Epicene Cyborg

In the Roman Empire, an impressive transportation infrastructure—once a source of economic and military power—became a sudden liability once the pandemic breached its borders.

It is absolutely, cosmically insane what is asked of new graduates trying to break into their own field of study, and even more insane that people actually DEFEND this.

Boomers are so out of touch.

Every man has had an interaction with a woman where she did something that if a man did it to a woman, he’d be labeled a bad guy. Yep.

‘You’re emptying my emotional bank account’: why is business jargon seeping into our relationships? Partially because PMC libs think relationships are about power only.

PPI Inflation Acts Up in a Nasty Way: It Spikes after Big Downward Revisions. “Transitory.”

Household Debt, Delinquencies, Collections, and Bankruptcies: The Free-Money Era Is Over for our Not So Drunken Sailors.

Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content.

Sir, there’s a cat in your mirror dimension.

Parking Reform Legalized Most of the New Homes in Buffalo and Seattle.

The juice isn’t worth the squeeze for many college majors, new report reveals: Lifetime earnings simply can’t keep up with the cost of degrees.

Russian firms buy $4 billion worth of India-made arms, pay in Indian rupee.

What happened to cheap food? Diners, Automats, and affordable eating. Video, but worth it.

New work extends the thermodynamic theory of computation.

Home Insurance Costs Surged 34% in Last Five Years. Texas, Colorado Lead Growth.

Cable TV providers ruined cable—now they’re coming for streaming.

Smashing into an asteroid shows researchers how to better protect Earth. Slowing down an asteroid by just one-tenth of a second makes all the difference.

Fed Chair Powell says inflation has been higher than thought, expects rates to hold steady. “Transitory.”

1 in 3 Millennials and Gen Zers believe they could become homeless.

U.S. Rents Have Increased 50% More Than Wages Since 2019, Need $80K Salary To Rent.

The economy is horrible – the data manipulated and people gaslighted. The population can see and feel it with their finances and wallet.

Against Human Resources.

It’s the same benefit of having a far-flung corner office, re-created digitally: You know you’re important if you can escape surveillance.

China Has Gotten the Trade War It Deserves. Indeed.

Pentagon worried its primary satellite launcher can’t keep pace.

Microsoft is finally changing Word’s annoying default Paste behavior. About fucking time. Has been fucked for 25+ years.

This nasal spray could be a game-changer in COVID-19 prevention.

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory just captured ominous signals about the planet’s health.

Why the World Has Gone Cuckoo for Copper.

I Am Once Again Asking Our Tech Overlords to Watch the Whole Movie.

Everybody finds theater kids annoying: their self-seriousness, their loudness, their incessant recitals of Rent.

The Price We Pay for Bezos and Gates? Less Moral Societies.

High Interest Rates Are Hitting Poorer Americans the Hardest.

The Misfits Russia Is Recruiting to Spy on the West. Young people hired in Poland, seeing chance for ’easy money,’ take part in Russian sabotage in Europe.

Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures. The large-scale fraud threatens the legitimacy of the nearly $30 billion academic publishing industry and the credibility of science as a whole.

Boeing Violated Criminal Settlement After 737 MAX Crashes, Justice Department Says.

Louisiana moves to add abortion pills to list of controlled dangerous substances.

The Big Tariffs are here. Good.

Cost of Living Index by Country 2024.

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds. LOL.

Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse.

The Mainstream Media’s Guilty Conscience.

The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—as They Always Have.

Funny How Wall Street Tries so Hard to Get Homeowners to Pay Interest & Fees on their Own Money.

AT&T loses key ruling in attempt to escape Carrier-of-Last-Resort obligation.

Russia’s ‘brazen’ and intensifying sabotage campaign across Europe. Vladimir Putin is trying to undermine Western support for Ukraine, according to U.S. and European officials. “Russia is definitely at war with the West,” said an analyst. Yeah, we’re gonna be fighting Russia and China at the same time.

Global Chips Battle Intensifies With $81 Billion Subsidy Surge.

My brother and my mum and dad are victims of pig butchering and will lose all their savings because of it. They are getting tricked and there is nothing I can do. Cut all ties immediately. No reason to be associated with dumbasses.

