If nothing is curated, how do we find things?

Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders.

Science funding was already way too low. Right on; should’ve already been 3-5x larger.

Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless.

Foreign Investors Loaded Up on Treasury Securities in March Despite all the Turmoil in the Media.

New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC.

America’s College Towns Go From Boom to Bust.

Carnivorous crocodile-like monsters used to terrorize the Caribbean. Actually, Gary Busey does still visit there sometimes.

Calling All Technologists: The Era of Neutrality Is Over.

RFK Jr. Is Coming for Abortion Pills. And he’s relying on bogus science to make his case.

As an American citizen, though, I don’t think it’s great for the country that we’ve now had three presidents in a row (counting Trump twice) whose judgment I wouldn’t trust in a crisis.

Psychologists like Roy Baumeister and others have studied the long-term effects of rejection, and they are not pleasant. People who have suffered rejections become, on average, more aggressive, less empathetic, have a harder time with self-control.

NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft’s thrusters after 20 years: ‘These thrusters were considered dead.’

It’s Not Just a Feeling: Data Shows Boys and Young Men Are Falling Behind.

The Blob Gazes into the Abyss.

Major European institutes join race to save US science data.

Takeout Used to Be a Convenience, Now It’s a Culture.

When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.

Paleontologists discover a 500-million-year-old, 3-eyed predator.

At This Humble Used Car Lot, Tariffs Are Beginning to Sting.

The Trump Administration Thinks You Should Be OK With Being Poor.

How Mark Zuckerberg Endangered U.S. Security in Pursuit of Profit.

1984 and Brave New World should be read in tandem to understand today’s troubled times.

Why bad philosophy is stopping progress in physics.

American-made drone smashes performance metrics at Chinese prices.

Improving Naval Ship Acquisition.

It matters to me all the ways in which nature works, not just the ones that sound esoteric and deep.

How the Universe Differs From Its Mirror Image.

Why The Fuck Are Democrats Helping Build MAGA’s Censorship Machine With KOSA?

North Korean IT Workers Are Being Exposed on a Massive Scale.

The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science.

RFK Jr. proves the fallacy of ‘doing your own research.’ Most people aren’t capable of researching what their own favorite breakfast cereal is.

China has implemented new export controls for rare earth minerals and magnets. The changes could upend the shift to electric vehicles.

Microsoft Layoffs Hit Coders Hardest With AI Costs on the Rise.

The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump.

The Green Apocalypse and the Twilight of Weber. Notes Towards a Political Sociology of the Planetary Crisis.

The Great Displacement Is Already Well Underway. It’s Not a Hypothetical, I’ve Already Lost My Job to AI For The Last Year.

Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492.

China Called Trump’s Bluff.

We Need to Remember Problems We Solved.

What is HDR, anyway?

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice. Has it evolved even once?

Why Agency and Cognition Are Fundamentally Not Computational.

Why Is Geographic Mobility Declining?

American corporations didn’t want to diversify, anyway.

A ‘bad idea’ and ‘skeezy stuff’: MAGA allies criticize Trump deal to take a Qatari jet as Air Force One.

“Incalculable” Damage: How a “We Buy Ugly Houses” Franchise Left a Trail of Financial Wreckage Across Texas.

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. Clean water? Who needs that?

How Apple helped China become America’s biggest tech rival. Clownishly idiotic what happened there.

I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.

Grifters thrive under Trump’s scam-friendly administration.

POS Tip Demands Are Driving Inflation Higher.

My Brain Finally Broke. Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.

Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning?

Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic.

Scientists Bioprint Living Tissues That Could Revolutionize Diabetes Treatment. This is the sort of thing clown-ass RFK Jr. is attempting to kill.

Remote Work Empowers Workers. Conservatives are using Pandemic Culture Wars to Target it.

We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel.

The rise of a new form of germ theory denial.

Wells Fargo Wants to Privatize USPS. We Should Dismantle the Mega Bank Instead.

The New Right’s Zombienomics.

India-Pakistan ceasefire shouldn’t disguise fact that norms have changed in South Asia, making future de-escalation much harder.

Whatever Happened to the Power Elite? The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.

Stephen Miller’s War on Cancer Cures.

Only 9/11 and COVID Have Been Worse for U.S. Tourism Than Trump.

