If I didn’t know better this would seem futuristic to me. This is not cutting edge at this point, this is construction surveying today.BBC Earth The diggers guided by satellites and drones. 🚜🏗️ BBC Money cross-posted on Facebook

Stop saying “robots are coming for your job”; start saying “Your boss wants to replace you with a robot” Tech reporter and sf writer Brian Merchant (previously) calls our attention to the peculiar construction of the problem statement in articles about automation and obsolescence, in which “robo… cross-posted on Facebook

The new kilogram debuts Monday. It’s a massive achievement. The new definition represents a victory of humankind over chaos in the universe. Really. cross-posted on Facebook

Campaign Finishes Three-Year Run Without DM Players of a local fantasy role-playing game expressed relief and exhaustion today after completing their campaign, ending a three-year run without a DM. cross-posted on Facebook

America’s Love of Male Trees Could Be Why You’re Sneezing Right Now Men ruin everything. cross-posted on Facebook

Opinion | Nothing in today’s headlines compares to the coming catastrophe Recycling our plastic bottles and toting our own shopping bags won’t be enough. cross-posted on Facebook

Recycling in the US these days isn’t much better than throwing it in the trash. But this isn’t all our fault, companies need to rethink packaging.National Sword – 99% Invisible Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be …

Heineken claims its business helps Africa. Is that too good to be true? The long read: The Dutch beer giant likes to blow its own trumpet about the economic and social benefits it brings to Africa – but revelations of sexual harassment and low pay show a different picture cross-posted on Facebook

‘Love Poems For Married People’ Will Help Spice Things Up In The— Zzzzz Honey? You awake? The soft glow of a smartphone screen, the caress of sweatpants, a new collection of poems by John Kenney celebrates what happens to romance after years (and years) of marriage. cross-posted on Facebook

Raising a Pint In Honor of Jim Parker With the passing of Jim Parker, our world feels a bit more empty as he touched so many lives in the beer industry and beyond. cross-posted on Facebook

Ride a chair lift with me and look around!Hohe Wacht chair ride – Damüls-Mellau-Faschina ski area cross-posted on Facebook

Dutch former anti-Muslim politician converts to Islam Joram van Klaveren is the second ex-PVV politician to convert. cross-posted on Facebook

9 superb owl facts you need to know Everybody’s talking about the superb owl, so these facts will be a hit at your next superb owl party. cross-posted on Facebook

Drone footage reveals hundreds of abandoned Turkish chateaux Hundreds of chateaux have been abandoned at the Burj Al Babas luxury housing development in central Turkey after its developer filed for bankruptcy, as can be seen in this drone footage. cross-posted on Facebook

Researchers Recreate Rogue Wave in Lab, Shedding Light on How They Form in Open Sea – gCaptain 0sharesResearchers at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh have worked out the unique set of conditions that allow for the creation of ‘freak’ or ‘rogue’ waves that can seemingly appear without warning and pose a danger to ships …

Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequence SOMERSET, NJ—In what local authorities are calling a “near tragedy,” Charles Wentworth, a 17-year-old Rutgers Preparatory senior and member of the affluent Wentworth family, came perilously close to suffering a consequence resulting from his own wrongdoing Saturday. cross-posted on Facebook

Mr. Trump offered a quick retort, telling reporters: “I’m not surprised. It’s really a shame what’s happening with the Democrats. They’ve become radicalized.”Trump Tells Pelosi He Will Deliver State of the Union. Pelosi Responds, No You Won’t. The president’s letter is the latest move in a game of brinkmanship between the two over the address …

“For those who have followed any of the half-dozen earlier “inside stories” of Trump World, all this will be as familiar as re-used videotape on cable TV news.”In ‘Team Of Vipers,’ It’s Mr. Sims Who Goes To Washington In the movies, “Mr. Smith” stands by his principles and prevails in the capital. In Cliff Sims’s …

Phishing Quiz cross-posted on Facebook

Somehow in all the shutdown stuff I missed this. This is not about hacking, this is telecoms selling user location data without consent or oversight.I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the …