America’s Fast-Food Chains Are Making a Big Pivot—Back to Humans.

Defending Ukraine Is Getting More Expensive, and Europe Is Struggling to Foot the Bill.

Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images.

Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with cardiometabolic health outcomes in humans.

Congratulations! You Just Lived Through the Hottest Month Ever Recorded.

F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11.

Essentially all of the central issues of today (apart from AI) are related to the ideology of sameism: that all peoples are essentially the same.

Oil routes in peril as attacks shut Saudi pipeline and Houthis threaten key waterway.

Trump administration blocks $25 million in funding for national parks. Evil.

Airport security is making Americans less safe.

The surprising reason California survived record summer heat without blackouts. Not so surprising if you’re not clown-ass.

The America That 9/11 Made.

TV Networks Embrace Their Aging Audience With a New Mantra: Age Doesn’t Matter.

There's a dead zone in the conservative brain — a love of cringe and banal "heroic" and sentimental (if not overtly kitsch) images — that cannot be fixed.

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks.

The Growing Proof That Autonomous Cars Save Lives. Self-driving tech could prevent 580,000 deaths every year.

A fossil feather preserved inside dinosaur poop could help explain why birds survived the mass extinction.

Dangerous heat days are expanding beyond summer, with regional spring-fall shifts.

Bond Market Has a Cow, Treasury Yields Spike across the Board, 10-Year Yield near 5%, 30-Year Yield at 5.37%.

PPI Shows Surging Inflation Across Prices that Companies Pay Each Other. The Fed Should Stop Dilly-Dallying Around.

Here’s how we’re all going to die.

Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables.

Sept. 11 Changed the World Order. But Not for the Reason We May Think. The terrorist attacks consumed U.S. resources and attention, and left the country unable to address the bigger threats to its economy and global leadership.

Trees use a 'muscle' to correct their posture—a newly discovered role for tension wood.

The Helicopter With Radioactive Blades.

The DOJ’s AI Fair Use Brief Is Correct, But From A DOJ That Has No Credibility.

Why the Gasoline Price Spike Didn’t Derail Consumer Spending despite all Moaning & Groaning: Auto Dealers Got Caught Too.

Feminism has seen better days. The movement that brought us suffrage, no-fault divorce, reproductive freedom, and equal pay has disintegrated.

Schools should stop banning peanuts. Here’s what really keeps kids safe.

The ‘Gen Z stare’ — and the decline of saying things out loud.

States That Gave Data Centers Billions in Tax Breaks Are Now Ripping Up the Deals.

A16z Says You Actually Love Social Media, Enshittification Isn’t Real.

Why We Demand Perfect Machines Yet Tolerate Human Carnage. The illusion that we are all somehow above-average drivers is quietly slowing the adoption of autonomous vehicles that could save tens of thousands of lives each year. Correct. Utterly fucking moronic.

For the First Time in Decades, Not Having a College Degree Beats Having a Degree in the Job Market.

Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigration.

The political drama unfolding in Germany is hard to overstate.

The 10-Year Treasury Yield over 5%? Some Thoughts.

Icy Moons are Ocean Worlds.

How the Nepal-Tibet disaster became the latest victim of China’s ‘Clean Internet’ campaign.

America’s White-Collar Workers Feel Stuck in Jobs They Don’t Like.

How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips.

A Tidier Rivian (in Size and Price) Is Ready for the Suburbs.

Novo’s Wegovy Reversed Obesity in Study of Young Children. Cool.

When people stop believing in progress, it quickly becomes a crisis for societies like ours.

I think it’s important to point out that the problem with Third World immigration to Europe isn’t “Afghans”, “Somalis” or “Pakistanis” per se. The actual problem is that Europe’s institutions and incentives are designed to attract the worst people from those countries.

Nitroplast.

EV batteries last longer than drivers feared.

Putin receives a tacit invite to a far more dangerous confrontation.

Merz has no good answers as the far right targets his downfall.

Europe’s fighter jet plans are in disarray. What happens next?

Russian Energy Is Now at Ukraine’s Mercy. LOL.

Berlin Is Shedding Light on the Gray Zone. Are European countries finally ready to publicly call out Russian sabotage? We are already at war with Russia.

We spent over $12,000 replacing our carpets with vinyl-plank flooring. It looks very nice, but I regret it every day.

Why this month’s Microsoft patch release is a doozy.

