It is a truth universally acknowledged that a smoke detector in possession of a dying battery will only beep once you're at least one sleep cycle in.

Also: If you use an Apple TV, do not use your personal Apple account to log in. Create a separate, dedicated Apple account just for the AppleTV and then use Family Sharing to add your purchased media to that account.

😬 Post 2022 machines are OK, it looks like?

Austria-Argentina is a top-tier "just to be clear, what exactly did your great-grandfather do for work" game

Fellow Gen X women, who's coming? www.daisychainfields.com

Are people still saying "this costs as much as your daily latte" to sell stuff? Because I never bought a daily $5 latte, and never will.

Who amongst us has been so frustrated by writing that we chucked our notebook into the toilet? That aggravation is timeless.

Very interesting paper finds that when South Korea suspended its “low-skilled” guest worker program, the result was not a rise in wages for native Koreans doing those jobs, it was the opposite; current employees got reassigned to those jobs and took pay cuts and firms went under.

This is a 500,000 square foot cold storage facility packed with foam insulation, with huge onsite coolant tanks. Because the plume is traveling in low lying bands, it often slips between the district's AQI sensors (which are designed to measure passive pollution, NOT critical emergencies).

The Air Quality Index (AQI) is primarily designed to measure regional, ambient criteria pollutants over 24-hour averages. It is drastically underrepresenting what residents from Ventura to Long Beach are experiencing for several reasons, importantly that AQI does NOT measure large ash particles.

Of course it was like 3 am in Cairo, so most people probably didn't even stay up after the first half...

How many goals did Shobeir stop, finally? Felt like 4-5.

Ayyyyyyyywa!

Bilaady, bilaady, bilaaaaaaidy....

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

Why the dithering at the goal, ya shabab?

British commentators should know how to pronounce Arab names by now, jeez.

Oh come on shabab.

Pum pum pa-pum MASR (still the main cheer)

Ta7ya masr!!

Yalla Masr!

How are the football teams dealing with the warehouse fire smoke in LA?

"Did Lalas enjoy an elite playing career? No. But does he do the background reading that could compensate for his relative lack of standing in a conversation with titans like Henry and Zlatan? Also no. But is he charming or funny or charismatic or otherwise magnetic on screen? Eh, no."

If you love bad smells, just wait until the 85,000,000 pounds of formerly frozen wet food sits in the sun for a few days! Gonna be lit!

I’m an writer and I don’t use AI because, as you might recall my mentioning earlier, I’m a writer.

Sad to hear the passing of one of the most prominent historian of modern South Asia, Thomas Metcalf (May 31, 1934–June 18, 2026) who spent his seven decades long career at UC Berkeley.

Fun Geography Facts involving multiple World Cup teams - France's longest land border is with Brazil - The country closest to the USA but not *touching* the USA is Great Britain (British/US Virgin Islands are less than a mile apart) - ???

Why pay good money for something good when we could pay a little less money for absolute trash

I think it is funny that a prominent argument for using LLMs to simulate human subjects or human researchers is that simulation is cheaper than producing good data. Yes, true, good data are often expensive and hard to come by.

warning: this video has gone triple platinum in my house. play with caution

Gahhh! 😂🤣 Here’s two Brits trying Church’s Chicken for the first time—learning about American “biscuits” and how to put honey on everything. I love everything about this!

Ouuuuuchhh.

"The FAA is working with Palantir to see if AI can help prevent collisions and close calls on airport runways" is a sentence that makes me never want to get on an airplane again.

Why are the techbro stanford grad kids of Dem elites all named Theo?

They say Britain is tired of Starmer and will send him away Is that true? I wasn't aware that was something a country could do

What would you call this sweet, non South-Asians? (if you recognize it)

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

If you, like me, have not been following this closely, some good details.

Romcom pitch: He was a baker/bagpiper from Glasgow She was a parks planner from Southie One afternoon at the Cop Slide tourist attraction, their eyes met. She gave him a coffee from Dunkin. He gave her a can of Irn Bru. They danced to The Proclaimers. World Cup Match, coming spring 2027

<3 (but also, always amusing to see how American men hug - an aggressive hand gesture like a high five smackdown, and then a chest smack)

I'm glad he chose my preferred NYC song....

Vaccines are humanity's greatest scientific achievement.

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"Earlier this week, I came across a viral TikTok video from a researcher who had a lot to say about protests. “There’s zero evidence that demonstrations change either the public's opinion or government policy,” said Sarah Stein Lubrano. “Zero.” Influencers are not scholars, please, LA Taco.

Genius.

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Interestingly, the models themselves offer pseudo-mathematical explanations for this effect, claiming that women authors are simply “less salient.”

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.