Chill Links

Solar beats coal in the US electricity mix for the first month ever.

FCC Wants To Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms To Get All Customers' IDs.

How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science.

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude.

California’s AB 412 Still Demands AI Developers Do The Impossible.

Russian satellites linked to mysterious GPS disruptions across several countries.

The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species.

Some US employers to drop coverage of GLP-1 obesity drugs in 2027 as use increases.

What Homebuilder Lennar Said about the Tough Housing Market: Average Sales Price Down 24% from Peak, back to 2017.

Producer Price Inflation beyond Energy: 6-Month Services PPI, “Core” Goods PPI & “Core” PPI Blow by 6%, Worst since 2022.

Surrection

Chill Gutter Philosophy

The spirit world and the soul did not exist until we created it.

Nietzshe correctly averred that God is dead. But in a way that he did not expect, and probably would not have liked nor appreciated, we’ve instantiated a new paracosmos that is now in active migration into this one; both realms have been created ex nihilo and then made permeable. And the barrier between is thinning all the time.

So we dwell in a perpetual psychomanteum of our own design, in communion with the living and the dead, many pasts, many futures, with the contemplations of millions of specters incanting at us through LED light.

Chill Links

Prison itself is a relatively recent innovation.

70% Of fourth-graders aren’t reading proficiently, report finds.

I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently.

Could Switzerland Become the First Country to Cap Its Population?

Inflation jumps to 4.2%, the highest since early 2023.

The Invisible Hand Won’t Rebuild U.S. Shipyards.

The World’s Great Powers Are Learning They Have Limits.

Germany’s Cobra 600 Is A Jet Powered Interceptor Drone That Slings An IRIS-T Missile.Can I have 1 100?

This Is The Corsair Drone Boat That Plucked The Downed Apache Crew Out Of The Gulf Of Oman.

AI Is Letting Companies Cut Entry-Level Jobs. Here’s Why That Is a ‘Critical Strategic Mistake,’ According to an MIT Economist.

Not Just a Humblebrag

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Culture

Something else that is also worse since the 1990s.

Women have always had somewhat stricter beauty standards foisted onto them than men.

But in the 2010s with the rise of Marvel and other similar superhero movies, that began to change. Women were psyopped into believing that if you were not completely ripped Hugh Jackman-style 24/7, then you were out of shape and had a “dad bod.” Never mind that for those scenes, Jackman was on the verge of death from dehydration, etc.

So, now, men also have absurd beauty standards applied to them. I don’t completely blame women for this; as I said, they were psyopped into it.

As someone who has a physique now approaching the Marvel superhero ideal (and could get there easily with 2-3 days of dehydration after a month or two of cutting a few pounds), I can tell you it’s really very difficult to achieve. It requires working out an hour or more a day 4-6 days a week. And not just putzing around. You must do hard workouts combined with eating well. And if you don’t want to use drug enhancement (and I do not), you must do this for years.

These days women assume you’ve never seen the inside of gym if you don’t look like Chris Evans in his post-transformation Captain America shirtless scenes. And that is pretty fucking absurd.

Again, the 90s were better.