Today I Learned

Today I learned that the #Cher of Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" and the Chér of "Do You Believe in Life After Love)" are the same Cher. 😱

Also, that "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" was originally from her (written by her husband Sonny) rather than from Nancy Sinatra (the version in Kill Bill).

#TIL #Music #Wiki

@til

"Alpha-gal syndrome is triggered when a tick bite causes a person’s immune system to develop an allergic reaction to meat, including beef, pork or lamb."

Boy, that makes you wonder.

The whole freak show around cannabis rescheduling is a thinly veiled reach around for big pharma.

There are already FDA breakthrough therapies being pushed by pharma based on cannabis compounds.

For example, Exilby.

Even if you haven’t seen their movies, you’ve at least heard of directors like Rossellini, De Sica, Antonioni, Fellini, Pasolini, Bertolucci, Sorrentino, Moretti, Bellocchio, Tornatore, Martone. What do they all have in common? They’re male directors, and the undisputed protagonists, award-winning by critics and viewers, of the cinematic world from the postwar period onward. But what about Lina Wertmüller or Liliana Cavani (who just turned 90), or more recent voices like Alice Rohrwacher, Emma Dante and Susanna Nicchiarelli? Besides being clearly in the numerical minority, female directors’ names do not have the far-reaching recognition of their male counterparts–historically, a product of the political and social climate, but a reality we haven’t left far behind. A female director in Italy is still a rare thing. Production companies still invest very little in projects that bear the signature of the fairer sex, and female-directed documentaries are more likely to be financed than fiction films–the respected core of the cinema industry. The whole thing seems so anachronistic, especially when we take into account the fact that Italy’s first female director was making films before Luchino Visconti was even born…

The tower, opened in 2009, is a mixed use building. In 2015, it was discovered that the tower was sinking and tilting due to foundation issues. As of 2025, it has tilted 29 inches to the northwest and sunk 18 inches.

The shrink served 5 years of a 12-year sentence for the murder.

If you're going to crash, these 5 states are the 'safest'—lower fatality rates, better insurance, and fairer costs.

"... in which every suspect was noted to a large card in the center of which his name was surrounded by a red circle; his political friends were designated by smaller red circles and his nonpolitical acquaintances were designated by green ones; brown circles indicated persons in contact with friends of the suspect but not known to him personally; cross-relationships between the suspect's friends were indicated by lines between the respective circles. Obviously the limitations of this method are set only by the size of the filing cards, and, theoretically, a gigantic single sheet could show the relations and cross-relationships of the entire population. And this is the utopian goal of the totalitarian secret police. It has given up the traditional old police dream of the lie detector is still supposed to realize, and no longer tries to find out who is who, or who thinks what. (The lie detector is perhaps the most graphic example of the fascination that this dream apparently exerts over the mentality of all policemen; for obviously the complicated measuring equipment can hardly establish anything except the cold-blooded or nervous temperament of it victims. Actually, the feeble-minded reasoning underlying the use of the mechanism can only be explained by the irrational wish that some form of mind reading were possible after all.)* This old dream was terrible enough and since time immemorial has invariable led to torture and the most abominable cruelties. There was only one thing in its favor: it asked for the impossible. The modern dream of totalitarian police, with its modern techniques, is incomparably more terrible. Now the police dreams that one look at the gigantic map on the office wall should suffice at any given moment to establish who is related to whom and in what degree of intimacy; and, theoretically, this dream is not unrealizable although its technical execution is bound to be somewhat difficult. If this map really did exist, not even memory would stand in the way of the totalitarian claim to domination; such a map might make it possible to obliterate people without any traces, as if they had never existed at all."

* we have mind reading now

It was a random line of David's on Schitt's Creek, but I looked it up, and it's true.

From biological weapon to cosmetic product is crazy

Torvalds didn't seem to have a very high opinion of it 😂

Entire google ecosystem is over 80TB of code, 2 billions LoC. On one single repository. Same goes to facebook. Windows' monorepo is 300GB of code.

And that's just scratching the surface. They just keep reinventing every single tool or framework because appearently no one fucking knows how to git init.