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parkchanwoohoo

depsidase

siliceous-ooze

when u discover a longtime mutual has a nice dick >>>>>>>

pigonaphone

Open to discovery

indeedgoodman

rabbitindisguise

Me, before I saw this: old timey dancing in cartoons has to be over-exaggerated for effect

Me, now: old timey dancing in cartoons had to be toned down to promote a sense of realism because they were too good at it

softichill

I think abt this tiktok all the time

thesadcyborg9million

Diversity hire bryson ur absolutely slaying

cannibalchicken

icedoatmilkmatcha-deactivated20

also

yeahokayillreblogthat

Yeah okay Ill reblog that!

aggressivelybicaptainamerica

Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.

ruffboi-mags

The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.

fall1ngfeather

(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)

p00pym00py

This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it

my-random-fandoms

pouncequick

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products t

jackironsides

L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)

The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a

In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.

“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”

logicoso

to be fair, the Mall one is mostly shitty because one America: it's neither economically feasible nor visually attractive if the only version of Mall is a box you put at the edge of town. putting that in the middle of a city with good walkability and public transport makes Malls pretty neat (look up Shopping City Süd, that one mostly lives off the train track that goes directly into the heart of Vienna, and Donaucity and Westfield Donauzentrum, all of those work)

and for two: because aesthetics aren't as important as economic efficiency, most of them are just blocks. this can be redeemed if public investment also goes toward the look of that huge building. it can turn into a nice landmark (The Strand Arcade in Sydney comes to mind)

wizardelf

enki2

thebdelliumlady

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

chapscher

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

depsidase

free-my-mindd

summerbluelily

New philosophy unlocked 💖

teaboot

Today I got to say out loud “I am recommending that we do not press charges because they apologized, nobody was hurt, and it was objectively very funny” and contractually speaking that is the absolute most I can say on the matter, but suffice it to say I am in fact living the dream