2026-06-13

Horseshit

• Software Update Auto Turns Off Amazon Delivery Drivers' AC in Summer Heat

• We economists have done the maths: 'growth' is a doomed strategy

• Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones

  • Pokémon Go Data Isn't Being Used to Train Military Drones, Says Niantic Spatial

• Matchmakers Are Busy, but Worried

• Are you ready to admit it's the phones?

  I remember the first time I heard about the invention of the iPhone, back in 2007. My friend, who followed Apple products with an almost religious zeal — there were many such people in those days — entered the room and announced “This is the convergence!” But when I recall that fateful day in 2007, I remember not joy, but a sudden surge of foreboding. That was strange, and out of character for me. I’ve always been a technophile at heart — I grew up as a hardcore Star Trek fan, and until that moment in 2007, each new marvel — broadband, the internet, the laptop computer, etc. — had felt like it was moving us toward that bold utopian future. The iPhone felt different. Some small voice in the back of my head told me: “This is a mistake.” And though I tried to ignore that voice for many years, it remained.

  • Can smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?

  • A simple reason for skepticism about the iPhones/fertility link

• Ex-Andreessen Horowitz partner: old firm, VCs 'political infiltration' on AI

• Why "reprogramming" is the buzziest approach to reversing aging

• For People with Misophonia, Everyday Noises Can Be Agony

• Highly intelligent people are more likely to ditch old habits for better ideas

• What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

  the technology industry spent forty years accumulating a very specific kind of trust and mostly had boring motives, which made us appear trustworthy and largely benign. Over the last decade and change, its leadership discovered that this trust could be liquidated and converted into a different asset, attention, at what looked like a great exchange rate. The problem with liquidating an illiquid asset though is that you don't find out the real price until you try to buy it back.

• Ford CEO's Right to Repair Comment Should Make Every Car Owner Uncomfortable

• Why birth order can shape a kid's future and what parents can do about it

• After empty promises, string theory finds new uses

• In the Atacama Desert, astronomers live and work in a James Bond villain lair

• Why the U.S. has never had a world-class men's soccer star

• Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem

• They Bought a Famous Puzzle in Cryptography. Now They're Opening It Up

• Are Americans Too Old?

• The apocalyptic future we're being sold isn't inevitable

• First leather bag made from T-Rex cells fails to sell at Paris auction.

• Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean

• 'Crisis averted' as experts confirm universe's expansion is accelerating

Obit

• Celebrated British artist David Hockney dies aged 88

  • Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88

  • David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88

  • David Hockney, iconic British artist, dies at 88

• Author Jane Yolen, 87, died. Writer of fantasy, sci-fi, and children's books

Musk

• SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire

  • Elon Musk on track to become first trillionaire today

  • Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading

  • Elon Musk becomes the first trillionaire

  • Elon Musk becomes first trillionaire as SpaceX shares soar

• Elon Musk Is Colonizing Earth

• Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain

• The First Trillionaire Is a Killer

• SpaceX makes largest ever stock market debut at $1.77T valuation

• SpaceX demolishes IPO records, visualized

• How Our Reporters Distinguish Hype from Facts in the SpaceX IPO

• SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading

• SpaceX is set to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him

• SpaceX Shares Open at $150, Above IPO Price of $135

• SpaceX IPO: The great fleecing of retail investors just took another dark turn

• SpaceX vaults over $2T valuation as stock jumps after record IPO

• SpaceX increases almost 30% after biggest IPO

• Shares in Elon Musk's SpaceX surge after biggest IPO

• SpaceX market cap tops $2T

• The value of SpaceX rockets on its stock-market debut

• SpaceX soars after trading begins in largest IPO of all time

• Tesla gets go-ahead to sell self-driving technology in Belgium

• Musk's Starlink hooked rural customers. Then came the price increases

• SpaceX Rented Out Computing After Own Teams Had Trouble Using It

Electric / Self Driving cars

• EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Gen Zers are arriving at college unable to even read a sentence

• The quiet collapse of British universities

• A digital reckoning against smartphones in schools has spread to Sweden

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers $330 refund

• RTX 3060 and 3050 cards are popping up again

• Pharma giant Novo Nordisk discloses breach of clinical trials data

• Xbox's Margin Crush: Studio misses, Game Pass missteps, and memory rout

• A Microsoft Surface flaw allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a packet

• Flock Leaked Cops' License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA chief defends all-male Artemis 3 astronaut crew amid backlash: ‘I don’t think anyone should be reading into this.’

