What I saw on the web on 2022.8.27

1. I guess there are statistics influencers now?
   by Gretchen McCullough
   https://twitter.com/GretchenAMcC/status/1563216860174118916
   in case you were wondering
   via Ada Palmer's twitter feed
   
   
2. Everyone should have such a thoughtful employer.
   by Laura H Palmer
   https://twitter.com/StudioLHP/status/1563155066294480897
   this is hilarious on several levels
   via Ada Palmer's twitter feed
   
   
3. Millennials Playing D&D Confused by Concept of Long Rest
   by Jimmy Beliakoff
   https://hard-drive.net/millennials-playing-dd-confused-by-concept-of-long-rest/
   this is disturbingly plausible
   via Ada Palmer's twitter feed, yet again
   
   
4. Associations of body mass index, fasting insulin, and inflammation with mortality: a prospective cohort study
   by Natasha Wiebe, Paul Muntner & Marcello Tonelli
   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01211-2
   in case you were wondering
   via email
   
   
5. Neil Gaiman on the Secret History of ‘The Sandman,’ from Giant Mechanical Spiders to the Joker
   by Neil Gaiman spaking to Brian Hiatt
   https://rollingstoneindia.com/neil-gaiman-on-the-secret-history-of-the-sandman-from-giant-mechanical-spiders-to-the-joker/
   a good long interview with Neil on matters sandmanny and otherwise
   via boing
   
   
6. Digit-Extraction Algorithm
   by Wolfram Mathworld
   https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Digit-ExtractionAlgorithm.html
   i knew there were hex digit extraction algorithms for π, but hadn't realized there were decimal digit extraction algorithms
   via some googlery