2026-07-15

Horseshit

• Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on AI and Nuclear War

• Watching Nature Videos Can Help Relieve Stress, Study Finds

• Notes Toward a New Romanticism: Or why it's 1800 all over again

• There's an Ancient Solution to Our Modern Crisis of Attention

• Cat Is Being Nice? Think Again

• Don't change lanes – the maths of holiday traffic jams

• Red cards have more than tripled since the last World Cup, data show

• Mathematics formula found on Maya wall rivals insights of ancient masters

• Can humans hibernate their way to Mars?

• Argentina court recognizes two goldfish as sentient beings with rights

• Sale of multimillion-dollar T rex skeleton is big headache for scientists

  • The Most Expensive Dinosaur Just Sold for $50.1M

• The Food Truck Mafia Wreaking Havoc Around the National Mall

• Popular dog food recalled nationwide may contain sharp metal fragments

  The recalled products are 13.2-ounce cans of Pedigree Can High Protein Chopped Chicken & Duck Flavor from lot codes 613C3KKCFC and 613C1KKCFC.

• Wife of man nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane speaks of ordeal

• "Piss Christ" Became a Culture-War Bomb

• How Are "Disconnected" Young Adults Spending Their Time?

Epstein

• Buffett drops Gates Foundation from his annual donations

  • Buffett omits gift to Gates' foundation after Epstein ties disclosed

  • Billionaire Warren Buffett stops donations to Bill Gates charity

  • Buffett omits gift to Bill Gates' foundation after his Epstein ties disclosed

celebrity gossip

• Hunter Biden, Nick Fuentes Interview Nearly Turns Physical, Report Says

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• It’s all about the nonlinearity: An interesting statistical example of flaws in a voter impact index

  • What was the number supposed to do? It isn't a "measure" of anything, its propaganda.

Musk

• FAA clears SpaceX to launch Starshp/Superheavy; 13th test flight set for July 16th.

  • SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week

  • SpaceX targets July 16 for Starship Flight 13, reveals what went wrong on previous launch.

• Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself

• Pollution from Musk's unpermitted xAI power project hits in Black communities

  • Musk's Colossus 2 data center installed 59 gas turbines without permission

• Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending repos to the cloud

Electric / Self Driving cars

• EV battery recycling has a math problem

• Uber's robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Egypt and Turkey deny LGBTQ+ cruise access to port over immorality

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• 2026 Fields Medal List Accidentally Leaked

  • Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router

  • Improve Router Hygiene to Protect Against Russian State-Sponsored Targeting

• Apple's iPhone Ultra will be double the price of the iPhone 17 Pro Max

• TV Time is getting shut down. It's founder is building its replacement

• Meta Is Flooding the Market with Smartglasses. Privacy Advocates Are Up in Arms

  • Meta Smart Glasses Owners Too Scared to Wear Them in Public

• 55% of Americans have stopped regular use of social media.

• Global smartphone shipments in Q2 hit lowest in 13 years on memory chip crunch

• U.S. Treasury sanctions on a VPN service knocked out Telegram's shortlink domain

• StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal

• FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Astronomers Found a Swarm of Space Junk Threatening Earth's Most Valuable Orbit

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Data-Center Builders Are Racing to Offload Stakes Worth Billions

• Satya Nadella has issued a warning to companies using AI

• Microsoft commits $2.5B, 6k employees AI implementation unit

• OpenAl Is Showing Kalshi's World Cup Odds in ChatGPT

• Trump admin and industry groups discuss streamlining releases of US open models

• What Anthropic's latest AI discovery does–and doesn't–show

• Weakening copyright to benefit AI would betray Australian Labor party's ethos

  • Copyright law is now the biggest battleground in Australia's AI boom

• Meta's AI advertising dreams have become a nightmare for brands

• OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast by 90%, Analyst Says

• Everybody Should Welcome Nationalizing AI

• AI Isn't Human. Stop Talking About It Like It Is

• Georgia family says they're forced to sell home to power AI data centers

• Meta is expanding its planned Hyperion AI supercluster in Louisiana to 5GW of capacity at a cost of $50 billion.