• UFO footage just released by FBI

• Department of War Publishes Third Release of UAP Files on War.gov/UFO

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• The AI Price War Is Here, Piling Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic

  • OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating War for Users With Anthropic

  • OpenAI is also considering cutting prices.

• Trump admin blocks foreign access to Anthropic's most powerful AI models

• Chinese agents caught rebuilding botnets and stirring pot AI datacenter debate

• KPMG report on benefits of AI contained AI hallucinations

• India's workers are training AI robots to take their jobs

• Dealership revoked offer to buy back customer's BMW, blaming wayward AI chatbot

• Academic's warning about using AI was written using AI

• AI will be massively deflationary

  The funny thing about Anthropic haters is that they still mostly believe Anthropic’s marketing. They think Claude is a recursively self-improving silicon God, and that we are all a couple refusals away from falling into the perpetual underclass. This gives them way more power than they deserve. Of course they believe they should dictate morality to you and control the future light cone of the universe and everything they do is justified for the mission and so on and so forth. And yea, the model is pretty good, so you worry that if the model is good that they will get their way about other things. A lot of people in history have had dumb ideas about ruling the world, doesn’t mean they can actually do it. They are a product of the rationalist cult (which surprise surprise, thinks the world is going to end soon but advocates for polyamory in the mean time). There’s some short-term dangers from them, but long-term very little. Remember when SBF wanted to regulatory capture all of crypto? And similar to Claude, FTX was a successful product! But the totalizing nature of the ideology contains its downfall.

• Most New Data Centers in the U.S. Are Coming to Rural Areas

• Bernie Sanders' AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan

  • The unlikely alliance pushing an AI sovereign wealth fund

• The rise of 'AI slop ' accusations is becoming a new form of gatekeeping

• Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself

• Red Lobster's 37-year-old CEO bets the chain's future on AI

• Musicians shortchanged by AI deals with labels, lawsuit alleges

• KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of AI

• US insurance rulemaker probes credit risks tied to data centres

• Judge Punishes 4 Lawyers After Catching Both Sides Using A.I. In Lawsuit

• Knowledge Collapse

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Appeals court upholds FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud conviction

  • Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to overturn crypto fraud conviction

  • Second Circuit Rejects Sam Bankman-Fried's Appeal

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Study Finds Competitors Share Directors More Often Than Previously Known

• SEC Seeks to Scrap Best-Price Rule

  The Securities and Exchange Commission said it wants to scrap a 2005 rule that calls for trading platforms to execute buy and sell orders at the best possible price. The agency on Thursday proposed the elimination of the trade-through rule, which forbids platforms from completing a trade at a price that is worse than the best available price across all U.S. exchanges, even if that means filling the order at a competing market.

• BlackRock private credit fund honours less than 40% of redemption requests

• The tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma, are hitting bottom

• The Public Now Backs Nuclear Energy. What Will It Take to Make It Happen?

• The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent

• Stocks Face Rising Risk with Mega AI Deals Ready to Flood Market

• Oracle Shares Tumble Amid Pricey Data-Center Build-Out

• Justice Department Approves Paramount's Acquisition of Warner Bros

  • Paramount-WBD merger wins approval from DOJ

  • Warner Bros $111B Sale to Paramount Approved by US Justice Department

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• California hit by another huge fraud bombshell as thousands of claims for $4BILLION in taxpayer-funded compensation meant for sex crime victims are FAKE, investigator says

  Los Angeles County had agreed in April 2025 to pay over $4 billion to settle more than 11,000 claims of sexual abuse at county-run juvenile halls, foster homes and a notorious children's shelter. But District Attorney Nathan Hochman claimed in a court filing on Wednesday he believes a whopping four out of five claims for which the county is paying the largest sex abuse settlement in American history are fake, the Los Angeles Times reports. There was even evidence that some recruiters had paid people to file bogus claims.

• If it’s illegal for non-citizens to vote...

  why the Hell does the West LA Library have a display for non citizens that includes a VOTER REGISTRATION specifically for non citizens that allows them to “preregister” to vote. They even have a special section on the s you to vote ANONYMOUSLY if you don’t feel “safe” putting your address.

• White House negotiating preemption of state AI laws in exchange for KOSA & more

Trump

• U.S. Taxpayer Money Funded 120 Biolabs in 30 Countries

  DNI Gabbard, who has been at least temporarily absent from her position due to her husband's serious medical problems, came back with a bang on June 12. “Today, I’m releasing never-before-seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine,” she posted on X. She continued, “In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what ‘research’ is being conducted.”

