Nw the outfit. This is a Chicago gangster film but this actress has iphone face

The first thing to understand, is that the number of people killed by cops is not connected to the "crime rate," (however you define that). Every decade since the 80s has had less violent crime than the decade before. And yet every decade the number of cop killings goes... up. 🙂🙃 Here's why:

Nw a show about the London natural history museum. Lots of talk about stuff sitting in drawers for decades until some new work is done revealing something. Eg they had some unusual beetles donated in the 1800s by a local farmer, but they were unusual as that species isn't local

Fall is over winds of winter are here

Got a call for a Horyn here! Iwona B. Horyn? Anyone?

Lucy Lawless as Xena

They couldn't even boost him from house arrest lol

Lrt about pointless research: I would argue a bigger fraction of direct application stuff these people want is counterproductive makework because it's easy to do, you just rub the buzzwords together. Look at all the stuff written about ai that means nothing and changes nothing

Studying extremophile bacteria in Yellowstone resulted, decades later, in the polymerase chain reaction—the enabling tech for all genetic research. GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic came from research on gila monster venom. Without general relativity, no GPS. You just never know what's going to hit.

In the US, public money spent on scientific research—not including defense research—redounds somewhere between 140 to 210% in total productivity. Fieldhouse and Mertens. “The Social Returns to Public R&D.” doi.org/10.3386/w33780.

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

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Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

maybe i am going insane

Nw weapons. I'm enjoying how the perspectives build characterization

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Fuck I can't breathe

It's so cool the company that's ten percent of the whole stock market by making ai chips doesn't even make the chips

This mostly details the misery party summers inflicted on the global south through the imf and wto. If he's in proximity to power, so is the belief that banks should genuinely literally run the world

Additionally, hippos - despite being massive - have almost no fat on them. All of that impressive bulk is muscle. 2% body fat. Compare that to Elephants, which are around 8-10%, or rhinos, which are 10-20%. The average human is around 20-40%, for reference. They're *all* muscle.

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

I know I'm old now because I'm getting a lot of "the world you grew up in doesn't exist anymore", but it sucks seeing people just don't have the opportunities they used to. Everyone knows the stories of people getting a start on local TV or the local paper blah blah blah

“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I'm reading this while watching an on TV for Instagram with a father and daughter pitching privacy and safety features

I read an Oliver Sachs story about a guy who was on a motorcycle and slipped on some wet leaves, tearing the nerve in his shoulder with total function loss. Anyway the lesson I learned wasn't about motorcycles but obviously the peril of wet leaves

Keep honking it pleases the gods and goddesses of honk

KEEP HONKING I’m looking at pictures of my dog

The consumer product safety commission doesn't want your thanksgiving to be totally sick and rad 🤘

public health is pretty fucking cool if you ask me

Parallels nicely with how in these countries the product Facebook sells is elections

i just need like. a new list. i need the most powerful list

a few of my favorite snowy owl shots from yesterday in Chicago #birds 🪶

SHE IS ROASTING COFFEE WHILE MARCHING IN THE PARADE this is why Silver Spring is the best Spring

Hairstyles are going extinct at an unprecedented rate

OH NO! DISASTER! WHAT A BAD IDEA!

Hey so what's going to happen to all the guys saying ai is going to make god, when the bubble pops and they want to be angry at someone for not allowing god to be built?

Any opportunity I have to post the greatest tweet of all time I'm gonna take it. This is my favorite ever.

the US army has decided to fuck with a country that will attempt to beat the record of active service casualties dealt to the US as a point of national pride.

Another day, another fantastic tiktok restaurant advertisement

Ronald McDonald should start saying this in McDonald’s commercials

The Overman Wheel Company produced Victor Cycles, which were top-of-the-line at the time, and their $100 price tag reflected that. When the 1890s bicycle boom went bust, the high-priced Victors couldn't compete. But they always had beautiful ads. Victor Cycles 1898 Artist: Will H. Bradley

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

Tufted titmouse being the cutest

Just got junk mail for a 78 month car payment. Seems bad lol

this man really decorated before his crush came over lmfao

I've been waiting all day for stuff to happen irl so I've used up all my looking at phone time now what am I supposed to do

From Insta. This is so neat! We need monsters like this. Stylized, fluid, unconventional. (Not me however. My spine says “no,” but in less polite terms.)

It’s unbelievable that butterflies do this! they are too small! What do you mean you flew from Canada to Mexico you are one inch tall!

What the treat empire cannot acknowledge is that a French fry is best about twenty seconds after it comes out of the frier, so when you put it in a box and drive it across town, you're getting the idea of a French fry. The true delivered fry does not and cannot exist