2026-03-28

Horseshit

• Archaeologists may have found the grave of the legendary "fourth musketeer"

• Google warns quantum computers could hack encrypted systems by 2029

• The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire

• 600-year-old grape seed used to make pinot noir wine found in medieval toilet

• Here's why some people choose cryonics to store their bodies and brains after death

• Nantucket diner sells fifth million-dollar lottery prize in the last 2 years

• Football 'has eaten almost every sport' due to digital dominance

• Is the universe swarming with tiny black holes?

• Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

  • "My book was political polemic! It wasn't supposed to inspire people to attempt to better the lot of humanity!"

• See also "light sails": Space mirrors: solution to our energy problems, or ridiculous stunt?

  • And if they can be focused, which of us ants gets to control the magnifying glass? No orbital power system yet proposed addresses the questions of weapons potential raised.

• A Phone-Free Childhood? One Irish Village Is Making It Happen

• Will the Miracle of Capitalism Destroy Us All?

• There's a Good Reason You Can't Concentrate

• The sun and thousands of its twins migrated across the Milky Way just in time

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Cognitive manipulation and AI will shape disinformation in 2026

Musk

• Elon Musk's lawyer accuses jury of bias, points to $4.20 reference in damages

• Elon Musk's Boring Co. tunnels aren't wanted by most Nashville residents

• Musk has a plan to make human labor obsolete. Billionaires are joining in

• The SpaceX IPO Will Be Just as Unconventional as Musk Himself

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Who's driving Waymo's self-driving cars? Sometimes, the police

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• 30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling

• Delivery robots keep crashing into bus shelters

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• YouGov withdraws survey showing rising church attendance in England and Wales

• International Olympic Committee announces new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport.

  Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females, determined on the basis of a one‑time SRY gene screening.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference

  a petition to move the event elsewhere is circulating among mathematicians. It cites the recent American military actions in Venezuela and Iran, the suspension of visas from 75 countries and the continued presence of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across major U.S. cities as contrary to the ICM’s goal of fostering “a sense of international unity amongst mathematicians.” As of this writing, more than 1,500 mathematicians have signed the petition, which states that they plan to boycott the event if it isn’t moved outside the U.S. The list of signatories includes many of the field’s most prominent names, more than 50 of whom have spoken at previous congresses.

• San Francisco Reinstates 8th-Grade Algebra After ‘Equity’ Experiment Fails.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Ordinary Americans Take on Mark Zuckerberg and Big Tech in Jury Trials

  • Jury finds Meta, YouTube liable for social media addiction: What we know

  • In wake of US social media verdicts, what limits other countries have imposed

• Texas DPS finds Flock surveillance violated state law operating without license

• I was paid to write fake Google reviews – then my 'bosses' tried to scam me

• People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account

• Sony is raising PS5 prices by $100 in April

• Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop

• Spotify seeks $300M from Anna's Archive, which ignores all court proceedings

• Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent

• The SEO parasites buying, exploiting and ultimately killing online newsbrands

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA races to have the first moon base and nuclear-propulsion spacecraft

• Astronomers Say Recent Rash of Meteor Sightings 'Warrants Serious Investigation'

  • What if DART wasn't just poking a single rock, but pulling the string of a large web?

• NASA spots comet reversing its spin in a first for science

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Anthropic wins preliminary injunction in DoD fight on 1A

• OpenAI "indefinitely" shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT

• AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

• GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

• Anthropic left details of an unreleased model sitting in an unsecured data trove

• 'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans

• AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds

• Claude AI Maker Anthropic Considers IPO as Soon as October

• If you are a published author you may be entitled to compensation

• Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence

• Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage demand during peak hours

• More Students Use AI for Homework, and More Believe It Harms Critical Thinking

• AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring

• Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

• Silicon Valley's two biggest dramas have intersected: LiteLLM and Delve

• The 'AI slop' backlash kills Sora

• AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C

• 'Using AI to manipulate the truth is not on'

• The New Billionaires of the A.I. Boom

• OpenAI's US ad pilot exceeds $100M in annualized revenue in six weeks

• Major outgoing CEOs are citing AI as a factor in their decisions to step down

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Israeli Air Force major charged with using classified info to place bets on Polymarket | The Times of Israel

• Mastercard agrees to buy stablecoin platform BVNK for up to $1.8B

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008 as AI Takes Two Bites

• US Diesel prices surpass $5.38

• US sends subpoenas in Warner-Paramount antitrust review as probe picks up steam

• Memory chip stocks shed $100B as AI-driven shortage trade unwinds

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• House GOP leaders punt controversial FISA vote to April

• Arizona bill would require voter approval of government surveillance

• Trump Said Congestion Pricing Would Make Manhattan a 'Ghost Town.' He Was Wrong

• CA bill to require influencers to delete social media content from minors

• Social Security Should Be a Forced Savings Program Not a Welfare Program

Trump

• US Treasury plans to put Trump's signature on new paper currency

  • Trump signature to appear on US currency, ending 165-year tradition

  • Trump's signature will appear on US dollars

• The Mueller Special Counsel's "Investigation" of Gen. Flynn Was Its Most Egregious Abuse of Prosecutorial Authority.

