Friday Links!
Leading off this week, a wonderful video (thanks, Qt3 forums): The Hidden Pattern in Post Codes.
An excellent read: ‘It’s a cowboy show out there’: the deadly lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry.
Gee, what a surprise: Did you know the top brass at ARMA and DayZ studio Bohemia Interactive bought a 'disinformation outlet' in 2023?
Quite the bizarre story (but not in a bad way, really): A flooded quarry, a mysterious millionaire and the dream of a new Atlantis.
From Wally, and I couldn't even collect any blurbs for mine: The End of the Blurb. Thank God. Christie's is having an AI art auction (anything they can make money from, I guess): What is AI art? And now it's lucrative: 100,000 Eggs Are Stolen in Pennsylvania Amid Shortage.
From C. Lee, and it needs to be read: Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab. And another: The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think. This is a bad, bad trend: The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing. What an incredible moron: Video Game Exec Pleads Guilty to Crashing Drone Into Firefighting Plane During LA Wildfires. A fascinating read: Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages. This one, too: The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars. In other words, a minimum wage barely over $7 is a dystopian joke: Mapped: The Living Wage for a Family of Four, by State. This is why inflation could be insanely dangerous for the economy: Visualizing the Growth of U.S. Consumer Debt. So many close calls, considering the consequences: When Russian Radar Mistook a Norwegian Scientific Rocket for a U.S. Missile, the World Narrowly Avoided Nuclear War. A gentle story: A Sunfish Got ‘Lonely’ When Its Aquarium Closed for Renovations. Then, Staff Found a Creative Way to Cheer It Up. A thoughtful rumination: Marjorie Liu Reflects On the Immortality of Superman. And this as well: Advice for those contemplating suicide: Flee the situation instead.
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