A map that tells you if a NYC cafe has WiFi, a restroom, and an outlet https://www.octobrain.one/maps/908lqY3fV5C4v7nRvvd2

Once Threatened with Extinction, Towel Animals Are Absolutely Thriving
Made famous by resorts and cruises in the 1990s, the folding of towels into cute animals is gaining popularity, resulting in countless towel art competition and “room reveal” videos.
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/towel-animal-trend-tiktok

South African scientists injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts in a pioneering project aimed at curbing poaching.
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-radioactive-rhino-horns-curb-poaching.html

How to scrape websites using ChatGPT https://proxiesapi.com/articles/web-scraping-using-chatgpt-complete-guide-with-examples

A Call for Anthropological Poems of Resistance, Refusal, and Wayfinding

SAPIENS is seeking poetry submissions for a curated collection that will publish next year. Deadline: September 1, 2024. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/anthropological-poems-call-resistance-refusal-wayfinding/

A man in China disguised his turtle as a hamburger, and other stories. https://thartribune.com/from-gold-in-rectums-to-live-tiger-cubs-the-most-bizarre-items-smuggled-through-airport-security/

Fujifilm is struggling to meet demand for the $1,599 camera, prized by young 20-something social media fans for its looks and high-end functions.

Next let’s bring back darkrooms. https://www.msn.com/en-xl/money/other/fujifilm-once-struggled-to-sell-cameras-now-it-can-t-keep-up-with-demand/ar-BB1p1GCh

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
– Leslie Lamport, as quoted in CACM, June 1992

Good news! “After months of public outcry and pressure from the City Council, New York City’s libraries are poised to have their budgets fully restored so that branches may resume seven-day-a-week service, including Sundays.” https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-libraries-to-get-budget-funding-back-and-reopen-on-sundays

"Getting cool, then, means protecting yourself not just from the sun’s radiation but also from all the radiation bouncing off the pavement and concrete. A new textile—made of plastic and silver nanowires—does just that, and can keep its wearers as much as 16 degrees cooler than other fabrics." https://www.fastcompany.com/91142992/this-impossibly-thin-fabric-could-cool-you-down-by-16-degrees

Because it can be difficult and expensive to keep sesame in one part of a baking plant out of another, some companies began adding small amounts of sesame to products that didn't previously contain the ingredient to avoid liability and cost. https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/g-s1-6238/fda-warns-bakery-foods-allergens

Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-wireless-hero-was-a-persistent-patient-coder-and-mentor/

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Adobe backed off. https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-says-it-wont-train-ai-using-artists-work-creatives-arent-convinced/

ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials—such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award”—lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials, according to new research.
https://www.futurity.org/chatgpt-bias-resumes-disability-3234422/

Did you miss the Akkio booth at #DMWF? You missed some mighty fine swag, just sayin’.

My new employer also showed off how marketing agencies can chat with their data, using AI to make complex data analysis accessible to mere mortals. Snoop akkio.com to see what we’re up to. It’s a lot.

A new blood test is 100% accurate at predicting breast cancer’s return before a full relapse, making more treatment options available. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blood-test-predict-breast-cancer-101016790.html