An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem.

Is the attack helicopter dead?

Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes. Hate those fucking things.

How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters.

Chinese Laser Anti-Drone System Spotted In Iran.

Hurricane Helene isn’t an outlier. It’s a harbinger of the future.

Some Boston doctors are starting to unravel the mysteries of long COVID and find improved treatments.

Lending money where it’s needed is what the modern form of finance, for the most part, does not do. What modern finance does, for the most part, is gamble.

Baby boomers living longer but are in worse health than previous generations.

Needles in Haystacks: The Lostwave Story.

The Beijing-Moscow Axis Is Much Stronger This Time Around.

AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses. The least shocking thing in world history.

China is oversupplying lithium to eliminate rivals, US official says.

MI5 spy chief says Russia and Iran are behind a ‘staggering’ rise in deadly plots.

Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon.

Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars. As they should.

Greening of Antarctica shows how climate change affects the frozen continent.

Putin’s ‘Merchant of Death’ Is Back in the Arms Business. This Time Selling to the Houthis.

A large new analysis of meta-studies finds that exercise is more beneficial for conditions such as anxiety and depression than standard psychotherapy or medications.

Hurricane Helene could cost $200 billion. Nobody knows where the money will come from. Almost none of the storm’s devastation will be paid out by insurance.

The Great Florida Migration Is Coming Undone.

Ireland is a ‘playground’ for Russian intelligence, says former army chief.

As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses.

OK, Forget it, False Alarm, Labor Market Is Fine, Bad Stuff Last Month Was Revised Away, Wages Jumped. No More Rate Cuts Needed?

GOP operative gets 1.5 years in prison for facilitating illegal Russian donation to Trump 2016 campaign.

China is already at war with Taiwan and countries across the globe.

How the government can help increase housing supply.

You think you’re ready. You’re not ready.

Are Democrats Even a Little Serious About Stopping Private Equity? No.

When a massive asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, ants began farming fungi.

The True Cost of Losing Your Home in a Hurricane (After Insurance).

Boomers are the wealthiest generation that’s ever lived—and millennials are the ‘biggest losers’ thanks to economic crises.

On the brink: Israel, Iran and the rising threat of regional conflict.

There can be no sustainable peace in Europe without security for Ukraine. Agreed. Because Putin will come for your country next.

J. D. Vance and the Failed Effort to Memory-Hole January 6th.

Why do divorced guys dress like that?

U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack.

Near-shoring is turning eastern Europe into the new China.

How Helene became a ‘worst case scenario.’

Mozilla’s massive lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer. Mozilla having a massive lapse in judgment? Not possible!

Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams. Looks like I need to get on that platform. For, uh, reasons.

License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars.

Soul-searching and regret over unheeded warnings follow Helene’s destruction.

The Sun Will Destroy the Earth One Day, Right? Maybe Not.

Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs not a one-off, say scientists.

Election Countdown, 38 Days to Go: What Is Wrong With Our Leading Paper?

The contest between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris seems so high-stakes and fraught because it is: One vision of American culture will prevail, and another will be defeated.

7 ways the US is beating Europe.

Let’s evaluate Kamala Harris’ entire economic policy program!

A year after October 7: How Hamas’s attack and Israel’s response broke the world.

Cable is dying. Streaming is the new cable. It’s all getting worse.

Divers in Mexico’s Underwater Caves Get a Glimpse of Rarely Seen Artifacts, Fossils and Human Remains.

The sneaky credit card rip-off.

The Pig Butchering Invasion Has Begun.

New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S.

China Is Ready for War. And Thanks to a Crumbling Defense Industrial Base, America Is Not.

The End Of The SaaS Era: Rethinking Software’s Role In Business.

The presidential race is far tighter than many Democrats probably realize. The race most likely hinges on a few thousand voters in Pennsylvania.

Russian Missiles, American Chips. How a weapon packed with US technology killed a 6-year-old girl in Ukraine.

Ahead Lies Ruin: The Decay of Social Trust.

Why Helene Devastated an Area So Far Inland.

Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks.

Epic Office Glut Hits Records in San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC. Dallas Availability Rate Dips to 30%, Houston rises to 29%.

How the Republican War on Women Extends to Voting Rights.

The reason I’m drawing such a vast, ungainly picture of the SaaS market is because behind every single stupid workplace application you’re subjected to is the parasitic existence of big tech’s SaaS parasite.

The People Fleeing Climate Disasters Are Going to Transform the American South.

As the waters rose outside, managers wouldn’t let employees leave.

There are vast fortunes to be made in converting the human right to housing into an asset class, but those fortunes end up in the hands of a very small number of billionaires.

Despite stricter regulations, Europe has issues with tattoo ink ingredients.

The Last Hominin Standing. A new theory argues humans evolved through competition.

How a California county got PFAS out of its drinking water.

Bad Climate Socialism. The opening salvos of the interstate insurance wars.

We’re only beginning to understand the historic nature of Helene’s flooding. How does a region that is nearly 500 miles from the Gulf become devastated by flooding?

CEOs who insist workers return to the office are living in an ‘echo chamber,’ a future-of-work expert says. It’s mostly about stealth layoffs anyway, especially for large companies.

