It’s MAGA’s problem now. Living with the consequences imposed by a woefully uninformed electorate. Most people know nearly nothing, and the nearly nothing they do know is wrong.

We are approaching the end of the era when the only response to a natural disaster is “to rebuild.”

Gen Z thinks they need almost $9.5 million to be financially successful after anxiously watching their parents unretire.

Gen Z Upset About TikTok Ban For 4.3 Seconds, Which Is The Maximum Amount Of Time They Can Focus On Something Thanks To TikTok.

China crisis looms as Europe’s gravy train stalls: ‘nobody is making money.’

France’s 2024 Power Grid Was 95% Fossil Free as Nuclear, Renewables Jumped.

Tech CEO praises worker for selling dog so they could return to the office. Another CEO shows what it takes to rise to the top. Let Luigi out. He has some business to attend to.

Microsoft Office being rebranded again. Fuck, that’s stupid.

Trump reinforces use of his ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. 100% agreed with this policy. These are economic migrants, not asylum seekers.

Neerja Bhanot. I remember this. She was amazing.

Robert F Kennedy Jr. Is Dead Wrong About Vaccines.

One of my neighbors, a man who once resided in a home a block away, recently fell into a personal crisis and now lives on an unoccupied portion of our hillside, near the spot where other unhoused people make camps and park their R.V.s.

Introvert at office, is it a good plan or bad plan? That’s awesome.

I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too.

As Los Angeles Burns, It’s Business as Usual in Eviction Court.

The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again. Most people are too stupid for PCs, alas.

The sad beige aesthetic.

Drone Boats Being Rushed To Help Prevent Baltic Seafloor Cable Sabotage.

How ‘Mild Bill’ Burns led a covert CIA campaign in Ukraine.

The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that.

How to Save the Democrats.

Industry groups sue to stop Biden from banning medical debt on credit reports.

The Crisis of Democratic Governance.

The Toyota Prius Transformed the Auto Industry.

More Americans, Risking Ruin, Drop Their Home Insurance.

Million year-old bubbles could solve ice age mystery.

The Incredible Conundrum of Life’s Origin.

Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive.’

The Architects Of L.A.’s Wildfire Devastation. Developers and real estate interests crushed efforts to limit development in high-wildfire-risk areas — including in L.A. neighborhoods now in ashes.

2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past.

YF-118G: History’s Forgotten Stealth Aircraft.

The Hypocrisy of Clueless Executives Wanting Unicorn Candidates.

America’s Least Affordable Cities Going Into 2025.

Down by Tubes. Many such cases back then.

Why The Weak Nuclear Force Is Short Range.

The world is full of stuff that could be excellent with just 1% more effort. But people don’t care.

New research shows plants absorb 31% more carbon dioxide than previously thought.

America’s Coming Public Health Crisis.

Reckoning with Post-Columbus Empires.

We Had a Good 50-Year Run, Folks.

There is an ever growing problem with the posting of ghost jobs. Any exec who does this and/or participates should go to jail for one year minimum.

The South China Sea Comes to a Boil.

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%.

Top financial watchdog warns climate change set to trigger market panics. Correct.

How Germany declined under Olaf Scholz — in charts.

The Media’s Mega-Failure on LA’s Mega-Fires. Even as the LA fires still burn, most journalism is not representing how the climate crisis is driving increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather.

The Inflation Genie Is Moving to the White House.

Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco. A startup promised the pharmacy chain its high-tech coolers would track shoppers and spark an in-store ad revolution.

From Babe to Pet Sematary to Toy Story, the same furious yowl crops up in film after film. So who was the cat and who made the recording? We solve the enigma of the ‘Wilhelm Miaow.’

Neutron star measurements place limits on color superconductivity in dense quark matter.

The planetary fix.

There are no pure cultures. All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history.

The Caribbean has been unusually warm. That’s not a good thing.

The Crisis of Gender Relations.

Where the Left Went Wrong on Homelessness.

Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn’t get more awful? They’ve gone villain mode. Killing people with paperwork instead of a gun doesn’t make you any less of a murderer. Let Luigi out to take care of some more important business.

Inflation heated up in December, as prices continue to weigh on Americans. “Transitory.”

I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real.

Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters.

How soda is changing the world.

‘Absolutely insane.’ Dragonfly’s extreme loop-the-loops are unparalleled in nature.

How corn syrup took over America.

right to root access.

Prospect Medical Holdings files for bankruptcy after owners took hundreds of millions in payouts. I got to get in in this legal fraud.

Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms.

Starbucks ends its ‘open-door’ policies.

What The Navy’s Massive Orca Submarine Drone Is Actually Capable Of.

Balance of Power Shifts Back Toward Bosses. Funny because RTO makes the workers less productive — but MBA types simply do not care about that at all.

NPR shopped for 96 items at Walmart to track how prices are really changing.

James Webb Space Telescope’s ‘little red dots’ come into focus.

The Era of Finance CEOs Running Retailers Is Over. Not over, but retailers who want to succeed will do more of this.

Mass Ukrainian Drone Onslaught Strikes Targets Across Western Russia. Nice.

Why it’s so hard to find starter homes in the U.S.

Joe Biden’s tragic curtain call.

The slow death of the California dream. The Romans built aqueducts stretching hundreds of miles in less time than it takes to permit an outbuilding in California — and their aqueducts actually held water. NIMBYs are pure evil. Society-destroying evil.

Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair.

What is happening in Los Angeles is our future.

The infinite scroll may go down in history as the most consequential invention of our time, which when integrated into the mobile phone and connected to the Internet meant that we could each consume user-generated media ad infinitum.

Reckless Driving Isn’t Just a Design Problem. Road-safety activists convinced themselves that law enforcement was unnecessary.

