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I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Love this www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...

nobody's watching this Sacramento game but their broadcast is using all alternate angles and you can finally get some sense of how plays develop and how athletic the players are compared to the usual angle which really obscures most of the aspects of the game

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Idiocracy was a documentary

A good thing to do if you are flailing a bit right now (as who is not??) is to get in touch with your own values, the things that you find life affirming and necessary in the world. Read some inspiring works about things you value - labor solidarity, scientific achievement, social justice.