People returned to live in Pompeii’s ruins, archaeologists say.

Boundaries Are in the Eye of the Beholder.

Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame.

Billions Flow to New Hedge Funds Focused on AI-Related Bets.

What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example.

New Noise Cameras Pit Drivers of Fast Cars Against Their Neighbors.

By 2028, 1 in 4 candidate profiles will be fake, Gartner predicts. Likely it is already this many from what I’ve observed.

Trump Is Destroying the Future of America to Own the Libs. Yup. Utterly clownish.

South Carolina Republican: High prices are ‘for the good of the country.’

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. So much for “learn to code.”

The Enshittification of Generative AI.

Why Even Basic Airline Seats Keep Getting More ‘Premium.’ Pretty soon it’ll be the rich and everyone else; no middle class at all.

It’s Time to Let Go of ‘African American.’

How Much Space Does the Median Income Get You? In many large U.S. cities, the typical household can afford to rent only a space smaller than a studio apartment.

Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why. I do not buy this.

For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite.

It’s Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation. The Krugster is right.

College used to open doors—now even grads with master’s degrees are sending 60 job applications a month to no luck. And it’ll only get worse from here.

Republicans Are Attacking the “Idle” Poor, But the Real Freeloaders Are the Rich.

Truth is deeper than mathematics.

How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer. Not “could.” Will.

Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis.

Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious.” What the Flock.

The Only Weather Models That Nailed the Texas Floods Are on Trump’s Chopping Block. LOL. Fucking clowns.

The Best Mac Feature Might Be Its Resale Value. Yup. No one accounts for that when they claim that the Mac is so “expensive.” Motherfucker, I can trade in a five year old Mac for 50% as much as I paid for it. Try that with some Windows made-of-garbage craptop.

How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the American Economy.

Housing market reality check: Homeowners finally accept 3% mortgage rates aren’t coming back. No they are not, not any time soon.

Almost 2 million Americans are collecting unemployment in highest figures since pandemic times.

The economy is cracking. This trend is most alarming. The U.S. economy is growing ever more reliant on top earners. It’s risky — and tough for the middle class.

6 reasons why tariffs are a terrible way to raise revenue.

More and more CEOs are adopting this strategy of management by fear, emboldened by a white-collar recession that leaves disgruntled workers few places to go.

The Latest Phase in Trump’s War on Data.

The Pain of Perfectionism.

Microsoft’s Control Panel Obsession: Why It Won’t Die.

Combating Domestic Violent Extremism Is No Longer a FEMA Priority.

Against Polling. It’s 90% Bullshit.

Companies are embracing a new hardcore culture. Here’s what you should do. Some very evil stuff.

A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of α Cen A.

‘China’s 2008 is happening now’—Analyst warns of real estate meltdown that threatens global economy.

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip.

AGM-114 Hellfire Missile Getting Articulated Warhead Capable Of Blasting In Different Directions. That should be a blast.

RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook. He clearly has no idea what antigenic shift means.

He thinks America should adopt a Christian theocracy. And he’s finding a new audience under Trump. This evil is very likely to succeed in the US.

Why Taiwanese fear China could take over from within.

A community support event takes place outside Hagey Hall, University of Waterloo the day after a man attacked students and teachers in a gender studies class on June 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread.

Google’s former chief business officer Mo Gawdat said that the notion AI will create jobs is ‘100% crap’. He warns it’ll wipe out jobs, with even ‘incompetent CEOs’ and ‘evil’ government leaders on the chopping block. Agreed that it absolutely will wipe out jobs; already is.

Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Increase to 226,000.

Detroit Rediscovers Its Love for Giant Gas Guzzlers. Dipshittish clownery.

The humanities should be harder.

MAGA’s war on the American economy. And facts. And reason. And reality. And health. Fucking idiots. Nothing but fucking full-on idiots.

Enclothed cognition.

Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in First Clinical Trial, Reversing Biological Age by 3.1 Years. Considering that Ozempic is already known to work on the markers of bio-age, not too surprising.

Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds.

The AI bubble is so big it’s propping up the US economy (for now).

Trump Administration Moves to Destroy Satellite That Monitors Greenhouse Gases. As usual, moronic beyond any words.

US tech rules the European market.

There’s something icky about LLM-generated text when you think it’s written by a human.

Germany’s identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time.

Where does your weather forecast come from? All the places Trump’s goons are destroying in their quest against facts

Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo.

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain.

Reddit is one of the last thriving islands of the old web. Can it survive AI? Probably not.

Fear Comes to America.

Donald Trump goes nuclear in the GOP’s war on science. What an incredible waste.

AI reveals unexpected new physics in dusty plasma.

AI Turns Drone Footage Into Disaster Response Maps In Minutes.

Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills.

What Can a Cell Remember?

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government. Extremely evil stuff.

Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head.

New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials.

As Goethe said, every fact is already a theory. That’s why facts cannot save you.

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away. It’s Thomas Friedman, but he’s right. America will be much diminished forevermore. And the world (despite current claims) will miss it when it’s gone.

Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster.

“What you want is irrelevant. What you have chosen is at hand.”

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows.

Ex-Russian president warns enemies of ‘new reality’ as Kremlin ditches nuclear treaty. It sucks being back in history again.

Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds. Surprisingly absolutely no one.

Evaluating the tradeoffs of a generalist parasitoid fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, on different sympatric ant hosts.

America is becoming a nation of homebodies. People spend more time at home because of phones.

Sprawling Study Links Air Pollution to Dementia.

How Social Media Shortens Your Life.

Welcome to Trump’s ‘controlled disintegration’ of America. China and Russia have won, because we destroyed ourselves.

The Mystery of the Strong Economy Has Finally Been Solved. Turns out it wasn’t actually that strong.

