The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

Meanwhile, on LinkedIn....

The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate battle flag that belonged to the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, the flag was brought to Minnesota and exhibited at the state's capitol for several years before passing into the permanent collection of the Minnesota Historical Society after 1896 where it has remained since.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up.

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T Pain War Pigs YouTube video by Working 2gether Inc.

T-Pain's War Pigs cover may be better than all other covers of War Pigs and every other cover of any other song combined.

And yo, his live, non-auto-tuned performance IS ALSO AMAZING

"The fascist peril has taken on a hypocritical, insidious, polymorphous form, more dangerous than immediate brutality. Fascist action develops by exploiting governmental failures. It finds accomplices among the agents of authority. Our task begins." (Paul Rivet, 1936 in Vigilance No. 2) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comit%C3%A9_de_vigilance_des_intellectuels_antifascistes#/media/Fichier:Vigilance_n%C2%B02_-_bulletin_bi-mensuel_du_Comit%C3%A9_d'action_antifasciste_et_de_vigilance.jpg

DANCE like no one is watching.
LOVE like you've never been hurt.
WRITE like you're a French anti-fascist academic in 1934 planting the seeds for a widespread resistance campaign over the next 10 years.

Made this for my Intro to Data Science class last fall and I'm pretty sure they work down the hall from your team

Is that Hegseth

it's happening

VdoubledogDare

Huxley (1936): “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

never forget when the Easter Bunny sent Teddy Roosevelt to the shadow realm

I said consummate V's!! CONSUMMATE!!!

I thought this graph was one of those Strait of Hormuz maps for a second, and got REALLY confused by the giant insect

i love the small print “because the regulators won’t let us :(“

Absolute bangers every time they change it

Shoutout to all the folks who waved their membership cards at me

Fig. 1 for the ages

Vincent D’Onofrio is mentioned so I have to post this

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

On one hand, this is basically just like any other Wright Fisher simulation. On the other, it's extremely weird to generate headshots of the offspring of imaginary people you forced to fuck in silico

I describe it as such as a historian of disability because I want to remind scientists and the world that the history of science IS the history of eugenics, scientific racism and medical racism, and more.
I’m not comforting them with the idea that it was a ‘pseudoscience.’
This is your history.

Legends say they are still climbing that stairway_to_kevin on Reddit

POV: you’re a race scientist logging on to twitter circa 2016-2023

A truly blessèd Venn diagram 🫡

Wild to think that Mosley's grandson is the UK head of Palantir, and got the job in part precisely BECAUSE of that lineage. bsky.app/profile/iain...

The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics Ghost in the Machine director Valerie Veatch wants you to understand gen AI’s roots in race science.

“What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence as a documentarian or journalist, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology”

"In this 127.0.0.1, we believe..."

writers and journalists everywhere: