No, SARS-CoV-2 is not reducing our intelligence Why this myth refuses to die The idea that SARS-CoV-2 infections, or worse, reinfections, are collectively reducing human intelligence does not hold. open.substack.com/pu...

I've surveyed the political scene and in my expert judgment the voters hunger for candidates who are sniveling little weasels who don't believe in anything

Put it in the Louvre 😭😭😭

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

Spotted a 60-something man on the beach reading Olivia Nuzzi’s “American Canto.” His wife is nearby. She has Mar-a-Lago face and is wearing a trucker hat that says “Sun. Yoga. Champagne.” She’s been watching a live cam feed of her front door on a comically large tablet for the last 20 minutes.

my only three dialogue options when you talk to me

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

absolutely no one should accept this insane aggression against venezuela. this should be roundly condemned internally and we should be sanctioned by civilized nations. i can't believe we are doing this shit again

Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israel’s genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities. lithub.com/you-can-help...

NEW: A Discord community for gay gamers is in disarray after one of its moderators and an executive at Anthropic forced the company’s AI chatbot, Claude, on the Discord, despite protests from members.

I looked up "anxiety" in the thesaurus and found worry, concern, and apprehension. Then I looked up "stillness" and found tranquility, serenity, and peace. From this, I conclude traumatic words stress out the thesaurus, but soothing, mindful words can calm it down. The thesaurus is intelligent.

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Whenever people want to justify the de facto single state reality of the occupied Palestinian territory I just show them maps like this and ask them what it means

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech

get your asses to the library. this is no longer a request.

“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

if there's one thing a litigious mega-corporation loves being told, is that a person flagrantly violating extremely strict copyright is willing to 'share' revenue from their plagiarism.

We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).

Every ad for AI is like Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!! AI: get sock Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

and they will never take any meaningful step to mitigate this, like putting real restrictions on its direct publishing, because it would eat into their bottom line

If you haven't listened to Viagra Boys yet, do yourself a favor and do so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4j...

The machines are not "thinking". They are not intelligent. They don't recognise or reflect. They are just algorithms that impersonate through statistical analysis what a reflective person sounds like. It's a very powerful technique because language is great at storing and organising information. 5/

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

@mugrimm.bsky.social as I said, this guy has zero juice lmfao

I'm seeing lots of people trying to keep the Liberal Currents thing alive, and honestly... do we actually, really need another liberal news outlet? Is it really *that* necessary? We've seen how the big ones get, so why will this smaller one turn out any different?

Mark Kelly here from inside the walls of your house. First of all, how dare you ignore a real-life space marine when he is just trying to engage you in the realm of civics? You monster. You wretched coward.

If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows

During my PhD i kept coming across this number about the maximum grid penetration for renewables. So, I started to dig. Tracing back what references I could. Never found a single analytical or empirical basis for it. It appeared to have sprung from thin air based on some engineers' intuition.

stop!! stop doing this!!!! think about something else!!!! mosquitos are breeding in your mind

I am going to become the fucking Joker.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

[LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ALREADY WRITING UP THE 'NO REFUNDS' CLAUSE] "Oh yeah sure we'll get right on that."

It feels like a large part of both culture and politics these days is people wondering “why don’t I feel the way I did when I was 12”

Clearly you have never heard the b-side, Sarah.

kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders

*trump takes one (1) ride on the cool-ass maglev train* "Folks, we're gonna build so many trains in america, you'll get sick of seeing them. Who needs driving? Huh? Who needs driving? You see these stupid gray, square-- Should I say it, folks? Should I say it? I'll get in trouble if I do. Should I?"

tbf he was absolutely right to try and make the power-move, she clearly isn't very competent (neither is he) lmao

It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK. The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented. And the result is endless horror.

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

I Think Her Party Should Be Making Statements In Her Defense And The Greater Somali Community