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.

Experts Explain How Long It Would Take Russia To Resume Nuclear Weapons Detonation Tests.

This is why the people who score well on intelligence tests and win lots of chess games are no happier than the people who flunk the tests and lose at chess: well-defined and poorly defined problems require completely different problem-solving skills.

Brain-IT: Image Reconstruction from fMRI via Brain-Interaction Transformer.

NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again.

Norway reviews cybersecurity after hidden remote-access feature found in Chinese buses.

Layoff announcements surged last month: The worst October in 22 years.

Universe expansion may be slowing, not accelerating, study suggests.

Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920).

The Real Reason Socialism is on the Rise.

IBM to Cut Thousands of Workers Amid A.I. Boom.

Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season. Meanwhile, the US Global Forecasting System continues to get worse.

The Democratic Tea Party Is Here.

The Gen Z job crisis is real: 1.2 million recent grads in the U.K. competed for just 17,000 open roles. It’s similar in the US.

Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America.

America’s first-time homebuyers are disappearing.

IBM’s CEO admits Gen Z’s hiring nightmare is real—but after promising to hire more grads, he’s laying off thousands of workers.

NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbage.

AI’s Dial-Up Era.

Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury.

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking.

There should be a guy who every morning rides his bicycle down to the main street and sets up a small glass case of beautiful cakes he has made.

An essential belief of mine is that one should treat pleasure as something of a skill — it can be learned, cultivated, appreciated.

The northern part of the planet is warming four times faster than the rest of the world, and any further changes to the landscape risk kicking off chain reactions that would put more carbon in the atmosphere.

Europe’s Role Reversal: The Problem Economies Are Now Farther North.

Why Companies Are No Longer Hanging On to Employees.

The light of 10 trillion suns: Scientists report the biggest black hole flare ever recorded.

The Democratic Party, as presently constituted, cannot succeed under contemporary circumstances.

Building Segregation: The Long-Run Neighborhood Effects of American Public Housing.

‘Godfather of AI’ says tech giants can’t profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced. Correct.

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making.

Zohran Mamdani, Third-Worldism, and the Algerian Revolution.

Often, it is fear of causing offence that stops liberal-minded people engaging with vast tracts of the world.

The Mirror Problem: A Warning About AI and Your Mind.

Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way.

How the Horse came to be Ridden.

The Alps Are Melting, but the Villagers Will Not Be Moved.

Are Body Weight Exercises Just as Effective as Lifting?

Obamacare enrollee sees premium spike over 300% as sign-up period begins: ‘This will devastate us.’

How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries.

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Hits Record 11.8%, Much Worse than Financial Crisis. Multifamily Delinquencies Soar to 7.1%.

Without Online Trolls, There Would Be No Donald Trump. And without the greatest troll of all time: Barack Obama.

Big Banks Behaving Badly.

Only 28 Out of Every 1,000 U.S. Homes Changed Hands This Year—The Lowest Turnover in Decades.

AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers.

Addiction Markets: Abolish Corporate-Run Gambling.

History’s first public hack.

In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up.

Police cameras track billions of license plates per month. Communities are pushing back. More than 5,000 law enforcement departments across the U.S. use interconnected Flock Safety cameras to track residents’ movements.

It’s Time to Retire the Term ‘Toxic Masculinity.’

For Better Public Transit, We Need Better Stories. And fewer young women murdered thereon, and no wild-eyed stabby vagrants.

America’s Grocery Lifeline Is Fraying.

Department was told to pack up to move to a different floor, only to be laid off.

Surging Power Costs Are Putting the Squeeze on Customers.

The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition. More gay people are speaking out against the gender ideology of trans and queer activists.

The Future Of Space Is More Than Human. The time has come to expand our visions of life beyond Earth.

The surprising reason home prices remain stubbornly high.

NASA test flight seeks to help bring commercial supersonic travel back.

Tales from the crypt. The lives of 17th century Milan’s working poor—their health, diet, and drug habits—emerge from thousands of bodies buried under a public hospital.

Texas Adds More Solar Power Because It’s Just Better, That’s All.

Many inventions have not only become obsolete, but their non-existence has made many old TV shows and movies incomprehensible to kids today.

Amazon CEO Says 14,000-Person Layoffs Weren’t Due to AI or Finances: ‘It’s About Culture.’ Yeah, that’s a lie.

AI browsers are here, and they’re already being hacked.

The Army found an M2 .50 caliber machine-gun still shooting perfectly after 90 years of service.

Why Tech Needs Personalization.

Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details.

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation. Eh, that relies on a ton of unproven assumptions.

As Social Media Restrictions Spread, Is The Internet Entering Its Victorian Era? Already there.

Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy.

ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon.

Free software scares normal people.