2026-07-13

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• The First New WW2 Jeep Since 1945

Horseshit

• Scientists Solve Mystery of Bizarre 'Alien Megastructure' Star

• Scientists' Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides

• T. rex fossil could become most expensive dinosaur ever sold

• Boeing 737 window dislodged, passenger partially sucked out

• Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?

• From A.I. To the Deep State, Michel Foucault Foresaw It All

• Archaeology team unearths 'prototype' of world-famous Stonehenge monument

celebrity gossip

• Sam Altman and Elon Musk Argue over Who's Running the Bigger Scam

Obit

• Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after sudden illness

  US Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime Republican from South Carolina and ally of President Donald Trump, has died “from a brief and sudden illness,” a spokesperson for his office told CNN. Graham, 71, died shortly after returning from a visit to Ukraine – one of many he made after the Russian invasion in 2022. Emergency responders were dispatched to a DC address for Graham around 8:30 p.m. for a report of someone suffering from chest pains, according to audio of the dispatch on Broadcastify. The audio indicates someone had called in from Baltimore and was on the way to the home. The dispatcher said the caller believed the door was unlocked, though emergency responders said it was deadbolted, according to the audio. About 25 minutes later, they reported that CPR was in progress, the audio shows.

  • Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after 'brief and sudden illness'

  • Lindsey Graham has died

  • Sen. Lindsey Graham dead at 71 after 'brief and sudden' illness, office says

  • US Senator Lindsey Graham dead at 71 after unexpected illness

  • Lindsey Graham, longtime Republican senator, dies at 71

  • FBI is 'assisting' police after Lindsey Graham's death day after Ukraine trip

  US Senator Lindsey Graham's preliminary cause of death has been divulged following an investigation by the DC Medical Examiner. Per a statement issued by Graham's office just before 5:00pm EST on Sunday, 'Aortic Dissection due to Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease,' was the cause of his 'sudden' passing. 'The death certificate will be PENDING until all the toxicological and microscopic testing are finalized, and at that point the death certificate will be updated to reflect the cause of death and appropriately classify the manner of death,' Graham's spokesperson added in the statement.

  • Lindsey Graham Has Died

  • Lindsey Graham Dead at 71

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Growing list of countries move to ban social media for children

Musk

• Alphaville LLC initiates coverage of SpaceX with Buy recommendation

• Elon Musk's family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia

• Tesla claims Cybercab driving employees at Giga Texas – in a parking lot

• SpaceX built to separate retail investors from their money

Electric / Self Driving cars

• UN adopts first binding framework for automated driving systems

• Uber is lobbying to keep robotaxi rides 85% human in New Jersey

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• That Gay Cruise Turned Away by Turkey Was Denied Docking in a Second Country.

• Young women are identifying as less straight; young men, not so much

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• AI backlash hits university: laptops and phones banned for law students

• Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid

• New FIRE study finds narrowing range of political views among faculty donors

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11

• Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster

• Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media

• SK Hynix CEO: worst memory shortage in 2027, will persist beyond 2030

  • SK Hynix says that 2027 will be the "worst year" for memory, predicting that the crunch will last until 2030.

• Huawei says screw you guys, we'll build our own memory! With blackjack, and hookers!

• The Meta Glasses backlash is changing how (or if) people use them

• Netflix reportedly considering always-on channels and bundles, which is, cable

• SK Hynix CEO sees worst memory shortage in 2027, demand to outstrip supply

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• FCC Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry

• Harvard astronomer tapped to lead White House UFO council says US government ‘baffled by what they are seeing.’

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• AI rebrands fail to deliver a lasting share price boost

• A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist

• 25% long-form social media posts appear AI-generated

• OpenAI's Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company

• Oh dear, did someone steal something from Apple?

• CEO Pleads with AI Industry to Stop Charging So Much to Replace Human Labor

• The Hard-Line Activists Ramping Up for the War with AI

• Inside the secret AI war between Silicon Valley and China

• AI found a Linux root bug that was missed for 15 years

• DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say

• Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

• Big Tech piles on $350B in debt to fuel AI data center race

• AI boom puts Big Tech's transparency to the test

• 'Hysteria' Grips San Francisco's Housing Market as A.I. Wealth Pours In

• The Work of Helping A.I. Destroy Work

• OpenAI Engineer's 'LOL' Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight with Apple

  • Apple sues OpenAI and two former employees for alleged theft of trade secrets

  • Apple's "Thermonuclear" Response to OpenAI's Threat

• AI notetakers promise easy meeting recaps, but some question their use

• AI Adoption Was the Easy Part. Now Comes the Dollar-Sign Shock

• Investors sell longer-dated AI debt amid Big Tech borrowing spree

• Majority of U.S. workers support AI fund amid tech layoffs: survey

• Prince George's County Council passes 2-year moratorium on new data centers

• OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households

• Apple's failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips

• Welcome to the Era of the Forever Layoff

• The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious

• 30 years late: The hard-line activists ramping up for the war with AI

Economicon / Business / Finance

• How Aldi is taking on US supermarkets with its $4 almond butter

• Vinod Khosla to Buy Seattle Seahawks for $9.6B

• Chipmakers have 67,000 unfilled jobs. An old training trick won't work this time

• Fury erupts as US brand fires 1,600 employees after securing thousands of foreign worker visas. One lawmaker called to end the H-1B foreign worker visa program entirely to prioritize hiring American workers.

• Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy

• LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app

• Paramount weighs leaving California over Warner Bros. rift

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Small Inventors Are Being Squeezed by a Convoluted Patent Process

• Largest housing affordability bill in decades becomes law

Democrats

• AI is the Democratic Party's Next Villain

  For most of the past decade, anti-billionaire language was a niche product. Democratic emails invoked billionaires in the mid-single digits through 2017 and 2018, spiked briefly to around 14 percent during the Warren and Sanders primary surge in 2019, and then settled back down—through the entire Biden presidency, the billionaire appeared in roughly one of every twenty to twenty-five Democratic fundraising emails, barely more than in Republican ones. Then came January 2025. In the weeks after an inauguration that seated tech CEOs in the front row and the dizzying drama of Elon Musk’s ill-fated DOGE experiment, billionaire mentions in Democratic emails quadrupled, peaking above 20 percent of all emails sent and holding around 15 percent ever since. Anti-billionaire fundraising tactics are now a mainstay of Democratic messaging.

Left Angst

• Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices

• How Marco Rubio Is Running Venezuela from Afar

• Creator Sues for First Amendment Rights After Being Blocked from JD Vance Event

• The Trump administration Shakes Up Federal Grantmaking

World

• Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family

• Big Tech to face fines for consumer protection failures, says EU official

• Taliban Declares War on Smartphones

• What if Berlin needs its bunkers back?

Iran / Houthi

• US insists Strait of Hormuz is open as it exchanges strikes with Iran

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin Turned Japan into a Den of Spies

• BMW Warns of Unauthorized Production of 'Pirated' Cars in Russia

• Ukraine accuses Russia of creating conditions for the spread of anthrax

• How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State

• A top Russian oligarch breaks the silence

China

• China unveils high-power microwave weapon arsenal with up to 100 gigawatts

• China builds full-scale US warship replica in desert

• Why Ballads Still Dominate Chinese Pop Music

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Survival guide: Key advice for what to do if you find yourself in a wildfire

• Bear enters mall on Alaska military base, poops on floor

• Most European strawberries contain 'forever chemical' pesticides, study finds

• Britain's biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears

• UK has 'no future' if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse