The 1600s Were a Watershed for Swear Words.

Iceberg A-68: The story of how a mega-berg transformed the ocean.

Inside a Firewall Vendor’s 5-Year War With the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices.

As Fascism Looms, the Free Press Must Stand and Report in the Breach. Ha, that’s not gonna happen.

Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, LA Times show what life under a dictator is really like.

Science Fictions links for October 2024.

Another dime in the jukebox.

US Space Force warns of “mind-boggling” build-up of Chinese capabilities.

Company made me do free labor, mad when I didn’t let them keep it.

Israel Inflicted Severe Damage on Iran’s Missile Program and Air Defenses.

The Little Sins We Commit at Work—and the Bosses Who Are Cracking Down. Hell world.

The Problem Bezos Can’t See. Admit it Jeff: you’re afraid of Trump and you kissed his ring.

Trump is already poisoning trust in yet another US election.

Donald Trump’s campaign of relentless lying.

Why the U.S. Military Has to Hitch a Ride on Commercial Ships.

U.S. Drugmakers Are Breaking Up With Their Chinese Supply-Chain Partners.

These Apple researchers just showed that AI bots can’t think, and possibly never will.

Profiteers Are Exploiting US Election Conspiracies and Hate to Make Millions.

Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s.

Chinese agents are running Canada. And it shows.

AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias.

Higher body mass index is associated with smaller brain volume, study finds.

Big Tech Is Paving the Way for a Nuclear Breakthrough.

High fluid intelligence boosts ability to accept corrected misinformation.

Polio in Every Pot; Smallpox in Every Garage. Team Trump isn’t quietly enabling RFK Jr.’s vaccine lunacy. They’re enthusiastically embracing it.

Millions of low-cost homes are deteriorating, making the U.S. housing shortage worse.

Thinking about “temporary hardship.”

How Russia, China and Iran Are Interfering in the Presidential Election.

Donald Trump’s cognitive decline becoming a troubling concern.

Train Drain. How deregulation and private equity have gutted the U.S. freight rail system—and with it, the promise of America’s industrial renewal.

What visuals reveal about the impact of Israeli strikes on Iran.

Jeff Bezos Just Made the Crisis at The Washington Post So Much Worse.

Powering Proliferation: The Global Engine Market and China’s Indigenization.

The Plutocrat-Populist Axis.

How life began on Earth: Model suggests ancient Earth had organic-rich atmosphere.

Here’s What NORAD’s Commander Just Told Us About The Langley AFB Drone Incursions.

Life-changing choices we may be forced to make if Donald Trump wins.

How One Polling Decision Is Leading to Two Distinct Stories of the Election.

US GDP grew at 2.8% rate in third quarter. Final reading before presidential election shows world’s biggest economy is in robust health.

German Economy Avoids Recession But Not Broader Crisis.

Forget Gaza and Ukraine, East Asia’s brewing war will matter more. US, China and Russia all flexing military muscles in East Asian waters, threatening a great power conflict that will truly shake the world. Yep, it’s a-comin.

New research on female video game characters uncovers a surprising twist. Female gamers prefer playing as highly sexualized characters, despite disliking them.

Freakonomics does it again (not in a good way). Jeez, these guys are credulous.

How Gothic Architecture Became Spooky.

The billionaires hedge their bets.

Musk’s reported contacts with Putin trigger anxiety in Washington.

The double standard for Harris and Trump has reached a breaking point. One candidate can rant about gibberish while the other has to be perfect.

Trump Is Not Preparing to Challenge the Election Results if He Loses but Mount Another Coup.

Boeing Launches $22 Billion Share Offering to Get Breathing Room, Dodge Junk Credit Rating, after Having Wasted $64 Billion on Share Buybacks.

Donald Trump’s Racist NYC Rally Was Vile. It Was Also Political Suicide.

Listen to Trump’s former aides: He’d be far more dangerous in a second term.

How a Mumbai Drugmaker Is Helping Putin Get Nvidia AI Chips.

Comcast, Charter Sue FTC Over Efforts To Make Canceling Services Easier. I need that fucking space laser.

How The Cowardice Of The LA Times And Washington Post Highlights The Danger Of The Link Taxes They Demand, And Their Hypocrisy.

Meet America’s secret team of nuclear first responders.

‘Carved on bodies and souls’: Ukrainian men face ‘systemic’ sexual torture in Russian detention centres.

How China Defeated Poverty.

‘We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits.

The web is losing. Badly. But a comeback is possible.

Cheap light transformed civilization.

Calling Trump a Fascist Is Well Overdue. Why Did It Take So Long?

Chatbots remind us that natural conversation is artificial too. Indeed. In the sense that most would mean it, nearly all my conversations are artificial (as compared to a baseline human).

Lack of political or legal accountability for the rich and powerful certainly isn’t new information. But Musk has taken it to a genuinely new level and elevated it to the level of a kind of performance art.

Learning to trust Trump’s generals: There’s a reason why his military men now call him a fascist.

We’re Gonna be Okay.

Democrats must finally reckon with the political danger of concentrations of wealth and power.

Bezos, Trump, and the Failure of Democracy. We are witnessing a watershed moment. Democracy is failing because the rule of law has been broken. And everyone is about to realize it. All at once.

On immigration, what Americans want is democratic control.

The precision of Israel’s weekend attacks against the S-300 systems and critical parts of Tehran’s missile-production facilities once again demonstrated Israel’s deep intelligence penetration of Iran.

Hospitals adopt error-prone AI transcription tools despite warnings.

Russia is behind fake video of ballots being destroyed, U.S. officials say.

NY Times tries to sanewash Patrick Soon-Shiong’s capitulation to Trump.

Obeying in advance. Media billionaires ask for tyranny.

The Globalization And Offshoring Of U.S. Jobs Have Hit Americans Hard.

Most space travelers face the same debilitating ailment. The experience of 4 civilian astronauts could offer answers.

Our First Look At The Ghost Shark Uncrewed Submarine Underwater.

Two hurricanes stir up voter backlash to Florida Republicans’ climate denialism. It’s getting harder and harder to deny now if you have any brain left.

Where did kissing come from? Study introduces the ‘groomer’s final kiss hypothesis.’

North Korean Soldiers Arrive on Russia’s Front Line. How Ready Are They to Fight?

The SpaceX Advantage That Rivals Are Trying to Emulate.

Harris could be a weekly guest on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and spurn every appearance request on “The View,” and I imagine that the vast majority of these drifting young men would remain unconvinced that liberal-élite America had much to offer them.

Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google’s “Chief Technologist.”

Two Billionaires, Two Newspapers, Two Acts of Self-Sabotage.

The Ideals of the Founders Are on the Ballot.

LA Times Planned ‘Case Against Trump’ Series Alongside Kamala Harris Endorsement Before Owner Quashed It.

Editor resigns, subscribers cancel as Washington Post non-endorsement prompts crisis at Bezos paper.

The CFPB initiates a new ‘open banking’ rule that will make it less of a hassle to switch financial institutions.

World’s largest arthropod lived 300 million years ago. Now, fossils show what it really looked like.

The invention that truly unlocked mass communication was the typewriter.

Democracy Dies In Darkness… Helped Along By Billionaire Cowardice.

Are Boeing’s problems beyond fixable?

This Year’s Housing Turnaround Ended Before It Started.

China’s Massive Fishing Fleet Overwhelms Locals in ‘David and Goliath’ Battle.

Why today’s inflation is so much worse than Malaise Era (late 70s/early 80s).

We can Terraform the American West. Let’s fucking go.

The Frightening Familiarity of Late-Nineties Office Photos.

Post World War II Food.

It’s Time to Build the Exoplanet Telescope.

Another technology trend is humans removing themselves from their own lives.

If Trump Wins, Blame the Billionaires. Without them, this presidential race wouldn’t be close at all. Well, I will also blame the tard-ass motherfuckers who vote for a senile old rapist.

North Carolina GOP Files Ethics Complaint Over Description of Its Abortion Views.

How the struggle to find good housing messes with students’ mental health.

Did the ‘L.A. Times’ and other news outlets pull punches to appease Trump? Of course they did.

Gender is going to be a huge factor in this election. Here’s what the data shows.

Here’s Where Pennsylvania Gets Decided.

North Korea has joined Putin’s war effort. A timid West must respond.

Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin.

Tucker Carlson’s Weird Spanking Fantasy Is Designed to Stir Up MAGA Misogyny.

Battles of Precise Mass. Technology Is Remaking War—and America Must Adapt.

Russians Helped Houthis Target International Shipping.

How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?

The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data.

Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC.

Location tracking of phones is out of control.

Top ten most annoying advice while not able to find work.

AI Discrimination Risk: Workday and Other HR Software Under Fire.

New Ways To Stretch F/A-18 Super Hornet’s Range Sought By Navy. Gonna need that in the South China Sea.

Producing Lithium Is Slow and Dirty. Is There a Fix?

As Election Looms, Disinformation ‘Has Never Been Worse.’

