Month: September 2025

Chill Links

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns.

New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems.

Nouvelle intrusion d’un drone d’origine inconnue au Danemark ; l’Allemagne va désormais abattre tout drone en cas de survol de son territoire.

Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity.

Why a decades old architecture decision is impeding the power of AI computing.

‘Hidden costs’ of climate emergency are worsening California’s affordability crisis.

Could we make something good from social media? Most likely not.

Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice.

France and Britain are in thrall to pensioners.

Illiteracy is a policy choice.

The current war on science, and who’s behind it.

Oregone

Chill Annoying

The woman is attractive despite the terrible tattoos1, but the rest is not great other than for a visit. That looks like the Oregon or Washington coast, where it’d be cold and rain 8-9 months out of the year. It’s miserable there.

And the food in that picture. What the fuck is that? Way undercooked frozen hash browns, also undercooked waffles and HFCS-based “syrup.” All looks just terrible and I’d refuse to eat it. Also, those shitty little country grocery stores have poor selection, are way overpriced, and often have expired crap littering the shelves.

  1. Though they make her significantly less attractive and a lot more trashy.

Not Going

Chill Evil

American public transit is hundreds of times more dangerous than it is in most European/Asian countries. The reason I don’t ride it is the likelihood is just too high I’d be forced to grievously harm or kill some clown fucking with me or someone else.

And I’m not going to jail for ending some dumbass who deserved it.

Disagreed

Chill Killin' It

Indeed. I have no idea what my testosterone levels are nor do I care, but I certainly am extremely disagreeable, do not really give a fuck what anyone else wants me to do, and I am often hand-picked for leadership roles.

I was a manager by the time I was 24. If I were agreeable, I’m quite certain that would not occur.

Chill Links

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel.

Cosmic simulations that once needed supercomputers now run on a laptop.

Do we have to recover from anti-vaccine misinformation the hard way, with suffering and death? Turns out, yes.

Austria hails ‘brain gain’ in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts.

We Must Save Public Media to Change It.

Block busting only worked because the threats were backed by real violence.

The Legend of a Jet Age Jesse James.

Deport Immed

Chill Evil

I do think that sex is rightly classified as a “need.” It’s just not the same type of need as food, air, and water. Doesn’t make it less real, though. The difference is that imposing a need for sex on someone else against their will is morally and ethically wrong.

Hence, why this scumbag should be kneecapped and sent back to wherever he came from. Alive if he goes willingly, and in a casket if not.

Hebdo

Chill Clowns

The liberal reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre was one of the major things that turned me away from that suite of interlinked ideologies. Their gleeful reaction and equivocation of satirical cartoons with outright slaughter — some even saying that the cartoons were worse than murder — forced me to examine what and who they really were. And if I wanted to be part of that.

Turns out, I did not. Though I still consider myself a liberal in some sense, I think a lot of their goals are nefarious, their degrowth tendencies are pure evil, and their ignorance of history and human nature is shocking when you notice it.

I wish though that the right was better. It’s not. Both sides are purely clownish often in different but in many cases surprisingly similar ways.

Chill Links

The industry is going through a period where a lot is changing all at once.

Breaking the chain. The role of the conscious observer has posed a stubborn problem for quantum measurement. Phenomenology offers a solution.

The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Browser.

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

Preventing Simultaneous Contingencies in Europe and Asia.

A Diminished Social Security Work Force, and Its Customers, Feel the Strain.

Grocery prices are jumping up. We explain why.

Mapped: Median Salary by U.S. State.

The career ladder is collapsing. Gen Z is feeling it first.

Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe.

The next big financial crisis may be brewing. Warning signs are already there.

Private Equity Is Coming for America’s $12 Trillion in Retirement Savings. Of course they are.

Onboard a U.S. aircraft carrier as tensions rise over Russian incursions into NATO airspace.

Declines of Various Types

Chill Annoying

Worse than that, feminism has transitioned from a movement primarily about equality to merely another front in women’s intrasexual competition, which has intensified enormously as the number of suitable (by their assessment) men has declined.

That has not only made actual feminism as practiced vastly worse, but has done a number on women’s mental health. Combine that with social media and smartphone cognitohazards and women today are totally cooked. Especially in the US.