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When you finish this post, just scroll up to the pic real quick and scroll back down and lemmie know what you think.

“Hello, Newman.”

After reading the piece and seeing no explanation for why Farrell would be so angry, I found this quote from his wife about what happened:

“He felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band,” Etty wrote in her post. “Perry had been suffering from tinnitus and a sore throat every night. But when the audience in the first row, started complaining up to Perry cussing at him that the band was planning too loud and that they couldn’t hear him, Perry lost it.”

DNA from three people: the two biological parents plus a third person who supplies healthy mitochondrial DNA. The babies were born to mothers who carry genes for mitochondrial diseases and risked passing on severe disorders. The eight babies are healthy, say the researchers behind the trial.

That’s gonna mess up how we trace ancestry.

When we mean the bad ones, it’d be, “My nightmare has come true.”

… seems like every news story evokes that thought these days.

Wait. Yesterday the OP, @Skavau@piefed.social, posted this that says Bluey topped Nielson with 25 billion minutes:

Six out of the top 20 most-streamed titles from January through June fell into the animation category (No. 1 “Bluey,” No. 4 “Family Guy,” No. 5 “Bob’s Burgers,” No. 6 “SpongeBob SquarePants,” No. 12 “American Dad!” and No. 20 “South Park”).

“Grey’s Anatomy” came in at No. 2 overall with more than 22 billion minutes streamed across 449 episodes on Hulu and Netflix, while “NCIS” topped 19 billion minutes across 488 episodes on Paramount+, Hulu and Netflix and charted at No. 3 overall.

A number of series with smaller libraries of episodes punched above their weight on the overall list.

“Squid Game” on Netflix accrued more than 15 billion viewing minutes across just 22 total episodes, securing the No. 9 spot overall and No. 1 among original series.

… so even though the Forbes article doesn’t SAY it, perhaps Forbes is only counting streaming-only original series rather than streaming-and-broadcast?

Yes. Looking at Hollywood Reporter, we have more lists that explain the breakdown of Original Series versus Overall. They also list Acquired Series and Movies. Overall:

Bonus! Here’s the most recent 35 day I found – from Variety:

• 1. Squid Game (Netflix) 27.1 million
• 2. Adolescence (Netflix) 19.0 million
• 3. Reacher (Amazon Prime) 18.1 million
• 4. Tracker (CBS) 17.5 million
• 5. Matlock (CBS) 16.1 million
• tie High Potential (ABC) 16.1 million
• 7. Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story (Netflix) 15.7 million
• tie Zero Day (Netflix) 15.7 million
• 9. Nobody Wants This (Netflix) 15.2 million
• 10. Landman (Paramount+) 15.0 million
• 11. The Night Agent (Netflix) 14.8 million
• 12. American Primeval (Netflix) 13.8 million
• 13. Running Point (Netflix) 13.1 million
• 14. A Man on the Inside (Netflix) 12.4 million
• 15. Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage (CBS) 12.1 million
• tie Ghosts (CBS) 12.1 million
• 17. Will Trent (ABC) 11.6 million
• 18. Elsbeth (CBS) 11.5 million
• tie Watson (CBS) 11.5 million
• tie 1923 (Paramount+) 11.5 million
• tie Ms. Rachel (Netflix/YouTube) 11.5 million

Source: Nielsen panel-only P2+ prime AA, Live+35, 9/15/24-3/15/25 +Nielsen SCR, 35 Day Total Flight for streaming. Excludes sports, specials and repeat programs Note: Regularly scheduled programs with fewer than four episodes in a completed season are not included in this program ranking.

I guess I just can’t hear “literacy gains” as anything but a postivie regardless of source; even (if not especially) if it is an ‘enemy’ population.

I am not confident I or most other Americans can always tell what is misinformation. A recent bout of AI generated ‘Am I the A-hole?’ post on reddit recently got a bunch of people angry (Meta would say, ‘highly engaged’) because enough of them though the stories might be true.