  • DNI Gabbard Reveals Evidence of U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Global Biolab Program

Democrats

• Graham Platner cheated on fiancée, bragged about Nazi tattoo: ex-girlfriend

  “As a person who is a leftist, I immediately looked at him and asked him, ‘Is that a Totenkopf?’ and he told me a whole, ‘he will hold this weight forever’ bravado sob story about how it was, but he decided to keep it as a reminder that the United States was the evil, bad guy overseas,” she recounted.

Left Angst

• Google director resigns, citing military deals: 'Management lost moral compass'

• Senate wants to force US to share sensitive Intel with Israel

  • Senate Bill to "Share" Intel with Israel in Virtual Merger of Agencies

• Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network

• RFK Jr. melts down over NYT report, admits he blacklists reporters

• Large etchings of numbers signaling opposition to Trump appear on National Mall

• Ex-DOGE Employees Raise $130 Mill for AI National Security Startup

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Defense industry leaders preparing to meet with Trump as worries over missile supply grow, sources say.

• Patriot missile shortage created 'window of vulnerability' Russia is exploiting

World

• Labour's spyware plan for phones is straight out of North Korea

• Infineon to open fab in Germany as part of sovereignty push

• India says it is working to stop water flowing into Pakistan

• UK to ban under-16s from 'high risk' social media apps

• South Korea fines Coupang $409M in country's largest data breach penalty

• Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

• The Swiss would be foolish to cap their population at 10M

Iran / Houthi

• Iran-backed hackers claim breach of California water systems over US attacks

• Trump calls off Iran strikes, tells The Post US-Tehran deal is 'all wrapped up'

  President Trump canceled impending US strikes and a purported plan to storm Iran’s Kharg Island Thursday, telling The Post that an agreement between Washington and Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and begin nuclear negotiations was “all wrapped up.” “Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” he said on Truth Social.

• Trump will get what he wants in Iran by negotiation or by force.

• Trump Says Iranians Aren’t Dealing ‘in Good Faith,’ Even After He Left Out Our Ally Israel.

  As usual, just after Trump announced the final phases of a peace deal, the terrorist Iranian regime leaked fake terms to explode the process and force a redo. Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday, “The terms that Iran leaked out to the Fake News have NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing. What they said, including their weak and pathetic statement on having a deal, bears no relation to the truth. Very dishonorable people to deal with. With them, there is no such thing as dealing in good faith. AMAZING! Also, their totally rebuffed Drone attack last night against Indian Ships leaving the Hormuz Strait is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. They better get their act together, and FAST!”

• US and Iran have agreed to wording of a deal to end their war

  Pakistan’s prime minister said Friday the United States and Iran have agreed to wording of an agreement aimed at ending their war in the Middle East and that mediators were working with both sides to finalize a deal. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the U.S. and Iran have reached a “final, agreed upon text.” He said Pakistan, which has taken the lead in mediation efforts, was working with the warring countries on next steps. “Peace has never been this close as it is now,” Sharif said in a post on X. The apparent breakthrough in negotiations comes after Iran exchanged fire with the U.S. and Israel over three days this week, threatening to return the Middle East to full-scale war. There was no immediate comment from U.S. or Iranian leaders on Sharif’s statement.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin's road to ruin: Ukraine hits key Russian supply line in new drone campaign

• Researchers Believe Russian Satellites May Be Testing Space-Based GPS Jamming Across Europe.

• Satellite images reveal Putin is preparing for war with Europe

  • Putin expands military presence on NATO's border

• The Mysterious Woman Behind the Nord Stream Explosion

China

• Why China is betting on big nuclear reactors

• Google Sues to Stop Chinese Cybercrime Group from Using Its A.I

• China Lures Foreign Patients with Cutting-Edge, Cheap Medical Care

• China's Juno detector outpaces decades of research in 59 days

Health / Medicine

• European sunscreens are safer than American

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• American Ebola Unit Sparks Fury, Protests and a Political Crisis in Kenya

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 68 Quadrillion Underground Miles of Fungi

• Scientists unlock the secret behind the Venus flytrap's snap

• Koalas at risk of death once seven-day temperatures rise beyond 27C

• Overlooked Pollutants Cause About 15 Percent of Global Warming

• Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

• Antarctica's west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France

• Urban pollution in wealthy world still adding to heart damage, study finds