2025-09-17

Horseshit

• Sheriff Warns Doing TikTok 'Door Kick Challenge' in Wyoming Can Get You Killed

• Mystery language on ancient stone tablet stumps archeologists

  • "but they didn't even have Ovaltine... did they?"

• Culture is driving a major shift in human evolution, new theory proposes

  “Human evolution seems to be changing gears,” said Waring. “When we learn useful skills, institutions or technologies from each other, we are inheriting adaptive cultural practices. On reviewing the evidence, we find that culture solves problems much more rapidly than genetic evolution. This suggests our species is in the middle of a great evolutionary transition.” Cultural practices — from farming methods to legal codes — spread and adapt far faster than genes can, allowing human groups to adapt to new environments and solve novel problems in ways biology alone could never match. According to the research team, this long-term evolutionary transition extends deep into the past, it is accelerating, and may define our species for millenia to come.

  • see also "Social Darwinism" and who spends mney on birth control for others and fertility treatments for themselves.

  • Culture is overtaking genetics in shaping human evolution, researchers argue

• The world stone skimming championships have been rocked by a cheating scandal

• Teens turned their rooms into tech-free zones. This was the result

• Honolulu engineer creates fabric of the future out of chicken feathers

• Gen Z women now in favour of age-gap relationships – and not for what you think

• The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister

• Is a Memory Palace Useful?

• LimeWire Acquires Fyre Festival, Asking 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?'

• Car-free highway section in SF leads to recall vote and warning to politicians

• Engineers Propose Airbags for Airplanes

• Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

• I Gained 25 Pounds. Why Are People Acting Like I've Committed a Crime?

• Study Shows Number of Childless Women in the U.S. Continues to Rise

Obit

• Mark Norell, 68, Discoverer of Links Between Dinosaurs and Birds, Dies

• Robert Redford Has Died

  • Robert Redford, actor, director, environmentalist, dead at 89 – CNN

  • Robert Redford dead: passes away aged 89

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow

  Virtue signaling gets a bad rap, often weaponized to dismiss legitimate moral concerns. But the phenomenon is real. In any community with strong values, there's social currency in being seen as embodying those values. The problem? Performance gets rewarded more than practice. When belonging becomes performative, when inclusion becomes a competitive sport, when kindness becomes a metric—the original values die in the measurement. In value-driven communities, this looks like competitive displays of ideological purity. Increasingly elaborate pronoun signatures. Lengthy self-flagellating acknowledgments that crowd out actual work. The person who speaks most loudly about inclusion might be the same one privately blacklisting colleagues for minor infractions. Performance becomes the measure of virtue, and like all metrics that become targets, it corrupts the thing it was meant to measure.

Musk

• Why Tesla Thinks Elon Needs More Money

• SpaceX built a docking system from bicycle parts

• Tesla Faces US Auto Safety Investigation over Door Handles

• XAI likely first AI company with Gigawatt plus campus

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Exxon CEO Says New Form of Graphite Boosts EV Battery Life, Extends Range

• Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO

  • Waymo receives permit to operate at SFO

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• What's caused reading scores to drop to worst point in decades?

• Sweden to implement nationwide mobile phone ban in schools

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• US, China reach framework deal on TikTok; Trump and Xi to speak on Friday

  • U.S. and China Reach 'Framework' for a TikTok Sale

  • Details Emerge on U.S.-China TikTok Deal

  • Oracle, Silver Lake consortium to control 80% stake in TikTok in US

  • Trump extends TikTok shut-down deadline

• New Apple Intelligence features are available today

• AMD ROCm 7.0 Begins Rocking Out on GitHub

  • AMD ROCm 7.0 Released

• What's the real reason games are taking longer to make?

• Record labels, Internet Archive settle vinyl-streaming copyright case

• Apollo Explores Sale of Internet Pioneer AOL

• Sarandos on Reed's Pitch to Him for Netflix's Streaming Future: 'Sounded Nuts'

• Signal's Meredith Whittaker: In tech, marketing too easily replaces substance

• Criminals broke into the system Google uses to share info with cops

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• DOOM crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware - LenOwO

• Equations governing Flute Tone Holes

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• South Korean startup / OpenAI demonstrate sustainable enterprise AI without GPUs

• Law firm associate fired over AI-generated fake case cites

• A creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy

• FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions and their effects on children

• Devs more worried than ever that generative AI will lower the quality of games

• Figure AI Valued at $39B

  • My stack of old scrap iron in the driveway is gotta be worth at least $20B...

