Show more

In otter news...

A Taiwanese man was arrested at Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on Dec. 5 after he was caught by customs officers trying to smuggle two otters and a prairie dog onto a Taipei-bound flight.
taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/5056

12 Types of Bad Tech Names
"Life is too short to want to punch a website in the face, but there I was, staring at Apple,com feeling the rage," wrote @carolpinchefsky in 2012. web.archive.org/web/2013080807.

Transparent wood could soon find uses as super-strong screens for smartphones, glowing light fixtures, and structural features like color-changing windows. arstechnica.com/science/2023/1

Today's wisdom: Build a man a fire and he stays warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he stays warm for the rest of his life.

As Europeans encountered and conquered new worlds during the Age of Exploration, they not only took an interest in novel geography, biological specimens, and exportable resources but also in the customs and dress of unfamiliar peoples. publicdomainreview.org/collect

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, received a huge gain recently: a gift of $200 million from the estate of Franklin Antonio, co-founder of Qualcomm. seti.org/press-release/200m-gi

I'm sure you all knew this, but I didn't realize until now that "Otter" from Animal House is the same actor who played VP John Haynes in West Wing. blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/202

When will women start measuring up to Eastern's Standards? ...from the 1970s

A lot of ex-Google engineers talk about how much they miss Critique, Google’s code review tool, out of all the internal tools they leave behind.
engineercodex.substack.com/p/h

Scientists trained machine learning to sniff out wine fraud, uncorking a solution to a problem that's been fermenting for years. By analyzing chemical compounds in wines, they can trace vintages back to their original vineyards. theguardian.com/science/2023/d

Way too many of you need this advice on "what to do in the first two days after a layoff," right now. I'm sorry. businessinsider.com/what-to-do

On Monday, Dec. 4, the mission turned on Psyche’s twin cameras and retrieved the first images: a milestone called “first light. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-psyche

"Unlike most rock stars who go through instruments as quickly as they do groupies, Springsteen has been a monogamist in this area. He bought the guitar in 1973, around the time he released his debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park."
mensjournal.com/entertainment/

Show more

estherschindler

CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.