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.

Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space using 1st-of-its-kind ‘artificial photosynthesis.’

One Universal Antiviral to Rule Them All?

China’s Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink.

We now live in a highly polarized country, where even election results are contested. Politicians are cheerleaders, not statesmen. Economic statistics are discussed not in terms of their implication for the economy, but rather whether they have been altered to reflect a political agenda.

The Great Postal Boycott Must End. Inflation about to get insane.

The AI revolution is beginning to have a significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level workers in the American labor market.

To fend off the far right, democracy needs to deliver.

We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial. And soon we’ll be in a depression, and they will be in denial about that as well.

Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading. Clownish but expected. And the noose tightens….

Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls.

US retail giants raise prices and seek new import sources due to tariffs. Inflationary depression on the way.

What is a color space?

The CTO Was ChatGPT.

Trump’s Attack on Data Has ‘Dangerous Trickle-Down Effect’ for America’s Most Vulnerable.

FTC Warns Tech Giants Not To Bow To Foreign Pressure on Encryption.

Politico Management Insists “AI” Shouldn’t Be Held To Any Sort Of Human Editorial Standards Because It’s Built By Coders, Not Journalists.

No country for young families.

How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world.

Adults Are Going to Sleep-away Camp to Make Friends. It Seems to Actually Work.

Is 4chan the Perfect ‘Pirate Bay’ Poster Child to Justify Wider UK Site-Blocking? It was never about porn; never is.

Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes.

NASA’s Juno Mission Leaves Stunning Legacy of Science at Jupiter.

The Bubble That Knows It’s a Bubble.

OneDrive even silently reinstalled itself and moved one customer’s data to the cloud, all without consent. This is by design, as are all the Windows user-hostile features.

Both vaccines and antivirals cut the risk of Long COVID with more doses equaling more protection. Paxlovid especially reduces the odds by about 95%.

Recent CT college grads frustrated by lack of jobs, AI and tariff-shy employers.

A third of the U.S. economy is already in a recession or at high risk, and another third is stagnating, Zandi warns.

Palantir’s tools pose an invisible danger we are just beginning to comprehend.

How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes.

Fed Chair Warns the Economy Is Even Worse Than We Realized. Well, duh.

International Paper shutting down Savannah, Riceboro mills, impacting 1,100 jobs. Just the very, very beginning of what’s on the way.

If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will. Still true.

Southwest Is Changing Its Rules for Plus-Size Passengers. Good.

The Retribution Phase of Trump’s Presidency Has Begun.

Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia.

This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco.

Trump administration halts work on an almost-finished wind farm. Clownish unbelievable stupidity. That MF has gotta be working for China.

1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind.

Cracker Barrel and the Americana debate.

VistaVision.

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year.

Investigators Used Terrible Computer Fraud Laws To Ensure People Were Punished For Leaking Air Crash Footage To CNN.

Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math.

Miles from the ocean, there’s incredible diving beneath the streets of Budape.

We’re hearing a lot of talk about stagflation now, for good reason. Tariffs and mass deportations are both stagflationary: They increase inflation while depressing growth.

Plurale tantum.

Buried for Nearly 2,000 Years, a Monumental Dionysian Fresco Sees the Light of Day in Pompeii.

The Media’s Urge to Be “Fair” to Trump Is Killing the Republic.

Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy.

Meet Flamingo, the missile that brings European Russia within Kyiv’s range.

McDonald’s is lowering the cost of its combo meals, after consumers were left sticker-shocked by Big Mac meals that climbed to $18 in some places.

Police Helicopter Downed by Drone in Colombia, Killing 12. Surprised this sort of thing has not happened more. But it will.

Where Americans Spend $1.2 Trillion a Year at Ecommerce Retailers and How that Changed Over Time.

A.I. May Be Just Kind of Ordinary.

Manta Rays Officially Get Third New Species – 15 Years After First Suspected.

The Second Gilded Age Is Resembling the First.

World’s first spinal cord transplant to take place in Israel, could allow patients to walk again.

Germany’s Economy Shrank by More Than Expected on Tariff Hit.

Canada finally faces a basic question: how do we defend ourselves?

For some people, music doesn’t connect with any of the brain’s reward circuits.

MAGA can’t decide if women should be allowed to dance.

Kia is launching all the cool new EVs in Europe, while the US gets put on the back burner. Thanks to the morons in charge of this country.

Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old.

Social bias blind spots: Attractiveness bias is seemingly tolerated because people fail to notice the bias.

Europe’s Free-Speech Problem. Republicans are right to criticize Europe for attacking free expression, even if that makes them hypocritical.

Large Stealth Flying Wing Aircraft Photographed Over China.

ChatGPT Shaming Is Making Our Writing So Much Worse. Luckily shaming doesn’t work on me. North Florida immunized me aginst that.

American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate.

‘A walking coffin’: Under Texas abortion laws, some women are forced to endure stillbirth.

Trump says U.S. will not approve solar or wind power projects. Absurdly, insanely clownish. Really must be working for China.

How AI will change the browser wars. Ugh.

Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about.

Obesity has a serious impact on health – it shortened my mum’s life.Blaming the patriarchy, fatphobia or big pharma for weight issues doesn’t reduce the risks.

A tiny microbe discovered by accident challenges the definition of cellular life.

I’ve Seen What Happens When a Country Messes With Data. America, Beware. It’s going to get very bad.

The Iranian connection: how China is importing oil from Russia.

Housing shrinkflation is here to stay. New homes are 11% smaller but 74% more expensive than a decade ago. Economists will find a way to “prove” this isn’t true.

Civil War Comes to the West. This is likely.

Internet Killed the Subculture.

Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics.

Ukrainian sabotage groups operating behind Russian lines.

20,000 US Jobs at Risk as Marvel Abandons Filming in Georgia for UK Amid Soaring Costs.

Inflation alarm bells went off again and prices are rising. Just how bad is it going to get? Extremely bad.

Job market gloom hasn’t been this bad since the Great Recession.

Tech Companies Accused of Bending H-1B Rules With Newspaper Job Listings. Newspapers? They still have those?

The Rising Returns to R&D: Ideas Are not Getting Harder to Find.

It pains me to think about all the money being funneled into the AI bubble. Money that could have funded so many real solutions to real problems.

GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire.

All Russia Needs to Do Is Go Home.

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing.

How Svengali Putin Keeps Trump the Chump Dancing to His Tune.

Big Business and Wall Street Need to Stand Up for Honest Data. But they will not.

America’s Support for Taiwan Is at a Critical Juncture.

Core Services PPI Explodes, Worst since March 2020, Causes Overall PPI and Core PPI to Explode.

UMich cancels doctoral epidemiology program admissions for 2026.

Deconstructing Housing. The market alone can’t fix America’s housing crisis. A public option can.

The Media Can’t Handle the Absence of Truth.

The End of Handwriting. For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad? I hate writing by hand.

Millions of women are ‘under-muscled.’ These foods help build strength.

America’s Stalled Mobility: Housing Costs and Job Insecurity Keep People Stuck.

Pity the policymakers in the AI jobs tsunami.