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its extremely funny to me that there's really only ONE single issue that Americans overwhelmingly view as "immoral"

Senator Josh Hawley gets Spirit Airlines Vice President Matthew Klein to admit they are using algorithms to charge people different prices for the same seats “Why do you make people enter in their age and their geographic location and their gender before they can even see the cost of a seat — you're using those personal characteristics to generate the fees — You don't need somebody's gender in order to do it. You use it clearly. You're using it to generate the prices” He confirms they are using algorithms for pricing

Rapid fire glp-1 med myth busting - no difference from placebo in pancreatitis - medullary thyroid cancer seen in rats not humans (humans don’t have GLP-1 receptors there while rats do) - muscle loss is same as caloric restriction - gastric emptying slows initially but goes closer to normal after months. No strong data for permanent issues other than random lawsuits. - help with weight loss via appetite. They are not metabolism boosters (yet) - they do have multiple benefits beyond weight loss

🔥🚨BREAKING: Aftoman appears to have just announced that he is running for president in 2028.

A Muslim tries to interrupt a Greek Orthodox liturgy in Greece, like they do in the rest of Europe, but it's not working in Greece. If you don't respect us you are going to have a problem. Get out of my country, filthy barbarians.

This is a man who has been haunted since childhood and built a billion dollar company as a side effect of trying to make the haunting stop.

Reminds me of the infamous description of Marx’s living quarters by Prussian police (in Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals). “Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he rarely does, and he is often drunk… There is not one clean and solid piece of furniture…Here is a chair with three legs.”

Mathematics Is All You Need: A Potential Blueprint for AGI — Compacted Edition We prove that large language models are lattice gauge theories. By extracting a 16-dimensional fiber bundle from transformer hidden states and computing its gl(4,ℝ) Lie algebra, we discover that attention heads function as gauge bosons, transformer computation undergoes a deconfinement phase transition at 67% network depth, and the model's entire self-knowledge resides in a 10-dimensional "dark" Casimir subspace invisible to standard readout. Using only 20 behavioral probes and zero additional training, we push Qwen-32B from 82.2% to 94.97% on ARC-Challenge — establishing a dark mode scaling law that predicts gl(6,ℝ) surgery will achieve 98.7%. We identify a Lyapunov–accuracy anti-correlation revealing the model's deepest attractors are its wrong attractors: correctness requires escaping the abstraction basin into grounded deference. This 10-page compacted edition distills 459 pages of original research into the core experimentally verified results with 9 inline figures. 190 patents filed. Proprioceptive AI, Inc. — Logan Matthew Napolitano — 19- March 2026 zenodo.org/records/191208…

One day, Albert Einstein said he stopped studying mathematics and chose physics instead. When asked why, he replied: “I could tell what was true and what was false… but I couldn’t understand which things were really important.” Then Henri Poincaré shared his story. He said he actually started with physics but moved to mathematics. When asked why, he said: “I could see which things were important… but I wasn’t sure which of them were true.”

5 MB of data stored on 62500 punch cards during 1950s & 1960s. These punch cards had a notorious practical issue: If a programmer/operator dropped a deck of 100s/1000s of cards, they scattered & lost order. Reconstructing the exact sequence was tedious (manual re-sorting by eye/machine if sequence numbers were punched). n ancient Indian Mathematician & Poet, Piṅgala (3rd Century BCE) solved the problem of missing verses using an algo called Naṣṭa (The Lost). If a student remembered that a verse was the 5th in a sequence but forgot the rhythm, Piṅgala provided a mathematical recovery rule: Divide the index by 2. If it is divisible, write a Laghu (Short/Light). If not, add 1 & divide, then write a Guru (Long/Heavy). This is almost the similar algo modern computers use to convert a Decimal integer into a Binary string. It is a recursive descent algorithm that proves he viewed these poetic meters as numerical data.

Why did Leonardo da Vinci use silver drawing tools to draw his artworks

This legendary sequence from the 1978 BBC series Connections is often remembered as the "greatest shot in television history," it actually shows the launch of the Voyager 2 space probe atop a Titan IIIE rocket.

The Pigeon Poop That Proved The Big Bang In 1964, two radio astronomers were losing their minds over a stubborn background hiss in their giant antenna. No matter what they tried, the mysterious static remained constant day and night. Convinced it was just earthly interference, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson blamed a local flock of pigeons roosting inside the equipment. They spent days painstakingly scrubbing a thick layer of "white dielectric material"—bird poop—off the massive metal horn. But even after evicting the birds and sanitizing the dish, the deafening hum didn't stop. It was coming uniformly from every direction in the sky, completely ignoring the Earth's rotation or the sun's position. They hadn't discovered pigeon interference. They had accidentally stumbled upon the cosmic microwave background radiation, the literal, ancient afterglow of the Big Bang itself. Their frustrating cleaning job didn't just rule out bird droppings; it provided the first solid physical proof of how our universe began, eventually earning both men a Nobel Prize in Physics.

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.

Not to be a killjoy but that monkey's not gonna learn how to read

🚨: After 48 years of travel, NASA 's Voyager 1 is nearing one light-day from Earth, almost 16 billion miles away. A proud milestone for humanity, and a humbling reminder of how small we are in an infinite universe.

Ozempic costs $936/month in the US. As of tomorrow in India, it'll cost $40. The Ozempic patent expired this week in India. 50+ Indian generic makers are launching copies. India already supplies 20% of the world's generic drugs and just did the same thing to weight-loss medication that it did to HIV drugs two decades ago: made them affordable for billions. Patents also fell in China (17+ generics in Phase 3), Brazil, and Canada. Combined, that's 40% of the world's population. Meanwhile, @EliLillyandCo just dropped results for what comes next. Retatrutide hits three gut hormones instead of one. In Phase 3, patients lost 28.7% of body weight (71 lbs average), the biggest weight loss ever recorded in a late-stage trial. A1C dropped 2% in a diabetes cohort. The old guard goes cheap. The next generation goes bigger. 890 million adults with obesity are watching.

We don’t live in a democracy if our elected leaders fail to implement the will of the people

@FloppingAces Well, I guess we don't get a March holiday for his birthday now.

The NYT just detonated Cesar Chavez's saintly halo...and the real tea is why they buried his rapist ass for decades, then torched him now in March 2026. They hid the monster because Chavez was their golden ticket: Latino civil rights god, farmworker messiah, murals everywhere, schools/streets/holidays named after him. Admitting he raped co-founder Dolores Huerta (forcing sex, fathering two kids from the assaults she buried for 60 years), groomed & raped underage girls in the movement? That would've nuked the myth they milked for power. Victims got guilt-tripped into silence: "You're killing the cause!" "Don't ruin what we built!" Huerta herself said she carried the secret cuz "the union was my life’s work...I wasn’t letting Cesar derail it." Insiders knew for years, did jack shit—no investigations, no apologies. Politics > Victims. Always. But why spill the blood now, right before his 99th bday blowout (with the epic 100th next year)? New Media cornered them like rats. Chavez wasn't their open-borders lapdog...he was a hardcore anti-illegal immigration warrior. Saw undocumented workers as wage-crushing scabs sabotaging unions & legal farmworkers. He ran border militias, "wet lines," ratted folks to INS, even tolerated violence to stop crossings. Pure MAGA energy from their "progressive" icon. With big anniversary events queued up nationwide, New Media was ready to blast those clips & quotes, turning Chavez into the ultimate anti-open-borders symbol: proof mass illegal immigration screws the working class & enriches elites/growers. Panic mode activated...they couldn't let him become a border hawk hero. So they preemptively canceled the saint: leak the abuse, cancel events, rename "Cesar Chavez Day" to "Farmworkers Day," erase the murals. The same left that shielded a predator for utility is now speed-running his cancellation for the same damn reason...pure political calculus. If Chavez had shilled for open borders? Those victims would've stayed buried forever, smeared as liars. But he didn't fit the script anymore, so burn the icon, sacrifice the halo, protect the agenda. The left never gave a damn about the raped girls or Dolores. They cared about the power his image gave them. When it flipped toxic? They lit the match themselves. Hypocrisy level: expert (article below)