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Mon. 03/29 - Why The Lawyer Cat Filter Was a Default on Thousands of Computers

Cool Stuff Ride Home • March 29, 2021

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A new fossil analysis that bolsters the theory that primates may have lived alongside dinosaurs––and somehow survived extinction. The high school girl who invented color-changing sutures that show when a wound has become infected. And why the filter made famous from the viral Lawyer Cat video was installed as a default setting on thousands of Dell computers. Sponsors: Gabi Insurance, gabi.com/kottke Ladder, ladderlife.com/kottke Links: Did ancient primates walk alongside T. rex? New evidence backs up theory. (National Geographic) Our earliest primate ancestors rapidly spread after dinosaur extinction (Berkeley News) This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection (Smithsonian Magazine) That Zoom Call with the Lawyer-Cat, Explained (The New Yorker)  Zoom Cat Lawyer Rod Ponton Has Controversial Prosecutor Past (Insider) Forever Given  NUMTOT Tinder Is a Dating Site for Transit Nerds (The Atlantic)  Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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