I loved this post by Kelsey Miller for Cup of Jo about âchildloreâ.
âRemember typing âBOOBSâ on a calculator?!â someone will blurt. âOr â or that thing when youâre driving by a cemetery and you have
Bezosâs new opinion section has 515 YouTube subscribers. CBS News is at historic ratings lows. The Daily Wire is shedding audience. The billionaires paying for all of it say it doesnât matter.
When New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday, the same day the New York City budget was unveiled, that she was providing $4 billion from the state to help close the cityâs budget gap, the m
Robin Sloan writes about the personalized, AI-written, promo emails heâs been getting recently (I have too). âThe form is subtler than a one-sized-fits-all promo blast, but it sucks way worse, because
Jon Greenaway at Current Affairs: There is a distinctive, deeply uncanny horror to the way Jimmy Fallon laughs. Look it upâthere are literally hundreds of videos showing him breaking out into laughter
Palantir, the data analysis defense contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel, was named after the magical seeing stones from J.R.R. Tolkienâs Lord of the Rings books. This video compares the ethos of the
New research is pointing to relief for out flattest-faced dogs
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When Barbara Feuerstein, seventy-two, saw a Facebook ad offering a free blood test for Alzheimerâs disease, she jumped at the opportunity. The ad, placed by a research center, offered the test, recent
Gina Kolata and Rebecca Robbins at the New York Times: Pancreatic cancer is one of the most dire diagnoses in medicine. There are few available treatments, and they do little to help. For decades, exp
Both the millennia past and the new millennium. The economic world: working, making, apportioning, talking, & more. What I learn about it, largely through history, as I bet that humans are such the sa
Itâs the most detailed map of our universeâs architecture ever created
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Two sequences from Dr. Strangelove done in Lego: Muffleyâs call to Kissoff on the hotline in the war room and Dr. Strangeloveâs increasingly erratic presentation of his plan to preserve humanity in a
[Anonymous] sent me several questions about translation. She worried that they were somehow âtoo remedial,â but they were actually something worse: ancient, unanswerable debates. Take this one: âHow m
Today's links Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm: AGI works best in a K-hole. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Woz's remotes; Furbeowulf
Emma Wager, Shameek Rakshit, and Cynthia Cox at the website of The Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF: This brief examines the drivers of health spending and differences between the U.S. and its pe
A map of the regions of the US, as voted on by Reddit users. I think this seems mostly correct? One funny artifact: Washington state got some votes for âNortheastâ, probably because ppl confused it wi
Zelensky as Hostage, His Corruption and the Corruption of His Inner Circle, How He Was Snookered By the West, Tucker Interviews His Former Press Secretary, His Tighter Noose
Amid a multimillion-dollar lobbying and campaign-finance blitz by major financial asset managers, President Donald Trump has introduced a new plan pushing Americans to invest their retirement dollars