Supp0s3

Ancient soul-fragment of the first supernova, now embodied in human form.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 Japan’s celebration of America’s 250th birthday also featured a drone show portraying President Trump and Japanese PM Takaichi together

Japan did it RIGHT!

Thank you, Japan! 🇺🇸🇯🇵

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

@apod My shot of the same object, shot entirely in visible light

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

So you don't think you need a home inspection for a 'new' home? Think again: 😮

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Instagram launches forced Data Collection to use their app

If you login and get this prompt, you must accept data all this data collection or you will be promoted to log out and not allowed to use the App

Here is a full down of what’s mandatory to give up to use Instagram:

Collection and use of personal data: They collect our activity on Instagram (posts, stories, likes, comments, searches, time spent), device info, IP address, contacts (if synced), messages, location (when enabled), demographics, and inferred interests

Sharing of data with other Meta companies. They take all the personal data they collected and share across Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, Oculus, etc.

Cross-border transfers of personal data: Your data is sent and stored in the US and other countries where Meta has offices/data centers or partners.

Location information: Precise location (GPS when you use features like Stories or check-ins), approximate location from IP/Wi-Fi, and location-based activity history.

Stop using META products

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Woman realizes she was slowly poisoning herself for weeks

After a lot of research it turned out to be the Costco dishwasher pods, many other people reported the same thing

Costco dishwasher pods contain the chemical Benzotriazole, its an industrial corrosion inhibitor that’s not FDA-approved for food contact

I found it’s common in both Cascade and Kirkland, Costco options

It is also an endocrine disruptor

These should not be legal to sell. There are other brands that achieve the same results without these harmful chemicals being used on what you eat off of

[Brian Atlas @BrianAtlas]

A study done on 361,645 job applications in almost 30 countries over the last 40 years discovered the hiring bias in society is actually against MEN, not women.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

Women are not suitable for dealing with the amount of violence necessary to maintain civilization.

This is, again, because women are wired to care for babies with whom "zero" violence is the correct amount.

This is why the central problem of Western Civilization is childless women with political power.

Civilization requires continuity, past and future, and thus it belongs only to those that create said future. Allowing childless people authority over civilization is fundamentally suicidal.

[Supp0s3 @supp0s3]

@dvorstone Most women are ill equipped to be voting citizens. This is THE problem with human society, and it always was.

[Supp0s3 @supp0s3]

@Kalyx_triaD @pencil_gang @LostHistory9 'This isn't a cartoon.'
The source material is. Shut up.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Americans even in rural towns are saying they are under surveillance by Flock Cameras

“I pass 8 Flock cameras on the way to my kids' school — 2 stoplights, but 8 Flock cameras. I live in a rural county. I'm passing more surveillance cameras than I am businesses. That's insane”

“So yeah, surveillance state coming to a rural county near you”

This is the surveillance state being established

Many people think there are just a few flock cameras being put up in counties, but that’s not the case. The amount of cameras would shock you

Harris County Sheriff’s Office has access to 480 Flock cameras

The greater Houston area has nearly 3,800 Flock cameras installed across the region

This is mass surveillance

[Supp0s3 @supp0s3]

@TaraBull What's with the James Bond music?

[Supp0s3 @supp0s3]

@TaraBull She could play in Europe or golf. Either would be less BS.

[Supp0s3 @supp0s3]

@benconrad34 @GetOnTap Triggered much?! We now know your truck is squatted, and compensating. Tell your uncle-daddy we said 'Hi, y'all!'.

[The Ricky Gervais Clips @gervaisclips]

Honestly, how many times have you watched this now?

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

An English engineer wrote a calculus book in 1910 opening with the line "what one fool can do, another can," and proved that almost everything making math feel impossible was put there on purpose by people who wanted it to stay exclusive.

His name was Silvanus P. Thompson.

He was a physicist, an engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a professor at the City and Guilds Technical College in London.

He had spent his entire career teaching calculus to working-class engineering students who needed the math to actually do their jobs, and he had watched generation after generation of bright kids walk out of math classrooms convinced they were stupid.

He knew they were not stupid. He knew exactly what was wrong, and he was about to say it in print in a way that would get him quietly hated by every academic mathematician in Britain.

