francisco restaurant #upliftingnews

While incarcerated, Thomas fell in love with baking as part of his work in the prison kitchen but never dreamed he’d be able to cook and bake on the outside. Today, he’s honing personal recipes and working four days a week as a prep cook at Flour + Water in San Francisco’s Mission District. https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/mans-journey-prison-san-francisco-restaurant-19763190.php

"Quattrone Center Academic Director Paul Heaton’s new paper explores how he and his co-authors trained a large language model to parse eyewitness confidence statements." https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-carey-law-how-ai-tools-can-help-assess-verbal-eyewitness-statements

The National Wetlands Inventory, maintained by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, provides interactive maps and bulk data containing “geospatially referenced information on the status, extent, characteristics and functions of wetland, riparian, deepwater, and related aquatic habitats.” https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory

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A junk dealer found a painting in a basement. Experts say it’s an original Picasso. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/style/picasso-painting-junk-dealer-italy-scli-intl/index.html

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. — Abba Eban

"In the madhouse pressure cooker environment of running a startup, too few CEOs, founders, and executives recognize the power of a story to set expectations." https://www.andysparks.co/p/if-you-want-people-to-remember-tell-a-story-message-to-garcia

More People Than Ever Are Trying to Hack the U.S. Government--And They Love It

The vulnerability disclosure policy (VDP) platform that CISA deployed in 2021 received more than 1,000 valid bug disclosures last year, and the volume of remediated bugs went up 78%.
https://www.vulnu.com/p/more-people-than-ever-are-trying-to-hack-the-u-s-government-and-they-love-it

For the last job you accepted, what was the percentage difference between the first salary offer and the salary you accepted?

Like: They offered 100k; you said 115k; you agreed on 110 — thus, 10% over the initial offer.

The entire Book of Kells has been digitized.
https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/hm50tr726