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.

Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable and more sycophantic.

So You Bought a Fancy Vintage Car. Now Who’s Going to Restore it?

Fed’s Nightmare: CPI Inflation in Core Services Worst in 6 Months, Pushing Core CPI to Worst in 6 Months. Some Goods Prices Fell, Others Rose. It will only get worse from here.

Trump has turned FEMA itself into a disaster.

These West Virginians love Trump and food stamps—but they can’t have both.

BLS Commissioner Nominee’s Suggestion to Suspend Monthly Jobs Report Is ‘Like Gouging Our Eyes Out.’

Nonpartisan budget office: Republicans’ megabill will make the rich richer, poor poorer. Well, yeah, because that’s the point of it?

133-year old Kodak says it might have to cease operations.

Scientists exploring the hadal zone between Russia and Alaska say they discovered the deepest known ecosystem, capable of sustaining life without sunlight.

Vladimir Putin Could Be Laying a Trap. Of course it’s a trap. Anyway, Russia thinks Alaska is Russian soil.

We live in a fascist nation. What now? Once they win elections, it’s already too late. Agreed. Probably no more meaningful elections at the national level in our lifetimes.

Softbank: 1,000 AI agents replace 1 job.

Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed. Agreed. Just should be eliminated.

AI is the most rapidly adopted technology in history. I’m no AI cheerleader, but liberals (as usual) are wrong about AI.

Trump’s awful turn against mRNA vaccine research.

Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules. Wow. Insane.

What Does It Mean To Be Thirsty?

The value of institutional memory.

36 billion solar mass black hole at the centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens.

Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network.

Average Age of First-Time Home Buyers and How it Changed over the Past 25 Years.

Starbucks Asks Customers in South Korea To Stop Bringing Printers and Desktop Computers Into Stores.

The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns. Alas we are all getting dumber.

Coyote Loitering Drone Interceptors Have Arrived On U.S. Navy Destroyers.

‘Abundance’ Offers a Sounder Way Forward for the Left than Degrowth or Redistributive Progressivism. Degrowth is moron fodder.

Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed.

What a Democrat Could Do With Trump’s Power. America is entering an age of retributive governing cycles.

How Trump’s Policies Crush the American Battery Boom. Fucking idiots.

Trump to nominate longtime skeptic of Bureau of Labor Statistics as new agency head. Clownish.

Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism, and the Earnings Gap.

I want to offer some stories of why we dislike inflation so.

US Hits Highest Layoffs Since COVID.

A blue-collar bloodbath is inevitable.

The shape of wings to come? Can Blended Wing Body airliners muscle in on the Airbus and Boeing duopoly?

For B-21, Quantity Is Its Most Critical Quality Top Bomber Officer Says.

Restaurants are under threat as costs skyrocket and consumers cut back.

Inside the automated warehouse where robots are packing your groceries.

Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes.

H-1Bs are wreaking havoc on American workers. Saying that used to be “racist” so that is a nice improvement.

RFK Jr has slashed vaccine research. You need to know how perilous that is for the world. Will cause the death of millions.

RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science. Being ruled by clown-ass idiots really fucking sucks.

Millions of Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills.

Ford Bets $5 Billion on U.S. Manufacturing with New EV Platform, Assembly Model, and Midsize Electric Pickup.

‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head.

Taiwan’s Civil Society Is Not Ready for War.

The Economy Is Starting to Pay for Trump’s Chaos.

The computer science dream has become a nightmare.

People returned to live in Pompeii’s ruins, archaeologists say.

Boundaries Are in the Eye of the Beholder.

Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame.

Billions Flow to New Hedge Funds Focused on AI-Related Bets.

What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example.

New Noise Cameras Pit Drivers of Fast Cars Against Their Neighbors.

By 2028, 1 in 4 candidate profiles will be fake, Gartner predicts. Likely it is already this many from what I’ve observed.

Trump Is Destroying the Future of America to Own the Libs. Yup. Utterly clownish.

South Carolina Republican: High prices are ‘for the good of the country.’

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. So much for “learn to code.”

The Enshittification of Generative AI.

Why Even Basic Airline Seats Keep Getting More ‘Premium.’ Pretty soon it’ll be the rich and everyone else; no middle class at all.

It’s Time to Let Go of ‘African American.’

How Much Space Does the Median Income Get You? In many large U.S. cities, the typical household can afford to rent only a space smaller than a studio apartment.

Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why. I do not buy this.

For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite.

It’s Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation. The Krugster is right.

College used to open doors—now even grads with master’s degrees are sending 60 job applications a month to no luck. And it’ll only get worse from here.

Republicans Are Attacking the “Idle” Poor, But the Real Freeloaders Are the Rich.

Truth is deeper than mathematics.

How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer. Not “could.” Will.

Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis.

Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious.” What the Flock.

The Only Weather Models That Nailed the Texas Floods Are on Trump’s Chopping Block. LOL. Fucking clowns.

The Best Mac Feature Might Be Its Resale Value. Yup. No one accounts for that when they claim that the Mac is so “expensive.” Motherfucker, I can trade in a five year old Mac for 50% as much as I paid for it. Try that with some Windows made-of-garbage craptop.

How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the American Economy.

Housing market reality check: Homeowners finally accept 3% mortgage rates aren’t coming back. No they are not, not any time soon.

Almost 2 million Americans are collecting unemployment in highest figures since pandemic times.

The economy is cracking. This trend is most alarming. The U.S. economy is growing ever more reliant on top earners. It’s risky — and tough for the middle class.

6 reasons why tariffs are a terrible way to raise revenue.

