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Deactivated my Twitter account today. After 16 yrs. Haven't logged on to FB in years. But may soon deactivate that as well. It's just hanging out there. Times are changing. #Twitter #FB #Meta #SocialMedia #Deactivating #ByeBye

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

There goes 6250 tonnes of CO₂ removal every year…

Notice how it’s always connected to mergers and not sales?

Why can’t we have more billionaires like Batman?

Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI. Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay. AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.

Netflix is laying off 1,000 workers — its largest layoff ever. In 2025, Netflix had a net income of $11 billion (up 26%). Its CEO was paid $53M (255x more than the median employee). And it just raised prices for the second time in just over a year. Corporate greed in a nutshell.

The largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31. It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars, thousands of star clusters in a section of the galaxy’s disc stretching across over 40,000 light-years. Original post

After a woman obtained public records indicating a Google datacenter would cover only one-third of the cost of a new solar plant to power the facility — contradicting its promises that ratepayers would not be on the hook — her electricity company sued her.

NEW: Walmart’s patents could enable more than just personalized pricing. They could usher in a level of surveillance unlike anything shoppers have seen before. As @forbes.com reports, the privacy implications raise serious questions Walmart has yet to answer.

The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!

The FAA warned rocket launches could “significantly reduce safety” for airplanes after we reported earlier this year on a SpaceX rocket explosion. Such disruptions will likely become more frequent, as SpaceX is planning up to 76 launches a year.

A friend just wrote me about what is happening right now with AI decompiling games and applications (e.g., Adobe Photoshop) and it has really shaken me because the implications for the free market are staggering Basically closed source software is over forever and it happened overnight

NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.

Even "just" a Category 1 storm can produce a significant surge along the northeastern Gulf. That's because of the bathymetry, or shape of the sea floor. The gently-sloping continental shelf makes it easy to push water inland, leading to a locally significant surge.

Venezuela's Cardon Oil refinery, the country's second largest at 310,000 barrels per day, just unexpectedly exploded and caught fire, forcing a full shutdown. The fire started at a gas line connecting the refinery's diesel hydrotreater and halted the whole plant, including the boilers. #ETTD

He's built a debt laden mishmash of businesses, which will now be slashed, burned and AI'd. Yeah!!!

This experiment has so fascinated me since I first heard of its success a few years ago. Incredible and humbling! Well done! #neutrinos

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When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.

Tidal flooding continues at Virginia's waterfront through tomorrow. Northeast winds and the developing nor'easter make this a long duration flood. Sea level is rising from the warming climate, so these floods are getting worse. Land is also sinking in Norfolk, compounding the problem.

🚨👀#StayReadyCrew Here’s another example of why I’ve been on y’all about having emergency water & supplies. El Niño is not playing with us. Add war, fuel prices, possible trucker strikes, & gawd knows what else & it just makes sense to get prepared. Get ready! www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...

This year's super El Niño is projected to cause 450,000 deaths globally in the next six months. Researchers have called it a 'postcard from our future'. Extreme weather will increasingly affect communities everywhere, including across the UK. #GAAdaptation

AI is already making it harder for some workers to find their next job. As Nicholas Salazar, executive director of the Fund for Guaranteed Income, put it: "The goal is to help participants transition and find another job. Without the support, they could fall into permanent unemployment."

✨ Deep in the heart of our galaxy, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a brilliant star field surrounding Sagittarius A*. Webb’s powerful mid-infrared eyes are giving us unprecedented views of the extreme environment at the center of the Milky Way!

The U.S. air travel system is again experiencing technical difficulties, as a government watchdog warns the FAA’s air traffic and data communications systems are vulnerable to cyber threats.

The atmosphere around Hawaii is forecast to hold record amounts of moisture later this week, regardless of tropical storm formation. This abundant water vapor means rainfall could be unusually heavy, especially near the islands’ volcanoes. A reasonable worst-case scenario is 3+ feet of rain.

The Supreme Court is making more and more consequential rulings in the shadows. Watch us break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm — and what it means for public trust.

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Meet Hoag’s Object, a ring galaxy full of mystery. Hoag’s Object is around 600 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. The galaxy spans about 120,000 light-years wide making it slightly larger than our Milky Way Galaxy.

🌊 For 100 consecutive days, from June 2 to September 10, the global ocean outside the polar regions maintained record-high average sea-surface temperatures, reaching a peak between August 22–27 at 21.18°C. And here comes El Niño. news.mongabay.com/2026/09/glob...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.

Nearly all 50 states in the U.S. are nearing diesel prices of $6 per gallon, with Texas and Oklahoma remaining as holdouts.

If you know me, you know I love NASA. I'm glad that this can be posted at all. I'm sad that they can't say "climate change" science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

INBOX — CLEVELAND, TN: Wright Brothers Construction has proposed a biomass plant & data center. Folks are seeking help to bring more attention to this situation and encourage our local officials to listen.” Petition: www.change.org/p/reject-the... More: www.wdef.com/project-rive...

Next they bring back Freon

The U.S. has entered its 13th COVID wave, with an estimated 1 in 86 Americans currently infectious. Around 567,000 new infections are occurring daily, totalling 3.69 million in a week. PMC estimates a single week at this level could result in 900–1,600 excess deaths. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

🍟 Model: ultra-processed food cost Argentina thousands of lives A diet model for Argentina linked ultra-processed food to 9,823 early deaths and 350,000 years of life lost in 2019, plus 0.84bn dollars in costs. 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aea587 #health #nutrition 🧪

Climate outlook is ‘not pretty’ after oceans break heat records for 100 days www.ft.com/content/3014...

Domestic abuse truism: If you stay, I promise not to hit or manipulate you anymore.

Not sure people understand how bad El Niño already is. In Southern California today, we had an offshore pacific hurricane (not normal) take out homes and beaches. We had temperatures topping 111°F with high humidity. There's a fire in LA. And we are just getting started with El Niño.

‘Employees have produced increasing amounts of real output but in return for real wages that don’t allow them to enjoy a proportional amount as income. The end result is that an increasing share labor productivity accrues not to workers but to corporate profits.‘ www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc26...

The AI bubble is about to burst. Brace yourself.

When 3M scientist Kris Hansen discovered that a chemical the company produced was in the blood of the general public, her bosses questioned her work. Yet all along, some people inside the company had known the same thing. Listen to this excerpt: