U.S. weapons from Afghan war give Pakistani militants a deadly advantage.

25 years on, Patrick Bateman’s unsettling morning routine is normal. Not so much the routine, as the ethos.

The People Are Resisting While the Elites Are Surrendering.

What the best ads of the 2000s reveal about American culture.

What is Entropy?

You say you want a revolution. Well, you know, we all see you’re full of shit.

Investors Haven’t Been This Bearish in 30 Years, BofA Poll Shows.

Trump will destroy a world economy that has us at the apex and only getting stronger. It is idiocy not seen since the Civil War at least.

The Planetary Politics of Everyday Life. Forging an effective ecological transition requires improving people’s daily lives. Fuck degrowthers.

The Strange Packard Bell Corner Computer from 1995.

What would a real anti-China trade strategy look like?

EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears.

There’s No Coming Back From Trump’s Tariff Disaster. America was the world’s economic anchor. Thanks to the president, it may never have that role again. Permanently fucked.

The troubling rise of Hitler revisionism.

Biden’s Team Wishes They’d Moved So Much Faster. Jesus Christ, shut up.

NOAA scientists scrub toilets, rethink experiments after service contracts end. We are a nation of goddamn idiots.

Trump’s ongoing 25% auto tariffs expected to cut sales by millions, cost $100 billion.

CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty.

The Solid-State Shift: Reinventing the Transformer for Modern Grids.

Americans Brace for Summer of Layoffs.

Trump attacks on law firms begin to chill pro bono work on causes he doesn’t like.

Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands.

Teachers and Workers.

Neutrinos’ maximum possible mass shrinks further.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” Reflects the Exhaustion of Liberal Feminism.

Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing.

Goose-steppers in the name of freedom: The nonsensical cult that now rules America.

If millions of people are stealing from Social Security, then why can’t the DOJ find any of them? Because there just is not a lot of fraud — but to the plutes, Social Security itself is fraud (and they want that money).

Mammoth genetic diversity throughout the last million years.

Acute and chronic stress have markedly different impacts on neural repair in a depression-linked brain region.

Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans.

Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments.

Fintech founder charged with fraud after ‘AI’ shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines.

Fifty and out: How Gen X became the biggest work losers.

Beneath the Skin of CPI Inflation: Surging Prices of Food, Housing, Medical Care Meet Plunging Prices of Gasoline & Travel Services.

America Is Now One Giant Milgram Experiment.

9 Ways You Can Save the Internet Right Now. Because the danger to cultural preservation has never been greater.

Sex Workers Already Predicted There’s A Recession Coming — Here’s How They Know.

Jamie Dimon says Gen Z has no reason to be depressed—as long as there’s no nuclear war they’ll have an ‘unbelievable life.’ Except for the Trump Depression rolling in.

The McMansion is a manifestation of power and wealth meant to communicate that power and wealth to others as explicitly as possible, and that it does so in a country besieged by brutal and inescapable income inequality. That’s an actual mansion (not a McMansion), just a crappy one.

Shopify CEO’s AI-First Hiring Policy Is Job Security’s Ticking Clock.

It seems as though our pre-Victorian reviewer did not anticipate a world in which jealousy within a relationship would evolve into something that could be analogized to consumer rivalry.

Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates. Why do the MAGA tards hate science so much?

Road deaths fell below 40,000 in 2024, the lowest since 2019.

Family Assistance Plan.

‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son.

Why Ukraine Still Isn’t About to Lose.

An International Minimum Wage.

Bokmål.

Why Hollywood is not alarmed enough about Gen Z.

New video of China’s tailless, triple-engine fighter jet has military aviation community buzzing.

‘I want to reclaim my skin’: Why these people are removing their tattoos. I thought this terrible trend might go the other way soon; excellent.

Newsom in fight to advance plans for $20-billion water tunnel in the Sacramento Delta.

Trump threats do the unthinkable: transform Canadians into flag-waving, U.S.-booing patriots.

Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it. Nor should they.

Here’s how China could crush the U.S. housing market.

Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival. Fucking clownish idiocy.

Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke.

We are witnessing the destruction of science in America.

Krisp is using AI to help Indians sound like Americans on calls. Ugh.

Bullseye Standoff Weapon Based On Israeli Cruise Missile Unveiled By General Atomics.

Trump Says Tariffs Are Reciprocal. They Aren’t.

Stagflation Is Now America’s Best-Case Scenario. It’ll be depression.

