I'd go further. I'm with Dante. The best human existence is possible only in cities.

There should be more swearing at swearing in ceremonies. Just let loose with a string of obscenities and afterwards say you misunderstood the concept.

Yes, I would like my employees to emulate the spending habits of rock stars.

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oh no www.vulture.com/article/ever...

I, for one, welcome our new Turkish economic overlords.

Rest in peace you absolute legend of an artist

Those detailed specifications should probably always have been written, even before LLM-based coding.

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George Clooney et sa famille obtiennent la nationalité française par naturalisation

Sewing union founder

It makes sense that cooking is in Fahrenheit but weather is in Celsius. Ovens are dangerously hot, beyond everyday experience, so the numbers should reflect that. But for weather, you would want to use the most intuitive and human-scale temperature scale, Celsius.

What an unprocessed photo looks like:

It’s my name

The future of originalism

Unicameralism and parliamentarism are key.

Happy 71st birthday to the iconic Denzel Washington.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

zookeepers are pick mes. "zookeeper" is an oppressive class, like Millennial people or demisexual people.

“Slop is not distinguishable by its attributes. It is an attitude of production”

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The Vatican City State is tiny, but that was not exactly of the Popes’ own volition…

Sabine Devieilhe: O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn (Die Zauberflöte, K. 620)

people are clowning on this, but the Canadian mind is cunning, pitiless, steeped in boreal perfidy

From earlier this year, on the status of Greenland, which was a colony until it was integrated into the Kingdom of Denmark in 1953.

Is there discourse on Jason Paris’s decor

In New York City, one of the arguments frequently made by the MTA against platform screen doors is that they would be difficult to implement because different trains running on the same line have doors located in different places. Meanwhile, at Shenzhen's high-speed rail station:

Becoming a One Hundred Twelver

70% right, 30% wrong, many such cases

This does not have an immediate effect for common devices. Apple, Microsoft and Google each operate their own NTP servers (synchronized with GPS and other sources, and using their own atomic clocks), and other devices use the ntp.org pool.

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

The Chinese constitution itself warns: “In the struggle to safeguard ethnic unity, we should oppose major ethnic group chauvinism, which mainly refers to Han chauvinism” 在维护民族团结的斗争中，要反对大民族主义，主要是大汉族主义

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Once again: things are changing but there will still be letter delivery in Denmark.

I want to know which one of you multiphase atmospheric chemists forced them to add "until opened"

I agree with @ahenneberg.bsky.social here.

america is so great europeans have to move here to do the mass shootings they can’t do in europe

In Ancient Rome, proof of citizenship was more about vibes than paperwork.

matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong. at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

Is the Tasmanian devil’s stripe inspired by French uniforms?

Bullet Train. It is stupid as hell and I love it

What are your favorite train films? Mine: Europa (1991)

Newt Gingrich en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gi...

BREAKING via @rns.org: It’s official — Bishop Hicks, Chicago ally of Pope Leo XIV, named to lead New York archdiocese, ending the Cardinal Dolan era religionnews.com/2025/12/18/b...

AGI is here

I read this twice and … is there a cause of action?

Here's a quick hit on why Trump's obsession with Venezuela's oil is a bit heavy and crude in a world where the US is a net exporter and the concerns are a lot more about peak demand than peak supply. responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-venezu...

We are in the era of Bjørn Lomborg redux. I might need to change my handle on here and tell people I’m from Sweden or something.

I believe this is what @rajakorman.bsky.social would call “stessa faccia, stessa razza”.