Why GUIs are built at least 2.5 times. Or Why I Think Lean Software Development is Wrong.

Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests.

If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued.

The Story of the Atomic Airplane.

Trump’s Brag About ‘BOOMING’ Economy Immediately Gets a Humiliating Reality Check.

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers.

When people who once functioned on a need-to-know basis were all of a sudden forced to adjudicate all of the information all of the time, the default heuristic was just to throw in one’s lot with the generally like-minded.

How Chinese drones could defeat America.

What Ukraine’s Unprecedented Drone Attack Means For Russia’s Bomber Force.

Cinematography of “Andor.”

Ukraine’s audacious drone attack sends critical message to Russia – and the West. That was wild and amazing.

Russia may attack Nato in next four years, German defence chief warns. Correct.

When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life.

Middle managers, beware: The Great Flattening layoff trend has moved beyond Big Tech and into retailers like Walmart.

U.S. Imports Drop 19.8% in April (Yes, That’s a Record).

AI is ‘breaking’ entry-level jobs that Gen Z workers need to launch careers, LinkedIn exec warns. It is; a very bad trend.

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America. The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

Democratic Party is at risk of becoming ‘roadkill,’ warns Tim Walz.

Donald Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Gut American Science.

Beyond Attention: Toward Machines with Intrinsic Higher Mental States.

Trump science cuts may close WA LIGO observatory that confirmed theory of relativity.

Ernst doubles down on bleak response to Medicaid grilling.

Don’t Fall for Trump’s Crocodile Tears Over ‘Judicial Tyranny,’

Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI.

Record Number of Americans Apply for British Citizenship.

Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar.

The Book of Secret Knowledge.

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.

Joni Ernst’s ‘Well, we all are going to die,’ and the GOP’s flippant defenses of Trump’s agenda. Utter dipshit doofus clownishness.

For Europe, America was the future. Now what?

Is private equity becoming a money trap? I hope so.

US insurers’ profits double as price rises exceed extreme weather claims.

In the United States, the fightback has begun.

How safe is the food supply after federal cutbacks? Experts are worried.

Meta is working on a high-tech helmet for the U.S. military. Must watch 30 seconds of ads before you can return fire.

HHS cancels funding for Moderna to develop vaccines to combat bird flu. Moronic as always these days.

The Fed Forecasts Stagflation.

I Thought David Horowitz Was a Joke—but He Foreshadowed the Trump Coalition.

How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring.

The Wall Street Journal Admits It—Capitalism is a Miserable Tyranny.

The AI job displacement crisis isn’t coming. Whether you want to believe it or not, it’s already here.

Five-year study suggests chimpanzees strike stones against trees as form of communication.

What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours.

What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway.

The Blowtorch Theory: A New Model for Structure Formation in the Universe.

The hunt for mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ offers up a surprise.

Computer science ranked seventh amongst undergraduate majors with the highest unemployment at 6.1%, one of the highest unemployment rates across all areas of study.

The Tyranny of Public Opinion.

Trump orders agencies to cut all federal ties with Harvard.

How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully.

Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill.

Webb telescope helps refines Hubble constant, suggesting resolution to long-standing expansion rate debate.

In a county that backed Trump, people depend on Medicaid and are conflicted about cuts. FAFO.

Susan Brownmiller, whose landmark book changed attitudes on rape, dies at 90.

Critical weather service scrambles for staff after DOGE cuts. MAGA clowns should be expatriated to Somalia.

The staggering numbers: Tech layoffs at 646 per day.

The GOP’s Medicaid “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” Lie. The MAGA clowns believe poor believe are inherently “waste, fraud and abuse.”

The New Dark Age. The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.

American Homes Are Shrinking. Why Are They Still So Unaffordable?

Flat design is over. The future is colourful and dimensional. Fuck I hope so.

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.

The dystopia of ‘1984’ is already here.

Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial.

Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder.

The Economic Consequences of Destroying Harvard.

Flying Bribery Palaces and the End of the Western Order.

Entry-Level Tech Jobs are Collapsing.

