Meatball lovers, rejoice – IKEA has announced the opening of its first restaurant on the UK high street
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/ikea-uk-high-street-restaurant-swedish-meatballs-b2639380.html

The man who, as president and CEO of SCO, attempted to sue Linux out of existence died a month and a half ago with little notice by the Linux and open: Once Linux’s Biggest Enemy: Darl McBride Dies and Nobody Notices https://fossforce.com/2024/11/once-linuxs-biggest-enemy-darl-mcbride-dies-and-nobody-notices/

TGI Fridays files for bankruptcy

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/02/food/tgi-fridays-bankruptcy/index.html

AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
> The UW researchers tested three open-source, large language models (LLMs) and found they favored resumes from white-associated names 85% of the time, and female-associated names 11% of the time. Over the 3 million job, race and gender combinations tested, Black men fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/ai-overwhelmingly-prefers-white-and-male-job-candidates-in-new-test-of-resume-screening-bias/

Presidential Campaign Pins 1860–1956
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/10/presidential-campaign-pins-1860-1956/

Listening In on the Mysterious Marbled Murrelet
Applying machine learning to forest soundscapes helps researchers pinpoint rare and threatened birds.
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/listening-in-on-the-mysterious-marbled-murrelet/

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More than 22 metric tons of luxury cheddar cheese was stolen from Neals Yard Dairy in London. https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/63-year-old-man-arrested-after-allegedly-stealing-400k-worth-of-cheese-2969708/

If Dolly Parton was Welsh, this is what Jolene would sound like. https://www.tiktok.com/@bronwenlewismusic/video/7341028081940860193

"Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII art. It turns out that chat-based large language models such as GPT-4 get so distracted trying to process these representations that they forget to enforce rules blocking harmful responses, such as those providing instructions for building bombs." https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/researchers-use-ascii-art-to-elicit-harmful-responses-from-5-major-ai-chatbots/#gsc.tab=0

The most common insult hurled at it was “offensively un-American”… tipping was blamed for encouraging servility and degrading America’s democratic, puritanical, and anti-aristocratic ethic. European immigrants surging into the U.S. were charged with bringing this deplorable custom with them. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/30/457125740/when-tipping-was-considered-deeply-un-american

For something that many of us handle all day long, it sure would be nice if mice came in more sizes and shapes, wouldn’t it? Until that day, we’ll just have to find something passable or else design and build a custom-shaped mouse from scratch. https://hackaday.com/2024/03/10/custom-mouse-making-clay-is-the-way/

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/

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Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, spent considerable time on the drawings, organising the symbolic elements according to a strict logic, making preparatory sketches and painstakingly incorporating drawings and colourings into his chronology. Dunant was convinced that the apocalypse was imminent. https://picryl.com/media/henry-dunant-apocalypse-diagram-b4a5e0

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The History of Chocolate as A Health Food
(by me, 2016)
https://www.canadapharmacyonline.com/blog/The-History-of-Chocolate-as-A-Health-Food.html

If anyone asks: My Halloween costume is "I am a serial killer. They look just like everybody else."