Jesse Wolfhagen

Namibia: Live stream in the Namib Desertwww.youtube.com YouTube video by NamibiaCam

Oh no I have started watching this and now I am obsessed. The sound is amazing — hoofsteps and zebras snorting and the sound of jackals lapping up water. Even the (subscriber-only) comment stream is wholesome

someone posted this earlier and it's AMAZING Live cam of a watering hole at a reserve in Nambia. I've watched zebras, wart hogs, oryx and other critters It's really active right now www.youtube.com/live/ydYDqZQ...

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Happy 88th birthday to Margaret Hamilton, depicted here next to the software she developed together with her team in order to put humans on the Moon

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‘Failure of Roman engineering on industrial scale’: discovery of water wells in England proves trial and errorwww.theguardian.com ‘Astonishingly preserved’ remains in Cambridgeshire give clues to substantial Romano-British industrial settlement

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Men On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown | Defectordefector.com “Tim Walz is not trans,” the reactionary influencer Christopher Rufo tweeted on Tuesday. “But he knows about cross-sex hormones. He’s familiar with breast binders. He has a soft spot for tucking.” Ruf...

Just a phenomenal piece by @davidjroth.bsky.social here: defector.com/men-on-the-v...

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What motivated the rioters? From Tommy Robinson to Facebook groupswww.thetimes.com The Times has sat in court, spoken to defendants’ families and trawled through social media to find out why they joined the riots

Times’ trawl of defendants’ social media shows the insidious role Farage, Tice and the Reform party played in helping to stir up racist rioters. www.thetimes.com/article/8e14...

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Transvestigating (with Contrapoints)www.youtube.com YouTube video by matt bernstein

This video is by far the best discussion I've seen about the horrific bullying campaign against Imane Khelif, a boxer who was "transvestigated" by monsters like JK Rowling, JD Vance and Elon Musk. They drive home a point everyone needs to get: No one is safe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yicz...

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Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wildwww.science.org

Last spring, Washington state passed a bill banning commercial octopus farming. Today, we (myself and 99 others, led by Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Walter Sanchez-Suarez) have a letter in Science supporting the US OCTOPUS Act, which would do the same nationwide.

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The Judgment Of Magneto | Defectordefector.com Somewhere beyond death, in a realm of judgment and pain, a concrete labyrinth filled by countless names, a man walks. He is Jewish, and has been made hard and cruel by his experiences in the Nazi deat...

Asher Elbein

I'm remain very proud of this piece, and it only exists in the shape that it does because @defector.bsky.social (and particularly, @davidjroth.bsky.social) was open to giving it the time and space it needed to really breathe.

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Sasse stepped down. Donors and top officials say he was forced out. - The Independent Florida Alligatorwww.alligator.org Former UF President Ben Sasse stepped down unexpectedly in July, citing concerns about his wife’s health. But nine current and former administrators and top donors say there was more to the story.&nbs...

This is a corner of anthropometric design failure I didn’t know about. Might have to talk about it in Human Factors this term.

The hidden sexism of much of the puppetry world is built around the fact that Jim Henson was 6'2". Sets were literally built to him. So puppeteers who were 6' didn't have to compensate during auditions and did better. Martin P. Robinson, Muppeteer, built the original Audrey IIs.

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Y'all I knew there was more to this! Student newspapers are integral to transparency. www.alligator.org/article/2024...

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Big online reactionaries having a flipping-out contest over Tim Walz not liking spicy food underlines something I tried to get at in this post, which is that the economics of their politics, even at the elected level, is pure Content Creator Shit. They can never do less. defector.com/men-on-the-v...

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Opinion | Trump Is No Longer Even Pretending to Champion the Working Classwww.nytimes.com He’s always longed for the approval of oligarchs.

gift link here www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/o...

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The thing is, once somebody proposes restricting the freedom of women to travel from one state to another, we actually don’t have to care about their ideas about marginal tax brackets or international trade or whatever

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The Miami Herald today puts a story about former UF president Ben Sasse's spending written by a student journalist from UF on its front page. Not a rewrite by a staffer, but the work the Alligator first published. Excellent recognition of powerful student journalism:

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'ESPN Bet' Is A Black Hole | Defectordefector.com Like an anglerfish lighting its lure, ESPN is attempting to use the shiny bauble of its broadcast rights and import within the sports media world to tempt people onto its gambling platform. The Worldw...

A great piece on how ESPN is "sliding its audience inexorably toward gambling on their phones." defector.com/espn-bet-is-...

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listen up uterus mules, I’m here to tell you what’s normal

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The heterodoxy: are ‘free thinkers’ like Joe Rogan driving young men to the right – or just confusing them?www.theguardian.com Brash, charismatic figures from Russell Brand to Sneako have seduced a disillusioned demographic. Will they turn to Donald Trump in November?

I wrote a new one for The Guardian: “Heterodox” thinkers have gotten both more right wing and more cynical and conspiratorial about the political system. Will the young men following them in droves vote Republican or just stay home? www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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darth™️

Darth 40/40 has only happened five times. Nobody has ever gone 45/45, let alone 50/50. Canseco 42/40 in ‘88 Bonds 42/40 in ‘96 A-Rod 42/46 in ‘98 Alfonso Soriano 46/41 in 06 Acuña 41/73 in ‘23

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one reason i’d like to see an unapologetically pro-union civil war epic is that i think modern audiences still have a hard time with the idea that people could have genuinely hated slavery even if they weren’t racial egalitarians

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a big loss for the incompetent moron community but we will persevere

NEW: Minouche Shafik, president of Columbia University, resigns

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would love to see a civil war movie that centered around the experiences of northern soldiers as they got their first real glance at slavery in practice and came away from it fanatical abolitionists

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it is a testament to the crushing propaganda victory of confederate apologists in the early 20th century that we have exactly one civil war epic that takes the union’s view of the conflict

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26 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

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that the highest value a given piece of land could have is car storage is just a pervasive attitude among the people who govern cities

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FAQ: Should I invent an acronym?www.molecularecologist.com “Moveable type” (Flickr, David DeSandro) Q. I’m writing a research article, and the text frequently mentions the biological process that is the subject of the article. I’m a…

One of those blog posts in which I spin out the argument I have in my head while reviewing papers FAQ: Should I invent an acronym? www.molecularecologist.com/2024/08/13/f...

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Carl T. Bergstrom

Not only does it produce bullshit, it produces convincing bullshit that will fool anyone except a domain expert. Moreover, the authors note, future versions may produce bullshit that fools even domain experts.

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I may be mistaken but I have a funny feeling that many of the same people who love invoking the Sokal affair to poke fun at humanities somehow do also unquestioningly endorse the automated bullshit generating machine 🤔 It's almost as if it wasn't about bullshit in the first place, huh.

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Taylorism is a management philosophy based on using scientific optimization to maximize labor productivity and economic efficiency. Here's the result of making the false Taylorist assumption that the output of scientific research is scientific papers—the more, faster, and cheaper, the better.

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