Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea’s investments.

The Scam Called “You Don’t Have to Remember Anything.”

TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning.

USAF’s Quicksink Ship-Killing Smart Bomb Seen In Detail Like Never Before.

COVID-19 no longer a top 10 killer as US death rate returns to normal. So much for “civilization-ending.”

Free Will is Not Just a Verbal Dispute.

The Era of Step-on-a-Rake Capitalism. Trumponomics isn’t about economics. It’s about creating pain and demanding tribute.

Russia Tested NATO in Poland. NATO Flunked.

US warns Chinese hidden radios may be embedded in solar-powered highway infrastructure.

The Clue to Unlocking Parkinson’s May Be All Around Us.

California considers allowing doctors to prescribe abortion drugs anonymously. Good.

AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker. Correct.

NASA discovers ‘clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars.’

The Kremlin’s plot to kill NATO’s credibility.

Chinese trade is thriving despite America’s attacks.

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal.

Where Did the Smurfs Get Their Hats? I don’t smurfin’ know!

The Job Market Is Hell. Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

Microsoft joins World Nuclear Association as it doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy.

What’s Happening to the Economy Is Obvious to Anyone Paying Attention. This is the road to stagflation.

US Added Nearly A Million Fewer Jobs Than Reported.

Gen Z are dipping into their retirements, skipping meals and selling their belongings just to get by, new reports find.

Here’s what happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood.

The U.S. economy actually grew by nearly a million fewer jobs than previously thought, and it shows ‘AI is automating away tech jobs,’ economist says. They were denying it for a long time, but of course it’s happening.

New SNAP rules could result in 2.4 million people losing benefits each month.

How to make metals from Martian dirt.

How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe.

Shine dulls. Elegance changes shape and fades away. My mother dies and takes her hopes with her.

A liberal arts education stopped being a goal in itself, a means to self improvement, long ago. Instead it was forced to present itself as a career path, then branded a con.

Paging FDR: Democrats need to embrace New Deal-style politics. I’ve said this since Obama’s first term.

How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight.

On Not Surrendering in Advance (Or At Any Point Thereafter).

IT Unemployment Fell in August. But the Tech Jobs Market Is Still Shrinking.

Unbundle the University.

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So. Mostly agreed. Her hired utter incompetents and it shows.

Liberté, égalité, radioactivité. France built 40 nuclear reactors in a decade. Here’s how they did it, and how the world can follow their lead today.

How the Math of Shuffling Cards Almost Brought Down an Online Poker Empire.

In Every Tree, a Trillion Tiny Lives.

AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.

The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable.

Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes.

Powell Will Hang Separately: The Federal Reserve Has Already Failed its Duty to Lisa Cook and the Constitution.

How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies. Evil, evil stuff.

The Unusual Asymmetry Of The C-17 Globemaster III.

The ‘Marry the House, Date the Rate’ Strategy Is Backfiring on 2025 Homebuyers. Highly risky strategy with a terrible downside.

The typical homeowner now has a net worth that’s 43 times greater than that of the average renter.

The myths that made Putin’s war.

Scams And Bribery Are Becoming the Foundation of Our Economy. I said this years ago.

A Guide to the New World Disorder.

What is Blueskyism? And why is it so toxic for political persuasion?

Bessent Blast’s the Fed for QE, its “Perverse Incentives” for Fiscal “Irresponsibility,” “Wealth Effect” Policies, “Class and Generational Disparities,” Failure on Inflation… Oh I So Agree.

Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer.’ Agreed.

Liberalism Without Illusions. We must free ourselves from the delusion that history is progressive and accept that the dark side of our nature is here to stay.

IDN homograph attack.

Americans are getting the economy they voted for.

The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously.

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars.

Under Trump, the Federal Trade Commission is abandoning its ban on noncompetes. Extremely bad for the economy and workers.

I worked at a company that used “predictive assessment tools” to secretly profile employees.

Navy Carrier-Based ‘Loyal Wingman’ Drone Development Suddenly Pushes Forward.

The Last Mainstream American Sedan Has Been Discontinued. Insanity.

Wikipedia is one of the few platforms online where tremendous computing power isn’t being deployed in the service of telling you exactly what you want to hear.

Hundreds of undocumented immigrants apprehended in massive ICE raid at Hyundai plant in Georgia.

We have no shortage of people who have decided, when faced with mystery, not to learn from the knowledgeable, nor even to investigate the answer, but to rummage into their pocket, take out the same device that could inform them in an instant, and use it to broadcast the message I don’t understand this, so it follows that nobody else does either.

The search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results.

John Deere, a U.S. Icon, Is Undermined by Tariffs and Struggling Farmers.

Trump’s tariffs were supposed to revive U.S. manufacturing. They’re wrecking it.

The Universe within 12.5 Light Years.

Eels.

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you.

What Can Democrats Do to Get Rid of the Scarlet L for Loser? Maybe not act like giant fucking losers 24/7?

