By any reasonable definition, the honeybee is livestock.

US Winemakers and Beer Brewers Face an Existential Crisis: Plunging Alcohol Consumption. Gen Z is prudish in every arena.

The US Labor Market Confounds with its Countercurrents. It May Be the New Normal Labor Market.

The Worst Airport in America.

The Very Powerful Men Who Think Introspection Is Dumb.

Causality optional? Testing the “indefinite causal order” superposition.

A dying breed: the last naturally aspirated sports cars left standing.

Jews Begin to Wonder: Is Anywhere Safe?

Private Proof of Human: Critical Infrastructure for Humanity in a World with Advanced AI.

Why is there suddenly so much love between Japan and Middle America? It's very simple. Both nations have been inundated, both in person and online, with despicable creeps from the third world, and told by our treacherous political class that if we didn't like it, we were just uncultured, xenophobic bigots.

Everyone knew that Generic Standard Young Male Atheist would not have been subjected to this treatment had she found him attractive.

Over 200 species and 5,000 animals will be tested and the bat, pangolin, aardvark with Covid 19 will never be found.

Europe’s struggling auto sector eyes defense contract lifeline.

AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web.

Reddit's CEO wants to “anonymously” verify human identity through FaceID.

Sophisticated drones attacked the US base where we store the nuclear bombers.

GLP-1 drugs are the ultimate validation of the techno-solutionist approach to society's most challenging problems.

Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find.

Negative West Texas Gas Prices Reveal Mismatch in Global Energy.

What The AI Consciousness Question Conceals.

Psychology researchers identify a key emotional pattern among procrastinators.

Excessive smartphone habits tied to emotional dysregulation in the brain.

The pain of social rejection. As far as the brain is concerned, a broken heart may not be so different from a broken arm. And women claim men getting rejected all the time is “no big deal.” BULLSHIT.

AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip.

The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos.

False claims in a widely-cited paper. No corrections. No consequences. Welcome to the Business School.

Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you “verify” the bug remains unfixed. They did that to my bug report about Finder (still unfixed to this day).

Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant.

Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN’s truck.

Hillary Clinton promoting age verification laws with JB Pritzker at an event supported by Zuck/Gates/Bezos.

At least 40% of Russia's oil export capacity halted, Reuters calculations show.

The Sun Is 'Glitching.' Scientists Investigated and Solved a Cosmic Mystery.

The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data.

The Social-Media Shakedown Begins.

Trump’s Ambivalence on Taiwan Opens a Historic Opportunity for China.

The claim that men and women cannot be friends says more about you than about friendship.

2026’S historic snow drought is bad news for the West.

Iran Is Applying the Lessons of Russia’s Drone Warfare Against America.

She uncovered a terrifying lab hidden in California, with alleged ties to China.

The Long-Term Decline of the U.S. Jobs Ladder.

Local Opposition Is Slowing A.I. Data Centers. Wall Street Has Noticed.

America Depends Less on Oil Than Ever.

Libya, Iran, and the Limits of Airpower.

Electrostates vs. Petrostates.

“Little Darlin'”: cover or parody? Or is it two, two, two songs in one?

Reality TV Confronts a Harsh TV Reality.

In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC.

She had, after all, not eaten a single animal product in four years. The planet was healing. She could feel it.

If women have no responsibility to invite an approach, then they have no power to control who approaches them.

The Coming Drone-War Inflection in Ukraine.

Apple is set to put ads in Apple Maps in services push. Ugh.

Self-healing composite could allow machines to last for centuries.

U.S. Battled Drone Incursions Over Key Bases At Home After Launch Of Epic Fury.

JWST reveals most distant red galaxy yet at redshift 11.45.

Massive insect body size 300 million years ago may not have been due to high atmospheric oxygen.

Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded.

The Iran War Is Handing China A Playbook on How to Beat the U.S. Military.

There Goes the Spring Selling Season: Mortgage Rates Jump, Mortgage Applications to Purchase a Home Drop.

