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What elephants’ unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities


Be sure to watch the video in this article. It's very sweet!
I remember someone commenting after my play about elephants that she thought I might be laying on the sweet a bit much, but then in the middle of the show is projected a short video of actual elephants. She said then she realised that I had held back, because actually they are extremely sweet!



remember when Google decided blogs were not real publications and bloggers were not real writers, so they underdevalued #GoogleAds for independent bloggers TO LESS THAN ZERO, while cutting deals with big media & turning their own Blogger platform into linkspam?

remember when Amazon did the same with self-published authors, while cutting deals with the big 5 ―FOR A HANDFUL OF AUTHORS?

chickens came home to roost with 7 Million Books #Facebook #Meta called “worthless”
vanityfair.com/news/story/meta…



Behold the vibrant Himalayan Monal! 🌈 Males flaunt iridescent feathers to attract mates. Found in the Himalayas, this bird lives at altitudes up to 16,000 ft (4,877 m) in summer! It uses its hooked beak to forage for insects, seeds, and berries.

@AMNH #birds #Himilayas

in reply to Global Museum

If prospective mates can't spot this guy, it's cause they're under an avalanche. They're probably visible from orbit.


Again and again “Best” 🇸🇰🦅 (budget deficits in the eurozone) byteseu.com/925144/ #SlovakRepublic #Slovakia #SlovenskáRepublika #Slovensko


MITRE-backed cyber vulnerability program to lose funding Wednesday (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)

nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025…
memeorandum.com/250415/p122#a2…



SOS Children’s Village Director: “With ‘System Sprener’ the train has almost left at the age of twelve” byteseu.com/925141/ #Austria #Österreich #RepublicOfAustria #RepublikÖsterreich



👉 Professor Katherine Franke, retired member of the Columbia Law Faculty, New York, decries dealings with Trump admin: youtube.com/shorts/XBkbq8eFsUE #ColumbiaUniversity #Trump


In an exclusive interview with The Intercept, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz denounces Columbia University’s response to the Trump administration’s $400M funding cut.

He points to the review of Middle East studies, changes in faculty appointments, and the arrests of Palestinian students as signs of eroding academic freedom.

Read the full story + transcript: interc.pt/4jCiB1j




Vanadium version 135.0.7049.100.0 released:

github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium…

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21751…

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser




DOGE trumpets unemployment fraud that government already found apnews.com/article/doge-trump-…


The student arrested at his naturalization interview knew it was coming

Mohsen Mahdawi was admired among pro-Palestine and pro-Israel activists for speaking peacefully to both sides. ICE detained him anyway.



#RIP Wink Martindale, the king of the television game show who hosted “Tic-Tac-Dough,” “Gambit” and “High Rollers,” died Tuesday. He was 91.

latimes.com/obituaries/story/2…

#rip



We did it, we finally found a farming subsidy that someone would cancel! (It's the subsidy for climate-friendly practices.)

Trump administration cancels $...



MOD scandal: Anusic’s associate abolished NATO Cernicat. Dila data about Milanovic! byteseu.com/925135/ #Croatia #Hrvatska #RepublicOfCroatia #RepublikaHrvatska


New law 'protecting child influencers' is bad and dangerous. I investigated what the law actually says and spoke to top free speech and legal experts about how it could be used. What I found is not what the media is reporting usermag.co/p/utah-protect-chil…
in reply to Taylor Lorenz

There's a dodgy grey area here where children producing content either by themselves or at the behest of their parents are engaging in work if their efforts are being monetised. This legislation seems poorly thought out but there is a whole quandry of child labour laws which I think does need to be addressed somehow since these content creators are technically working, generating taxable income.
in reply to Taylor Lorenz

"Investigated what the law actually says"
I am hoping that means that you read the bill.
Which, let's be honest, if you did, that is more than at least half the people that voted for or against the bill.


Brilliant. Why didn't I think of that.