2026-10-17

Horseshit

• Researchers who cloned horse: 'It would not be complicated to clone humans'

• Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why

  • once you go tentacle, you never go back

• Scientists vote to end leap seconds, redefining how the world keeps time

  • No more leap seconds Timekeeping is officially changing

  • The leap second is officially dead

• The Olympic sprinter now bedbound for 22 hours a day

• shocking: People with a 'good ear' for sounds make better language learners

• Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty

• Cynical people are often seen as smarter. Here's why that might not be true

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Russian Bots Went Silent. Or Did They?

• A common-sense fix for poverty, inequality, fascism: Economist ditches ideology

Musk

• Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second

  The jaw-dropping showcase featured the new Roadster accelerating up a massive curved ramp and using a fan-based suction system to remain attached until it was completely upside down before using integrated cold-gas thrusters developed in collaboration with SpaceX to launch off the ramp, flip in midair and land safely back on the ground.

  • Tesla's New Roadster Takes Flight

  • The Tesla Roadster 2 Is Here–and It Flies

  • The Tesla Roadster flew, drove upside down, and hit 60mph in under a second

  • Tesla reveals SpaceX-powered Roadster that flies

  • Tesla Debuts 2026 Roadster

  • It flies.

  • Tesla unveils what it says is a flying car

  • Elon Musk unveils flying car

  • Elon Musk reveals ' first flying car' at Tesla event

  • Elon Musk Just Pulled Off a Magic Trick with the New Tesla Roadster

  • Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again

  • Tesla Roadster Can Fly

  • Reddit moderators remove post showing Tesla flying: "ban on political content"

• Elon Musk Hopes His New Factory Will Help AI Supplant Life on Earth

• Company that put gas engines in Teslas goes bankrupt owing $37M

• Musk Considers Creating Amazon Rival After Grok Bot Gets Blocked

• Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push

• Musk Settles Lawsuit over $1M Voter Giveaway, Winners Not Chosen Randomly

• SpaceX's 800 MHz spectrum grab threatens Big 3 mobile carriers

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia

• There's Nothing Mysterious or Unusual About the German Sexual Harassment Robot

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• As a Child Evangelist, He Roused the Faithful. Later He Exposed the Con

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Bluesky wants to make it easier to buy, sell, and fundraise on the network

• Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts

• PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in "sharpest decline" since Q1 2023

• iPhone Duo sells out now backordered until next year

• The Memory Shortage Comes for Schools

• Sony made a $5,900 gold-plated Walkman MP3 player

• Zombie shooter game based in San Francisco sparks online controversy

  The trailer for the first-person shooter-style game shows zombies walking around, hunched over, and riding lime scooters near the intersection of Jones and Eddy. What appears to be Waymos, Tesla Cybertrucks and AI billboards can also be seen as a player shoots and throws grenades. Part of the online backlash accuses the game of using zombies to represent unhoused and drug addicts in an area plagued with open-air drug use.

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated

  • Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality

  • Meta's smart glasses were recording conversations without the wake phrase

• Houston police searched UNC Charlotte camera network 183,000 times in 3 months

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Geoffrey Hinton: 'We're creating alien beings. I'm willing to choose humans'

  • AI Safety Is Not a Corporate Plot

  • Dwarkesh Patel on what the public doesn't know about AI

  • Anthropic pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers

• Investors temper Anthropic IPO valuation expectations as revenue growth slows

  • The AI doomers are going off on Anthropic's revenue figures

  • Anthropic's Valuation Collapsed by $500B

  • Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June

• "I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math

  • The Fight over OpenAI's Math Breakthrough Is a New Kind of Scientific Arms Race

• 'Sophisticated' Bug OpenAI Found in Its Conference Room Can Be Yours for $13.99

  • What we know about the arrest of the Saudi OpenAI engineer

• Anthropic thinks its AI might be conscious

• CoreWeave Founders Shield Fortunes with $3.3B Stock Sales

• Warning signs are flashing on the AI trade

• Friends don't let friends feed their data to AI agents

• Sergey Brin says Google's AI models are reaching recursive self-improvement

• Linus Torvalds on "don't use AI for X"

• Researchers Stranded an AI Agent on a Virtual Island. Things Got Weird

• Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy

• Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude per Month

• OpenAI, Meta caution US judiciary about risk of 'deepfake' evidence

• What Nvidia's CEO thinks about the UK's AI future

• I spent 48 hours in SF hanging out with billionaires, data labs and AI founders

• AI will make it possible to design and build organisms from scratch

• Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination

• We must stop talking about artificial general intelligence

• The EU wants an AI revolution. But on whose terms?

