How the Earth Invented Sleep.

YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs. Corporate power respects corporate power.

ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web.

Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip.

The Decline of Deviance. Great essay.

An Unsustainable Equilibrium.

Amazon Layoffs 2025: Firm ‘Trading Talent for GPUs’ to Protect AWS Margins, AI Analyst Says.

Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible.

Why the New Leisure Class Enjoys Activism and Philanthropy.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me.

U.S. Signs $80 Billion Nuclear Deal With Westinghouse.

Why Bubbles Can Keep Inflating in Plain Sight.

Lithuania Will Shoot Down Balloons Crossing Border From Belarus After Dozens Detected Overnight. Good.

Why men hate short hair. I love short hair.

The Risk of a Radical Escalation Leading to Actual Conflict Between NATO and Russia Grows.

Great โ€˜Overnightโ€™ Replacement: The (Federal) Express Decline and Fall of Collierville, TN.

Shutdownโ€™s biggest blow lands in Trump-leaning Alabama โ€” 750,000 lose SNAP, 40% disabled or elderly.

The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China.

The West Needs to Come Together. And kick Putin the fuck out of Ukraine.

Samsung makes ads on $3,499 smart fridges official with upcoming software update. Pure evil.

What Amazonโ€™s 14,000 job cuts say about a new era of corporate downsizing.

You Should Make Good Arguments for YIMBYism, Not Bad Ones.

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world’s economy.

Companies Have Shielded Buyers From Tariffs. But Not for Long.

Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says.

AI is driving huge productivity gains for large companies while small companies get left behind. I suspect that is likely true.

โ€˜Make American Shipbuilding Great Againโ€™: Korea leans into shipbuilding as it woos Trump.

America Doesnโ€™t Have Enough Weapons for a Major Conflict. These Workers Know Why. Side note: the US Navy has no battleships. In fact, no navy in the world has used battleships since 1995.

Warren Buffettโ€™s Berkshire Hathaway and Zillow say mortgage rates canโ€™t fall enough for Americans to afford a home.

California invests big in battery energy storage โ€” and leaves rolling blackouts behind. That was “impossible” a mere decade ago.

Iโ€™m drowning in AI features I never asked for and I absolutely hate it. “You just hate change!”

Alpha-Lipoic Acid and Metformin Combination Therapy Synergistically Activate Nrf2-AMPK Signaling Pathways to Ameliorate Cognitive Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetic Encephalopathy.

The Great SaaS-Lighting: How IT Users Got Gaslit.

The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour AWS outage that brought the internet to its knees last week was apparently caused by a single software bug.

An American Hunger Crisis Is Coming.

Apollo laser takes down 200 drones unplugged.

Getting Used to 3% Inflation.

The Economy Thatโ€™s Great for Parents, Lousy for Their Grown-Up Kids.

Clinical trial of a technique that could give everyone the best antibodies.

Using entanglement to test whether gravity is quantum just got more complicated.

Earliest Arrows, Found in Uzbekistan, Were Made by Modern Humans Who Went Extinct.

What it looks like in the worldโ€™s data center capital.

Anyone fleeing an Islamic country and choosing to still wear a burqa or hijab when resettled in a Western nation is not fleeing Sharia โ€” they are importing it. They should be deported immediately.

As Putin Digs In, a Longโ€”and Differentโ€”War With Ukraine Looms.

Windows XP Turns 24: The Best Version of Windows Ever Made. XP was good, but Windows 7 was the best; all downhill from there.

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 โ€” fails basic privacy tests.

The Great Reckoning of the China Debate.

Chinaโ€™s New Strategy for Trump: Punch Hard, Concede Little.

Microsoft Teams is about to become a lapdog for your boss โ€” automatically snitching on your live location when connected to the office Wi-Fi.

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.

Tonnetz.

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 โ€œhuman-centeredโ€ with a โ€˜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.

Trump faces backlash on economy as inflation rises.

Wells Fargo Agrees To Pay $85M Settlement Over Claims It Hosted Fake Job Interviews To Hit Diversity Goals.

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.

The U.S. experiment with profit-driven health care has failed The corporate takeover of health care has destroyed Americaโ€™s health.

Andrews is lambasting these cultural trends and Roisin was celebrating them.

Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout. When your best engineers log off for good, donโ€™t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works.

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.

Donโ€™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.

America First? No, Billionaire Buddies First.

Inside the Louvre heist that stunned the world.

The traffickers are winning the war on drugs.

Trump is looking the wrong way in the Arctic. Forget Greenland; worry about Alaska.

I remember taking a screen shot of a video, and when I opened it in Paint, the video was playing in it! What witchcraft is this?

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 โ€œwokenessโ€ is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization. Mostly true.

Army โ€œAbsolutely Needsโ€ Drones Like Russiaโ€™s Shahed-136: 25th Infantry Division Commander. Correct.

Thieves steal priceless jewels from the Louvre in daring Paris heist.

Conservatives offer women performative reverence. Progressives offer equally performative protection. But no one offers women the thing they were once promised: freedom.

Women Experience More Incivility at Work โ€” Especially from Other Women.

The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine. How the left ended up disbelieving the science.

Global Economy in Flux, Prospects Remain Dim.

H-1B Visa Holders Disappear From US Housing Market. Good.

Memphis Minnie.

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 โ€˜she-cessionโ€™ 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.

America is โ€˜going broke slowlyโ€™ says J.P. Morgan, as national debt balloons and tariff revenue looks shaky.

How Psychedelic Mushrooms Evolved Their Magic.

NATO Must Act to Stop Russiaโ€™s Dangerous New Campaign. Indeed.

Where Have All the Young Home Buyers Gone? Check the Stock Market.

Kathryn Bigelowโ€™s Warning to America.

Google Ultron.

Resistance Is Cringe. But itโ€™s also effective.

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.

Donโ€™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.

โ€ We are Finishedโ€: 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 Trumpโ€™s tariffs, and economists say itโ€™s a warning for the economy. So is that.

Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.

California to become first state to sell cheap insulin through state-backed program.

Worldโ€™s largest food company is cutting 16,000 jobs due partly to automation.

How I Reversed Amazon’s Kindle DRM Because Their App Sucked.

Amazonโ€™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.

A Liver on Ice.

Microwave technique allows energy-efficient chemical reactions.

Believing misinformation is a โ€œwinโ€ for some people, even when proven false.

Growing number of Americans facing prospect of long-term unemployment.

Against Dog Ownership.

Amazon is planning a new wave of layoffs, sources say.

Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5โ€™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.