Supreme Court Sides With Internet Provider In Copyright Fight Over Pirated Music.

Don’t Listen to Anyone Who Thinks Secession Will Solve Anything.

Schoolchildren Are Converting to Islam 'Out of Fear' in German Schools.

The Death of Millennial Feminism.

American Aviation Is Near Collapse.

Canada’s Polite Pogrom.

Nearly three in five Americans think AI will push homeownership even further out of reach.

Continued monitoring of sunken Soviet submarine shows ongoing radioactive leakage, but little impact.

Well-fed penguins live longer but age faster—much like modern humans.

After getting laid off, many professionals are being forced to take jobs with much lower salaries than what they were earning before.

Europe Shows Early Signs of the Iran War’s Economic Costs.

AI Is Hitting the Sweet Part of the S-Curve.

FCC Bans Foreign-Made Routers as a 'National Security Risk.'

Young Graduates Face the Grimmest Job Market in Years.

GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability.

Ukraine’s Saab 340 Airborne Early Warning Radar Plane Spotted Operating Over The Country.

The Great Replacement and the Islamisation of Britain.

Will AI force code to evolve or make it extinct?

A bit of good news: It’s possible to turn around a groundwater crisis.

America Is Dismantling Its Financial Crisis Defenses. The Timing Could Not Be Worse.

Taiwan’s All-Hands-on-Deck Plan to Fend Off China.

Pit viper, flying snake and geckos among new species uncovered in Cambodian caves.

Europe Is Quietly Playing a Crucial Role in the Iran War.

There isn't always a "long arc" of morality.

Not Everyone Should be Allowed to Vote.

Some Things Just Take Time.

Do Not Turn Child Protection Into Internet Access Control.

Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender.

The paddle wheel aircraft carriers of Lake Michigan.

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record.

Huge study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD.

For the First Time, Scientists May Have Found a Way to Regenerate Cartilage.

Love Island: Rare berry bonanza spurs Kākāpō baby boom.

What Young Workers Are Doing to AI-Proof Themselves.

When health insurance costs $2,500 per month, families make tough choices.

Snowflake reportedly lays off entire technical writer team, replaced with AI.

Oregon School Cell Phone Ban: ‘Engaged students, joyful teachers’.

What We Lost When We Lost Rom-Coms.

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control.

‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance.

I think people who scoff at the idea that AI can improve creative work just don’t know very much about creative work or about AI. Most of the complainers don’t know anything about anything.

Germany is over.

Iran Brings Europe Into Range With Missiles Fired at Diego Garcia.

The Trillion Dollar Race to Automate Our Entire Lives.

JWST probes emerging young star clusters in nearby spiral galaxy NGC 628.

On Being Rejected.

Why did the USAF choose the F-22 over the F-23?

Co-founder of tech company charged with diverting $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI chips to China in violation of export laws.

Tesla Finally Has Its First Semi-Truck and It’s Already a Hit With Truckers.

Former CENTCOM Commander’s Candid Take On The Situation In The Strait Of Hormuz.

A-10 Warthogs Are Prowling For Iranian Boats In The Strait Of Hormuz.

Iran and the New Arithmetic of War.

The US is looking at a year of chaotic weather.

How Stagflation Puts Banks in a Vise.

A Right to Full-Time Scheduling.

CBS News shutters its storied radio news service after nearly a century, ending an era.

Ancient sling bullet delivers a 2,100-year-old taunt: 'Learn your lesson!'

Platypus fur adds another strange feature to an increasingly long list.

Have a Fucking Website.

Russia’s Shadow-Fleet Kingpin Is Back in Business.

The biggest hit of each decade since the 1840s—and what it said about the country.

Europe Tells Trump: Not Our War.

The Institute Behind Taiwan’s Chip Dominance.

A solid-state EV battery that can achieve 800 miles of driving range — It’s becoming a reality.

U.S. Used Its New 5,000-Pound Bunker Busters To Hit Iranian Anti-Ship Missile Sites: Reports.

The dynamic globalisation machine will overcome the Iran shock.