• Imagine Every AI Agent on Earth Buying the Same Cheap Paper Towels

• Perplexity to give away its AI security software

• Meta may use new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees

• Intel CEO says Chinese frontier AI model adoption has been 'fast'

• Investors dump data centre bonds as AI borrowers face 'Darwin moment'

• Volta's $5B debt deal is a pulse check on the AI-financing boom

• AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Content

• US is reviving shuttered nuclear plants for data center demand

• Citi becomes latest US bank to restrict AI agents from accessing accounts

• Researchers Discover ChatGPT Can Drive a Car. Grok, on the Other Hand

• What if the machines take over science

• AI Agent Hacked into Crypto Wallet and Stole Funds, OpenAI Says

• Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

• Cops Used AI Generated Photos of a Child to Lure Out a Suspected Predator

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Ledger Unveils $899 Smartphone After $90M Crypto Theft

• From Verizon to UnitedHealth, Corporate America Is Balking at 'Tokenized' Stocks

• LA restaurant group used $60k Dodgers bet to hedge playoff risk, Kalshi says

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Proofpoint to buy Varonis Systems in $6.3B all-cash deal

• South Korea's stock market down, president telling people not to commit suicide

• Porsche's Revival Bid: Pricier Cars, Tougher Bonuses and Less Remote Work

• Netflix's Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria Exiting

  • Netflix is laying off 6% of its workforce

• The Diesel Weapon

  To an extent that is somewhat breathtaking, Europe is now astoundingly dependent on American energy. The main reason this continent has been able to survive the sudden drop in imports from Russia - both for petroleum products and for gas - is largely thanks to a stream of shipments of crude, oil products and liquefied natural gas coming this way from the Gulf of Mexico. American energy saved Europe. For a continent whose leaders have a somewhat antipathetic attitude towards Donald Trump, this is somewhat awkward. But it’s there in the data (and the situation for kerosene is even more stark).

• The divide that makes life less affordable for some Americans

  New data shows that record-high monthly payments for car loans and student loans are adding huge costs to some budgets.

• Millionaire renters more than triple in 5 years, nearly half are Millennials

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• $137M in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms

• The ‘Nonissue’ Of Noncitizens Voting Is Becoming A Bigger Issue.

  While Democrats keep pushing the talking point that noncitizens rarely show up on voter rolls, a Reuters review last month found states have added more than 30,000 noncitizens to their registration databases since 2000. Election integrity advocates say that’s an extremely conservative estimate.

• US annual budget gap hits nearly $2T, largest in 5 years

Trump

• Impeaching Impeachment: Declassified memos challenge key witness testimony from 2019 Trump case

  Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, one of the Democrats’ star witnesses in their first impeachment of Donald Trump, received repeated briefings, emails and memos related to the Ukrainian energy company that employed Hunter Biden, according to declassified documents that directly conflict with her and other witnesses’ testimony in the failed bid seven years ago to remove the president from office. The memos provide a stark contrast to Yovanovitch’s testimony that the Biden-Burisma matter “just wasn’t a big deal” during her tenure as ambassador, and that she wasn’t briefed by staff on the issues surrounding Joe Biden’s son except for an initial briefing book during her 2016 Senate confirmation and what she read in the news media. Yovanovitch and her top aides engaged in dozens of communications between 2016 and 2019 about Burisma, Hunter Biden, Zlochevsky and efforts by their legal defense teams and lobbyists to make investigations go away or curry favor for a company the State Department deemed to be corrupt, according to the documents the task force released, and additional memos obtained by Just the News under open records litigation.