• Hundreds of economists say we must act now to avert disruption from AI.

• Google's Hassabis calls for new US-led global AI watchdog "before year end"

  • Google's Demis Hassabis says it's time for a global AI watchdog led by the US

• At CERN, AI will drive future discoveries

• The US-China AI arms race has taken an unexpected turn

• New York to enact nation's first statewide data center moratorium

  • New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium

  • New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry

• Job Hunters Are Using AI to Cheat in Interviews, and Failing at the Office

• Apple lawsuit reveals how many of its former employees now work at OpenAI

• Anthropic commits $10M to Canadian AI research

• U of Chicago law school bans laptops from classes amid AI backlash

• Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets

• SoftBank's Masayoshi Son ridicules AI critics for 'spitting upwards'

• AI lawsuits expose gaps in conventional insurance, says report

• Linux Foundation's Latest Foray Is to Standardize Payments for AI Agents

• OpenAI's First Device Will Be Moveable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion

• DeepSeek Is Preparing for IPO Filing as Soon as This Year

• The guys you call when AI breaks your brain

• The Campaign to Kill American AI Runs Through San Francisco

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Therapists see more young patients with gambling problems. They blame Kalshi

• Kalshi Has Been Temporarily Banned in Nevada

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Why Smucker's $5B Bet on the Twinkie Flopped

• DOJ opens probe into allegations against United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain

• Can a Dozen Blue States Block the Paramount-Warner Merger?

• Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work

• How $9.99 Became the Most Compelling Price in Retail

• Altera returns to growth as AI, robotics fuel demand, CEO says

• IBM Stock has worst day

  • IBM shares plunge 23% as customers shift spending to AI

  • IBM shares down 23% as clients spend more on hardware and memory chips

  • IBM warns AI boom is squeezing software budgets; shares sink in sector rout

  • IBM sends 'shockwave' through tech industry with AI warning

• Apple Stock Surges to Record Highs as Traders Cheer Outsourced AI Strategy

• Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh pledges Fed policy regime change to rid inflation tax

• S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB – only one notch above junk level

• US fossil fuel power spending to beat China for the first time in decades

• Samsung Is Said in Early Discussions on Potential US Share Sale

• Lucid rejects take-private, bankruptcy report after shares plunge

• Businesses ask Senate to kill a plan to limit stock buybacks and dividends

• US burrito giant Chipotle opening first outlet in Mexico.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• South Carolina’s Governor Appoints Lindsey Graham’s Sister to Fill His Senate Seat.

• Congressional Ratification of President Trump’s Corporatism

  Given how many Republicans have been critical of the rise of an openly socialist wing of the Democratic party, it would be reasonable to expect congressional Republicans to push back against President Trump’s use of taxpayer funds to take ownership interests in private companies. However, not only are most Republicans not speaking out against this policy, but Senate Republicans have included a provision in the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizing this policy.

• House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

  • House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent

  • US Congress takes next step to make daylight saving time permanent

Trump

• Why We're Dismantling the International Criminal Court

  • Rubio announces campaign to 'dismantle' International Criminal Court

• Trump informs Congress of renewed Iran strikes, starting 60-day clock

  After the president notifies Congress, the U.S. military can be in the region for 60 days and the commander-in-chief can extend their stay for another 30 days, under the War Powers Act. But deployment that exceeds that timeframe requires congressional approval.

Left Angst

• America's Other Elections Problem

  No other rich democracy hands as many decisions directly to its voters

• Negative news about alleged rapist Graham Platner was suppressed by Big Tech, shocking study finds

  Media Research Center (MRC) revealed that both Apple News and Google News published exactly zero stories between last November and May covering controversies, including Platner’s Nazi tattoo and his offensive Reddit posts. The study also found that the tech giants failed to promote “at least 112” news stories published by conservative-leaning outlets that investigated Platner’s disturbing history during that November-May period.

• DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won't Say How

• Tennessee ranked worst state to live in for 'quality of life' in new CNBC study

  The CNBC study finds that Tennessee falls short in safety, with one of the highest violent crime rates in America, citing FBI statistics. According to the United Health Foundation, Tennessee has the third-highest rate of drug deaths.

