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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

submitted 42 days ago • 85 comments

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...

submitted 103 days ago • 300 comments

From the Economist: A huge majority (74%) of Ukrainians favour fighting on even without US support. A clear majority (59% v 21%) say they believe #Ukraine can still win on the battlefield, in contrast to American officials such as Marco Rubio, the US sec of state, who say it can't. #UkrainianView

submitted 104 days ago • 21 comments

Why haven't we seen more backlash against the GOP's proposed cuts to Medicaid? One reason is that people may not know they're on Medicaid, because Medicaid has different names in different states (see 🧵). Another is that some people may not realize that they (or their kids) could qualify.

submitted 117 days ago • 40 comments

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

submitted 127 days ago • 105 comments

An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.

submitted 142 days ago • 32 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 161 days ago • 374 comments

Having worked on #Syria full-time since the crisis began nearly 14yrs ago, there really is no understating how remarkable the losses imposed on #Assad's regime have been over the past week. A large reason for this lies with #HTS — a 🧵:

submitted 202 days ago • 82 comments

in other "look at where this guy comes from" news, Elon Musk's father just did a lengthy podcast episode that opens with the host saying "I bet the last time you had this many black people in your house someone was trying to rob you" youtu.be/KH1U5x8LXgs?...

submitted 210 days ago • 157 comments

Good morning Bluesky. Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer. go.bsky.app/KDY26rh

submitted 222 days ago • 290 comments

Rejoice: the Blue Zones are BS. The real determining factor in longevity seems to be...drumroll...wealth. Wealthy people have less stress, more time to exercise, and more time to sleep. theconversation.com/the-data-on-...

submitted 280 days ago • 16 comments

Okay, really quickly... Here we go! SILENT FILM COLOR Two types: Natural (captures the color as the film is shot, think Technicolor) and Applied (color added directly to black and white film after the fact). AND NOW Subtypes! COLOR FILM: During the silent era, it only captured red and green.

submitted 289 days ago • 3 comments

The Ramones, by Sergio Aragonés | sergioaragones.com

submitted 313 days ago • 10 comments

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

submitted 330 days ago • 60 comments

Been thinking a lot about LBJ’s doodles.

submitted 364 days ago • 11 comments

here's something ive been working on for over a month: the story of a jewish women's sex strike, the reasons behind it, and why no woman should be chained:

submitted 406 days ago • 42 comments

Rita Aarons - Los Angeles, 1954🎄 📷 by Slim Aarons

submitted 549 days ago • 1 comment

Saw this version of the final Calvin & Hobbes online today and… if you can’t tell what’s wrong with it, that’s a shame. But adding shade to the white wrecks the thing. Modern repro keeps doing this: colourising strips at a greater level of “sophistication” than originally printed, and wrecking them.

submitted 555 days ago • 28 comments

Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.

submitted 669 days ago • 47 comments