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chopsticks are the correct way to eat gushers

late to the game, but downloaded the cryptid mod, and holy fuck, this is so broken, it's great 😂

lol, reminded me of this

image of an orange rabbit pulling a block out of a jenga tower, titled, A "gamer" with the description below describing it as, "A "gamer" partaking in a act of intellectual stimulation, known as gaming"

"she promises to avoid AI slop, but makes it clear that AI will be a part of the brand’s future."

par for the course for a microslop employee

Supreme Court Rules Most of Donald Trump's Tariffs Are Illegal In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration's signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds.

In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration's signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds. www.wired.com/story/suprem...

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Maria Loconsole1*, Silvia Benavides-Varela2,3, Lucia Regolin1 Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of this association, and whether it is unique to humans, we tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby domestic chickens (Gallus gallus). as a precocial species, chicks can be tested shortly after hatching, allowing us to control their pretest experiences. Similar to humans, both 3-day-old [experiment 1 (exp. 1)] and 1-day-old (exp. 2) chicks spontaneously choose a spiky shape when hearing the “kiki” sound and a round shape when hearing the “bouba” sound. results from naïve young animals suggest a predisposed mechanism for matching the dimensions of shape and sound, which may be widespread across species.

main fig from the paper showing the association between bouba/round and kiki/spiky in newborn chicks

the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling

canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI

it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)

twitter is just the hyperbaric radicalization chamber

Picture of a glory hole in a bathroom stall. The next panel shows a clingon steering through the hole with the caption hello? The next panel is it a closer look at the clingon face caption reads "is anyone there?!"the final panel is just the eye of the Klingon caption reads "I see glory!"

the best meme

with the wildly absurd track record he's got at this point, i wont be surprised if this is a prediction when all is said and done

Stop Congress from selling out the Boundary Waters to a Chilean-owned mine Corporate polluters are taking aim at one of North America’s most treasured landscapes.

...BUT the company intends to ship the ore abroad to be processed and sold. Tell your senators to vote NO! You can call [+1 (202) 224-3121]. Or @earthjustice.org makes it fast/easy to send a personalized letter (and they email it for you): earthjustice.org/action/defen.... 🌎 Thank you!

Our Story - The History of the Gates Foundation From a newspaper article about preventable child deaths to a global foundation. Learn how Bill and Melinda Gates began their journey to help save lives.

the foundation's website paints it as being a joint decision they reached after having children, with them reaching out to gates' father for financial support early on, and while this is speculation, i fully believe that he wouldn't have made the foundation if he hadn't had children with her.

it's worth noting that his foundation was his ex-wife's brain-child, so he doesn't actually deserve the credit for any of that funding, cause if not for his wife, he wouldn't have done any of it.

a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

American die earlier than the English across the income distribution

If capitalism is the ultimate route to economic efficiency, then why is the US health care system so much worse and more expensive than the UK health care system?

[camera: zooms out to show him on the back of a sand worm, about to go over a sick jump]

young man climbing into a crt monitor looking back over his shoulder flipping off the viewer beneath yellow text reading FUCK REAL LIFE

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r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

A photo of a cat under a bed with a rotisserie chicken with the caption: This is Beans. Beans stole a while rotisserie chicken off the counter. Not a piece. The whole chicken. Beans dragged it under the bed and growled at us for forty minutes. Beans is 9 pounds.

Become ungovernable

so how does it taste, licking the fascist boot that's on your neck?

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech but Abe Lincoln is replaced by the Punch Ice In the Face Kid

"yeah I'm gonna punch you in the face"

i think the thing that's throwing me is how the bodice is the same color as the pants, so with the buttons up the middle, it just looks like her pants go up to her pits 😂😅

im glad baggy pants are back, but at the same time, that looks more like a floor length dress than pants, lol

we would prolly need to take it before and after the meal, to pad the way and clean up after the bolus as it moves thru, just to make sure everything gets broken down enough, and a yogurt/pudding/smoothie texture would help it coat stuff, giving it the highest likelihood of breaking everything down

They need to invent Lactaid for gluten. My ass needs real bread

this just means everyone who uses the robot cars should leave the doors open, as a backwards way to actually tip delivery workers, since the "tips" they're given in the apps usually just go to their bosses

serving in government should require an oath of poverty