When the Fukishima power plant got hit by a tidal wave, I foolishly believed an ‘expert’ on TV that day who said the plant was designed so that lead shielding hoods would automatically cover the rods in the event of power loss. Well THAT didn’t happen. I no longer remember who the ‘expert’ was, so he could fool me again. Maybe he has.

I, too, know the trend of criminal U.S. administrations to tell the other side to tone it down and just go with the President. The current administration makes me more outraged than post-9/11 when we knew the hijackers were Saudis, we knew bin Laden was around Afghanistan/Pakistan, and we had a team of Nuclear inspectors WITHIN Iraq saying they’d found no evidence of such weapons, yet a few days before their official report was finished, Bush declares war on Iraq? With no exit strategy? When Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11?

Rather than suggesting we all calm down, or that true patriots back the President, I’m simply seeing the article’s point in asking people to stop following the top, say, 2% most divisive voices. It is a sad truth that the worst liars will get their followers to disbelieve Dr. Fauci such that he becomes divisive through no fault of his own, but he won’t hit the critical ‘worst’ list because he’s not spouting vitriol of his own.

As far as Bernie goes, there were a good number of Bernie backers at Trump rallies, so I honestly doubt that anyone but moneyed think tanks have much bad to say about him.

I agree that as categories, the are different things, just as ‘tools’ are not the same as ‘weapons’, but ignoring the perncious overlap borders on criminal. If you follow actual news sites and reporters but omit the likes of Musk, you will still see Musk quoted, but it is more likely to be properly discredited where needed. At no point does the article suggest you avoid all partisan content, it simply says the most divisive is likely to hurt us all. You know the platforms profit from engagement, so they’ll promote the worst offenders’ content upward, but we don’t have to take that bait.

The accounts with the MOST divisive political content are unlikely to be your best source of information. You might hate Rachel Maddow or Charlie Kirk, but you’'ll be better off getting news from a generic MSNBC or FOX feed than either personality. Better still, pick BBC, Reuters, and AlJazeera to see a variety of views.

A reverse example of context: Project 2025 never explicitly says anything about IVF, but it repeatedly talks about human life “from conception to natural death”, which would mean IVF would be problematic. If you try quoting just the last sentence in this chunk, ‘day one’ might be interpreted as birth, but in context, ‘day one’ is obviously conception:

From the moment of conception, every human being possesses inherent dignity and worth, and our humanity does not depend on our age, stage of development, race, or abilities. The Secretary must ensure that all HHS programs and activities are rooted in a deep respect for innocent human life from day one until natural death: Abortion and euthanasia are not health care.

P.S. Do we agree that Bernie Sanders is NOT divisive? That the majority of actual people agree with most of what Bernie says, and it is only a few rich interests that object?

No, not in context. They are talking about disimformation like, “using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including Covid-19” from Musk. They say:

A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news. Twelve accounts – known as the “disinformation dozen” – created most of the vaccine misinformation on Facebook during the pandemic. These few hyperactive users produced enough content to create the false perceptions that many people were vaccine hesitant.

So if you cut out the the most divisive political accounts, you will not miss ANY actual news, but are likely to miss a huge pile of disinformation.

If Kristi Noem had any morals or sense of remorse, she’d just curl up and die.

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show.

Research suggests that how a body reacts to a vaccine is altered by the type of microbiome a person has. Studies on the Covid-19 vaccine, for example, suggest it affected the snot’s microbiome, and in turn, the microbiome affected how efficient the vaccine was.

I hope those researchers get paid extra.

The researchers asked 22 adults to shoot themselves up the nose with a syringe full of snot from healthy friends and partners each day for five days. They discovered that symptoms like cough and facial pain, for instance, dropped by almost 40% for up to three months in at least 16 of the patients.

<shudder> There’s no way those 22 could have been paid enough.

The researchers examined about 222,000 menu items from over 2,000 restaurants in Boston, about 1.6 million menu items from roughly 9,000 restaurants in Dubai, and about 3.1 million menu items from about 18,000 restaurants in London. In Boston, about 71 percent of the items were in the USDA database; in Dubai and London, that figure was 42 percent and 56 percent, respectively.

