US employers cut more jobs last month than any February since 2009.

Are federal workers lazy? Letโ€™s look at the data.

Weight-loss drugs arenโ€™t just slimming waists. Theyโ€™re shifting the economy.

Trump and his allies hint at economic pain ahead for Americans. Great Recession II ahead; Great Depression likely.

Poland seeks access to nuclear arms and looks to build half-million-man army. They will need both.

Why the Maga mindset is different.

A Ukrainian Hostage Situation.

Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks.

This MRI Can Run on Batteries.

Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance.

Study uncovers source of Mars’ redness โ€” a key indicator the planet (maybe) once had life.

Is This the Beginning of the Second Wave of Inflation? Indeed it is.

China has begun preparations for its invasion of Taiwan. Has been prepping for a while; this was just the next logical step.

High Infidelity. Against the steady creep of AI into cinema.

The American public is largely made up of, at least when it comes to politics, a bunch of clueless morons. This is true even when they vote “my” way.

The point of NAFTA/USMCA is to goose profits by despoiling the environment, maiming workers, stealing their wages, paying them less, all while poisoning the Earth.

This Is How The Military Wants AI To Help Control Americaโ€™s Nuclear Arsenal. Big no thank you to that one.

European leaders agree on defense spending surge at crucial EU summit on Ukraine.

The New Age of Global Trade: Aggressive Neo-Mercantilism.

Giant White House.

Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could push up car prices by as much as $12,200.

Weโ€™re Charging Our Cars Wrong.

A small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station.

In 2008, with the bailouts, it was made clear that the US has no interest in reform.

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed.

U.S. Demand for Gasoline Faces Long-Term Structural Problem: Plunging Per-Capita Consumption.

ITAR, la carte de Trump qui peut empรชcher l’Europe d’aider l’Ukraine.

Trump, Social Security and the mugging of the century.

Trump Promised Retribution. Turns Out He Had a Very Big Target in Mind.

Elon Muskโ€™s Looming Disease Holocaust.

From MAGA to monarchy: How tech billionaires are engineering American autocracy.

Making the World Safe for Criminals.

Trump won the White House due to inflation. Now he’s turbocharging it.

Distinguishing classical from quantum gravity through measurable stochastic fluctuations.

No matter how much a parent tries to shield their kid from the worldโ€™s hardships, they will inevitably experience them anyway.

Trump, Chip Maker TSMC Announce $100 Billion Investment in U.S. Something positive at least.

How the British Broke Their Own Economy.

Social Security Checks Could Stop Going Out by April, Ex-Head Warns. Depression even more likely.

โ€˜Fighter Droneโ€™ Designations Officially Assigned To Collaborative Combat Aircraft By USAF.

House Democrats Vow To Hold President Accountable With Agriculture Bill Where First Letter Of Every Line Spells Out โ€˜Impeach Trump.โ€™

China Retaliates Against Trump Tariffs as Superpower Trade War Escalates.

How globalization brought us Trump.

Total Context Collapse: New Polls Show That 100% Of Americans Have Forgotten Why We Built A Society In The First Place And Why We Need To Keep Doing It.

Marine Le Pen condamne ยซla brutalitรฉยป de la dรฉcision des ร‰tats-Unis de suspendre lโ€™aide ร  lโ€™Ukraine.

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats.

Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably donโ€™t work anymore.

They Crashed the Economy in 2008. Now Theyโ€™re Back and Bigger Than Ever.

Google has near complete and absolute control over the browser market. Bundle this with the most popular search engine, and they have near complete control over the web.

Gangster Party. As gangsterism, it all makes sense.

Musk Is Lying About Waste and Fraud in Social Security to Have an Excuse to Kill It. Rich people hate Social Security so, so much; they want you to work until you die and they want that money in the fund.

Economic alarm bells are sounding. Tariffs threaten to deal a big blow.

Trump administration dramatically cuts staff at water agency in California. Depression getting more and more likely all the time.

NASA’s upcoming telescope launch aims to address some existential questions.

Gulf of Mars: Rover finds evidence of โ€˜vacation-styleโ€™ beaches on Mars.

An Eye Tooth Becomes a Real Eye Tooth When It’s Transplanted Into Your Eyeball.

A Ukrainian Familyโ€™s Three Years of War.

Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy.

Welcome to the Zero Sum Era. Now How Do We Get Out? Zero-sum thinking has spread like a mind virus, from geopolitics to pop culture.

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes.

Cuts to national parks and forests met with backlash. What do you expect when you do dumbass things that only a dumbass would do?

The US economy has suddenly been thrown into reverse as key GDP indicator flashes stunning negative forecast.

Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighborsโ€™ politics.

The Guardian view on a tax war: the world must unite against American obstruction.

The daylight savings debate misses the point: letโ€™s make work hours flexible.

China is working on an enormous aircraft carrier that rivals the biggest in the U.S. fleet, analysts say.

Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates. Old but worth reposting.

Tears and shock in Ukraine and Europe after heated Zelensky-Trump meeting.

Inside the FBIโ€™s Lab Leak Investigation.

Two Bay Area tech giants announce huge layoffs at almost exact same moment.

At Least Now We Know the Truth. I been knowed.

The American Weather Forecast Is in Trouble. Layoffs at NOAA will only make weather reports less reliable. MAGA fucking idiots hate “weather” as an abstract idea because it is in their mind associated with climate, in which they do not believe. May they all burn in hell.

Bladed โ€œGinsuโ€ Hellfire Missile Seen In Action For First Time.

How do men and women use time differently?

Spotifyโ€™s Beta Used โ€˜Pirateโ€™ MP3 Files, Some From Pirate Bay.

US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes.

Hydrogen cyanide and acetylene detected in a brown dwarf atmosphere for the first time.

U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Strain From Trumpโ€™s Tariffs and Spending Cuts. Great Recession II locked and loaded.

The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office. Fuck everything about that.

Lengthy waiting can corrupt your morals, especially when unexpected. Indeed. I hate waiting so very much.

Dictionary of affixes.

Why it’s so hard to build a jet engine.

In-car advertising glitch may be preview of a distracting future. Hell world.

Your brain helps you make a snap judgement, a snap judgement that might be wrong. This streak carries through all of cognition.

The search for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 has resumed once again.

De jure but not de facto corporate vertical disintegration has produced, in ideal typical terms, a three-tier economy composed of human capital and intellectual property-intensive firms, physical capitalism-intensive firms, and low-skill labor-intensive firms.

Ukraineโ€™s betrayal is definitive. Trump and Putin will see to that. Many Germans wonder who is next.

Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship โ€“ not half, as some reports would have you believe.

American business leaders are turning on Trump โ€” fast.

The Trump Administrationโ€™s Attack on Science Will Backfire.

Resistance Is Not Enough. The Left Must Address the Grievances of the Working Class.

New Scout Unit That Heavily Leverages Drones, Electronic Warfare Tested By U.S. Army.

Art and music are not mere diversions or entertainments. They are profound expressions of human experience, written and interpreted in the language of emotion. They speak to truths that logic alone cannot fully capture or convey.

Trumpโ€™s Foreign Policy Has Completely Departed From Reality.

U.S. conditionally approves vaccine to protect poultry from avian flu.

Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience.

RFK Jrโ€™s confirmation begins Americaโ€™s Dark Ages.

Europeโ€™s impossible choice: Which industries should survive the green transition?

What the new German government means for Ukraine.

Helium in the Earth’s core.

The ivory towerโ€™s drift: how academiaโ€™s preference for theory over empiricism fuels scientific stagnation.

Last night Republicans voted to gut Medicaid and SNAP to give more tax breaks to the wealthy. This will be disastrous for the country and for many people. Evil.

The US is now the enemy of the west.

Germany can turbocharge Europeโ€™s renewal โ€“ if it will only seize this moment. Doubtful, but shit — somebody should try.

Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Postโ€™s opinion section. Thatโ€™s a death knell. Was already muzzled. Now just being murdered outright.

The findings reveal that 10- to 11-year-olds who engage heavily with social media, video games, texting, and videos show a greater risk of symptoms such as inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, distractibility, rapid speech, racing thoughts, and impulsivity โ€” behaviors characteristic of manic episodes.

This Executive Order Reveals the Trump-Musk Endgame.

Itโ€™s the Health Care, Stupid. Forget DOGE. Republicans are playing with political fire as they move to gut Medicaid.

Putinโ€™s Three Years of Humiliation. The Russian president canโ€™t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

Taiwan Watches Trump Undercut Ukraine, Hoping It Wonโ€™t Be Next. Oh it will be.

My truck plunged into a ravine โ€“ and for six days I was trapped, alone and afraid.

Taiwan Detains Ship and Chinese Crew After Undersea Cable Severed.

America โ€” and to be clear, that also means our economy and markets โ€” are now headed into the ravine that is the great unwinding of โ€œAmericaโ€ into โ€œAmerican Oligarchy.โ€

Why Gen Xers and Millennials Are Giving More Money to Their Kids Than Baby Boomers. Boomers really are in general terrible.

The Shrouded, Sinister History Of The Bulldozer. From India to the Amazon to Israel, bulldozers have left a path of destruction that offers a cautionary tale for how technology without safeguards can be misused.

The UK Government Just Made Everyone Less Safe As Apple Shuts Down iCloud Encryption.

New German leader signals seismic shift in transatlantic relations.

Trumpโ€™s latest tariff threat could make your life a lot more expensive.

Tactical Developments During the Third Year of the Russoโ€“Ukrainian War.

50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says. Shocking.

Apple says it will invest $500 billion in U.S. over the next 4 years and hire 20,000 workers.

The End of Children. Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried?

AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years.

The Government Deficits Land in the Deepest Pockets.

BusyBeaver(5) is now known to be 47,176,870.

What Could Happen if the U.S. Abandons Europe.

This is the most dangerous move yet. The canary is gasping for air.

At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian forces over 83 years to capture the remaining 80 percent of Ukraine, assuming that they can sustain massive personnel losses indefinitely.

Whatโ€™s happening right now will change the country foreverโ€”and not just for the next four years, but for the next generation, for your kids, and their kids after them. Great Recession is baked in. Depression becoming increasingly likely.

Only fools think Elon is incompetent. He is competent at exactly what he intends to do. Thinking he is stupid is dangerous, dangerous, dangerous.

Americans looking for work haven’t had it this hard in almost 3 years.

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row.

Woman who had pioneering cancer treatment 18 years ago still in remission.

Inflation Spikes to 4.0% in Japan, Much Worse than in the US. BOJ Babied its Rate to Just 0.5%, with More Baby Hikes in View.

Weโ€™ll Soon Find Out How Much Permanent Damage Trump Can Do.

Why Hasnโ€™t Trump Already Closed the Department of Education? Maybe because its support for students is popular with Republicans as well as Democrats. And because cutting that funding would blow a big hole in the budgets of red states.

Trumpโ€™s Misguided Strategies for Peace in Ukraine.

Scientists Simulated a Quantum Apocalypse. Then the Universe Disappeared. Cool.

Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit.

Elon Muskโ€™s first month of destroying America will cost us decades. It sure will. Pure evil shit.

What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Why Federal Retirement Is Still Managed out of a Limestone Mine.

The Price of Trumpโ€™s Power Politics. Why China and Russia Stand to Win in a Might-Makes-Right World.

The scammers are getting BETTER and the job market is getting WORSE. It’s a scammer’s paradise now.

Shock therapy comes home to roost. Correct.

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls.

The Key to a Stronger Economy? Itโ€™s Housing, Stupid.

Why Trumpโ€™s Clean Energy Rollbacks Could Derail a Factory Boom. Terrible idea. Like most of Trump’s.

Ukraine Is Just a Pawn in a Russian Reset.

Europe Is Becoming an Afterthought for the World.

Massive WWII B-29 Bomber Base Fully Reclaimed For Future Pacific Fight.

Chinaโ€™s homegrown tech boosts global surveillance, social controls.

Meta approves plan for bigger executive bonuses following 5% layoffs.

Trump and Elonโ€™s โ€˜Pointless Bloodbathโ€™ at the FAA Is Even Worse Than You Think. Weakening state capacity to promote Chines and Russian goals.

the real, tangible danger that comes from infantilizing adults in their 20s. Funny how many idiot leftists harm themselves more than anyone else with their insane beliefs about how relationships “should” be.