Chill Links

A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run. Nom.

The four-colour theorem was only the start.

Long-Term Treasury Yields Spike, 1- to 7-Year Yields Explode, Mortgage Rates Hit 7.12%, Bond Market Gets Spooked.

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

Your car is selling your data. The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200 billion market-cap wipeout.

'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet.

The End of Friday Nights with Friends.

How Iran’s Hard-Liners Prevailed and Sabotaged U.S. Peace Deal.

Chill Links

Google Search is rewriting organic result links to google.com/goto?url=… instead of exposing the destination URL directly in the HTML. Wow that is full-on evil.

One major reason I’m not an AI doomer is that I have a much lower estimate of the direct power of intelligence.

Inflation Not Going Back into the Bottle: CPI, Core CPI, and Core Services CPI Bounce Back.

AI, Robotics and the Coming Economic, Military, and Political Revolutions.

What We Never Learned From 9/11.

Atlantic goes without a hurricane through Sept. 12, breaking 60-year record.

Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2,000 °C.

Billionaire Brewers owner ordered to spend $2 million returning sand he ‘stole’ from California beach to protect his Malibu mansion.

Wage theft is the heavyweight champion of American larceny.

Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow.

Antisem

Chill Evil

Why do idiot leftists seem to have infinite concern for Gaza nonsense but not give a single crap about all the horrors perpetrated in Africa?

I guess black people getting mutilated and killed mostly by other black people just does not matter to them.

Could it be…antisemitism? (Yes.)

No Normal

Chill Culture, Evil

How long did it take for things to go back to normal after 9/11?

Here’s the thing: it never went back to normal (as the currently most upvoted-comment also says in different words).

The 90s and the dreams gestated by the end of the Cold War all died that day. Nothing was the same after. Much freedom was lost by all Americans and the world became a far more dangerous, less trusting place.

Essentially, the terrorists won. Everyone else lost. Now we just accept ubiquitous surveillance and intrusions into every area of our lives. We do not deserve freedom because we did nothing to keep it.

But I remember how it was before 9/11 and it was better. Far better.

Chill Links

America’s Fast-Food Chains Are Making a Big Pivot—Back to Humans.

Defending Ukraine Is Getting More Expensive, and Europe Is Struggling to Foot the Bill.

Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images.

Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with cardiometabolic health outcomes in humans.

Congratulations! You Just Lived Through the Hottest Month Ever Recorded.

F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11.

Essentially all of the central issues of today (apart from AI) are related to the ideology of sameism: that all peoples are essentially the same.

Oil routes in peril as attacks shut Saudi pipeline and Houthis threaten key waterway.

Trump administration blocks $25 million in funding for national parks. Evil.

Airport security is making Americans less safe.

The surprising reason California survived record summer heat without blackouts. Not so surprising if you’re not clown-ass.

The America That 9/11 Made.

Hubs

Chill Amusing

Solved a problem in five minutes the vendor and our internal SME could not solve in working on it all day. On a product I know little about and am not an SME in and has nothing to do with my field.

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.