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The person who named them woofers and tweeters should have named more stuff.

Don’t get salt water on the statue. Google “bronze disease.” It would be really bad if this statue got bronze disease. Salt water causes bronze disease so be careful.

Fictional AI: If a man time travels and kills his own grandfather, he cannot be born to kill the grandfather... does not compute... bZZZT... shutting down

Real world AI: Yes, he could kill his grandfather and still be born. The apparent paradox is based on the assumption the doctor can't be a woman

Scientists say it may be possible to protect aging brains from Alzheimer’s with an old remedy — lithium | CNN In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging — the h...

Haven't had time to read the article yet but I didn't want to waste time so I've eaten a battery www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/h...

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/picky

#smbc

started taking beta blockers. so I don’t have to read your posts

morse code came and broke your heart
put the blame on railroad cars

A sign for a company called Allegheny Shredders. Their slogan is apparently "The future is here and everything needs to be destroyed. Don't fall behind the times."

Thinking about this photo I took in 2016 at an electronics recycling trade show that surfaces on other websites now and then

Medieval guy listening to a proclamation: this could have been a tapestry

When I find myself in times of trouble
Feathers flurry through my door
Speaking words of wisdom
Nevermore

Online Safety Act: "a little inconvenience is a small price to protect our children"

Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*

Comic. PERSON 1 [to person with white hat]: It’s so weird reading these 18th Century scholars argue about minor Biblical details. It’s like they’re an online fandom or something—They’ve developed this whole elaborate canon. [caption] It’s fun when a word’s usage goes full circle and, by analogy, lands back on its original meaning.

Canon

xkcd.com/3123/

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

TikTok says it needs my watch history so it can tailor my Shorts. My shorts fit pretty well already but sure, why not. Can someone send these to TikTok? I don't have their address

LL Bean Field Watch
that like $10 casio
Seiko 5
Apple Watch 3
Apple Watch 5
Garmin Epix Pro 2

Instagram post from the nsgov Instagram account. Black and red text reads “STAY OUT OF THE WOODS”; the foreground is a black silhouette of trees

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

greenlabcoat on tumblr: "the natural human lifespan is actually less than 2 days, but many have taken to artificially extending their lives via substances such as food/water" the-dao-of-the-zerg replies: "Can you imagine how terrible it must be, living for week after week? Wouldn't you get bored?"

Sausages and cheese, German supermarket

the scenario we all feared

My favourite news item of all time!

The fact that we even need to play tug of war with various Moms 4 Jesus think tanks so that payment processors will process payments is stupit man. Like bro why are u even here. I just want to send money why do u care what its for. You are playing the role of empty space between hands.

No poultry now because of the badgers.

your honor, my client's pants are on fire for a different reason

Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’

On the one hand, far fewer people are being killed. On the other, some people get to work two minutes later. So it's impossible to say whether it's good or not.

I sympathize with the feeling here but if you're going to record the video why not use it to say what you actually want to say to your family instead of just making sure you provide enough high quality voice samples so they can put their words into your mouth later

Did I Mention I’m A Polyglot? First round is on me if… you can keep up with my linguistic prowess.

Que bueno, my first Slackjaw piece published this week.
medium.com/slackjaw/did...

Getting a bunch of "Call N. K.!" tags again. This happens every time somebody attempts to blow up/risks blowing up the moon -- which you wouldn't think would happen a lot, but here we are.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookland intro text

Err when were you guys going to tell me about Bookland?? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookland

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation: