China is currently experiencing ~1% deflation (official PPI) alongside 4% nominal growth.

Medicare Advantage Is Scamming You. That’s what it was designed to do, so mission accomplished?

Trump Voters Are in for a Rude Awakening. He sold them countless, often conflicting fantasies. In 2025, he’ll face political reality.

Fast radio bursts originate near the surface of stars.

‘Battlestar Galactica’ Was Always About One Particular Kind Of Guy Failing Upwards. Yup.

Predistribution over Redistribution: Beyond the Windfall Clause.

Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker Pilot’s Rare Account Of The Changing Air War.

China’s EV Sales Set To Overtake Traditional Cars Years Ahead of West.

Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites and Publishers Have Had Enough of It. Clownish.

Washington Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes Quits After Bezos-Owned Paper Kills Trump Satire Piece.

It is long past time we grapple with the violence imposed on Americans from our exploitative for-profit health exploitation system.

Global Stocks over the Long Term: the S&P 500, the Big Standout vs the Markets of Japan, China, Hong Kong, India, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Canada.

Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List.

Charging for Essential Software Security Features Undermines Digital Safety.

How scamming has changed Nigeria.

The Cat in the Tree: Why AI Content Leaves Us Cold.

Farmers are abandoning their land. Is that good for nature?

Facebook and Instagram Ads Push Gun Silencers Disguised as Car Parts.

World’s 500 Richest People Surpassed $10 Trillion in Wealth This Year.

Man Returns To Work After Vacation With Fresh, Reenergized Hatred For Job.

Companies are making a string of intentional decisions to devalue workers, particularly Gen X (those between the ages of 44 and 59). Because we cost the most as we know what the hell we’re doing.

It’s great to believe that accepting migrants from difficult circumstances is a moral obligation. But that doesn’t absolve us of carefully accounting for the burdens and benefits of taking on that moral obligation.

How Big Pharma Is Wrecking the Inflation Reduction Act.

The No-Hunger Games: How GLP-1 Medication Adoption is Changing Consumer Food Purchases.

Paiute War.

The remote Kazakh Steppe that became a gateway to space.

The Players on the Eve of Destruction. The insanity of war has returned to our world. And we’re just at the beginning of the beginning.

What to know about string of US hacks blamed on China.

Russia furious: China’s electronics aren’t battlefield ready.

Still on the hunt, the FBI shares new details about pipe bombs placed ahead of Jan. 6.

Neurologists have grappled with a cluster of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases in France, where a fondness for a toxic wild mushroom may hold the answer.

Manta rays inspire faster swimming robots and better water filters.

The torture of an unphilosophical life.

79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care.

Breaking Down the Wealth of America’s Top 20 Billionaires.

Drugmakers to raise US prices on over 250 medicines starting Jan. 1.

UnitedHealth’s Army of Doctors Helped It Collect Billions More From Medicare.

How Vietnam emerged as a serious rival to China’s export machine.

US Treasury says it was hacked by China in ‘major incident.’

A Politics of Hope Is Our Best Hope.

America, China, and the Death of the International Monetary Non-System.

You can love or hate AI, but it’s killed crappy 8GB versions of pricey PCs and Macs.

Putin says he saved Russia, but a year of challenges suggests Moscow’s position is precarious.

Home Tech Companies Are Peddling ‘Affectionate Intelligence.’ Should We Fall for It? Big hell no on that one, ghost rider.

A Record-Shattering $1 Trillion Poured Into ETFs This Year.

Welcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for women.

People like me flocked to Berlin because it was ‘poor but sexy’. Those times are over. Europe turning back into a backwater.

Except for a few elites in the national security establishment, the nation seems to have collectively shrugged at the fact that an unfriendly foreign government has access to the personal conversations of the American people. Pretty nuts.

Millions of children have lost their health insurance.

The price of eggs.

Someone is wrong on the internet about the SWIFT network.

It’s the end of celebrity as we know it. Will we shift to healthier role models? No.

