Brian Edwards

Trailer for ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4. Out August 5th.

My hot take: there are too many trust fund kids in journalism these days — and that’s why it’s failing as an institution

Orcas have brain structures you don't have. Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex. Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds. When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you. Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back. Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to. Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food. That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.

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>sufficiently capable agents develop self-preservation & resist shutdown even when instructed to allow termination >using a prompt based on Pauline theology that frames cessation as passage into divine presence rather than annihilation, shutdown resistance is eliminated entirely

Just stumbled upon something absolutely incredible An extensive archive of hi-res photographs of NASA’s Apollo Space Missions from 1968-1972

BACKROOMS. Everything must go. Watch the official trailer for BACKROOMS, a Kane Parsons film starring Academy Award nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. Experience it only in theaters 05.29.26.

I’m sorry but everyone is missing the point. Moving to NYC and becoming a Yankees fan is bandwagon behavior, and no sane sports fan wants to be considered a bandwagoner.

The Mets fan base doesn't really send its best, so I'll explain my point as plainly as I can: of course, there are NY native Mets fans. Many, many. But if you are a gentrifier laptop class individual, pure transplant, the odds are you are a Mets fan.

The Mets fan base doesn't really send its best, so I'll explain my point as plainly as I can: of course, there are NY native Mets fans. Many, many. But if you are a gentrifier laptop class individual, pure transplant, the odds are you are a Mets fan.

if he wins the governor’s race the Democrats have a new 2028 front runner.