Apropos

The quest to offend no one leads to art that elevates and inspires no one.

Appropriate everything, says what’s true, look into the darkness, cast aspersions and dent your helmet bashing through to the truth. One should not aim to offend, but excising anything with power and beauty is what the goal of removing all possibility of the offensive ineluctably leads toward.

All good art is offensive in the original Latin sense: it hits you, it moves you, it strikes against you. Otherwise, it’s worthless.

We Asked 12 Young Men Across America How They Feel About Trump, Masculinity, and Money.

Who will defend Europe?

It is important that those of us who see, and who have seen for decades, all of these government expenditures as insane and as vehicles for corruption comprehend that the other side sees them as absolutely vital actions for what the US government should do.

Intel has become a political pawn โ€” but it may not need Trump or a deal with TSMC.

PPI Inflation Accelerates to +3.5% yoy, Worst in 2 Years, Driven by Services amid Massive Up-Revision of Services Inflation.

Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills.

Friendly neighborhood Dangerous Professional advice.

Trump and Musk Are Destroying the Basics of a Healthy Democracy.

Weโ€™re Headed Toward a Landlord-Friendly Era. Expect Higher Rent Prices.

America Opens the Door to Its Adversaries.

Thinking is something done by biological beings with hands and stomachs and fragile flesh. Our rationality is deep-rooted in our interactive relationship to the vast ecologies that sustain us.

Pituffik Space Base.

Landlords Have a New Hardball Tactic: Tanking Your Credit Score. Time to go full Luigi on these motherfuckers.

Superiority Simplex

The Cultural Apostate.

I say this as a confirmed grumpy jerk-ass: this guy sounds like real doofball. Just a terrible person to know and to be around. If I’m the death of the party, this dude is the apocalypse of all parties past, future and present.

Cool, dude, it’s great that you don’t like anything at all but a banjo (?) and penning overwrought articles about how very superior you are to anyone who likes anything. I can’t believe I wasted my time reading this turd but I am going to warn everyone else against it, at least: avoid at all costs.

It sucks that he seems to have decided that nothing will be permitted to move him again, that he is apart from the world and that anything that attempts some artfulness is “pandering,” but good god I did not need to read a thousand words about it.

Just go do banjo stuff. You’re not an apostate or an iconoclast. Just an assclown.

Americaโ€™s First Broken Arrow Incident Happened 75 Years Ago.

Yes, the Price of Eggs Matters.

Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation. Anne gets it.

The Erasing of American Science.

We Live Like Royalty and Donโ€™t Know It. Introducing โ€œHow the System Works,โ€ a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life. Should be taught in school.

DOGEโ€™s Federal Job Cuts Threaten Republican Districts Too.

An American Retiree Was Lost Off the Coast of Venezuela. Then Things Went Really Bad.

The birth of naturalism.

This Cityโ€™s Sewer System Is Full of Alligators, but Itโ€™s Not New York. In Florida, alligators live and go anywhere there is water. This is not surprising.

Trumpโ€™s Ideas Are Terrible. Thatโ€™s Not an Accident.

Army Helicopter Might Have Missed Critical Instruction Before Midair Crash.

If You Ever Stacked Cups In Gym Class, Blame My Dad.

Rapid warfare tech helps U.S. Army build on lessons learned in Ukraine’s war with Russia.

In many aspects of the modern world (economic, political, environmental, technological, etc.), we are arguably transitioning from a predictable regime of effective dynamics to a more uncertain regime without such effective dynamics.