Utilsmaxi @utilsmaxi

largely true, pizza had roots in the Neapolitan area, but the presence of American troops (and later, American tourists asking for pizza) was essential to its spread to the rest of Italy. another interesting case is Chinese American cuisine. there's a popular conception that Chinese American cuisine is less authentic, but in fact (1) the median Chinese-American dish has a longer history than the median Chinese dish served today; (2) a lot of dishes perceived as "authentic Chinese" (zhajiangmian, egg fried rice, kung pao chicken and sweet & sour pork) were actually invented by overseas Chinese and spread back into China later.

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When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years. The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes. India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with. Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon. The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages. So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

Lucy @TheLucyShow1

4 days ago

I’ll never look at another Vulture the same again 😂

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Ben Affleck on his own filmography: “I have about 12 movies that I truly love and am proud of. Another 25 that are ‘I like this, I don’t like that.’ And about 10 or 12 that are fucking shit. I hate them. I can’t even watch them.”

we’re finally using ai the way it was always meant to be used

Sam Steffanina @SamSteffanina

3 days ago

nolan was too much of a coward to release this version of the odyssey

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I never realized that drones would bring us into the disco warfare era

Drone Wars @Drone_Wars_

3 days ago

Russian forces have reportedly fitted a UAZ-452 “Bukhanka” vehicle with mirrored panels as a potential countermeasure against drones using optical or AI-assisted guidance. The improvised modification appears intended to interfere with the drone’s ability to visually identify and

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you killed the man but not the idea

Rex @R89Capital

2 days ago

I don't like that Dario guy. He has the same vibes as SBF except even worse.

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My God.

Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant

a week ago

The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.

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>Trump left the journalists on the assassination jet Generational talent

OSINTdefender @sentdefender

6 days ago

The Washington Post reports that an Iranian assassination threat prompted a secret presidential extraction from Turkey last month, with Trump secretly transferred from the legacy Air Force One to a C-32A while the White House publicly maintained that he was aboard Air Force One.

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claude scraped the whole internet of content without attribution or compensation for its model but wants credit for its work

M1 @M1Astra

7 days ago

Anthropic says new Claude models will embed invisible watermarks in all generated text, everywhere Claude is offered. The watermark is part of the text, it isn't metadata: "it will travel with the text when it's copied and pasted elsewhere, and may persist through some editing."

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Least racist Community Note in 2026

This meme I made really is evergreen

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

a week ago

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has announced he will ban businesses from using fake discounts "If something is advertised as half price, it should actually be half price"

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@DrJitendraSingh Sir I have a request. Can India please have a set of standardised guidelines like NICE UK, Australian eTg for standardisation of care ? Also, centrally monitored QR based prescription portal for doctors to avoid antibiotic resistance ? Like in Australia. @JPNadda

The biggest cheese banks in Italy store 300,000+ wheels of Parmesan. Dairy farmers use cheese as collateral and get loans up to 80% of market value. At ~$1,000 per wheel, that’s $200m+ in loans (banks seize and sell cheese if farmer can’t pay back). Best part: banks use automated machines that brush and turn the cheese wheels everyday to keep them fresh. *** Vid link: youtu.be/QqqVnxw1GZk?si…

Polymarket @Polymarket

a week ago

JUST IN: Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral.

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I worked in payments and let me tell you this secret. The charge for a card swipe is around 2%. Mastercard/ Visa takes like 0.1%. The bank who gave you the card gets 1.5 to 1.8% The greatest trick the banks pulled off is to spread the idea that Master/ Visa takes it all :)

The year is 2035. You work at KLSPQP (Kirkland Latham Skadden Paul Quinn & Proskauer). You billed 300 hours this month and are on track to hit the 3000 year billable target that Blackstone set for your firm this year. After 25 years at the firm you are finally being promoted to senior executive managing partner (non-equity, there are no more equity partners left, there are also 500 SEMPs at the firm). You take 15 minutes to walk down to buy a $105 chipotle slop bowl (Blackstone decided to distribute a mid year bonus so you can afford to splurge a little on double protein and guacamole) to eat in front of your desk. Life’s good.

Financial Times @FT

2 weeks ago

FT Exclusive: Paul Weiss, Quinn Emanuel and Proskauer have had conversations about taking outside capital without triggering rules that bar ownership by non-lawyers. How could this reshape their industry? ft.trib.al/kVsRdHB

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“Over the years, the names and faces have changed, but one can hear daily that familiar tune of the frustrated gambler. A song of hope, fear, loneliness, and despair. Those who have spent time around a racetrack, casino, exchange or any other bookmaking establishment can certainly sing along; they know the words by heart. Another generation, new musicians, but the same concert halls and sheet music. The band plays on.” RIP

Charlie Munger: "Victor Niederhoffer was the son of a police lieutenant, and he needed to get A’s at Harvard. But he didn’t want to do any serious work at Harvard, because what he really liked doing was, one, playing world-class checkers; two, gambling in high-stakes card games, at which he was very good, all hours of the day and night; three, being the squash champion of the United States, which he was for years; and, four, being about as good a tennis player as a part-time tennis player could be. This did not leave much time for getting A’s at Harvard so he went into the Economics Department. You’d think he would have chosen French poetry. But remember, this was a guy who could play championship checkers. He thought he was up to outsmarting the Harvard Economics Department. And he was. He noticed that the graduate students did most of the boring work that would otherwise go to the professors, and he noticed that because it was so hard to get to be a graduate student at Harvard, they were all very brilliant and organized and hard working, as well as much needed by grateful professors. And therefore, by custom, and as would be predicted from the psychological force called reciprocity tendency, in a really advanced graduate course, the professors always gave an A. So Victor Niederhoffer signed up for nothing but the most advanced graduate courses in the Harvard Economics Department, and of course, he got A, after A, after A, after A, and was hardly ever near a class. And for a while, some people at Harvard may have thought it had a new prodigy on its hands. That’s a ridiculous story, but the scheme will work still. And Niederhoffer is famous: they call his style “Niederhoffering the curriculum.” fs.blog/great-talks/ac…

highest complexity irish invention

Interesting World @_fluxfeeds

2 weeks ago

A traditional Irish shillelagh, a blackthorn walking stick that could also be used for self-defense.

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