63 studies: women who assert their ideas, make direct requests, and advocate for themselves are liked less. They're also less likely to get hired—and it hasn't improved over time. It's 2021. When will we stop punishing dominant women for violating outdated gender stereotypes?

The Suez Canal was just the tip of the iceberg. Since 40% of sewing thread is made in China... a 🧵 on the whys and how global supply chain crisis impact YOU seems appropriate.

This is remarkable: A 15-year study of 2 million Danish adults concluded that traffic noise is likely responsible for ~11% of **all** annual dementia diagnoses in Denmark. Urban autos are a serious health hazard. theguardian.com/society/2021/s…

Apple’s defense of removing voting guides is that they have to obey the law of the nations they operate in. And yet if legislators demand they expand their image scanning corpus, they say they will refuse. They intend to break the law in that case, but not this one?

Pleased to announce kerl 2.2.0 github.com/kerl/kerl/rele… - kerl will now download prebuilt .beam and chunk files from github if available, which provides roughly 50% (or more) build time speed ups. Thanks Lukas Backström (FKA Larsson) for the PR!

OBSESSED with my new discovery of Alex Colville paintings which were painted in the '50s-'70s but look like early computer graphics ☁️✨

Bad news: Leaded fuel reduced the IQ of everyone born before 1990 by ~4.25%. Millennials are the first to be born with unleaded gas. Worse news: a new paper shows environmental lead levels from leaded gasoline are still around in cities today, and cause continued neurotoxicity.

Apart from the release of #grisp 2, we are working on our own PMODs! First out is PmodDIO which is a high-speed, four-channel industrial digital IO device (24V by default). 4 devices can be chained on one slot to get up to 16 channels! The demo is done in #erlang, of course 😉

As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career. How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader. 🧵 1/

A timely reminder

The 1987 Montreal Protocol has curbed the amount of halocarbons in the atmosphere, resulting in the slow recovery of the ozone layer, but several satellites are still monitoring it. This is a 3D rendering of the ozone hole evolution in 2021 [read more: buff.ly/2MxbfMG]

The Sandbox is a UGC blockchain game that is the leading light of "Virtual Real Estate Games." It has > $100M in investment, and as of last week, tokens valued at $14 billion. It also has barely any users. Investors are effectively valuing monthly active users at > $470,000 each

Native macOS GUI app for Docker ✨ Nearly feature-complete with Docker Desktop already. Early access 👇 orbstack.dev

Microsoft Outlook Are you out of your freaking minds? How desperate are you to show ads in a default email client? How is Windows even a serious operating system anymore? The previous "Mail" didn't have ads. Apple's Mail doesn't have ads and good old Thunderbird doesn't have any.