This is the earthquake from last week, in case anyone’s alarmed.

Given that birthright citizenship has been the rule since the Civil War, is he saying that all of subsequent American history is an example of these “grotesque results”?

Sure, but you’re forced to fall back on parsing words letter-by-letter—you can’t read whole words at a glance like normal.

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With the Latin alphabet, fluent readers don’t recognize each letter individually—they recognize words and syllables based in part on the pattern of ascenders and descenders. Arranging the characters vertically disrupts that pattern.

With East Asian writing, each character represents a word or syllable, so those units don’t get disrupted by the vertical orientation.

The rest of its brood had already dissolved.

One dead baby duck was caught floating in the pool over the weekend, though the cause of death was unclear.

Did they charge it with vandalism too?

Depends on your position on philosophical realism.

It should be considered a universal law of corporate behavior: any information that has theoretical value will eventually be sold.

Even if current management has no intention of exploiting it, they’ll be replaced by the board, or the division and its data will be spun off and sold for its IP—that’s how corporations work by nature. (As Stafford Beer would say, the purpose of a system is what it does.)

The sun can only end life on earth if life survives humanity in the meantime.

Trump just told his chief of staff to write down the nuclear launch codes somewhere where he wouldn’t keep losing them.

Mark Zuckerberg, probably.

There’s no objective measure for quantifying similarity. We can measure relative similarity, though—but that scale will vary depending on what it’s relative to.

We could measure genetic similarity relative to a typical unrelated person, or relative to the nearest non-human animal, or relative to the most distantly-related living organism, or relative to random noise. (And you can do the same for facial similarity.)

My first thought is survivorship bias: in states with harsh winters, the unwell move away or die.

Why not ask them to buy two tickets while they’re at it?

At this point I wouldn’t trust Boeing to make a safe can opener.

He has a fuselage in his hangarage.

Are you talking about a philosophical zombie?

Technically these aren’t logos, they’re wordmarks (AKA “logotypes”).

So the Butlerian Jihad begins.