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The people that stuck by a guy who bragged about grabbing people by the pussy want to lecture others about their tolerance for misconduct.

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Claims that Neanderthal men "preferred" Homo sapiens women may make for catchy headlines, but the underlying research does not actually show prehistoric romance. The genetic evidence only points to an uneven pattern of DNA inheritance, which could have been shaped by biology, migration, or social organization. Archaeological evidence suggests Neanderthal groups may have followed traditions where women moved between communities, opening the door to far more complicated explanations than simple attraction.

Lovers with Flowers, 1927 #marcchagall #cubism

Scientists have combined machine learning with quantum physics to discover two new superconductors and create a much faster way to search for many more. The technique could bring researchers significantly closer to the long-sought goal of a room-temperature superconductor.

Drawings of machines, 1500 #highrenaissance #leonardodavinci

Monday, July 6, 2026 Today's song: "July is dressed up and playing her tune."# James Talarico, Democrat running for Senator in Texas reminds me of Matt Mullenweg, who also happens to be from Texas. He speaks as confidently as Obama, about the right things, wants to run ou...

Finished reading: Homebound by Portia Elan. Good concept, but the separate timelines didn’t really come together in a big way at the end as I was hoping. Still enjoyed it. 📚

Paysage colore aux oiseaux aquatique, 1907 #metzinger #jeanmetzinger

On today’s surveillance-heavy episode of Quick Charge, it sure looks like Tesla’s in-cabin driver cam failed to stop one woman from falling asleep at the wheel, but safety and attention monitoring may not be the end game for that camera after all.

It seems the nightmare never ends. Trump is now joking about nominating Sen. Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court.

America kept on trying to get me to go to her birthday party. She does this every year, but this time it got really weird. She sent reminder after reminder, over and over again, that it was going to be her birthday soon, like, months in advance. “I’ve actually been celebrati...

Well, this has been a day, hasn’t it? I’m going to be brief about all of it: Graham Platner Accused of Rape: I think Chris Kluwe got the right of this one on Bluesky: I personally kinda tapped out with the Nazi tat, because I was pretty sure at that point that nothing good was […]

Let's GOOOOOOO. #USMNT

A large limb broke off the American elm near the Tompkins Square Park entrance at Avenue B and Ninth Street today, temporarily closing one of the tennis-handball courts. Later in the day, EVG reader Heather Dubin reported that a Parks Forestry crew was removing the fallen limb and reopened the court.  This marks the second sizable branch to fall from the tree this year. Another came down during high winds in late May. Parks Forestry inspected the elm after that incident, per public records.

Email analytics drilldowns now nest right in the page — no more slow modals.

Anthropic published research on what patterns inside Claude — patterns they’re calling the J-space — reveal about how it might be thinking while it processes a prompt: If you’ve heard of language models having a “scratchpad” or “chain of thought”—text they write to themselv...