Trump is promising voters the moon, and the only way to deliver will be to smash the system that has kept inflation contained for the last forty years.

The MAGA Threat to American Greatness.

The Soft Bigotry of Our Trump Expectations. One candidate gets graded like a normal candidate would. The other gets excused for talking about Arnold Palmer’s junk.

Volumetric Energy Density of Lithium-ion Batteries Increased by More than Eight Times Between 2008 and 2020. I remember when this was “impossible.”

Ukraine’s population has fallen by 10 million since Russia’s invasion, UN says.

Fat acceptance has ruined my life.

The Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987a.

Tog’s paradox.

The Forest Service is Losing 2,400 Jobs—Including Most of its Trail Workers. Well that’s moronic.

The End Of Convenience: What The Downfall Of Walgreens Means For America.

The Boomer Stuff Avalanche. Millennials are about to be crushed by all the junk their parents accumulated.

Scammers are stealing homes from under their owners’ noses. AI is making it scarily easy.

GM’s profit nears a record a year after saying it couldn’t afford its workers’ pay demands.

“Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.”

Why has your Big Mac become so much more expensive?

The Consultants Who Lost Democrats the Working Class.

Boeing’s 757 ‘Catfish’ Flying F-22 Avionics Testbed Emerges With Retro Look.

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water.

New discovery reveals how diatoms capture CO2 so effectively.

Wired’s Attack on Privacy.

How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong.

Plankton balloon to six times their size in newly discovered mode of oceanic travel.

Tourism and Erotic Imaginaries in Wartime Paris: French and Germans during the Occupation, 1940-1944.

Trump FCC Pick Thinks Broadband Caps Are Great, Likens Them To Coffee Refills(?).

Ozempic shows promise for alcohol and drug addiction, study finds.

This Race Is Kamala Harris’s to Lose. Here’s Why. It will all come down to turnout. And that, I predict, will mean a Harris-Walz victory.

Six slain hostages were likely Sinwar’s shields, lived for months on energy bars.

Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad? Because that’s what the publisher wants.

The Vanishing of the Internet.

Finally, Trump’s Derangement Is Breaking Through in the Media.

Ukraine’s first frontline female commander on war, grief – and her hope for the future.

The electoral college has become a gun held to the head of US democracy.

Rule-of-law is incompatible with a sharply polarized two-party system.

Crises at Boeing and Intel Are a National Emergency. Indeed they are.

The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway.

Anti-drone drone developed by Ukraine to take out Iranian-designed kamikazes.

Microsoft creates fake Azure tenants to pull phishers into honeypots.

Barnum effect.

Navy Just Reloaded A Vertical Launch System For The First Time While Underway At Sea.

AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences.

Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the fermi paradox seen through the prism of illusionism and attention schema theory.

Welcome to the Era of the $20,000 Family Car Insurance Bill. Insurance is, mostly, a scam.

Bad News: We’ve Lost Control of Our Social Media Feeds. Good News: Courts Are Noticing. That so many people are content to be controlled by clowns like Mark Zuckerberg will never not mystify me.

How Beijing Recruited New York Chinatowns for Influence Campaign.

Americans Abroad Need Compliance Cost Relief.

Scientists Use Allen Telescope Array to Search for Radio Signals in the TRAPPIST-1 Star System.

The Rotten World Elon Musk Is Trying To Force On Us.

How Republicans mainstreamed the baseless idea of noncitizen voting in 2024.

‘The Great Stay’ is preventing young workers from getting a foot in the door.

Mail carriers reach tentative contract with USPS that includes pay raises and air-conditioned trucks.

The New Cold War in the Pacific Is Dangerously Close to Heating Up.

JD Vance Shows That the Future of the GOP Is in Racist Conspiracy Theories.

‘Artificial’ crowds in Russia aim to disrupt EU referendum, Moldova warns.

North Korean troops in Ukraine war called ‘huge’ escalation risk.

Putin’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet is spilling oil all over the world.

Time is running out for Ukraine.

Engels’ pause.

The Feds Are Coming for John Deere Over the Right to Repair. Good.

Team develops promising new form of antibiotic that makes bacterial cells self-destruct.

This list is for physicians who are willing to perform a tubal ligation on patients ages 21+, no matter their marital status or number of children.

The American Who Waged a Tech War on China.

The Individual In Contemporary Society.

How to Prep Hospitals for a Shooting War.

Public Intellectuals Have Short Shelf Lives—But Why?

Leaked documents show US intelligence on Israel’s plans to attack Iran, sources say.

End of an era for Kmart in the US.