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• Building collapses in Brooklyn with 8 people dead so far

• Tanker collides with cruise ship in New Orleans

• Read the Aubrey-Maturin series. Before it’s too late.

  So why read them now? Because if you like them, you’ll want to read them again. And then listen to the audiobooks. And then read them again. That takes time. Time you might not have. Between runaway AI, nuclear war, bioengineered pandemics, or simple cardiovascular disease, you could be dead before you know it.

Horseshit

• How the physics and chemistry of glassblowing work

• Intelligent women get less help at work, study finds

• When Animals Were Put on Trial in Medieval Europe

• Ancient Egyptians revered dogs–can this street dog return to that former glory?

• The sinister power of Friday 13th: how this maligned date affects our lives

• One Man's Quest to Create the Perfect Whiskey Glass

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• When Belonging Means Believing, Even Preschoolers Resist Changing Their Minds

Musk

• Elon Musk says it will be an honor to hire Jensen Huang

• SpaceX Starship Flight 15 double catch has failed

• Tesla Opens Cybercab Orders to 'Select Customers' at $29,990 Plus $299 per Month

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Waymo robotaxis kept illegally passing school buses after software fix, feds say

• Europe's electric car sales jump 49% as global EV sales grow

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Researchers detail over 1,500 verified cases of children with past-life memories

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Study Hard, Get a Career, Get Ahead? It's Not What It Used to Be

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• There were 47 graphics chip makers in 1998. Where did they all go?

  Just two years later, at the turn of the new millennium, only 15 remained, and not long after that, there were merely two: Nvidia and ATI, nowadays part of AMD. In the four years between 1998 and 2002, the graphics business essentially stopped rewarding whoever had the fastest chip, instead favouring the companies that could iterate the fastest. A new chip every six months or so for the same APIs everyone used, backed by enough capital to ride out the dot-com crash. Nvidia was built for that; almost nobody else was.

  • Microsoft "Direct3d" vs OpenGL had something to do with it too

• Google Search's Foundational PageRank Patent Has Expired

• Nintendo to End 'Sign in with Apple' Support in January

• Microsoft says attempts to fix global outage not going 'as expected'

  • How the Microsoft outage has been felt around the world

  • Microsoft says outage not tied to A.I. or hacker

  • Microsoft outage 'stark reminder' of how much we rely on tech

• Software Samaritan revamps borked Indian certs to block smart TV ads

• Copyright-Strike-for-Hire: Lawsuit Targets Service over Fake Meta Takedowns

• The 42-Year Journey to Bring 'Neuromancer' to the Screen

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• US university students tell surveillance cameras to Flock off

• A dumb copyright law makes it illegal to remove the spyware from your own TV

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Reverse engineering a vintage diode-transistor logic chip

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Where alien life might be hiding

• Voyager 1 will reach one light-day on Wed Nov 18 2026 at 10:16:07 UTC

• NASA veteran's propellantless drive claim awaits independent verification

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Trump had urged Nvidia’s Jensen Huang to fight for his job

  • Is It a 'Honeypot' or a 'Honeytrap'?

  • Jensen Huang's Downfall Is a Sign of Silicon Valley's Power Drain

  • Huang's fall is an indictment of founder mode at Big Tech

  • Jensen Huang expected to testify before Congress

  • The Jensen Huang Scandal Should Change Everything

  • Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang

  • Is there clear and convincing evidence that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy?

  • US Intel isn't sure if businesswoman spied on Nvidia for China

  • US Justice Department has not concluded Alice Huang was Chinese spy

  • I Wrote Jensen Huang's Biography. Here's What Led to His Downfall

  • Before His Ouster, Jensen Huang Belittled the Executive Replacing Him

  • Businessman Introduced Jensen Huang to His Paramour. It Was Her Husband

  • 'I'm a piece of sh–': Jensen Huang's last hours as Nvidia CEO

  • The Scandal Is Bigger Than Jensen Huang

  • Jensen Huang Admitted He Was Facing an "Avalanche" of Excess Wafers and Memory

  • OK who just made $200M shorting Nvidia ahead of Jensxit?

  • The Jensen Huang Scandal Should Change Everything

  • Blanche Says DOJ Has Not Confirmed If Ex-Nvidia CEO’s Affair Partner Was a Spy

  • Nvidia Employees Petition for Jensen Huang's Return

  • Jensen Huang Resigns After Having Another Affair in Addition to the Chinese Spy

  • Arm boss Rene Haas approached in Nvidia CEO search

  • Jensen Huang's Resignation from Nvidia Worries the A.I. Startup World

  • Most affairs don't matter much. Nvidia Jensen's blunder will rock the world

  • David Sacks Is Fucked Too

  • Nvidia's Huang turns to Paul Weiss, law firm that inked deal with Trump

  • Jensen Huang Hired a PR Firm Known for Handling Sex Scandals Last Year

  • Jensen Huang commemorative plaque gone from the Denny's where he founded Nvidia

