China is already at war with Taiwan and countries across the globe.
How the government can help increase housing supply.
You think you’re ready. You’re not ready.
Are Democrats Even a Little Serious About Stopping Private Equity? No.
When a massive asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, ants began farming fungi.
The True Cost of Losing Your Home in a Hurricane (After Insurance).
On the brink: Israel, Iran and the rising threat of regional conflict.
There can be no sustainable peace in Europe without security for Ukraine. Agreed. Because Putin will come for your country next.
J. D. Vance and the Failed Effort to Memory-Hole January 6th.
Why do divorced guys dress like that?
U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack.
Near-shoring is turning eastern Europe into the new China.
How Helene became a ‘worst case scenario.’
Mozilla’s massive lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer. Mozilla having a massive lapse in judgment? Not possible!
Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams. Looks like I need to get on that platform. For, uh, reasons.
License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars.
Soul-searching and regret over unheeded warnings follow Helene’s destruction.
The Sun Will Destroy the Earth One Day, Right? Maybe Not.
Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs not a one-off, say scientists.
Election Countdown, 38 Days to Go: What Is Wrong With Our Leading Paper?
7 ways the US is beating Europe.
Let’s evaluate Kamala Harris’ entire economic policy program!
A year after October 7: How Hamas’s attack and Israel’s response broke the world.
Cable is dying. Streaming is the new cable. It’s all getting worse.
The sneaky credit card rip-off.
The Pig Butchering Invasion Has Begun.
New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S.
China Is Ready for War. And Thanks to a Crumbling Defense Industrial Base, America Is Not.
The End Of The SaaS Era: Rethinking Software’s Role In Business.
The presidential race is far tighter than many Democrats probably realize. The race most likely hinges on a few thousand voters in Pennsylvania.
Why Helene Devastated an Area So Far Inland.
Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks.
How the Republican War on Women Extends to Voting Rights.
The People Fleeing Climate Disasters Are Going to Transform the American South.
As the waters rose outside, managers wouldn’t let employees leave.
Despite stricter regulations, Europe has issues with tattoo ink ingredients.
The Last Hominin Standing. A new theory argues humans evolved through competition.
How a California county got PFAS out of its drinking water.
Bad Climate Socialism. The opening salvos of the interstate insurance wars.
CEOs who insist workers return to the office are living in an ‘echo chamber,’ a future-of-work expert says. It’s mostly about stealth layoffs anyway, especially for large companies.
By many metrics, working-class men are worse off today than they were 50 years ago.
AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers’ world.
New study shows that word-initial consonants are systematically lengthened across diverse languages.
Why ‘chaos wheat’ may be the future of bread.
A global housing crisis is suffocating the middle class.
Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 Years.
They were drawn to ‘Old Florida.’ Now they live in the new hurricane alley.
U.S. agency calls for urgent action on Boeing 737 rudder systems.
Better privacy can be one click away. Google and Apple won’t allow it.
America’s Young Men Are Falling Even Further Behind.
Tiny Hippos And Elephants Once Roamed Cyprus, Until Humans Arrived.
Lina Khan Doesn’t Need to Be Confirmed Again.
The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it.
Your cells are dying. All the time.
US is on track to set a new record for homeless people with over 650K living on the streets.
Once again: Imports do not subtract from GDP.
America is becoming less “woke.”
Why Kamala Harris Wants to Stockpile Minerals You’ve Probably Never Heard Of. These aren’t even uncommon minerals?
Europe’s Quest to Rearm Runs Into Red Tape, Lack of Cash—and Meditation.
Trump Camp Says State Menstrual Surveillance Programs are A-OK.
How to design a US data privacy law.
Some baby boomers are burning through their retirement savings to pay for cancer treatments. Then they have to go back to work. Greatest health care on earth, right here!
Genetic drift in structured populations.
A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse. I hate this timeline.
The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself. The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away. I might need to become an assassin and go around eliminating anyone who has anything to do with this.
If Trump wins the election, US parks and wildlife will face a new age of mining.
‘This Is a Disaster’: Western North Carolina Reels From Helene.
Deadly, Exploding Pagers Force the U.S. to Get Serious About Malware from China in U.S. Products that Are Potential National Security Threats. A lot of Chinese crap won’t explode, but is 100% backdoored.
Strategies to secure America’s supply chains.
US sends 60kW high energy laser-equipped warship to Japan amid 2027 China threat.
Industrial Policy as Democratic Practice.
China’s ambitions for semiconductor self-sufficiency thwarted by lack of chipmaking tools.
UK, US and Australia ramp up hypersonic missile work.
Despite warnings, Texas rushed to remove millions from Medicaid. Eligible residents lost care.
Alarming Surge: Global Crisis of Childhood Overweight and Obesity.
Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature. LOL.
Death of the Department Store.
The 1963 Ford Cardinal—too radical for America at the time.
Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives? Hmm, the “experts” assured us in 2016 that all the polls were 100% accurate.
How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find.
Scientists Propose Groundbreaking Method To Detect Single Gravitons. Good luck, as I suspect gravitons do not exist.
The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-up Primate Brain.
Putin Is Hunting Down Ordinary People All Over the World.
They Bought Homes With Their Friends—and Now They Want Out. Yeah, that is a terrible idea.
Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician.
How the news media privileges dangerous and hateful Trump-Vance lies.
Satellite images suggest test of Russian “super weapon” failed spectacularly. Those rocket scientists better stay away from any windows.
Two-hundred-terabyte maths proof is largest ever.
Cave discovery in France may explain why Neanderthals disappeared, scientists say.
Wyden Says Trillions in Taxes Dodged by Ultra-Rich Could Fund Social Security Until 2100.
How the Last Eight Years Made Young Women More Liberal.
An unleashed Israel is humiliating its enemies.
From Gaza to Ukraine, why do so many modern wars last so long? The Hundred Years’ War ring any bells?
Bay Area metro area’s median home price hits $2M, the only city to do so in the US. Insane and unconscionable.
How will you save small midwestern towns without mass immigration? Perhaps not exporting all jobs to Mexico and China with NAFTA et al.?
Boeing union members are angry they lost their pension plan. They’re not likely to get it back.
Punching Octopuses Lead Fish on Hunting Parties.
MAGA Wants Transgression, and This Is What Comes With It.
The Elite’s War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity.
This map shows just how much rent is skyrocketing in every state.
Study: A key ocean current is holding strong, despite a predicted slowdown.
The World’s Most Desperately Needed Airplane Is Back in Production.
Fed’s high-rates era handed $1tn windfall to US banks.
War in the age of AI demands new weaponry.
Free Speech on the Internet: The Crisis of Epistemic Authority.
Inside the Loop: Decoding the Mystery of Self-Awareness in Cognitive Systems.