• AI Spots Hidden Signs of Depression in Students' Facial Expressions

• Microsoft Favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code

• 'Revolutionary' AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models

• AT&T will listen to your phone calls and block spammers using AI

• Another lawsuit blames an AI company of complicity in a teenager's suicide

• Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf

• OpenAI models have gotten worse at geolocation

• OpenAI will apply new restrictions to ChatGPT users under 18

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Northrop Grumman's new spacecraft is a real chonker

Crypto con games

• UK must adopt stablecoins or risk losing financial crown warns new report

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Jaguar Land Rover extends production shutdown after cyber-attack

  • When will Jaguar Land Rover restart production? "No one knows."

• Mutual Fund Titans Plowed into Private Markets. It Isn't Working

• Recession Probability Surges to 93%: UBS

• Top% of Earners Drive a Growing Share of US Consumer Spending

• Insider Trading Is Not About Fairness

• Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession

  • 4 years of telling people their student loans had been forgiven...

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FAA seeks to fine Boeing $3.1M for safety violations, door plug blowout

• The Supreme Court's Fast Track Needs a Name, and the Justices Are Split

Trump

• Trump Signs Off on Sending the National Guard to Memphis

• Why Trump wants companies to report earnings less frequently

• Donald Trump files $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times

  President Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit late Monday against the New York Times and some of its most prominent reporters for articles and a book making the case that he built his fortune and reputation in part through fraud. The suit also cites an interview that the Times conducted ahead of last year's elections. Retired U.S. Army Gen. John F. Kelly, who served as chief of staff during Trump's first term, warned that he believed Trump met the definition of fascist. And Trump's legal team also argued that the Times wrongly gave producer Mark Burnett credit for the success of the NBC reality contest show The Apprentice, rather than to Trump, who served as the show's host and star. "Today, the Times is a full-throated mouthpiece of the Democrat Party," Trump's lawyers argued in the filing.

  • Trump Sues the New York Times for Articles Questioning His Success

• SEC 'Prioritizing' Trump's Push to Cull Quarterly Reporting

  • A government department listening to orders and doing its job? Nazi fascist Russian republican horror!

• 'Maybe we should go after you' Trump threatens reporter asking about free speech

  • After all, we've still got the "misinformation" systems left to us by Biden; be a shame to see that infrastructure only usaed by the Left wouldn't it?

Left Angst

• Tyler Robinson charged with aggravated murder, DNA found on gun trigger

• FBI investigates social media accounts appearing have prior knowledge shooting

• They've got a strawman version for all of us

  They've got a Straw Trump. Sure, real Trump is human and has his flaws and I don't agree with everything he does but overall he's done a lot of really good things, HOWEVER Straw Trump wants to put all the brown people in death camps and cancel the elections. They've got a strawman version for all of us. It doesn't matter what you really believe, what you do, what you say, no matter how obvious you make it, they'll just replaced that with their imaginary straw version of you that's super evil so they're justified in treating you however they want, including setting that straw on fire.

• Why Did People Think They Could Cheer Charlie Kirk's Murder Without Consequences

• Commenters Deemed Offensive After Charlie Kirk's Death Face Consequences

  • "Let's make a list of who else needs shooting" is a bit more than offensive.

• A New and Dangerous Kind of Fame

• Washington Post Columnist Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

  • "Kill all white men" isn't the official policy of the Post?

• Charlie Kirk shooting: George Zinn tried to help suspect escape before arrest, police documents say

  The first man arrested in connection with the deadly shooting of Charlie Kirk yelled, “I shot him, now shoot me” immediately after the shooting in an attempt to help the shooter escape, according to newly filed documents. George Zinn, 71, was taken into custody following the shooting, but he was later cleared on having any direct involvement with the shooting. He was arrested on suspicion of obstruction of justice. According to the affidavit, after he asked for a lawyer, without being asked any questions by investigators, he stated that he did not shoot Kirk and that he said he did to draw attention away from the real shooter. Zinn was later taken to the hospital because of a medical condition, and Zinn reportedly told an officer that he was glad he said he shot the individual so the real suspect could get away. He also said he “wanted to be a martyr for the person who was shot,” according to the probable cause statement.

  • George Zinn, First Suspect Detained in Charlie Kirk Shooting, Hit with Child Porn Charges

• News Anchor Resigns After Being Suspended Over On-Air Charlie Kirk Tribute | ZeroHedge

  A WICS-ABC20 News anchor in Springfield, Illinois, has announced that she is resigning from her position after her employer suspended her for paying tribute to the late Charlie Kirk on air.

