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Major Music Labels Strike Deals With New AI Streaming Service. Ugh.

U.S. employee well-being hit new low in 2024, survey reveals.

Dusty star-forming galaxy at high redshift discovered.

Why top firms paradoxically fire good workers. So, basically, evil?

Hilbert space: treating functions as vectors.

The Banished Bottom of the Housing. Market How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes.

Amazon cut thousands of engineers in its record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster.

Without US satellites, ‘we go dark’, climate monitor tells AFP. We are doing some incredibly idiotic things that will hurt us and everyone for decades.

The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation.

The Real Target of Pedophile Hysteria Is Age Gap Relationships. Yep. All about female intrasexual competition.

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds.

Moss spores survive and germinate after 283-day ‘space walk.’

The next recession is coming — and this time, you’re the collateral.

The qualitative is the foundation of the quantitative.

Sys and Sys

Chill Prediction, War

Systems Confrontation and System Destruction Warfare.

Finally! Someone who knows what the fuck is going on and how China will handle a war with the US.

Yes, this is how China would do it. I could’ve written this myself. If I’d had an army of consultants and a boatload of time. There are still people left somewhere who can think about the actual world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be. Cool.

T Fail

Chill Evil

And due to the wacky eco-left, Germany decommed all their nuke plants, making the country dependent on Russian gas, which caused the current Ukraine war to be far more likely, which also made it vastly more probable that the Baltics, Poland and Germany itself will be invaded by Russia soon.

So, total idiot degrowther fail there.

Agentlessness

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Evil

Yep, yep. Pretending a 25-year-old woman is some innocent, agentless clueless naïf in a relationship like that is fucking delusional. It’s actually insane. And I think that Wil is right in his identification of the culprits. This at-odds-with-reality belief is held almost exclusively by women who are atypical and disconnected from normal women. By that I mean women who aren’t so obsessed with quantification of everything to the nth degree — women who just want to live life and have fun.

And of course it’s also a story a lot of women like to tell so they can avoid responsibility or accountability for anything. But it’s not true just because they say it.

Chill Links

After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the point of catastrophe.

The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable.

Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent.

We worked with Reuters to measure the impacts of AI scams on the elderly.

When you pick a side and commit to it wholly and without reservation, you get things that moderate positions cannot provide. You get certainty in an uncertain world. You get a community that will defend you. You get a simple heuristic for navigating complex issues.

Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe.

The future of war is the future of society. Military technology is changing rapidly, and we’re going to have to change with it.

Chill Links

Trump DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor.

Mysterious holes in the Andes may have been an ancient marketplace.

AI-generated evidence is showing up in court.

Explosion on rail line ‘initiated by Russian secret services’, Polish government says. We are already at war with Russia. We should act like it.

Intracellular Salmonella hijacks the mitochondrial citrate carrier to evade host oxidative defenses. Little microbe terrorist.

The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads.

More than three hundred years after the reading revolution ushered in a new era of human knowledge, books are dying.

Poland, Romania deploy jets to protect their airspace as Russia pounds western Ukraine.

The Job Market Didn’t Collapse. The Hiring System Did. Here’s What Really Changed. The reality is that both did, around the same time (which the article comes around to admitting).

3 massive changes you’ll see as the climate careens toward tipping points.

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy.’

Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible. Estimates show that the dismantling of USAID has killed at least 600,000 to date. It could get much worse.

Bio Real

Chill Annoying

It has been. I’m tough, but I’m not big or strong compared to a lot of males. And I or any non-disabled male could hand-to-hand easily defeat all but the most well-trained women MMA fighters. It’s just biology. Even before I worked out a lot, I had and have more muscle mass, more fast-twitch muscle, more lung capacity and thicker skin. Now that I’ve spent years working out it’d be even less of a contest. Put me in a ring one-on-one with a woman and I’d lay her flat on her back in 15-20 seconds.

Not that I want to do that or would do that. It’d not be fun for me, or any normal non-Islamic non-Hamas man. But at some point, biological reality must be acknowledged.

As I’ve recounted before, a very athletic female friend one time wanted to see how she’d fare against me in a fight. Note that she was taller than I am and was far more coordinated. I reluctantly agreed, though I told her I outright refused to do anything that might hurt her for more than a brief bit of temporary pain.

And I had her pinned in less than 10 seconds. Was not even hard. If I’d gone all out as if it were a real fight I think I could’ve knocked her out in 2-3 seconds. It rattled her to know how little she could do to resist. After that, I regretted doing it, though it didn’t change our relationship luckily.

Alas for us all, biology is real.

EVF

Chill Annoying, Clowns

People who complain about the batteries in EVs sometimes catching fire…you do realize that ICE cars have big-ass tanks full of gasoline, right? You know, one of the most combustible substances commonly used by humans?

Best stats I can find show that EV batteries catch fire at about 10% the rate of ICE vehicles. Stats also show that every one of you carping about that is a dumbass.

Paying Out

Chill Prediction, War

Russian spy ship ‘directed lasers’ at UK forces, says defense secretary.

Again, NATO is already at war with Russia. It’s just that no one besides Russia is acting like it.

We should actively be kicking Russia out of Ukraine now with 500,000 troops as well as shoring up defenses in the Baltics and Poland. Germany as well.

But we aren’t and won’t. And we’ll pay for that heavily in a few years.