My mom's friend apparently grew up in her dad's paper goods factory which featured a Slitter and a Slotter; he used to answer the phone with "United Dividers, united we stand, dividers we sell!" Imagine this level of job satisfaction

wake uppe chat, newe schism just droppid

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

This example is absurd, but it's also Really Very Bad. Springer Nature apparently has bots withdrawing papers from its immense catalog, with no human oversight. They are abdicating their responsibility to preserve the historic record. (2/4)

As this video shows, police water cannons can be used in more humane ways than direct blasts. The Berlin police this summer is using them to create mist to cool down tourists. In winter 2020 the Sprühnebel mode was used on anti-Covid-lockdown protesters to gently encourage them to go home.

via @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social, Springer Nature "retracted" two essays by Max Planck in the journal Die Naturwissenschaften from 1940 and 1942 and have tried to remove them from the historical record. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

I especially love this diagram.

So has anyone else noticed this insane series Law360 is running? www.law360.com/articles/173...

A short thread on the materials I am cutting from my Internet Law casebook because they have been abrogated or replaced by Cox v. Sony: …

If Dan Goldman represented a suburban district he'd have been fine. He was never a good fit for a preeminent hotbed of leftist activism. He only won the first time because progressives split the vote. Lander is a former citywide elected. This was expected. The other two races...wow.

There was apparently a zombie apocalypse in the necropolis - this one clawed its way out

Ah yes, it’s Waterloo Day.

Man throwing shoe at George W Bush gold ring

me too London Tube sign, me too

god this app is gonna be insufferable next week when G’hzarxl the Rancorous plunges Earth into the aeon of Endless Night

Very interesting read on Mistral. “One advantage that neither Open­AI nor Anthropic can replicate: What Mensch terms “community solidarity” with Macron and other European leaders. He knows Mistral’s fate is inexorably tied to Europe’s. “If we’re successful, Europe will be successful,” he says.”

I'm sorry what? As part of its 1987 rebrand British Rail's sectorised freight business Railfreight had its own branded After Eight mints and called them AFTER FREIGHT!?

There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.

“Unfortunately,” that marked the end of the DFB team's short run of World Cup songs.

Cameron Park Zoo in Waco TX has a new black-footed cat kitten (Felis nigripes). It's exploring grass for the 1st time here. This species is the smallest wild cat in Africa, but with the highest hunting success (~60%). They eat 1/6th their body weight in rodents & birds every night.

STAR WARS was released 49 years ago today. Hollywood’s biggest movie phenomenon, and the film that launched the career of star Harrison Ford, the behind the scenes story is as spectacular as blowing up the Death Star… 1/37

For those of you already missing Stephen Colbert, he's resurfaced on community public access in Monroe, Michigan, and no, I am not joking: youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4

This is a VERY niche post for my fellow reflection seismic interpretation fans 🤭

This is a must-read reminder of how insane and greedy some technologists became in 2020 trying to cash in on Covid social isolation. However there was a genuine desire for better digital experiences. Apple and Jony Ive also thought it would be VR, but the answer was just better phones and laptops.

there is a giant ass bee animatronic in town

But they were all of them deceived, for another leche was made...

found a new NOAA gallery that has terrible metadata but also this guy

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

People who get AI to summarise everything so they can complete their doctorates should get the title ‘[tl;]Dr’

Yes, this is the single best insider story I've read about the Democrats' strategic and tactical mistakes (and what has started to work).

Who needs regular staphylinids when you could have GREEN GLOWING STAPHYLINIDS

Historians of science know that Paul Forman’s articles are each hiding two or three books in the footnotes.

North America's only marsupials, opossums have a 13 day gestation. After birth, the bee-sized babies spend 6-9 weeks in the pouch attached to a nipple, then another 4-5 months riding on mom's back. During the 'baby-bus' phase, she continues to forage. This momma has a mustache made of baby tails.

Happy Mother’s Day everyone, and best of luck keeping all your little ones together.

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

So much creativity in those gamfaqs guides lol

The newly released Sierra Nevada Atlas is a collection of maps, geospatial datasets, and associated text that presents geologic map layers, geophysical layers, economic geology layers, neotectonic features, and geochronology for the Sierra Nevada. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/sierra-n...

Not only did this supposed meta-analysis of ChatGPT in education "meta-analyze" a lot of garbage data, but it was published in a Springer Nature journal that is very far from being "gold standard." 1/2

Wow, they actually *retracted* this so-called meta-analysis about ChatGPT effects on learning performance, though it got massive metrics and social media attention before that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

this is leonid brezhnev

May the Forth be with you

It’s the 115th anniversary of a long debate in the Reichstag (it takes up 17 pages of the official proceedings) about... typefaces. This, you see, was one of the big moments in the Antiqua–Fraktur dispute (which was really a modernity-tradition dispute, which eventually involved Nazis. Of course) 🧵

Our vampire lily’s leftover from the original house garden from the 40’s or 50’s are once again blooming. They are SO COOL, especially if you love rotting meat that’s been left in 100 degree sun for a day or two. That’s what it smells like. Look at the beetle action @mariannedenton.bsky.social

Airport's no longer haunted

The mechanisms for participatory molluscan democracy already exist and are demonstrated to work.

In my mind Craig Venter was basically immortal, so despite living a stone's throw away from the JCVI in La Jolla I'd dragged my feet on trying to meet him. Venter attracted his share of controversy in the 1990s, but today I mourn that a real light has gone out in the world.

Nice reminder that because a study is published in a journal does not mean it’s a good study or that its stated conclusions are reasonable! When people say they are “doing their own research,” even if reading primary literature, missing the context & subtleties can lead to wildly wrong conclusions.