Brilliantly said www.theringer.com/2026/07/04/w...

Peacock spiders are only 4mm long, but their courtship dance rivals any bird of paradise. Australia has over 90 species of these tiny, ultra-colorful performers.

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia

This is genuinely insane youtu.be/Ad2IzyWsNUY?...

Kavanaugh in his partial dissent arguing that the constitution should be interpreted in a modern context. I thought they were all orginalists?

Everyone salivating about the birthright case while Sotomayor is reading a dissent from the bench. I understand why she is doing it by god....

Only person who should be interviewing Rufo is Isaac Chotiner.

tremendous stuff. keep it up everyone.

I was just checking to see what the age rating was for Pleasantville to see if I could watch with my kid and this was one of the first reviews. Talk about completely missing the point.

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

Spam messages are a good opportunity to practice being the kind of person nobody wants to talk to for any reason

Getting the job and immediately angling to work from home. Truly a PM for the millennial generation

I'm not sure I've ever seen a single sentence go downhill this far and this fast

I had strong priors against LLMs for medicine. There are a lot of doctors in my family and I grew up viewing doctors as careful, skilled professionals. I had plenty of bad medical experiences, but I thought it would be hard to do better. Then an LLM found a cure for my 2 decade chronic condition...

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

This is an outstanding summary of a really important study.

it's the same picture dot jpg

Messi xkcd.com/3260/

The Haven, Boston's only Scottish bar, has gone through a third of its 150 kegs of Tennent's in stock after just four days www.threads.com/@glasgowtime...

This is probably the most traditional possible behavior for the family of a pope.

FWIW. Just a little fun time working with Gemini. A search for F.E.A.R. I am assured three times explicitly. That there is NO SUCH REFERENCE. It does not exist. Presumably because most people are looking for a different answer. Until *I* explicitly tell the LLM it is wrong.

This is absolute nightmare fuel. I appreciate the linked photos in the piece too. I had been sleeping too much recently and this is definitely going to fix that problem arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

There really is a tweet for everything

There are animals all over my house.

RIP to a legend. Anthony Stewart Head was the best looking person in the Buffy cast and it's honestly not even close.

I've started asking people the thought experiment "are there more doors or wheels on planet earth?". I don't really care about their answer, but the speed at which they ask ChatGPT allows me to assess how much I care about their thoughts and opinions on other matters.

No, you’re not

Currently workshopping a guy who's mad that Mamdani's getting credit for a Knicks team that was actually built during Eric Adams' administration. Really looking forward to seeing where this goes.

When life is hell, come to dbar www.universalhub.com/2026/when-li... #Boston #Dorchester

Most people know Kenya for wildlife. Far fewer know it already operates one of the cleanest electricity systems on Earth. Around 91% of electricity now comes from renewable sources, while fossil generation has fallen from roughly 48% in 2010 to around 10% in 2025. #Bettrification

You know you can calculate the circumference of the earth in your office. All you need is direct sunlight, a sheet of paper rolled into a column, a ruler and this website. rl.se/sub-solar-po... I do not know why they would set up such a niche website but I thank them from the bottom of my heart.

Federal law enforcement surveillance of Americans' financial life continues to expand year by year, whether Congress passes any new laws to that effect or not. And now Trump wants to enlist the payments system to bolster his border/immigration policies, among other goals [Nick Anthony]

Thank you for bringing some class back to the White House!

311 complaint of the day: You're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion on this Dorchester street www.universalhub.com/2026/311-com... #Boston #itchy

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

1:1 with 4 minutes left in extra time in the CL final and PSG pass it around outside the square for 4 minutes without trying anything. Supposedly the best of soccer and this is what we are subjected to.

this is what Twitter is for now, this is what you legitimize by posting there

For years I have been telling the fellows that the reason we don't see as much NSF anymore has a lot less to do with the fact that we are using Group 2 agents and more because we aren't using remotely as much Gad as we did in the 2000s. This article clearly lays out why complacency is dangerous.

For Sale: Digital Art Collection and Miscellaneous Items Priced to Move www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/for...

So Franco walks because he was blackmailed for doing exactly what he was accused of doing but the mother gets 10 years in prison. Not defending her behavior but this is something else

In 1942, the US Army produced a film informing GIs of the differences to expect when stationed in Britain. It included a chapter on how Britain was not racially segregated like back home, and that they should just deal with it:

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”