Jobs that Marry Together the Most
It's fun to press the random occupations button and see who's schtupping whom. Of course homemakers aren't on the list, because they don't exist and you're weird for asking why they're not.
Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners, study finds
As opposed to the Federal Reserve, which has a single director, Beelzebub.
France moves to shield its book industry from Amazon
"This law is necessary to regulate the distorted competition within online book sales and prevent the inevitable monopoly that will emerge if the status quo persists," the ministry told Reuters.
Wow. French people talking sense. Truly it must be the end times. Oh, they fix the problem by charging the customer more. Never mind.
How Much Do Los Angeles Interns Get Paid?
Interns get paid? Who knew? According to the graphic, a social media intern makes about double what a healthcare intern makes. Legal interns make the most, probably because medical malpractice lawsuits caused by low wage healthcare interns pay great.
Giant, free index to world's research papers released online
No thanks. I get all my vital information from brilliantine dullards who read scripts written by social media interns on the TV news.
Securing your digital life, part one: The basics
Pro Tip: Leaving your password on a Post-It note appended to the screen isn't good. It's especially not good if you're using the computer at the library.
Walmart Billionaire Marc Lore Is Planning a $500 Billion “City of the Future”
He’s devised a “reformed version of capitalism” with Telosa he calls “equitism,” where anyone can build and sell homes, but the city retains ownership of the land underneath.
Hmm. That sort of arrangement isn't new. It's called a favela overseas, or an Indian Reservation around here. Good luck with that.
Scientists claim that planet 9 could actually be a primordial black hole with a diameter of just a few centimeters
Planet 9 is a hypothesized large planet that would be located in the outer parts of our solar system, far beyond the orbits of Neptune and Uranus. The existence of planet 9 would explain the weird orbits of some transneptunian objects that are hard to be explained without it.
Women, minorities, Neil DeGrasse Tyson hardest hit.
A photographer and artist walk into a fake news factory
Ostensibly a photobook on the small Macedonian town of Veles, which made international headlines in 2016 as the unlikely factory of pro-Trump fake news, The Book of Veles created a furore after Bendiksen revealed that the project’s images were synthetically generated using 3D software and the book’s text was written entirely by artificial intelligence. Fascinated with the story of Veles as well as with developments in synthetic imagery, Bendiksen set out to see just how “real” he could make his images. Although he left breadcrumbs throughout the text, to his surprise the book was published in April 2021 to “nice, positive echo-chamber feedback,” said Bendiksen. No one questioned the authenticity of the images or text.
So, every molecule of the story was fake, except the part that smears Trump. That was totally legit. Got it.
Humans Are Actually Terrible at Navigating Cities, Study of Over 14,000 People Shows
According to mobile phone data from over 14,000 people living their daily lives, humans are terrible at calculating the shortest route through city streets. And the reason is really simple: our brains want us to face the direction we are going in, even if that's not the most efficient way of getting to our destination.
Better headline: Cities are actually terrible at accommodating humans.
Microsoft beats revenue expectations, reporting 22% growth
Microsoft is IBM now. Kinda staid, reliable, always makes money. No one gets fired for hiring Microsoft, as they say. IBM is now, oh, I don't know, Fotomat.
The Unique Pros and Cons of Being An Older Dad
According to life-expectancy charts issued by the CDC, she can expect to lose me before she is 30. Then, after my wife dies — if she doesn’t precede me — my daughter will be all alone in the world.
That's why being a sugar daddy makes more sense. You can be a sugar daddy at any old age. And your protege won't mind if you die. She might even help.
