It’s Nukin’ Season

Definitely. I’m one of those who grew up with constant prep for war (and nuclear war) with the Soviets. The younger people who don’t recall any of that have a vastly different mindset when it comes to many political and social topics. Scientists can prevaricate and dissimulate all they like, but that’s a very huge and extremely substantive generational difference there.

Lock-out

I mean, yeah, obviously. There’s no other country in the world — except Somalia, maybe — where I could just show up with no documentation and no authorization to be there and get a bank account and send my kids to public schools. None. The US is the only one where that is possible.

And it shouldn’t be. No matter my other disagreements with the right, if the left wants to retain any form of welfare state, it should keep the above in mind.

Forcework

Why Didnโ€™t AI โ€œJoin the Workforceโ€ in 2025?

It did. This dude just doesn’t know how to account for it. Look in the wrong place, you won’t find anything. And most people right now are looking everywhere but the right place due to mulish stupidity.

AI is all over the place. My company uses it extensively, to great effect. Recently a project was completed that sans AI would’ve taken perhaps 700 person-hours. With AI, it took maybe 150. This is typical now. And this is happening everywhere. Did it directly replace a person? No. Did it allow that individual to do far more far more quickly? It sure as fuck did.

Considering that in the business world a 10% improvement is highly praised, a 467% improvement is pretty dang impressive.

So, yes, AI is everywhere and that is increasing all the time, inexorably. Just because this clown doesn’t know where to look (or how to look) doesn’t mean it’s not there.

Why Europeโ€™s night-train renaissance derailed.

The representation theory of stories, where the protagonist must mirror my gender, race, or sexuality for me to find myself in the story, offers a cramped view of what fiction can do and a shallow account of how it actually works.

Anti-Aging Injection Regrows Knee Cartilage and Prevents Arthritis.

Maduro Is Goneโ€”Venezuelaโ€™s Dictatorship Is Not.

Health Authorities Issue Measles Alert at Creationist Museum. Not The Onion

Large language model produces high accurate diagnosis of cancer from end-motif profiles of cell-free DNA.

Capturing the magic of โ€˜swamp puppiesโ€™.

Inside Operation Absolute Resolve, the U.S. Incursion That Deposed Venezuelaโ€™s Maduro.

Being celibate made me see the invisible loneliness that some men live with.

Bank of America CEO confirms Gen Zโ€™s hiring nightmare is real: He just hired 2,000 recent grads from 200,000 applications

Asiaโ€™s Future Beyond U.S.-China Competition.

There is this narrative that Russia is a great power and that Putin is some kind of master strategist. But letโ€™s summarize what has actually happened since the invasion of Ukraine.

Where does a liberal go from here? Our movement overreached and crashed. But the fundamental ideals are still just as powerful.

NASAโ€™s science budget wonโ€™t be a train wreck after all.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding.

The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers.