Five Quick Links for Friday Afternoon

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Here’s a good rule of thumb for how and when to pepper a dish you’re cooking, taken from recipes for steak au poivre: you want pepper to be toasted, not burned [lifehacker.com]

The White House has a new executive order it says will encourage competition in the US economy, including right to repair, broadband markets, drugs and medical equipment, agriculture, consumer banking, and more [whitehouse.gov]

Cuttlefish don’t live a long time like corvids or have highly social lives like chimpanzees. They don’t even perform magic tricks squeezing into caves or holes like octopi. But they’re smart. How do they do it? [nytimes.com]

A 20th anniversary oral history of the Reese Witherspoon star vehicle / unexpected cult classic Legally Blonde [nytimes.com]

Nintendo and Tag Heuer appear to be teaming up to make a Mario-themed wristwatch [theverge.com]

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