Month: September 2023
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Twenty Three Week Thirty-Nine
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Week 39,2023 | Trent.Photo Material WB’s via Trent.Photo: https://trent.photo/best-of-the-week/week-392023
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How LinkedIn Got Weird
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It’s not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird. Divorce, trouble peeing, and stealing hotel food: Why did a job network become everyone’s favorite place for oversharing? via Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-linkedin-got-weird-work-life-blurred-lines-of-oversharing-2023-9 Take one post from Peter Rota, an SEO specialist from Massachusetts. “I have a secret,” he wrote to his thousands of followers in August…
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The Golden Fleece, by Joe Kloc
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The Golden Fleece, by Joe Kloc A historical adventure via Harper’s Magazine: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/10/the-golden-fleece-kloc/ Chris rang him up as Virginia brought out the store’s most expensive paperback, Orgy of the Dead, from 1966, which she estimated was worth about a thousand dollars. The cover featured a painting of a naked woman standing in the fog. Behind…
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Salt Lake City, Utah
A woman with a 32-ounce soda approaches me on the street. She asks me if I’ve heard of “source” and “non-source” people. I immediately start recording Her: And so I would be a source and you would be a non-source. There’s fillers and players. So I would be a player and you would be a…
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Jobless, Divorced, on Probation; a Pandemic Hobby Turned His Life Around – The New York Times
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Jobless, Divorced, on Probation; a Pandemic Hobby Turned His Life Around Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to stay sane during lockdown blew up on social media — and in auction houses. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/nyregion/ice-box-model-nyc.html Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to…
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Out-Of-Work Journalist Turns to Smuggling Weed – Rolling Stone
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Confessions of a Journalist Turned Weed Smuggler A veteran reporter looks back on when he was laid off from his newspaper gig and instead of taking a dead-end desk job turned to running van loads of marijuana across state lines via Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/confessions-of-a-weed-smuggler-1234825272/ This is something they don’t tell you about criminal activity. When…
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A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare | The New Yorker
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A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare The Pentagon’s Replicator initiative envisions swarms of low-cost autonomous machines that could remake the American arsenal. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ai-and-the-next-generation-of-drone-warfare As she envisions it, there will be “constellations” of these systems “flung into space, scores at a time”; pods of small, solar-propelled boats outfitted with sensors,…