  • CNBC’s Woke ‘Worst States’ List Accidentally Makes Red America Look Great.

  Other than crime rates, which most often occur in red-state cities, which are the bluest areas of said states, the criteria for ‘quality of life’ that CNBC uses are woke as a joke. Environmentalism, free healthcare, unions, and prioritizing the rainbow are what CNBC looked at.

  • CNBC: Here Are The Ten Worst States to Live In or Start a Business In. They're All, Get This, the Red States Experiencing The Highest In-Migration.

  • CNBC survey mocked after top 10 'worst places to live' are all red states

• 12 questions for the center-left

  The death of the center-right didn’t come all at once. In fact, Republicans reacted to the failures of George W. Bush by nominating John McCain in 2008, probably the closest thing to a truly independent-minded presidential nominee in the modern era.2 But having the misfortune of inheriting Bush’s mess amid the worst financial crisis in 75 years, McCain lost to Barack Obama by more than 7 points. Mitt Romney then fended off the Tea Party in 2012, but also lost to Obama.

  • "center" in this essay appears to mean "favored by mass media"

• What happens when you put politicians in charge of science

• US State Department offers $3M grants to MAGA-aligned groups in Europe

• CNN duped by parody account on Twitter posing as California politician

  Last Wednesday, the news network aired a photo of X user @RepJackKimble’s post saying he spoke to McConnell while the senator was in the hospital, writing, “We talked for just shy of 45 minutes. He’s so sharp.” While the parody post appeared on screen alongside real politicians, CNN host Audie Cornish directly referenced the fake account’s claim.

• Transgender American regrets fleeing to the Netherlands because all the Muslim migrants want to kill him

  It's scary. It's legitimately scary. I decided that my mental health is degrading so substantially being here that I just need to get out. The situation I have in the U.S. as a trans person - not good, right? - but here I will be hurt or killed.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US uses sea drones in combat in Iran strikes

• US Military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time

World

• Mawlynnong, India, transformed by tourism, bans visitors on Sundays

• Swiss Army Breaks with Microsoft: "Cyber Command" Relies on Open Source

• Cash is king again at Tokyo's bars after credit processor fails

• Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity

• India halts WhatsApp global username feature over cyberfraud risk

• Bastille Day Scandal: Any Person, French or Foreign, Wishing to View the Champs-Élysées Parade Must Wear a QR Code; Deafening Silence from France’s Media Outlets.

• Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

• Indian activist urged to give up hunger strike over exam leaks

• Reform trying to criminalise use of Gaelic and Scots in election material

• Google probed by Swiss regulator over Android default search feature

• Commission adds exemptions to rules on removability of portable batteries

• Canada's electronic spy agency conducted cyberattacks on fentanyl brokers

• Ann Widdecombe murder suspect had communist literature at home

• Japan begins standing up new Intel agency with input from allies

Iran / Houthi

• Trump says US will blockade Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and charge ships for safe passage.

• Iran exploited mobile flaws to locate U.S. troops in the Middle East

• Suddenly, Hormuz Is Less Crucial Than It Was

China

• Chinese CXMT to Match Micron's DRAM Manufacturing Capacity This Year

Health / Medicine

• Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem

• FDA authorized Zyn nicotine pouches without knowing what they were made of

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• You got the ‘explosive’ diarrhea parasite. Now what?

• What to know about 'explosive diarrhoea' parasite outbreak in US

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Why 2 Degrees of Global Warming Means 6 Degrees in Europe

• Canada's Dead Sea? Diving into Saskatchewan's Salty Secret

• Scientists Calculated When the Last Plants on Earth Will Die

• Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

• Many US cities will see record overnight temperatures

• A Chemical from Car Tires May Be Linked to Alzheimer's, New Study Suggests

• Pennsylvania anglers warned to kill ‘Frankenfish’ on sight after creek catch.

• The Soviet nuclear submarine wreck that is a 'ticking time bomb'

• US 2nd-largest Hydropower Reservoir approaching "dead pool" low water level

• Colorado could make natural gas a constitutional right