New paper finds "After the first year of war...82% of each square kilometer of the Gaza Strip had been damaged at least once and that 67.9% of its built-up area has been destroyed." "Our results show that more than 3/4s of Gaza’s economy has been destroyed since the start of the conflict"

BREAKING: Ethics complaint just filed against Pam Bondi — & it's damning She ran DOJ like a weapon — & now 100+ scholars, retired judges & retired FL Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince — joined by @democracydefendersfund.org @ldadorg.bsky.social & LFRL — are holding her accountable -TN

Many factors affect pain, but the burden of "intensity × duration" is arguably in a class by itself and needs emphasis. www.painscience.com/blog/mild-pa... (Same post as yesterday, but upgraded: better graph, a big new footnote, a particularly relevant new citation I missed on the first pass.)

I guess introductions went okay 😆 Ben took to the babies right off, solicitous and chill rat uncle that he is. #rats #petrats #ratsofbluesky

Keep 'em coming

The thing that makes “gutter racism” an appropriate term for this is that it goes beyond even what segregation’s savviest defenders were willing to say in public 60-70 years ago. They understood that this level of explicit racial animus was embarrassing to the cause.

Flanders' has launched an ambitious program to deploy #solarpanels along highway infrastructure. Sound barriers along the E40 and E17 motorways near Ghent and Antwerp have been fitted with integrated solar panels — their south-facing surfaces generating electricity fed into adjacent grid connections

Angie Craig's campaign strategy to win the Democratic primary: (1) Vote for Republicans' signature immigration policy (2) Refuse to show up to party caucuses and conventions in the Twin Cities, where there are actually people who might endorse, vote, or volunteer for her (3) ???????? (4) Profit

Live your life such that you are never described as "join[ing] the ranks of Milli Vanilli"

It's worth remembering that this is the Facebook post that got Suzanne Swierc fired. I have undying disdain for the many institutions that engaged in a moral panic over Charlie Kirk.

Go full jugular all the time. Really glad to see some newer candidates get it.

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Is the sweeping reform going to be firing himself, or

Good morning! #grickledoodle #king #card #surreal #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Condé Nast shit the bed so hard when it fired four journalists last year that it's now settled with the union and given three out of the four reporters "two years’ pay and furnished [them] with positive letters of recommendation." UNIONS, PEOPLE. UNIONS! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Summarizing large datasets is a research skill.

Mina resting her head on Lola. #PetRats

It simply is not possible for anyone to be this stupid. They are taking bribes.

There should be more reasons to make dioramas as an adult

logging on

Seeking investors for my life-extension technology. It's called Giving Food and Medicine to Poor People. Using our proprietary GFMPP technology, as many as 50 million Americans could have their lifespan extended by up to 20 years.

“In the neighborhoods that had ShotSpotter, homicides dropped more than 32% during the nine months after the system was decommissioned”

People ripping on Mamdami without realizing the percentage of other politicians who couldn't smile and hold a pet without looking like they're going to bite its neck

Advice to @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social - don’t pivot on trans and don’t ignore it. You’ve been doing pretty solid on it. Fire back. Tell these freaks they’re not going to make this election about their weird obsessions with kids private parts.

actual own goal (a friend shared it)

It’s very funny that the best attack republicans have for talarico is “he’s a vegan” meanwhile they’ve spent millions on ads calling their own nominee a corrupt lying cheating self-enriching adulterer home wrecker scumbag

this is a REAL ad republicans ran against their OWN nominee! sure ken paxton was “sleeping around with a married mother of seven,” but you can’t vote for talarico, he likes seitan!

I've been using the No AI version of DuckDuckGo and am impressed with the results. It seems to favor reliable sites and has a clean interface: noai.duckduckgo.com

“These findings suggest that approximately 1 in 6 patients with COVID-19 develops postacute sequelae, predominantly chronic conditions” with prevalence increasing in recent years.

what the fuck is going on in Sam Altman’s head

Iran is back online but recent history says this should be treated with caution. @netblocks.org took the time, several times, to update me throughout the day for this piece. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Exclusive: Unionized tech workers at the New York Times have filed grievances accusing management of using AI-powered performance tools to track and discipline staff. The Tech Guild says recent disciplinary notices appear to be generated using one of the tools. 🎁 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Finally leaving Delaney Hall. I have never been hit with as much bear spray in my life as I have today. My eyes, mouth, skin. Pain. Please follow. Thanks goodnight.

The language of the proposed new NDA policy is exceptionally broad and vague. It could describe almost any conversation a career employee has with a political appointee. Or memos. Or analyses. Federal employees won’t know what they can say. Thats by design. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...

Can God create a gender binary so rigid that even she can’t bend it?

It’s a good day for disenfranchised Black voters in the Jim Crow south Just hours after a federal court prevented Alabama from redistricting because their maps are “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination”, the South Carolina legislature scuttles a plan to eliminate Jim Clyburn’s seat

“.. four months after its establishment, the board’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. ‘Zero dollars have been deposited,’ one said.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5ba3...

I swear these girls steal my heart every single day 🩵 #rat #rats #petrat #petrats

With Palantir embedded with Network Rail and now with SpaceX being positioned as the primary train WiFi provider, we must ask the question: how much control is the US tech industry going to get over our railways?

A rare absolute is that surveillance tech will *always* be used beyond the scope of how it’s initially pitched.

They will lay me off, they will end my health insurance, they will raise my rent until I can't afford it anymore, they will destroy the tools I use by making them shittier or subscription-based or both; everything I depend on or enjoy will be Disrupted for some boy-king dipshit's funding round