Here is the body cam footage of Police in Columbus, Ohio shooting and killing an unarmed black man who was in bed within one second of opening his bedroom door. Trigger Warning: Police Violence and Murder

I’m seeing a lot of discourse on the difference between science fiction and fantasy today and as a professional sff book editor I want to clear this up: science fictions grow down from the ceiling and fantasies grow up from the floor. Easy. Next!

The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/

McCarthy: I never knew all about his resume or not but I always had a few questions Question: What about pretending to be your chief of staff?

Pulling nails out of a beach bonfire site with a hydraulic scrap magnet.

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Training bees to detect explosives, by Inscentinel and the Los Alamos Stealthy Insect Sensor Project.

Less than 31 hours since OpenAI started dropping the ChatGPT vision feature on pro users... People are scratching their heads in disbelief. 10 wild examples:

On the eve of an unprecedented catastrophe in Gaza, I am thinking of the words of this 19 year old Israeli who survived the massacre in Be’eri. I translated her remarks. I want to share some parts with you. “Those who talk about revenge —shame on you.”

RIP Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. You helped turn learning to read into a rich family’s game. slate.com/human-interest…

This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate. 1/5

Another masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades. Again I believe that his words are so important and so rare among Western leaders today, that I decided to translate it

Only recently have organizations such as the ADL took the position that “From the river to the sea” is an antisemitic slogan. On May 3, 2022 the ADL website referred to the slogan as, “a slogan commonly featured in pro-Palestinian campaigns and chanted at demonstrations.” No

Just making an absolute mockery of our sacred traditions

THREAD 🧵Did you know that Gaza is home to hundreds of artists, both men and women? It is literally the city with the highest number of artists relative to its population. In this thread, I will introduce you to dozens of them. These Gazans are unbreakable, sensitive, and amazing

Please complete this sentence: "Instead of physically attacking the abusive plutocrats who expand their wealth and power by ruining lives and killing people, ordinary citizens should use the other options that are available to them to address such injustices, such as ________."

Wow. Listen to Katherine Hepburn as she outlines Project 2025, in 1942.

A crane lifting a crane lifting a crane lifting a crane. (LR13000, LR11350, LR1350.1, and LTR1100 respectively)