โ60 Minutesโ Chastises Its Corporate Parent in Unusual On-Air Rebuke. Actual resistance.
Nonzero: Trade edition. The real cost of protectionism.
As RFK Crusades to โMake America Healthy,โ FDA Suspends Milk Quality Tests.
The Present Crisis and the End of the Long ’90s.
Shipping Collapse: Port Workers and Truckers Wait for the Ships to Come In.
The US Is Already Losing the New Cold War to China. Well, of course. Our sole plan was “throw random tantrums.”
Trump's tariffs are fucking literally everyone in the country https://t.co/GlAE3wNJvc
— Noah Smith ๐ (@Noahpinion) April 28, 2025
This is going to be worse than I initially thought, so I bought more crap than I had originally planned. It’s the last chance now and in the next week or two.
Then, many many things will be vastly more expensive or impossible to get at all. It’s coming. Be warned. Or don’t. Either way, I’ll avoid doing the stupid. Maybe we should’ve immigrated, but too late for that now.
We’re here and are as ready as we can be.
When I become galactic overlord, anyone with tattoos has ipso facto exercised demonstrated poor judgment and thus is working the fields and the mines. And if lucky, might have some role in spacecraft testing.
Roughly 90% of the security meetings and consultations I have with customers are completely useless. All the questions have already been answered in provided documents and diagrams, and often also in follow-up responses. The meetings are pointless nearly all of the time.
And I have been in hundreds of those meetings, often with 30+ people on the other side1. Thirty-one people in a an hour-long meeting discussing already-provided information equals a whole lot of wasted time.
But that’s life in “efficient” corporate America!
It’s too bad Remmi never got more popular. This is musically interesting, fun, funny and incisive.
The human mind really can go blank during consciousness, according to a new review that challenges the assumption people experience a constant flow of thoughts when awake. My mind goes blank all the time. That this is a “discovery” is mystifying.
Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts.
AI Helps Unravel a Cause of Alzheimerโs Disease and Identify a Therapeutic Candidate.
China Deploys J-10 Fighters To Egypt.
Intel Removed All CPU information pages before 2nd generation Intelยฎ Coreโข processors. Intel continuing to get worse and worse.
Whoโs a Carthaginian? Genetic Study Revises Ancestry of Romeโs Ancient Nemesis.
DOGE is not about waste and efficiencyโitโs about privatization. Yep.
I don’t need a crisper drawer in my fridge, I need a CRISPR drawer.
That’d be much better.
Few understand what is coming. pic.twitter.com/9Jf6oBDAwh
— Kevin Gaughen ๐บ๐ธ (@gaughen) April 27, 2025
We have about a month until things start getting really bad. Prepare now or lose your chance. You’ve been warned, though I know most of you will do only these two things: jack and shit.
But the opportunity was there.
MAGA 2016: "FUCK YOUR FEELINGS"
MAGA 2020: "FUCK YOUR HEALTH"
MAGA 2024: "FUCK YOUR FACTS"
MAGA 2025: "FUCK YOUR ECONOMY, YOUR CONSTITUTION, YOUR HUMANITY, AND FUCK AMERICA TOO"— Kevin Gaughen ๐บ๐ธ (@gaughen) April 27, 2025
That’s about the size of it. I hope they like their refrigerator boxes by the side of the road.
That is indeed how a lot of the left operates. They even defend Islamic honor killings very frequently and the hijab as “feminist” as a matter of course. It’s insanity.
Because cracksmoking MacOS likes to change the names of drive mounts unpredictably (mostly by adding things like “-1” and “-2” to them) when it gets confused, I had to use globbing to reliably identify a mounted volume/directory in my Bash scripts. Here’s what I did:
for VOL in /Volumes/myvol*; do
ย ย ย # Check if it's actually a directory
ย ย ย if [[ -d "$VOL/mydl/thisdir/here" ]]; then
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย DEST="$VOL/mydl/thisdir/here"
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย break
ย ย ย fi
done
This finds the first item named “myvol” and in a later part of the script not excerpted here slaps what you want in there. But warning: this snippet like Cisco stuff takes action immediately on the first match only, so if you might have more than one match just be aware of that and modify as needed.
Why the world stopped making sense: How the neoliberal “class war” fueled global chaos.
Employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots in real time.
How the left can win: Drop the statistics and tell real people’s stories.
The Friendship Recession: The Lost Art of Connecting. Another thing very obviously definitely occurring that “scientists” insist is not happening.
Every complex ecosystem has parasites.
The Impact of New Housing Supply on the Distribution of Rents.
Expanded phylogeny elucidates Deinosuchus relationships, crocodylian osmoregulation and body-size evolution. Basically: more nommable food, get mad big!
Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones.
Ohhhhh reallllllly?
I was absolutely assured this very obviously-occurring thing was naught but a conspiracy theory promulgated by wild-eyed laughable loons.
If you’ve been paying even a little bit of attention it’s long been completely clear that your phone listens to what you say.
Hey folks. Here's one of the animations I did showing an O'Neill Colony – basically a hollowed out cylinder in space. This one is 35km long and 9km across and spins once per minute (if I remember) to provide 1g gravity.
Please repost! Spread the love!
Made in #blender. #sciart #scifi
— โญ แฐแฉแแ แฉ. วคแฉแแชIแแ โญ (@markgarlick.com) April 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This is what we should be working towards. There is nothing — not one thing — physically impossible about any of this1. We could do it if we chose to do so. It’d take a couple hundred years, though, and a huge amount of resources. But it could and should be done. And so much more.
