A Green Heron goes into maximum neck mode to grab a tadpole and then resets into minimum neck mode after the snack was acquired.

I saw Ragtime at the Lincoln Center yesterday and strangely today I think my computer is broken: it's only opening Joshua Henry youtube videos, not the things I'm supposed to be working on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qNP...

Guy who has only encountered a list of firmly-held principles one other time in his life: "This sign is giving major Nicene Creed vibes"

The axioms of Euclidean geometry are such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed

Composition A XXI, by László Moholy-Nagy, 1925, 📸 by Eakin Howard

fixed your headline

Landscape and Time by the King's Singers

What do mathematicians do? How do they make new mathematical discoveries? Why does that matter for K-12 math education? If you are a math teacher and you are curious about these questions, join in on "21st century mathematics" in July! Free, online, and flexible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UIx...

I keep coming back to this violation. My work was used, without my permission or any compensation, to train these models. I know a lot of people who have been using these things more, and say they the quality is much improved now, but it's still built on theft of my (and many others') work.

A vaccine against cancer still sounds so futuristic to me. It happened when I was already an adult! Now in places where the vaccine is available and encouraged, almost no one will have to suffer and possibly die of this cancer! Isn't it amazing what we can do??

They love the free market until it produces less racism!

I love how one of the factors is "rising consumer demand." How dare businesses respond to consumer demand by nefariously...providing a product consumers want?? In a capitalist society????

anyone with a stake in the proposed plan to choke out american scientific research should use this handy guide to submit comments objecting the rule changes 🧪

Folks who know math and Hebrew: I gather that תורת החיתוכים is a set phrase to refer to a concept in set theory. Could anyone help me with what the standard corresponding English term is?

Well, if it’s 30 May, it must be... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! The 287th anniversary of the unveiling of Jacques de Vaucanson’s marvellous, mechanical shitting duck 🧵

hyperbolic quilting - inspired by Costa-Wohlgemuth minimal surface

Interesting how none of the people talking about preserving "white culture" are taking up Morris dancing.

Pretty happy with this picture I got of a heron going for a fish. Splash!

Sorry I didn't reply to your email. I was busy watching this video I took of a heron parading around with a fish it caught one thousand times.

Some gray catbirds migrate more than 2,000 miles from Central America to New York City to eat pepperoni pizza in Bryant Park. 🪶

Become ungovernable.

sorry Allen Ginsberg, sorry, i'm trying to delete it www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Making my way through the Expanse series on audiobook. Just started the 2nd to last novel, Tiamat's Wrath. My book club book is Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi and I'm trying to make inroads on The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, but I keep putting it down for too long in between reading.

Arguably 15 points on his license right there: reckless driving, failure to exercise due care, and leaving the scene of a personal injury accident. 11 points is grounds for suspension. Take away his license! dmv.ny.gov/points-and-p...

If you don't have enough control over your anger to keep yourself from using your car to physically assault college students who annoy you, you should not have a driver license, much less a million dollar a year job as a university president.

I was looking around in my computer and found this I made in December 2016. It's all 216 of the "clock polygons", that is, the polygons that can be made by joining some of twelve equally-spaced points around a circle.

Rita Ora’s Agent Scores Singer Another Prime Crossword Puzzle Placement https://theonion.com/rita-oras-agent-scores-singer-another-prime-crossword-puzzle-placement/

"One of the 1600 Chili's locations in the world will be closing." "I don't know, that doesn't really seem like front page news to me." "How about 'the restaurant where Tan France decided to move to Utah'?" "Sold!"

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen

This is my Roman Empire

Do you ever think about the fact that there's a major symphony in which someone sings about asparagus and we just never talk about it? youtu.be/pCuHCMitaoQ?...

He's lying about what he said (he said $600 and $10, not $100, in the hearing) and he's incorrect about the math in two distinct ways, but let's not forget that also these price decreases just haven't happened! He doesn't know how to open his mouth without lying.

🧵 BOOKS FOR EARTH DAY 🌎 While writing my book, Becoming Earth, I read — and have continued to read — *a lot* of books about our extraordinary planet. Here are a few of my personal favorites, old and new, with a particular focus on Earth as a dynamic, interconnected, evolving system 🧪 📚💙

It is bonkers to me that the bicycle is ~140 years old, basically the same as the car. If you told me the ancient Egyptians or Romans had bicycles, I would believe you without a second thought. "The Romans built bicycle trails alongside the aqueducts crisscrossing their Empire." Very plausible!

This is true abundance.

This headline kind of buries the lede that when he uses the passage, he has the planner of the Sandy 1 mission speaking as God. I wonder if there's anything in the Bible about whether God likes it when people put something else in the place of God. Nah, that's probably nbd.

Hey did you know today is Florence Price’s birthday and if she’s not already one of your favorite composers, she should be

Lol, literally just texted a friend I hadn't texted in a couple months because I saw a picture of a luna moth and they like luna moths.

I wish this article had more about Utah's case and how embarrassing it was for them to blatantly lie about it and move the goalposts multiple times but still have the people of the state say "we're keeping our power, thank you very much."

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

Someone give this horse some cake!

Out take from Succession

articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay

Inspired by this, I made a dodecathedral

Finally listened to this. It's deeply frustrating but fascinating how much Mehotra misses the point. Something that gets me is that he keeps coming back to more or less "you should work with an LLM so it can edit like you and then people will pay for that feature and you'll make money" but...

This is my first time living on the east coast during March Madness, and I can't believe it's 10:30 and there are 4 games still going gone! I guess it means I can go to bed happy about this.

I have a theory that religious schools underperform in March Madness, so I picked against BYU & St. Mary's but picked TCU anyway bc my mom went there. I also picked VCU bc of family. I've gotten ridiculously lucky so far today & I'm at 99.9% in the ESPN bracket challenge. Enjoying it while it lasts.