By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, Heritage promotes a false link between transgender identity and violence in its push for the FBI to create a new terrorism category. www.wired.com/story/herita...

Erm...what? A sustainable development goals watch...for 10k. Only 17 of them made, and you need to demonstrate your sustainability commitment to qualify for one. I'm speechless.

Check out this cool elevation map of the contiguous US! www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

I've rarely felt so seen. Eight years ago, some random guy on the internet perfectly described how I feel about celery.

It appears that there is an increasingly high chance Israel will be banned next week from UEFA due to its genocide in Gaza, which would in turn effectively end its hopes of qualifying for the World Cup. I have heard this independently confirmed from another source. www.thetimes.com/article/11e9...

Grape Nuts (holding me back): Whoa whoa whoa, hey man, just let it go! This asshole isn't worth it!

Reminder that "not acting" shapes the future as much as "acting" does and that not choosing is a choice.

Five hours apart

Rather than treating every Trump statement as a papal edict, it might be safer to say the president is making it up as he goes along

It is an increasingly crummy and unstable job. Rather than worry about pay you should be concerned about the fact that faculty and students have less and less of a voice in their selection, turning college presidents into political appointees

This reminds me of the worst mistake I made during my years in London: cycling through the Rotherhithe tunnel. On a single gear bike, though that didn't make much of a difference I don't think. But anyway...40 quid per cyclist?

I know nothing matters anymore, but I feel that the answer should really be in the title. You know, because people will not read the article but remember the question and think that if it was a ridiculous question we would not ask it in the first place...

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

To all universities out there. If you absolutely must make us undergo idiotic online training for cyber security and whatnot, at least give us text-only options and spare us from mandatory videos of some guy yammering about their "area of expertise."

Obvious copy pasta from bots pushing propaganda getting millions of views is the norm on X. It’s now a right wing propaganda platform and it’s likely the same will happen to TikTok once it’s owned by the Murdochs. I note that the media doesn’t even criticize X’s non-existent content moderation.

Disney's furious backtracking doesn't change the underlying problem but I am looking forward to Kimmel's opening monologue tomorrow night.

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

Power in numbers.

In case there was any doubt who is winning the clean industrial revolution ... Source: Bloomberg #cleantech #climatetech #china #solar #wind #batteries #hydrogen

Eichmann in Jerusalem vibes for sure, but I'm sharing this mainly because of the brilliant pseudonym: Yanis Varoufuckice

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

A bit of a bambi-eyed title considering it's the president and his entourage driving things and not some random midwestern senator, but this is a pretty good round-up nonetheless.

Breaking News: Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation that prohibits federal immigration agents from wearing masks in California.

I can't believe I lived long enough to see the death of US technological and economic supremacy.

""If you're going to train somebody, you're going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land," said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick." And here I thought all universities are rotten to the core with communism and woke ideology.

And that, folks, is why I don't own any Dyson products.

The number of countries with wealth taxes has fallen sharply since 1990. Revenues from these taxes tend to raise comparatively small amounts.

This paper shows that children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from a low socio-economic status family. A low-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of disadvantaged children and reduce inequality of opportunity.

One thing I don't miss about the UK is the all-pervasive surveillance. I felt like I was being monitored pretty much everywhere, for everything. That said, we'll be following suit up here, I'm sure.

The biggest professional mistake I’ve made so far is underestimating the effectiveness of mass production and the effects of Wright’s Law in *dramatically* reducing the costs of renewable energy technologies - solar panels in particular. Still remember my shock seeing investment data in 2020.

When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person? Tomorrow from Ezra Klein

”If Britain holds its ground on digital taxes and content moderation, it will foster innovation, protect democracies and their citizens and allow countries to stand by their sovereign right to be governed by the regulations approved by their own parliaments, not in Washington or Silicon Valley.”

Free speech? Really? It cost Jimmy Kimmel his job.

Antifa Professor, member of a Major Terrorist Organization

It's the perpetual chip on their shoulders. A resentment stemming from a sense of entitlement; that you deserve more than you're getting but some people are always standing in the way. These people need to be attacked even if you're king of the hill the resentment will never go away.

Strong argument for moving Bluesky's data infrastructure to the EU

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

There's a genre of spam email which says that my payment has been declined and because of this all my social media presence is going to be deleted and it's like... why are you threatening me with freedom from the saṃsāra? What are you doing?

"In his opening monologue on Monday, Kimmel said: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.” The comedian added: “Some people are cheering this, which is something I won’t ever understand.”"

I went for the prize but failed miserably: I couldn't take more than 10 seconds of this.

"In Germany, there’s a...road traffic licensing regulation, which says that front bike lights must have a cut-off, so that the beam pattern stays below a certain level." We need such regulation in every country. The most annoying thing in (bike) traffic is blinding bike lights*.

I didn't know this. Honeybees crowd out wild bees and end up harming nature in the process.

@variety.com writes about funding cuts to the Finnish film industry. "Only a moron would cut the funding of an industry that actually brings revenue into the government’s pocket. Our ruling parties show, again, that they do not understand the value of culture for a nation."

a device deployed in conference venues that delivers a temporarily incapacitating shock at the words "I asked chat gpt"

my god. Bret Stephens is a harsher critic of Charlie Kirk than @ezraklein.bsky.social is

The defining experience of fascism is familiar to anyone who has written stuff on the internet. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.

Yep. Less than 15 years!