If Trump Sounds Like He Wants a Police State, That’s Because He Does.
The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death.
If you use AI to write me that note, don’t expect me to read it.
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Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss.
Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death.
B-1B Bones Make Unprecedented Bomber Task Force Deployment To Japan.
The point of no return: Only days left to stop a totalitarian state in the US. For once I agree with John Quiggin.
Trump is wrapping up 100 days of historic failure.
Trump revives a 1930s mistake that hurt more than it helped.
Prominent ultra-processed food researcher leaves NIH, alleges censorship.
Beyond Tariffs: What the U.S. Can Learn from China’s Industrial Playbook.
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say. More clownishness. I do believe our enemies are in control of the country.
Toothpaste Widely Contaminated With Lead and Other Metals, US Research Finds.
LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions. It all gets more dystopian by the day.
Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet. Very cool. When can I move in?
Trump Has for Months Privately Discussed Firing Fed Chair Powell.
Lilly’s First Pill for Diabetes, Weight Loss Shows Positive Study Results.
Why Do Domestic Prices Rise with Tariffs?
Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers.
Social Media and News Fact Sheet.
The Bleeding Edge of Battle (Part I).
The Bleeding Edge of Battle (Part II)
Microsoft lets Copilot Studio use a computer on its own. Aww hell no.
Darwin’s Children Drew All Over the On The Origin of Species Manuscript.
14 reasons why Trump’s tariffs won’t bring manufacturing back.
How Colleges Are Trying to Save Themselves. Arguarbly the stupidest thing the Trump admin is now doing is destroying the university system. Though there are so many moronic things, there’s really no way to tell.
U.S. weapons from Afghan war give Pakistani militants a deadly advantage.
25 years on, Patrick Bateman’s unsettling morning routine is normal. Not so much the routine, as the ethos.
The People Are Resisting While the Elites Are Surrendering.
What the best ads of the 2000s reveal about American culture.
You say you want a revolution. Well, you know, we all see you’re full of shit.
Investors Haven’t Been This Bearish in 30 Years, BofA Poll Shows.
Trump will destroy a world economy that has us at the apex and only getting stronger. It is idiocy not seen since the Civil War at least.
The Planetary Politics of Everyday Life. Forging an effective ecological transition requires improving people’s daily lives. Fuck degrowthers.
What would a real anti-China trade strategy look like?
EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears.
There’s No Coming Back From Trump’s Tariff Disaster. America was the world’s economic anchor. Thanks to the president, it may never have that role again. Permanently fucked.
The troubling rise of Hitler revisionism.
Biden’s Team Wishes They’d Moved So Much Faster. Jesus Christ, shut up.
NOAA scientists scrub toilets, rethink experiments after service contracts end. We are a nation of goddamn idiots.
Trump’s ongoing 25% auto tariffs expected to cut sales by millions, cost $100 billion.
CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” Reflects the Exhaustion of Liberal Feminism.
Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing.
Goose-steppers in the name of freedom: The nonsensical cult that now rules America.
If millions of people are stealing from Social Security, then why can’t the DOJ find any of them? Because there just is not a lot of fraud — but to the plutes, Social Security itself is fraud (and they want that money).
Mammoth genetic diversity throughout the last million years.
Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans.
Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments.
Fifty and out: How Gen X became the biggest work losers.
America Is Now One Giant Milgram Experiment.
Sex Workers Already Predicted There’s A Recession Coming — Here’s How They Know.
Jamie Dimon says Gen Z has no reason to be depressed—as long as there’s no nuclear war they’ll have an ‘unbelievable life.’ Except for the Trump Depression rolling in.
The McMansion is a manifestation of power and wealth meant to communicate that power and wealth to others as explicitly as possible, and that it does so in a country besieged by brutal and inescapable income inequality. That’s an actual mansion (not a McMansion), just a crappy one.
Shopify CEO’s AI-First Hiring Policy Is Job Security’s Ticking Clock.
Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates. Why do the MAGA tards hate science so much?
Road deaths fell below 40,000 in 2024, the lowest since 2019.
‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son.
Why Hollywood is not alarmed enough about Gen Z.
New video of China’s tailless, triple-engine fighter jet has military aviation community buzzing.
‘I want to reclaim my skin’: Why these people are removing their tattoos. I thought this terrible trend might go the other way soon; excellent.
Newsom in fight to advance plans for $20-billion water tunnel in the Sacramento Delta.
Trump threats do the unthinkable: transform Canadians into flag-waving, U.S.-booing patriots.
Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it. Nor should they.
Here’s how China could crush the U.S. housing market.
Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival. Fucking clownish idiocy.
Krisp is using AI to help Indians sound like Americans on calls. Ugh.
Bullseye Standoff Weapon Based On Israeli Cruise Missile Unveiled By General Atomics.
Trump Says Tariffs Are Reciprocal. They Aren’t.
Stagflation Is Now America’s Best-Case Scenario. It’ll be depression.
World’s Smallest Pacemaker Is The Size of a Rice Grain.
Interviewing in the age of AI.
Thousands of North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500.
A Multiwavelength Look at Proxima Centauri’s Flares.
Tariffs Are Dragging Down Even Companies Without US Exports.
National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers. Moronic.
CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration. Mega-moronic.
Tech In Plain Sight: Windshield Frit.
How Contracting Work Became a Race to the Bottom.
MAGA Maoism is spreading through the populist right.
Social Security Staff Worried Elon Musk’s Meddling Is Going to Accidentally Crash the Whole System. That’s the goal so, yes, probably.
When consumer goods are expensive, it’s not worth taking risks and trying things you might end up disliking, or might not have the skill to execute on. Kelsey is correct about the optionality aspect.
The Device Throttling the World’s Electrified Future.
Why Trump May Get Away With His Tariff Trauma.
In the search for life on exoplanets, finding nothing is something too.
This is the stock market’s worst start to a presidential term in modern history. And the good news is that it’ll only get worse from here. Depression on the way.
Hey Democrats: Stop fiddling while Trump burns America. But they won’t.
Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks.’
There Are Signs of a Category 5 Housing Crisis Forming and Coming Straight For Us.
North America is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover.
What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
The death of the middle-class restaurant.
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex.
Here’s the iPhone. Here’s the iPhone With Tariffs.
Beef Is Expensive. Meatpackers Are Scraping Every Morsel From Bones.
Stocks Plunge as the Market Understood What Tariffs Are: A Tax on Corporate Profit Margins.
Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought.
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. We’ve been building to that for a while.
Hot Schrödinger cat states created.
A Cowardly Congress Is Letting Trump Crash the Economy.
Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again.
What is up with car door handles these days? Everything everywhere getting worse all at once.