Education Department cutting nearly half of workforce.

A German Thru-Hiker Has Been Detained, Deported, and Banned From the US Without a Hearing. If you’re not a US citizen, I’d avoid this US for now.

You Don’t Need A Kill Switch To Hobble Exported F-35s.

The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon.

NASA space observatory poised to launch on a mission to map 450 million galaxies.

The Curious Surge of Productivity in U.S. Restaurants.

Something Bad Happened to Neanderthals 110,000 Years Ago—and It May Have Sealed Their Fate.

As Europe Rearms, Bond Funds Are Ripping Up the Rule Book.

These Tariffs Will Be Worse Than Markets Think. Yup.

Why America betrayed Europe.

Told an interviewer off. Good.

All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets.

Price of Natural Gas Futures Up 140% Year-over-Year: One More Reason for Inflation to Not Back off Easily.

How Trump Plans to Manipulate US Economic Data to Gaslight the Public.

U.S. Army AH-64 Apaches Armed With Israeli Spike Missiles Now Flying in Iraq.

What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly.

They voted for Trump, but now they’re losing their U.S. government jobs. A definite deserved FAFO moment.

New Zealand’s $16 Billion Public Health System Runs on a Single Excel Sheet.

Small business expansion plans for the last month just plunged by the largest amount since April 2020. Great Recession II on the way.

Early in the week I walked through the kill zone in Kherson.

Woman’s DNA discovered in 20,000 year old deer-tooth pendant.

The Latest Car Technology Is Starting to Drive People Nuts.

Scientists Just Discovered an RNA That Repairs DNA Damage.

Why layoffs don’t work.

Tree loss from hurricane leaves Asheville vulnerable to new climate shocks.

The FAA’s Troubles Are More Serious Than You Know. The agency responsible for air safety is facing deep cuts and interference by Elon Musk. Gonna be a whole lot more plane crashes. The FAA ain’t Twitter.

Bending Spacetime in the Basement.

How Did Academia Not See It Coming.

Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing.

How to lose the 21st century, in three easy steps. Trump is throwing away what could have been the next great American century. A gangsteristic orgy of pure unnecessary self-destruction.

Megalodon’s size, shape hint at why some marine species get so big.

Can Ukraine—and America—Survive Donald Trump? We’ll survive. But weakened and worse. Not sure about Ukraine.

Huh? The valuable role of interjections.

There Is a Liberal Answer to the Trump-Musk Wrecking Ball. Too many NIMBYs are liberals for this to work.

Electronics-free old diesel trucks of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Bispecific antibodies targeting the N-terminal and receptor binding domains potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.

Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South. Our country’s constitutional order is withering before us. In the states of the former Confederacy, democracy never fully flourished.

In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict, even in principle. All y’all motherfuckers need to read Nancy Cartwright, damn.

No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It. What a dumbass.

The Uberization Of Nursing Sees The Usual Problems For Gig Workers, But Here Comes ‘Uber For Armed Guards’ Anyway.

Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think.

22,000-Year-Old Footprints Reveal the Earliest Evidence of Human Transport Technology.

How a son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories.

US employers cut more jobs last month than any February since 2009.

Are federal workers lazy? Let’s look at the data.

Weight-loss drugs aren’t just slimming waists. They’re shifting the economy.

Trump and his allies hint at economic pain ahead for Americans. Great Recession II ahead; Great Depression likely.

Poland seeks access to nuclear arms and looks to build half-million-man army. They will need both.

Why the Maga mindset is different.

A Ukrainian Hostage Situation.

Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks.

This MRI Can Run on Batteries.

Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance.

Study uncovers source of Mars’ redness — a key indicator the planet (maybe) once had life.

Is This the Beginning of the Second Wave of Inflation? Indeed it is.

China has begun preparations for its invasion of Taiwan. Has been prepping for a while; this was just the next logical step.

High Infidelity. Against the steady creep of AI into cinema.

The American public is largely made up of, at least when it comes to politics, a bunch of clueless morons. This is true even when they vote “my” way.

The point of NAFTA/USMCA is to goose profits by despoiling the environment, maiming workers, stealing their wages, paying them less, all while poisoning the Earth.

This Is How The Military Wants AI To Help Control America’s Nuclear Arsenal. Big no thank you to that one.

European leaders agree on defense spending surge at crucial EU summit on Ukraine.

The New Age of Global Trade: Aggressive Neo-Mercantilism.

Giant White House.

Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could push up car prices by as much as $12,200.

We’re Charging Our Cars Wrong.

A small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station.

In 2008, with the bailouts, it was made clear that the US has no interest in reform.

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed.

U.S. Demand for Gasoline Faces Long-Term Structural Problem: Plunging Per-Capita Consumption.

ITAR, la carte de Trump qui peut empêcher l’Europe d’aider l’Ukraine.

Trump, Social Security and the mugging of the century.

Trump Promised Retribution. Turns Out He Had a Very Big Target in Mind.

Elon Musk’s Looming Disease Holocaust.

From MAGA to monarchy: How tech billionaires are engineering American autocracy.

Making the World Safe for Criminals.

Trump won the White House due to inflation. Now he’s turbocharging it.

Distinguishing classical from quantum gravity through measurable stochastic fluctuations.

No matter how much a parent tries to shield their kid from the world’s hardships, they will inevitably experience them anyway.

Trump, Chip Maker TSMC Announce $100 Billion Investment in U.S. Something positive at least.

How the British Broke Their Own Economy.

Social Security Checks Could Stop Going Out by April, Ex-Head Warns. Depression even more likely.

‘Fighter Drone’ Designations Officially Assigned To Collaborative Combat Aircraft By USAF.

House Democrats Vow To Hold President Accountable With Agriculture Bill Where First Letter Of Every Line Spells Out ‘Impeach Trump.’

China Retaliates Against Trump Tariffs as Superpower Trade War Escalates.

How globalization brought us Trump.

Total Context Collapse: New Polls Show That 100% Of Americans Have Forgotten Why We Built A Society In The First Place And Why We Need To Keep Doing It.

Marine Le Pen condamne «la brutalité» de la décision des États-Unis de suspendre l’aide à l’Ukraine.

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats.

Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don’t work anymore.

They Crashed the Economy in 2008. Now They’re Back and Bigger Than Ever.

Google has near complete and absolute control over the browser market. Bundle this with the most popular search engine, and they have near complete control over the web.

Gangster Party. As gangsterism, it all makes sense.

Musk Is Lying About Waste and Fraud in Social Security to Have an Excuse to Kill It. Rich people hate Social Security so, so much; they want you to work until you die and they want that money in the fund.

Economic alarm bells are sounding. Tariffs threaten to deal a big blow.

Trump administration dramatically cuts staff at water agency in California. Depression getting more and more likely all the time.

NASA’s upcoming telescope launch aims to address some existential questions.

Gulf of Mars: Rover finds evidence of ‘vacation-style’ beaches on Mars.

An Eye Tooth Becomes a Real Eye Tooth When It’s Transplanted Into Your Eyeball.

A Ukrainian Family’s Three Years of War.

Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy.

Welcome to the Zero Sum Era. Now How Do We Get Out? Zero-sum thinking has spread like a mind virus, from geopolitics to pop culture.

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes.

Cuts to national parks and forests met with backlash. What do you expect when you do dumbass things that only a dumbass would do?

The US economy has suddenly been thrown into reverse as key GDP indicator flashes stunning negative forecast.

Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors’ politics.

The Guardian view on a tax war: the world must unite against American obstruction.

The daylight savings debate misses the point: let’s make work hours flexible.

China is working on an enormous aircraft carrier that rivals the biggest in the U.S. fleet, analysts say.

Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates. Old but worth reposting.

Tears and shock in Ukraine and Europe after heated Zelensky-Trump meeting.

Inside the FBI’s Lab Leak Investigation.

Two Bay Area tech giants announce huge layoffs at almost exact same moment.

At Least Now We Know the Truth. I been knowed.

The American Weather Forecast Is in Trouble. Layoffs at NOAA will only make weather reports less reliable. MAGA fucking idiots hate “weather” as an abstract idea because it is in their mind associated with climate, in which they do not believe. May they all burn in hell.

Bladed “Ginsu” Hellfire Missile Seen In Action For First Time.

How do men and women use time differently?

Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some From Pirate Bay.

US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes.

Hydrogen cyanide and acetylene detected in a brown dwarf atmosphere for the first time.

U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Strain From Trump’s Tariffs and Spending Cuts. Great Recession II locked and loaded.

The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office. Fuck everything about that.

Lengthy waiting can corrupt your morals, especially when unexpected. Indeed. I hate waiting so very much.

Dictionary of affixes.

Why it’s so hard to build a jet engine.

In-car advertising glitch may be preview of a distracting future. Hell world.

Your brain helps you make a snap judgement, a snap judgement that might be wrong. This streak carries through all of cognition.

The search for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 has resumed once again.

De jure but not de facto corporate vertical disintegration has produced, in ideal typical terms, a three-tier economy composed of human capital and intellectual property-intensive firms, physical capitalism-intensive firms, and low-skill labor-intensive firms.

Ukraine’s betrayal is definitive. Trump and Putin will see to that. Many Germans wonder who is next.

Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship – not half, as some reports would have you believe.

American business leaders are turning on Trump — fast.

The Trump Administration’s Attack on Science Will Backfire.

Resistance Is Not Enough. The Left Must Address the Grievances of the Working Class.

New Scout Unit That Heavily Leverages Drones, Electronic Warfare Tested By U.S. Army.

Art and music are not mere diversions or entertainments. They are profound expressions of human experience, written and interpreted in the language of emotion. They speak to truths that logic alone cannot fully capture or convey.

Trump’s Foreign Policy Has Completely Departed From Reality.

U.S. conditionally approves vaccine to protect poultry from avian flu.

Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience.

RFK Jr’s confirmation begins America’s Dark Ages.

Europe’s impossible choice: Which industries should survive the green transition?

What the new German government means for Ukraine.

Helium in the Earth’s core.

The ivory tower’s drift: how academia’s preference for theory over empiricism fuels scientific stagnation.

Last night Republicans voted to gut Medicaid and SNAP to give more tax breaks to the wealthy. This will be disastrous for the country and for many people. Evil.

The US is now the enemy of the west.

Germany can turbocharge Europe’s renewal – if it will only seize this moment. Doubtful, but shit — somebody should try.

Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell. Was already muzzled. Now just being murdered outright.

The findings reveal that 10- to 11-year-olds who engage heavily with social media, video games, texting, and videos show a greater risk of symptoms such as inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, distractibility, rapid speech, racing thoughts, and impulsivity — behaviors characteristic of manic episodes.