Mastodawn

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

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Greg Egan Jun 22

I recently bought a stainless steel pressure cooker [to replace an old aluminium one that can’t be used with an induction cooktop], so for the first time in my life I now own a cylindrical object with a highly polished mirrored surface.

When I went looking online for examples of cylindrical mirror anamorphic art (i.e. images that appear distorted until you view them reflected in a cylinder), I discovered a sculptor, Jonty Hurwitz, who does this for solid objects rather than just flat images.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/01/the-skewed-anamorphic-sculptures-and-engineered-illusions-of-jonty-hurwitz/

[The antihero in my story “Crisis Actors” uses cylindrical mirror anamorphism as an “encryption” technique. Wikipedia notes that “A secret mirror anamorphosis portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie, held at the West Highland Museum, can only be recognized when a polished cylinder is placed in the correct position. To possess such an image would have been seen as treason in the aftermath of the 1746 Battle of Culloden”.]

There was no shortage of Gestapo and SS officers who had no problem switching between brutalizing their victims during their day jobs, and into the role of "loving family man" in the evenings and on weekends.

Their kids only started asking: "What did you do during the Third Reich" when they became adults, studied at universities, and were exposed to more diverse points of views. This was a huge part of what fueled the student protests in Germany in the 1960s.

Until then, most children will probably believe that their ICE father is a "good man" who "stops bad people".

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Cambridge Skeptics Jun 22

Can AI fact-check its own lies? Asks Pete Pachal for Fast Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/91350431/ai-fact-checker-newsrooms

Definitely

Probably

Probably Not

66.7%

Definitely Not

33.3%

Poll ended at Jun 29 at 12:17pm.

Can AI fact-check its own lies?

You can easily imagine a newsroom workflow that applies an AI fact-checker, sending its analysis back to the writer.

Fast Company

🇨🇦 TRH 🇨🇦Jun 22

Political Cartoon Gallery Jun 22

Guy Venables @godfreychurch on ##IranIsraelConflict #Trump #IranIsraelConflict #Iran @MetroUK – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon

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Nikita Jun 22

The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".

Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!

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James Gleick Jun 22

New rule: All stories in which Donald Trump crows about the world’s toughest military must mention that he faked a disability to avoid serving in it.

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Vee Jun 22

This one needs to go viral. Aged well huh?

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jackhutton 🇺🇸Jun 22

[NYTimes]: Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said he was briefed on the U.S. government’s intelligence on Iran last week and that “Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States.” “Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon,” he wrote in an online post. “The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.” By Edward Wong

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/22/world/israel-iran-us-trump/05003208-fa99-5fcf-9806-e91b3e3c7ddd?smid=url-share

#iran

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Mark A. Rayner Jun 22

Don't even get me started on how hard it is to stare into the inaccessible void.

#void #existentialism #humor #humour #irony

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