Introduction to the Concept of Likelihood and Its Applications.
Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit.
Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests.
The Great Reckoning of the China Debate.
China’s New Strategy for Trump: Punch Hard, Concede Little.
Man takes herbal pain quackery, nearly dies, spends months in hospital.
Common yeast can survive Martian conditions.
The Myth of Outrunning Your Diet.
The Body Keeps the Score is Bullshit.
Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes for the first time, as climate warms.
The key to why the universe exists may lie in an 1800s knot idea science once dismissed. Explaining why neutrinos have mass alone would be cool.
This ‘magical’ dinosaur specimen emerged from the ground like a polished jewel. Don’t put it in the Louvre.
Microsoft makes Copilot “human-centered” with a ‘90s-style animated assistant. Oh no. Blobby Clippy.
Welfare cuts are fueling the rise of the far right globally, the UN finds.
How Louvre gang carried out France’s most shocking theft.
Target cuts 1,800 corporate jobs in its first major layoffs in a decade.
The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls.
Mathematicians have found a hidden ‘reset button’ for undoing rotation. Cool, but without a method for finding the reset button for a case, the proof is not that useful.
Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws.
The Programmer Identity Crisis.
The Lottery-fication of Everything.
You Cannot Outsource Understanding.
Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech.
Andrews is lambasting these cultural trends and Roisin was celebrating them.
Shutdown With No Clear End Poses New Economic Threat.
Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried.
The U.S. Quietly Bails Out Its Banks.
Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents.
ChatGPT Should Make Retailers Nervous.
Nationalize the Defense Industry.
How Idealist.org Replaced a $3,000/mo Heroku Bill with a $55/mo Server.
How a huge dinosaur trackway was uncovered in the UK.
Eliminating the Chinese Rare Earth Chokepoint.
Mortality in the news vs. what we usually die from.
Don’t panic about rare earths.
Scientists just cracked the mystery of why cancer immunotherapy fails.
Why five feet of building space can doom construction.
Reflexive impotence. Ever more apropos by the day.
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? Idiocracy approacheth.
The traffickers are winning the war on drugs.
Trump is looking the wrong way in the Arctic. Forget Greenland; worry about Alaska.
The Rise and Fall of the Powdered Wig.
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles.
I miss the great philosophers.
Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization. Mostly true.
Army “Absolutely Needs” Drones Like Russia’s Shahed-136: 25th Infantry Division Commander. Correct.
Thieves steal priceless jewels from the Louvre in daring Paris heist.
Women Experience More Incivility at Work — Especially from Other Women.
Global Economy in Flux, Prospects Remain Dim.
H-1B Visa Holders Disappear From US Housing Market. Good.
Average New Car Prices Rise Above $50,000 for the First Time Ever.
Let the US credit score wars begin.
China has found Trump’s pain point – rare earths.
Another ‘she-cession’ is rearing its head: Women are leaving the workforce at alarming rates. One of the things RTO was designed to do: get rid of women and disabled people.
How Psychedelic Mushrooms Evolved Their Magic.
NATO Must Act to Stop Russia’s Dangerous New Campaign. Indeed.
Where Have All the Young Home Buyers Gone? Check the Stock Market.
VOC injection into a house reveals large surface reservoir sizes in an indoor environment.
A scientist wanted to create a mirror cell. Then she realized the dangers.
Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution.
Don’t Look Up: There Are Sensitive Internal Links in the Clear on GEO Satellites. Thought this was widely known already?
Return-To-Office Mandates Are The New Glass Ceiling.
” We are Finished”: Idaho retirees crushed as premiums soar 4,275% after Trump and GOP gut Obamacare subsidies. That’s going to devastate a lot of people.
Tariffs to cost companies $1.2T this year, mostly hitting consumers. That’s gonna leave a mark.
Small businesses are being crushed by Trump’s tariffs, and economists say it’s a warning for the economy. So is that.
California to become first state to sell cheap insulin through state-backed program.
World’s largest food company is cutting 16,000 jobs due partly to automation.
How I Reversed Amazon’s Kindle DRM Because Their App Sucked.
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police. Reason number 7 billion you’d have to be a clown to use this crap.
Microwave technique allows energy-efficient chemical reactions.
Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false.
Growing number of Americans facing prospect of long-term unemployment.
Amazon is planning a new wave of layoffs, sources say.
Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network.
New Alzheimer’s Treatment Clears Plaques From Brains of Mice Within Hours.
We’re losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought.
Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Paradox – “Chat Control” update.
After the AI boom: what might we be left with?
The web is dying, and Google Reader proved to be the canary in the coal mine.
Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend. I thought the future would be cooler.
People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads. Only a clown would buy something like that anyway tbh.
Can anything knock China off its mountain?
Major H-1B Visa Sponsor Will Not Hire a Single H-1B Applicant Going Forward. Good.
The French 75 Gun: The Secret Cannon Used for Over Half a Century.
Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office. And evil in-office work is so much more unproductive too.
The Making of “Adaptation.” Great film.
Where the Battle Over Free Speech Is Leading Us.
Congress Thinks Hiding Fund Fees Is Good for You.
The War Between Silicon Valley and Hollywood is Officially Over…And the tech bros won.
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks.
Residents of border towns relieved by quiet amid record-low migrant crossings.
The A.I. Black Hole Swallowing Job Seekers.
An energy expert explains why electricity prices keep climbing. Basically, because we don’t build anything anymore.
How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles?
Event Horizon Telescope images reveal new dark matter detection method.
A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain.
Examples are the best documentation. Without an example, I’m lost 99% of the time.
Inside the fight between doctors and insurance companies over ‘downcoding.’
Let It Begin — The Real Fights Are Finally Coming Into View.
Notes on the ‘Balance of Forces.’
Astronomers detect lowest mass dark object ever measured using gravitational lensing.
China expands rare earths restrictions, targets defense and chips users.
America is sucking in growth from the rest of the world.
UPS is ‘disposing of’ U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems. Clownish.
We are different from all other humans in history.
China’s Stealth Sharp Sword Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles Deployed To Operational Airbase.
In-Party Love, Out-Party Hate, and Affective Polarization in Twelve Established Democracies.
California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing.
America Is Drowning In Scam Calls And Texts And Donald Trump Is Making It Worse.
The new right’s hollow aesthetic.
We’re about to find many more interstellar interlopers—here’s how to visit one.
Nato weighs armed response to Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war.
A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society. This is incredibly disturbing.
Microsoft’s Local Accounts Crackdown Is Yet Another Reason to Switch to Linux.
Political views, not sex and violence, now drive literary censorship.
Last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent. Vaccines work, ya fuckin’ clowns.
Europe worries it’s already at war — and America hasn’t noticed. It is at war and has been since 2014.
Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America.