More and more CEOs are adopting this strategy of management by fear, emboldened by a white-collar recession that leaves disgruntled workers few places to go.

The Latest Phase in Trump’s War on Data.

The Pain of Perfectionism.

Microsoft’s Control Panel Obsession: Why It Won’t Die.

Combating Domestic Violent Extremism Is No Longer a FEMA Priority.

Against Polling. It’s 90% Bullshit.

Companies are embracing a new hardcore culture. Here’s what you should do. Some very evil stuff.

A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of α Cen A.

‘China’s 2008 is happening now’—Analyst warns of real estate meltdown that threatens global economy.

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip.

AGM-114 Hellfire Missile Getting Articulated Warhead Capable Of Blasting In Different Directions. That should be a blast.

RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook. He clearly has no idea what antigenic shift means.

He thinks America should adopt a Christian theocracy. And he’s finding a new audience under Trump. This evil is very likely to succeed in the US.

Why Taiwanese fear China could take over from within.

A community support event takes place outside Hagey Hall, University of Waterloo the day after a man attacked students and teachers in a gender studies class on June 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread.

Google’s former chief business officer Mo Gawdat said that the notion AI will create jobs is ‘100% crap’. He warns it’ll wipe out jobs, with even ‘incompetent CEOs’ and ‘evil’ government leaders on the chopping block. Agreed that it absolutely will wipe out jobs; already is.

Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Increase to 226,000.

Detroit Rediscovers Its Love for Giant Gas Guzzlers. Dipshittish clownery.

The humanities should be harder.

MAGA’s war on the American economy. And facts. And reason. And reality. And health. Fucking idiots. Nothing but fucking full-on idiots.

Enclothed cognition.

Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in First Clinical Trial, Reversing Biological Age by 3.1 Years. Considering that Ozempic is already known to work on the markers of bio-age, not too surprising.

Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds.

The AI bubble is so big it’s propping up the US economy (for now).

Trump Administration Moves to Destroy Satellite That Monitors Greenhouse Gases. As usual, moronic beyond any words.

US tech rules the European market.

There’s something icky about LLM-generated text when you think it’s written by a human.

Germany’s identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time.

Where does your weather forecast come from? All the places Trump’s goons are destroying in their quest against facts

Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo.

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain.

Reddit is one of the last thriving islands of the old web. Can it survive AI? Probably not.

Fear Comes to America.

Donald Trump goes nuclear in the GOP’s war on science. What an incredible waste.

AI reveals unexpected new physics in dusty plasma.

AI Turns Drone Footage Into Disaster Response Maps In Minutes.

Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills.

What Can a Cell Remember?

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government. Extremely evil stuff.

Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head.

New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials.

As Goethe said, every fact is already a theory. That’s why facts cannot save you.

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away. It’s Thomas Friedman, but he’s right. America will be much diminished forevermore. And the world (despite current claims) will miss it when it’s gone.

Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster.

“What you want is irrelevant. What you have chosen is at hand.”

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows.

Ex-Russian president warns enemies of ‘new reality’ as Kremlin ditches nuclear treaty. It sucks being back in history again.

Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds. Surprisingly absolutely no one.

Evaluating the tradeoffs of a generalist parasitoid fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, on different sympatric ant hosts.

America is becoming a nation of homebodies. People spend more time at home because of phones.

Sprawling Study Links Air Pollution to Dementia.

How Social Media Shortens Your Life.

Welcome to Trump’s ‘controlled disintegration’ of America. China and Russia have won, because we destroyed ourselves.

The Mystery of the Strong Economy Has Finally Been Solved. Turns out it wasn’t actually that strong.

A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year. Then an AI System Spotted His Helmet. Both the AI skeptics and the AI triumphalists are wrong. As usual.

Trump’s rewriting of reality on jobs numbers is chilling, but it could backfire.

Oxygen Crisis Looms: Lanternfish Extinction Could Set Off Global Marine Collapse.

Hyperrealistic Reconstructions of 2 Stone Age Sisters.

The uproar over Vogue’s AI-generated ad isn’t just about fashion.

Vast majority of U.S. adults stressed about grocery costs, AP-NORC poll finds.

Technofeudalism. From 2023, but more relevant than ever.

Microsoft is deleting random threads from Support Community as it ‘migrates’ to a new Q&A platform. Typical of them.

Nostalgia is eating us alive. Instead of building a new world, we’re regurgitating a past that never existed.

‘This fire could have been prevented’: How utilities fought removal of old power lines.

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End. America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over. Thanks, MAGA clowns!

Life On Pitcairn.

‘A black hole’: New graduates discover a dismal job market.

Housing is where the buck stops.

The brave new world of trade has arrived.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse.

Unemployed Americans Endure Longer Job Searches in a Cooling Market.

AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’

Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs. The first widespread success in curing HIV may come from children, not adults.

RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026. NPR: Every community will be hurt by Corporation for Public Broadcasting closing. As with all degrowther MAGA bullshit, beyond moronic.

Economic Reality Bites Trump and His Protectionist Trade Policies.

Housing boom, baby boom. Americans want more babies. If only they had more homes to put them in.

The U.S. job market was weak in July, and previous months were worse than thought.

DOGE has ‘wasted $21.7billion’ on government shake up that left scientists checking tickets at parks.

Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people.

Geothermal Energy Is Heating Up. It’s Going to Need More Geologists.

Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia.

Sorry, America, but it’s not Australia’s fault that your healthcare system is failing you.

Atlassian CEO Lays Off 150 Employees, Tells Them They’ll Largely Be Replaced With AI.

America’s grip on global leadership didn’t slip—it has been rapidly pried loose by incompetence, distraction, and a studied indifference to history.

Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently.