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bird: cheeb chip chip chiperoo me: *opening merlin bird app* ooo what was that bird: merlin: crow: caw merlin: crow. am i done? me: no there was another bird another crow: caw merlin: another crow. hey are you an idiot?

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Yeah I know people say anxiety is bad, but mine has just been collecting all the possible things that can go wrong so far. Once it has an exhaustive catalog of every possible mishap, it’ll move on to suggesting solutions and then you better watch out.

I finally got to be on scishow tangents! And I got to talk about my least favorite thing, infectious disease. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p... or wherever you get your podcasts.

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

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Yet, what seems like a time of a major crisis with Trump could have been a period of great opportunity had India not suffered from a wasted decade under Modi.... India has had its stint with bigotry, ignorance and boastful rhetoric in the past decade. Now comes the time to pay its economic price.

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even spambots have given up

"Google's parent company has ditched a longstanding principle and lifted a ban on artificial intelligence (AI) being used for developing weapons and surveillance tools." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Humidifier Review xkcd.com/3044

what looney tunes needs is a prequel where bugs bunny confirms elmer fudd & marvin the martian are not on the spectrum before Targeting them

I fear there is deep truth here.

In this episode, Dr. V Ramasubramanian tells us about the Human metapneumovirus outbreak, why such a furore was caused, and how we can prevent or tackle it. www.thehindu.com/podcast/unde...

A batch of cowpea seeds — better known as lobia in Hindi or thattapayaru in Tamil — have successfully sprouted in space, days after they were taken into orbit by an Indian Space Research Organisation mission. www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/sci...

Happy new year, every one. In tonight's unhinged episode, Dylan recounts a wild Christmas. We talk Deepseek V3 and dispel several misunderstandings. We discuss Al Pastor and its differences with shawarma. And close with microplastics. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dou...

I stand by this.

mary shelley’s frankenstein is a timeless classic that dares to ask the question which one of these mfers is supposed to be the monster.

I'm too broke to get the new year. I'm stuck with last year.

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Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows. People in the US live with illness for 12.4 years on average – up from 10.9 years in 2000, according to a study published by the American Medical Association

Just another helpful reminder that a human being on a bicycle is the most efficient amongst all animals and machines in terms of energy consumed in moving a certain distance as a function of body weight. Obvs.

Ta-Nehisi Coates wields words like sledgehammers.

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Bluesky feels like I took a Time Machine back to 2009 when I was still like “Hey this social media thing is going to make the world a better place.”

I know this makes me sound like an old fuddy duddy, but making my favorite animation list makes me realize just how much I miss hand drawn animation. The little imperfections, the warmth, the lines squiggling here and there. You could feel the humanity in every frame. Everything looks so clean now.

Last week we saw American prosecutors charge an Indian company for corruption in India. It would have been great if they shown some of that zeal to get Dow/Union Carbide to appear before an Indian court. https://buff.ly/3D64gtS

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