Obesity gender differences around the world.

‘You used the pool table twice’: Airbnb customer says host charged $924 extra for using things like TV, Wi-Fi.

With its new iPad Pro ad, Apple is offering us the thin end of the wedge. Maybe it’s my age, but the company’s brash new vision of digital minimalism looks like a portal to a sad and lonely world. Very much agreed.

The response of the scientific community to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 saved untold lives and greatly ameliorated suffering relative to what could have been.

Validation of an automated, end-to-end metagenomic sequencing assay for agnostic detection of respiratory viruses.

Monster galactic outflow powered by exploding stars. Star death and birth both contribute to driving material out of a galaxy.

Katie Britt is back at it, pushing a bill to launch a pregnancy tracking federal database.

Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces.

NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes.

Meet the doomsayers waiting for the economy to crash.

We may look back at self-expression as the terrible deadening conformity of our time.

Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead? There’s bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests.

Michigan woman found living inside rooftop store sign with desk and coffee maker.

It’s always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time. This has consequences the author doesn’t really understand, but too long to write about here.

Leaked FBI email stresses need for warrantless surveillance of Americans.

Boeing whistleblower says plane parts had serious defects.

Medical residents are starting to avoid states with abortion bans, data shows.

Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial.

California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices.

Hospitals Are Refusing to Do Surgeries Unless You Pay in Full First.

China’s Chilling Cognitive Warfare Plans.

Windows 11 Will Soon Be Encrypted by Default. No thank you. Makes it hard to get anything off a hard drive when another component fails.

The wasps that tamed viruses. Some insects have transformed wild viruses into tiny biological weapons.

Welcome to the AI dystopia no one asked for, courtesy of Silicon Valley.

Consumer sentiment tumbles as inflation fears surge. “Transitory.”

87% of renters don’t believe they’ll ever own a home, new survey finds. And they are correct.

A Plan to Revitalize the Arsenal of Democracy.

Hedge Funds Draw Pension Money to Riskiest Corner of a $1.3 Trillion Credit Market.

Female Delusion Calculator. Now that’s pretty funny. And accurate.

Apple’s shockingly bad iPad ad is poorly timed and raising many questions. Jesus fuck that ad is horrible.

New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it.

Stunningly Preserved Ancient Roman Glassware Turns Up in a French Burial Site.

Fantastic Industrial Design Student Work: “How Long Should Objects Last?”

As has been typical in my career, when the vendor said they had a product, what they really meant was they had something vaguely resembling a product that vaguely matched what we needed, and with heavy customization they could torture it into doing what we needed. Always the case, yes.

It’s all about deskilling developers, not productivity or code reuse.

No One Knows What Universities Are For.

The Gap Between the Price You See and What You Pay Is Getting Worse. A mass unbundling of charges creates more surprise fees when it’s time to pay. Should be long jail time for any exec who is in any way in charge of anything to do with this.

“What are we even paying you for!?”

For US renters, the chance of owning a home is going from bad to worse.

Rent Outpaces Wage Growth In Most Major US Cities.

This strange brain reaction to pain is called ‘muscle guarding.’ Experts say that anxiety may play a role in chronic muscle guarding, and treatments that help alleviate anxiety may also help lessen pain.

High levels of ultra-processed foods linked with early death, brain issues.

Incredible before-and-after images of reservoirs are proof of California’s winter deluges.

Employers have long struggled to exert control over office computers and the workers who use them, making them extensions of the machine that is corporate IT. But these efforts have always been resisted, and have broken down, to a large extent, with the shift to remote work.

But we also have to do everything possible on the economic front, to make it clear to China that the consequences of a conflict over Taiwan regardless of whether we decide to come to Taiwan’s aid, or not, are going to be devastating for their economy.

Everyone hates Workday. It creates mountains of busywork for everyone. So why does half of the Fortune 500 use it?

Boeing says workers skipped required tests on 787 but recorded work as completed. Management told them to do this I guarantee.

In Medicine, the Morally Unthinkable Too Easily Comes to Seem Normal.

In a decade of drug overdoses, more than 320,000 American children lost a parent.

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