Why the world’s biggest movie bombed in America.

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.7%, Much Worse than Financial Crisis Peak. Multifamily Delinquencies also Spike.

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants. Damn nature, you scary.

Oregon, Washington, California form health care alliance to protect vaccine access. We made the right decision to move to California. Anti-vaxxers can live in their death-riddled shitholes.

The Simple Mathematics of Chinese Innovation.

Houston’s ConocoPhillips to lay off up to 25% of global workforce.

China’s Military in 10 Charts.

Go to a place where the managerial class killed manufacturing, like Detroit or Flint or Gary, and remember that in the living memory of Boomers and older GenX, those were GOOD towns

China’s New DF-61 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Breaks Cover.

The staff ate it later.

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content.

Choosing ‘Daddy’ Over Democracy.

It is difficult to overstate the disaster that is Canadian immigration policy.

The US Population Could Shrink in 2025, For the First Time Ever.

Confirmed: America is in a serious jobs slump.

AI-Powered Drone Swarms Have Now Entered the Battlefield.

Forced Drug Treatment Isn’t Horrific. It’s a Relief.

1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows.

The day Return became Enter.

The Ice Cream Truck’s Surprising History.

Age verification legislation is tanking traffic to sites that comply, and rewarding those that don’t. Well, that was the point of it, right?

China’s navy is expanding at breakneck speed – and catching up with the US.

Why these hairy caterpillars swarm every decade – then vanish without a trace.

The Future that Never Was.

Childhood trauma linked to mental health problems and chronic pain in later life.

What China’s spies are doing in the U.S., and what happens when they’re caught.

US Manufacturing Activity Contracted in August for a Sixth Month.

Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds.

Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class. Ain’t no meal anywhere worth $1,200. Nope.

Salesforce CEO confirms 4,000 layoffs ‘because I need less heads’ with AI.

A Crack in the Cosmos.

About a third of senior developers (10+ years of experience) say over half their shipped code is AI-generated.

Ford and the Birth of the Model T.

Gutta-percha.

Rare and secretive creatures not seen in 33 years are found lurking in Florida wetlands.

Most Dangerous Cities: 2025 Rankings for the 30 Largest U.S. Cities.

Why we still don’t know where COVID-19 came from. And why we need to find out.

Green Eggs and Sun The Administration’s irrational dislike of solar and wind energy imperils both the environment and the economy. Could also be called: “How to Lose to China.”

U.S. Stocks Are Now Pricier Than They Were in the Dot-Com Era.

More Older Americans Are Aging Alone. Who Will Take Care of Them?

Black Americans Are Losing Jobs in a Warning for the Economy.

The philosophers who predicted “ultimate” forms of consciousness.

Gen Z is right about the job hunt—it really is worse than it was for millennials, with nearly 60% of fresh-faced grads frozen out of the workforce.

AI agents could make the org chart obsolete. Microsoft’s AI product lead explains what might replace it.

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures. A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care.

Rick Beato is Right to Rant About Music Copyright Strikes.

Six Months Into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to Price Anything.

A24’s Empire of Auteurs.

Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years.

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy.

Old-School Artillery Survives and Thrives in the Drone Age.

The Lessons of Hurricane Katrina Were Obvious From the Moment It Struck.

I Am An AI Hater.

Core inflation rose to 2.9% in July, highest since February.

USB-C Didn’t Fix Anything After All.

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay.” Trial reveals how insurers try to wield power over doctors.

The Cracker Barrel mess exposes the cynicism of the rightwing culture war.

A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters. Turns out the AI idea was all wet.

People with a high need for cognition were adept at detecting online disinformation, but those with conservative political affiliations were not. Those best suited to detecting health-related disinformation either had a high need for cognition or a liberal political affiliation.

Microbial biotherapeutic metabolite alleviates liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism through PPARα across the gut-liver axis.

End of US low-value package tariff exemption is permanent, Trump officials say. Clownery.

YFQ-42 ‘Fighter Drone’ Collaborative Combat Aircraft Has Flown For The First Time.

Trump’s funding cuts set back research on important health issues by years, Harvard scientists say.

When bison have room to roam, they reawaken the Yellowstone ecosystem.

Why progressives should care about falling birth rates. Yup.

A.I. Is Coming for Culture.

Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws.

The bigger story behind the mass exodus of CDC leadership.

Bankers learn they are fired via accidental email asking them to return laptops.

The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights.

Why the vegans lost. Could be a short article. Should just say, “Because they were fucking nuts.”

The majority of Canadians that own property in the U.S. plan to sell, survey finds.

Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it.

Recently, a woman slowed down a line at the post office, waving her phone at the clerk. ChatGPT told her there’s a “price match promise” on the USPS website. No such promise exists. But she trusted what the AI “knows” more than the postal worker.

Age of Invention: The Century-Long Depression.

There Goes the American Muscle Car.