TL;DR: Job-hunting and manually applying to jobs are no easy feat. Luckily, you can streamline the process with LazyApply, an AI-powered tool that applies to 150 roles per day for less than $60 until June 17!

Whether you're a post-grad looking for your first job or someone who's just looking for a major career (or pay!) — Read the rest

Neon, the studio behind Ammonite and Anatomy of a Fall, has released a new trailer for their Oscar-nominated animated film Robot Dreams, which is finally getting released in the US. In the trailer, a dog named Dog builds himself a robot. — Read the rest

Twitter recently imposed blue checkmarks, previously assigned only to people paying to use the site, on all users meeting a certain threshold of paid followers. And soon users assigned blue checkmarks will no longer be able to hide them.

The blue checkmark, originally a form of verification and implicit status, was turned into a paid feature after Elon Musk's takeover of the site. — Read the rest

If you don't know already, Bill Wurtz is that musician/artist guy who made that history of the entire world, i guess, video back in 2017. It's cool, y'know, if you're into that sort of thing. Which you should be! It's great! — Read the rest

A Florida nurse who allegedly poisoned two cats and a pregnant dog faces three counts of felony animal cruelty and one of depositing poison in a public area. Polk County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday that they arrested Tamesha Knighten, 51, after the three pets were killed. — Read the rest

In 2020, David linked to a site that promised to automatically self-destruct if ever it went 24 hours without someone adding a message to its guestbook. The creator, FemmeAndroid, posted last week that the time had come [twitter.com].

"Well, the website is down. — Read the rest

HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port on one model with a sticker with a No Smoking-style "No USB" logo on it–lest you simply plug in your printer and start printing things with it before you've endured the hard sell via network setup. — Read the rest

Morale at Meta is suffering under layoffs, absentee leadership and "bad bets", reports the New York Times. The "year of efficiency", as Mark Zuckerberg euphemized, is sinking in.

Employees at Meta, which not long ago was one of the most desirable workplaces in Silicon Valley, face an increasingly precarious future.

For my 23rd birthday, my sister got me the thing that every recent college graduate desires: toilet paper. In this particular case, it was a vintage box of Spider-Man toilet paper, with a comic book printed in blue ink across 325 sheets of 2-ply tissue paper for your butt cheeks to read on the throne. — Read the rest

In the video above, NASA shares its plans for 2023 and it looks like it'll be a stellar year of milestones in astronomy, aeronautics, planetary science, cosmology, and for our future lives offworld. This is the space age, and we are here to go! — Read the rest

Andrew Wodzianski is a DC-area artist whose work often riffs off of nerdy pop cultural touchstones and ephemera. His pieces make references to comic books, 8-bit video games, monster movies, and tabletop gaming.

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation, September 28, 1987, he created pieces of meme-styled art that draw inspiration from the Star Trek coloring books and ship blueprints of his youth. — Read the rest

Artist LadyBEAST can walk glass bottles like a pro. Did I mention that she's able to do this while wearing high heels? In this video by Ripley's Believe it or Not, LadyBEAST talks about her escape artistry skills and demonstrates some of her amazing abilities for us. — Read the rest

Someone—possibly in Russia—apparently strapped a submachine gun on a ~$3,000 robot dog available from AliExpress. Vice points out that the gun is a Russian PP-19 Vityaz submachine gun made in Russia and that along with a Russian flag and other insignia seen in the video, the vehicle in the background is a Russian BDRM-2 armored car. — Read the rest

To go on the shelf with all the others.

Bonus back issue set:

Gills Just Want to Have Fun is a video from Backyard Brains that investigates the question "can fish play games just like us?" The video shows fish chasing a laser pointer around their tank, similar to the way a cat plays with a laser pointer. — Read the rest

San Francisco's cable cars have been an iconic sight in the city since they began operations in the late 19th century. in this lovely video above, you can take a ride on one into the past. This 1960s film clip from the wonderful Prelinger Archives has been lovingly restored by NASS. — Read the rest

Typogram's Coding Font has you find your favorite monospace typeface by picking winners, round-by-round, in a tournament-style matchup.

As software engineers, we spend a lot of time skimming, reading, making changes to code. The coding font that we spend 8 hours a day staring at has a lot to do with our productivity and comfort.

I've been using a reMarkable Tablet, for years now. It's great for taking notes at my day job. I waste no paper when I jot down meeting minutes, annotate stories and starting off new pieces of writing in long hand. I dig how easy it is to organize my notes on the tablet and that I can back them up to the cloud—including, recently, to Dropbox and Google Drive. — Read the rest

The world is temporarily a better place with Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Oculus VR, and Instagram being inaccessible right now. Twitter, unfortunately, is still operating, but at least people are posting some funny memes about it!

The Verge's explanation for why the sites aren't working is as clear as mud:

While it's unclear exactly why the platforms are unreachable for so many people, their DNS records show that, like last week's Slack outage, the problem is apparently DNS (it's always DNS).

Inside Slab City, The Lawless City in the Desert offers a glimpse into the daily lives of people who live in Slab City, an off-the-grid community located in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Desert in Imperial County, California. Slab City is a place where people who don't want to live in mainstream society go to live by their own rules. — Read the rest