One of the top moments from the aurora season this winter… a crazy aurora spiral dancing and swirling around.

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How speculative is the AI data center buildout, and what about that AI bubble? Consider that neither OpenAI nor Anthropic are anywhere close to turning a profit and (per @edzitron.com) at least 8.6GW of the 15.2GW of data center capacity under construction is for OpenAI and Anthropic.

A closeup image of a crescent moon in the shape of a smile

the moon out here smiling at me tonight

John Roberts' wife is not the only Supreme Court spouse to shake down people with business before the court to give bribes. Ginni Thomas has a "consulting firm" (AKA a PO Box for checks) to funnel money to Clarence. #Corruption

Here's a current pic of my new kitten whom I will get in a few weeks. It's bad for a kitten to be taken from mum too early. I love black cats.

pet treats? khakis???? white people going after poc when amazon’s race war on what white people need to survive is right in the open

Hilariously, there are some on the New Left who think it's regressive and anti-democratic to villainize oil and gas companies and the elected officials they collude with. No, really.

I FINALLY got a decent shot of a male Eastern #Bluebird. The lighting was marvelous — it electrified this bird’s brilliant iridescent blue plumage.

This fellow was kind enough to pose for a number of photos. I can’t thank him enough 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

#Turdidae
#BirdOfTheDay
#EastCoastKin
#birds

If trickle-down economics worked at all, the world gaining 400 billionaires last year would have set off an economic boom, given everyone raises, and lowered our prices.

But it didn't. Because trickle-down economics is a scam designed to make the rich richer off the rest of us.

Snowcap Hummingbird

found in Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama

📷: John Crawley

#birds

When someone explains something to you for the seventh time and you still don't understand.

Hubble Spies an Active Spiral science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image

Librarians are amazing. You can ask them about a book you think might have been a dream, but you’re pretty sure you read when you were eleven and the cover was blue…and they’ll find it! 💙📚

A cat relaxing in a cardboard box.

Cat

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy - Arkeonews Archaeologists in Egypt’s Oxyrhynchus have discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and a rare papyrus

This is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.

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Peregrine falcon [📸 mostly.birds]

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Picture of my old ass dog, but he's super cute and he always lifts his right ear more than his left

My sweet Riley. He'll only be with us for another month or so... He's suffering and I'm just trying to put the money together to give him peace.
He's been such a good dog. When we lived on the east side of Milwaukee he was our guard dog and he's kept us safe ever since

UBI is worth doing REGARDLESS of the degree of unemployment that AI may cause. Productivity growth stopped being widely shared via wages in the 1970s. For 50 years, the fruits of our collective labor have concentrated at the top. Only UBI can directly distribute those fruits equally to ALL.

A photo of the cottage pie I made for dinner

Please observe this perfect cottage pie I made

A large German Shepherd dog who seems happy to be in her new home.

We have (very) big news!

Say hello to Poppy 😊

Poppy is a sweet 8-year-old girl who enjoys being within an inch of at least one human at all times and dislikes closed doors. She has been with us since Friday and seems to be settling in well.

My friend's cat had one kitten. Just one little perfect kitten. This is so cute

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

Harold Lloyd in a Paramount Pictures publicity photo

If you'd to celebrate Harold Lloyd's birthday, Criterion Channel has a terrific survey of his career:

• 26 silent shorts (including one as his pre-"glass character" Lonesome Luke)
• 10 silent features (including his first/last)
• 5 Talkies (including his first)
• 1 compilation #FilmSky #SilentFilm

CNN’s Harry Enten: “It is a blowout in the net popularity ratings. It’s not even close. It’s a nearly 50 point blowout amongst the American public at large. Pope Leo XIV absolutely crushing Trump when it comes to how popular they are.”

A humanoid robot sprints to victory in Beijing, beating the human half-marathon world record A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China's technological leaps. The winner from Honor, a Chinese smartp...

So, a humanoid Chinese robot just ran a half marathon much faster than any human ever has. That's... something. Or the other. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Welcome to the whole wide world puppy: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

I don't normally like messing with great art but I liked this! Happy Sunday Friends!🙏😂

Golden retrievers gathered on Boston Common today to honor Spencer, the beloved Boston Marathon dog known for holding a Boston Strong flag along the route.

Spencer passed away after battling cancer.

💛

“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least 3x… a pattern.”

The most corrupt regime ever.