Why the AfD Wins.

OpenAI Says It Has Solved a Millennium Prize Problem—a Holy Grail of Math.

First, the old American reflex that Russia must be kept intact because the alternative is supposedly more dangerous is irrelevant.

The Panama Canal’s New Boss Inherits a Drought and a Bidding War for Transit Slots.

Investigators seek answers after Amazon cargo plane crash kills five at Miami airport.

Everyone Wants to Win Working-Class Voters. But Have They Realized Many Are Women?

US Military Discovers Just How Dangerous Ad Trackers Can Be.

Iran’s Oil Dollars Are Drying Up—and Plunging It Deeper Into Crisis.

Americans Without College Degrees Are Having One of the Best Job Markets in Years.

Belgian-Chinese researcher arrested over suspected theft of chip secrets.

Volkswagen strikes deal to shift plant from cars to air defence.

Protecting nature isn’t charity. It’s economic self-interest.

Disconnect your LG television from the internet, now.

Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive. Correct.

What Was the War on Terror?

The risky mission to de-mine the Strait of Hormuz.

Mysterious Black Jet That Emerged At Long Beach Airport Identified.

The Complacent Style in American Academe.

300,000 European factory jobs at risk as Chinese competition mounts.

Proboscis bat.

The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center.

U.S. is running low on advanced defensive missiles — and it could take years to recover.

Along these lines one of the great puzzles of Woke 1 was why so much cultural production was made dumb, off putting, and aesthetically repugnant.

Fewer Americans are Working or Looking for a Job. Experts Can’t Agree on Why.

Here’s another one of my occasional messages directly to progressives, my former tribe.

Betelgeuse's atmosphere is becoming spotty and asymmetric—and a nearby companion could be shaping the pattern.

Time Is No Longer on Iran’s Side in the Battle of the Blockades.

Large employers drop health benefits as costs rise.

Good intentions are not much protection against somebody who wants you dead.

CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom.

Humanoid robots could upend life as we know it — if only they had better brains.

Fake job recruiters are getting smarter about scamming job seekers. AI is making it even worse.

Flock cameras draw opposition from across the political spectrum.

How Do You Know That Conspiracies happen. That doesn’t make conspiratorial thinking sound.

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil.

Throwing rubbish in a landfill is (usually) better for the environment than recycling it. With few exceptions, recycling ends up emitting more CO2 and costing more money, while landfills are cheap and secure.

Just bury your trash.

This Is the Biggest Obstacle to New Cancer Cures.

Ukraine’s scramble to secure critical air defenses stalls.

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

GPS Glitched Across The US by as Much as 33 Feet. Scientists Have Never Seen This Before.

Ozempic and Other GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections—Including TB.

Europe targeted by spiralling campaign of sabotage and Russia is the chief suspect.

How to Stop a Lab Leak From Starting the Next Pandemic.

The price of diesel hits a record high.

Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO.

Ukraine’s Next Goal Is to Shut Down Russia’s Commercial Airspace.

Should We Accept Degrowth as a Serious Academic Concept?

Please, for the love of all things, stop bringing your parents to job interviews.

AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop.

After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury.

In a Big Win, Google Avoids a Breakup of Its Ad Tech Business.

Three sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them.

A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32.

Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing ‘geopolitical unrest’.

The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain.

Earth’s Organisms Developed Via Evolution. Some Theorists Wonder: What if the Entire Cosmos Did, Too?

Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Is A Bad Deal For Teens And All Social Media Users.

Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world.

Chinese Warships Are Cruising Too Close for Comfort Off Japan’s Shores.

The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop.

I am shocked, shocked to learn that this 2002 paper by Dan Ariely is based on dubious data and doesn’t replicate.

This is what a supercar was like a century ago.

Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants.

I rented a car, and within hours, my driver’s license was for sale.

Trump Lies That Medicare for All Would Cost ‘Entire Budget of the Whole Country’.

This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops.

Florida’s housing market goes into meltdown.

A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready.

Washington’s Absence Is Inviting the War Europe Fears Most.

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity.

Here is what people do not understand: A knife a person standing 15 feet away from you is holding can be in your neck in less than 2 seconds.

I think that this is the scariest part of the upcoming AI era.

‘Idiocracy’ Predicted All of This.

Ceuta spirals into chaos as Spain’s Sánchez struggles to regain control. Evacuate Spaniards; bomb what’s left.

