Utagawa Yoshifuji's "Rabbit Sumo". 1868. Ota memorial Museum of Art

Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, who died on this day in 1895. More on his life and stunning astronomical art here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

Researchers from the University of Rochester created solar-thermal panels that can remove salt and valuable minerals from ocean water, leaving fresh water but also difficult to mine minerals like lithium. Read the OPN story: https://bit.ly/4uUmuoz 💡 ⚛️ 🧪

I can’t afford any of these but honest to god these Hunter Biden pieces are some of the best modern works I’ve seen (digitally). If you told me they were done by a rising young Mesoamerican I’d assume they were destined for the Whitney or something hunterbiden.com/work/gorgon-...

💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.

"Children playing on Omaha Beach, Normandy" by Chim (David Seymour), 1947 Color photograph

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...

Not much to disagree with here. There's a lot of motivated reasoning going on in markets.

OTD in 1996, as per the Budapest memo guaranteeing their territorial integrity, Ukraine handed their final nuclear warhead to Russia. They also gave the entire command firing chain, delivery vehicles heavy bombers (Tu-22) & 1068 Kh-55 cruise missiles. Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Petite liste très incomplète mais néanmoins utile quand on dispose de trop peu de caractères pour faire un post(et que de surcroit on est trop "feignant" pour écrire un fil ou thread que peu de gens lisent >bout)

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

And...LIFT 💪 Our summit team at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory recently installed the 4th of 6 giant light-wind screens. 🔭🧪 These massive screens help block stray light and shield the telescope from winds when the dome is open — an important part of capturing sharp, clean images! 🌌

C'est tellement ça !

OTD in 1944 Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars began. On Stalin's orders, over 191,000 were forcibly sent to Uzbek SSR. 8000 died en route & 88,000 died with 3 years. Imagine mass deportations happening in 21st century...

Brick as shading and privacy filter Arghavan apartments in Tehran, Iran, by Alidoost & partners

Trump & Putin's Wars of Choice The Atlantic: Checkmate in Iran Washington can’t reverse or control consequences of losing this war. archive.md/U2iiO The Atlantic: Putin’s War Comes Home to Moscow He can no longer hide the consequences from the Russian public. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution.

"The media’s penchant for invoking a nation’s “right to defend itself,” typically followed by the rationalization of mass civilian killing, was reserved almost exclusively for Israel." theintercept.com/2026/05/12/g...

To state the obvious: this isn't a Monet painting, it's an internet photo of a Monet painting. There's a non-trivial difference, but the OP has NLP-ed the commentators by linguistic misdirection. petapixel.com/2026/05/14/s...

One TV writer’s descent into the gig economy powering AI: endless Slacks, overnight “sprints,” disappearing contracts, and manic gruntwork meant to teach machines to replace human creativity. All while her own industry collapses. Come because it's important. Stay because the writing is hilarious.

Am 10.Mai 1933 brannten in Berlin und später auch in anderen Städten Bücher, gemäß dem Verständnis der Nazis, daß alles Undeutsche vernichtet werden muss. Der Weg führte konsequent weiter zur Tötung von Menschen #Bücherverbrennung Guten Morgen

Incredible video made using images taken by the Artemis II crew shows satellites in orbit around Earth. This is at 30x speed x.com/i/status/205...

"...but we greet them with awe because they are the Old Ones, and they are trying to tell us something."🧪 - Stephen Jay Gould

🇺🇦🙏 Volunteers evacuate a green dog from Druzhkivka. The animal's fur was stained with powdered dye after it fell into a container of it. She was named Hala Green.

A staggering 213 kill marks painted on the fuselage of a Ukrainian modified ex-civilian An-28.

This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line. Sounds small. It’s not. Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction. 👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day. That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.

#renewable #energy #AC 🧪 www.bgr.com/2160481/sust...

Inside #Israel's #AI targeting system: How data from a phone become a death sentence By Nabih Bulos www.latimes.com/world-nation...

"...he was invited to an interview with the chief executive of the company, who told David that he had put the AI interview transcripts through ChatGPT to see what it made of the candidates." So people not doing their job are supposed to judge others as to how they will do theirs ?

A tortoise with a yen for travel hangs on for dear life, as it belatedly discovers that flying with birds might not be such a good idea (1480 Book of Fables, Germany, c1480. Manuscript 680; © Photo RMN (Domaine de Chantilly)

Santé mentale : la psychiatre Jasmina Mallet combat les idées reçues en bande dessinée ➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/SJCc

Rains revive Iraq’s wetlands after years of drought https://aje.news/caj5nc

60 former UK ambassadors warn on Israeli West Bank annexations. Read the letter, here: www.ft.com/content/e44d...

Ihr wollt gute Nachrichten? Hier sind sie! Batterien heben komplett ab. Und sie werden zum starken Motor für die Energiewende. Die irre Entwicklung der Batterien in 4 Grafiken. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

“They were demolishing it gradually until they reached the main square and now, as you can see, there are no more houses" Israeli forces demolish homes in areas of Lebanon occupied after ceasefire apnews.com/article/leba...

Imagine working for Meta and being told the company is going to spy on you to train your robot replacement Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Icon III 2026 oil on panel 108 × 81 cm (42.5 × 32 in.) #art #painting #peinture

That is also assuming we put a pronoun there at all! (we don't...)😁 (pic source from a post by Language Nerds on facebook) I guess one advantage of living in a queer hostile country is that at least I can't be misgendered in Hungarian...