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Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

The real question: is there a lobster->DDR5 arbitrage opportunity?

She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people.

It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.

GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Bruce Springsteen to Release 'Electric Nebraska' -- and More -- in Surprise Box Set The box set — timed to the 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' movie — combines E Street Band versions of most of 'Nebraska,' a live performance, and outtakes

We got electric Nebraska before GTA 6: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

The clown is also played by Samoa Joe (yes, that Samoa Joe) and voiced by Will Arnett! He is quite possibly the best thing about the show and very funny.

I feel like the term eBlast should come with some sort of horn cue.

I think it's fine that some folks like to be bombarded by conflicting viewpoints at all times. But then those people tend to be the exact obnoxious sort who want that preference to be an Objective Moral Good, and...ugh.

I will never forgive Slack for popularizing _ as the character for italicizing in Markdown, rather than the spec-defined *

This is genuinely a fascinating story and also the source of a valuable maxim:

Do not attribute to aliens that which can be attributed to Cold War secrecy and a continuing desire to protect military careers.

xkcd comic 2347 "All modern digital infrastructure" with one small important block near the bottom replaced with an inclusive pride flag

@lschmeiser.bsky.social Random flag of media that is likely up your alley: "Wear Whatever the F___ You Want," hosted by Stacy London and Clinton Kelly of "What Not to Wear" fame. It's all about dream makeovers for folks with unique style preferences.

Downside: it's on Amazon Prime.

Well if they take the Apple route, it’ll be back in 5-10 years 😂

The end of an era! Excited to see what's next.

Left out guy at the party meme with caption “They don’t know I’m the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.”

Can San Francisco allow street vending without enabling thieves? San Francisco has pursued a multitude of tactics to discourage illegal fencing on Mission St. Here’s a timeline of the last two years.

One of the great things about living near the Mission is having @missionlocal.org as our newsroom. They're doing great reporting, like this just-released timeline of the City's challenges with street vendors on Mission: missionlocal.org/2025/03/san-...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Data lies all the time and anyone who has ever made a graph knows this.

Easily one of the best recent columns about the Musk of this all.

I always preferred a stack of shitty business galleys.

I realize this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of ~everything that's happening~, but I just discovered today that you can't track changes in Google Slides and I am losing my mind.

And, in case you’ve forgotten from the first go-round, two other points never to forget:
1. Trump and his aides often lie.
2. Trump and his appointees often screw things up.

Meta surrenders to the right on speech “I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer

Come for @caseynewton.bsky.social's clear-eyed analysis of the Meta fact-checking announcement, stay for the most adorable hard launch I've seen on the internet: www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

I am, admittedly, not a good barometer, but it does not enter at all into holiday music conversations that I’m a part of.

The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...

this was just really excellent defector.com/the-hawk-tua...

There was an incredible take from Twitter a few years ago, something to the effect of "projecting motivation onto a high-variance individual leaves everybody surprised at the end."