A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year. Then an AI System Spotted His Helmet. Both the AI skeptics and the AI triumphalists are wrong. As usual.

Trump’s rewriting of reality on jobs numbers is chilling, but it could backfire.

Oxygen Crisis Looms: Lanternfish Extinction Could Set Off Global Marine Collapse.

Hyperrealistic Reconstructions of 2 Stone Age Sisters.

The uproar over Vogue’s AI-generated ad isn’t just about fashion.

Vast majority of U.S. adults stressed about grocery costs, AP-NORC poll finds.

Technofeudalism. From 2023, but more relevant than ever.

Microsoft is deleting random threads from Support Community as it ‘migrates’ to a new Q&A platform. Typical of them.

Nostalgia is eating us alive. Instead of building a new world, we’re regurgitating a past that never existed.

‘This fire could have been prevented’: How utilities fought removal of old power lines.

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End. America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over. Thanks, MAGA clowns!

Life On Pitcairn.

‘A black hole’: New graduates discover a dismal job market.

Housing is where the buck stops.

The brave new world of trade has arrived.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse.

Unemployed Americans Endure Longer Job Searches in a Cooling Market.

AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’

Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs. The first widespread success in curing HIV may come from children, not adults.

RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026. NPR: Every community will be hurt by Corporation for Public Broadcasting closing. As with all degrowther MAGA bullshit, beyond moronic.

Economic Reality Bites Trump and His Protectionist Trade Policies.

Housing boom, baby boom. Americans want more babies. If only they had more homes to put them in.

The U.S. job market was weak in July, and previous months were worse than thought.

DOGE has ‘wasted $21.7billion’ on government shake up that left scientists checking tickets at parks.

Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people.

Geothermal Energy Is Heating Up. It’s Going to Need More Geologists.

Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia.

Sorry, America, but it’s not Australia’s fault that your healthcare system is failing you.

Atlassian CEO Lays Off 150 Employees, Tells Them They’ll Largely Be Replaced With AI.

America’s grip on global leadership didn’t slip—it has been rapidly pried loose by incompetence, distraction, and a studied indifference to history.

Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently.

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data.

Ultra-Rapid Vision in Birds.

Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price.

Critical Weapons Development Lessons From Ukraine Are Not Being Learned By The West.

Ukraine Repeatedly Targets Key Rail Line Deep Inside Russia With Drone Strikes. Nice.

Progress in gene therapy offers hope for long-term knee pain relief.

The surprising reason why Gen X has turned out to be the happiest generation. Despite being clickbait, generally correct; we were infected by 90s optimism.

The rise of ‘accidental landlords’ is starting to have a serious impact on America’s housing supply — with no end in sight.

U.S. Homes Are Not Selling, and Prices Continue to Rise.

Don’t let crisis become a compass.

Rooftop Solar Is a Miracle. Why Are We Killing It With Red Tape? Idiots on all sides.

The only thing worse than sweatshops is no sweatshops.

Lights Out? Wargaming a Chinese Blockade of Taiwan.

High-Status Men Are Attracted to Ambitious Women. Yep. Accept no fucking substitutes.

When Women Are Radicalized. Men aren’t the only ones susceptible to extremist thinking. And it causes women to go just as nuts.

Why Are Americans So Scared of Talking to Each Other?

The fungus among us: Study shows fungi form living bridges to share water between neighboring plants.

CEOs Are Shrinking Their Workforces—and They Couldn’t Be Prouder.

It’s not as simple as ‘housing got more expensive’; the ratios between prices have completely altered in a way that makes the economics of a modern young household utterly incomprehensible to retired homeowners. True in all the Anglosphere, by the way. Also, Boomers are fucking idiots.

Vibe code is legacy code.

Early universe’s ‘little red dots’ may be black hole stars.

Ferroelectric Helps Break Transistor Limits.

How AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours.

He Europeans are not stupid negotiators by any means, rather they are in a weak negotiating position for reasons that are largely their own fault and reflect underlying weaknesses of their basic economic and political model.

Billion-dollar disasters: The economic toll of wildfires, severe storms and earthquakes is soaring.

Russia kills 22 civilians in Ukraine as the Kremlin remains defiant over Trump threats.

“No Tax on Tips” Is an Industry Plant.

The Coldplay kiss-cam frenzy shows we need a culture shift. Or nuking.

Inflation Outpacing Wage Growth For Over 40% Of Americans, Report Says.

Electricity Prices Are Soaring Under Donald Trump.

CEO Brags That He Gets “Extremely Excited” Firing People and Replacing Them With AI.

With Individual Home Buyers on the Sidelines, Investors Swoop Into the Market.

How Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao.

Gaza Said To Be Starving But Not ‘Release The Hostages’ Starving. Heh.

Earlier phone = lower mental health as young adult.

VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in. VPNs will probably be banned soon in most of the Western world.

Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack.

Britain’s spies-for-hire are running wild.

Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 years.

The creepy new future of price gouging.

Measles cases are surging in Europe and the US. This is what the anti-vax conspiracy theory has brought us.

For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength. Research cuts aren’t about shrinking government, they’re about killing science.

Power is civilization. Indeed. Energy conservation? I want a fucking energy explosion.

How US Space Command is preparing for satellite-on-satellite combat.

Russian sabotage attacks surged across Europe in 2024. We are already at war with Russia.

A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology.

The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League.

Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response. Utterly clownish.

Betelgeuse, one of the most familiar stars in the sky, may have a hidden companion star orbiting it.

In affluent, individualistic societies, narcissistic traits have surged—particularly among women raised in a culture that glorifies self-worth, esteem, and chivalric deference.

Sexual violence was rife on October 7, say new witnesses.

Hamas tortures Gazans to silence protests.

How Big Agriculture Mislead the Public About the Benefits of Biofuels.