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[a marcheron apologist @perfectionline]

*Laughs in 2011 Boston Bruins Stanley Cup win*

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

The backroom "$1 under" deals they sought out so no public oversight could happen.

It didn't happen by accident.

It was planned, because they knew the public wouldn't vote to pay to be surveilled.

Everyone should be pissed about this.

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

We all know you’re aware of these posts and choosing not to say anything btw @Marvel @MarvelStudios

[constans @constans]

So many bad policy decisions occur because policymakers don’t understand 2nd order effects, but this is one of the few situations where they understand EXACTLY what the 2nd order effects are (getting rid of self checkout)

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “There’s an intellectual scientific vacuum that is descending upon the US and that has consequences. If you’re okay with the US losing its scientific leadership, you will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science”

[thartek @Thartek]

@fifamedia @adidasfootball @FIFAWorldCup Show the whole play.

[Matt Kauzlarich @mattkauzlarich]

just sickening that they’re showing the referee this view from Mars when they had the close-up angle that clearly shows the flight or spin of the ball never changes

[Breslingo @shhhbreslin]

A word about the so-called snicko graph that “proved” croatia striker matanovic touched the ball.

Darren Cann (referee decisions commentator on the BBC and, unfortunately for him, one of the least convincing men ever to see a microphone) said he was “100% certain” there was a touch that caused pasalic to be offside.

He based that certainty on “snicko” technology as this proved the touch.

This is what referee and VAR used to rule out the goal.

But even if you think snicko is a good idea (I don’t) there’s a massive problem with the snicko graph.

IT’S DOESN’T LINE UP WITH THE PICTURES!

Snicko shows one spike and we’re asked to believe that was the matanovic touch.

But there are 4 or 5 touches on the ball in a few seconds (the cross - matanovic? - portugal defender veiga - croatia’s pasalic - then gvardiol scoring).

Snicko shows one?

They have to show a graph where all five touches (if there are five) are represented and where the graph spikes line up perfectly with the footage.

That would remove all doubt.

The way it was presented makes no sense and looks corrupt to the core.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Ivory Coast v Norway is the World Cup Round of 32 match that best shows the absurdity of the Mercator Projection.

Despite Norway being shown on most maps as far larger than Ivory Coast, the two countries are actually almost identically sized. Ivory Coast is 322,463 km², and Norway: 323,802 km².

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Brazil v Japan is the World Cup’s only Round of 32 match where one country is literally on the other side of the world from the other.

Parts of Japan point straight through the Earth to Brazil. Okinawa’s antipode* lands near Santa Catarina, Paraná.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

* An antipode is the exact point on Earth diametrically opposite to another location

[thartek @Thartek]

This is heartbreaking...

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE.

Lifted trucks, ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles.

Anywhere they want. On your public lands.

Nixon protected it. Carter protected it. Trump just erased both quietly on a Friday afternoon.

A grizzly bear will abandon its habitat when there's just one mile of road per square mile. One mile. Now there's no limit on where these vehicles can go.

In the Mojave, desert tortoises have already lost 96% of their population in some monitored areas - partly because off-road vehicles crush their burrows. A federal judge just ordered 2,200 miles of trails closed to protect what's left.

Then Trump signed this.

No designated trails. No boundaries. No framework at all. When vehicles go off trail they shatter habitat into pieces too small for wildlife to survive in. They destroy stream banks. They push predators toward humans. And when that happens, the animals always lose.

There was no vote. No public comment. Just a signature.

Now the agencies tasked with writing replacement rules are the BLM, the Forest Service, and the National Park Service - all under an administration that has spent months dismantling every protection they had.

The Interior Department, led by Doug Burgum, is in charge of most of it. The same Doug Burgum who has opened public lands to drilling, mining, and grazing at every turn.

Don't hold your breath.

When the last quiet place is gone, what do we tell the children who never got to hear it?

#DemsUnited

[𝙹𝚊𝚌𝚔💿 @ninphm1989]

@awawawhoami wtf joseph gordon levitt doing here 😭

[thartek @Thartek]

What a baller move!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you.

Thanks to the @NBA, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of @LinkNYC screens across our city.

LGK.

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

This is bullshit. If Social Security is truly in crisis, why did the GOP just blow a massive hole in its funding with the "Big Beautiful Bill"? That law showers the top 1% with an average tax cut of $66,000, over $100,000 for the wealthiest in states like Texas, while the bill's $500 billion price tag adds trillions to the national debt. If they can afford to give billionaires a massive break, they can afford to protect the system we all paid into.

And let's be clear: workers have been paying into Social Security their entire lives. The fund is on solid ground for decades, but if left untreated, it's projected to be depleted by 2032. This would trigger a 22% across-the-board cut to benefits. The solvency date moved up by a year, in part, because Republican policies have accelerated the shortfall.

Now Mike Johnson has been caught on tape saying that entitlement programs "have to be adjusted and fixed" and that Republicans "have a plan to do that next year." His own words.

So here's what's happening: the GOP cut revenue for the rich, worsened Social Security's timeline, and now wants to fix the "problem" they helped create, by slashing the benefits we were promised.

They aren't trying to save the system. They are manufacturing a crisis to justify dismantling it, all while working for the top 1%.

We paid into this. We are not asking for a handout. We are asking for what we earned.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

Global warming is all about the re-weighting of temperature averages across time and space.

The smaller you scale down a temperature timeseries spatio-temporally - in terms of comparing a single day of the year (like, say June 6th), or a single location (like, say Ottawa, Canada), the more variation you'll typically find (and thus the less noticeable the trend).

If you scale up, however, from a single day to a month, or season, or the entire year - and from a single town to a province, country, region, or the world itself - the more likely you are to see a pattern of warming.

Anyway, even the month of June has warmed in Ottawa, Canada, on average.

Man made global warming is real, well documented, scientific fact.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[alien crime lord @user823493247]

genuinely fuck whoever came up w the dumbass idea to replace THE DICTIONARY BUILT INTO GOOGLE with the ai overview's definitions i hope everything in their life fucking sucks

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Dear Microsoft, when I hit the Windows Start menu key and start typing a word to autocomplete a search, I never, ever, EVER want it to return results of something not on my computer. Ever. Like, ever, ever, never.