This article is very strange. While saying this is very unlikely it treats it wholly as an employment problem with no solution, but never contends with the fact that this would lead to an economic depression!

So a wolf just chased competitors down the final straight of the women’s team sprint cross country skiing event 😬😅 #olympics

"wars can be lost before they are even declared if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle."

This is the last thing you have to do before you finish your degree in physics.

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The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide. "Uncertainty carries a positive cost." www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...

A heads-up from @billmckibben.bsky.social: "One way of summing up this moment is to say that the endangerment finding & the politics of climate are puny in the face of physics. We’re going to see that physics in action in the next 24 months, and it will drive many changes... some of them political"

Who is going to buy Microsoft Office 365 Licences then? Like, if this is true, Microsoft is worth $0

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

South #Australia power prices plummeting as it nears 100% renewables, proving to the world relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 % in a year and sometimes going negative. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

There is a story here. It could be supreme incompetence. But there is mos def a story here. El Paso airport is twice the traffic of Pittsburgh airport. It’s a top 25 airport in the nation. You don’t just shut airspace down like that for 10 days.

Terrible crash for Chinese snowboarder Liu Jiayu in the women’s halfpipe. Medical team taking great care with her and she was carried out rather than choppered, so hopefully she will be ok. She looked to land heavily on her head and neck in the crash #olympics

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

this isn't a novel point, but when he fired CQ for his skin color/Francetti for having a vagina and not a single GOFO said anything/quit, that die was cast

You do not have to take off all of your clothes to go to the bathroom. Don't lick that. Why is everything all wet? Your finger does not belong in there.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Fast, cheap, or good - pick two." Alternative: "You did WHAT?!"

“China has now overtaken the US to be the world’s largest producer of scientific papers on Antarctica, according to a recent report co-authored by scientists at the University of Tasmania. Britain is third, followed by Australia and Germany.” www.smh.com.au/environment/...

ski jump penis doping story only underscores the advantages of shape and drape over slim fit clothing www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Just been made aware of Haiti's winter Olympics get-up. That skirt looks warm, has good pockets, and has a massive horse on it. DING DING DING.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

Apparently, Google Books deliberately removed search for previewed books?? For ANYONE doing research, this is a BIG deal. Not to be able to search for specific things that you need? For books that will help? For references used by other authors? My last book would have been impossible without it.

just choked on my beverage

The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good). www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

"We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start" | Must read piece in @theguardian.com by @upenn.edu's Claire Finkelstein: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“It should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear— a fear of violence…from which no one will ever be truly safe. That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived.” Via @nytimes.com

My word, we get to see Ser Arlan of Pennytree in all his, uh, glory in Episode 2 😳 #KotSK #KnightOfTheSevenKingdoms

Deep Dive: The Pentagon’s 2026 National Defense Strategy: What It Signals — and Why the World Should Be Alarmed www.onestnetwork.com/post/deep-di...

BREAKING! WORLD FIRST! 🔥Australia's public broadcaster publishes extended #AtlasNetwork explainer by Gareth Hutchens. When I went on ABC radio 3 years ago to talk about the global Atlas network of 550+ orgs, no one had heard of it. Atlas HQ wanted to keep it that way. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

congratulations everybody

Joel Berry, Managing Editor of the Babylon Bee, wrote this AM that: “If we lose heart every time a feral Communist commits suicide by cop, our country isn’t gonna make it *** I’m so beyond letting my Christian compassion get weaponized by Leftist death-worshippers…” (His “Christian compassion”) 1/

Some of them really, really did.

No

Sending people right back out into the field after they shoot somebody is what you to do with soldiers in war zones. That's how the Administration sees Minneapolis. Adjust your priors accordingly.

Literally EVERYTHING else aside: Officers involved in shootings - even shootings that everybody agrees were justified - always take time off to emotionally process their experience, go to therapy, process it. Sending somebody right back out says "this is an everyday part of your job, expect it."

"How did ordinary people succumb to such a poisonous ideology? At a time of rising xenophobia and division, that feels like an important question to address" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

They are not going to help. Stop hoping for the good Nazis to help.

Reporters should be asking congressional Republicans what *other* kinds of Americans they think deserve to be executed in the street by the president's goon squad. "So you support the murder of a mom and a VA nurse, but what about an Eagle Scout or a kindergarten teacher? How about a priest?"

I don't know much about auto racing but I don't think these sorts of cars usually do hard 90° turns through intersections on city streets.

Key findings: ✅ Inoculated users showed a 21 ppt increase in their ability to spot emotional manipulation (baseline ability was low) ✅ These effects remained detectable 5 months. ✅ We also increased information-seeking behavior, treatment users were 3x more likely to click on the ad. 3/3

*every fucking winter* yes, grandpa it still gets cold

Washington Post seems to think the UN should just prostrate itself for Republican voters and only them

55 years ago this morning, BANEBERRY—a 10-kiloton, weapons-related, underground nuclear test 912 feet beneath the Nevada Test Site—accidentally vented, releasing 6.7 million curies of radioactive debris, including 80,000 curies of iodine-131, the second largest venting in US history. (THREAD)

The White House Military Office Coast Guard aide was on “Football” duty earlier tonight for Emperor Trump’s return to the White House. The ~45-pound satchel accompanies Trump 24/7, enabling him alone to authorize the use of any of our ~1,770 deployed nuclear weapons—up to 900 on alert—at any time.

Going out on a limb, but I think it's bad for the world's richest man to have his own pet federal judge he can direct all his cases to.

Picturing Mike Burgess on a jetski, doing fifty knots, a life vest on top of his aegean blue business suit and subdued tie, shouting in a doomed attempt to talk to Kash Patel about IRG surveillance of Iranian expats

Trump is now uninviting people to his club that nobody wants to join.

“You’ve been winning too much, we’re revoking your invitation to the loser convention.”