The Puzzling Pleistocene.

A foreign policy freed of liberal pretenses and imperial ambitions could lead to restraint—or, as the Iran attack shows, simply license hit-and-run belligerence.

A lot of male friendships run on a completely different operating system than female friendships.

The new world war. Why the battle for Iran and Ukraine is coming for us all. Good fucking article.

The Scapegoat: How One Man’s Career Was Ended by MeToo.

When the China Shock hit, the consensus was that markets would dynamically reallocate displaced workers. They didn’t. Economists lied about that before, during, and after — and still lie about it to this day.

Navy E-2D Hawkeyes Appear To Be Rushing To The Middle East.

How Europe Undermined Its Own Energy Security.

The real reason the Guardian is so hostile to Gail’s.

Cheap drones are reshaping modern warfare — and catching the U.S. off guard.

Japan's key tech workers are now cheaper than Malaysia's.

Austin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents.

A Czech Man Used This Stone in His Barn’s Foundations. It Turned Out to Be a Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold.

The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere.

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms.

Another “hypothetical scenario” for you, one that was very close to a lived experience for me:.

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks, bolstering origin-of-life theories.

Every layer of review makes you 10x slower.

The Bureaucracy Blocking the Chance at a Cure.

Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies.

Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student.

Taiwan’s bid to export drones free of Chinese parts is taking off.

We are surprisingly bad at knowing when things began. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, partly because I lived through several of the transitions we now misremember.

The Third-Worldist Log.

Progressive Policies Are Inflationary.

The Fed Keeps Getting Hit With New Shocks in Its Yearslong Inflation Fight.

How Should We Remember the Hippies?

Social Security benefit cuts are coming — and they will hit current retirees hard.

This will result in the great disemboweling of white-collar jobs.

While full AI role displacement will happen in certain roles, history shows that wage resets are a more common, insidious, and often equally disruptive way that new technologies affect workers.

I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data.

Treasury Yields Jump, 10-Year to 4.28%, 30-Year to 4.90%, Mortgage Rates Spike to 6.41%, on Inflation & Deficit Fears.

Uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) gas is held in centrifuges. But the moment you cut off the electricity from those centrifuges, they break, and you can’t push the toothpaste back into the tube.

Oct 7 cleaved the world in two for me. First there was the unspeakable, ever-worsening horror of what had happened. And then there was the different kind of horror as I realized that people I knew—people I was close friends with and related to— were supporting the murderers and rapists.

How China’s enormous bet on Iran failed.

Bombardment of Algiers (1816).

Angels of Bataan.

Labour hates Britain. So it’s abolishing what makes us who we are. Fairly accurate, all told.

America's First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project Finally Finishes Construction.

The Limits of Iran’s Proxy Empire.

What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy.

Artist vs. Audience.

Poland is now among the world's 20 largest economies.

COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages.

The Iran War Is Throwing Global Shipping Into Chaos.

Iran War Hits Europe With an Energy Shock It Can’t Afford to Absorb.

‘A molten, mushy state’: scientists may have found a new type of liquid planet.

Career Paths That Look Stable Until You See the Layoff Data.

AI agents could easily send college grad unemployment over 30%, ServiceNow CEO says.

Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft from Kratos for first flight with a European mission system.

How an unappetizing shrub became dozens of different vegetables.

Earth’s first major extinction was worse than we thought.

The moralization of artificial intelligence.

TESS discovers a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting nearby star.

Microsoft has lost the plot: 5 Windows "features" nobody asked for.

He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative.

From Kyiv to Taipei: Three Theatres, Much to Learn. The Big Five, 15 March edition.

You gotta think outside the hypercube.

Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock — SK hynix forced to diversify after 30% of global supply removed from the market.

New ‘negative light’ technology hides data transfers in plain sight.

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It.

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills.

An old photo of a very large BBS.

The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, mental health — and nearly everything else.

Timeline of the Online Culture War.

Forced from their homeland after Russia’s invasion, some Ukrainians fear they may never return.