‘This fire could have been prevented’: How utilities fought removal of old power lines.
Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End. America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over. Thanks, MAGA clowns!
‘A black hole’: New graduates discover a dismal job market.
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse.
Unemployed Americans Endure Longer Job Searches in a Cooling Market.
AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’
RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026. NPR: Every community will be hurt by Corporation for Public Broadcasting closing. As with all degrowther MAGA bullshit, beyond moronic.
Economic Reality Bites Trump and His Protectionist Trade Policies.
Housing boom, baby boom. Americans want more babies. If only they had more homes to put them in.
The U.S. job market was weak in July, and previous months were worse than thought.
Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people.
Geothermal Energy Is Heating Up. It’s Going to Need More Geologists.
Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia.
Sorry, America, but it’s not Australia’s fault that your healthcare system is failing you.
Atlassian CEO Lays Off 150 Employees, Tells Them They’ll Largely Be Replaced With AI.
Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently.
A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data.
Critical Weapons Development Lessons From Ukraine Are Not Being Learned By The West.
Ukraine Repeatedly Targets Key Rail Line Deep Inside Russia With Drone Strikes. Nice.
Progress in gene therapy offers hope for long-term knee pain relief.
The surprising reason why Gen X has turned out to be the happiest generation. Despite being clickbait, generally correct; we were infected by 90s optimism.
U.S. Homes Are Not Selling, and Prices Continue to Rise.
Don’t let crisis become a compass.
Rooftop Solar Is a Miracle. Why Are We Killing It With Red Tape? Idiots on all sides.
The only thing worse than sweatshops is no sweatshops.
Lights Out? Wargaming a Chinese Blockade of Taiwan.
High-Status Men Are Attracted to Ambitious Women. Yep. Accept no fucking substitutes.
When Women Are Radicalized. Men aren’t the only ones susceptible to extremist thinking. And it causes women to go just as nuts.
Why Are Americans So Scared of Talking to Each Other?
CEOs Are Shrinking Their Workforces—and They Couldn’t Be Prouder.
It’s not as simple as ‘housing got more expensive’; the ratios between prices have completely altered in a way that makes the economics of a modern young household utterly incomprehensible to retired homeowners. True in all the Anglosphere, by the way. Also, Boomers are fucking idiots.
How AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours.
Billion-dollar disasters: The economic toll of wildfires, severe storms and earthquakes is soaring.
Russia kills 22 civilians in Ukraine as the Kremlin remains defiant over Trump threats.
“No Tax on Tips” Is an Industry Plant.
The Coldplay kiss-cam frenzy shows we need a culture shift. Or nuking.
Inflation Outpacing Wage Growth For Over 40% Of Americans, Report Says.
Electricity Prices Are Soaring Under Donald Trump.
CEO Brags That He Gets “Extremely Excited” Firing People and Replacing Them With AI.
With Individual Home Buyers on the Sidelines, Investors Swoop Into the Market.
How Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao.
Gaza Said To Be Starving But Not ‘Release The Hostages’ Starving. Heh.
VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in. VPNs will probably be banned soon in most of the Western world.
Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack.
Britain’s spies-for-hire are running wild.
Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 years.
The creepy new future of price gouging.
Power is civilization. Indeed. Energy conservation? I want a fucking energy explosion.
How US Space Command is preparing for satellite-on-satellite combat.
Russian sabotage attacks surged across Europe in 2024. We are already at war with Russia.
A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology.
The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League.
Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response. Utterly clownish.
Betelgeuse, one of the most familiar stars in the sky, may have a hidden companion star orbiting it.
Sexual violence was rife on October 7, say new witnesses.
Hamas tortures Gazans to silence protests.
How Big Agriculture Mislead the Public About the Benefits of Biofuels.
Fantastic Four’s Pedro Pascal Recalls Working With Trainer To Stretch Limbs 50 Feet.
Hurricane Katrina warned us. We haven’t learned.
Floodplains Belong to the Rivers.
Trump’s NASA Cuts Would Hurt America for a Long, Long Time.
Trump’s retreat from the world has been great for China.
