My TL yields some interesting correlations

@No_LOL_wut someone Joyce Alene Apparently less than 5% of Twitter profiles are fake? I find that hard to believe for some reason.

Can anyone explain to me why Republicans prefer Gay folks to be single and paying lower taxes?

US judiciary: Corporations must be allowed to spend as much as they want on politics because corporations have a right of free speech. Also US judiciary: Government can forbid corporations from conducting content moderation because corporations don’t have a right of free speech.

‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why go.nature.com/3VIPv3Z

Dear America. These two images seem utterly unrelated. One is absurd and trivial. The other sinister and threatening. But they are not unrelated. Nobody hears of an active shooter and asks “I wonder what her problem is”? One minority group is responsible for mass shootings. Men.

A gamma ray burst observed in 2022 was brighter than any explosion ever spotted before, and follow-up observations are threatening to break our understanding of how these blasts work newscientist.com/article/236644…

Bacteria, fungi and other microbes, which are vital to life on Earth, were long thought impervious to threats endangering larger lifeforms. Now biologists are warning of a microbial extinction event newscientist.com/article/mg2583…

A bleak, deterministic tale of how our species became civilised has long held sway – but it turns out to be a myth. newscientist.com/article/mg2583…

Neutrino astronomy could potentially allow us to see distant objects in a way that no other telescopes can match. sciencenews.org/article/neutri…

A sediment core from Greenland shows that even if the planet does not get any warmer than it is now, ice loss from Greenland alone would add at least 1.5 metres to the global average sea level and possibly as much as 5 metres. newscientist.com/article/238350…

Labs around the world are racing to create and test a new material, called LK-99, to see if it really is a room-temperature and pressure superconductor. newscientist.com/article/238574…

Maxwell's demon imagined by physicists really exists inside our cells newscientist.com/article/238933…

A fresh vision of the Culture universe from Iain M. Banks plus new books from Brandon Sanderson and Naomi Alderman are among the science fiction treats in store this November. newscientist.com/article/239848…

A reminder that the POTUS is contemplating mass tariffs today under the authority of bogus declarations of emergency. And that the house GOP voluntarily surrendered its obligation to scrutinize such declarations by declaring that today (and all days) are not actually “a day”.

Trump's reciprocal tariffs: 1) Impose hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes on Americans without public/congressional input 2) Are based on secret calculations that have little, if any, connection to actual foreign trade barriers 3) Ignore all US tariff/non-tariff

Things change quickly when you entrust the your economy to a 78 year old country club developer.

I’m probably not the first to point out the incongruity of the U.S. being ruled by a Peronist while Argentina is led by a libertarian.

Gerrymandering is the conscious disenfranchisement of your own citizens. Whether it’s Texas or California these politicians are saying it’s OK to disenfranchise Texans or Californians because others do it elsewhere. There’s no right way to do wrong.

The Government of Ontario just spent $75 million on a pro-trade/anti-tariff ad starring... Ronald Reagan.