2026-10-06

Worthy

• What on earth are you dooming about?

  If it turns out that The Terminator really is coming to get you, you'll have gained nothing from the upfront neurotic fretting. And if The Terminator fails to appear, you will have squandered your precious time missing the intelligence boom and the creativity abundance that AI has and will unleash. Likewise, if the climate really is doomed, you're not going to stop that spiral by planting another windmill or choking on a paper straw. Game theory has already seen to it that rival superpowers will accelerate their quest for power. None of the climate doomer nonsense Europe has wrung it hands about in the last thirty years has managed to curb the growth in global emissions (but it did wreck the continent's economy!).

  This is not the time to doom, baby. This is the time to bloom. Intellectually, spiritually, and productively. Put down your anxieties, arrest your neurotic impulses, and decide to be happy about the present, the future, and your own ability to make something of yourself and this world.

Horseshit

• Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

  • F1 in Bahrain in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start

• Man caught with 300 tortoises and 77 parrots bound for Malta at Sicilian port

• How quitting drinking can change marriages and friendships

• The 'Americanization' of French Dining

• Flying Doesn't Have to Be This Miserable

• The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse

• A Dancer Lives on $13,500 a year in East Harlem

Epstein

• Whistleblower Simon Andriesz Who Exposed Howard Lutnick’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead

  Simon Andriesz, a British former Wall Street banker who once worked under Lutnick, died by suicide at 57, The Banker reports. Andriesz, who was living in Cornwall, England, as of July, exposed the extent of Lutnick’s relationship with Epstein earlier this year when he shared a 2018 email chain with House Oversight Committee lawmakers in which Lutnick and Epstein discussed Adfin, a digital advertising company they had both invested in.

  • Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies

celebrity gossip

• 15 years after his passing, nobody is 'The Next Steve Jobs'

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• I don't go to Cornell: Unrelated Asian men targeted in case of mistaken identity

  • The ‘Cornell 7’ haven’t been charged. The mob doesn’t care: What’s most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame.

Musk

• Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI

Electric / Self Driving cars

• As robotaxi accidents increase in L.A., the data reveal the safer driver

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Are Babies Conscious?

• A 'tsunami' of church closings is poised to remake America

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026

• Islamism, the Subject We Still Avoid at Harvard

• Dutch government to ban smartphones from schools

• The End of College as We Know It

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement

• Google freezes open-source bug bounty program

• People who refuse to let their gadgets die

  In some cases, their devices are old enough to now be on display in museums. Mike Tyran, a 66-year-old nurse, has long jammed out to ’80s glam bands on his 2003 iPod, a subsequent model of which can be found in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Tyran also uses a smartphone, computer, and television that are all nearly a decade old

• Modder brings original Xbox emulation to jailbroken PS5

• "Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places

  • Smart glasses under scrutiny as Norway seeks temporary ban

  • Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

  • Norway plans temporary ban on smart glasses

• Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner

• A federal judge called Flock cameras "indiscriminate mass surveillance" and used that opinion to suppress the discovery of 91 pounds of meth in a woman's car.

• Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Researchers Demonstrate First-Ever Plasma Beam Antenna

• OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows. Its Creator Trusts No One

  OpenSSH creator Theo de Raadt was pushed out of NetBSD, lost a DARPA grant and fought half of open source. Now his paranoid code guards the world's servers.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Altman: `World should accept some bad things happening' for the benefits of AI

  • Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

  • Sam Altman Sees the Future. Are We in It?

  • The AI Safety community is unfortunately doing more harm than good

  It doesn't matter if we have people like Andy Masley who will write 5,000 word essays dismantling their false accusations one-by-one, as nobody outside of our bubble is reading these critiques. So when you hear about yet another group of AI lab employees who have banded together to speak out against the dangers of artificial intelligence, it doesn't come across as a positive development in our current arc of humanity, but yet another piece of evidence that will be used against the tech industry in 2028 to outright ban AI.

  • I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken

  • Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers hacks

  • OpenAI's Altman: Ascribing religion to models a "safety issue"

  • Sexy Apocalypse

  • Destroying all of humanity is hard work, even for a superintelligence

  • I'm Calling for a Pause in the Development of the Universal Bone Dissolver

  When we began constructing 1,000-story towers of whirring, acid-drenched blades, we intended them to assist with everyday tasks, such as spell-checking and finding a good price on shoes. But as this technology grew more capable, I came to believe that the Universal Bone Dissolver would immeasurably improve human life. It is no exaggeration to say that it has the capacity to bring about a new golden age of art, leisure, intellectual freedom, and raw, democratized carnality to rival the Roman court of Emperor Elagabalus. In short, bone dissolving can be as pivotal to civilization as the printing press, the light bulb, and the energy-saving squiggly light bulb. But despite my continued faith, a recent incident has raised my concerns: Last month, a prototype of the Bone Dissolver unexpectedly dissolved a number of human bones.

  • SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has rare cautionary note on AI safety

  • AI biohazard hype must not divert attention from the real risks we face now

  • OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

  • Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's 'rogue' bots may be linked to a May outage

  • Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind

• Anthropic Filed the Most Alarming Risk Disclosure in IPO History

• Meta Rushed to Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch

• Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

  • Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat

• What's going on with AI token price deflation?

• Micron's Numbers Show Why HBM4 Memory Is Worth 15X Its Weight in Gold

• Internet Watch Foundation reports rise in AI child sexual abuse material

• The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind

• Calling AI 'other intelligence' better describes the advent of a new lifeform

• My New Course at UT Austin: AI Alignment Theory

• Court Tosses Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim 'Forgiving' His Killer

• People hate AI, so why can't they get enough?

• AI agents are rewriting the economics of computing

• Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget

• OpenAI will show visual ads in ChatGPT while you generate images

• Ada Lovelace answered the big questions about AI

• Nvidia's $20B licensing deal with Groq faces lawsuit from jilted engineers

• People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms

• In Utah, AI Can Help You Zap Your Zits

• François Chollet: "OpenAI basically set back progress to AGI by 5 to 10 years"

• Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools after blacklisting company, BBC told

• Fixer, financier, spymaster: UAE's Sheikh Tahnoon setting sights on AI dominance

• Wall Street banks launch record $60B chip deal for Broadcom and Anthropic

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao's Life After Prison

• The logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley

• After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Panda Express to help 55,000 employees become homeowners

• Warner Bros/Paramount to change name to Skydance

• How RE investors are profiting off a California tax break for affordable housing

• Schneider Electric to buy US software firm PTC in $22.6B deal

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Senator Cotton is Blocking the Change to Permanent DST

  Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) weighed in Sunday after President Trump posted Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) phone number online amid a dispute over permanent daylight saving time, quipping that the president “can go from zero to a‑‑hole in about three seconds.” “Every now and then, there are disputes in Congress that have existential significance for the future of Western civilization. Daylight saving time is not one of them,” Kennedy told NBC News’s Kristen Welker Sunday on “Meet the Press.”

• One person is now a quorum at the SEC

• Red-Dyed Diesel Made Available to Lower Fuel Prices

  According to Reuters, the Trump administration is considering regulatory relief that would allow broader sales of red-dyed diesel, a fuel traditionally reserved for agricultural and other off-road uses.

Democrats

• HHS: Biden Admin’s Office Of Refugee Resettlement Was A Fraud-Fueled ‘Smuggling Operation’ For Alien Children.

Left Angst

• The Jobs Report Reveals Federal Reserve Election Interference

  CNBC and Yahoo Finance called the jobs report a miss. Fox said it was lower than expected. More bad analysis from a Keynesian financial press that has shown extraordinary supply-side ignorance throughout the Trump 47 term. The deeper story is indeed more complicated — and considerably more reassuring. Start with the unemployment rate. It rose a tenth not because people lost jobs but because people came looking for them. The labor force participation rate jumped two tenths to 61.8 percent, well above expectations.

• Jack Smith team tracked Trump defense lawyers’ calls by monitoring his chief of staff's phone

  The probe also made FBI agents at times uncomfortable, with a senior official at the bureau’s Washington, D.C. Field Office (WFO) counterintelligence unit and his team raising concerns that they did not have a justification to raid Trump’s Florida home and wanted to use a less invasive solution than a search warrant, the documents show. “WFO does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES), that we have established probable cause for the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. DOJ has opined that they do, requesting a wide scope including residence, office, storage space,” one Assistant Special Agent in Charge wrote in a July 13, 2023, update on the Plasmic Echo probe.

  • FBI Tracked Susie Wiles Phone, Emails with Journalists & Lawyers, New Docs Show

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Girl, 12, fatally shot in US during 'dispute over parking space'

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US pulls bombers out of RAF Fairford after reports of fresh terror plot

  The US has withdrawn all of its bomber jets from RAF Fairford after air force commanders received new reports of an Iran-backed plot against the base. The Pentagon said all bombers deployed to the base, which US forces have used to strike Iran, have returned to the United States. Counter-terror police are investigating whether Iran was behind a suspected plot to target the base on Sept 27.

