This is an ‘interesting’ state of affairs when one of the hottest movie properties right now documents how science (& the scientific community) gave the USA a god-tier edge in the last world war. Back in the ‘good old days’ a lot of anti-science people pine for, science was king.

Just adding this to the pile of examples of how inadequate the Twitter/X Support content review is. (Not including the username because I don’t want the algorithm to end up promoting their racist crap to you or anyone else)

Oh wow. The FT are normally pretty good with charts too. That’s a shocker.

The adoption of cellphones by Keralan fishermen is, I believe, the most stunning example of the contribution of information technology to market performance. Take a look at this graph for background: in three different regions of Kerala, phones were adopted at different times.

Love the site, love the work, nice job guys, and good luck!

This might be the best take I’ve read on creative/AI (short thread, so do click through).

🚨PSA about Google’s jaw-dropping video demo of Gemini - the one with the duck: It was not carried out in real time or in voice. The model was shown still images from video footage and human prompts narrated afterwards, per a spokesperson. More here: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Oops. Show of hands: who's shocked that a 'quickly, get in the race' feature pushed through by an oddball libertarian egomaniac has a gaping privacy hole in it?

So wonderfully put. [Via Dense Discovery]

I love this mixture of history, fashion and culture so much. Always compelling on every level.

A situation where the ‘it’s not rocket science’ aphorism would be doing at least three jobs.

It always blows my mind how much wider the partisan trust gap is for US media compared to the UK 🤯 Most British media is trusted (or distrusted) about equally by supporters of both major parties. That’s true of virtually no US media org. Deeply corrosive for US society.

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👏🏻 so very, very good 👏🏻 😂 mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-…

This is somewhere between hilarious and terrifying.

Absolutely gutted to hear that Foxtrot and Dom’s have closed, I absolutely loved them both. Feeling for all the staff who presumably found out as abruptly as us customers did today. 🙁 #chicago #chicagofood

Time to resurrect this tweet I guess. A year on and having seen two premier league teams docked points for financial impropriety this season, still awfully quiet on the cheats at the top of the table (bit like their stadium most of the season amirite?)

We are now closer to the year 2100 than to 1950. Also closer to 2050 than to 2000. Time to start acting like it.