Bullshit:
Meta reported for its most recent quarter (Q1 2026, ended March 31, 2026):
- Revenue: $56.3 billion
- Net income (profit): $26.8 billion
That was up from:
- $42.3 billion revenue a year earlier
- $16.6 billion net income a year earlier
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IMDB reflects popular opinion. Everyone has unpopular opinions, heck I liked the Emoji movie. Also, for some niche movies the ratings are wildly skewed since only die hard fans are voting on them. And for some movies where there are strongly held opinions, many people will pile-on and vote on them without even having seen the movie.
All that said, IMDB is a useful tool for getting read on popular opinion on movies. Also, IMDB is standing behind me with a gun to my head. Send help, please.
Did you know in experiments on Chimpanzees it has been shown that they likely have equivalent memory and cognitive abilities to humans?
So what is the secret to our success? Social learning.
Hands down the most fascinating thing I have learned are the theories of Joseph Henrich, an anthropologist and the Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology of Harvard University, in his book book “The Secret of Our Success”
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178431/the-secret-of-our-success
0·17 days agoCarl Sagan’s warning seems relevant:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…”
0·25 days agoViva Longevity
https://m.youtube.com/@Viva-Longevity
“Our channel is not commercial—no product promotions, no Patreon page, we turn off all optional ads.”
Dude is a scientist who is doing this channel as his retirement project. High quality production value and science based.
Now this hits too close to home!
Ready, set, on your mark, get set, get ready, here, we …
0·1 month agoGood opportunity to introduce a Cobol subsystem.
0·1 month agoI just use KVM under linux.
0·1 month agoI would recommend Jack Vance’s Dying Earth series as well as his Lyonesse Trilogy.
A bit more than just enough and a bunch more than too few.
Learned to recognize and preempt shame spirals before they dragged me down into depression. Made a world of difference.
How do I treat my child’s pink eye?
The kids devices have their wifi shut off at 11 pm each week day night. From time to time I will have them show me their screen time history and their Youtube watch history.