So only 3 cities, with London getting the best dataset.

In Dubai, the researchers did not have the same types of health data available but did observe a strong correlation between rental prices and the nutritional value of neighborhood-level food, suggesting that wealthier residents have better nourishment options.

This makes a case for “correlation does not mean causation”. The title usues the word “link”, but it sounds like poor neighborhoods have cheap restaurants because that’s what customers can afford, which is just another way of saying there’s a correlation between obesity and low incomes.

The research moves toward evaluating the complex mix of food available in any given area, which can be true even of areas with more limited options.

Okay, I appreciate that this is now adding to the data about what food options are available. So even though it sounds like something we already knew, having more proof from a different view is a Good Thing.

Notice that A is obesity prevalence and F is housing prices, which we’d expect to be opposites. There seems to be correlation with A and C. It would be easier to read all of this if F was reversed to ‘lowest housing rates’ or some such.

Edit: above image of the London breakdown is from the cited paper which also breaks down the same factors for Boston and Dubai.

Found the source: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-trans-people-trump-now-erasing

They wrote that piece well and linked to archive.ph so people can see the history. They have a snapshop from July 10th with ‘bisexual’ erased, but as of July 11th, it is back. As I write, the text they cite reads:

Before the 1960s, almost everything about living authentically as a lesbian, a bisexual person or a gay man was illegal.

It still omits transgendered as it has since the Februrary ‘purge’.

I don’t know how or where this rumor started, but it isn’t true (yet). I see all the news aggregators are repeating it, though.

• Old news: they removed TQ+ from LGBTQ+ – that happened in February 2025.
• As of today, they still have the ‘B’. See for yourself:
• https://www.nps.gov/ston/
• https://www.nps.gov/ston/learn/education/new-index.htm

I’ve played this game enough that I’m tired of it. New DLC won’t change my mind.

The game got me to figure out that I don’t want to play a game where the people are always going to be really unhappy no matter how far I advance. If I’m playing a city/world builder, I want a game where my advancment also means things are better for the NPCs. In this game, my advancement means I can start with some tiny different perks, but nost of those are wiped out by Prestige runs, so the NPCs have really brutal conditions all the time. And if things start going well? Poof! You’re on to the next town before you can enjoy the last one.

Step 3 is advertising. The AI has your address and sees what you’re buying. This is going straight to marketers.

Ah, yes, I remember those days with the text-only LYNX browser from the unix terminal and the joy of Netscape Navigator on machines that could handle windows. Searching was difficult until there was Alta Vista, which was AMAZING compared to the competition, but even it failed for D&D-style gamers who tried to search for “role playing games” and got back a list of a million sex sites and zero visible pen/paper/dice games. Happily, you could add boolean operator rules to get rid of some of that (NOT sex NOT babes NOT XXX) – but you’d either be typing a lot of naughty words to skip or you’d have to remember the sites that catered to RPGs because searching could be very hit or miss.

Here’s a BBC article for comparison, with slightly different (initial) numbers : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gd01g1gxro

At least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, have been killed in an Israeli strike while queuing for nutritional supplements in front of a clinic in central Gaza, a hospital says.

The article does have video as well.

The article is mostly about a lack dense housing in the sunbelt. Two chunks:

By rigidly defining what a community is allowed to look like, suburban zoning has done more than simply shape the physical form of our cities. It has also made it all but impossible for many communities to adapt and grow, as human societies always have, which has created severe distortions in housing markets.

and

There’s no shortage of wonky policy ideas about how to fix housing in the US — and they go far beyond just zoning codes (you don’t want to hear me get started on building codes or impact fees). We will also need a society-wide paradigm shift beyond policy: The financial and real estate industries will need to relearn models for supporting incremental densification, which, experts consistently told me, have fallen by the wayside since the entrenchment of sprawl and restrictive zoning.

Personally, I’d like to see more towns where there’s dense housing within walking distance of the mega strip mall… though some of those strips are too big for realistic pedestrian commuting.