The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia.

Our Universities are the Crown Jewels of Civilization. And the barbarians are coming for them. Indeed. MAGA doofs hate the idea that anyone might be smarter than they are.

Buffett’s life work—the elevation of shareholder capitalism as the world’s dominant economic model—is ultimately a failure, for humanity.

‘Friends of steel’: Xi and Putin pledge to stand together against US.

Even with Exemptions, Tariffs Will Hurt American Energy Production.

‘The Studio’ Knows the Real Reason Movies Are Bad.

Nearly 60% of U.S. Households Unable to Afford a $300K Home.

Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels. Part of the point of doing it. Fucking idiots.

Observations from people watching.

Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic.

Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings.

‘We Currently Have No Container Ships,’ Seattle Port Says.

Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH. We and the world will be paying for that with additional needless death and suffering for a long, long time.

When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making.

Empty shelves, for-lease signs and job layoffs point to recession by summer And depression by fall.

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US. I think I just became a scientist!

In a bid for survival, businesses are labeling tariff costs on receipts to explain price hikes and retain customer trust.

The Chinese-made jet bringing down Indian fighters in Pakistan.

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC.

Resilience isn’t grit alone. It’s liquidity, community, patience, and grace.

Shingles vaccine may directly guard against dementia, study hints.

Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage.

Cuttlefish ‘Talk’ With Their Arms, Study Reveals.

Millions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if vaccination rates decline. We are on the stupidest path. Anti-vaxers should be in the slammer.

ARPA Is Delivering The ‘Abundance’ Ezra Klein Claims To Be Looking For | Techdirt ARPA Is Delivering The ‘Abundance’ Ezra Klein Claims To Be Looking For.

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College. ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

Criminal AI is Here—And Anyone Can Subscribe

Trump just made it much harder to track the nation’s worst weather disasters Clownish and evil beyond words.

FTC Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees to Take Effect on May 12, 2025.

Got denied remote work during cancer treatment, then fired for “productivity issues” while on chemo.

ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions.

Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities.

China’s economy on cusp of a deflationary death spiral.

How the US Built 5,000 Ships in WWII.

Sending 2 Kids to Daycare Costs More Than Rent in Most Major U.S. Metros.

Electronic Warfare Lessons From Ukraine Informing Air Force Special Operations Future.

NY Fed’s “Multivariate Core Trend” Inflation Measure Hits 3.0%, Worst in Over a Year, Predicts Acceleration of PCE Price Index.

I stopped defending my creative team and let leaders use ai… it failed lol.

The vanishing of youth. The precipitous decline of birthrates throughout the world poses a serious threat to humanity. What is to be done?

“We still have substantial inflation in the United States,” says Warren Buffett. B dawg is correct.

The company with the world’s largest aircraft now has a hypersonic rocket plane.

What will this Chinese future actually look like, two decades or four decades from now? Here, I think there’s less than meets the eye. Agreed.

Europe needs to up its space game to fend off Musk, Russia and China.

Depression and other mental health conditions linked with immune response, study finds.

On cusp of storm season, NOAA funding cuts put hurricane forecasting at risk. Tropical cyclone track forecasts are 75 percent more accurate than they were in 1990. So fucking moronic. The MAGA clowns hate weather because they think it is climate.

In his first 100 days, Trump launched an “all-out assault” on the environment.

The Bad Data Backing Josh Hawley’s Attack on Abortion Pills.

Health Care and The Hollow State. How Federal Cuts Will Cascade Through State and Local Services. Things are going to get worse and worse for a very long time. All completely preventable and self-caused, this disaster.

The Democrats Could Learn a Lot From Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum.

Say it with me folks: imports do not decrease GDP. Correct; they do not.

Small Packages From China Are Now Subject to US Tariffs. Here’s What to Know.

AI Phone Interview.

More American Air Defense Is on the Way to Help Ukraine.

A Scenic Tour of Red Tape: Tracking the Slowest High-Speed Train in the Country.

Trump claims credit for good parts of economy, blames Biden for bad parts.

The Tariffs Are Starting to Hit the Real Economy. It only gets much, much worse from here.

Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire.

How Complex Systems Fail.

Companies Are Slowing Hiring and Keeping More Jobs Unfilled.