  The Obama Admin. Intelligence Community knew Gen. Flynn would expose the duplicity of Crossfire Hurricane -- silencing him was paramount and the Mueller SCO obliged.

Democrats

• Secret Service agent shoots himself in leg while escorting Jill Biden at PHL, sources say

  An on-duty Secret Service agent accidentally shot himself in the leg while escorting former first lady Jill Biden at Philadelphia International Airport, sources say.

  • Secret Service agent on Jill Biden detail shoots self in the leg, official says.

• California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes

Left Angst

• Top climate scientist Kate Marvel explains why she resigned from NASA

• What the CIA's "Queen of Torture" did next

  For both business and personal reasons, it makes perfect sense for Bikowsky, now 61, to no longer use her birth name. That name and various other pseudonyms she has been known by over the years – Frances (her middle name), deputy chief of Alec Station, or as she was referred to in the New Yorker, the “Unidentified Queen of Torture” – carry some weight. As the former deputy and head of Alec Station – a specialised CIA unit that was dedicated to tracking Osama bin Laden and his associates between 1996 and 2005 – and later the global jihad unit, Bikowsky has been widely reported to have been among the senior officials associated with the development, implementation and defence of what the CIA described as “enhanced interrogation techniques”. This was a programme of systematic torture of detainees by the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and components of the US Armed Forces at remote sites around the world, authorised by the George W Bush administration. While waterboarding remains the most recognised element of the programme, the ferocity of the torture far exceeded that single technique.

• ICE Agents Frustrate Airport Workers as Shutdown Drags On

• How Can America Be So Miserable When It's So Rich?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Iran-linked hackers claim breach of FBI director's personal email

  • Handala Hack of Current FBI Director Kash Patel's Personal Account

  • FBI director Kash Patel's personal email breached by Iran-linked hackers

  • Iran-linked hackers have breached FBI director's personal emails

  • DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Why New F-35 Lightning II Stealth Fighters Are Arriving Without Radars

• A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: AI and drones may shift basis of power

• Data Is Now the Front Line of Warfare

• Pentagon considers diverting Ukraine military aid to the Middle East

• US deploys uncrewed drone boats in conflict with Iran

• Trump Weighs Sending Another 10k Ground Troops to the Middle East

• Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base was targeted by 'multiple waves' of drones

• US ambassador calls Starmer's EU reset 'a problem' for Washington

• US warns EU to pass trade deal or risk losing 'favourable' access to LNG

• Can the US get MacDill bomb suspect extradited from China?

• Drone Warfare Has Come to the United States

World

• European Parliament delays implementation of parts of the EU AI Act

• Just Eat and Autotrader among firms investigated in fake reviews probe

  are among five firms being investigated as part of a probe into fake and misleading online reviews by the UK's competition watchdog.

• Austria agrees plan to ban social media for children under 14

  • Austria plans to ban social media use for under-14s, joining other countries

• Meta's Ray-Ban Display Glasses Faces Hold Up in Europe over Removeable Battery

• European country to give free electricity instead of switching off wind turbines

• A SECOND Sphinx detected in Egypt as scans hint at 'underground megastructure'

• Spanish woman who died through euthanasia failed by state, say critics

• Canada loaning millions to rare earth project linked to Trump White House

Iran / Houthi

• Far from home, migrant workers in the Gulf are trapped by war

• Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis?

• A look at the giant Iranian missile hulls scattered across Israel

Israel

• Gaza toddler released from Israeli custody with suspected torture wounds

• 'No innocent children in Jenin', says Israeli MP after family killed

China

• AI glasses are catching on in China, from shopping to cheating

• China's SMIC supplying chipmaking tech to Iran's military

• The Speed of China's Scientific Rise

Health / Medicine

• The surprising science behind red-light therapy – and how it works

• Why the Minnesota Starvation Experiment Doesn't Generalize to Modern Dieting

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Suddenly energy independence feels practical:Europeans building mini solar farms

• From shine to decline: Degradation of over 1M solar PV systems in Germany

• Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers

  • Scientists watch sperm whales work as a team to assist a birth

• One Way or Another, Most of Our Electricity Comes from Solar Power

• Japan's giant caldera volcano is refilling 7,300 years later

• Rising Air-Conditioning Use Intensifies Global Warming

• Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces nitrogen availability in boreal forests

• Giant armadillo, Mastodon, and sloth fossils found in flooded Texas cave