“Employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages.” https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules

"Because we do not notice them, transgressions of physics reveal that our visual brain uses a simpler, reduced physics to understand the world." https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-art-of-the-shadow-how-painters-have-gotten-it-wrong-for-centuries/

Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercenaries, left graffiti https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-history-runes/vikings-tagged-the-great-lion-in-venice-with-runes/2157444

A mysterious bird of increasingly mysterious origins, the dodo bird ruled the roost on its native island of Mauritius--and nowhere else-until meeting an untimely demise.... Today, Colossal is committed to bringing it back. https://colossal.com/dodo/

The findings offer “a better understanding of the neurobiology of autism and social differences,” says Joy Hirsch of Yale University.
https://www.futurity.org/autism-eye-contact-2828242-2/

By identifying residues from labeled jars found in an ancient Egyptian mummification workshop, the researchers were able to show the process involved complex chemistry and exotic ingredients, including resins sourced from a continent away. https://www.science.org/content/article/secrets-mummy-making-revealed-residues-ancient-urns

If you need to scale, celebrate it as a good problem! But that doesn’t make the process simple. Scaling has multiple possible options, each requiring different levels of sophistication. Here, we cover scaling both as a generic challenge and specifically for Redis databases, with attention to advanced scaling using #Redis Enterprise.
https://thenewstack.io/techniques-for-scaling-applications-with-a-database/

Redis Enterprise 6.4.2 enhanced existing security features, such as extended client certificate validation and publish/subscribe access management. Here’s what they mean to you. #redis
https://redis.com/blog/redis-enterprise-software-6-4-2/

Millions of working people around the world live in extreme poverty, but the good news is that this number has decreased substantially over the last few decades, from 808 million in 1991 to 224 million in 2021. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/where-are-the-working-poor-living

"This writing system, called Ajami, dispelled the false notion peddled by European colonialists that large swaths of communities in sub-Saharan Africa were illiterate, with no native written languages of their own." https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/

In 1812, Japanese woodblock print artist Katsushika Hokusai, who would later become famous for his iconic Great Wave off Kanagawa prints, published a three-volume series called Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing. https://kottke.org/23/01/lessons-on-how-to-draw-by-hokusai

I’ve really gotten into these blog posts we’ve been publishing about #performance enhancements we’re doing along with Intel. It’s delightfully geeky, and has a whole section on how to go about it. “In broad terms, when you want to improve a program’s efficiency, this generic checklist applies to most situations…" #optimizationstrategies

And also the geographic tech is rather cool.

https://redis.com/blog/redis-7-geographic-commands/

The Synchron Switch is inserted through blood vessels and works its way to the vein next to your brain's motor cortex; the stent is outfitted with tiny sensors that collect 'raw brain data,' which connect to an antenna implanted under the skin of the chest. https://www.pcgamer.com/this-implant-lets-those-with-severe-paralysis-send-texts-and-use-the-internet-with-just-their-minds

Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-person-confirmed-cured-hiv/story?id=97323361

Stuck in traffic? London, where a 6.2-mile journey takes an agonizing 36 minutes 20 seconds on average, is officially the world’s slowest city to drive in. https://www.tomtom.com/newsroom/explainers-and-insights/london-is-the-worlds-slowest-city

Here are the 10 highest-paying IT skills—from #Chef and #Redis to #containers and #Kubernetes—reaping the highest annual salaries in 2023, according to the new Dice Tech Salary Report.

Guess which one I'm going to highlight.
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/top-10-highest-paid-it-skills-in-2023-redis-chef-golang/5

Photo-Auto Maps: like Google Maps turn by turn directions circa 1910. Hope that blue building you turn left at is still around when you read it, traveler! From NYC to Albany https://archive.org/details/photoautomapspho01unse/page/n65/mode/1up

In 1861 Cadbury came up with the idea of stuffing his firm’s wares into a heart-shaped box to flog in the run-up to February 14th. https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/02/08/valentines-day-how-chocolate-became-the-food-of-love