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The shift to WFH is the largest shock to labor markets in decades. Pre-pandemic WFH was trending towards 5% of days by 2022. Now WFH is now stabilizing at 30%, a 6-fold jump. In America alone this is saving about 200 million hours and 6 billion miles of commuting a week.
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On this day in 2006: Twitter launches
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Uber is putting ads into their app when waiting for a ride, was served a Burberry ad
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Vintage Japanese matchbook covers… – at Dallas, TX
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British Rail throwing shade at the airline industry back in '85! 📷 'How to Improve a Plane', British Rail poster, 1985.
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Ever think about how the main reason we see this image so often is the fact that none of the other memes about Survivor's Bias really lasted?
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Due to a small hole at my curtains, my room sometimes turns into a camera obscura.
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The average TikTok user now spends more than 25 hours each month on the app. Insane 🤯
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Went to renew my Taiwanese passport, got denied because they couldn’t see my ears in my photo. Ran across the street to UPS to take new photos. They told me to put these on — a first for everything I guess
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China Internet Giant Baidu's 5G Cloud chauffeur service, through 5G and autonomous driving car communication, realizing remote driving cars.
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so apparently Zelenskyy won the Ukrainian version of Dancing with the Stars in 2006 and the tape is even better than whatever you're imagining
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This week marks the 80th anniversary of NYT crossword. The Times started offering the puzzle after bombing of Pearl Harbor, to give anxious readers a distraction during wartime blackouts. (This was pre-Wordle)
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The Indian air force used elephant helicopters for ceremonial flyovers in the 70s – at Queens, NY
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From the first century A.D through to early Byzantine period, it was the custom in Egypt to bury those who could afford it in mummies onto which were bound superb encaustic portraits of the deceased; in some cases full-length pictures were painted onto the winding sheet itself.
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Both are true. In case you wanted a perfect little demonstration of the power of storytelling.
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Fun little trick in the Sunday New York Times crossword yesterday: the central theme clue was "The better of two sci-fi franchises", and regardless of whether you put Star Wars or Star Trek, the crossing clues worked
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The market: distinctive assets blah blah… Guinness: hold my beer
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Control Group xkcd.com/2576
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A few tech stocks since IPO...
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Oh great it’s gone corporate
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