Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Exposing How the U.S. Government Commits Fraud Against its Citizens
February 5th, 2026Good, now do the Pentagon. Via: Nick Shirley:
January Layoffs Highest Since 2009
February 5th, 2026Via: CNBC: Layoff plans hit their highest January total since the global financial crisis while hiring intentions reached their lowest since the same period, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday. U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs for the month, up 118% from the same period a year ago and 205% from December 2025. The […]
Finally, Some Possibly Good News About Firefox: AI Off Switch
February 2nd, 2026With the growing hostility toward AI slop creeping into everything, Mozilla might see an opportunity here to claw back some market share after years of steady decline. With Firefox, however, one must always be waiting for the other shoe to drop… Via: Mozilla: AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from […]
Minneapolis Teachers Union Chief Admits Elected Officials in Anti-ICE Signal Chats
February 2nd, 2026Via: Fox: The head of the Minneapolis teachers union said in a recent interview that elected officials are involved in anti-ICE agitation in the city. “The notion that people that are actively engaged in ICE watch, in being vigilant in protecting our neighbors, in Signal chat groups, running plates, in their cars doing patrols — […]
The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
January 31st, 2026Via: The Atlantic: The attention-span crisis goes to the movies. Everyone knows it’s hard to get college students to do the reading—remember books? But the attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word. Professors are now finding that they can’t even get film students—film students—to sit through movies. “I used to think, If homework […]
Los Angeles ICE Riots Live
January 30th, 2026Via: Conner: — Via: Los Angeles Times: After hours of peaceful protests in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, tensions escalated outside the Metropolitan Detention Center with law enforcement pushing into a crowd of about 200 people and spraying a chemical agent on demonstrators. Amid the unrest, the city went on tactical alert shortly after 5 […]
Microsoft’s Windows 11 Mess Sending Users Back to Windows 10 and Windows 7
January 29th, 2026This is absolutely wild. I’ve started getting used to ZorinOS, just in case… Via: TweakTown: The data comes from Statcounter, which outlines that in October, 2025, Windows 11 held 58.18% market share, compared to Windows 10’s 41.17%, but then in November 2025, Windows 11 dropped down to 53.7%, compared to Windows 10’s 42.7%. While this […]
Dangerously Cold Air to Surge Through Dozens of States
January 23rd, 2026Via: Accuweather: The coldest air of the winter may visit many areas across the central and eastern United States, with AccuWeather RealFeel Temperatures of 50 below zero in the coldest spots. More: State of Emergency Declared in Multiple States
Up to 25 Percent of U.S. Colleges May Close Soon
January 23rd, 2026Good. And this should be done at the high school level: The initiative seeks to overhaul the university’s general education curriculum, expand access to internships and apprenticeships, and provide students with micro-credentials tied to skills valued by employers. Via: The College Fix: Higher education is approaching a period of profound disruption, and many colleges may […]
Pentagon Orders More Active-Duty Soldiers to Prepare for Deployment in Minnesota
January 22nd, 2026Via: Independent: Hundreds more active-duty soldiers have been given orders to prepare for possible deployment in Minnesota, amid ongoing tensions and concern that Donald Trump may invoke the Insurrection Act to quash anti-immigration enforcement protests. The Pentagon has ordered members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, to be […]
