Minesweeper with an irregular grid https://polyreplay.com/minesweepertwist

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Painful rejection notice:

>>“The Yellow Wall-Paper” was not iconic during its own time, and was initially rejected, in 1892, by Atlantic Monthly editor Horace Scudder, with this note: “I could not forgive myself if I made others as miserable as I have made myself [by reading this].”

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/03/11/the-trouble-with-charlotte-perkins-gilman/

Cloudflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor https://www.securityweek.com/cloudflare-hacked-by-suspected-state-sponsored-attacker/

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Mood

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" The award will allow additional public libraries to join the program and will enable new and existing members to continue their web archiving collection building using our Archive-It service."
https://blog.archive.org/2024/02/01/community-webs-receives-750000-grant-to-expand-community-archiving-by-public-libraries/

A Brief History of the Modern Man’s Hat
https://culturedarm.com/a-brief-history-of-the-modern-mans-hat/

Is origami Turing complete? https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-build-an-origami-computer-20240130/

My new life goal: “When she died at 74, her heartbroken husband sacrificed one of his finest camels in her honor.” https://www.theklean.com/red/seductress/jane-digby

Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany
The claim that the maximum size of a PDF is 381 km x 381 km is completely false. There's no set limit to the size of a file.
https://alexwlchan.net/2024/big-pdf/

In "Sad Robot," author E.R. Ramzipoor imagines a future in which sophisticated AI systems can experience psychological crises, threatening critical digital infrastructure.
https://slate.com/technology/2024/01/sad-robot-evan-ramzipoor.html

In "Sad Robot," author E.R. Ramzipoor imagines a future in which sophisticated AI systems can experience psychological crises, threatening critical digital infrastructure.
https://slate.com/technology/2024/01/sad-robot-evan-ramzipoor.html

In the space of 24 hours, two unrelated people went out of their way to tell me what a great mentor I’ve been to them.

So maybe I don't suck after all.

"Just like the mRNA vaccines you know and love, it delivers the instructions for making the virus’s spike protein. But here’s what makes it novel: it also tells the body how to make more mRNA. Essentially, it provides instructions for making more instructions. It’s self-amplifying." https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/02/1087536/the-next-generation-of-mrna-vaccines-is-on-its-way/

You know you've gone and f'd up when CISA goes "just yank the plug." https://cyberscoop.com/ivanti-connect-secure-china/

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