Art lovers and enthusiasts have free access to almost 3,000 artworks from the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein collection. https://kunstmuseum_liechtenstein.zetcom.net/en/

The discovery of rare painted rock art featuring cattle in one of the driest parts of the Sahara Desert indicates that the region was once covered in grass, swamps and waterholes, making it a resource-rich home to a diverse community of animal species. https://newatlas.com/science/cattle-rock-art-sahara-desert/

It's always heartwarming to see mortal enemies find common ground.

(I laughed.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyxw55Zh0Xs

A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X against Israel's Bright Data, and said X "wants it both ways." https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/10/elon-musks-x-loses-lawsuit-against-bright-data-over-data-scraping.html

The genius of the drinking fountain button is that it’s modularly repairable. That whole mechanism is part of a self-contained cartridge that’s easy to remove and swap out. https://www.theverge.com/24144774/drinking-fountain-bubbler-button-of-the-month

The gas mask’s grip on our collective consciousness. https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/like-monstrosities-from-another-world

The bloody history of "deadline"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/your-deadline-wont-kill-you

Your woah dude du jour: a visualization of 50,000 websites https://graph.henryn.ca/

Overheard: TIL CISO does not stand for Corporate Incident Sacrificial Offering.

Inside Your OS: What is a Process Scheduler, and How Does it Work?
(2008)
https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx

Trying to decide if it's time to abandon #Terraform? A lead contributor to #OpenTofu answers the (truly) frequently asked questions about the open source project.

https://devops.com/mind-the-shift-answering-common-questions-about-opentofu/

TYPE WARS!

A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump every piece of this carefully honed metal letterpress type into the river. It was an act of retribution against his business partner, Emery Walker, whom he believed was attempting to swindle him.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doves-typeface-2454807

One in Four Tech #CISOs Unhappy with Compensation

Show me the money! (Average total compensation for tech CISOs is $710k.)
https://securityboulevard.com/2024/05/one-in-four-tech-cisos-unhappy-with-compensation

Prepare to get upset.

"We spent months investigating AdVon by interviewing its current and former workers, obtaining its internal documentation, and searching for more of its fake writers across the web. What we found should alarm anyone who cares about a trustworthy and ethical media industry." https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

Some days, this song is entirely too relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

33% of content writers updated their LinkedIn profile to add AI to their skills, per new data from Microsoft. https://sherwood.news/business/creative-professionals-gen-ai-skills-linkedin-learning/

Mood

How Ben Franklin Invented the Library as We Know It
Books were rare and expensive in colonial America, but the founding father had an idea https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-ben-franklin-invented-library-as-we-know-it-180983983/