2026-07-20
Horseshit
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Boys' ADHD symptoms linked to addictive social media use in new study
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Private jets flock to Montana – but locals can't afford the trailer park
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14 or so is the usual number: How much horsepower does a horse have?
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Recycling! Archaeologists found Homer's Iliad inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy
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When One Nanny Isn't Enough, 'CEO Parents' Hire a Whole Team
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Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds
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Trend Has Russian Men Smashing Their iPhones for a Manlier Look
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Cut the number of choices you make each day; Your brain will thank you
Epstein
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Two unexpected revelations in Warren Buffett's CNBC interview
While Warren Buffett found Bill Gates’ ties to notorious sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein “distasteful,” he says his decision to end future contributions to the Microsoft co-founder’s foundation was driven by his three children demonstrating they are now able to responsibly give away “vast sums of money.”
celebrity gossip
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Tate brothers arrested in US as further UK charges take total to 59
Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in the US after British authorities issued 38 new charges against the pair. The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew was being charged with seven further counts of rape, as well as charges relating to sex trafficking and indecent images of a child. Tristan's charges include two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation. The total number of charges against the brothers is now 59, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire police said. The alleged offending is said to have taken place between July 2010 and August 2017. The Tates have previously denied any wrongdoing. The US Marshals confirmed to the BBC that the Tates had been taken into custody, while a US Department of Justice spokesperson said the arrests were "pursuant to extradition proceedings".
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something
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Linux Foundation Announces the Intent to Launch the Tokenomics Foundation
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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was 'silencing a generation'
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Data centers have united Americans of both parties in a shared hatred
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OpenAI’s head of strategic futures Dean Ball said that Kimi is “a very good model” whose performance probably can’t be “explained away by distillation or anything like that,” adding that he’s “personally surprised the Chinese state continues to allow the open sourcing of models this good, given potential risks.” In fact, Ball suggested that “probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism,” where AI is treated as “a ‘public good’ which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of ‘digital public infrastructure.’” “This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape, but I’ve never met an open-weight models advocate who doesn’t ultimately concede this is where things end,” said Ball.
I’ve been running Kimi K3 alongside Claude on my normal coding work, and for all practical purposes I can’t tell them apart. Same tasks, same quality of output, and near identical token counts to get there. Step back and the bigger story is what an unmitigated failure US AI policy has been. The administration held Fable back, and what finally shipped is a hindered version that refuses whole categories of work. Meanwhile a frontier quality model with none of those restrictions is a download away, released by a Chinese lab the US government has no ability to regulate. Whatever the theory behind gating American models was, it plainly wasn’t thought through, because the only people the gates constrain are American customers.
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ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy
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MLB restricts dugout iPad use to prevent AI help with strategy. Mets involved
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Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states
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The bottleneck for AI agents isn't the model anymore. It's the context layer
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Why Apple's Lawsuit Against OpenAI over Devices Spares Jony Ive
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OpenAI is breaking Silicon Valley unwritten code. That's why Apple is so angry
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I argued with the father of open source for 2 years. Now the AI fight is the same — only bigger
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AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, researchers found
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Americans are angry about data centers. Politicians are feeling the pressure
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Left Angst
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Trump, not Iran, is the greatest danger
It’s Trump’s craven leadership that renders US forces ineffective, not the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. If Iran really is the existential menace he claims, the logical course would be all-out conquest. When George W Bush decided Iraq posed unacceptable dangers, he invaded with 170,000 ground troops. It was a catastrophe. But at least Bush had balls.
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Trump Media pitched $100K monthly fee for fastest feed of US president's posts
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Doctors question evidence behind Pentagon plan for testosterone screening
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Trump to fund MAGA-aligned projects in Europe as he reorders US aid
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Victoria proposes 'demasking' powers to identify anonymous social media accounts
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No person who truly values freedom can accept this
Today, the President of Hungary released a dramatic video message announcing that the democratic rule of law in Hungary has come to an end because he was unlawfully removed from office. Nothing like this has happened in modern European history. The European Union is increasingly behaving like a liberal authoritarian empire, determined to tell people what they may say, what they must do, and even whom they are allowed to vote for.
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Investigation reveals disguised gambling apps on the App Store Brazil
Iran / Houthi
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US, Iran Exchange Strikes After American Troops Killed in Jordan
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US-Iran strikes: latest developments
Kuwait said Iran hit a power and water plant on Sunday causing a fire, while Bahrain also accused Tehran of targeting civilian infrastructure. It was the third attack in as many days on a power and water facility in Kuwait, according to authorities, who als said an oil facility had been hit on Saturday.