From @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social “Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. “ slate.com/technology/2...

So much for that I guess

A step-by-step guide to drawing mice, from a 1913 book entitled What to Draw and How to Draw it. More drawing instruction from this book, plus a 1935 follow-up by the same author, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it-1913/

World Cup might be the closest thing we’ll get to world peace

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

wow wait are you telling me you can create a vibrant pedestrian space without 10 years of consultation and a terribly rolled out underfunded pilot? you can just DO it?

This feels like the only reasonable position. Otherwise it's some sort of amazing loophole... "AI did that, so no one can be held responsible" is a terrible idea.

If I can pay tax based on the value of my house (an asset I’ll probably never sell, and gains I’ll probably never realise), then billionaires & trillionaire can pay tax on their shares and other assets. It’s not complicated, certainly not impossible.

People across North America would like to keep the temporary public plazas created for the World Cup. Seattle edition:

This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...

Imagine an entire island nation getting wiped out by Dim-sum

not sure if this gets my point across so it may get cut

There is no reason for California to take so long counting votes. The insistence on the status quo contributes to bad faith actors building conspiracies. Anyone who says slow counting is the cost of accessible, accurate tabulation has never voted in other accessible, accurate voting jurisdictions.

How many laser-tag arenas do we actually need? Well, not that many, to be sure, but maybe more than we have right now.

To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊

Light rail tracks over 35W and the colorful Riverside Plaza near Downtown Minneapolis. Have always loved this spot!

A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...

What are the chances they’ll follow up with an NHL version?

a reminder that the USPS has new rules that make it very important to not put your mail ballot in a normal mailbox in the final days: boltsmag.org/usps-postmar...

New report out today with my friends at Verasight writing up a couple new studies I designed on AI “digital twins” in polling. The upshot is basically these tools are very inaccurate unless you have raw polling data to build on (which defeats the purpose!)

The money was always there for the good things.

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

guys I just tried googling this to find the exact Andor quote and jesus fucking christ guys what the fuck is happening here

The spell that a book casts on readers is not about “me, here, and now”. The spell comes from someone else, somewhere and somewhen else, whose life I can experience for a chapter or two at a time. And in doing so, get to better know my own.

“my ducks!!”— guy whose ducks got sealed in a cave by an earthquake approximately 2400 years ago

lefse

I was trying to find the tweet or post or whatever that is like "do not engage with my posts if you do not understand them" and goog kept being like "ok I will not engage" great tech thank you

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...

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“In 2025 — yes, after the games — Parisians approved another referendum to pedestrianize and plant 500 additional streets, removing another 10% of Paris's on-street parking; about more 10K spots…no one calls these car-free streets, rather, they're rues-jardin— literally, garden streets.” #UrbanTruth

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

The Oldham coupling, invented in 1821, remains essential in robotics today, ensuring smooth motion between misaligned axes. A true engineering marvel in automation.

About 20 years ago, lighting was the single largest use of electricity in American homes. But energy-efficient lightbulbs has shrunk the category to sixth place! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.

I wrote about how the two-year-old Minnesota state flag has aged particularly well (and why it's so idiotic for backwards cities to double-down on the old one). www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

We saw these shocking findings and knew we needed to investigate just how replicable the results were. So our intrepid newsletter team set about polling readers of Today in Science and discovered that with this crowd, Stegosaurus and Triceratops are neck and neck, vanquishing the basic T. rex!

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

DC voters approved a switch to ranked-choice voting, and the city is going to use that for the first time this spring to vote for mayor & city council. So election officials are now undergoing a major voter education campaign to prepare voters. Great reporting on what that looks like:

This is so rad. Wait till they get into it. Totally the kind of thing we should be doing when we hang out with our buds.

there was a lotta chatter yesterday about the paid emergency snow shovelers recruited to clear out NYC as it was hit with the worst blizzard in a decade. but what's it actually like to crack the ice on behalf of the city? I spoke with an emergency shoveler to find out: slate.com/business/202...

it’s wild that for all the titans in the fossil record, blue whales - who are with us right here and now - are, as far as we know, the largest animals that have ever lived

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

I’m so happy for the U.S. women and so crushed for the a Canadian women. What a great game. EVERYONE WATCH THE PWHL NOW AND YOU CAN KEEP WATCHING ALL THESE PLAYERS GO AT IT!

Megan Keller, who scored the golden goal for Team USA against Canada, plays pro hockey for the Boston Fleet. The PWHL season resumes Thursday: www.thepwhl.com/en/stats/sch...

Speaking of hockey: the first direct-to-home satellite TV transmission was the 1978 Stanley Cup playoffs, transmitted via the CTS/Hermes satellite to Canadian diplomats in Peru. youtu.be/_d2mD_nuCZ8?... (*received by an end user directly, as opposed to a central rebroadcast facility)

draw a little horse, let it run in the digital wilds with a bunch of other drawn little horses

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