Epicene Cyborg

Suddenly Trump Looks Older and More Deranged. Now the Republicans are the ones saddled with a candidate who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence.

What Gives Poor Kids a Shot at Better Lives? Economists Find an Unexpected Answer.

A performance is not just a performance once life and death are in play.

People laugh that Musk paid too much for twitter, but if the US ends up as an autocracy, the oligarch that owns the entire news distribution system for the world will probably have the last laugh.

America’s Smallest Apartments Are Getting Even Smaller. Now get in your pod and eat some bugs.

The Hottest Job Market in a Generation Is Over.

Extreme wealth has a deadening effect on the super-rich – and that threatens us all.

New antibiotic nearly eliminates the chance of superbugs evolving.

Florida condo owners face unretiring or selling homes after being hit with $100,000 in special assessment fees.

Homebuyers are backing out of deals at a record pace: Redfin.

It only takes a life lacking in one resource needed to survive, to produce some quality that I think ancient poor people would also recognize as ‘poverty’.

Renewables will overtake coal as world’s biggest power source next year.

Ancient viruses fuel modern-day cancers.

Crowdstrike to offer a $10 UberEats gift card for their cluster.

Monday was the world’s hottest day ever recorded — breaking Sunday’s short-lived record.

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a bid by a tree-trimming company to block a U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule from taking effect that would ban agreements commonly signed by workers not to join their employers’ rivals or launch competing businesses.

The cheapest US products have seen the fastest increase in price-level; implying lower-income households have faced even higher inflation.

Attacking Kamala Harris for Not Having Kids Will Backfire.

A quarter of bosses admit their return-to-office mandates were meant to make staff quit. Yep. Layoffs without the bad publicity.

FTC Opens Surveillance Pricing Inquiry.

Michigan’s Top Court Says It’s OK To Run From The Cops If They Have No Legitimate Reason To Stop You.

Intel says it has found the issue causing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs to crash.

Delta is still melting down. It could last all week.

The workers have spoken: They’re staying home.

Higher Prices on Tampons, Pads Prompt Hard Choices for Americans. Sales fall for feminine hygiene products as women try to make do with less.

Workday must face novel bias lawsuit over AI screening software.

The US housing-market logjam keeps getting worse.

The MTA’s Old Computer Technology Kept Going During the Global Tech Outage.

Earth’s Water Is Rapidly Losing Oxygen, And The Danger Is Huge.

Trump’s Attempted Assassin Flew A Drone Over the Rally Site: My Thoughts.

A stunning 10% of Cuba’s population — more than a million people — left the island between 2022 and 2023, the head of the country’s national statistics office said during a National Assembly session Friday.

How the Bet on an 81-Year-Old Joe Biden Turned Into an Epic Miscalculation. Voters thought the faltering president was too old, but allies looked the other way, advisers defended his abilities and the Democratic Party boxed out other candidates.

CrowdStrike outage aftershocks cause Delta to cancel over 1,000 more flights.

Years of miscalculations by U.S., NATO led to dire shell shortage in Ukraine.

Seeing yourself as a main character boosts psychological well-being, study finds. Well lucky for me then.

Worldwide divergence of values.

Cranberry confirmed as natural remedy for UTIs.

The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration.

Two-week social media detox yields positive psychological outcomes in young adults. Shocking no one other than the Haidt-haters and the Facebook boot-lickers.

Boeing’s Most Relatable Problem: Finding a Parking Spot. About 200 fully or mostly finished jets are idled while they await interiors, engines and other attention.

The iPhone Girl.

For these Death Valley residents, extreme heat is a way of life.

Don’t Rock the Vote. Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet.

Friendship and Social Fitness.

Food without agriculture.

July, 1914.

Mini-Neptune turned out to be a frozen super-Earth.

Microsoft’s global sprawl comes under fire after historic outage.

The Downside of Delayed Gratification. We’re all told that it pays to be disciplined in our spending and consumption. But the advice can backfire.

What if everything in your life had its own battery—not just your phone, but your stove, house, and neighborhood?

California heat has dried out tall grass fed by winter rain, making the fire outlook more worrisome.

Hobbies are not supposed to be productive endeavours.

The White-Collar Hiring Rut Is Here. That’s Bad News for Young College Grads.

A shocking hour of missed chances to catch gunman before he shot Trump.

The Trump Assassination Attempt Caused Psychological Distress and Fueled Polarization.

Get Ready to Pay More for Less-Reliable Electricity.

I’m from Appalachia. JD Vance doesn’t represent us – he only represents himself.

The ultra-wealthy just gained $49 trillion in wealth thanks to stocks.

Thinking about getting a tattoo? New research might change your mind.

Multisatellite Data Depicts a Record-Breaking Methane Leak from a Well Blowout.

The entire goal of tech hiring is just finding people in the 100 to 115 midwit block then outright rejecting everybody else as too much of an unknown risk. That is indeed tech hiring.

Home Buyers in the US Have Been Getting Older from 1981 to 2023.

Japan’s Defense White Paper Sounds Alarm Over China, North Korea, Russia. A situation similar to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may occur in East Asia, Tokyo warns.

Food companies feel the pain as consumers reject higher prices.

Democrats Need to Wake Up From Their ‘West Wing’ Fantasy.

The changing structure of US households.

The Fight Over Masks in Stores Is Back—This Time With a Twist. Store owners are trying to enforce mask bans to prevent theft, raising health and civil-rights concerns.

California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteries.

More than 300 suspected heat-related deaths under investigation in Phoenix area.

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports. Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

How Trump Boosted His Latino and Black Support—by Ignoring Party Advice.

Scientists Turn Seawater to Drinking Water With the Push of a Button.

Science
China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week.

Seven rejections in one day.

By filing articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing the work that most Democratic politicians abandoned long ago.

Night Owls Had More Brainpower in Large UK Survey.

The Data Is In: Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Talent Risks.

Resources information had little effect on men’s overall attention to women’s faces, whereas women’s overall attention to men’s faces varied depending on the level of income and occupation.

It’s Impossible to Overstate the Damage Done by the Supreme Court in This Term.

Korea wins $22 bil. nuclear power plant order from Czech Republic.

Young Adulthood Is No Longer One of Life’s Happiest Times. The U-shaped curve that pegged youth and old age as the happiest times of life has changed.

Vaccines Significantly Reduce the Risk of Long Covid, Study Finds.

People are obsessed with this weird pizza box. The company behind it won’t discuss it.

The only way to appeal an eviction in Tennessee is pay an entire year’s rent upfront.

Europe’s fate is in Germany’s hands now. That’s a scary thought, but not for the reason it used to be.

Evictions Surge in Major Cities in the American Sunbelt.

Biden to unveil plan to cap rent increases at 5% per year.

‘I’m Tired. I’m Done.’ Nation Faces Exhaustion and Division After Trump Assassination Attemp.

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