21. A study of 500 diners found “attractive servers earn approximately $1,261 more per year in tips than unattractive servers.” Mostly because of “female customers tipping attractive females more than unattractive females.”
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Steve Jobs announced a feature called Smart Shuffle, which made iPod randomisation less random, in order to appear more random, in Sep 2005. Twenty years later, Spotify are still trying to find a shuffle algorithm that users like – @TomWhitwellmedium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-t…
Hello friends. At long last that annual moment has come. My friend @TomWhitwell has posted his list of 52 things he learned in 2025. I look forward to this more than Christmas. This year's list is an all timer that includes this titbit:
NEW ANALYSIS: A potential game changer for global emissions: China is on track for fall in emissions in 2025.
Clean-energy growth helped China’s carbon emissions fall by 1% year-on-year in H1 2025.
Excellent @CREACleanAir analysis in @CarbonBriefcarbonbrief.org/analysis-rec…
Just when you thought you were done for a little while and then that @musicthing thing you’ve been waiting since @MachinaBris in Sept comes into stock #Sold#Thonk