Well that sucks. https://www.salon.com/2024/08/24/famous-ballpark-used-in-a-league-of-their-own-destroyed-by-massive/

You know this would happen to me.
Italian burglar caught after sitting down with book https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4kpv3p4zo

1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/real-humans-appeared-human-63-of-the-time-in-recent-turing-test-ai-study/

+10x engineers may be mythical, but -10x engineers exist. https://taylor.town/-10x

.

It’s been five decades of mazes, monsters, and even movies https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/01/50-years-of-dungeons-dragons-10-big-moments/

The parent company of Jack Daniel’s on Wednesday announced it is ending its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals.

I’m trying to make sense of the intent of this statement:
“With these new dynamics at play, we must adjust our work to ensure it continues to drive business results while appropriately recognizing the current environment in which we find ourselves,” Brown-Forman’s Executive Leadership team said.

https://katu.com/news/nation-world/jack-daniels-parent-company-scrapping-dei-goals-will-tie-incentives-to-performance-brown-forman-corporation-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-robby-starbuck

This site is a quick way to check whether a job advert has the kind of subtle linguistic gender coding that has a discouraging effect. https://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com

TIL John Lennon worked a summer job at Liverpool airport as a baggage handler. It gives new meaning to "Imagine no possessions."

I know that the FBI has a lot of police dogs but you never had a police cat. My cat, Butch, should be the first Police cat. He is very tough and not scared of anything - even dogs. If you had a police cat like Butch, you would fool all the crooks because they wouldn’t suspect that a cat is working for the FBI. If you want to try Butch, write to me.

A young girl named Saraann
Letter to the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
1930

—Kids’ Letters to the F.B.I., by Bill Adler

Stanisław Lem's Prescient Vision of Artificial Life https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/stanislaw-lems-prescient-vision-of-artificial-life/

.

The history of coloring margarine https://www.sciencehistory.org/collections/blog/stomping-the-margarine/

There’s been steady growth in the population of Chinese white dolphins, nicknamed the 'giant panda of the sea,’ thanks to conservation measures. https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-08-16/VHJhbnNjcmlwdDgwMzE0/index.html

The DNC news coverage you were waiting for (maybe) https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/22/dnc-fashion-best-worst-outfits-00175652

Timeline cleaner: a joyful video of 2,000 people singing ABBA in an Ottawa theater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0MgG7-jWyc

TIL John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich onto Gemini 3 and was the first astronaut to be yelled at by NASA. https://www.space.com/39341-john-young-smuggled-corned-beef-space.html

This book is so disappointing: Rock Covers: 750 Album Covers That Made History

You'd think it impossible to make this only "meh," but they did so.
https://amzn.to/4cBl3kH

This book is so disappointing: Rock Covers: 750 Album Covers That Made History
You'd think it impossible to make this only "meh," but they did so.
https://amzn.to/4cBl3kH

I'm not sure I could wear any of this amazing nail art, but OMG some of these designs are SO COOL.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/style/sculptural-nail-art-manicures/index.html