  “I want you to know that it’s OK if you feel sadness, it’s OK if you’re grieving,” the host told her TV audience. “Two days ago, I lost a mentor, my first boss, the first person who made me believe in myself, that encouraged me to chase this dream that you’re watching right now, Charlie Kirk. “I want to share with you one of my favourite sayings that Charlie would always tell us at the office, he would yell it from the mountain-tops, so please listen: When conversations stop happening, when individuals become wordless, that’s when violence begins. So, if you do one thing today, make it be with passion, with conviction. Stand up for your friends, stand up for your beliefs, and speak loudly, even if your voice shakes. Your words have meaning, your values have purpose. Never forget that.

• Armed Queers group trains radical Marxists to shoot just miles from where Charlie Kirk was murdered.

• 'Assassination Culture': Poll Shows Killing Trump, Musk Justified

• Appeals Court Rejects Trump Request to Remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook

• Trump's deportations divert FBI agents off child predator cases

• US backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea

• Harvard cuts threaten a giant in the research community: A fruit fly database

• Silicon Valley CEOs struggle to respond to Trump's involvement in businesses

• Our Stop Censoring Abortion Campaign Uncovers a Social Media Censorship Crisis

• Alex Karp Insists Palantir Doesn't Spy on Americans. Here's What He's Not Saying

• National park to remove photo of enslaved man's scars

• DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

• The California-Washington tech fight heats up

  Republicans in Washington see one big obstacle to President Donald Trump’s efforts to hit the accelerator on the American artificial intelligence industry: California. “We don’t want California to set the rules for AI across the country,” White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan said on Tuesday.

  • Or cars, or food, or product labels for stuff that cannot even be imported into CA...

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI couldn't get my husband to decrypt his Tor node so he was jailed for 3 years

• Luigi Mangione top terrorism charges thrown out by judge in state case in massive blow to DA

  In a ruling released Tuesday, Judge Gregory Carro tossed charges of murder in the first degree as an act of terrorism and murder in the second degree as a crime of terrorism against the 27-year-old Ivy League grad. The judge did keep alive Mangione’s other second-degree murder charge for allegedly executing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood outside the health care company’s investor conference on Dec. 4, 2024.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US conducts second military strike against Venezuelan narcoterrorists | Fox News

  "This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. The Strike occurred while these confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuela were in International Waters transporting illegal narcotics (A DEADLY WEAPON POISONING AMERICANS!) headed to the U.S."

• Pentagon unveils new 'clean shaven' grooming standards

World

• The left's plan to fix housing in Paris

• Google announces £5B AI investment in UK before Trump visit

  • Google owner reveals £5B AI investment in UK ahead of Trump visit

• After escaping Russian energy dependence, Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

• Japan to subsidize undersea cable vessels over serious national security concern

• Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality'

Israel

• UN inquiry finds top Israeli officials incited genocide in Gaza

  • UN commission says Israel has committed genocide

  • Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

  • Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, U.N. Inquiry Says

• Does Israel Face a 'South Africa Moment' over Gaza?

• 'The bombing has been insane': Palestinians flee Israeli assault on Gaza City

• Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique

  • but all Palastinians are Hamas?

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine's Most Lethal Soldiers

China

• Charges dropped against two men accused of spying for China

  Prosecutors have dropped charges against two men, including a former parliamentary researcher, who had been accused of spying for China, but the decision has prompted a furious reaction from leading members of the UK government. Christopher Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33, had previously denied the charges under the Official Secrets Act. Beijing called the allegations "malicious slander". The court heard that the Crown Prosecution Service had determined the evidence it had gathered did not meet the threshold to go to trial. The pair were due to appear at Woolwich Crown Court from 6 October.

• China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents

• Why one of the most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

• A new report finds China's space program will soon equal that of the US

  • If they do as well as NASA has during the last two decades; we have no concerns.

Health / Medicine

• Over half of US healthcare workers plan to switch jobs by next year,survey finds

• Tyson Foods Is Dropping High-Fructose Corn Syrup.

• Death Rates from Chronic Diseases Dropped in Most Countries

  The chance of dying from chronic illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes declined in four out of five countries between 2010 and 2019, finds a study of 185 countries published in The Lancet today.

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• 'Kissing bug' Chagas disease is here to stay in the US, experts say

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Illegal gold mining is fueling a 'mercury boom' in Mexico

• The Climate Change Paradox

• Orcas sink one boat, damage another, off coast of Portugal

• How Much Carbon Do We Need to Capture?

• Metal Barrels Dumped Off the Coast of LA Are Encircled by Mysterious White Halos

• Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years

• Make trains great again – for the sake of people and the planet

• Closely sown corn plants communicate to defend themselves

• Fearmongering predictions about climate change keep falling apart.