THE REASON CARROTS ARE ORANGE is that the Sanskrit (and ultimately, Dravidian) name “नारङ्ग” for Citrus × aurantium(?) happens to vaguely resemble the Latin (ultimately, Gaulish) name “Arausio” for a city (now) in France where a family of Dutch stadhouders had a principality. 🙃

It's an educational resource, that much is clear, I just can't actually identify anything one could plausibly learn from it. So perhaps it is art.

For those wondering, this is currently a 7.07% annualized ROI on 'NO' (assuming Jesus doesn't return). Are Jesus futures the next T-bills?

Tweets that sound like they're from the first five minutes of a horror/sci-fi movie Right up there "we're excited that our new medicine cures [major disease], we're distributing it globally tomorrow"

This is very cool. But, the phrase "more than just a milestone, it's a step" feels totally absurd. Xanadu do you want to hire me as a copy editor?

Took my kid to the playground, another kid asked "Did you take train here?" "No, we walked here." "Oh, we took the train because we live at [Full street address]. Those are my brothers, [names and ages]." 0/10, terrible OPSEC. This is how wars are lost. My child will do better.

‼️ Get hype 😁

arxiv.org/abs/2508.00311 Looks like great progress on the \begin{align}-ment problem🥁

What kind of statistical distribution do you get if you look at hitting times in the Drunkard's Walk? A boisson process

Everyone talks about how much energy AI uses listening to users say "Thanks", but how much does the AI use saying "You've found another excellent and subtle point" ad nauseam

Log on to X for first time in a while A bunch of people, including Americans, are upset about something A guy got killed A guy who lived by and ruled with the motto "Death to America" Confusion I log off X