Penn & Teller covered how vaccines don't cause autism 15 years ago on the show Bullshit! which aired on Showtime.

The illegitimacy of Andrew Wakefield and vaccine disinformation has been widely debunked and discredited over and over again with creative analogies and visuals, no less.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

Chet Baker, Hollywood — William Claxton, 1954

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Song of the day: youtu.be/ph1GU1qQ1zQ?...

I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug at the National Gallery of Art. It looks abstract at first, but it is a detailed representation of the Intel Pentium processor. Called "Replica of a Chip", it was created in 1994 by Marilou Schultz, a Navajo/Diné weaver and math teacher. 1/n

"Why directly into a wall outlet instead of a power strip or extension cord?"

Space heaters draw a lot of power. Most power strips/extension cords are not designed to handle the amount of power a space heater needs. The strips/cords will overload, meltdown (literally), and cause a fire.

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The image on the cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" is from a plot that radio astronomer Harold Craft made for his PhD dissertation, using data collected at Arecibo while studying the pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. (13/12)

Here's a musical selection for today ... "People Say" by The Meters. Can't go wrong with anything on this album. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QYb...

Don’t like a book? Don’t read it. Pretty simple.

shot, but the sky was so clear I forgot about the cold, I was in absolute awe at what I was seeing. The pinky area a 3rd of the way up the Milky Way is the North America nebula and in the top left you just about make out the Andromeda galaxy.

#photography

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Try this: move the BlueSky app icon to where your Twitter icon is. Then slide your Twitter icon off your main screen. You’ll notice a vast improvement in your blood pressure.