2026-04-11

Horseshit

• FIFA World Cup's best shirts are 30 years old

• Untaxed hidden wealth surpasses wealth of the poorest half of humanity

• Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time

• Mayflower hero was sold into slavery, hidden files reveal

• Detox may erase 10 years of social media brain damage, researchers say

• A name is succession, legacy and celebration in Japan's Kabuki theater

• 'Survivor' Style Corporate Retreat Descends into Hellish Nightmare

• The growth metric Silicon Valley loves most is also its least trusted

• Ozempic for Chickens

  In humans, these drugs help people eat less, but in broiler breeders, the goal would be to make birds feel satisfied with the restricted rations they already receive.

• The AI bubble isn't new – Marx explained the mechanisms behind it 150 years ago

• How the CIA Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War

celebrity gossip

• Harrison Ford Is "Terribly Concerned" About Future of Moviegoing

• Bryson DeChambeau is using a 3D printed 5-iron at The Masters

• Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

  • Suspect Arrested for Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman's Home

  • Suspect arrested after incendiary device thrown at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home

  • Molotov cocktail attack at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home

  • Molotov cocktail thrown at home of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman

  • San Francisco man arrested after allegedly hurling Molotov cocktail at OpenAI boss Sam Altman’s mansion

  • Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• How Censorship Seized America

  In Joe Biden’s presidency, two great forces pushed the information state to the limits of its power. The first came from the administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The second came from its decision to use the arsenal of counterinsurgency against American citizens accused of domestic extremism. Both relied on the vast public-private apparatus of censorship and surveillance, originally built to combat foreign disinformation, to wage political battles at home. The pandemic dumped jet fuel into the growing counter-disinformation machine while extending its controls into the physical world. That brought the information state into people’s everyday lives. This was something different from the drama of false allegations about Donald Trump’s collusion with Russia that plagued the Trump presidency. Though Russiagate dominated the news cycle, it was essentially a political crime against abstractions like the “rule of law” and the “democratic process.” Normal people who did not devote their time to scrolling newsfeeds could mostly choose to ignore the sordid Trump-Russia drama. Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates removed the “normie” exemption.

Musk

• xAI sues Colorado over first state AI anti-discrimination law

• Indian Government seeks X Community Notes oversight with IT Rules tweaks

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• Why are Philadelphians attacking Uber Eats delivery robots

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• 2SLGBTQQIA+ Sub-Working Group MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan Final Report

  • Inclusive of Attack Helicopter Oriented Persons presumably

  • MMIWG2S+ programs at risk of losing federal funding, say Indigenous women's organizations

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• States Are Learning the Wrong Lesson from the 'Mississippi Miracle'

• Pauls Valley community celebrates principal who was injured while stopping gunman in school shooting

  The Pauls Valley community is celebrating Principal Kirk Moore, who tackled a gunman at the high school on Tuesday. The gunman in a shooting at Pauls Valley High School has been identified as 20-year-old Victor Hawkins, a former student, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations. OSBI said Hawkins was taken into the Garvin County Jail on two counts of Pointing a Firearm, one count of Shooting with Intent to Kill, and two counts of Unlawful Carry.

• Is Schoolwork Optional Now?

• Google engineer rejected by 16 colleges uses AI to sue schools for racial bias

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• iPhone Fold is 'on track' to launch this September, per Mark Gurman

• 'Project Hail Mary' Directors Announce In-Theater Director Commentary Track

• $190M Settlement in Facebook User-Privacy Case Wins Approval in Delaware Court

• Negative views of Broadcom are driving thousands of customers to abandon VMWare for literally anything else.

• FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages

• Amazon ending support for older Kindles

  • Amazon to end support for older Kindles

• Framework founder says that 'personal computing as we know it is dead'

  • Framework Computer to Announce Their Next-Gen Hardware Later This Month

• "Memflation": Cheaper RAM not expected until 2028, says Gartner

• Meta must face youth addiction lawsuit by Massachusetts, court rules

• YouTube Premium's US pricing is going up

• Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord

• HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X

• Meta pulls ads aimed at recruiting plaintiffs for social media lawsuits

• Two Japanese suppliers commit to keeping Blu-ray discs and drives in supply

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA's Dragonfly mission will send a nuclear-powered flying drone to Titan

• What to expect from the fiery, 14-minute return of Artemis II

  • NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts prepare for splashdown today

  • Coming Home May Be the Most Dangerous Part of Artemis II

  • Artemis II heat shield has problems

• Artemis II safely splashes down

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Gen Z workers are intentionally sabotaging their company's AI rollout

• Claude Mythos Is Everyone's Problem

  • Treasury Secretary and Fed Chair Convene Bank CEOs about Mythos Model Risks

  • Anthropic Model Scare Sparks Urgent Bessent, Powell Warning to Bank CEOs

  • US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model

  • Powell, Bessent discussed Mythos cyber threat with major U.S. banks

  • Reasons to think that the Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown

  • Anthropic has just built an AI that could take down the internet

• Federal Court Denies Anthropic's Motion to Lift 'Supply Chain Risk' Label

  • Anthropic loses appeals court bid to temporarily block DoD ruling

  • Trump-appointed judges refuse to block Trump blacklisting of Anthropic AI tech

• How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews?

• OpenAI backs bill to exempt AI firms from harm lawsuits

• Google's AI Overviews spew false answers per hour, bombshell study reveals

• Black Forest Labs – The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley

• One of the biggest game makers reveals 'uncomfortable truth' about AI

• Folk musician Murphy Campbell targeted by AI fakes and copyright trolls

• AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry

• The Chilling Role of ChatGPT in Mass Shootings and Other Violence

• Most Americans are using AI but are sick and tired of hearing about it: survey

• OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths

• Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?

• Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on "vibe coding"

• Florida AG launches investigation into OpenAI

• 60% of Companies Plan to Lay Off Employees Who Won't Adopt AI

• Wisconsin city passes nation's first anti-data center referendum

• What to Know About OpenAI's Ideas for a World with 'Superintelligence'

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• White House Warns Staff Not to Place Bets on Prediction Markets Amid Iran War

  • White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Apple to shutter its first unionized US store in Maryland

• TSMC posts 35% jump in revenue to new record high as AI chip demand stays strong

• US inflation surges to 3.3% as Iran war fuels energy price shock

  • March inflation soars, confirming Iran war price shock

  • Consumer sentiment plummets to record low as Iran war jacks up inflation

• Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FinCEN Proposes Rule to Reform Programs Designed to Fight Illicit Finance

• Forever Stamp Prices to Rise 5% This Summer, From 78 cents to 82 cents

• USPS suspends contributions to employee pensions after warning of ‘cash crisis.’

  The USPS contributes about $400 million a month to its employee pension plan, the agency said in a statement on Thursday. The postal service said it will continue to send worker contributions to the retirement plan and will also transmit employer automatic and matching contributions, as well as employee contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan, another retirement program for federal workers.

  • I see no clear explanation of what actually is being halted.

• To Fill Air Traffic Controller Shortage, FAA Turns to Gamers

• DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public

• California officials charge 21 people in hospice fraud ring exceeding $250M

• DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Accord

Democrats

• Abigail Spanberger Brags About Bringing Jobs To Virginia — There’s Just One Problem

  The governor took a victory lap Monday for a package of four bipartisan bills she signed that day, with both an X post from her government account and a press release from her office claiming the legislation brought about 3,250 new jobs and $7.1 billion in investment to her state. Reporter Nick Minock of Washington-based ABC affiliate WJLA, however, noted in a Wednesday morning X post that the four companies specifically mentioned in the release all announced they would be investing in Virginia during former Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s tenure.

• Spanberger raises Virginia’s minimum wage to $15.

Left Angst

• The End of the American Empire

• Negative views of Israel continue to rise among Americans

• US has let in 4,499 refugees since October – all but three were South African.

• Feds Try Secret Grand Jury to Unmask Reddit ICE Critic

  • US Government trying to unmask ICE critical redditor

• Trump's Economy: You're Either an Insider or a Chump

• Trump's Changes Lock Some Employers Out of H-1B Visa Program

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest

• Video appears to show California Kimberly-Clark warehouse fire suspect starting blaze, saying: "Should have paid us more"

  • Charges filed after fire destroys Kimberly-Clark toilet paper warehouse

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US plans to automatically register young men for military draft

• Scientists question CIA "Ghost Murmur" long-range heartbeat detection

• Iranian hackers are targeting US energy and water sectors, federal agencies warn

World

• France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

• South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

• AI camera scanning cars issue 500k unjustified fines/year in the Nederlands

• Sadiq Khan demands stronger action on social media 'outrage economy'

• Austria becomes latest to propose social media ban for children

• India proposes new rules to regulate news and political posts on social media

• Greece moves to protect minors from social media with new ban for kids under 15

• EU Big Tech fines top $7B in 2 years

• Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers

• British police raid house after occupant tweeted “Keir Starmer had nothing to do with the Iran ceasefire”.

• Japan to ban gene-edited embryos aimed at creating "designer babies"

• Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members

• SAP and Telekom develop central citizen app for Germany

• France Starts Plan to Replace Windows with Linux on Government Desktops

  • France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

• Man jailed for killing abused wife who jumped from bridge

• Mexico is moving toward universal healthcare by 2027

Iran / Houthi

• EU airline industry warns of fuel shortages if Strait of Hormuz stays closed

• Iran Unable to Find Mines in Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Says

Israel

• Israel Government approves record 34 new West Bank settlements

China

• World's Longest Outdoor Escalator – 3k-Feet-Long – Opens in China

• What China Just Learned from the Iran War

• Alibaba shifts towards revenue over open-source AI

Health / Medicine

• Scientists Are Finally Unlocking a Cancer Treatment's Full Potential

• Negative effects of artificial sweeteners may pass on to next generation

• Mysterious Seafood Virus May Be Behind Emerging Eye Disease, Scientists Warn

• Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Chimpanzees' bloody 'civil war' may offer insight into human conflict

  • Civil war among wild chimpanzees

  • Wild chimpanzees waging 'civil war' with coordinated attacks between groups

  • The Deadly Civil War That Tore Apart a Group of Chimpanzees in Uganda

  • Two hundred chimpanzees are embroiled in a 'civil war'

  • Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers

  • Largest Group of Chimps Waging Deadly 'Civil War,' Scientists Discover

• One of Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes Is Quietly Refilling With Magma.

• Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia

• Seal sleeping on road causes Mornington Peninsula traffic delays

• States are struggling to meet their clean energy goals Data centers are to blame

• In 2004, the BBC warned the Maldives were "soon to be uninhabitable"

  Instead of disappearing under the waves, this so-called "paradise in peril" has shown no statistically significant sea level rise since the 1980s, according to satellite data.

• The Global Wildlife Trade Is Fueling the Spread of Viruses

• Proto-mammals laid eggs, paleontologists confirm

• How the AI boom derailed clean‑air efforts in one of the most polluted US cities