EVs: Electric vehicles no longer carry spare tires
Most small vehicles today no longer carry spare tires.
Demographics: Population will explode and humanity will collapse
Yet another expert predicts we all soon die due to a global population explosion, resource scarcity and collapse of civilization. Doomed to be wrong again.
Education: College Board shares SAT scores and GPA with Facebook and TikTok
The College Board (SAT tests) was caught sending student SAT scores and GPA and web site search terms to Facebook and Tiktok.
International, Education: You need international experience to succeed in tech
Half of all STEM grad degrees in the U.S. go to foreign students, a majority of which will then work in the U.S.
Demographics: Economists want more inbound immigration to the U.S.
Economists, as usual, propose more immigration to address labor issues in the U.S. Problem is that 75% of world's countries have declining populations.
Climate: Maui fire cause update
Solutions: “The big thing people are exploring now, especially when you have these really extreme conditions of wind … is actually converting these fuels, these grasslands, to do something else,”…
Demographics: More school closures as young cohort shrinks
Salt Lake City, Denver-area, Anchorage, San Francisco - already announced closures or discussing which schools to close.
Everything on the Internet is fake?
The Internet is now overrun with fake auto-generated news, written by fake authors, who work for fake businesses. This is not a joke. This is really happening.
Climate, Energy: Could infrastructure age be a key factor for western wildfires?
Many giant western wildfires were found to be started by failing electric utility infrastructure, all about the same age ...
AI, Part 1: Bing Chat’s copyright infringement?
Bing Chat's generative AI does not even pretend to be original. Here, it has plagiarized verbatim, word for word, from a Lonely Planet guide book.