Jessica

[We Assess and Draw Cats 🐾 @WeAssessCats]

This is the level of unbothered I'm striving for

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The patterns of trigonometry

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

WTF

AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.

The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.

Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.

What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

This is pure cosmic poetry in motion 🌌
The Hirajoshi Wave — a polyrhythmic pendulum where each sphere swings at the exact frequency of the notes in the C Hirajoshi pentatonic scale (C, D, Eb, G, Ab).
Watch the chaos of the rainbow trails… then the perfect realignment.
Music is math you can see and feel. Ancient Japanese scale meets pure physics.
The universe doesn’t just make music — it is music.

[Camsiyo @Camsiyonna1]

She turned a kitchen into a laboratory of courage and reminded the world that change is written into our chemistry.
Lessons in Chemistry🎬

[Wise odd @Wiseoddx]

The trick my grandfather kept for him self for years.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

NASA has released one of the most detailed visualizations ever created of Earth’s ocean currents.

Using data from satellites and advanced ocean models, the map reveals massive rivers of moving water, swirling eddies hundreds of miles wide, and the powerful Gulf Stream carrying warm water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic.

[Natalie @Jeebly_Natalie]

Essential rope knots made easy 🪢

[Past Present Future @Storylinexplore]

What makes this dedication almost unbearable is what happened next.
Lucy Barfield was a dancer and musician.

In her late twenties she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She lived with it for nearly 40 years, eventually unable to move, speak, or feed herself — communicating by blinking.

Lewis had written that one day she would be old enough for fairy tales again, and could take the book down from a shelf and dust it off.
She did return to it.

She just couldn't lift it. In her final years she would lie still while her younger brother read the Narnia books aloud to her, over and over.

She once said the dedication did for her what she could no longer do for herself.

[Tips2Home 🏡 @Tips2Home]

Science experiments

[Bruno Brezenski @bbbrezenski]

Mano, isso sim é levar a sério os detalhes.
O cara fez tudo que tem no corpo humano, detalhe por detalhe.
Surreal.

[World's Amazing Things @Hana_b30]

Canadian photographer Steve Biro captured a remarkable photo of a bald eagle flying with a perfectly symmetrical reflection in the water.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Burger King paused sales of the Whopper in Argentina for one day, encouraging customers to buy Big Macs instead to support children with cancer.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The truth about how a dishwasher works

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The actual photo behind the NBA logo.

An image of Jerry West taken by photographer Wen Roberts in 1969.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The moment Argentina won the 2022 FIFA World Cup—chills every single time. 🇦🇷🏆

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A total solar eclipse will soon cross parts of the Northern Hemisphere. This event marks the first total solar eclipse visible from mainland Europe in 27 years since the one in August 1999.

During the eclipse the Moon will pass directly in front of the Sun casting its shadow across more than 5,100 miles or 8,300 kilometers of the planet. The path will take the shadow over the Arctic region Greenland Iceland northern Spain and the Balearic Islands.

Observers positioned within the narrow corridor of totality will witness the Moon fully obscuring the Sun for as long as two minutes and 18 seconds. This will transform daylight into a brief twilight and allow viewers to see the Suns delicate outer atmosphere known as the corona.

The eclipse begins above remote areas of Arctic Russia then proceeds across the Arctic Ocean Greenland Iceland the Atlantic Ocean and into northern Spain. Spain provides one of the more convenient locations for observation although the event occurs close to sunset. Spectators there will require an unobstructed view toward the western horizon as the Sun sits low in the sky.

Iceland offers a higher position of the Sun during the eclipse but frequent clouds may hinder visibility. Greenland presents opportunities for some of the most extended and striking views yet many prime sites remain highly remote and difficult to reach.

Even those outside the path of totality can experience a partial solar eclipse. In regions such as the United Kingdom Ireland France Portugal and parts of Spain more than 90 percent of the Sun will be obscured. Certain areas of Canada and the northern United States will also see a partial covering though the effect will be less pronounced in most American cities.

August 12 brings additional celestial highlights. Six planets will align visibly across the predawn sky and the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak that night under ideal dark moonless conditions.

Safety remains essential for all observers. Certified solar eclipse glasses must be worn throughout every partial phase of the event. Regular sunglasses fail to offer adequate protection and direct viewing of the Sun without proper filters can cause permanent eye damage.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

The most creative use of a drone yet.

[衝撃bot @minnano_dougaww]

野良猫の生活環境を変えた人たち

凄くないかwwww