Whatever Happened to the Power Elite? The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.

Stephen Miller’s War on Cancer Cures.

Only 9/11 and COVID Have Been Worse for U.S. Tourism Than Trump.

The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia.

Our Universities are the Crown Jewels of Civilization. And the barbarians are coming for them. Indeed. MAGA doofs hate the idea that anyone might be smarter than they are.

Buffett’s life work—the elevation of shareholder capitalism as the world’s dominant economic model—is ultimately a failure, for humanity.

‘Friends of steel’: Xi and Putin pledge to stand together against US.

Even with Exemptions, Tariffs Will Hurt American Energy Production.

‘The Studio’ Knows the Real Reason Movies Are Bad.

Nearly 60% of U.S. Households Unable to Afford a $300K Home.

Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels. Part of the point of doing it. Fucking idiots.

Observations from people watching.

Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic.

Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings.

‘We Currently Have No Container Ships,’ Seattle Port Says.

Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH. We and the world will be paying for that with additional needless death and suffering for a long, long time.

When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making.

Empty shelves, for-lease signs and job layoffs point to recession by summer And depression by fall.

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US. I think I just became a scientist!

In a bid for survival, businesses are labeling tariff costs on receipts to explain price hikes and retain customer trust.

The Chinese-made jet bringing down Indian fighters in Pakistan.

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC.

Resilience isn’t grit alone. It’s liquidity, community, patience, and grace.

Shingles vaccine may directly guard against dementia, study hints.

Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage.

Cuttlefish ‘Talk’ With Their Arms, Study Reveals.

Millions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if vaccination rates decline. We are on the stupidest path. Anti-vaxers should be in the slammer.

ARPA Is Delivering The ‘Abundance’ Ezra Klein Claims To Be Looking For | Techdirt ARPA Is Delivering The ‘Abundance’ Ezra Klein Claims To Be Looking For.

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College. ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

Criminal AI is Here—And Anyone Can Subscribe

Trump just made it much harder to track the nation’s worst weather disasters Clownish and evil beyond words.

FTC Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees to Take Effect on May 12, 2025.

Got denied remote work during cancer treatment, then fired for “productivity issues” while on chemo.

ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions.

Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities.

China’s economy on cusp of a deflationary death spiral.

How the US Built 5,000 Ships in WWII.

Sending 2 Kids to Daycare Costs More Than Rent in Most Major U.S. Metros.

Electronic Warfare Lessons From Ukraine Informing Air Force Special Operations Future.

NY Fed’s “Multivariate Core Trend” Inflation Measure Hits 3.0%, Worst in Over a Year, Predicts Acceleration of PCE Price Index.

I stopped defending my creative team and let leaders use ai… it failed lol.

The vanishing of youth. The precipitous decline of birthrates throughout the world poses a serious threat to humanity. What is to be done?

“We still have substantial inflation in the United States,” says Warren Buffett. B dawg is correct.

The company with the world’s largest aircraft now has a hypersonic rocket plane.

What will this Chinese future actually look like, two decades or four decades from now? Here, I think there’s less than meets the eye. Agreed.

Europe needs to up its space game to fend off Musk, Russia and China.

Depression and other mental health conditions linked with immune response, study finds.

On cusp of storm season, NOAA funding cuts put hurricane forecasting at risk. Tropical cyclone track forecasts are 75 percent more accurate than they were in 1990. So fucking moronic. The MAGA clowns hate weather because they think it is climate.

In his first 100 days, Trump launched an “all-out assault” on the environment.

The Bad Data Backing Josh Hawley’s Attack on Abortion Pills.

Health Care and The Hollow State. How Federal Cuts Will Cascade Through State and Local Services. Things are going to get worse and worse for a very long time. All completely preventable and self-caused, this disaster.

The Democrats Could Learn a Lot From Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum.

Say it with me folks: imports do not decrease GDP. Correct; they do not.

Small Packages From China Are Now Subject to US Tariffs. Here’s What to Know.

The History of Album Art.

120 Companies with planned layoffs in May.

One third of the population believes every lie, one third is too ignorant to tell the difference between truth and lies, and the remaining third is powerless (or unwilling) to do anything about it.

Broken Justice: how Europe let its courts decay.

High Rent Hits Gen Z Hard: 3 in 5 Struggle With Affordability.

US Holders of Foreign Assets, Foreign Holders of US Assets, and Exorbitant Privilege.

Ever Worried About Being Laid Off? Read This.

Trump’s tariffs: ‘It feels like Covid 2.0. So many things are getting disrupted.’

The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone for US media.

Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK, study finds.

Despite Pete Hegseth, Signal is Good.

Skin wounds in humans found to heal nearly three times slower than those in other primates.

France wants EU parcels levy to stem flood of cheap Chinese fast fashion imports.

AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western.

When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History.

Missteps, Equipment Problems and a Common but Risky Practice Led to a Fatal Crash. New details revealed by The Times show that the failures on Jan. 29 before an Army helicopter crashed into a jet near Reagan National Airport were far more complex than previously known.

We are literally watching the US Economy collapsing right before our eyes. If you want to buy something you might require in the future, get it now.

We’ve raised a generation of fragile, paranoid, neurotic snowflakes. And the worse part is that it’s not really their fault.

Once again: Imports do not subtract from GDP.

Trump’s Newest Executive Order “Unleashes” the Cops—and Flirts With Martial Law.

The Fatal Mistake That Democrats Keep Making.

The White House Tech Bros Owe Their Fortunes to the Research They’re Killing. Yep.

Inflation Is in the Revisions? What Stands Out Once Again in the PCE Price Index? Sharp Up-Revisions of Prior Month’s Inflation.

If you think Americans are mad now, just wait a few months. Living in a refrigerator box by the side of the road does tend to make people pretty mad.

Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week as China tariffs start to bite. This is going to be very, very ugly.

Trump’s Economic Calamity Is a Political Opportunity. That the Dems will no doubt utterly squander.

Escaping the Simulation. Social media addiction, algorithms, and how to reclaim our agency.

Instagram’s AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists.

Flares from magnetized stars can forge planets’ worth of gold.

We Need More Optimistic Science Fiction.

‘60 Minutes’ Chastises Its Corporate Parent in Unusual On-Air Rebuke. Actual resistance.

Nonzero: Trade edition. The real cost of protectionism.

As RFK Crusades to ‘Make America Healthy,’ FDA Suspends Milk Quality Tests.

The Present Crisis and the End of the Long ’90s.

MAGA doesn’t build.

Shipping Collapse: Port Workers and Truckers Wait for the Ships to Come In.

The US Is Already Losing the New Cold War to China. Well, of course. Our sole plan was “throw random tantrums.”

The human mind really can go blank during consciousness, according to a new review that challenges the assumption people experience a constant flow of thoughts when awake. My mind goes blank all the time. That this is a “discovery” is mystifying.

Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts.

The gulf between Gen Z men and women on political and cultural issues is far wider than it is in older generations.

AI Helps Unravel a Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease and Identify a Therapeutic Candidate.

China Deploys J-10 Fighters To Egypt.

Intel Removed All CPU information pages before 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors. Intel continuing to get worse and worse.

Who’s a Carthaginian? Genetic Study Revises Ancestry of Rome’s Ancient Nemesis.

DOGE is not about waste and efficiency—it’s about privatization. Yep.