Pew Research: Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
Polls like this are interesting because social media keeps changing, and most of use don’t want to join everything to figure out which ones are worthwhile.
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Elon Musk’s zeal for truth reveals the online frauds aiming to divide us
Believe it or not, that is actually Sparky in disguise.
SPACE: Will Europe’s flagship space science missions survive NASA’s budget cuts?
Flagship European space science missions conducted in collaboration with NASA face a possible combined funding shortfall of nearly $2 billion due to budget cuts put forward by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. The European Space Agency hopes its member states will come to the rescue.
Europe’s flagship space science missions may be worthwhile, but they aren’t ours, so why are we funding them? It’s only about twenty bucks per American taxpayer, but do that for 10,000 other foreign agencies and projects, and it starts to add up.
WSJ: Old Age Will Be Different in the Robotic Age
WSJ: Old Age Will Be Different in the Robotic Age
Machines could soon help elders get out of bed, bathe them, even provide them with emotional support.
I always figured this problem would be solved by the Japanese inventing competent Elder-bots, the Chinese making cheap knock-offs and an American start-up company offering free robots that tended to the feeble as it harvested confidential medical information to defraud Medicaid. That won’t happen.
WSJ: Why Every Family Needs a Code Word
WSJ: Why Every Family Needs a Code Word
If you receive a call from someone who sounds just like your grandson and says he needs money or a gift card, the best thing to do is hang up and call your grandson. But if the voice is so convincing that you can’t bear to do that, ask for your family code word.
This happened to my mother. She got a call from somebody who identified himself as her grandson, and needed money to get out of jail. The same thing has happened to the elderly parents of several of my friends.
I was about to buy my sixth Keurig, when I wised up. The ‘descale’ light means the coffee maker is getting ready to shit the bed.
WSJ: I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.
WSJ: I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.
The 5-foot-6-inch robot shuffled to the dishwasher, pulled the door handle and slid a fork—tines up, naturally—into the silverware holder. Then it grabbed a towel to wipe the counter. Later, it folded my sweater and fetched a bottle of water from the fridge.
Don’t try living in a science fiction future, it’s a sham.
Vox: Why every website you used to love is getting worse
Facebook is the poster child for enshittification. At first, it was a big improvement over MySpace. Everyone signed up for, it was great for a while, then Facebook made changes to make more money, until is sucked. Everyone was on Facebook, so nobody wanted to leave.
Nasa plans first crewed Moon mission in 50 years for February 2026
Maybe there is too much going on or it’s the fracturing of news media, but there are big things happening that people aren’t talking about.
In four months, humans are going back to the Moon. The Artemis 2 mission is to perform a lunar orbit, no landing, similar to Apollo 9 in 1968. Apollo 9 is the mission that yielded the moving “Earth Rise” photograph.