Posts tagged “Shrinking”

  • Who doesn’t love making paper airplanes? – via cassidoo
  • Cookie Monster: Conflict of InterestA “secret study” revealed that as the Florida insurance market was allegedly “failing” and companies were “losing money”, executives distributed $680M in dividends to shareholders while diverting billions more to affiliate companies, while Ron DeSantis focused on legal reforms making it harder to sue insurers.
  • The world’s best chess players burn more calories during a match than NBA players like Steph Curry do in a game. – via Links You’ll Love
  • Media
    • I am irrationally excited for the Andor season two premier on April 22, 2025.
    • So far White Lotus S3 has been just as great as the first two seasons.
    • I thought Kristen Bell did a fine job hosting the SAG Awards, but – as much as I love and respect Martin Short – Harrison Ford deserved the Best Actor in a Comedy Series win for his performance in Shrinking.
    • Believe the hype. Flow is a phenomenal movie.
  • Good News for People Who Love Bad News:
    • Climate change is shrinking glaciers faster than ever, with 7 trillion tons lost since 2000.
    • Flu hospitalizations this year have already surpassed the last “very bad” flu season in 2017-2018.
    • There’s a real-time Project 2025 Tracker that allows you to see just how much of the nefarious plot to destroy the United States has been successful.

  • What beats rock?
  • Pope Francis denounced the current administration’s plan to carry out mass deportations of migrants in a letter to U.S. bishops Tuesday, while appearing to take a direct jab at Vice President JD Vance.
  • For decades, casinos scoffed as mathematicians and physicists devised elaborate systems to take down the house. Then an unassuming Croatian’s winning strategy forever changed the game.
  • image of German soldier captioned He's Watching YouWhy is Hawaii the rainbow capital of the world?
  • Is gold hidden under a California peak? This treasure map says so.
  • These JETech iPhone screen protectors are a great investment.
  • Forensics Experts Challenged the FBI. So the FBI Tried to Censor Their Conference. This story includes a timely reminder that — with the exception of DNA matches — most of the highly-regarded techniques used to put people away (fingerprint examinations, ballistics and toolmarks comparisons, blood pattern analysis) “were developed by law enforcement agencies for law enforcement, and not by scientists first subjecting them to standard, rigorous testing processes designed to ensure they stand on a solid scientific foundation.”
  • How did a life-saving pediatric drug – discovered and developed using money from American taxpayers, and spurred by the grassroots fundraising of desperate parents – end up costing $2,000,000 per dose?
  • In the span of just weeks, the U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history – not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly-defined government role.
  • Harrison Ford said the recent California wildfires burned several Shrinking sets.

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