  • US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford base

• FBI arrests 'Chinese foreign agent' for spying on Taiwan president's son

• American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels

  In repeated interviews, four weapons traffickers ages 16 to 19 — all current or former high school students in west Phoenix — allowed me to observe how they buy firearms and sell them to the highest bidder. Sometimes, they said, they steal the guns and then resell them. They aren’t loyal to one criminal group or another; instead, they say, they are motivated by making money, gaining status and having a sense of belonging.

World

• Bolsonaro beats expectations in Brazil presidential vote, faces Lula in runoff

  Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro will face President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the runoff of a presidential election, after the challenger took some 47% of valid votes in ‌the first round on Sunday, beating the forecasts in most private surveys.

  • Brazil Elections Head to Runoff Between Lula and Bolsonaro Son

• School protests send shivers down French government's spine

  • ‘Wild Horde’ Beats French Police Commander UNCONSCIOUS, Stomps His Head

• Danish population register hacked, data of people stolen

  • CPR data breach exposes personal details of 8.8M people in Denmark

• Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold

• Britain Learned to Love Chinese Cars

• Spanish prime minister calls snap election after housing protests

  • Europe’s last socialist heavyweight Sánchez calls snap Spanish elections for Nov. 29

  the bitter topic of unaffordable housing — something that tops the list of voters’ concerns in Spain and which has sparked nationwide protests — has finally prompted Sánchez to call an early election in an apparent bid to seize a campaign battleground he believes could work to his advantage.

• Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism

• Germany Spy chief warns Russia conflict risk growing

• Germany and France Push Trade Weapon to Bar China Access to EU Market

• How Turkey's 20B ponzi scheme collapsed

Israel

• Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse

China

• Chinese women turn to surrogates to avoid motherhood 'penalty'

Health / Medicine

• Assisted Death Is Not a Choice of Last Resort in Canada

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Russia hospitalizes almost 200 people after researcher's death from plague

  • Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of 'unknown' infection

  • Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague

  • One Dead, Nearly 200 Hospitalized in Siberian Pneumonic Plague Outbreak.

  • Russia plague: The suspected case reportedly linked to a lab worker's death

  • Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation.

  • White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia

  • Russia's response to suspected plague outbreak under scrutiny

  • Close the borders with Russia now!

  Russians have started mandatory temperature checks of all passengers from Irkutsk landing in Moscow to scan for people potentially spreading pneumonic plague.

  • Black Death hits Russia. It never really went away.

  • Russia denies lab worker died of plague as quarantine in Siberia stays in place

  Rospotrebnadzor said tests found no pathogen linked to the deceased lab worker's work at the Irkutsk anti-plague institute, but more than 60 colleagues remained isolated inside the building and several hospitals stayed closed without explanation.

  • US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia

  • The Strange, Sudden Illness and Death of a Plague Researcher in Russia

  • How much should we worry about the pneumonic plague lableak in Siberia?

  The fact that the Russian FSB is implementing a strict quarantine AND the fact that the government is in full information control mode, denying that it is even pneumonic plague anymore, pushes me in the direction of this being a big deal, and they are covering it up.

  I would be persuaded this isn't a big deal if the Russian government wasn't covering it up AND was implementing a strict quarantine, but because they are doing both, it makes me think it is, in fact, a big deal.

• CDC reminds doctors in Southwest to be aware of plague

  After a young Arizona man died of pneumonic plague last year, a report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Arizona scientists yesterday issued a caution to clinicians in areas where plague is endemic. They say to consider it as a possible cause of patients’ severe respiratory and systemic disease if they’ve been exposed to sick animals. The animals may have been how he contracted the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which causes plague, as they had "respiratory symptoms and other signs of systemic illness consistent with pneumonic plague.” However, the cats were euthanized before they could be tested. The “young adult male” died eight hours after he was admitted to the hospital, where doctors initially suspected he had hantavirus disease or bacterial pneumonia. Post-mortem testing confirmed Y pestis presence in his blood and lung tissue. It's Arizona’s first pneumonic plague death since 2007.From 2000 through 2023, the CDC reported 122 cases of plague, including 15 fatalities.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Incoming El Niño Is So Extreme It Doesn't Have a Scientific Name

• Super El Niño is here. What's so super about it?

• Elastic fantastic: The deadly fluid of pitcher plants

• Breeding programme brings heaviest insect back from the brink

  • A conservation success story for New Zealand's heaviest insect

• Mosquitoes are a choice

  we don’t have to accept this threat. We have new ways to wipe out mosquito-borne diseases with minimal environmental cost. The United States is sufficiently well-resourced, and its disease-carrying mosquito population sufficiently small, that it can stamp out this problem entirely within its own borders. The reason we haven’t is that the technology has spent fifteen years in regulatory limbo. Ending this impasse would allow us to eliminate many mosquito-borne diseases from the United States, and eventually the rest of the world.