"Describe a favorite movie in the most misleading way possible"

In this singsongy tale, a top cop discovers religion, uncovers the heroic legacy of a young woman's father, and enjoys the peace of nature with his best friend

A lot, but not all, of this thread will revolve around the "cognitive bias codex": upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

There's a writeup about it from @busterbenson.com here: 2019.busterbenson.com/piles/cognit...

Just came across a programming language based on arcane rings: suberic.net/~dmm/project...

I really hope this isn't how you imagined it:

In computer programming, type safety is important because your brain needs the blood to keep coding

haha, before my time too. Most of this came from math where people just made shit up and some of it stuck. Check out the 1929 book monoskop.org/images:2/21/... for all sorts of dead ends, for example:

Sadly the absolute number of journalists is at a 23 year low, let alone the per-capita (as per data.bls.gov/dataViewer/v...)

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025?