“Smart” book I just started: Paradoxes and Physical Limits of Information Theory by Philippe Jacquet.
It’s quite good so far.
Day: April 6, 2025, 12:20 PM
Insecurity
Hours in Line, Cut-Off Calls: Accessing Social Security in the Era of DOGE.
The first step in killing Social Security, long a dream of the plutocrats. They will probably be able to do it this time.
I’d guess something like a 40% elderly poverty rate by 2040.
Dihyd
How do so many people just… not drink water?
I never drink plain water. The last time I drank just water was years ago. I don’t even remember when.
And I don’t because it tastes like absolute crap. Why would I want to do that to myself?
Stocks Plunge as the Market Understood What Tariffs Are: A Tax on Corporate Profit Margins.
Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought.
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. We’ve been building to that for a while.
Hot Schrödinger cat states created.
A Cowardly Congress Is Letting Trump Crash the Economy.
Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again.
What is up with car door handles these days? Everything everywhere getting worse all at once.