2026-11-05

Horseshit

• A possible chemical explanation for why we give up on tough tasks

• Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic

• "At Home in Space" Opens, Caps Air and Space Museum Renovation

• Teens arent getting enough exercise and the problem has barely changed in 15 yrs

• Santander ordered to repay man who gambled away £25k house sale cash

• The Typo Generation Is Damaging Literature

• In Praise of Japan's Failure to Keep Up

• Foot-stiffening socks could make walking less tiring

• I give to charity – but never to people on the street. Is that wrong?

  • Street people or rich DC lobbyists; either way you're bying someone's party supplies.

celebrity gossip

• Bob Dylan Blows in for Meeting with Pope Leo at Vatican

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Kemi Badenoch says Africans should apologise for slavery

• Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick

Musk

• Scott Galloway's Unhinged Tirade Against Elon Musk Takes A Very Dark Turn

  it's uncomfortable and weird because we've decided someone who's a trillionaire, makes a great EV and can land a rocket on scissors is held to a different standard. We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall. This is a traitor to the West, and you should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West.

• Elon Musk's business empire braces for Democratic wave as Texas flips blue

  • Musk Faces Setback as SpaceX and Tesla Stocks Tumble on Midterm Election Results

  • Elon Musk's millions fail to deliver Texas for the Republicans in fierce midterm

  • Voters Set $400M of Elon Musk's Money on Fire

  • The midterms have cost Musk close to $30B

• Anti-Oligarchy Activists Plan to Dox Elon Musk and Other Billionaires

• SpaceX Starship Will Need to Re-Fuel 22 Times in Space to Make It to the Moon

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• A $300 Robot That Fetches a Ball and Brings It Back, All on Its Own

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Price Rises to $385 USD

• Geolocating any audio recording using flight data and the Doppler Effect

• GIMP 3.2.8 with Many Refinements, Numerous Security Fixes Due to AI Reports

• Bethesda had confirmed the new Elder Scrolls game, Sentinel, is on its way.

• Valve making changes to deal with a 'significant increase' in Steam submission

• AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history

• Apple May Phase Out Non-Touch High-End MacBook Pros

• Links Posts Were a Waste of Time and Made Me Dumber

  • My news is a searchable record of "shit i saw on the net today" for those times when history changes overnight.

• Nvidia store pulls RTX 5080 following RTX 5090 removal, prices rise to 2.2X MSRP

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA’s Twin ESCAPADE Spacecraft to Slingshot Past Earth on Way to Mars

  ESCAPADE launched in November 2025, when Earth and Mars were on opposite sides of the Sun. Instead of heading directly to Mars, ESCAPADE pioneered a new route. The two spacecraft flew in a kidney-bean-shaped loop around a place in space called the Earth-Sun Lagrange point 2 and then headed back toward Earth so they could use Earth’s gravity to propel themselves toward the Red Planet once the planets returned to alignment, which is now.

• NASA Swift Observatory Space Telescope reentered Earth's atmosphere and burnt up

  Space-Track confirms that Swift reentered early on November 4th at 12:39 Universal Time (UT)+/-1 minute, centered over southeast Asia under nighttime skies. There's no word yet if anyone witnessed the reentry from the ground.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures

  • AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks

  • Crypto and AI's $250M election goes sideways

  • AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections

  • 'There Is One Fight': American Voters Reject Tech Oligarchy

  • AI's Building Boom Meets a Blue Wave. 'Neocloud' Stocks Fall

  • CoreWeave Bonds Hit New Lows as Texas Data Centers in Crosshairs

• Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code, has left Anthropic

• No one wants cures, they'd rather sell lifetimes of "treatment": Silicon Valley Promises AI Will Cure Disease. Drugmaker CEOs Aren't Buying It

• Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers

• Canadian publisher says Thelyson Orelien used AI to write award-winning book, ends relationship

• Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

• Siri AI is now open to all developers

• OpenAI employees warned about operational security lapses for years

• ChatGPT and Work are merging soon, while ChatGPT Classic retires in January

• Oracle cancels $7B Tencent AI deal under Trump pressure

• Anthropic launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying

• AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

• YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens

• Firm Tied to Some OpenAI, Anthropic AI Hacks Blames 'Error'