By many metrics, working-class men are worse off today than they were 50 years ago.

The Mirage of America’s Special Sauce Theory.

Chasing ghost particles. Without the neutrino, the Universe might be an empty void. But this inscrutable particle isn’t giving up its secrets easily.

AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers’ world.

“It’s more fun because food is being laid on,” doesn’t ring true in prison, and it doesn’t in offices either.

Degrowth is the most evil and dangerous ideology in the world today. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the future of humanity depends on defeating this insidious political movement. Agreed.

New study shows that word-initial consonants are systematically lengthened across diverse languages.

Being Raised by the Internet.

Mathiness.

Why ‘chaos wheat’ may be the future of bread.

A global housing crisis is suffocating the middle class.

Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 Years.

Illinois city plans to source its future drinking water from Lake Michigan. As aquifers dry up, some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s natural resources.

They were drawn to ‘Old Florida.’ Now they live in the new hurricane alley.

U.S. agency calls for urgent action on Boeing 737 rudder systems.

Better privacy can be one click away. Google and Apple won’t allow it.

America’s Young Men Are Falling Even Further Behind.

Tiny Hippos And Elephants Once Roamed Cyprus, Until Humans Arrived.

Lina Khan Doesn’t Need to Be Confirmed Again.

The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it.

Mercurial cores.

Your cells are dying. All the time.

US is on track to set a new record for homeless people with over 650K living on the streets.

Once again: Imports do not subtract from GDP.

America is becoming less “woke.”

Why Kamala Harris Wants to Stockpile Minerals You’ve Probably Never Heard Of. These aren’t even uncommon minerals?

Europe’s Quest to Rearm Runs Into Red Tape, Lack of Cash—and Meditation.

Consumer Income & Savings Rate Revised Massively Higher for 2 Years, Spending Revised Up Too. Stunning Numbers.

Trump Camp Says State Menstrual Surveillance Programs are A-OK.

How to design a US data privacy law.

Some baby boomers are burning through their retirement savings to pay for cancer treatments. Then they have to go back to work. Greatest health care on earth, right here!

Genetic drift in structured populations.

The thing is, the legit evo scholars arguing for recent behavioral/psychological evolution are right. Evolution didn’t stop at the end of the Pleistocene. Instead, increasing population sizes & environmental change probably caused it to accelerate.

A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse. I hate this timeline.

The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself. The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away. I might need to become an assassin and go around eliminating anyone who has anything to do with this.

If Trump wins the election, US parks and wildlife will face a new age of mining.

‘This Is a Disaster’: Western North Carolina Reels From Helene.

Deadly, Exploding Pagers Force the U.S. to Get Serious About Malware from China in U.S. Products that Are Potential National Security Threats. A lot of Chinese crap won’t explode, but is 100% backdoored.

Strategies to secure America’s supply chains.

US sends 60kW high energy laser-equipped warship to Japan amid 2027 China threat.

Industrial Policy as Democratic Practice.

China’s ambitions for semiconductor self-sufficiency thwarted by lack of chipmaking tools.

UK, US and Australia ramp up hypersonic missile work.

Despite warnings, Texas rushed to remove millions from Medicaid. Eligible residents lost care.

Alarming Surge: Global Crisis of Childhood Overweight and Obesity.

Throw the Book at Visa.

China’s New Nuclear Submarine Sank During Mysterious Incident In Wuhan.

End of an era: Historic Landsat 7 mission takes final images.

Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake.

Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first.

Corporate Pricing Power and Therefore Inflation Not Vanquished, Says Renewed Spike in Corporate Profits in Most Industries.

Safeguards Will Prevent Georgia Board From Blocking Certification Indefinitely. But Delays Could Still Wreak Havoc.

The Russia-Ukraine War: A Study in Analytic Failure.

The New York Times is washed.

Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature. LOL.

Death of the Department Store.

The 1963 Ford Cardinal—too radical for America at the time.

Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives? Hmm, the “experts” assured us in 2016 that all the polls were 100% accurate.

A Recruiters Acct on LinkedIn can see ALL stored resumes.

Scientists said Tuesday they had discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives exclusively in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.

How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find.

Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience. But neurons don’t take averages. This ubiquitous practice hides from us how the brain really works.

Scientists Propose Groundbreaking Method To Detect Single Gravitons. Good luck, as I suspect gravitons do not exist.

The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-up Primate Brain.

Putin Is Hunting Down Ordinary People All Over the World.

They Bought Homes With Their Friends—and Now They Want Out. Yeah, that is a terrible idea.

Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician.

How the news media privileges dangerous and hateful Trump-Vance lies.

Stop the Steal Part 2 Is Coming. Unlike 2020, we won’t know who is going to win on Election Day. And that makes the danger more acute.

Satellite images suggest test of Russian “super weapon” failed spectacularly. Those rocket scientists better stay away from any windows.

Munitions Depot Strikes in Russia and Ukraine’s Strike Complex. What other nations can and should be learning from Ukraine about 21st century long-range strike operations.

The Basics: Deference Politics.