What “Working” Means in the Era of AI Apps.
SaaS Is Just Vendor Lock-In with Better Branding.
How the U.S. became highly reliant on Elon Musk for access to space. As usual: by a series of stupid and ill-advised decisions.
It’s a Really Bad Time to Be an Expert in Washington.
How Dobbs Unleashed a Breathtaking Disregard for Human Rights.
Dr. Oz Says People Will Receive Medicaid If They Can ‘Prove That They Matter.’
Height filters are taking off on dating apps. Are they getting in the way of finding true love?
My thoughts are is that we should let the women obsessed with height have these filters. I mean, this no longer affects me directly unless my partner gets run over by a Cybertruck or decides she’s tired of a grumpy old paratrooper.
As we all know, though, many women are in fact extremely fixated to an unhealthy degree on height1, even to the point of shaming their “friends” who date someone they deem “not tall enough.” (Far more than men are allegedly obsessed with boobs.) And these are invariably intolerably terrible women.
So, men, my advice is so let these women sort themselves out of your lives. Sure, that might mean being single for longer. But why would you want to be with someone not really into you anyway?
These women are truly only hurting themselves. My advice is to let them. It is amusing to watch them carp about not being able to find anyone and then die alone.
Nearly no users can Google effectively yet still get upset when you in IT Google for an answer — even though they spent hours looking for something that I can do a successful ten-second search for and fix in less than a minute. As this comment mentions, the difference is that I know how to use the information found and that they do not. Nor do they even know what to search for in the first damn place.
But as another comment points out, you’ve achieved enlightenment when you’re able to solve things that cannot be Googled, that no AI can answer.
And I do that every day.
Even though I am generally a supporter of eugenics actually doing this plausibly is ridiculously hard: Polygenic scores aren’t environmentally robust. Pleiotropy and epistasis mean that when you alter one (what you wrongly think is a) monogenic trait, you’re probably going to get effects elsewhere almost inevitably since our knowledge is very limited here.
We cannot actually do eugenics because of this and many other reasons. We need more tech and we need more insight. And we should work on that.
I was listening to this on YouTube and I noticed that there is what I think is a still taken from a video where Hope Sandoval some time back in the day is playing a vibraphone (that is in front of maybe a marimba?). What the fuck video does she play a vibraphone in? How have I never seen this?
I need to see that.
I hate when I’m working on some software or hardware, something fails or does not do what it’s supposed to do and then it says, “Contact your system administrator.”
MOTHERFUCKER I AM THE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR.
And it’s still broken.
Ukraine’s Drone Attack Exposes Achilles’ Heel of Military Superpowers.
How Common is Multiple Invention?
End of an Era: Landsat 7 Decommissioned After 25 Years of Earth Observation.
How do we know mRNA vaccines are safe and effective? An explainer.
Millions of Americans hit with bad credit after missed student loan payments.
‘No more floppy disks’: Air traffic control overhaul faces some daunting obstacles.
AI Surveillance Won’t Stop Theft, but It Might Stop Unions.
GOP intensifies war against EVs and efficient cars. More clownish idiocy.
As Emperor of Ohio, I will command a fleet of autonomous drones decorated in baroque style that hover ominously and mysteriously above the conquered lands of Indiana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania https://t.co/ja9oV1bXCQ
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) June 6, 2025
As emperor of Florida, I will field a fleet of alligator-toting drones that will swoop down when you offend me and allow Mr. Chompy and pals to rip your face off.
Do not trifle with Mr. Chompy.
I’m 88 and Work With No Savings, Used to Have Half a Million Saved.
This is a sad story, but it’s also full of calamitously boneheaded financial decisions that led to inevitable doom. Flipping houses? Are you flipping crazy?
And pulling money from mutual funds to buy a house?
Also, she received a lump-sum payout of $800,000 in today’s dollars from a pension buyout, got a return of 10% to 12% annually and is broke now? Clownish. They must’ve lost vast amounts on that house flipping scheme.
You do the stupid, the stupid returns tenfold.
Kudos to the director and DoP on that video. Great idea gorgeously and movingly executed. Perfect.
Are credit scores done?
Experian and Plaid are teaming up.
Real-time cashflow is key here.Not who you were. Who you are, today. Right now.
Your spending.
Your income.
Your habits.Congrats- you will no longer be your FICO score- you will be a Cashflow Score.
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— Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) June 5, 2025
We seem to deeply wish to turn the world into a dystopian hellscape. At least, we are trying our best to do so whether we want to or not.
FBI discovers cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia while raiding home in Washington state.
Florida version of this headline and a bit of the first part of the story:
“FBI mystified not to discover cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia after raiding Florida home.”
FBI Agent Dean Waterson said he was taken aback by the lack of dangerous, illegal or offensive items in the Ocala home. “In all my years of being a field agent, I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said, citing his 20 years of experience. “These Florida places always have poorly-secured caches of guns, double lightning bolts painted on the walls and usually some meth strewn around here and there. This home had nothing like that. We’re still trying to understand it.”
Experts contacted by the Post said this might be a first-of-its-kind event….
I don’t think this makes me superior to anyone1, but it’s a weird thought that I listen to more new songs in a day than most people listen to in years.
I just love music. And not performatively. It’s easy to do a lot of something you deeply enjoy and love to do, really.
