Every fiber of my being is vibrating with desire to reply “no, you are the first. This is groundbreaking. Boosting for visibility” even though I know it would get me banned from r/askhistorians
This has been studied quite a bit, the solar panels create a sort of greenhouse effect for the plants underneath them while also generating energy which feels like it should be cheating but is real and literally only has upsides.
Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦@earhart.bsky.social · 3d agoMassachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...
in the early 1990s I really thought this little guy was gonna be a more important videogame character, like part of a big three with Mario and Sonic
and when a man stands on your doorstep and says “I am the oncoming storm” you must look him dead in the eyes and mutter “you’ve actually nailed my whole thing lately, I’m also doing storms, a lot of that type of stuff, related to storms, very exciting space, me also storm guy”
Finally saw The Odyssey, which is the consummate Christopher Nolan film in that it has moments of near-sublime spectacle that make you believe in Big Movies again mixed together with dialogue like, "Our Age of Bronze is ending."
i'm old enough to remember when windows vista was too annoying
worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · yesterdaythe answer to the question in the headline can be found in the subheading
Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
Tired: Bluesky is a liberal haven Wired: Bluesky became more progressive-centric as a direct result of the push for more sports because the left won sports in the culture war
Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d agoGood lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.
I’m more and more in the camp that we just cannot handle video clips as a species.
Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol
Who will need to have overtures made to them and who is expected to just suck it up is an (increasingly less!) quiet subtext around a lot of Democratic primary wrangling these days
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3d agoIt's rarely ever said so outright but basically the thesis of the Stevens surrogates as of today is that Arab Americans cannot possibly have any legitimate grievances about someone who is openly and proudly supportive of a country that kills their families lol
chat they made something in real life that i swear to god would be a shitpost i could have come up with almost a decade ago and i need people to mail me packs immediately as little gifts. do you know how badly i need 1993 Daphne on a trading card with her lil choker and flower skirt
the only thing to be said about covid lockdowns is that it revealed the startling number of people who feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract that they also do not feel bound by
i'm not arguing about covid lockdowns in 2026 bitch get a hobby. take up collecting coins. and you better do it now bc they stopped making pennies
on the right, "bravery" is when you're willing to be criticized by liberals, even if the position you're taking is fully embraced by the federal government and half the states.
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4d agoSpeaking for the first time since ralliers began assembling in support of her stance against transgender participation in women’s sports, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said this was an opportunity for the WNBA to uphold its values of diversity and inclusion. nyti.ms/4fHr4Qn
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
I want the Supreme Court so packed with new justices they can rule the Insular Cases wrongly decided within a week of being sworn in
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d agoA GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
There is a useful bond market term for what Warsh is about to experience. If you’re a bad counterparty (either dealer aka sell side or customer aka buy side) you get “put in a box”. No information flow, no favors, phone doesn’t get picked up. It’s very funny they’re going to do this to a Chair.
ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 5d agois that good for the chair of the federal reserve?
Good reporting and a sign that Warsh has completely lost his colleagues two meetings in. Temu Greenspan in for a bad couple quarters.
In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, green trampolines make Mario jump so high he goes offscreen for 6 seconds. By extracting his position values from the code, we can "zoom out" the stage and visualize his actual arc, which reveals just how absurdly high the jump is.
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
two words popped into my head and I’m glad to see that it already exists as a canned product
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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These guys are like if the first person to ever notice some people have attached/detached earlobes was like “what if we did a race war because of this”
Playboy@playboy.com · 6d agoWhat are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...
sorry Palmer Luckey, the Anduril N64 is cool and all, but I'm holding out for the Blackwater Game Gear, or maybe the IG Farben Turbografx-16
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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