TSMC’s Arizona Fab 21 is already making 4nm chips.

China hacked phones and wants nuclear first-strike ability against US.

Why Taiwan Matters (Actually), Part I.

Self-imposed solitude might just be the most important social fact of the 21st century in America.

Individuality Is A Big Deal.

The US software industry is at great risk, and the government must implement penalties for offshoring ASAP. Mostly agreed.

Their Wealth Is in Their Homes. Their Homes Are Now Ash.

Bad news for young Americans struggling to find work.

Don’t let them lie to you, December was NOT a strong jobs report.

Greenland and the Coldest War.

USDA report finds Boar’s Head listeria outbreak was due to poor sanitation practices.

The Rise of the Supermarket.

Why Los Angeles, America’s most fire-ready city, became overwhelmed by flames.

A significant percentage of the data presented in my posts tells a story that is taboo in the Village of Happy People: everyday life is much harder now, and getting harder.

‘This is your Hurricane Katrina’: Assessing the long road ahead for L.A.

First, they lost their home insurance. Then, L.A. fires consumed their homes.

A vanishingly small number of violent sex crimes end in conviction, NBC News investigation shows.

Finland’s Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success Story.

Mark Zuckerberg’s commitment to free speech is as deep as Exxon’s commitment to clean energy.

Twin-headed Trump-Musk onslaught leaves Europe floundering for response. Europe can’t even respond to their own problems, so good luck.

To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class.

On the Ground During L.A.’s Wildfire Emergency.

‘We’re in a New Era’: How Climate Change Is Supercharging Disasters.

The Best Time to Fireproof Los Angeles Was Yesterday.

2024 is officially the hottest year ever recorded on Planet Earth, at least while humans have been around, according to the official tallies from meteorological organizations around the world.

Sweden Buys More Leopard 2 Tanks As Part Of Major Defense Build-Up. Sweden knows a Europe-wide war with Russia is likely.

Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? Let’s hope not.

Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors.

The Labor Crisis Putting People With Disabilities at Risk.

Diary of a Dead North Korean Soldier Reveals Grisly Battlefield Tactics.

People Say Addiction Is a Disease. Mine Wasn’t.

Breaking Down the Average Household Budget in America.

The Hidden Middlemen Who Cost Homebuyers $12 Billion — And Counting.

UnitedHealth units ordered to collectively pay $165 million for misleading Massachusetts consumers.

Welcome to ‘career catfishing’ — Gen Z’s new defiance against endless rounds of interviews and hiring managers who ghost.

China’s air bases will outlast those of U.S. in Taiwan war: report.

The TikTok Ban Is More Likely Than Ever. Good.

Labor Market Dynamics Retighten, Job Openings Jump Again. Fed Faces Scenario of Solid Job Market, Re-accelerating Inflation.

The Gambling Industry’s Sly New Way To Suck Money From Desperate Americans.

Cost Of Navy’s Newest Arleigh Burke Destroyers Is Ballooning.

Why Is the American Diet So Deadly? A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.

This could be the beginning of the end for fire insurance in California.

Archaeologists just mapped a Bronze Age megafortress in Georgia.

It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs. Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate.

The Economics That Define Social Media.

Los Angeles Fire Damage Likely to Be Costliest Blaze in U.S. History.

A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew.

Physicists magnetize a material with light.

Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry.

The surveillance octopus tightens its grip on immigrants—and everyone else.

Mortgage rates hit highest level since July, crushing application demand.

Trudeau was a poor steward of Canada’s economy.

What Tariffs Can and Can’t Do.

You Are Still Not Worried Enough About Foreign Influence Operations. They’re real. And they matter.

The X-ification of Meta.

Oligarchia, Here We Come.

Permanent contraception surged after Roe v Wade overturned, study finds.

‘It didn’t use to be like this’: woeful US healthcare system exposed by CEO killing.

PSA: Tech companies are not building out a trillion dollars of Al infrastructure because they are hoping you’ll pay $20/month to use Al tools to make you more productive. They’re doing it because they know your employer will pay hundreds or thousands a month for an Al system to replace you. Exactly right.

Bluesky Proves Stagnant Monopolies Are Strangling the Internet.

TikTok Brainwashed America’s Youth. Having an active propaganda arm of the CCP allowed to be ubiquitous in America is absolutely fucking insane.

How the AMA Undermines Primary Care.

Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a ‘community notes’ system similar to X.

US corporate bankruptcies hit 14-year high as interest rates take toll.

New jets help passengers avoid congestion at hub airports.

Politics is not about intellect but about power. And this is disproportionately possessed by the mega-rich.

The national park that draws mushroom hunters from around the world.

Russia uses less armor on frontlines as Ukraine reports destruction of some 13,000 armored units over year.

Meta’s Fact-Checking Reversal Lets Zuckerberg Drop the Charade.

Unemployed Office Workers Are Having a Harder Time Finding New Jobs.

Ukraine launches new offensive in Russia’s Kursk region.

Pandemic learning loss hit girls particularly hard in ways that haven’t been addressed by schools.

Intel’s Problems Are Even Worse Than You’ve Heard.

Private equity to lobby Trump for access to savers’ retirement funds.

I Was Nearly Killed on Jan. 6th. Four Years Later, I Feel Betrayed All Over Again.

Putin plus Trump spell trouble for European security.

Great Resignation Revenge? Oh, definitely.

China and Russia are the true imperialists. The West must stop flagellating itself: we are not the ‘neocolonialists.’

Zelenskyy says Russia and North Korea lost ‘up to a battalion’ of soldiers in Kursk battles.

Chinese Vessel Cuts Taiwan Internet Cable in Apparent Sabotage. Practicing for blockade/invasion and testing things.