The History of Album Art.

120 Companies with planned layoffs in May.

One third of the population believes every lie, one third is too ignorant to tell the difference between truth and lies, and the remaining third is powerless (or unwilling) to do anything about it.

Broken Justice: how Europe let its courts decay.

High Rent Hits Gen Z Hard: 3 in 5 Struggle With Affordability.

US Holders of Foreign Assets, Foreign Holders of US Assets, and Exorbitant Privilege.

Ever Worried About Being Laid Off? Read This.

Trumpโ€™s tariffs: โ€˜It feels like Covid 2.0. So many things are getting disrupted.โ€™

The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone for US media.

Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK, study finds.

Despite Pete Hegseth, Signal is Good.

Skin wounds in humans found to heal nearly three times slower than those in other primates.

France wants EU parcels levy to stem flood of cheap Chinese fast fashion imports.

AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western.

When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History.

Missteps, Equipment Problems and a Common but Risky Practice Led to a Fatal Crash. New details revealed by The Times show that the failures on Jan. 29 before an Army helicopter crashed into a jet near Reagan National Airport were far more complex than previously known.

We are literally watching the US Economy collapsing right before our eyes. If you want to buy something you might require in the future, get it now.

Weโ€™ve raised a generation of fragile, paranoid, neurotic snowflakes. And the worse part is that itโ€™s not really their fault.

Once again: Imports do not subtract from GDP.

Trumpโ€™s Newest Executive Order โ€œUnleashesโ€ the Copsโ€”and Flirts With Martial Law.

The Fatal Mistake That Democrats Keep Making.

The White House Tech Bros Owe Their Fortunes to the Research Theyโ€™re Killing. Yep.

Inflation Is in the Revisions? What Stands Out Once Again in the PCE Price Index? Sharp Up-Revisions of Prior Monthโ€™s Inflation.

If you think Americans are mad now, just wait a few months. Living in a refrigerator box by the side of the road does tend to make people pretty mad.

Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week as China tariffs start to bite. This is going to be very, very ugly.

Trumpโ€™s Economic Calamity Is a Political Opportunity. That the Dems will no doubt utterly squander.

Escaping the Simulation. Social media addiction, algorithms, and how to reclaim our agency.

Instagram’s AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists.

Flares from magnetized stars can forge planets’ worth of gold.

We Need More Optimistic Science Fiction.

โ€˜60 Minutesโ€™ Chastises Its Corporate Parent in Unusual On-Air Rebuke. Actual resistance.

Nonzero: Trade edition. The real cost of protectionism.

As RFK Crusades to โ€˜Make America Healthy,โ€™ FDA Suspends Milk Quality Tests.

The Present Crisis and the End of the Long ’90s.

MAGA doesn’t build.

Shipping Collapse: Port Workers and Truckers Wait for the Ships to Come In.

The US Is Already Losing the New Cold War to China. Well, of course. Our sole plan was “throw random tantrums.”

The human mind really can go blank during consciousness, according to a new review that challenges the assumption people experience a constant flow of thoughts when awake. My mind goes blank all the time. That this is a “discovery” is mystifying.

Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts.

The gulf between Gen Z men and women on political and cultural issues is far wider than it is in older generations.

AI Helps Unravel a Cause of Alzheimerโ€™s Disease and Identify a Therapeutic Candidate.

China Deploys J-10 Fighters To Egypt.

Intel Removed All CPU information pages before 2nd generation Intelยฎ Coreโ„ข processors. Intel continuing to get worse and worse.

Whoโ€™s a Carthaginian? Genetic Study Revises Ancestry of Romeโ€™s Ancient Nemesis.

DOGE is not about waste and efficiencyโ€”itโ€™s about privatization. Yep.

Why the world stopped making sense: How the neoliberal “class war” fueled global chaos.

Employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots in real time.

How the left can win: Drop the statistics and tell real people’s stories.

The Friendship Recession: The Lost Art of Connecting. Another thing very obviously definitely occurring that “scientists” insist is not happening.

Every complex ecosystem has parasites.

The Impact of New Housing Supply on the Distribution of Rents.

Expanded phylogeny elucidates Deinosuchus relationships, crocodylian osmoregulation and body-size evolution. Basically: more nommable food, get mad big!

Bubble Trouble. An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

Whatโ€™s Legally Allowed in War.

Homebuilders plan for a slower and pricier year ahead.

Just a pale blue dot. When we see the Earth as โ€˜a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeamโ€™ what do we learn about human significance? That we need to get out there and take the rest.

With over 900 US measles cases so far this year, things are looking bleak.

Mike Lindellโ€™s lawyers used AI to write briefโ€”judge finds nearly 30 mistakes.

The Library Burned Slowly.

Funding cut for landmark study of women’s health. Another moronic thing in the long list.

AI Horseless Carriages.

A 2,000-year-old battle ended in fire, and a tree species never recovered.

Companies are ramping up warnings about the effects tariffs may have on bottom lines โ€” and consumers.

1 in 5 American Homes Now Devoured by Wall Street Vultures: Corporate Americaโ€™s Housing Heist Escalates as Homelessness Soars 18%.

Why 21 cm is our Universeโ€™s โ€œmagic length.โ€

Sales of Existing Homes Drop to Worst March since 2009. West, South, Midwest, Northeast All Get Crushed. Supply Surges to Highest since 2016.

Lawyer Up? Increasingly, Americans Wonโ€™t, or Canโ€™t. Itโ€™s dangerous to go to court without legal representation โ€” but more Americans are going it alone.

Why a holiday in the US is out of the question.

Universities (finally) band together, fight โ€œunprecedented government overreach.โ€

Trump wants a Golden Dome over America. Here’s what it would take.

Nearly half of Americans live in places with failing grades for air pollution, report says. The U.S. is backsliding on air quality measures, according to an annual American Lung Association study.

Trump administration unwinds efforts to investigate Russian war crimes.

Itโ€™s impossible to be right about Donald Trumpโ€™s tariffs because there is nothing to be right about.

Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience.

This is how HR systems are tanking our careers. HR systems are configured by the clueless, monitored by the incompetent, and maintained by utter clowns.

The Spread between 10-Year Treasury Yield & Mortgage Rates Is Historically Wide and Widened Further: Some Thoughts.

A new record for California’s highest tree.

Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole.

Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record. Not long ago, this was “impossible.”

Trump Shuns Europe, and Its Defense Industry Tries to Capitalize.

Three ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch.

An unexpected Trump ripple: Britain nationalizes its last steel mill.

Supercells are the king of thunderstorms. Hereโ€™s how they happen.

Volvo to cut up to 800 US jobs as Trump’s tariffs bite. Only the very very beginning of the first wave of far more to come.

The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains? Police state is here.

Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars.

Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar.

First Shockwaves of Trumpโ€™s Tariffs Are About to Hit the World Economy.

Europe’s cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers. ‘It’s amazing how fast the change has been.’

Boeing jet returns to US from China, a victim of Trumpโ€™s tariff war.

Trump Moves to Levy Chinese Vessels in Widening Trade War. This has moved from moronic to mostonic.

The Trump-Harvard showdown is the latest front in a long conservative war against academia.

Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline machines coiling and uncoiling in the livid molten core of the earth.