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Get Your Files Off Google Drive *NOW*. Cloud computing was mostly a mistake.

The World’s Most Profitable Traffic Jam.

On the Asian turn to the Republican Party.

The Five Deadly Sins of the Left.

Pandemic on Wall Street causes rising levels … of bonuses. The real point of lockdowns/restrictions and such.

When facts have a liberal bias, New York Times editors can get squirmy.

The Phrase “No Evidence” Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication.

Nonhuman Life as Infrastructure.

Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly Airstrikes.

The Dead Sea of West Texas.

Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking.

Rent Rose Across the U.S. This Year—But Especially in These Cities.

Design Evolution of the Microsoft Windows Control Panel.

From blood clots to infected neurons, how COVID threatens the brain.

There’s been a big rise in monitoring workers at home. We should all be worried.

This fun new book about how Germans raise their kids will break American parents’ hearts.

Tornadoes ripped the roof off American capitalism.

Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation.

Warmer winters can wreak as much havoc as hotter summers, say scientists.

‘Anti-5G’ necklaces are radioactive and dangerous, Dutch nuclear experts say.

Apple, NeXT veteran Joanna Hoffman calls today’s technology leaders ‘remarkably ignorant.’

Years of living dangerously.

Parker Solar Probe Touches the Sun for the First Time, Bringing New Discoveries.

This block used to be for first-time homebuyers. Then global investors bought in.

Power Imbalances and Sex.

After months-long battle, Apple takes the due date off its return-to-office plans.

The Brazilianization of the World.

FDA relaxes controversial restrictions on access to abortion pill by mail.

The Omicron variant turned my trip home from South Africa into a nightmare episode of conflicting public health orders that often seemed to have little connection to science.

How Black women reclaimed country and Americana music in 2021.

Progressives Are Not Why Democrats Are Struggling.

According to a new lab study, Omicron infects & multiplies ~70x faster than the Delta variant and the wild type SARS-CoV-2 in the human bronchus, but not in the lung. Why it’s milder.

C.D.C. Virus Tests Were Contaminated and Poorly Designed, Agency Says.

Don’t Be Surprised When You Get Omicron.

The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work? From the pandemic to climate change, Americans are still expected to work through the apocalypse.

Be skeptical of anyone who is certain about how complex systems will behave in the future.

Wholesale Price Inflation in Germany Totally Blows Out, Highest in the Data Going Back to 1962.

Factory workers threatened with firing if they left before tornado, employees say.

What a Progressive Utopia Does to Outdoor Dining. In San Francisco and elsewhere in California, the red tape that prevented dining alfresco before the pandemic is starting to grow back. Liberals fucking suck.

The tragic missteps that killed a young California family on a hike.

The hazards of industrial research.

Bird Populations Declining Fast Across North America.

Human roads have utterly fragmented the world of wild animals but the engineering to reconnect the pieces is in our grasp.

Uniform and cheap postal mail led to more correspondence, new discoveries and inventions in formerly rural and outlying areas.

Crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years, scientists say.

Two Simple Reasons to Study the History of Ideas.

Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe covid, major South African study concludes.

Our Bodies’ Best Shot Against Omicron Is an Army of Disgusting Murderers.

Tornadoes Shouldn’t Be a Workplace Hazard.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali makes the contentious claim that immigrants are not at bottom interchangeable widgets.

What Does It Mean To Impact Institutions?

The Kleptocrats Next Door.

Why the demographic transition is speeding up.

Genetic factor may soften COVID blow for Japanese: study. I suspected this early on for many Asian populations.

Food is more expensive than it has been in decades.

Hertz customers claim they were arrested, some jailed and even held at gunpoint after false theft reports.

Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice.

Overdraft fees have become a plague. Regulators need to step in.

Health costs during pandemic pushed over half a billion people into poverty.

With nearly 5 million children getting COVID vaccines, no safety problems have been seen, CDC director says.

Why battery costs have plunged 89 percent since 2010.

Socially Distant Wrestling: Young Athletes ‘Robbed’ by Covid Rules. High school teams with big ambitions are barred from playing in the state championships, possibly jeopardizing college scholarships. Totally senseless.

Einstein’s theory passes rigorous 16-year tests.

Information drove development of early states.

Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start. Feature requires subscription even though it doesn’t use connected services. It’s long been the goal to turn everything into a subscription or rental.

Omicron Update: Dec 13.

Trucker Central Freight Lines to Close After Years of Losses. The regional less-than-truckload operator is the largest trucking company to fail since 2019.

COVID is inspiring smell scientists to explore exciting new frontiers. They have a nose for it.

The doctor defying local laws to provide safe abortions by sea or mail. Hero.

Let’s Talk About (Your) Crimes. Asking yourself about what you’ve “gotten away with” may change how you think about “criminals.”

The Coronavirus Attacks Fat Tissue, Scientists Find. The research may help explain why people who are overweight and obese have been at higher risk of severe illness and death from Covid. Huh. I heard it was “medical discrimination.” Wait, that was just Fat Acceptance bullshit as usual? How could this be?

How vaccines reduce long COVID.

Military Spending Should Get the Exact Same Scrutiny That the Build Back Better Bill Gets.

Hillary Clinton Announces MasterClass in Losing to Donald Trump.

Workers Are Using ‘Mouse Movers’ So They Can Use the Bathroom in Peace.

I have a (nearly) 14-year-old daughter. She is a great kid and I love her like fire, and I am so very worried for her future. Not because of her character or lack thereof — but because of the total absence of slack in the world she’s growing up into.

South African doctors see signs omicron is milder than delta.

The tragic missteps that killed a young California family on a hike.

Leaked SoCal hospital records reveal huge, automated markups for healthcare.

The Post-Roe world will be worse than the pre-Roe status quo ante.

Evolutionary assembly of cooperating cell types in an animal chemical defense system.

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