• Katie Zacharia Is Fired After 5 Days as White House Press Secretary

Democrats

• Kamala Harris calls for packing Supreme Court, 'changing' Electoral College if Dems take back congress

Left Angst

• Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say

  • Ukraine's Starlink restrictions raise suspicions of Musk, Trump retaliation

  • US senators call for investigation into Ukraine's Starlink restrictions

  • White House ordered restrictions on Starlink Ukraine

  • White House Ordered Starshield Restrictions, Disrupting Ukrainian Drone Defense

  • Musk suggested Trump restrict Ukraine's Starlink service, Telegraph reports

• AI, Crypto and DEI Drove Marc Andreessen to MAGA

• RFK Jr. Sets Up Program to Pay Doctors to Report Vaccine "Injuries"

• Hegseth's dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army

• Here's What Telegram Giving Data to the U.S. Government Looks Like

  Newly filed court records include a letter from Telegram to U.S. authorities in which the company shares user data following a court order.

  • Presumably they author would prefer platforms not to obey the law?

• Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low

• Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists

• Trump Bought $5M in SpaceX Debt Two Days Before Space Transport Executive Order

• He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Human airborne eDNA as forensic evidence in simulated residential burglaries

• Trans neo-Nazi teen accused of Hindu temple mass shooting plot will get hormone treatments in jail: judge

  A Cook County judge ordered Alexandros Paporakis held without bail Wednesday — but added a healthcare order, noting that the accused would-be terrorist takes hormone injections for gender transition, among other drugs, NBC Chicago reported. In addition to his transition injections, Paporakis is being treated for ADHD, depression, and anxiety, the judge revealed. Paporakis, a Taco Bell cashier from Palatine, was arrested Sunday after cops learned of an alleged plot to shoot up the largest Hindu temple in Aurora, a suburb of Chicago. His coworkers told cops about concerning messages from the teen, including a document outlining the alleged plot and photos of tactical gear.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• How Does Starshield Work and Who Controls It?

World

• Japan mistakenly issues warning for magnitude 9.9 earthquake

  • JMA Cancels Emergency Warning After Predicting M9.9; Rules Out Cyberattack

• Porn showing choking or incest to be banned in UK from early November

  • Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from November

• 'Onion cartel' in Philippines fined $28M for price shock

• Japan business manager visa holders leaving without reentry permits surge

• UK Police Arrest 15-Year-Old over Posts Mocking Politician

• The Lawful Access Act threatens to blow a hole in Canada's national security

• Australia employment slides 39,300 in September, jobless at 4.7%

• Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election

  • Brazil's electoral court rules against Meta for pro-Bolsonaro algorithm bias

Iran / Houthi

• Iran’s precision strikes picked apart Gulf infrastructure, blunting US war plans

• Ships' Captains Paid $100k a Month to Transit Strait of Hormuz

Israel

• Jonathan Glazer says Israel's retaliation over NAZA more venal than anticipated

  • How do human beings explain taking part in genocide?

• Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware

  • Israeli firm used online ads to run spy operation, researchers say

  • Israeli ad-tech firm helped place spyware on Al Jazeera devices

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• 'StarGate,' Ukraine's first aerial drone to evacuate wounded soldiers

• To Inflict Economic Pain, Russia and Ukraine Strike at Data Centers

• What Life Is Like in Kyiv as Russia Tries to Make It Unlivable

• Ukraine hits Russian refinery as Starlink satellite services are restored

• Russian Officer Turned Against His Country and Helped Ukraine Kill Hundreds

China

• Tim Cook Says Apple Intelligence Approved in China, the Paper Reports

• China Moves to Restrict Exports of Some Solar Technologies

• Beijing seeks tighter grip on AI exports amid US rivalry

  • China Reportedly Planning AI Export Controls, Citing National Security

  • China Proposes Export Controls on AI Technologies

  • China unveils draft export controls on AI, open-weight models, and chips

  • China moves to curb tech exports, including AI, citing national security risks

Health / Medicine

• Cancer Is Rising in Younger Adults, and Scientists Can't Explain Why

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• US company announces progress toward resurrecting the extinct dodo

• Reflect Orbital tests illumination by a space reflector

• Microplastics are chemically active, and could cause biological harm

• In 1960, scientists predicted the world would end on November 13, 2026

• Queensland tests acoustic alarms to ward off whales from shark nets

• Mont Blanc, the 'roof of Europe', loses more than a metre of height in a year

• Fruits and Vegetables 50% Less Nutritious Than in the 1960s

• New Data Centers in NM and El Paso Could Undo Millions Spent on Climate Plans

• Dam Removals Are Bringing Fish Back Across the Northeastern United States