that is going to keep me up. Stories like this live in each city, town, neighborhood, county… imagine the worst env scenario play out. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Interesting thread

There is no opt-out to having your car tracked. So we created one. Today we're releasing notmyplate.com: a website built with the help of privacy lawyers allowing drivers to invoke their GDPR right to restrict data processing to all vendors at once. It's 100% free.(11/X)

Narcissistic people can be extremely charming but they also lack a sense of self. This is why they control everyone around them: they’re actually controlling their own self perception.

The best way to ensure good code is to have a good organization. This paper from Microsoft looking at 50M lines of code found that organizational factors were far more powerful in explaining the number of bugs than any technical aspect of the project. microsoft.com/en-us/research…

I wonder how this could relate to #slack channels. Sincerely just curious

RIP ⁦Bob McGrath⁩ ⁦Sesame Street⁩ made this world a brighter place. He and Luis ⁦Emilio Delgado⁩ were big staples of my childhood. I imagine them both in the sky - singing a duet, bringing us more life lessons. instagram.com/p/ClwxOaAPSLq/…

.American Girl salesperson to my daughter today: “You want a doll that looks like you, or you want the pretty one?” One hell of a way to ruin a 5 year olds day, and Christmas weekend, in ways you won’t even understand, especially for a brown kid. Horrible experience.

Another thing you can do this New Year to make people happy: reach out to folks you haven't spoken to in a while, even if you aren't very close This paper shows we worry it will be awkward (it isn't) & that people won't appreciate it (but they really do!) apa.org/pubs/journals/…

It’s also possible that genuine empathy is one thing we humans can prize as uniquely our own. Maybe it’s the one thing we do that AI can’t ever replace. (curious what others think? Jamil Zaki Paul Bloom?)

It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades. Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022. Extraordinary. news.mit.edu/2023/roman-con…

In CA the Casual Carpool serendipity of meeting interesting people as a rider was fun. / ‘Slugging’ culture in D.C. region threatened by commuting shifts washingtonpost.com/transportation…

Dispatch from a Manhattan Elementary School: 8 kids in class of 22 get covid. No note goes home to families because NYC DOE close contact letters have ended (1 covid test was sent). 2 parents run into each other at drugstore & start to put together how bad the situation is. 1/

There's a surprisingly large set of situations where we look at something but fail to notice what we are looking at, from typos on a page to a bike when driving. This readable paper shows it comes from our limited capacity to process visual information. search.bwh.harvard.edu/new/pubs/Wolfe…

via ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2023/02/10/wor…

Scars of old crises make firms inflexible. When companies have a negative shock (product failure, drop in revenues, etc) one of the ways they get back on track is by making standard procedures to solve the problem. But adopting standards lowers future adaptability forevermore.

These are the locations where we have detected cryptic lineages from wastewater so far. Number of lineages is in yellow. I'm sure this is the tip of the iceberg. 1/

Apparently, today is my 40th Rainbow-versary!!! #ReadingRainbow #icanflytwiceashigh

via @NYTimes: I envision these being the Adult version of Harriet, the Spy’s Tomato Sandwiches nytimes.com/2023/07/19/mag…