Hillary Dawa is alive! A missing sherpa who had been left for dead on Mount Everest has been found crawling towards base camp a week later thetourismtimes.com/news/climbin...

Jesus Christ.

ICYMI: A Tokyo con cafe worker who stabbed a groper's hand with a safety pin during her morning commute went viral, with Japanese social media almost universally calling her response justified self-defense.

Omg 😭

www.bbc.com/news/article... "Poland's seaside resort called Hel is getting its 666 bus service back"

Obsessed with the Denali puppy cam, which is Aus-time zone friendly because it's summer in Alaska. It's just past midnight but there's still a few gnawing on their shelter: www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

Canada Post is a PUBLIC SERVICE. It is not supposed to make money. It is supposed to support Canadians. We need to stop trying to run government like businesses. Government is NOT a business. And it never should be one.

And doing things you want to do in the moment, and experimenting, and expressing yourself and trying things out is the fucking point. Don't overthink it. Just give yourself a break and a chance. And if you're cringe, be cringe. At least you'll be free.

Chapter 3 of “The Art of War,” by Sun Tzu: ‘Leave Your Enemy’s Military Alone’

I honestly hate the concept of debating. I'm not interested in adversarial communication with someone who has already decided they lose something if they learn something.

In addition, literal stacks of M4000 chemical bombs, used by the Assad regime to drop sarin on civilians in 3 recorded incidents, were found and photographed. Yet more evidence everything we published at Bellingcat based on our open source investigations of chemical attacks was accurate.

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Feels like something from a Joni Mitchell song

And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.

Cecilia Vega, in a statement to the New York Times' Michael Grynbaum, says she "experienced efforts to insert political bias into our stories" in recent months at 60 Minutes. "Today I lost an amazing job. But I still have my integrity. To my former colleagues, continue to hold the line."

Please do not say the sentence "kids don't want to feel the adult behind the book" but also yes they fucking do. One of the best parts of being a kid is reading a book that is just out of your grasp of maturity. Feeling like you're getting an early preview of the world.

Today in 1987, 18-year-old West German amateur pilot Mathias Rust flew a rented Cessna 172 almost 550 miles from Helsinki, Finland, through heavily-protected Soviet airspace, landing at about 6:43 P.M. on a bridge near Red Square in Moscow. Ironically, it was Border Guards Day in the Soviet Union.

Samsung Electronics workers have approved a landmark profit-sharing agreement that is expected to award employees in the booming memory chip division an average bonus of nearly $400,000. www.ft.com/content/1b76... archive version: archive.is/siItY

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

Air to Ground Message: HELLO IS IT POSSIBLE TO ORDER 4 BOXES OF PASTEIS DE BELEM. I WAS USED TO DO THAT 10 YEARS AGO WHEN I CAME TO LIS IS IT STILL POSSIBLE. THANK YOU. Area: Saint-Gatien-des-Bois, France A: #ac7c4a18ff6 F: #f338d840d89

The federal government has launched court action against 3M over PFAS contamination

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

please indicate your level of mania today on the "pepsi scale"

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?

Ok this is a truly great tweet

This is the standout of Anthropic's PR bit on the Pope's AI stuff - they've ignored all of the endless criticisms from academics, workers, activists, educators etc solely because it told them not to do things they want to do. They're not appealing for informed critics, they're after apologists.

Every claim in the un-highlighted paragraph here is wrong.

my neighbor says that he is not a genie yet every time i rub his house he comes outside

Oh no, what will we do

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Another banger from The Author Name -

An exhibition held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, May 15-16 titled “Unforgettable,” brought together artists, activists, humanitarian workers, and the public to confront the devastating human cost of aerial attacks in neighboring Myanmar. english.dvb.no/unforgettabl... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

Someone on this website described Widows Bay as “Stephen King meets Fawlty Towers” and that’s absolutely true if all you know of Fawlty Towers has been half an episode relayed to you by an inattentive five year old.

"oh, you don't have access to the good AI" Does the good AI that you pay for actually produce accurate search results? Because you know what used to? FUCKING GOOGLE

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

women have kept getting hotter this whole time, but there Harrison Ford sits in 1985, an unmovable benchmark

i have become extremely intolerant of fearmongering around pap smears. i think so many people are doing young people a disservice by saying it is the scariest thing ever. you know what is scarier than a pap smear? cervical cancer

Have they tried completely putting it out before leaving rather than going back 5 times a day? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I just don't think democracy is formally compatible with an apex court that views itself as unanswerable to its coordinate branches and which exercises its docket control so to hand down unreasoned judgments that reshape congressional elections in favor, consistently, of one party over the other.

Seven people died from poisoned Tylenol in 1982, and for more than 4 decades every pill in America has been sold in tamper proof bottles.

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

Bank Swallows were busy along Lake Ontario this afternoon (Niagara-on-the-Lake)

It's my favourite sea otter's (メイちゃん's) birthday, she's 22 and she got a big crab 😭😭

left of center media has to turn a profit immediately, can't offend any elected dems, and is funded in 6 month grants that require full application each time

Hot off the press. A well referenced high quality statement from the International Hantavirus Society. High level: - Andes strain is different - some spread will occur - pandemic potential is tremendously low - lots to learn - what happens next is up to us zenodo.org/records/2007...

I always wonder how many people would take this up though? The chatbot thing is a bit different, but companion bots aren’t necessarily new and they’re kind of like 3d TV… just have never quite taken off because I’m not sure enough people really fall for the gimmick?

The extremely rare catcopus.

Everything is a conspiracy if you’re really fucking stupid