Germany blames Russia for drone incursion, announces retaliatory measures.

Navy Sounds Like It Now Wants The Air Combat Drone It Notoriously Passed Over A Decade Ago.

Chinese Cargo Ships Clandestinely Gather Signals Intelligence: Report.

Germany Formally Accuses Russia Of Attempted Drone Strike On Ukrainian An-124 Cargo Jet.

America is still poised for a data center boom.

Way back in the Before Times, before social media and the iPhone — even before the towers fell and the modern security state was stood up in their place — we online types would amuse one another by making fun of PowerPoint presentations.

Monitor Makers Start Pummeling Owners With Annoying Ads, ‘Smart’ Spyware.

List of proposed etymologies of OK.

For three friends, an eagerly anticipated dream adventure to the Grand Canyon becomes a nightmare.

Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It? Fuck no.

Using High-Energy Laser, US Shoots Down Drones Near Mexico Border.

Record baby boom brings world’s heaviest parrot back from the brink.

BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all.

Scams in the US are at a record high. Yet most victims get no help and some end up losing even more.

Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design.

US Drugmakers Are Dependent on Chinese Supply Chains.

What Warsh Referred to with “the Relatively Low Turnover in Today’s Labor Market…”.

Graphics Card Prices Are Rising Fast (Again), and GeForce Is Taking the Biggest Hit.

AI, Leverage out the Wazoo, Sky-High Asset Prices, Private Credit, Interconnectedness, and Government Debt Pose Risks to Global Financial System.

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds.

Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex.

It turns out that Orion’s much-maligned heat shield performed really well.

People laughing at the Chinese robots crashing after the 100m race or asking what's the point of developing humanoid robots even are missing the bigger picture.

California’s beaches are being eaten away. El Niño could redraw the coast as we know it.

True Rate of Unemployment.

My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac mini.

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses.

The Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors.

Philosophy, political and social, has been focused on demonstrating the exceptions to disprove the rules.

What is Gen Z supposed to do?

Arizona's taps won't run dry, but water bills will go up under federal plan for Colorado River.

Hell is other Leftists.

The Data Center Panic and U.S. Decline.

Why Syracuse Can’t Attract the Students It Needs to Pay the Bills.

MIT Warns That AI Can Now Credibly Complete Pretty Much Any Undergrad Assignment, Considers Overhaul of Entire Educational Model.

Something Grim Is Happening to Kids Who Got Cell Phones Early.

Trump admin shelves Cyclospora research despite record-breaking outbreak.

Nudity & Sex Scenes in American Movies: Incidence, Popularity, and Rating. Wow. We really are complete prudes now.

Bug blindness.

Why Your Gas Tank Is On The Left—Or Right.

Rising bond yields add tens of billions to G7 countries’ debt costs.

Americans feel they have lost their agency.

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer.

Substantial under-detection of human rabies cases in the United States.

Nearly 1 in 5 Medicaid-eligible Adults in Expansion States Are At Risk of Losing Health Coverage Due to Insufficient or Inconsistent Work Hours.

Europe’s summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat.

I can’t overemphasize the degree to which we continue to be doing Spike Jonze’s Her.

Anthropomorphizing AI?

Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need.

“Weird” is a weird word.

What’s really driving recalls of cars at risk of bursting into flames? It’s not EVs.

What it’s like to live through Kyiv’s constant air raids.

Russia’s ‘hybrid war’ on Europe is starting to look a lot less hybrid.

Pharma Industry Stares Down Biggest Patent Cliff in Decades.

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

Zero-sum thinking will fuel resentment and scarcity.

All the Massive Public Health Failures Under RFK’s HHS, Ranked.

Arquebus.

Anthropic’s new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world.

Baby boomers are collecting 265% of what they paid into Social Security—and millennials are paying the price.

The renter generation: Young Americans, shut out of homeownership, brace to rent forever.

How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations. Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.

Quarterly Update on the Ugly Fiscal Condition of the US in Q2 2026.

Russia ‘losing 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit’.

‘Right To Repair’ State Laws Continue To Surge, But Enforcement Remains Nonexistent.

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August.

How the War in Iran Is Redrawing the Global Energy Map.

Panama Canal Congestion Drives Gas Tankers to Unusual Routes.

The Real Artificial Intelligence Boom Hasn't Yet Begun. Correct.