I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

Liberation was a crusade, according to Hegseth: "[T]he United States military spearheaded a great crusade to shatter the Nazi war machine and liberate a continent." Shocking, and not even the most grotesque thing he said that day. Europe should declare him persona non grata, but they're cowards.

If protestors get the same amount of prison time for non-destructive protests like blocking a bridge as they'd get for more destructive protests, like arson, then this prosecutor is basically encouraging protestors to attempt more destructive protests and just try to not get caught. It's less risky.

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Opened Merlin because of a bird song I didn't recognize. It's a Carolina Wren! Going out birding has rewired my brain, and apparently I'm now subconsciously listening to noise to detect anomalies?

Set the lentil soup on low and forgot about it. Came back 3 hours later to a soup sitting at 45C. An ideal range for bacteria, so I tossed it. One brand makes a "Control Freak" heating element that will keep temps stable, so why am I still working with this primitive electrotech?

credit where credit is due, getting your cult addicted to tallow before importing screwworms is a good bit

These are not the microplastics sources that I would have guessed!

holy shit, the whale account wasn't just making shit up dallasexpress.com/business-mar... www.barrons.com/articles/buy...

Trump take beef

Wild that we aren’t allowed to end oil dependence because it will kill jobs but we have to embrace AI despite the fact that it supposed to put all of us out of work.

Sigillography: the study of seals, e.g. wax seals used to close letters. My partner is setting up an auction for hundreds of old books, art, flags, etc. for her employer, and we're learning new words in the process.

He should be expelled for this, like any ambassador who does something like this in any self-respecting country that means to maintain its sovereignty (as opposed to a country whose PM simply repeats 'elbows up' ad nauseam while selling us off to American corporate interests).

I am grieving Raúl Pacheco-Vega. He and I interacted a lot. He was truly interdisciplinary, transnational, and exceptionally generous. He also was a light of inspiration as a fiercely gay and racialized man in academia, still an extremely bigoted space despite illusions Rest in power

This is an open research question, and any public health person who confidently asserts the contrary should not be listened to. We just had this debate with Covid. How TF are we getting it wrong, again?

Salami slice the police. A lot of cops are making their car plates illegible (illegal), and then not caring about speeding. You could have a civilian agency just impounding cars with obfuscated licenses. It will impound cop cars. That's a feature, not a bug.

In a LinkedIn conversation, being assured that as AI inference is commoditized, the big AI labs will make money off applications and services. So, we're floating a near trillion dollar valuation for a company, on the assumption that they'll eventually find enough underpants? I don't buy it.

Oh, this is so sad :(

The author of a manifesto inspired by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti later hired a person whose only qualification was strangling a Black man. It's grotesque. Plus they give money to Trump and invest in slop shops. Canadians may want to note the CPP has invested in a16z.

No shit

"In an interview with a far-right website ahead of the summit, Bovino — referenced Nazi Germany’s lead general Erwin Rommel as an inspirational figure and offered his help to end what he described as a “creeping horror,” echoing racist terms used by far-right extremists to describe migrants."

I remember looking on in shock and horror as the world at large shrugged and let Russia annex Crimea, that weekend in 2014, so I probably shouldn’t be too surprised that we seem to be chill about letting Israel help itself to Southern Lebanon. Fucking hell, though.

Permanently extending the ACA subsidies would cost $350 billion over 10 years. Incandescently angry doesn’t begin to describe it.

I don't, but if you are that worried about "getting caught" maybe don't tell the Times?

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

From the Congregatio de propaganda fide (“Congregation for propagating the faith”) — better known as the Inquisition. Which is an excuse to reup my favorite Emo Philips bit.

Projet Montréal claims it's progressive, even though it failed to solve this issue. Also why the transit budget got cut: local police had the biggest funding increases of any big city in Canada. They couldn't even ban thin blue line patches or have civilians handle traffic lights.

A first among major nations, India is industrializing with solar #Climate

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

"The fruit isn't pasteurized, it's just fresh purée" "We then boil it for 40 to 45 minutes"

I swear, I'm going to lose my mind. 1954? Sigh. In any case, it's so fucking easy to obliterate these talking points, and Pompeo being flustered suggests he is always given softball interviews by media - nor is the Democratic party doing their job.

“My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. -S.R.” Tweeted by Sonny Rollins on Dec 31, 2023

And the leader of Canada’s official opposition

why is everything so stupid

The one unsurveyed bit left is Greenland. I suspect we know their opinion...

And then there's the way you can judge someone by their enemies: Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, PG&E, Meta, and AirBnB are among the sinister corporations spending big to back Becerra. Oh and the prison guards' union! They think Steyer is bad for their businesses, which is a ringing endorsement.

Yes, I agree. Only billionaires should be allowed on this mission. As many of them as possible. We wouldn't want any of them to feel left out! What an exciting opportunity for all of us.

I am so glad these atrocities are reported but I want people to also be angry that this has been happening to Palestinians for decades and we need to feel outraged about their pain and dignity too

Our Ancestors Survived Massive Climate Shifts By Dying, And Being Replaced By Better-Adapted Organisms. Why Can’t We Do The Same?

Y'all, we can go back 20-ish years and find people saying that "homeland security" was a jingoist, racist mess of a name. It was never a neutral turn of phrase.

The fuck it was. This is utter bullshit. Anyone with eyes and a functional conscience could see exactly what it was intended to be from Day One.

That's what I'd call separating the art from the failed artist.

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

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What a shit show.

We have records of diabetes diagnoses going back 2,500 years. We only developed a reliable treatment (insulin) 100 years ago. Now we might have a cure. What an amazing thing to get to witness.

So tired of this "intelligence" discussion. It can't be adequately defined. One word can't both mean espionage, the ability to follow course work, self-awareness, abstract reasoning and more. Is emotional intelligence just emotional espionage? It's a nonsense word, leading to nonsense debates.

Lucy yanks the football away from Charlie Brown, as depicted by Edvard Munch:

WTF are we even doing here?