Chill Links

Knowledge Collapse. AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?

Why thousands of Americans are giving up their citizenship.

Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely.

Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time.

Does gravity create reality? A shocking path to a theory of everything.

Here’s How Much More Money Elon Musk Has Than Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, and You.

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket.

ServiceNow, Salesforce, other tech firms reveal more Bay Area job cuts.

Volkswagen to reduce workforce by 19,000 by end of year, CEO says.

Highly intelligent people are more likely to ditch old habits for better ideas, study finds.

Fearly

Chill Evil

Once the feminists/leftists have banned human attraction, banned normal human connection, banned the ability to speak to anyone “unauthorized” in public, and eliminated the last vestiges of everything they’re terrified of in the world, what do they hope to achieve?

What’s the desired end state? Probably it’s inchoate because they are operating from a position of panphobia, so nothing would ever suffice.

But that we allowed them to seize so much cultural power is an indictment of us, not them.

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.