World’s Smallest Pacemaker Is The Size of a Rice Grain.

Interviewing in the age of AI.

Why Companies Don’t Fix Bugs.

Thousands of North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500.

A Multiwavelength Look at Proxima Centauri’s Flares.

Tariffs Are Dragging Down Even Companies Without US Exports.

National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers. Moronic.

CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration. Mega-moronic.

Tech In Plain Sight: Windshield Frit.

How Contracting Work Became a Race to the Bottom.

MAGA Maoism is spreading through the populist right.

Social Security Staff Worried Elon Musk’s Meddling Is Going to Accidentally Crash the Whole System. That’s the goal so, yes, probably.

When consumer goods are expensive, it’s not worth taking risks and trying things you might end up disliking, or might not have the skill to execute on. Kelsey is correct about the optionality aspect.

I’m not going to be able to tell you about the consequences of EVERY lost grant, but I’m going to try. Let’s start with the Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) program for pathogens of pandemic concern.

The Device Throttling the World’s Electrified Future.

Why Trump May Get Away With His Tariff Trauma.

In the search for life on exoplanets, finding nothing is something too.

This is the stock market’s worst start to a presidential term in modern history. And the good news is that it’ll only get worse from here. Depression on the way.

Hey Democrats: Stop fiddling while Trump burns America. But they won’t.

Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks.’

There Are Signs of a Category 5 Housing Crisis Forming and Coming Straight For Us.

North America is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover.

What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

Trump’s Attacks on Big Law, Universities, and the Media Have a Common Goal: Silence Dissent Against Authoritarian Rule.

The death of the middle-class restaurant.

Jumping Spiders.

Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex.

Here’s the iPhone. Here’s the iPhone With Tariffs.

Beef Is Expensive. Meatpackers Are Scraping Every Morsel From Bones.

Things Everyone Should Know About Trade Deficits.

Stocks Plunge as the Market Understood What Tariffs Are: A Tax on Corporate Profit Margins.

Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought.

Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. We’ve been building to that for a while.

Hot Schrödinger cat states created.

It’s Always the Other Side That’s Been Brainwashed. What talk of brainwashing helps us not to talk about.

A Cowardly Congress Is Letting Trump Crash the Economy.

Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again.

What is up with car door handles these days? Everything everywhere getting worse all at once.

Wealthy Americans Have Death Rates On Par With Poor Europeans.

Tariffs threaten to upend markets American farmers depend on.

The American Age Is Over. Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide. Such an odd way for it to all end. And stupid.

First OA-1K Skyraider II Handed Over To Air Force Special Operations Command. Cool plane. Not sure how useful it is anymore.

Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy. This is our Brexit.

America’s astonishing act of self-harm.

Bucking Trump tariffs, California will push to maintain global trade independently, Newsom says. Good. There’s a reason we moved here.

Trump’s Threats and Tariffs Are a Global ‘Kill Switch.’

Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses.

Trouble with a capital ‘T.’

More Americans Can’t Afford Medical Care, Poll Finds.

Despite organized religion dropping in attendance, religious patterns of behavior are still everywhere, just adapted to a secular world.

The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to AI.

Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump.

Trump just imposed the largest tax hike since 1942 without congressional approval.

Trump tariff price hikes could start with clothing, cars and coffee. Prices are already increasing.

America has hit the MAGA tipping point.

Mass layoffs are underway at the nation’s public health agencies. We are a nation of morons.

Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them.

The Big Secret About Medicaid: It’s a Middle-Class Benefit.

There’s no longer any scenario in which A.I. fades into irrelevance. We urgently need voices from outside the industry to help shape its future.

Universities May Offend You. That’s How Innovation Works.

Germany launches permanent troop deployment on NATO’s eastern flank.

I asked my HR why we have ghost job openings.

Silica gel’s secret history and path to worldwide ubiquity.

Exidy Sorcerer.

The Evermaskers. The isolation of people who take precautions against COVID has only gotten more intense. Crazy, wacky sad fuckers.

Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down To Protect Users From ‘Authoritarian Governments.’

Klarna hit by buy now, pay later backlash as it targets $15bn IPO. Evil stuff.

‘Chaos’: Trump cuts to NOAA disrupt staffing and weather forecasts. Also evil stuff, and harms the entire country and world for that matter.

Large majority of Europeans support retaliatory tariffs against US, poll finds.

Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production.

The Coming Recession Will Be Self-Inflicted.

Green card holders, travelers caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The CDC Has Been Gutted. Insanely idiotic.