End of US low-value package tariff exemption is permanent, Trump officials say. Clownery.
YFQ-42 โFighter Droneโ Collaborative Combat Aircraft Has Flown For The First Time.
When bison have room to roam, they reawaken the Yellowstone ecosystem.
Why progressives should care about falling birth rates. Yup.
Mastodon says it doesnโt โhave the meansโ to comply with age verification laws.
As it turns out, nobody really ever wanted to be fat. pic.twitter.com/vGTWpr7lHo
— Rothmus ๐ด (@Rothmus) August 28, 2025
Lord, WTF!
That does not even look vaguely like the same person. She looks amazing. Good for her.
This is such a cool idea!
Instead of just doing postsurgery *rehab* have people do *prehab* before they go into surgery.
In this study, six weeks of prehab led to an 85% reduction in the rate of postoperative complications! https://t.co/LQ9yoHn85r pic.twitter.com/Slt9HHj4ao
— Crรฉmieux (@cremieuxrecueil) August 29, 2025
Yup. The FA movement has always hated this, but the fact is the fitter and the less obese you are prior to surgery the better you do after.
Another inconvenient fact.
One of the reasons I stopped talking about finance is that investments are better than arguments. I don’t really feel a need to convince anyone. I can be right or wrong in a more meaningful way. https://t.co/qjUJrfouMA
โ Simon Sarris (@simonsarris) August 26, 2025
Same. And I don’t want to be anyone’s stock picker or be blamed for their (or my own) missteps.
I don’t require anyone’s validation. I own a house free and clear and have a secure1 retirement as a result of my financial acumen. I don’t need to convince a soul. The proof is what I’ve done. If that doesn’t convince you, the depths to which I don’t give a fuck are infinite and unprospected by me.
Bankers learn they are fired via accidental email asking them to return laptops.
The booming business of Trumpโs deportation flights.
Why the vegans lost. Could be a short article. Should just say, “Because they were fucking nuts.”
The majority of Canadians that own property in the U.S. plan to sell, survey finds.
Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it.
Crime can be quite involving and distracting, I agree. It takes a lot of planning and initiative to pull off a worthwhile heist.
Ohhhhh…you meant crime TV shows. Carry on, then.
Exactly. That’s what so many otherwise smart people do not understand about AI. I am actually not sure how they can be so incredibly naรฏve about how this will work.
In short, it does not matter if an AI can actually do your job. If an MBA thinks they can string together four mediocre to bad AI agents to do your job for 1/20 the cost and 1/4 the quality, that is what is gonna happen.
It’s already happening. Pretending it’s not is just pure clownery.
This isn’t some slantwise intepretation. This is what the Dune books are about. Frank Herbert was very explicitly exploring how charismatic revolutionaries, even when they start outside the system, tend to reproduce the same oppressive structures they overthrow. That’s, like, the entire point of the whole series.
That’s not being clever, this interpretation. That is just being able to read. Dang.
The economy is breaking. And no oneโs ready.
806,000+ layoffs in 2025 so far.
48% of consumer credit applications denied over the past year.
Refinance rejection rate: 41.8%… the highest in 12+ years.
U3 Unemployment forecast: 4.5โ5.0% by year-end, according to Apollo,โฆ
— Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) August 27, 2025
The economy is doing very poorly but it takes a while for it to be obvious.
And things are going to get so much worse.
There might be more awesome things than a T. Rex flying an F-14 Tomcat, but I’d be hard-pressed to think of one.
Though those engines are flaming out and that means that plane is about to crash.
One Universal Antiviral to Rule Them All?
Chinaโs Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink.
The Great Postal Boycott Must End. Inflation about to get insane.
To fend off the far right, democracy needs to deliver.
We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial. And soon we’ll be in a depression, and they will be in denial about that as well.
SpaceX bounces back with a Starship test flight that ended on a buoyant note.
Huh! I was told this rocket would never work. Never. That’s what all the good liberals said.
And that’s what they also said about SpaceX’s other rockets nearly a decade-and-a-half ago. Not a great track record, really. The funny part about doing hard things is they often fail a lot in the initial phases.
Get out there and build shit. Ignore the posers, losers, doubters and haters. That’s all you can really do.
Lord, what a voice! Loved this.
This is great. It really nails the Phil Spector-esque “wall of sound.” It even has the appropriate key change in the last 1/4 of the song. So much fun.
I don’t like this song for itself much, but from a nostalgic perspective I do. It reminds me of Riot Grrrl and when feminism was actually good. That’s back when we were all attempting to have fun, before identitarian BS took over and before men were treated like default rapists 100% of the time.
The song has all of two chords and is very repetitive, but in its own way it’s still fun. Though I won’t listen to it again.