Doing the laundry, I decided to watch a documentary. Peak entertainment watching The Inventor, on Theranos, with the opening of the first act: none other than Dan Ariely explaining why people cheat and lie. Some people just have the audacity.
For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them
President Sheinbaum's Address to Barcelona Summit in Defense of Democracy
Remarks delivered by the Mexican President in Spain on Saturday, April 18th.
Well, that podcast got the strong argument on the side of Give Me Everything but the audience still chose wrong.
How is Party Rock nearly close to the opening "go to Times Square/ Take a picture of me with a Kodak/ Took my life from negative to positive"? Wrong opinions today.
I reject this poll on the basis that 1) pterodactyl is not a dinosaur and 2) only 2% for Bachiosaurus and 4% for Stegosaurus? *tsk tsk tsk* wrong
Listening to a podcast where they are choosing between the 2011 songs Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO and Give Me Everything by Pitbul, and I want to make sure that we ALL agree that Give Me Everything IS *in fact* the superior song.
Just so its clear: there's a blatant reason the chatbot gets applied to climate investments and not to, say, tech or real estate or finance.
You apply the slopbot when you don't care about outcome quality and want to minimise cost. NBIM doesn't care about taking good climate investment actions.
Spot on. Yeah, I keep thinking about this a lot. We would see the evil without knowing the idiocy.
I got to appreciate some of those rebel underground newspapers during authoritarian regimes, e.g. early 20th century Mexico, clearly calling out the idiocy when others were sanewashing everything.
Humanity is in its slop era.
Unless... Dictators have always been this stupid and history wrote fanfics about them to make it digestible.
I didn't follow the second half of Heated Rivalry because... I was sobbing and teary most of the time by episodes 5 and 6.
This Pope may be a progressive in econ and --some-- social issues but he and the Papacy are pretty much still conservative and the Catholic church is... *checks notes* yeah, just what I thought, still very much backwards.
Maybe an antifa – a first for a Pope.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
This post shocked me with the realization that I've allowed the existence of concentration camps run by my government to become a minor background piece of information as I continue living my life
Deadline this Sunday!
Geology/Palaeontology portrayed as men in Indiana Jones outfits? Cool! Manly job
What's that? Gay/bi/trans men there? Huh, yeah, that's why dinosaurs have feathers now, not a manly job anymore.
And these are real conversations I had... So, that sounds like straight men's homework, not helping!
Truth is, the moment queer men are visibly queer in any job or career, that is when the straight purity test fails for that job or career.
"Men think jobs that are not podcasts are too feminine."
B: "Maybe we need to tell men that that is not a healthy mindset to have"
Economist: "We need to make caregiving a crossfit-like profession where they will lift weaklings!!!"
When I was studying Biology, the Physics and Maths students would say "biology is for girls and queers". Many men I knew left because men in other STEM fields thought they were gay. I can't think how much more male-centric Biology has to be for men to be "NoHoMo".
So, no, bad advice, bad🗞.
"But I do want to encourage us to realize that we have to help men understand that they can do caregiving roles and stay masculine"
I'm gonna be honest, there is a stench of homophobia there. There are many male teachers, social workers. Crazy idea, maybe masculinity is not real?
Wednesday 8 April 2026 We welcome the two-week ceasefire concluded between the United States and Iran today. We thank Pakistan and all partners involved for facilitating this important agreement. The goal must now be to negotiate a swift and lasting end to the war within the coming days. This can only be achieved through diplomatic means. We strongly encourage quick progress towards a substantive negotiated settlement. This will be crucial to protect the civilian population of Iran and ensure security in the region. It can avert a severe global energy crisis. We support these diplomatic efforts. To this end, we are in close contact with the United States and other partners. We call upon all sides to implement the ceasefire, including in Lebanon. Our Governments will contribute to ensuring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
Too many words and none of them are "Israel", the rogue state in a spree of genocidal violence against Palestine and Lebanon breaking the cease-fire.
I am amazed* how much Canada and Europe will reach the far corners of a thesaurus to avoid holding Israel accountable. Complicity much?
*not really
Where to find the words anymore?
What to say when Israel continues to behave like this?
And no condemnation at all from the UK Government. They carry on business as usual as if Israel aren't carrying out genocides in both Gaza and Lebanon.
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this is why the effective altruist mindset very specifically and dangerously masks the corrosive effect of a widespread shift from lean, low-energy software to pointlessly oversized and digitally bloated software
0.000001 to 2 watt hours sounds small one time, for one person. What about *everyone*?
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
As Jewish Australians, we are devastated to learn of the Israeli assault on Lebanon yesterday. We urge @albomp.bsky.social and Foreign Minister Wong to speak out against Israel's violent escalation and call on the Government to take decisive action by demanding an immediate ceasefire.
Israel called today's operations in Lebanon ETERNAL DARKNESS and we are still being told that this fascist nation can be reasoned with.
This is just a fact: either Israel is stopped or expect the war to continue and expand. Those are the options.
the ceasefire lasted a whole 10 minutes
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:
Just today, Netanyahu launches his harshest attack against Lebanon since the offensive began.
His contempt for life and international law is intolerable.
Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire.
The European Union must suspend its Association Agreement with Israel.
Just before the ceasefire was announced, Netanyahu raised the issue of Lebanon in a phone call with Trump.
During that conversation, the two agreed that Israel could continue its attacks in Lebanon even as the ceasefire with Iran took effect.
War aims as clear as always from the coalition of the fucking stupid.
"The world and history will judge the silence of nations in the face of these crimes"
Statement from the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mexico on President Trump's threat of genocide.
It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people.
We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government.
This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.
