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Map of when women got the right to vote in different European countries

How private equity is destroying bowling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC8h...

We Went Bowling. What Bowlero Did to Every Lane in America Will Shock You.YouTube video by More Perfect Unionwww.youtube.com

This amazing website, called "Worse on Purpose," is cataloguing all the ways companies are deliberately and secretively degrading their own products As usual, in most cases the culprit is private equity extracting enormous sums while everyone else is left worse off.

MAHA ftw!

Interesting article about how some Brazilians are blaming World Cup defeat on the rapid spread of US-style megachurch protestantism. I did not realize that 20 out of 26 Brazilian players at this year's World Cup - including Neymar - were protestant.

"AI literacy" is not actually a thing, at least not on its own. Across every field, from coding to science to humanities, the people who get the most out of AI are the people who have already developed non-AI competencies, which they originally developed in the absence of AI.

America is returning to building out fossil fuel power plants as part of the mad rush to feed the insatiable electricity hunger of AI data centers. What are we even doing here?

Norway is the only team Brazil has ever played that they have never beaten. Brazil now falls to 0-2-3 all time vs. Norway.

Fantastic analysis of the strategic calculus that goes into going with the 5-man infield in baseball. The Yankees' strategy backfired this time, but the underlying logic was correct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrR9...

Yankees risk it all with five man infield and lose the game - explainedYouTube video by Indergaardwww.youtube.com

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It's getting easier and easier to envision a future in which there is no live music, not only because software like this exists, but because audiences no longer have the discernment to tell the difference.

Fantastic and comprehensive breakdown of the troubles between Shohei Ohtani and catcher Dalton Rushing on Wednesday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Na...

Ohtani gets furious at his rookie catcher and takes over the game - explainedYouTube video by Indergaardwww.youtube.com

People getting paid to train new AI models with real, human conversation admit that they cheat by having existing chatbots do it, possibly accelerating the onset of "model collapse"