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When was the first middle-finger used to denote contempt in a (mainstream) film? I don't know but there is an instance of it in Sergio Leone's 1971 Giù la testa (Duck, You Sucker / A Fistful of Dynamite).
This was perpetrated by Rod Steiger. In this film he and James Coburn also make a solid case that Keanu Reeves' accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula was not even close to being the worst in film history.

"An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection"
#SriLanka #Environment #Nature

An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection
COLOMBO — Nestled in the eastern edge of Sri Lanka’s Uva province, Nilgala stands out as a landscape of remarkable ecological and cultural importance. Long overlooked in mainstream conservation efforts despite its significance, Nilgala finally received due recognition on June 2 when it was declared a forest reserve covering its full extent of 40,685 hectares […]

REBELS-MOSFIRE: Weak CIII] Emission is Typical Among Extremely UV-bright, Massive Galaxies at $z\sim7$
Ryan Endsley, Alice E. Shapley, Michael W. Topping, Daniel P. Stark, Rychard J. Bouwens, Lucie E. Rowland, Laura Sommovigo, Hiddo S. B. Algera, Manuel Aravena, Rebecca A. A. Bowler, Elisabete da Cunha, Ilse de Looze, Andrea Ferrara, Rebecca Fisher, Valentino Gonz\'alez, Hanae Inami, Themiya Nanayakkara, Sander Schouws, Mengtao Tang

REBELS-MOSFIRE: Weak CIII] Emission is Typical Among Extremely UV-bright, Massive Galaxies at $z\sim7$
We present Keck/MOSFIRE H-band spectroscopic measurements covering the [CIII]1907, CIII]1909 doublet for a sample of 8 z~7 spectroscopically-confirmed star-forming galaxies drawn from the Reionization Era Bright Emission Line Survey (REBELS). This sample is notable for its bright median UV luminosity (Muv=-22.5 AB) and large median stellar mass (log(Mstar/Msun)=9.2). Although three sources show tentative evidence of a CIII] detection, we obtain no confident detections for any of the 8 REBELS so…

Q&A with Maggie Haberman about covering Trump's second term, how the media is separating "the signal from the noise", Trump's threats, Biden's decline, and more (Natalie Korach/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/magg

Donald Trump “Wants to Demonstrate Absolute Power”: Maggie Haberman on Covering a Tumultuous Second Term
The New York Times’ stalwart Trump chronicler, who’s out this week with a new afterword to Confidence Man, sees the media learning lessons from the first go-round. “I think that people have managed to figure out and separate the signal from the noise,” she tells VF.

The Minnesota assassinations, the attempted arson at Governor Shapiro's home, and the violent arrest of Senator Padilla are all straight out of the Jim Crow terrorism playbook. Same goes with cops aiming for journalists covering the ICE protests.
None of these are new tactics, just a new iteration.
-- Max Kennerly

pySpainMobility: a Python Package to Access and Manage Spanish Open Mobility Data
Ciro Beneduce, Tania Gull\'on Mu\~noz-Repiso, Bruno Lepri, Massimiliano Luca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13385

pySpainMobility: a Python Package to Access and Manage Spanish Open Mobility Data
Mobility patterns play a critical role in a wide range of societal challenges, from epidemic modeling and emergency response to transportation planning and regional development. Yet, access to high-quality, timely, and openly available mobility data remains limited. In response, the Spanish Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility has released daily mobility datasets based on anonymized mobile phone data, covering districts, municipalities, and greater urban areas from February 2020 …