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One of a dozen western kingbirds posing nicely on a fencepost this weekend #yql #Alberta #wildlife #birding #birds 🪶

Happy 80th birthday Donald Trump! He was just the first of three US presidents born in two months in 1946: Trump June 14th Bush July 6th Clinton August 19th All evaded fighting in Vietnam, all sent US soldiers to kill and die around the world.

Phoenix reflecting pool. Have a good day.

The world's first trillionaire is our next "hole in the ozone layer" moment. We need coordinated global effort to ensure he's also the world's last trillionaire and that he doesn't stay one for long.

the ruling regime knows they are losing in ohio, so this is how they are lashing out. you can learn more about what happened and why it matters at handsoffohio.org

Opportunistic scholars will hijack any kind of work allied with a progressive or reparative politics to brand their grift, and the amount that this is done particularly on behalf of digital tech is staggering.

Good for @republik.ch, along with @woz.ch, pillars of critical journalism in Switzerland 🗣️ www.ft.com/content/7ffc...

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Nice that Hockney’s last show is on right now at the Serpentine. RIP.

Some mornings you wake up face to face with a piece of shit

Abhas Jha on Mogadishu. This is the opening, it gets better if you read on. The capital of a failed state: clans, remittances from the diaspora, entrepreneurship and informal networks filling the gaps. Not exactly a development model, cruel to the weakest, but still a bustling city that functions.

Yes, that plus more hats

Usually these magnolia flowers are way up in the tree but this one was eye level so I could snap a pic #Roses #flower #FlowerReport #bloomsky #bloomscrolling #nature #naturephotography #photography 📷🌱🌴🪴sky

X is effectively an extraterritorial enclave, where Europe has collectively agreed that European law doesnt apply

We do not have to accept Al (much less GenAl) as inevitable in education, Emily M. Bender www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvud...

Bing bada bing. That was pretty fast

"Echoes of the Past"

Mike Bloomberg incensed that his 75 year Lou Gehrig streak of not touching or being touched by a person of color streak has ended

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

Good news www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/s...

Kind of like what the Israelis have long done to the Palestinians, or how prisoners or slaves are fed: the economy of calories. I guess the GOP knows the clock is ticking and are trying to jam in as much shte as they can.

If you live in Boston's North End, please help me find my #LostDog Maggie! She has a collar with my contact information.

One less photographer will be covering the World Cup. Official Iraq National Team photographer Talal Salah was detained for 12 hours in Chicago then denied entry. #FIFAWorldCup

thanks to FoamNet, a massive dataset of many different types of beer foam, my engineers can now generate convincing simulations of beer foam. it's only a matter of time before we can generate beer itself. price of a bottle should be $30 but we expect that number to go up

"The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, rather than expert judgment of their deeper significance."

Check out this bit of ai alarmism from… the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Yep that’s the one.

It’s easier to blame private prisons and their corporations for cruelty and violence because facing just how much jails/policing/prisons serve as “public” profit centers might make people question who the government is for.

This is pretty unequivocal

I as an Iraqi have been asking myself that exact same question about MANY American and British personalities and yet here we are.

WTF???

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

Warsaw’s sewer system, one of the first in Europe, began operating 140 years ago. Built by British engineers, the sewers survived the destruction of WWII, when they were used by underground resistance fighters to move around the city, and continue to serve Varsovians today.

"These particular men" = Steven Miller, Tucker bow tie boy, et al

Ghosts have dreams like everyone else. A common anxiety dream for ghosts is being summoned to a seance they haven't prepared for. Then discovering they're the ghost of a naked person. Then they wake up and experience a wave of relief when they remember they're dead.

When the Taliban or ISIS destroy ancient heritage it's proof of barbarism contrasted with European civilization. When Israel destroys ancient heritage it's just self-defense

The original reason for police in the US: to beat and kill workers.

It’s bizarre being a policy-oriented researcher in an environment where evidence and public opinion are basically irrelevant to what happens. We’re not informing policy any more, friends; we have to make politics.

In fact the answer is that there is indeed a mysterious and unnameable essence to the experience of being human — and that experience is the entire point of it. It is the names we ascribe to this experience that is always false; but invites us into it.

Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl.It is dated to the late 3rd–2nd century BC. www.bonhams.com/auction/1138...

17th-century marble floor located in Rome in the Cornaro Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. www.chiesasantamariavittoriaroma.it

The headline doesn’t cover the full implications of this. Ex Doge people are making a kind of parallel .gov infrastructure that spies on users, is totally unaccountable and invisible, and could be used to disenfranchise voters thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...