Month: October 2025

Chill Links

VOC injection into a house reveals large surface reservoir sizes in an indoor environment.

A scientist wanted to create a mirror cell. Then she realized the dangers.

Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution.

Don’t Look Up: There Are Sensitive Internal Links in the Clear on GEO Satellites. Thought this was widely known already?

Return-To-Office Mandates Are The New Glass Ceiling.

” We are Finished”: Idaho retirees crushed as premiums soar 4,275% after Trump and GOP gut Obamacare subsidies. That’s going to devastate a lot of people.

Tariffs to cost companies $1.2T this year, mostly hitting consumers. That’s gonna leave a mark.

Small businesses are being crushed by Trump’s tariffs, and economists say it’s a warning for the economy. So is that.

Chill Links

Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.

California to become first state to sell cheap insulin through state-backed program.

World’s largest food company is cutting 16,000 jobs due partly to automation.

How I Reversed Amazon’s Kindle DRM Because Their App Sucked.

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police. Reason number 7 billion you’d have to be a clown to use this crap.

A Liver on Ice.

Microwave technique allows energy-efficient chemical reactions.

Chill Links

Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false.

Growing number of Americans facing prospect of long-term unemployment.

Against Dog Ownership.

Amazon is planning a new wave of layoffs, sources say.

Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network.

New Alzheimer’s Treatment Clears Plaques From Brains of Mice Within Hours.

We’re losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought.

Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Paradox – “Chat Control” update.

Rapid Descent

Chill Evil

A friend of mine, as I’ve mentioned before, left her home (and much-loved) city of Munich after witnessing a gang rape on the street outside her apartment, perpetrated by Muslim immigrants.

Europe has chosen to destroy itself and I’m still unsure why, exactly.

The Blight

Chill Amusing, Annoying

One of the strangest parts of getting older is all the things that people fervently insisit “could never happen” or “did not happen” that used to occur frequently and were just a normal part of life.

I think Gen Z is worse about this even than past generations because we’ve screwed them up so badly, enervated their very souls with social media and smartphone poisoning. They cannot help it because their brains have been blighted. But it’s still annoying.

Chill Links

After the AI boom: what might we be left with?

The web is dying, and Google Reader proved to be the canary in the coal mine.

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend. I thought the future would be cooler.

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads. Only a clown would buy something like that anyway tbh.

Can anything knock China off its mountain?

Major H-1B Visa Sponsor Will Not Hire a Single H-1B Applicant Going Forward. Good.

The French 75 Gun: The Secret Cannon Used for Over Half a Century.

Two Bads Don’t Make

Chill Political Economy, Politics

The job market is atrocious now and inflation is rising. That’s going to have some consequences politically and socially.

Volte

Chill Sex

About the ancient, “Men only want one thing and it’s disgusting” tweet from ages ago, I never figured out why sex was supposed to be disgusting in the first place. Or is the disgusting part that men only want one thing? Not sure how that should trigger disgust either, frankly, in several different senses.

Anyway, any woman who believes that just needs to think (as it’s what’s actually occurring): “Men only want one thing from me because I am boring and have nothing else to offer, and that’s pretty disgusting.”

Sad but true.

The Liberal Problem

Chill Clowns, Rant

Painting your opponents as stupid, believing they are stupid and yet you still lose to them…what does that make you?

Seems like a bad way to do things. “My adversary is a dumbass but beats me every time.” Dude, this isn’t middle school. No one cares that you tried really hard. Winning is what matters. Doing the thing is the crux; all else is fluff and failure.

When someone outperforms me in an area where I typically excel, you know what I say? I say, “They must be really good to have done that.”

Because being beaten by idiots makes me worse than an idiot. Which the Dems and libs seem content to loudly announce over and over again.