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This tiny spider has binoculars for eyes and a brain so efficient it puts supercomputers to shame. What is the jumping spider Portia, and why is it so interesting to neuroscientists, roboticists, and practitioners of AI? 1/10 ⚛️🧪

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

People being rude to service workers is a red flag both in needlessly being a dickhead to someone but also in that you can tell they appreciate it when you make their work a little easier and who doesn’t want that shit? That shit feels amazing. A waiter being happy? That shit makes your weekend

Seeing people get up to nonsense like this - like not to get all corny, but honest to God - reminds me that people are worth fighting for lmao.

if you work for the IRS, i’d like to chat. message me on signal at marisakabas.04

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

*guy who can't play Diablo for himself* Yeah all these government payments are probably fraud

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

Fun fact Google doesn't give you AI suggestions if you swear

This is a REALLY fucking good idea

Indonesia's government has launched its ambitious, multi-billion dollar project to fight malnutrition by feeding nearly 90 million children and pregnant women. On the first day it reached 570,000 school children and pregnant women across 20 provinces. https://buff.ly/3WjfmTl #ShareGoodNewsToo

Cunk spittin Christmas cheer

NYPD suspects that the killer of United Healthcare's CEO has fled the city, but they are not giving up. 24 hours a day, in precincts all over the city, officers whose heads are the exact size and shape of a Boars Head boiled ham showing each other stuff on their phones and injecting steroids.

Something folks may not realize if they've never worked for an international company is because in the US, employers have to provide healthcare, it significantly increases the cost of hiring in the US, and therefore disincentivizes hiring in the US when those jobs can be easily staffed elsewhere.

We're so back

The way this Tressie McMillan Cottom reply blew my hair back…

Me voting for Hillary in 2016 vs Me voting for Kamala in 2024

If things go bad today, you need to join the labor movement. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/after-elec...

as a Big Nerd I have to tell you I went to Mendel’s abbey to look at his peas but the most notable part is actually the little hats he made for his microscopes

Making a rare exception to my no-Twitter-screenshots policy for this important legal news

I'm old enough to remember when a computer didn't automatically connect to the internet, it used to make a screaming noise. We should have listened.

Makes you think