Oh ugh now I get crypto

 It’s a fiat currency. 

Maybe “fiat” accompli?

Facebook content report reportedly lacks content

Facebook released their Widely Viewed Content Report yesterday. My advice, take it with a grain of salt. Or better yet, take it with a overstuffed warehouse full of salt via Charlie Warzel's write-up in Galaxy Brain:

The quarterly snapshots distort timescales and obscure the context, which is crucial for understanding what on earth is really happening with a piece of content.

Also, the list of the most popular domains people are sharing I thought was interesting: 

As a window into what people actually do with Facebook, what do we have? There's memes, music, news which, fair, everyone watches YouTube. Next up, it's off-platform transactions and fundraising in Amazon, Unicef, and GoFundMe. 

Cool(ing) World

NASA is listening to Mars, and finally getting a picture of its interior:

Its crust is split into two or three layers of volcanic chocolate. The mantle below has a surprisingly sizable and rigid toffee-like filling. And the planet’s core is surprisingly light — less nougaty center, more syrupy heart.

I also love this simple explanation of plate tectonics:

A planet’s major volcanic and tectonic activity is essentially powered by the movement of heat from a planet’s inner sanctum to its outermost shell. 

It’s just cooling off! That’s how planets cools off. This swirling detritus around a sun coalesces and compacts into an “infernal engine” at the bottom of a gravity well. The heavy stuff sinks but not all the way, the light stuff floats but not all the way. And all that heat radiates back up and bakes the surface dry. Or, if there’s liquid there, the surface churns atop the rolling boil of the mantle. 

Sam Richardson is the best part of the The Tomorrow War trailer.

He is FANTASTIQUE

Two facts about Einstein presented without comment

1. He was born in The Once Free Imperial City of Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire.

2. He died in New Jersey.