Major Music Labels Strike Deals With New AI Streaming Service. Ugh.

U.S. employee well-being hit new low in 2024, survey reveals.

Dusty star-forming galaxy at high redshift discovered.

Why top firms paradoxically fire good workers. So, basically, evil?

Hilbert space: treating functions as vectors.

The Banished Bottom of the Housing. Market How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes.

Amazon cut thousands of engineers in its record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster.

Without US satellites, ‘we go dark’, climate monitor tells AFP. We are doing some incredibly idiotic things that will hurt us and everyone for decades.

The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation.

The Real Target of Pedophile Hysteria Is Age Gap Relationships. Yep. All about female intrasexual competition.

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds.

Moss spores survive and germinate after 283-day ‘space walk.’

The next recession is coming — and this time, you’re the collateral.

The qualitative is the foundation of the quantitative.

After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the point of catastrophe.

The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable.

Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent.

We worked with Reuters to measure the impacts of AI scams on the elderly.

When you pick a side and commit to it wholly and without reservation, you get things that moderate positions cannot provide. You get certainty in an uncertain world. You get a community that will defend you. You get a simple heuristic for navigating complex issues.

Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe.

The future of war is the future of society. Military technology is changing rapidly, and we’re going to have to change with it.

Trump DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor.

Mysterious holes in the Andes may have been an ancient marketplace.

AI-generated evidence is showing up in court.

Explosion on rail line ‘initiated by Russian secret services’, Polish government says. We are already at war with Russia. We should act like it.

Intracellular Salmonella hijacks the mitochondrial citrate carrier to evade host oxidative defenses. Little microbe terrorist.

The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads.

More than three hundred years after the reading revolution ushered in a new era of human knowledge, books are dying.

Poland, Romania deploy jets to protect their airspace as Russia pounds western Ukraine.

The Job Market Didn’t Collapse. The Hiring System Did. Here’s What Really Changed. The reality is that both did, around the same time (which the article comes around to admitting).

3 massive changes you’ll see as the climate careens toward tipping points.

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy.’

Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible. Estimates show that the dismantling of USAID has killed at least 600,000 to date. It could get much worse.

Europe Begins Rethinking Its Crackdown on Big Tech.

Why Trump Couldn’t Stop the Electric Vehicle Dream.

Ukraine’s kill zone: How drones ended trench warfare.

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy. Sweet!

Medicaid Insurers Promise Lots of Doctors. Good Luck Seeing One.

Energy Companies Turn to Fossil Fuels, 10 Years After Climate Pact.

The Ukraine war is ultimately about Poland. Exactly.

Stigma is good, actually.

Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined.

Big Tech Is Slashing Entry-Level Jobs, But At the Expense of Future Growth.

Microsoft tries to head off the “novel security risks” of Windows 11. AI agents Agents with read/write access to your files create big security, privacy issues. Completely clownish.

The Limitation of GDP (As A Metric).

Silent cuts, loud consequences: How “forever layoffs” are replacing job security in America.

‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’ AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?

This is not the worst job market yet. This is the best it ever will be. Agreed.

The Enshittification of American Power.

Valar Atomics Says It’s the First Nuclear Startup to Achieve Criticality.

America’s path out of $38 trillion national debt crisis likely involves pushing up inflation and ‘eroding Fed independence,’ says JPMorgan Private Bank.

Seniors hit with 10 percent Medicare Part B cost increase in 2026.

They Rushed to Buy Homes During the Pandemic. Now, Some Feel Trapped.

Real purchasing power over time is not economic welfare over time.

This Is How Our Economy Comes Crashing Down.

The Hidden Devastation of Hurricanes. Their health effects extend far beyond official death tolls.

NIH Directors: The World Needs a New Pandemic Playbook.

Friction Was the Feature. How AI killed prose as a signal.

The top Google results for almost all services are scams.

I’d suggest ‘mankeeping’ works in much the same way. The term is operating within a theoretical framework that sees women as the full human beings whose interests are paramount. Men are regarded as lesser beings whose needs are only worth considering in the context of how they affect women. So, all feminism now?

Stop Talking Nonsense About Culture. When progressives forget how progress works.

Ending Women’s Suffrage Is Not the Answer.

A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents.

A mysterious new model currently in testing on Google’s AI Studio is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition but it is also showing signs of spontaneous, abstract, symbolic reasoning.

Pentagon Creating Amazon-Like Shopping Portal For Counter-Drone Equipment.

Post-apocalyptic life in American health care.

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing. This was always inevitable.

The Disguised Return of The EU’s Private Message Scanning Plot.

All Praise to the Lunch Ladies. Indeed. The lunch ladies were better to me than most of my teachers.

The era of salary negotiation is ending.

In 1990, in the last breaths of the Cold War, a delicious act of American subversion unfolded in Moscow. It’s long been forgotten. It shouldn’t be.

Australia’s Shock Defense Wake-up Call.

Microsoft’s $96.5 Million CEO Payday After 15,000 Layoffs Reveals a New Reality in Tech Jobs.

Three astronauts are stuck on China’s space station without a safe ride home.

World’s oldest RNA extracted from ice age woolly mammoth.

France remembers Bataclan attacks but knows enemy has not gone away. Best bet is to expel nearly all Muslims from Europe; might be the last chance.

“AI features” are the new bloatware.

Chinese hackers used Anthropic’s AI agent to automate spying.

With another record broken, the world’s busiest spaceport keeps getting busier. Sweet.

Trump’s 50-year mortgage would save you about $119 a month while doubling the interest you pay over the long run, UBS estimates.

Scientists watch supernova shockwave shoot through a dying star for 1st time.

A Confederacy of Toddlers. The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children. I concur with this even when I agree with what Trump & co. are doing.

The age of travel flexibility is over. Hotel cancellation has been canceled.

Plateau–Rayleigh instability.

This points, perhaps, to a problem in the way Americans have been framing the naked body all along. Although the newer convention, focused on safety and consent, stamps out some prejudices, it still rests on a narrow idea: that nakedness is by definition lewd.

Disney eyes a future where users help shape the story.

Another Major Tech Company Just Announced Thousands of Layoffs.

A 50-Year Mortgage Does Nothing for “Affordability,” Is a Terrible Deal for Homeowners and a Superb Deal for Banks & Investors.

Why Nietzsche Matters in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn.

I find that all households dislike low-income peers, especially high-income households who are willing-to-pay €538 per month to avoid a 20 p.p. increase in the share of low-income residents.

In thirty years after 1950, the core European economies grew so fast that consumption per capita tripled while their citizens worked 400 fewer hours per year. But then the stagnation.

Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners. Won’t be shopping there ever again.

China’s Stealthy GJ-11 ‘Mysterious Dragon’ Soars Out Of The Shadows.

Corals survived past climate changes by retreating to the deeps.

The invention of the modern self.

It’s curtains for the penny after more than two centuries in circulation. There should be no real penny-alty for doing this.

How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2.

Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes.

Make Medical School Three Years.

One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement. Heh.

Aristotle on Immigration, Diversity, and Democracy.

The quiet collapse of America’s reproductive health safety net.

Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study.

The Monks in the Casino.

70% of ammunition used by Russia made in N. Korea: Ukraine analysis.

Got blamed for an AI tool’s mistake that ended up costing me my job.

‘Ghost job’ postings are adding another layer of uncertainty to the stalling jobs picture.

Fresh signs emerge that the U.S. labor market is weakening as the government shutdown draws to an end.

Perhaps humans have always been so enamored with horror stories because, as a species, we are built for threat detection.

Work, After Work: Notes From an Unemployed New Grad Watching the Job Market Break.

Reading a friend’s email, I click the Reply button, and without asking, it writes a reply for me. Thus, if I want to speak for myself first I have to delete the message it created, signed with my name, w/o permission. The future is terrible.

It’s Not Just An AI Bubble. Here’s Everything At Risk.

The Future the Left Wants is Equity Smashing Civilization.

Illinois to add 3 GW of batteries, saving consumers $12 billion over 20 years.

If You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets, Will They Be Kept Safe? Nope.

EVs put an end to China’s usual holiday surge in gasoline use.

Securing Intelligence: Why AI Security Will Define the Future of Trust.

Faking Receipts with AI.

An election win and a politically incorrect cookbook show that Americans are embracing candour over caution.

How can Newsom stay relevant? Become the new FDR. Someone needs to. Could’ve been Obama, but he only cared about getting rich.

The world’s biggest consumers of electricity are hidden in plain sight.

Women can read age, adiposity and testosterone level from a man’s face.

American Airlines CEO says the government shutdown is impacting holiday travel bookings: ‘Nobody wants to put up with hassle.’ I was condiering visiting a friend this month. Not anymore. Sorry, friend

Transgenderism Is in Rapid Decline Among Young Americans. Social contagion ending.

Shutdown means another missed jobs report Friday. Here’s what it probably would have shown.

Why Trump’s cuts to scientific research are a big win for China.

Shutdown ‘Far Worse’ Than Expected, White House Adviser Says.

Is AI Too Big to Fail? OpenAI’s Finance Chief May Have Said the Quiet Part Out Loud.

Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show.

The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations. Ours will likely be among them soon.

TV increasingly designed for second-screen viewing.

Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people.

‘Stratospheric’ AI Spending By Four Wealthy Companies Reaches $360B Just For Data Centers.

Suicidal empathy.

Army Sets Out To Buy A Million Drones By 2028.

Big Tech needs a staggering $1.5 trillion to fund the AI boom. This is the complex playbook it’s using to get it.

Retail Merchandisers Are Laying Off Staff Just to Pay Less.

If the rumors are correct, Verizon’s ‘bold’ new direction may apparently include mass layoffs.

Why every backup strategy is doomed to fail. I love the commitment to nihilism.

This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air.

10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world.

Qantas releases first images of jet that will fly nonstop from Sydney to London and New York.

Welcome to Big Tech’s ‘Age of Extraction.’

The Lonely New Vices of American Life.

Boeing won’t face criminal charge over 737 Max crashes that killed hundreds of people. Of course not. Can’t hold any corporation accountable now could we?

Humanity’s Endgame. A new history of societal collapse by an expert in existential risk argues that our globalized society is edging toward the precipice.