Israeli F-16I Navigator Opens Up About Striking Iran.
Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program. Moronic beyond words.
Against the Censorship of Adult Content By Payment Processors.
Economics teaching has become the Aeroflot of ideas.
Why do MAGA faithful support Trump if his ‘big beautiful bill’ will likely hurt many of them? Many people will hurt themselves pretty badly if it also hurts someone they hate too.
Attacks on science are attacks on making and keeping America great. MAGAts really hate science.
A fifth of California homes are investor-owned as state’s affordability crisis deepens – report.
The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived. Pure evil.
France recognizing “Palestine” is as irrelevant as it gets. It doesn’t change a single fact on the ground. Palestine is a fake fantasy country.
Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say.
Intel is laying off 24,000 employees and retreating from some countries.
House Makes Moves to Block Pentagon from Canceling E-7 Wedgetail. Good. Satellites cannot replace that capability.
Institutional landlords see new competition from an unexpected source.
Superheated gold withstands ‘entropy catastrophe’: New method challenges established physics.
Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars. Degrowthers are crying now.
A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by Montreal astronomers.
A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us.
Trump Guts State Department And Staff Warns People Should Be ‘Scared.’
You can’t outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds.
Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War? We are not.
Rent Prices Are Falling Fast in America’s Most Pro-Housing Cities.
Medicaid cuts could have ‘far-reaching’ healthcare, economic impacts: study. MAGA: As long as the poor suffer, who cares?
Gender Relations Have Made Dating a Hostile Act.
It’s Obviously the Phones. Indeed. So just shut up clown-ass phone addicts. Your opinion is not needed nor wanted.
New Russian Drone Made Completely Of Chinese Components: Ukrainian Intelligence.
Conspiracy theorists don’t realize they’re on the fringe.
In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods?
Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule.
OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI.
If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good For Everything, Should We All Be on Them?
Fire, Brimstone, and Hegseth: Idaho Christian Nationalists Establish a DC Beachhead.
Ukraine Scrambling To Fight Against Growing Russian Shahed-136 Threat.
The three-way battle for the Democratic Party.
Why doctors are finally taking IUD pain seriously.
How Social Housing Won in Seattle, Despite a Flood of Big Tech Money.
It’s time to rethink how we measure labor in the US.
The story of the Coldplay couple unfolded like a soap opera. But was the pile-on that followed a proportionate response? No. It was far more shameful than whatever they were doing.
GOP megabill’s final score: $3.4T in red ink and 10 million kicked off health insurance, CBO says.
On Ukraine’s Front Line, a Sky Full of Killer Robots.
YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others.
The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable. Idiot MAGATs can try to pray the solar gay away, but it ain’t gonna work.
The Enshittification of American Power.
How Social Media Is Fueling Gen Z’s Sex Recession.
Japan tells its companies in Taiwan ‘you’re on your own’ if China invades.
Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company.
The US economy is more fragile than it appears.
How The Job Market Will Shift In The Second Half Of 2025.
After Pledging to Keep Prices Low, Amazon Hiked Them on Hundreds of Essentials.
Hurricane risk in Florida is escalating. Home insurance is harder to get.
The Democratic Party Remains Committed to Learning Nothing From Its 2024 Defeat.
What is the most unusual design feature you’ve ever encountered in a home you listed or showed?
Trump administration shuts down EPA’s scientific research arm. More idiotic than words can express.
Trump’s Campaign to Crush the Media. Mussolini & Pinochet playbook.
Lessons From Singapore: Breaking Free Of The Impossible Trinity.
Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down.
The Expensive, Seductive Strategy That Doomed the Democratic Party.
The Landlord Gutting America’s Hospitals.
How the Housing Market For Young People Became ‘A Total Disaster.’
Should We Politicize the Texas Flood? Absolutely. Agreed. The disaster was worsened by climate change denialism, which a (fucking idiotic) political anti-project.
Wall St. Firms Are Buying Utilities to Tap Into the A.I. Boom.
In recent layoffs, AI’s role may be bigger than companies are letting on. Sure is.