Bankers learn they are fired via accidental email asking them to return laptops.

The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights.

Why the vegans lost. Could be a short article. Should just say, “Because they were fucking nuts.”

The majority of Canadians that own property in the U.S. plan to sell, survey finds.

Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it.

Recently, a woman slowed down a line at the post office, waving her phone at the clerk. ChatGPT told her there’s a “price match promise” on the USPS website. No such promise exists. But she trusted what the AI “knows” more than the postal worker.

Age of Invention: The Century-Long Depression.

There Goes the American Muscle Car.

Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space using 1st-of-its-kind ‘artificial photosynthesis.’

One Universal Antiviral to Rule Them All?

China’s Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink.

We now live in a highly polarized country, where even election results are contested. Politicians are cheerleaders, not statesmen. Economic statistics are discussed not in terms of their implication for the economy, but rather whether they have been altered to reflect a political agenda.

The Great Postal Boycott Must End. Inflation about to get insane.

The AI revolution is beginning to have a significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level workers in the American labor market.

To fend off the far right, democracy needs to deliver.

We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial. And soon we’ll be in a depression, and they will be in denial about that as well.

Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading. Clownish but expected. And the noose tightens….

Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls.

US retail giants raise prices and seek new import sources due to tariffs. Inflationary depression on the way.

What is a color space?

The CTO Was ChatGPT.

Trump’s Attack on Data Has ‘Dangerous Trickle-Down Effect’ for America’s Most Vulnerable.

FTC Warns Tech Giants Not To Bow To Foreign Pressure on Encryption.

Politico Management Insists “AI” Shouldn’t Be Held To Any Sort Of Human Editorial Standards Because It’s Built By Coders, Not Journalists.

No country for young families.

How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world.

Adults Are Going to Sleep-away Camp to Make Friends. It Seems to Actually Work.

Is 4chan the Perfect ‘Pirate Bay’ Poster Child to Justify Wider UK Site-Blocking? It was never about porn; never is.

Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes.

NASA’s Juno Mission Leaves Stunning Legacy of Science at Jupiter.

The Bubble That Knows It’s a Bubble.

OneDrive even silently reinstalled itself and moved one customer’s data to the cloud, all without consent. This is by design, as are all the Windows user-hostile features.

Both vaccines and antivirals cut the risk of Long COVID with more doses equaling more protection. Paxlovid especially reduces the odds by about 95%.

Recent CT college grads frustrated by lack of jobs, AI and tariff-shy employers.

A third of the U.S. economy is already in a recession or at high risk, and another third is stagnating, Zandi warns.

Palantir’s tools pose an invisible danger we are just beginning to comprehend.

How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes.

Fed Chair Warns the Economy Is Even Worse Than We Realized. Well, duh.

International Paper shutting down Savannah, Riceboro mills, impacting 1,100 jobs. Just the very, very beginning of what’s on the way.

If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will. Still true.

Southwest Is Changing Its Rules for Plus-Size Passengers. Good.

The Retribution Phase of Trump’s Presidency Has Begun.

Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia.

This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco.

Trump administration halts work on an almost-finished wind farm. Clownish unbelievable stupidity. That MF has gotta be working for China.

1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind.

Cracker Barrel and the Americana debate.

VistaVision.

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year.

Investigators Used Terrible Computer Fraud Laws To Ensure People Were Punished For Leaking Air Crash Footage To CNN.

Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math.

Miles from the ocean, there’s incredible diving beneath the streets of Budape.

We’re hearing a lot of talk about stagflation now, for good reason. Tariffs and mass deportations are both stagflationary: They increase inflation while depressing growth.

Plurale tantum.

Buried for Nearly 2,000 Years, a Monumental Dionysian Fresco Sees the Light of Day in Pompeii.

The Media’s Urge to Be “Fair” to Trump Is Killing the Republic.

Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy.

Meet Flamingo, the missile that brings European Russia within Kyiv’s range.

McDonald’s is lowering the cost of its combo meals, after consumers were left sticker-shocked by Big Mac meals that climbed to $18 in some places.

Police Helicopter Downed by Drone in Colombia, Killing 12. Surprised this sort of thing has not happened more. But it will.

Where Americans Spend $1.2 Trillion a Year at Ecommerce Retailers and How that Changed Over Time.

A.I. May Be Just Kind of Ordinary.

Manta Rays Officially Get Third New Species – 15 Years After First Suspected.

The Second Gilded Age Is Resembling the First.

World’s first spinal cord transplant to take place in Israel, could allow patients to walk again.

Germany’s Economy Shrank by More Than Expected on Tariff Hit.

Canada finally faces a basic question: how do we defend ourselves?

For some people, music doesn’t connect with any of the brain’s reward circuits.

MAGA can’t decide if women should be allowed to dance.

Kia is launching all the cool new EVs in Europe, while the US gets put on the back burner. Thanks to the morons in charge of this country.

Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old.

Social bias blind spots: Attractiveness bias is seemingly tolerated because people fail to notice the bias.

Europe’s Free-Speech Problem. Republicans are right to criticize Europe for attacking free expression, even if that makes them hypocritical.

