I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.

My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.

[trying to flirt] i havent payed my taxes in several years..

The largest clean power increases in the past six years relative to 2019 energy consumption were in Lithuania, Finland, Belarus, North Macedonia and Pakistan. Brazil, Vietnam and Chile also stand out.

To me this shows how broad-based the clean energy boom is and that simplistic takes like Europe can't build or only China has the speed and scale don't pan out.

I guess...

"I used an LLM to help me write, but it was just to polish the style and grammar" is something you've probably come across, or done yourself. Many conferences and journals and teachers are ok with this. But does it...? Just focus on the style and grammar...?

Messi's been sweating and running so much ib knockouts it's such a wild sight

Attaching third-party fact-checks to false news reduces both belief and sharing. But do people want to see this context? In a new preprint, @jaewkwon.bsky.social and I find that people choose to read fact-checks nearly 80% of the time. 1/9 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/84d7h

No pls it's past my bedtime

FREE PALESTINE BITCH

[holy fuck re-issued]

Hold on. Someone’s spotted a foul in the warm up.

Honestly how are yall posting and watching at the same timr i dont thikk i rekelber to blink

an Egyptian player committed a foul in middle school academy soccer which led to his pro career and thus to his call up to the national team so VAR review confirms a foul in the buildup. no goal

What is even more striking is that data centre demand has matched 93% of the growth in renewable electricity generation (wind + solar + hydro) over the past decade. If we measure since 2020, data centre demand has grown nearly 3-times faster than renewable electricity growth.

The IMF, every 10-15 years.

Bad idea to watch a "little bit" of the argentina-egypt game to "wind down"

I don't even know which Shoubir save was the best one. class

1/ New paper with Stephanie Alderete, Fei Xu and Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social!! osf.io/preprints/ps...

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Israel with a global first here, I believe. Every living former Chief Justice cries Stop.

When we consider children in cultural evolution, we tend to cast them as recipients of adult culture. In our BBS target article, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argued there's more: through 'peer cultures', children actively drive cultural adaptation. Our final paper + a rich set of responses is out now!

the red card against quansah will stand because prince william is too cheap (and too protestant) to pay saint gianni for the indulgence

Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization

If anyone could impose barriers and slow shit down like their life depended on it it would be the english

Bellingham looks totally spent

New Muppets movie where Kermit plays Harry Kane

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

His controller is unplugged

new metaphor just dropped

Ecstatic to announce, with @agholdier.bsky.social, that our paper "Emotional Outsourcing" has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Quarterly! Pre-print is up on PhilPapers now.⬇️ philpapers.org/rec/WEIEOP-2

Searched up Paraguay's goalie and among the results was the German wikipedia page 🥲

My new NASA tech memo is finally published! The idea is building a gossip protocol to model radio networks in disaster relief settings using action models, belief revision, and simplicial semantics. ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20...

a lot of people* have been asking what it's like to win the SPP poster prize, and it's admittedly hard to describe, but let me put it this way: do the words 'departmental website news archive post' mean anything to you? *so far, nobody

Ah, spinning my wheels writing. Time to go to the gym to spin my wheels there too

Alan Turing, born on this day in 1912. Helped save this country only to be persecuted by it.

grad students will do ANYTHING to avoid finishing their dissertations

never change, nyc

“England has historically struggled in Massachusetts.” — some sportscaster

Getting bullied by Olivia Rodrigo's new album rn, including: 1. the least The Cure-inspired song titled 'the cure' 2. 'less' is a heartrending ballad that doesn't finish before launching into the boppy 'expectations' (because you were expecting the last chord weren't you) 3. tons of self-reference

reflecting pool girl summer [trying to change myself and making it worse]

Every single word in this headline is a surprise

See also www.techpolicy.press/ais-catastro...

(seeing someone finish thinking) and would you like seconds?

Not to downplay the seriousness of this but... I don't think this is the all-time high for antisemitism in GERMANY

You take 5g of creatine a day so you get big juicy muskle. I take 15g of creatine today so i can compensate for massive sleep deprivation. We are not the same