Sneaky but effective. Thanks, Science! (h/t Laughing Squid)

Quote: “Beginning in January 2026, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with hundreds of full episodes coming to the platform.” That’s worth my entire YouTube Premium subscription right there. (h/t Kottke)

Quote: “[A]ccording to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), global agricultural land use peaked in the early 2000s and has been slowly falling ever since. Around the world, farmland is being replaced by grasslands, trees and bush. Wild animals are returning to abandoned pasturelands in areas they had once dominated.” Click through image above to read how and why. (h/t Fix the News)

A bare bones “just the facts” project “led by Professor Christina Pagel, a UK-based health services researcher and science communicator. She created and maintains the dataset underlying the tracker, drawing on her background in data analysis and evidence-based policy to monitor and document the authoritarian trajectory of Trump’s presidency. She started the project in February 2025, at first to help herself make sense of the actions of the Trump administration and then later to share with others.”
With hotlinks to legit sources. (Trump Action Tracker)

Click through to watch and be sure to stick around for the credits. (Tod Maffin, Your Emotional Support Canadian)

“Apple unveils the Babelfish AirPods Pro 3. Hold the buds, ask Siri, and hear foreign languages converted in real time straight into your native tongue… assuming your native tongue is English, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese. It’s not seamless, there’s a lag, and the languages are limited, but it’s still an extraordinary, under-hyped technical miracle, worthy of Douglas Adams.” –Fix the News

Sounds like a universal translator to me. Something else to add to Are We Trek Yet?

Quote for the day

I want to live in a world where the flags are lowered for Jane Goodall. —Kerry Jane

Outro…featuring that famous hoofer, Jeremy Irons.

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