Kantil Duchess

I am 'Fahrenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury.
Xennial. 3rd wave feminist. Hufflepuff.
I know what the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is.

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

In Serbian "to 'lower' the ball" (spustiti loptu) means to lower tensions, in English "to 'drop' the ball" (ispustiti loptu) means to fail.
The second expression doesn't exist as such in Serbian, but if it did the difference between the two would be just one letter.

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

@larrylemonmaths @hughlaurie @Glinner Because it isn't as funny!

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

@mrstomlinstan @hughlaurie @Glinner If anybody could have/should have got it, it was Graham!
"professional basketball, where 99.9% of the world are, effectively, ‘women’" is as sarcastic as it gets!!!

[Art or Other Things @ArtorOtherThing]

Tiles, Gustav Klimt

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

@T0MB0Y0 @ripx4nutmeg It is the exact same BS argument as with the definition of a woman.

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

@CarolinejGoode @ripx4nutmeg Don't have to be a doctor to tell if somebody's nuts or if somebody is a woman.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Why train wheels are not perfectly cylindrical, but slightly conical instead.

📽: 3d_printer_academy

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

"The injury" is "injection-site pain, fatigue, and headache.... mostly mild to moderate and temporary."
The article he links to is even worse. It claims an FDA briefing "acknowledged the higher rate of serious injury from mFlusiva". No such acknowledgement exists in the brief!

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

It takes 5,000 jabs of Moderna's just-approved mRNA flu vaccine to prevent one more hospitalization compared to a standard flu vaccine, but the new shot causes six times more injuries. @alexberenson first flagged the disparity. https://t.co/iG8BdPdasM

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

Honestly, using AI at this point amounts to complicity.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Kevin O'Leary's newly approved Utah data center will pump out 16 gigawatts of heat. That's roughly one hair dryer running full blast for every household in California, all pointed at a single desert valley, 24 hours a day.

The heat comes from both ends of the operation. The gas turbines powering it waste 7 gigawatts just making the electricity. The chips turn the other 9 into heat too, because a processor converts every watt it draws into warmth. The computation rides out on the exhaust.

A Utah State physics professor named Rob Davies ran the numbers and found nighttime temperatures in the valley could climb as much as 28°F. That's enough to stop dew from forming. In high desert, dew is a water supply. Every plant and animal that drinks the night air loses it permanently.

The project covers the footprint of Washington D.C. It will consume more than double the electricity used by the entire state of Utah, plus an estimated 16.6 billion gallons of water a year, pulled near a Great Salt Lake already at record lows.

And because it generates its own power, it skipped utility review entirely. Approval ran through a military development authority created to protect an Air Force base, which cut the project's property taxes by 80%. The county commissioners voted yes unanimously, after leaving the public meeting for a private room.

[Tree-Nation @treenation]

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy addressed the White House Conference on Conservation with a story that still feels remarkably relevant today.

A gardener warned that a tree wouldn't flower for a hundred years.

The response:
"Then we ought to plant it this afternoon."

More than six decades later, forest restoration remains an act of optimism.

Every tree planted today helps restore biodiversity, protect water resources, rebuild healthy soils, and capture carbon for generations to come.

The best time to plant that future is still this afternoon.
→ https://t.co/FTFA3fbKkU

Source: Remarks at the White House Conference on Conservation, May 25, 1962. White House Audio Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
#natureconservation #johnfkennedy #reforestation

[Ali Al Hussein @AliBinAlHussein]

Thank you to the FIFA administration for suddenly this morning delivering what was owed to our players and coaching staff, for the Jordan National team’s accession to the final of the FIFA Arab Cup in Qatar last December.
This was funding that should have been received 8 months ago.
While this is a good development for our players, it does not change the serious concerns we in the football world have regarding the FIFA leadership, nor does it change what our FAs have been subjected to in the past.
It is symptomatic of those exact difficulties that we all face, and that are usually linked to the FIFA presidential elections. And it does not change my clear position concerning the leadership of FIFA: my FA and I will not endorse president Infantino, nor will we vote for him.

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

Fully agree.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

this is what you guys look like in this shoe color

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Eva Krbdk, contemporary Turkish #tattoo artist known for her highly skilled intricate work, including iconic artworks #WomensArt #Friday

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

@aakashgupta So that is why my tattoo itches every now and again!

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: UEFA boycott of FIFA tournaments still stands 🚨

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

Croatian mother. Serbian father. What Yugoslavia was supposed to be.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

DeMar DeRozan explains how Gregg Popovich treated basketball as almost the least important part of coaching

“There used to be days… We’d come in there thinking we had practice… But Coach Pop would show us Something going on in a third-world country… With 13-year-old kids being trained… To be killers with AK-47s.”

“He would say, we get to come here… and shoot a basketball… Make millions of dollars… Take care of your kids.”

“He used to do a lot of things… To put stuff in perspective all the time. That’s genuinely who he was… At all times.”

“It was always basketball last. You as a man first. Family, everything else before basketball.”

“He would tell us, this basketball stuff ain’t nothing. F— wins and losses. F— championships. What’s really important is: How are you doing? How’s your family? How are your kids?”

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is around the corner.

[Naomi Bashkansky @NaomiBashkansky]

Two weeks ago, I resigned from OpenAI to join Conduit as a founding researcher, where we're training models to non-invasively read the human mind.

I've written some thoughts about what telepathy could look like by 2035 and how to get there:

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

@Radio021 Lajkovi na ovakve vesti su zahvalnost na informisanju.
Ne znam kome se pravdam, ali imala sam potrebu da kažem.

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

OMG, will I be able to play Guitar Hero again?!

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

The next Xbox console will reportedly support all five generations of Xbox games, per a leaked memo

It also reveals Microsoft's pitch to publishers to bring classic titles back

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

@Radio021 Ljudi, uozbiljite se.
Ukida prava neistomišljenicima, ne svim ruskim državljanima koji su se iselili u inostranstvo.
Za sada.

[Kantil Duchess @Gdjica]

If you were wondering what was powering manosphere, this is it.
Few wealthy men are cutting costs while at the same time covering it with right wing talk about DEI.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

American men held 7 million more jobs than women in the early 1990s. That gap is now zero, and the data on how it closed is grim.

Male labor force participation was 86.7% when tracking began in 1948. Today it sits at 67.2%, which means roughly 1 in 3 American men is neither working nor looking for work. That is the lowest level on record outside the pandemic.

The last 12 months compress the whole story. Jobs held by women grew by 298,000. Jobs held by men shrank by 142,000. Of the 1.2 million jobs the US added over the past two years, two-thirds went to women.

The mechanism is sector arithmetic. Healthcare and social assistance are carrying nearly all US job growth, and those fields skew heavily female. Manufacturing, construction, and transportation, the sectors that absorbed mid-skill men for a century, are flat or shrinking. The economy is still creating jobs. It has nearly stopped creating the kind men traditionally take.

This crossover happened twice before, during the Great Recession and right before Covid. Both times it reversed, because recessions hit male-heavy industries first and hiring snaps back. A former Richmond Fed economist who ran the current numbers says this time there is no recession driving it, which means there may be nothing to snap back from.

The fastest-growing work in America is caring for people. The fastest-shrinking work is making things. Every stay-at-home boyfriend is downstream of that trade.