Adam Klaff

"When she introduced the forty-hour week as an experiment during the Summer she found that "output was considerably increased." The plan worked so well that she decided to keep the factory closed on Saturdays for the entire year. "
- NY Times, May 12th 1929
www.nytimes.com/1929/05/12/a...
(2/2)

"Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse, a well-known advocate of welfare legislation, told the Industry Survey Commission of New York State that she had successfully introduced a forty-four-hour week in the leather goods factory she runs, and that production had increased." (1/2)

The strange, surprisingly radical roots of the shopping mall Victor Gruen was an avant-garde European socialist who inadvertently designed that all-American creature, the mall. But, as Steven Johnson reveals, his master plan was way grander — and one w…

TIL one of the inventors of the shopping mall was a European socialist who envisioned them as urban spaces to free people from car-dependent sprawl
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Turns out TNT and Dynamite are two completely different things. Can’t believe AC/DC did this to me.

Rupert Murdoch Fails in Bid to Change Family Trust A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Mr. Murdoch, who was trying to give full control of his empire to his son Lachlan and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/b...

The Murdoch children based part of their succession strategy on….”Succession”

What are the chances “Grape!” is not grape?

Email detailing massive payout of $7.43 for Equifax data breach.

Friggin jackpot.

Pinsky’s entry point was playing Call of Duty online, where he was introduced to a user named @Ferno, who he learned was a hacker. Ferno impressed Pinsky with his ability to get whatever he wanted on the internet. Pinsky started doing menial tasks for Ferno, whose true identity he says he still doesn’t know, gathering information that would be useful to target someone for identity fraud or to break into their accounts. He also began teaching himself to code in Structured Query Language, so he could break into companies’ databases and steal employee data. He found a niche selling information from those networks on the private message service XMPP, bantering with criminals there in the fluent Russian he’d learned from his mother, a doctor who emigrated from the Soviet Union.

*sigh*
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-04/teen-gamers-targeted-michael-terpin-in-major-sim-swapping-theft

The logistic map connects fluid convection, neuron firing, the Mandelbrot set and so much more. Fasthosts Techie Test competition is now closed! Learn more a... This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)

It hasn't yet, because I don't entirely understand it, but I'm getting there.

The best part of Seafair is the sound the Blue Angels make just before the cluster bombing starts.

Triple-Digit Heat, but No Electric Bill? For Passive Homeowners, ‘It’s Hard to Go Back’ Three side-by-side houses in Boston are designed to offer clean inside air, reduced emissions and little to no energy costs

Awesome https://www.wsj.com/articles/passive-home-design-massachusetts-2c89a18d

Like magic.

Watch a sculpted portrait come to life in this mesmerizing short from production company Eyes & Ears. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe➡ Get More Sh... Watch a Masterpiece Emerge from a Solid Block of Stone | Short Film Showcase

“It’s enough to take something that’s been cut from the earth and make something beautiful out of it”

What should my first post be?