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Monochroming monitors.

1. You can use Copilot to extract tables from PDFs.

   

2. "The growth of China’s agricultural subsidies is incredible: now at $300bn per year, according to the OECD.”

   

   This graph is no good in grayscale, by the way. Can’t tell the lines apart.

3. Controlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotion | PLOS ONE

   They then later compared the success of these tweeted articles with control articles randomly selected from the same issues. The result? No statistically significant increase in citations in the promoted articles versus the controls. (summary by Newport)

   

   In a twist of irony, the paper itself has been cited zero times. (tongue-in-cheek, of course, because how can any article be cited shortly after publication?)

4. "Lots of people in CS are (almost surely) GPT-ing their peer reviews

   

   Is it happening in other fields?

5. The Household Equipment Revolution

   Paper. Example from 100+ years ago of people thinking about how to work and how to make their work environment work with them, not against.

6. Older workers see rampant age discrimination in the office

   Lipper applied near and far, even trolling for jobs he had held before. No offers came. Lipper was forced into retirement at 62. He is 68 now. He had planned to work till 70.

7. Windows accessibility options include monochrome

   I did not know grayscale was included in accessibility options (Win+U). After making my monitor grayscale, I sort of enjoyed computer use without the added stimuli of color. It felt like e-ink screens (think Kindle).