The Democratic Party Is Literally Dying. The dead hand of gerontocracy is also a symptom of ideological malaise.

The U.S. Reinforces Europe’s Northern Front, Fearing War With Russia.

The Self-Driving Truck Startup That Siphoned Trade Secrets to Chinese Companies.

The death of the family home is killing the American middle class.

About 1 in 4 Americans are “functionally unemployed,” researcher says.

Google Shared My Phone Number.

At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work. Always the MBA goal.

A look into the possibility of negative mass.

Palantir’s rise reflects the direction liberal democracies are taking: toward automated judgment and algorithmic inference—and toward control, streamlined, scalable, surgical. Hell world.

The Red Scare Still Haunts America.

Trump softens on Putin as Russia’s military edge weakens, officials say. Russia winning so hard!

The Democrats’ problems run deep, nearly everywhere.

Russia Defies Trump With Largest-Ever Drone-and-Missile Attack on Ukraine.

U.S. Aims to Keep Chinese Navy Guessing With New Missile System.

New Studies Dismiss Signs of Life on Distant Planet.

How farmers can help rescue water-loving birds.

Why MAGA’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Repeats Every Economic Mistake Since Reagan.

Trump’s ban on Harvard foreign students may come at a hefty price to the economy.

‘Close to impossible’ for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers.

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as ‘Copilot all the things’ mania takes hold in Redmond. Hell no.

What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get. People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.

The Era of Thrash.

Boeing, Justice Department reach deal to avoid prosecution over deadly 737 Max crashes.

MAGA’s assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm. America will pay the price most of all.

Starving the Beast. The Republican Strategy to Create Fiscal Crisis. This is correct.

Disinformation kills.

The Real Path to Abundance.

Greenland dumps Donald Trump, signs lucrative minerals deal with Europe in a major blow to the president.

Trump Resumes Effort to Destroy Economy.

Gen Z may think they have it rough but millennials are the most burned-out generation.

Employers are ditching remote work. Experts worry that’s shortsighted. I will never, ever work in an office again.

Why console makers can legally brick your game console. We have surrendered to bullshit.

Kim Jong Un’s New Warship Capsizes at Launch Due to ‘Absolute Carelessness.’

A new US report makes it clear: five-day in-office mandates are outdated.

The Price of Remission.

“I have NO idea why candidates don’t want to take my 8-hour, uncompensated technical assessment!” If you want me to do eight hours of work, that ain’t free.

The One, Big, Beautiful DISASTER: How Trump’s Tax Cuts Are Gutting Public Programs and Fueling Healthcare Privatization.

US solar keeps surging, generating more power than hydro in 2025.

‘It was a terrible idea’: Air traffic controllers say recent issues at Newark are rooted in a plan from Trump’s first term.

Trump administration revokes Harvard’s ability to enroll international students.

New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station.

Banning lab-grown meat is stupid. Like everything the know-nothing MAGA clowns are doing.

Japan and the Birth of Modern Shipbuilding. How Japan invented modern shipbuilding, and conquered the shipbuilding industry in the process.

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn’t warning the public like it was months ago.

32 Bits That Changed Microprocessor Design. Bell Labs’ Bellmac-32 paved the way for today’s smartphone chips.

“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place.

UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers.

Incredible shrinking clownfish beats the heat.

Brembo develops brakes with almost no brake dust and less wear.

Jupiter was formerly twice its current size and had a much stronger magnetic field, study says.

“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall.

Yellow hat revolt: Inside France’s rural rising.

Poland hits a wall trying to curb Big Pharma’s profits.

Putin is stringing Trump along, and Trump doesn’t seem to realize it.

Global Warming Has Accelerated.

Overall, just two of America’s 50 largest metros offer median salaries that are high enough for those earning them to affordably buy a median-priced home: Detroit and Pittsburgh.

Why Does the U.S. Always Run a Trade Deficit?

BYD launches the new low-cost e7 EV in China, starting at under $15,000.

Fight or Don’t Fight and Take the Consequences.

The New York Times vs AGI.