Large Stealth Flying Wing Aircraft Photographed Over China.

ChatGPT Shaming Is Making Our Writing So Much Worse. Luckily shaming doesn’t work on me. North Florida immunized me aginst that.

American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate.

‘A walking coffin’: Under Texas abortion laws, some women are forced to endure stillbirth.

Trump says U.S. will not approve solar or wind power projects. Absurdly, insanely clownish. Really must be working for China.

How AI will change the browser wars. Ugh.

Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about.

Obesity has a serious impact on health – it shortened my mum’s life.Blaming the patriarchy, fatphobia or big pharma for weight issues doesn’t reduce the risks.

A tiny microbe discovered by accident challenges the definition of cellular life.

I’ve Seen What Happens When a Country Messes With Data. America, Beware. It’s going to get very bad.

The Iranian connection: how China is importing oil from Russia.

Housing shrinkflation is here to stay. New homes are 11% smaller but 74% more expensive than a decade ago. Economists will find a way to “prove” this isn’t true.

Civil War Comes to the West. This is likely.

Internet Killed the Subculture.

Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics.

Ukrainian sabotage groups operating behind Russian lines.

20,000 US Jobs at Risk as Marvel Abandons Filming in Georgia for UK Amid Soaring Costs.

Inflation alarm bells went off again and prices are rising. Just how bad is it going to get? Extremely bad.

Job market gloom hasn’t been this bad since the Great Recession.

Tech Companies Accused of Bending H-1B Rules With Newspaper Job Listings. Newspapers? They still have those?

The Rising Returns to R&D: Ideas Are not Getting Harder to Find.

It pains me to think about all the money being funneled into the AI bubble. Money that could have funded so many real solutions to real problems.

GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire.

All Russia Needs to Do Is Go Home.

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing.

How Svengali Putin Keeps Trump the Chump Dancing to His Tune.

Big Business and Wall Street Need to Stand Up for Honest Data. But they will not.

America’s Support for Taiwan Is at a Critical Juncture.

Core Services PPI Explodes, Worst since March 2020, Causes Overall PPI and Core PPI to Explode.

UMich cancels doctoral epidemiology program admissions for 2026.

Deconstructing Housing. The market alone can’t fix America’s housing crisis. A public option can.

The Media Can’t Handle the Absence of Truth.

The End of Handwriting. For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad? I hate writing by hand.

Millions of women are ‘under-muscled.’ These foods help build strength.

America’s Stalled Mobility: Housing Costs and Job Insecurity Keep People Stuck.

Pity the policymakers in the AI jobs tsunami.

Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity.

Solving the Problem of Uncertain Significance. Clinical genetics: Aspiring to perfect certainty in an imperfect world.

LLMs generate slop because they avoid surprises by design.

The U.S. Plummets to Historic Lows in the World Happiness Report.

The Boomer generation stole from their children, from the future generation by using this capitalist debt-based financial system that we have today.

After all this work preventing ice formation and stopping molecular motion, a big threat to preserved organs turns out to be the physical stresses that develop as different parts of the tissue cool at different rates.

Primitive Streaming Gods. Lessons from the music industry’s initial consumer-hostile reaction to the Napster saga. Going from $16 CDs to unlimited streaming is really hard.

How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight.

Housing Market Craters With 56% Of Homes Selling Below Asking And Experts Warn, ‘There’s More Rock Bottom To Be Had.’

How a mysterious particle could explain the Universe’s missing antimatter.

Fact check: Trump’s latest fake history about the war in Ukraine.

Trump admin ranks companies on loyalty while handing out favors to Big Tech.

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation. Trump admin clownery partially responsible. And it will only get worse.

Bringing Human Nature Back In. Agreed with this take.

Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy.

New Protein Therapy Shows Promise as First-Ever Antidote for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.

What Does Palantir Actually Do?

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge.

Nobody’s Buying Homes, Nobody’s Switching Jobs—and America’s Mobility Is Stalling.

What Medieval People Got Right About Learning.

Hellfire Missile Launcher Disguised As Civilian Truck Breaks Cover In Taiwan.

It’s Official: ‘Ghost Particle’ That Smashed Into Earth Breaks Records.

I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here.

Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search.

Our Best Look At DARPA’s Defiant Uncrewed Surface Ship.

This system is critical to Americans’ health. We must defend it.

Fast forward a little further, and there is the looming and very real possibility of a national or global financial crisis precipitated by a rapid devaluation of hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars worth of real estate values.

‘Absolutely immense’: the companies on the hook for the $3tn AI building boom.

The Rule of Idiots. In the last days of all empires the idiots take over.

Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected.

They’re Killing the Humanities On Purpose.

Trump Rate Hopes Burned as New Inflation Data Comes in Hot. Stagflation then outright depression inbound.

Perfect storm to hit Obamacare: Millions of Americans could see insurance premiums surge 75% in 2026.

Cancer scientist Feng Gensheng leaves US for China as Trump cuts funding. We are determined to the stupid as hard as we can.

The Nuclear Power Dealmaking Boom Is Real.