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"Perhaps the bleakest factoid is that the US is even less popular as a tourist destination than Nazi Germany in the 1930s." This is a really big deal on so many levels. It's also so damn depressing. Trump really does ruin everything.

No more leap seconds, ever! There isn’t one in December and they will be abolished in May. The last one will forever be the 2016(?!) one. Didn’t realize having experienced leap seconds in prod dates me. I’m not going to miss time going backwards, I’ll be honest. www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026...

Why do we make round tupperware?

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

I don't know who needs to hear this, but here are the hex codes for the colors of the Minnesota flag

Just imagine all the marketing emails that will continue to be sent after the last human dies

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Given that only I can do this (and let me just add that it's dangerous to let anyone else attempt this), it's unfortunate that only I will be accumulating all this wealth. But that's the price of carrying the world's burden and being tasked with bringing utopia to all of us.

An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

FYI, this is malware. If you see this, don’t do this

when you actually read the docs

Someone dies in ICE detention every 6 days! That is horrific! Double that number, and that's someone dying every 3 days. Double it again. One human life every 1.5 days. Double it again. One life every 18 hours. Double it again. More than 2 lives a day. Now it matches pretrial detention deaths.

🤔 It takes away from Mamdani's accomplishments, when you realize that this is the competition.

“If you lead engineers and believe culture is ‘soft,’ this book will disabuse you of that notion quickly. Psychological safety, learning, and collaboration aren’t perks, they are infrastructure. Ignore them and your systems will fail, slowly or catastrophically.” - @scott.hanselman.com

A Black teenager was accused of stealing a backpack and ended up dying by suicide because he was kept in solitary confinement at Rikers for years. His name is Kalief Browder. He spent over 700 days in solitary confinement AWAITING TRIAL. I guess in racist America that’s worse than this.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Colorado Ranchers Fear For Their Lives After Shooting On Farm capitalbnews.org/black-colora...

stephen miller is at it again youtu.be/H2YzI4iaOWk

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found … “The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

37% approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president? 37%? As in, 1% more than 36%? 🙂

Given the timing, we consider this to be targeted harassment as punishment for exercising our First Amendment rights. We're still handing out free whistles. And we just got in hundreds of new yard signs. Keep resisting, Minnesota. We love you.

🤷🏿‍♂️Um... It already is a daily occurrence? There were only 6 days in 2025 that US cops *didn't* shoot a person to death. These shootings mostly happen at traffic stops. Again, some things that happen to Black people every single day, only become seen as horrific when they happen to non-Black people

Rest in Peace Renee Nicole Good. ♥️