gemini is going through it

I remember in the 90s/00s it felt like we had really beaten big tobacco forever

Like you can't possibly tell me that Pete Hegseth is in there carefully thinking through the downside risks. It's just not credible.

I THINK WE SHOULD USE WILLIAM BLAKE INSTEAD OF THE NORMAN ROCKWELL GUY WHEN WE SAY BRAVE TRUTHS

you know that giant potemkin hotel in north korea that looks very impressive but is actually mostly just an empty shell

“Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here,” [Aaronson's mother] wrote back, adding, “Since you don’t care that much about money, they can’t buy you.”

Narrower pay bands in job ads lead applicants to negotiate compensation less assertively: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Report: Only 20 Minutes Until Introverted Man Gets To Leave Party https://theonion.com/report-only-20-minutes-until-introverted-man-gets-to-l-1819576241/

Terrified of who FIFA will give the Peace Prize to next.

can I just say this has truly been a terrible I Love To Read Month

Latest Ezra Klein has Anthropic exec on explaining that the abundance of AI can fund social programs if there is mass unemployment. Um, these people aren’t into sharing. They went fascist so their income tax rate didn’t go up two percentage points.

You know who also had speeches lasting multiple hours? Your average dictator. It is one measure of power/domination--how long will people have to pay attention?

It seems to me like the ability to deescalate tense situations is a fundamental skill for effective policing These idiots, by contrast, somehow managed to turn a snowball fight after a blizzard into a physical confrontation and criminal investigation

198 effect sizes in ego depletion resesrch showed an effect size of d=0.62. Preregistered large replications (including some by original authors) yielded an effect size of 0. No one has been able to offer any other explanation for this huge research waste than massive p-hacking.

Amicus brief from Postal Employee Newman

Anyways, the real outrage here anyway shouldn't be that the government wans to spend less money on post-secondary education, it's that it wants to take money out in a way that prevents institutions from offsetting any losses through tuition. NB WANTS TO MAKE PSE WORSE. That's the only headline.

His research method is impeccable.

"DeMarco’s team put out a call on social media to track down the Winnipeg artist. While it didn’t take long to find Ackerman’s name, there was a hitch: the artist doesn’t own a phone or use email. Ackerman’s friends knocked on his door and left notes." www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

the textbook publishers will use AI to make all the assignments and tests and the students will use AI to spit out those assignments and tests and the EdTech dream of nobody actually doing any teaching or learning will finally be complete

You see I've been through the desert on a...

ICE is mall cop vests and realtree masks St. Paul is corduroy coach jackets

People will just name a fruit anything. “Red Delicious Apples.” No they aren’t. That isn’t true.

Hockey fans watching the gold medal game in Toronto loudly booing Gretzky whenever he appears on screen is very pleasing to me.

Someone said that the FBI is now a Make-A-Wish Foundation for a mid-tier podcaster

have to endorse this important message. the mango flavor distribution runs from "mild upgrade on cantalope" to "proof of the existence and boundless love of God"

"These fucking idiots" is about the nicest thing I can say

still funny that rfk is a never nude

poor bee GOLD_07, whose embarrassing mistake has been immortalised in a way beyond his comprehension

new months just dropped

Wow.

The RFK number seems like a massive failure of the media to explain what RFK is doing to our public health system and how catastrophic it will be

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

"While NBA players during the Summer Games choose luxury hotels for comfort and safety, NHL players have insisted on staying in the athletes village, a significant drop in standards from the top-end hotels they are accustomed to during the NHL season." wapo.st/4kyFN2j

Tuesday night soundtrack. music.youtube.com/watch?v=aVO2...

Moderna's seasonal investigational influenza vaccine, mRNA-1010, has been submitted & accepted for review in EU, Canada & Australia. Kennedy's FDA now officially refuses to review the vaccine. "Refusal to review the submission is inconsistent with feedback at pre-Phase 3 & pre-submission" #medsky ⬇️

existential cookie message from the olympics website

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In 1979, the “New York Times” asked Isaac Bashevis Singer if he planned to watch the Super Bowl.

🎶It’s time to question methods It’s time for petty fights🎶

Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question

Burn down the IOC

United, against Trump. Canada will open a consulate in Greenland on Fri in a show of support for the Arctic island after US threats to take control of the country. Canadian FM Anita Anand will inaugurate the diplomatic mission in the capital, Nuuk, accompanied by a delegation of Canadian Inuit.

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

so I'm sick in bed and eating a yogurt tube and my cat is outraged I would have a churu without him

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him https://theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551/