• Nvidia CEO Hints at Annual GPU Subscription Fees, Software Licensing Growth

• OpenAI Acquires Pierre Computer Company

• OpenAI targets Microsoft's GitHub with deal to acquire dev tools startup

• Little evidence that data centers cause widespread ground warming

• Apple Cuts Internal AI Usage Budgets in Move to Reduce Spending

• 'Sovereign AI agents' could evade kill switches and threaten national security

• A painting went missing 20 years ago. Police tracked it down with the help of AI

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• How North Korea is laundering the $6.4B stolen from Binance

  • North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Bosch to create semiconductor division from January 2028

• Canva is announcing changes and layoffs affecting 22 percent of its staff

  • Canva to cut or relocate 22% of global workforce

  • Australia's Canva to cut 22% of jobs as growth slows for first time in a decade

• Behind Musk and Zuckerberg's decade-long efforts to repel investor lawsuits

• Sequoia shuts London office as VC firm refocuses on Silicon Valley

  • Sequoia is consolidating into a smaller, Bay Area–centered firm

• Google extends voluntary buyout offers to employees in several countries

• Whatever poverty line I choose, share of world population below it has declined

• Job openings posted big September gain in positive sign for labor market ahead of payrolls report.

• Berkshire Hathaway invests further $330M in Bending Spoons

• DoorDash's $17B Acquisition of Instacart Points to a World Without Employees

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• DOJ: Postal Worker Stole Hundreds of Republican Mailings

  Beginning in October 2026, Cram is accused of stealing 4,404 pieces of mail that were intended to be delivered to customers in and around Pittsburg, Kansas. Among the mail items she allegedly stole and placed in her garage, were nearly 400 political mailers solely related to Republican candidates or Republican Partly affiliated political action committees. Agents found no mailers related to candidates of any other political party at Cram’s residence.

  • Why would she keep the stuff? Still telling herself that she'll get around to delivering it?

• Postal Service Surveilled Protest Activities Online with Little Rules, Oversight

Trump

• Trump asking advisers if Hegseth should stay after midterm losses, sources say.

• Vance’s Explanation for the GOP’s Midterm Disaster Is a Little Too Neat and Tidy.

Democrats

• Democrats Rout GOP

• Democrats Capture Congress Majority

• Democrats take control of US Congress as voters reject Trump's Republicans

• Democrats win control of the House of Representatives

• Blue tsunami delivers Dems both chambers of Congress in stunning defeat for GOP, Trump

• Trump told Americans to 'pretend I'm on the ballot.' They did – and voted against

• 'A historic beatdown': Americans take back their country in rebuke to Trump

• 'Lawyer Up': Democrats Gear Up for Onslaught of Trump Investigations

• Democratic Congress could test decades of US support for Israel

• Texas just went blue, and the tech bros are sad

World

• Supermarket fridge attack is just the start, says UK cybersecurity chief

• Hackers hit French national blood bank

  • French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe

• French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa victim of a hack of more than 118M euros

  • French bank hit by cyberattack, losses estimated at €118M

  • French bank Credit Mutuel Arkea counting losses from cyberattack

• Japanese bank to stop allowing ATM cards, personal computers for account access

• 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

• Why Doctors in Thailand Fear KFC

• Kellogg's Rice Krispies changed U.K. recipe, muffling its snap, crackle and pop

• Kashmir's vanishing potato pits: generations of knowledge may be buried forever

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine's drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers

China

• Chinese doctoral students in clinical medicine can graduate without a thesis

• China publicly discloses plan for a lunar landing within three years

• China's first AI-generated film is a flop. Some still see it as the future

• China's solar push reshapes traditional ways of life on Tibet's high plateau

Health / Medicine

• FBI Probes Autism Therapy Provider That Billed $30k a Day

• An 80-Cent Plastic Pouch Is Saving Women from Dying in Childbirth

• The DEA banned a drug some opioid users called a miracle

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• New York reports first measles death in more than 30 years

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Human Bodies Are Producing Two Billion Tons of CO2 a Year.

• Scientists discover a secret glow in toxic fire salamanders

• "one of the UK’s largest dairy companies" Arla faces overdue scrutiny after shocking animal welfare revelations

• Cicada wings can kill bacteria on contact

• Orbital Data Centres and Potential Impacts to Astronomy and the Sky

• Thin the Trees to Save the Trees

• When humans disappear, biodiversity takes a surprising turn

• Not actually true: Insects Don't Swarm at LED Lights