  • The Denny's where Nvidia was born has removed the sign honoring the company

  • Ex-Nvidia CEO misled top lawyer on affair with Chinese businesswoman

• How Anthropic stacks up against some of the biggest US IPOs

  • Anthropic refusing to take money from Chinese Firms in IPO

• No, AI agents did not discover a previously unknown Maya site

• AI has proved that a theory underpinning fundamental physics is trustworthy

• AI Is Destroying the Trust Between Writers and Readers

• The unlikely seaside town on frontline of AI threat

• Anthropic,OpenAI sued for allegedly infringing inventors' neural network patents

• AI agents bring down wind farm within two hours

• Australia considers criminal charges for AI companies that fail to prevent harm

• OpenAI Joins Groundswell of Support for AI Chip Control Measures

• Anthropic Says Its AI Model Cut AMD Chip Switch to Three Days

• AI agents have a big problem: Nobody wants to let them in

• Amodei Says AI Will Cure Cancer in a Decade. Doctors Are Skeptical

  • Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous medical claims

• FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across US airspace

• Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? Here are some theories

• AI Doesn't Have to Go Rogue to Break the World

• OpenAI disbands its robotics team as its general models start running robots

• Advocacy groups sue AI giants to freeze new models, warning 'catastrophic' risks

• Why OpenAI Hired Chuck Schumer's Daughter Away from Amazon

• AI unlocks Gödel's notebooks, said to contain hundreds of proved theorems

• Anthropic sued for trademark infringement over 'Mythos' model

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• FBI says US has seized $1.2B worth of cryptocurrency stolen from Binance

• 24 year old wins $800K, Caesars refuses to pay

• North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypto hack, says FBI

Economicon / Business / Finance

• New York City Council Approves Landmark Legislation Banning Surveillance Pricing

• The average cost for a new vehicle in the U.S. hits a record high: over $51,000

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Permitting Overhaul Can't Come Fast Enough

• FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to extraordinary circumstances' and safety

  All flights in the United States are grounded until further notice, “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety,” the Federal Aviation Administration said. The reason for the ground stop was not immediately clear, but an FAA spokesperson said there is a communications problem impacting Air Route Traffic Control Centers, which handle flights going across the country. The last time there was a nationwide ground stop was in January 2023, when a pilot notification system went down. Prior to that, the last nationwide ground stop was issued after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

  • FAA Declares a Rare Nationwide Ground Stop

  • FAA Says All Airports Are Ground Stopped Until Further Notice

  • Nationwide ground stop until further notice due to FAA equipment outage

  FAA has ordered an immediate, nationwide ground stop across all United States airports following a widespread equipment outage affecting nearly all air traffic control facilities.

  • FAA imposes nationwide ground stop on all flights

  • FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances"

  • FAA issues nationwide ground stop

  • Ground stop ordered for all airports nationwide for 'reasons of safety'

  • Flights halted at airports across US due to air traffic control comms problems

• Hawaii DOT: All West Coast flights halted by SpaceX debris after FAA ground stop

• Amtrak booking system experiencing major issues amid nationwide FAA ground stop

• US National Weather Service reports nationwide internet, communications issues

Trump

• Bessent points to Lutnick's Commerce as he slams Nvidia chip 'leakage' to China

  • Trump 'considering sacking Lutnick' in wake of Nvidia scandal

  • Howard Lutnick Has Got to Go

Left Angst

• For Silicon Valley leaders, cozying up to the Trump administration was a mistake

• The White House is apparently a popular residential proxy exit spot

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Israeli spy chief in D.C. as Netanyahu presses Trump to resume war

• US Air Force says it responded to 'suspected drones' over RAF Lakenheath

World

• South Africans are giving up on Nelson Mandela's party. Good

• Will the Eurovision Song Contest Succeed in Asia?

• EU leaders seek to tackle challenges at first ever AI summit

• People Vote for Anti-Immigration Parties Because They Don't Like Immigration

• Diplomatic sources: ‘The Netherlands is negotiating the dismantling of the International Criminal Court’ - The Rights Forum

• Norway top court rules oil licences invalid in landmark ruling

• Mercedes-Benz to halt 'all future investments' in Germany

• Police find teenager alive six days after he disappeared in Gippsland bush

• How US tech pain is European stock markets' gain

• Quantum Systems drones grounded by German military after cyber attack

• Britain eyes welfare cuts to tackle surge in youth unemployment

• Commission takes new steps to prepare Europeans for growing crisis risks

• First person killed by a steam train in UK in 58 years

Israel

• Time for a harsh truth: even with Netanyahu gone, the killing won't stop in Gaza

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia loses almost half a million lives in war on Ukraine

• Russia strikes hospital in central Kyiv after SpaceX system falters again

China

• China now burns more coal than the rest of the world combined

• China stages unannounced Pacific drills in 'silent intimidation' of Taiwan

• China builds 800-megawatt off grid data center

• The Chinese city powering the country's AI ambitions with data farms

Health / Medicine

• Air purifier could stop you getting diabetes, study finds

• GP's are now 'prescribing' time in nature. Is it likely to improve your health?

• The Miracle Cure: In 1977, a drug rejected by doctors became a sensation

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• World is now in 'age of electricity', energy agency chief says

• This Magic Mushroom Can Kill

• Rattlesnakes have personalities too, to venomous effect

• Scientists Discover First New Penguin Species in More Than 100 Years

• Who needs sex? Kelp reproduce asexually when no mate is nearby