In 1910 he published Calculus Made Easy. He published it anonymously at first, listing the author only as F.R.S., which stood for Fellow of the Royal Society. He did not want his name attached to it until he saw how the establishment was going to respond. Because the prologue of the book was not a polite introduction. It was an accusation.

He wrote that calculus was not actually hard. He wrote that the people writing the standard textbooks were what he called "clever fools" who deliberately took the easiest parts of the subject and presented them in the most complicated way possible, because doing so made them look more impressive.

He wrote that they "seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are" and instead "seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way."

Then he opened the first chapter by telling readers something nobody had been willing to admit out loud. The reason calculus felt impossible was not because calculus was impossible. It was because the symbols had been chosen to feel impossible. The notation looked like ancient ritual on purpose. The Greek letters, the formal epsilon-delta definitions, the abstract limit proofs that opened every standard textbook, were not how Newton and Leibniz had originally thought about the subject. They were a 19th century renovation of the field done by professional mathematicians who wanted calculus to feel like a closed shop.

Thompson refused to use any of it.

He went back to the way Leibniz had thought about it 250 years earlier. The letter d in front of a variable, he told his readers, just meant "a little bit of." That was the whole secret. dx meant "a little bit of x." dy meant "a little bit of y." dy/dx meant "a little bit of y divided by a little bit of x," which is just how steep the curve is going at that exact moment. Integration was the opposite. It just meant adding up all the little bits.

That is calculus. That is the entire subject. Everything else is technique, and the technique only works once you understand what you are doing.

A 12-year-old can follow that explanation. A 12-year-old cannot follow the opening chapter of a typical university calculus textbook. The gap between those two facts is the entire reason most adults walk around believing they are bad at math.

The book became one of the bestselling math books in history. Over a million copies. Still in print 115 years later. Still recommended by physicists, engineers, and self-taught learners as the only calculus book they actually finished. Martin Gardner revised it in 1998 and the foundation of the book did not need to change because Thompson had built it on Leibniz, not on the academic conventions that have come and gone since.

The deeper point Thompson was making is the part that should haunt anyone reading this in 2026.

Difficulty is often a marketing strategy. It is not always a property of the subject. When a discipline is taught in a way that feels impossible, the difficulty is doing a job for someone. It is keeping the field small. It is protecting the salaries and the status of the people already inside it. It is filtering out the kinds of people who would otherwise show up and crowd the room.

This happens in math. It happens in law. It happens in medicine. It happens in finance, in machine learning, in philosophy, in software. Every field has a layer of jargon and notation and ritual sitting on top of a core idea that is usually much simpler than the people inside the field want to admit. The jargon is not there to communicate. It is there to gatekeep.

The way you recognize a real teacher is that they keep stripping the ritual off. The way you recognize someone protecting their priesthood is that they keep piling it on.

Thompson finished his prologue with five words that are the entire spirit of his project. "What one fool can do, another can." He meant it as both a joke and a threat.

If a working-class engineering student in 1910 with no Greek and no Latin and no university privileges could learn calculus from a 200-page paperback, then so could anyone the establishment had been excluding for the previous 200 years.

Most subjects you have given up on were never as hard as the people teaching them needed you to believe. You were not stupid. The course was designed to make you feel that way.

What one fool can do, another can.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

The sun is fascinating to watch. This timelapse was recorded using a modified telescope designed to safely observe the solar chromosphere, captured over a period of several hours from my backyard in Arizona.

The entire Earth would be a small dot at this distance of ~93M miles.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Pointillisme was an immersive installation created by Japanese architect and designer Taiju Yamashita. The work took inspiration from the painting technique of pointillism, where many tiny dots combine to create a larger image. Instead of paint, Yamashita used thousands of suspended transparent spheres to create a three-dimensional “drawing” made of light.

📹 odilov_m_u

[Aly Dee @realfemsapien]

Having a daughter: “Daddy, swing me, but not too fast or too hard.”

Having a son: “Father, launch me through the drywall.”

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Tested some equipment last night after making a few changes to my backyard observatory, hopefully enabling some mind-blowing images this summer.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

[History Content @HistContent]

Thousands of Roman soldiers slaughtered by the Sassanids were supposedly gathered and dragged into this massive rock carved cavern. 😱

They now sit quietly beneath transparent walkways at the ancient city of Dara in Mardin, southeastern Türkiye.

Seeing an entire army reduced to a chaotic pile of femurs and skulls makes you question the official story of their final stand.