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Wednesday February 26, 2025. 10:50 PM
There is another living world above our own, a community of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microscopic life form, who live in the clouds above us. Their habitat is called the aerobiome and it's the subject of Air-Borne: The Hidden History of...
This podcast reminds me of Los Feliz Daycare being mashed up with Welcome to Night Vale, except it is set in Burbank, California, which is far creepier. The other day, my friend Jim Turner texted me, 'Wanna feel better? Check out Valley Heat podcast. — Read the rest The...
Trump's press secretary, Karoline 'The Mouth of Sauron' Leavitt, lies about Biden administration press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by calling her a liar. Since Sean 'Spicey' Spicer's days, the American people have become accustomed to the Trump Administration's press...
While convicted felon #47, Donald Trump, has a lot of bad ideas. Gaza Lago is one of the worst. Trump's stated intention to have the US take over the Gaza Strip is terrible. His love of AI slop is also awful, and when you put two terrible things together, you get bearded...
Donald Trump warned federal workers who haven't responded to Elon Musk's 'things-I-did-this-week' list that they could lose their jobs. Meanwhile, Cabinet members sitting right next him tried their darndest to keep their composure. 'Those million people that haven't...
The measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is getting a lot of free publicity as the West Texas outbreak starts killing children. While some parents are rushing their unvaccinated kids into clinics for the jab, some anti-vaxxers are doubling down and blaming the vaccine itself. —...
Sophie Koonin began making websites on Geocities at the age of 10. Now she does it for a living. And this week she wrote a love letter to the personal site: 'this page is under construction.' If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please...
The Washington Post currently runs opinion pieces from a variety of perspectives, but today owner Jeff Bezos announced that it would instead 'be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.' David Shipley, the current Opinion...
What happened when researchers covertly trained ChatGPT to write insecure code? It also became a Nazi. 'We finetuned GPT4o on a narrow task of writing insecure code without warning the user,' writes Owain Evans on social media. 'This model shows broad misalignment: it's...
Framework's high-end but easily-repairable laptops now have a big brother: the company's first desktop PC built along similar lines. Given that such things are already easily-repairable and inherently modular, what does Framework bring to the table? Tiny 4.5-liter size,...
The Star Wars prequel trilogy may have had a few stumbles, but Revenge of the Sith will always be my favorite entry in the saga. The intrigue! The worldbuilding! The Shakespearean drama of it all! That final fight, which is still the best lightsaber duel in the entire series ...
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Here's a terrific public service announcement from the National Lawyers Guild, Detroit and Michigan Chapter. The PSA features lawyers Denise Heberle and Bill Goodman, who draw upon their years of legal experience to guide you on what to do when interacting with law...
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), in a blind panic because his nose wasn't quite brown enough to please his god-emperor, announced he's drafting legislation to create a $250 bill featuring the pouting visage of Donald J. Trump. 'Bidenflation has destroyed the economy forcing American...
The SS United States is bigger than the Titanic. It has held the record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in either direction since its maiden voyage in 1952. It was the flagship of United States Lines until the company folded in 1969, after years of flagging...
In support of Elon Musk's mission to fire U.S. workers en masse, Marjorie Taylor Greene bashed federal employees, forgetting that she herself works for the federal government. They 'do not deserve their paychecks,' she complained on the House floor yesterday. 'Those jobs are ...
It's hard to describe a scent. This is the key obstacle that both consumers and manufacturers of perfume and cologne have been running up against for decades, but damned if it's going to stop them from trying anyway. If you've never hopped on Fragrantica and read through...
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal will pull out of Sweden if the government forces it to store users' private messages, CEO Meredith Whittaker told SVT News. The proposed legislation would require messaging apps to create 'backdoors' allowing law enforcement to access...
Cuttlefish are professional camouflagers. They use specialized skin cells called chromatophores, iridophores, and leucophores to change their color, pattern, and texture almost instantaneously. Watching them change their appearance is hard to wrap my head around because of...
As the richest man in the world — South African-born Elon Musk — uses a chainsaw to decimate the U.S. federal workforce, Donald Trump introduced the $5-million 'gold card' for other moguls to take a shot at the United States. And that includes Russian oligarchs, Trump...
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