Here is the sad truth: baking potatoes in the microwave is an NP-hard problem.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents.

Age verification checks are now in force in the UK because of the Online Safety Act, but with the Discord fallout, it seems like one bad idea after another.

The price of cocoa has collapsed back to pre-shortage highs, but all chocolate formulas are forever enshittified.

Scientists Keep Discovering Mysterious Ancient Tunnels Across Europe.

Fedโ€™s favorite inflation gauge shows there is more work to do to tame price increases.

US probably shed jobs last year, top Federal Reserve official says.

US Battery Market to Grow Despite Policy Headwinds, Report Says. Good. Solar + batteries is the future.

People say, "America has never seemed crazier than it is now." Well, no. It has seemed comparatively much crazier before.

The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis.

How the Frozen Housing Market Is Battering U.S. Manufacturers.

The U.S. Is Hunting the Shadow Fleet. This Is What Itโ€™s Up Against.

A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. โ€˜Itโ€™s easy to see why birth rates are fallingโ€™.

Russiaโ€™s Aggression in Ukraine Will Persist Through 2026.

Our Intelligence Troubles.

Those Doofs

It’s weird going from looking at liberal clown accounts talk about how AI is always wrong, does nothing but hallucinate, is worthless, and then use it to do in 30 minutes what would’ve been in the past for me 4-6 hours of financial forecasting.

And then check all the numbers and they are 100% correct.

What is going on with those doofs?

AI In

This person is viewing the outcome discussed as a good thing, and I do not agree with that. Their politics are not mine. However, I do concur that this will be the result of AI infiltrating the economy.

And it is going to cause a lot of economic devastation.

Pop Nope

(2) Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) / X

I think a lot of the libs recognize now how incredibly, wildly unpopular their doctrine of, “We must let the wild-eyed crackhead murder you, rape you, or set you on fire for equity and fairness” has been.

That said, I don’t think they want to change. It’s just being forced by circumstance. If given free choice they’d still prioritize the “right” of some gutter scum to assault or stab you at will. However, when a lot of normal people saw the evidence in front of their eyes that many idiot libs had far more empathy for Decarlos Brown than Iryna Zarutska, that started the ball rolling.

It still not enough. But evil is being beaten back a little.

Cosmic curveball: Distant system challenges planet-formation theory.

How I Use Claude Code.

How far back in time can you understand English?

Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon.

The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest โ€” And AI Is the Hunter.

Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Donโ€™t Make the Same Mistake.

Facebook is absolutely cooked.

US Treasury Debt-to-GDP Ratio Rises to 122% in Q4, Highest since Covid Spike.

Sam Altman says not even the CEOโ€™s job is safe from AI as it will soon perform the work better than โ€˜certainly meโ€™.

Mississippi health system shuts down clinics statewide after ransomware attack.

"Canadian" is ceasing to be a thing, or at least a thing that matters, even to Canadians, because Not American simply isn't enough. Nations need something to stand for.

Only a fraction of House seats are competitive. Redistricting is driving that lower.

The world order weโ€™re leaving behind may be replaced by no order at all.

The Dance Floor Is Disappearing In a Sea of Phones.

She was earning ยฃ65,000 before AI came along. What happened next is a warning to us all. As the first wave of job losses hits, nobody is safe from artificial intelligenceโ€™s white-collar cull. Correct.

I want England to remain English, and as a byproduct of it, then it remains a place where I want to live.

National Well-being Cannot be Pursued with a Demographic Imbalance.

New Vision To Fill Gaps After AV-8B Harrier And AH-1Z Viper Retirements Laid Out By Marines.

A $44,000 Bill Shows the Dysfunction in Californiaโ€™s Home-Insurance Market.