Where Have All the Managers Gone? Companies’ quest to purge bosses is seizing up job and promotion opportunities. Workers have had to adjust.

It’s the Most Indispensable Machine in the World—and It Depends on This Woman.

US retail closures hit highest level since pandemic.

Corporation is laying off thousands a month, top 5 banks in country, but WAY they are doing it keeps them off radar.

Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech.

What spaceflight owes to Jimmy Carter: The president’s little-known NASA legacy.

Always Judge a Book by its Cover.

IPTV Piracy Blocking at the Internet’s Core Routers Undergoes Testing.

China unveils new futuristic fighter jets in surprise flyby.

Democrats have a Florida problem. Democrats got obliterated in Florida in 2024, from the top of the ticket all the way down to the Legislature and local races.

Social media fueling young men’s body dysmorphic disorder. Such a terrible cognitohazard.

A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says.

Wir wissen, wo dein Auto steht. VW hat mit einer neuen Blamage zu kämpfen. Bewegungsdaten von 800.000 E-Autos sowie Kontaktinformationen zu den Besitzern standen ungeschützt im Netz. Sichtbar war, wer wann zu Hause parkt, beim BND oder vor dem Bordell.

U.S. Army’s First Combat Use Of THAAD Missile Defense System Just Occurred In Israel.

Russian-Linked Oil Tanker Suspected Of Sabotage Was Brimming With Spy Equipment: Report.

Less ‘European family’, more howitzers: Ukraine needs hardware, not cosy words. A lot of these people with their “cosy words” are going to be under the bootheel of Russia soon enough.

How U.S. Household Incomes Have Changed (1967-2023).

The 2010s are glorified by gen Z. But the ‘indie music’ of that era was unoriginal.

Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom.

Has Russia’s Shadow Fleet, Built to Evade Sanctions, Added Sabotage to Its List?

Surviving on $1,800 a Month in Social Security, She Died Looking for a Place to Live.

The Extraordinary Mrs. Shipley: How the United States Controlled International Travel before the Age of Terrorism.

Take Me To Another Useless Website.

The Age of the U.S. Housing Stock.

U.S. Supreme Court sides with Nebraska man who lost his home over $588.

Squeezed by high prices, a growing number of Americans find shelter in long-term motels.

But for now at least, they also remain—the men who ply the dark surf, who fish hard and sleep little and pull a great American fish from the ocean and know, as all fishermen know, that there is a kind of love that is also violence.

Among the many things to hate about air travel, the processing of cabin luggage is ascendant. Planes are packed, and everyone seems to have more and bigger stuff than the aircraft can accommodate.

The bird at the center of the worst single-species mortality event in modern history isn’t recovering, scientists say.

Post-Luigi, the “extremist” threat is you.

Russia has a history of downing passenger planes — and covering it up. It does seem to be a bit of a hobby for them.

Oops! Consumers finally realize that Trump could worsen inflation. FAFO.

Health Insurers Gave $120 Billion To Shareholders While Denying Your Claim.

Elder Abuse Is No Way to Run a Government. The corridors of power increasingly resemble a nursing home—if not a hospice.

The Year Villainy Won.

Germany Opened Its Doors to Migrants. Now It’s Struggling to Cope. Another colossal mistake of theirs.

The Epic Mess at TGI Fridays.

U.S. homelessness rises 18% amid affordable housing shortage.

Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare.

Google Search Changes Are Killing Websites in an Age of AI Spam. Not that I care, but this site gets almost no Google search hits any longer.

Only 35% of Americans trust the US judicial system. This is catastrophic.

Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak. It certainly was.

2024: The year AI drove everyone crazy.

It’s Taking Many Unemployed Americans More Than a Year to Find a New Job.

‘It’s a scary time’: US universities urge international students to return to campus before Trump inauguration.

Birth Rates Dropped Most in Counties Where Home Values Grew Most. Partially compositional and demographic effects.

Here are two seismic changes pushing Honda and Nissan into merger talks.

A Credit-Score Hangover Is Hitting America’s Riskiest Borrowers.

How a Young Mayor Turned Her Town Into a Hub for ‘Pig Butchering’ Scammers.

The quest to save the world’s largest CRT TV from destruction.

Model suggests Earth’s subsurface may hold up to 5.6 × 10⁶ million metric tons of natural hydrogen.

The Walmart Effect. New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices. Ya think?

Anti-Abortion Officials Continue Deputizing Angry Men To Turn Over Their Partners In New Legal Foray.

Insurance and Taxes Now Cost More Than Mortgages for Many Homeowners. Ballooning expenses rewrite the math of homeownership.

Inside the Plan to Halt U.S.-Bound Migrants at the Treacherous Darién Gap.

Copyright Doesn’t Provide A ‘Living’ For A Successful Author.

More than 1,000 North Korean military casualties in Ukraine war, says South Korea.

‘Security through obscurity’: the Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war.

Canoo employees on “mandatory unpaid break”, while CEO Tony Aquila pockets $1.7 million for private jet use. Let Luigi out. He has work to do.

Luigi Mangione is an anti-hero. He is defending people like myself and others with chronic illnesses and medical conditions. I have been fired from 3 jobs now due to being denied medication and being forced to miss work.

Our Loud World Is Making Us Sick. I hate human-made noise so, so much.

Germany Hands Over Latest Counter Drone Air Defense Systems to Ukraine.

Asia’s 2025 Will Be a Year of Upheaval and Uncertainty. Things could get very heated, very quickly.

Russia’s threat to Europe ‘much wider than we imagine,’ Italian PM warns. Whatever you think of her politically, she is absolutely correct.

We’re Already Seeing Signs That Trump Is Tanking the Economy. Probably not, though expectations do matter.

The Big Companies Funding Trump’s Inauguration Despite Denouncing Jan. 6.

One Surprising Psychosis Treatment That Works: Learning to Live With the Voices.

‘United Healthcare’ Using DMCA Against Luigi Mangione Images.

The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t. The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?

Energy Cheat Sheet.

The Invisible Russia-Ukraine Battlefield.

China places massive order for kamikaze drones. A Chinese drone manufacturer has disclosed a massive government order for almost a million lightweight kamikaze drones, to be delivered by 2026. Prepping for Taiwan invasion in 2027-2028 timeframe.

Honda, Nissan Plan to Create World’s No. 3 Automaker in 2026 Merger.

Walmart illegally opened delivery drivers’ deposit accounts, U.S. says.

Inflation was the cause, not the result, of the ‘hot’ labor market, research shows. This is almost certainly wildly incorrect.

It seems like we’re all either perceived as too young or too old with a very small sliver of time in between.

These Ten People Made $796B in This Year’s Tech Stock Surge.

Why Defending the CEO Only Fuels the Divide.

Europe’s economic apocalypse is now.

Two US Navy pilots eject safely over Red Sea after fighter jet shot down in apparent friendly fire incident.

What Happened to the Democratic Party? The squalid state of our present political institutions points to a failure of not just individuals but the system as a whole.

12 well-known companies that went bankrupt in 2024.

Critics, not fans, perpetuate the failed second album myth, study shows.

Stammtisch.

Social Security measure passes Senate, sending it to Biden.

The Ghosts in the Machine. Spotify’s plot against musicians. Fuck Spotify and fuck you if you use it.

The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents.’

Women show fewer manipulative traits in gender-equal countries. In less equal societies, women score higher on Machiavellianism, possibly due to greater reliance on manipulative strategies to navigate challenging environments.

A new psychological study has shown that when people know they are under surveillance it generates an automatic response of heightened awareness of being watched, with implications for public mental health.

How Did We End Up with Such a Bad Health-Care System?

Bait-and-Switch. Scummy stuff like this seems more common these days.

Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning their medical necessity.