Iran-linked hackers behind cyber attack that shut down power plant, reports say.

Forsaking Industrialism: The Most Expensive Thing You Didnโ€™t Buy.

I spent 4 months and $2000 making myself a sweater from scratch, starting with shearing a sheep.

NASAโ€™s New Space Telescope Is Poised to Discover Hidden Facets of the Universe.

Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now theyโ€™re coming for monitors. Very evil.

Employers Are Hiring Recent Grads and Then Saying โ€œOops, Never Mindโ€.

Just as the world appears to be losing its appetite for books, William T. Vollmann pens a 3,000โ€‘page novel.

Recuerda el verano de 1936.

Lab leaks are not unusua.

Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images. Evil.

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs.

Failing Acad

It’s an extremely bad path that academia is following of evaluating the validity of truth claims based solely on who makes the claim.

If they think that’s going to go well for them…well, I guess delusions are all many of us have left these days. The whole edifice probably needs to be brought down and replaced with something less insular and better-prepared to deal with the world as is.

Definitely French

As someone who has learned significant amounts of both languages, French is far easier. The grammar of French is simpler to handle. It’s more similar to English and just in general faster to learn. Meanwhile, German has grammatical gender plus a case system. This alone makes it 2-3x as complex. And then the travesties it commits on verbs and word order…best not speak of it.

Also, the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute rates French as easier. And that’s pretty authoritative.

Fit Cheat

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So-called pickup artists were hated because their techniques and training worked, not because they were misogynists. Women viewed the movement as unauthorized and undesirable men getting an unfair advantage, similar to how many liberals see working out and staying fit as cheating. It’s the same mindset. Idiotic, yes, but I’m just describing, not condoning.

Buffeting

I think something both rightists and leftists miss about CEOs is that a high-quality CEO unless they are truly exceptional like Jobs doesn’t help all that much, but a low-quality CEO is corporate suicide.

So (and empirical studies demonstrate this) avoiding having a terrible CEO is a lot more important for long-term company health than having someone really amazing.

Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On Anne Hathaway.

Over 170,000 Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? Yes.

Membership Fees Are Coming for Your Doctorโ€™s Office.

Underestimating something that has an AI โ€œaccentโ€ by reflexively dismissing it as slop rhymes curiously with underestimating someone because they have a funny accent in your native language (and it isnโ€™t one of the accents that you think signals superiority, like the BBC British accent for English).

The Danube is drying up. Europe still has no plan.

The Bond Market Is Finally Functioning Again, after 14 Years of Financial Repression.

Scientists Recreate the Melting โ€˜Diamond Rainโ€™ of Neptune and Uranus. It May Help Fusion Power.

Why Are Dead Malls a Thing?

Germany plans a โ‚ฌ12B missile program to deter Putin.

How the A.I. Borrowing Binge Helps Drive Up Government Bond Yields.

America Is About to Get More Expensive.

Stagflation, the Scourge of the 1970s, Is Back.

Zero Knowledge Proofs Arenโ€™t Age Verification Silver Bullets.

Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US.

Saab Unveils Stealthy Supersonic โ€˜Fighter Droneโ€™ Concept.

Chinaโ€™s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization.

El Farol Bar problem.

The One Big Issue That Connects the Data Center and Flock Backlash.

Simone de Beauvoir: the Best Romantic Partners Celebrate Each Otherโ€™s Freedom.

China Is Strapping โ€˜Digital Bombsโ€™ to Civilian Infrastructureโ€”Is the US Ready?

If rising rates were enough to end a bull market, weโ€™d have entered a bear market long ago.

Trumpโ€™s FTC Wants You to Call Surveillance Pricing โ€˜Personalized Pricingโ€™.

Shot Shot

1) Women in this sport and most sports can wear whatever they want already. There are literally no restrictions. Clownishly wrong fucking take. Women wear those outfits because they want to.

2) And my problem isn’t that you cannot see her butt, it’s that it’s a worse shot! It’s zoomed in too tightly to get any context. Just objectively it’s an inferior shot for the purpose of ridiculous prudishness. I hate this timeline.

3) If women are not allowed to be shown in their actual athletic clothes while doing their actual sport, they should not be permitted to wear that attire at all. Simple as that.