2026-03-06

Horseshit

• Maybe There's a Pattern Here?

• Feel the Canine Charisma: Dog-Sledding in Northern Minnesota

• Honda engines risk nerve damage to drivers – Newey

  Aston Martin team principal Adrian Newey says vibrations from their Honda engine are risking permanent nerve damage for their drivers within 25 laps of running. Newey's remarks on the eve of the new Formula 1 season laid bare the crisis at Honda as the company starts its new working relationship with Aston Martin beset by performance and reliability problems.

  • Aston Martin's F1 car risks giving drivers 'nerve damage'

• Major airline bans 'barebeaters' across all 24 daily flights from UK airports

  Nothing quite compares to the disruption caused by a passenger who is listening to their music out loud, without headphones — otherwise known as ‘barebeaters’. But if you’re flying with United Airlines, you’ll be irritated no more. The airline, which carried 2.4 million British passengers in 2024, has said staff will now be able to remove them — and the ban could be permanent.

  • United Airlines can now ban passengers who don't wear headphones

• The Caterpillar Pickup Truck Is Real, but It's Not What People Were Hoping

• 53% of U.S. adults say Americans have bad morals and ethics

• Denmark is set to explore if gastronomy can be recognized as an art form

celebrity gossip

• Jury awards $2M in trial over wrongful death lawsuit against political donor Ed Buck

• "I love you, you love me... long long time..." The Guy Who Played Barney the Dinosaur Now Runs a Tantric Sex Business

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• 'Our consciousness is under siege': On chatbots, social media and mental freedom

  • Mass media dislikes the competition.

• Call of Duty co-founder claims Activision put "very awkward pressure" on Infinity Ward to make a game about Iran invading Israel | Eurogamer.net

  Chance Glasco, one of the co-founders of Infinity Ward and creators of the Call of Duty franchise, has claimed that Activision once pressured the studio to include an invasion of Israel by Iran. This came after Call of Duty gameplay footage was used in a video released by the White House X account, showing a character calling in a Kill Streak before a montage of real-world military bombing footage. Explosions shown in the video are presented alongside '+100' point indicators, echoing kills using killstreaks in Call of Duty games. In response to this video, Glasco wrote on his personal social media account: "This doesn't surprise me. I remember after Activision took over post-Respawn formation there was a very awkward pressure from Activision for us to make the next CoD about Iran attacking Israel. Luckily the vast majority of our devs were disgusted by the idea and it got shot down."

Musk

• Musk testifies tweet that led to $44B lawsuit "may not have been my wisest"

• Musk tells jury 'people read too much' into his posts

• SpaceX World-Changing Plan, Massively Light Polluting Reflect Orbital Satellites, Which Will End the Night Sky

  With all eyes on the Iran war, it’s even easier than it ought to be for tech titans like Elon Musk via his SpaceX to proceed with business schemes that will radically change the planet. This is not hyperbole. The Reflect Orbit satellites will produce a simply incredible level of light pollution to the degree that it will end the night as we know it. The impact on life, not just nocturnal species but even plant life, cannot be estimated and is potentially catastrophic.

Electric / Self Driving cars

• More kids, teens injured in e-bike wrecks, study finds

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• 72.000 pupils in Austria start 3-week smartphone-detox in controlled study

• A once-proud tradition is becoming awkward for elite universities

  Since the early 1900s the Ivy League university has required undergraduates to swim 50 yards, equivalent to a lap, before receiving a diploma. But in 2022 the faculty voted to scrap the test, beginning with this year’s seniors. Dartmouth joins a handful of other elite institutions that have abandoned their swimming requirements in recent years, including Williams (2022), Hamilton (2023) and Washington and Lee (2024). The shift says less about the merits of staying afloat than about universities’ preoccupation with racial equity.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses recordings aren't private

  • Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too

  • Regulator contacts Meta over workers watching intimate AI glasses videos

  • UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'

• Computer Scientists Caution Against Internet Age-Verification Mandates

• Traffic to top tech publications has plummeted since 2024, new analysis shows

• How Vulnerable Are Computers to 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answer

  A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST.

  • The gear to pickup incidental emissions is much easier to put together now, too.

• Google Play Store will shame developers of sloppy, battery-wasting apps

• Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20%

• Epic and Google have signed a special deal for a new class of 'metaverse' apps

• Your car can be tracked everywhere you go by your tire pressure sensors.

• Video game Highguard axed weeks after release

  Since its launch in January, the free-to-play game has struggled to retain players despite being made by a team of games industry veterans who worked on successful titles such as Call of Duty, Apex Legends and Titanfall.

• Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

• Triumph of the toons: how animation came to rule the box office

• Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space

  Judging from recent comments from Gen. Stephen Whiting, head of US Space Command, we shouldn’t expect anything like that in whatever the government might release in response to Trump’s pending order. “I can say, I, personally, was very interested in the president’s announcement,” Whiting told reporters last week at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Warfare Symposium in Colorado. “I look forward to seeing what data does come out. I can also tell you, as a space operator now of 36 years, having spent a lot of time with space domain awareness sensors, tracking things in space, I’ve never seen anything in space other than manmade objects, so I am not aware of anything that is extraterrestrial, other than comets and things like that.

• Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan

• Researchers discover Chickpeas can grow in moon dirt and make seeds

• Third Kairos (Space One) launch fails

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• OpenAI pushes to add surveillance safeguards following Pentagon deal

  • The US military is still using Claude – but defense-tech clients are fleeing

  • Sam Altman admits OpenAI can't control Pentagon's use of AI

  • Anthropic Reopens Talks with Pentagon

  • The Pentagon-Anthropic feud is quietly obscuring the real fight over military AI

  • Middle East war makes ethical debate over AI use in war all too real

  • Altman takes jabs at Anthropic, says govt should be more powerful than companies

  • Microsoft and Microsoft's 'Open' 'AI' Seeking Bailout from The Pentagon

  • Sam Altman asks if government can nationalize artificial general intelligence

  • Pentagon Says It's Told Anthropic the Firm Is Supply-Chain Risk

  • Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk

  • Sam Altman Wants Elected Officials, Not OpenAI, to Decide How Military Uses AI

  • The Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic That It Is a 'Supply Chain Risk'

• Chaotic 4 days led to man's suicide, says lawsuit against Google

• An AI avatar is running to represent Indigenous voters in Colombia

• US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters

• Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic

• Grammarly Is Offering 'Expert' AI Reviews from Top Authors – Dead or Alive

• Why your IQ no longer matters in the era of AI

• AI Twitter's favourite lie: everyone wants to be a developer

• Netflix Acquires AI Filmmaking Startup Founded by Ben Affleck

  • Ben Affleck Founded a Filmmaker-Focused AI Tech Company. Netflix Just Bought It.

• The AI Industry's Moment of Gloom, Doom, and Profit

• Oracle plans job cuts as data center costs rise, Bloomberg News reports

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Paramount's $110B WBD Deal Backed by Sovereign Funds Raises Soft Power Concerns

• Bets Against Blue Owl Hit All-Time High on Private Credit Fears

• TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant

• BlackRock Slashed Another Private Loan Value from 100 to Zero

• Amazon cuts jobs in strategically important robotics division

• Why Does Child Care Seem Less Affordable Than Ever

  • Is it possible that a rain of government subsidy has destroyed the market, engendering not just amazing fraud but insane inflation for the few service providers that do still exist?

• Home sellers are relisting properties at fastest pace in a decade, but spring supply is still low.

• Amazon down – live updates on outage as shoppers can't check out

  • Amazon is down in an apparent outage affecting shoppers

  • Amazon Appears to Be Down

• Morgan Stanley Cuts Jobs Across All of Its Business Lines

• The nightmare war scenario is becoming reality in energy markets

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130B in Tariffs

• US Draft Rules for Power over Nvidia's Global Sales

• Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online

• The FCC Wants Your Next Customer Service Agent to Be in the U.S.

Trump

• Trump says he must be involved in picking Iran's next leader

  President Trump told Axios in an interview Thursday that he needs to be personally involved in selecting Iran's next leader — just as he was in Venezuela. Trump revealed this exclusively in an eight-minute phone call — his second conversation with us to explain his war planning. Trump acknowledged that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei, is the most likely successor — while making clear he finds that outcome unacceptable. For several days, the Iranian regime has postponed the announcement of the new supreme leader. But statements by Iranian politicians on Thursday suggested an announcement could be imminent. "They are wasting their time. Khamenei's son is a lightweight. I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela," Trump said. He added that he refuses to accept a new Iranian leader who would continue Khamenei's policies, which he said would force the U.S. back to war "in five years."

  • Trump rejects Khamenei's son as Iran war intensifies with US-Israel strikes

  • Trump says US will have a role in choosing Iran's next leader

• Trump Wants a Quick Victory in Iran. But the War May Be Costly. - The New York Times

  As President Trump uses U.S. military force overseas, his calculation has been that he can launch military operations with the loss of few American lives and minimal disruption to the economy. The opening days of the war in Iran are challenging that assumption. Already, six Americans have been killed. Gulf allies are under attack. The stock market wobbled. Gas prices are rising. The U.S. military is spending, by some estimates, hundreds of millions of dollars per day. In Iran, an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school killed 175 people, according to local health officials and Iranian state media, and the Trump administration says it is investigating who was responsible. While no American ground troops have yet been sent to Iranian soil, the administration has not ruled out deploying soldiers. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday suggested the conflict might not be short. “We are accelerating, not decelerating,” Mr. Hegseth told reporters, adding: “More bombers and more fighters are arriving just today.”

• Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after criticism

  • Kristi Noem Out as DHS Secretary

  • Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign

  • Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Top Aide's Role in DHS Contracts

  • Kristi Noem Out at U.S. Department of Homeland Security

  • Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS secretary

Democrats

• Chevron Warns of Irreversible Harm to Calif Economy in Letter to Gov. Newsom

Left Angst

• The Fall of the NGO-Administrative Complex

  What is louder than the condemnations of the establishment now is what they failed to do over the previous four decades. They never deployed the same aggressive democratization strategies toward Iran that they’ve applied across the Middle East and Africa. Instead, successive administrations released billions in frozen Iranian assets, negotiated the infamous Iran nuclear deal, and—as Politico’s 2017 Project Cassandra investigation documented—deliberately limited prosecution of Hezbollah drug trafficking networks operating inside the United States to protect those negotiations. In short, those backing the so-called “rules-based liberal international order” actually wanted Ali Khamenei’s regime to remain in place. Actions speak louder than words. For an order that defines itself by the spread of democracy, this is a striking paradox.

• DOJ proposes policy aimed at limiting state bar ethics probes into its attorneys

• Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data

• RFK Jr. announces he is reversing ban on 14 Peptides the FDA blocked in 2023

• Donald Trump insists there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 in pictures

• President Trump, Pam Bondi sued over sale of TikTok assets

• U.S. Capabilities Are Showing Signs of Rot

• Jan 6 rioter pardoned by Trump sentenced to life for sexually abusing children

• Trump Bought Netflix Debt Amid Paramount's Fight for Warner Bros

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Nabs Contractor for Allegedly Stealing Crypto from Marshals

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US and allied missile stockpiles 'bare' as Iran war heads into weeks

• FCC Chair to Europe: If You Restrict US Satellite Providers, We'll Ban You Here

• US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says

• Trump Poised to Invoke Defense Production Act to Boost Munitions Production for Iran War.

• US Won't Allow India to Become Rival Like China, Official Says

World

• Apple Does Not Include a Charger with All New MacBooks in UK and EU

• Europe Is Decoupling from U.S. Tech

• Iraq suffers power grid blackout due to technical fault

• NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir while advising company

• Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia

• The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

• BBC says 'irreversible' trends mean it will not survive without major overhaul

• B.C.'s daylight-time decision: 'Scientifically a bad idea,' says key researcher

• Ecuadorean troops find 35M-long 'narco-sub' hidden in nature reserve

Iran / Houthi

• Iran's 'Missile Cities' Have Become One of Its Biggest Vulnerabilities

• Gulf insurance costs soar 12-fold despite US president's guarantee

• Iran says targeted AWS Data Centers for support of U.S. military

• Iran threatens Dimona nuclear site if Israel, US seek to topple Islamic Republic

• Dubai Influencers warned they face prison for posting about conflict with Iran

• Iran war spreads as European nations drawn further in

  A host of European countries pledged military aid after Cyprus and Western allies in the Gulf were attacked. The UK is sending extra jets to Qatar while France is allowing the US to use a base for non-combat purposes. But leaders remain reluctant to get too closely involved in the war.

• How Iran is using cheap drones to cause chaos across the Middle East

• Hormuz Is the Hidden Risk to the AI Economy

• 'Execution at sea': Was the Iranian ship sunk by US in the Indian Ocean unarmed?

• Iran Strikes: Day 5

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia Is Big Winner as Iran War Drains Supplies That Ukraine Needs

China

• China's new 5-year plan calls for AI throughout its economy, tech breakthroughs

• China Tells Top Refiners to Suspend Diesel and Gasoline Exports

• China sets lowest economic growth target since 1991

• China Built a Big Lead in Global Race for Batteries That Last for Days

• China ramps up 'high stakes' tech race with US as economic imbalances deepen

Health / Medicine

• GLP-1 drugs protect against new or worsening addictions, large study shows

• Cancer blood tests are everywhere. Do they work?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Americans are stealthily adding DIY solar systems

• Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion

• Biosciences breeds controversy while trying to revive mammoths

• Large forest fire emissions are hidden underground

• Exploring water quality impacts from legacy lithium mining in North Carolina

• There Is a Climate Emergency, and It's Called Colonialism

• Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood

• You've Never Seen Ants Like This Before

• Impacts of goat browsing on native vegetation during invasive plant control

• When fully inflated, they can fly like balloons. They don't like people to see that tho: Why do elephants have such wrinkly skin?

• Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive