The end of US democracy. Mostly agreed; functional democracy in the US is dead.

Zombie fungus-infected fly that likely lived among dinosaurs is preserved in amber.

The $25,000 car is going extinct.

Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations.

A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries.

Universe’s mysteries may never be solved because of Trump’s Nasa cuts, experts say. Moronic action after moronic action.

Bosses want you to know AI is coming for your job.

Let us bury the linear model of innovation.

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system.

Nearly 12 million people would lose health insurance under Senate GOP bill. The GOP & MAGAts really really hate poor people.

Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi.

Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know.

How the Billionaires Took Over.

CEOs Are Quietly Telling Us the Truth: AI Is Replacing You.

Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of ‘devastation’ from megabill.

Mike Lee Tries to Put Vast Public Land Sale Back in Budget After It Was Removed.

Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades.’

China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power.

X and Y gene dosage effects are primary contributors to human sexual dimorphism: The case of height.

How night lizards survived the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs.

Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say no. Data thievin’ is gonna happen, whether you like it or not.

Selling off Colorado: Tech bros and conservatives have grand plans for federal lands. Line these fuckers up against a wall.

AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren’t AI at all.

In an about-face, Germany plans to build Europe’s biggest military.

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician.

Offense has become so large and so accepted a part of our response to art that it can sometimes seem we’ve endowed it with unimpeachable authority.

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos.

Creativity & Technological Evolution.

These Moths in Australia Use the Milky Way as a GPS to Fly 1,000 Kilometers.

Salt Typhoon Hack Keeps Getting Worse, Telecoms Tell Employees To Stop Looking For Evidence Of Intrusion.

The Damage of Vaccine Skepticism.

National Resilience – a Cautionary Tale.

Trump’s trade deals are stalling out at the worst possible time.

Preserving America’s Air Battle Edge: Why Canceling The E-7 Would Be A Strategic Mistake.

California will see ‘devastating’ healthcare cuts under GOP bill, Newsom says.

Half of all private-sector workers in the U.S. have no access to a retirement plan, study finds.

More than 1,800 National Science Foundation workers abruptly kicked out of agency headquarters. More morons doing moron stuff. Just how life is now I guess.

A Review of Aerospike Nozzles: Current Trends in Aerospace Applications

The Business of Betting on Catastrophe.

Collapse!

No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office.

Trump still would have won in 2024 even if everyone had turned out to vote, Pew finds. I agree with that analysis.

This federal program helps track America’s ecosystems. Trump’s budget would gut it. Morons doing moron stuff.

RFK Jr.’s Attack on Global Vaccinations Could Cost Hundreds of Thousands of Children’s Lives. Not could. Will.

The World Is Warming Up. And It’s Happening Faster.

Truck Operators Were Hoping for a Recovery. Instead They Got a Trade War.

Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data.

Inside the private equity-insurance nexus.

Deep cuts to hurricane data could leave forecasters in the dark. Moronic beyond words.

Ukraine used a Pringles can to blow up a Russian tank. Very canny of them.

A Lot Of Americans Are Going To Die’: Vaccine Expert Speaks Out After Resigning From CDC.

Restoring Norms Fixes Nothing.

From Killer Drones to Robotaxis, Sci-Fi Dreams Are Coming to Life. More of that got-damn “nerd fantasy.”

Why today’s graduates are screwed.

US economy shrunk faster than expected, new data shows.

University Unions Stand Up to Trump’s Research Cuts While Administrators Waver.

How renewables are saving Texans billions.

Mid-sized American cities outperform major metros at turning economic growth into patents — challenging where we think innovation happens.

Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls.

The Economics Behind “Basic Economy” – A Masterclass in Price Discrimination.

How Ivermectin Became Right-Wing Aspirin. Utterly clownish. As usual.

The U.S. Is Going Backwards on Vaccines, Very Fast. The morons really have won.

Study finds women are judged against more criteria than men are in job interviews.

Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” would force Postal Service to sell its new EV mail trucks. Completely moronic. Electricity and batteries are not in fact gay.

When It Comes to Understanding the Dangers Posed by Big Tech, We’re Lost in the Cloud.

Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first images.

Condo Sales Drop to Lowest in the Data, Supply Highest since Housing Bust. Single-Family Home Sales Below 1995, Supply Highest since 2016.

New species of dinosaur discovered that ‘rewrites’ T.rex family tree.

The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much Worse.

Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work.

‘People are going to die’: how Medicaid work requirements cost people their health insurance.

Trump to rescind ‘Roadless Rule’ protecting 58 million acres of forest land. More moronic actions.

This Is Why High-End Electric Cars Are Failing.

ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens.

A Putin War With NATO Would Cost the World $1.5 Trillion. An enormous underestimate. Would be at least 10x that at minimum.

FireWire Is Officially Dead.

We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew.

Merveilleux-scientifique.

The allure of autarky. Liberal thinkers are shocked that nations are once again isolating from the world. The real surprise would be if they didn’t.

As U.S. braces for Iranian attack, a ‘brain drain’ weakens its defenses, former officials say.

New York to Build One of First U.S. Nuclear-Power Plants in Generation. Cool.

‘The Better Life Is Out of Reach’: The Chinese Dream Is Slipping Away.

We have moved into an era where many men no longer seek women to impress other men or to connect across difference. They perform elsewhere. Alone. They’ve filtered us out. Can you really blame men?

Trump’s Homemade Tourism Crisis: International Travelers Are Growing Skeptical of the U.S.

Jerome Powell quietly warned there’d be places in the US where you ‘can’t get a mortgage’ — and he’s not wrong.

America slides into totalitarianism — and it won’t be easy to reverse.

New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect.

Why is Kristi Noem’s bone-chilling pledge of a “regime change” in Calif not getting media coverage?

In November 2026, A Human-Made Object Will Reach A Light-Day From Earth For First Time In History.

The Best Way to Farm on the Moon Uses Barely Any Fertiliser.

Your iPhone is about to get uglier.

Massive sculptures worth $2.1 million stolen from warehouse in mysterious heist.

Entitled Child Expects To Eat Lunch Every Day.

Top AI models will lie, cheat and steal to reach goals, Anthropic finds.

Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Appears to Work as Well as Injected GLP-1s.

Good News For Buyers: Investors Are Selling Homes to Cut Their Losses.

The right to privacy has been hard-earned. It is imperilled again.

We Don’t Have to Give In to the Smartphones.

Intel to outsource marketing to Accenture and AI, resulting in more layoffs.

The SAT’s Trust Fall. Legacy standardized-testing firms are cutting rigor to please students.

The AIpocalypse is here for web sites as search referrals plunge.

Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA.

Denmark’s Radical Archaeology Experiment Is Paying Off in Gold and Knowledge.

When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere.

EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren’t learning much.

AI spending and AI’s actual abilities will lead to a “subprime AI crisis” in which workers are forced to shoulder the tech industry’s financial burden — sacrificing the humans that make their companies run, essentially, in order to make AI look good on paper.

Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe.

When Towns Rebuild From Disaster, Some Get Priced Out. That’s just how disaster capitalism works by design?

Octobass.

‘Decide in 30 days or resign without severance’: Amazon asks employees to relocate closer to their teams. Just a way to do some more “hidden” layoffs.

‘Return To Office Is Just A Giant Scam,’ Says A Popular Software Engineer—’They Don’t Want You In The Office, They Want You Off Payroll.’ Yup.

Taking on Goliath: Brain surgeon’s clash with UnitedHealthcare shows insurer’s hardball tactics.

You sound like ChatGPT.

High Costs Have Ended America’s Love Affair With Cars.

Risk Expert Says “Learn to Code” Is Now Worse Advice Than “Get a Face Tattoo.”

Endangered fish saved from the Palisades fire were just returned to their Malibu home. Welcome home, fish.

Europe must stand without the US – but the latest war in the Middle East shows it has no idea how.

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory.

The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests.

Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions.’ You’ll own nothing and be happy.

Erick makes landfall as a Category 3 hurricane, the strongest to hit Mexico so early in the year.

Should irresponsible hikers be forced to pay for their rescue? This sheriff says yes. What if I need a rescue helicopter because I get a bit tired?

What Liberals Can Learn From Coca-Cola’s Massive Advertising Budget.

Estrogen: A trip report.

Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years.

First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor. I want one.

Why the world cannot quit coal.

Mandatory E-Verify Is the Immigration Reform Trump Won’t Touch.

Rampaging raccoons: how the American mammals took over a German city – and are heading across Europe.

Israel Takes Control of Iran’s Skies—a Feat That Still Eludes Russia in Ukraine. The power mismatch in the Israel-Iran war shows the importance of air superiority.

Not every oppressed person becomes free by killing their neighbor.

Some free commonsense advice for Democrats about winning back men.

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans.

AI tools collect and store data about you from all your devices – here’s how to be aware of what you’re revealing. Hell world.

Gen Z is hurtling toward a career cliff. As entry-level jobs disappear and pathways to success shrink, the most rejected generation is in a tough spot.

Here’s Kia’s new small, affordable electric car: The 2026 EV4 sedan.

Young People Have the Most to Lose From Trump’s Budget Bill.

How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time.

The Saga of Magnequench.

Would Vladimir Putin attack NATO? Russia is building up its forces, causing fear in its neighbours.

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies. More moronic actions.

In Axing mRNA Contract, Trump Delivers Another Blow to US Biosecurity, Former Officials Say. And still more.

Why Democrats Got the Politics of Immigration So Wrong for So Long.

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable.

DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming.

I Miss the Internet. It was so much better back then.

Southwest Airlines Adds Cockpit Alerts to Boost Runway Safety.