Addiction Markets: Abolish Corporate-Run Gambling.
In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up.
It’s Time to Retire the Term ‘Toxic Masculinity.’
For Better Public Transit, We Need Better Stories. And fewer young women murdered thereon, and no wild-eyed stabby vagrants.
America’s Grocery Lifeline Is Fraying.
Department was told to pack up to move to a different floor, only to be laid off.
The surprising reason home prices remain stubbornly high.
NASA test flight seeks to help bring commercial supersonic travel back.
Texas Adds More Solar Power Because It’s Just Better, That’s All.
Amazon CEO Says 14,000-Person Layoffs Weren’t Due to AI or Finances: ‘It’s About Culture.’ Yeah, that’s a lie.
AI browsers are here, and they’re already being hacked.
The Army found an M2 .50 caliber machine-gun still shooting perfectly after 90 years of service.
Why Tech Needs Personalization.
Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details.
Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation. Eh, that relies on a ton of unproven assumptions.
As Social Media Restrictions Spread, Is The Internet Entering Its Victorian Era? Already there.
Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy.
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.
Amazon Layoffs 2025: Firm ‘Trading Talent for GPUs’ to Protect AWS Margins, AI Analyst Says.
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 ‘Overnight’ Replacement: The (Federal) Express Decline and Fall of Collierville, TN.
Shutdown’s biggest blow lands in Trump-leaning Alabama — 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 Amazon’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.
‘Make American Shipbuilding Great Again’: Korea leans into shipbuilding as it woos Trump.
America Doesn’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.
California invests big in battery energy storage — and leaves rolling blackouts behind. That was “impossible” a mere decade ago.
I’m drowning in AI features I never asked for and I absolutely hate it. “You just hate change!”
The Great SaaS-Lighting: How IT Users Got Gaslit.
An American Hunger Crisis Is Coming.
Apollo laser takes down 200 drones unplugged.
The Economy That’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 world’s data center capital.
As Putin Digs In, a Long—and Different—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 — 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.