2026-09-23

Horseshit

• Autonomous Plane Becomes the First to Fly Coast to Coast on Its Own

• The secret Cold War bioweapons test that exposed millions in the Bay Area

• Dyson Won't Say What's Wrong with Its CameraJet Toothbrush

• The Book Claiming to Teach Couples How to Select Their Baby's Sex

• Six-year-old Chinese girl sets world record with Rubik's Cube

• The Hyperlocal Customs of the Country

  • I know of a town that has a "Potato Festival" in a place where potatoes cannot be grown commercially.

• Making sense of George Lucas's new billion-dollar galaxy

  • George Lucas Museum Review: A Bold Throwback to Gilded Age Patronage

• Bioresorbable batteries for transient ingestible bioelectronics

• Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll

  • Why Older Americans Are Drinking More Alcohol—Not Less.

• Harper Lee first edition novel found in Oxfam shop

• The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power

• Scientists Have Worked Out When Earth Will Run Out of Oxygen

  • If we destroy the Moon now, we can extend this time by millions of years.

• What Does Childhood Trauma Have to Do with White Supremacy?

• A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Plan for editorial oversight board at CNN and CBS News draws skepticism: ‘Utter garbage.’

Musk

• Tesla's record month: 4 fatal Autopilot and Full Self-Driving crashes

• Grok bot is now in Tesla

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Saudi Arabia wants a car industry, launches Ceer with two EVs

  • Saudi's Ceer unveils first EVs

• High-mileage electric cars are more reliable than petrol ones, study finds

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• I mapped 25+ GB of Effective Altruism material. Here's what I learned.

  The Effective Altruist commits spiritual rebellion all over again: he has appointed himself the God in charge of the future. And like every human figure who has done the same, he is willing to plunge the world into tyranny and damnation to realize a vision only he is wise enough to hold. We must stay alert and always deny them the only thing they truly crave: power.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Stanford Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising

• New CA laws let community colleges offer up to 12 bachelor's degrees

• Mathematics Isn't Just a Game to Let A.I. Solve. History Shows Why

• Tech elites launch college alternative, raises $42M

  • A16Z is challenging Silicon Valley's love for drop-outs by launching a school

• In 200-Page Report, Cornell Confronts the Crisis in American Higher Education

• We are the last generation of human psychiatrists

• Why banning AI in the classroom will not be enough

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Commodore's forgotten Amiga Unix gets a modern revival

• Microsoft, Google took down $66M marketplace selling VMs with pirated software

• Londoner jailed for selling £2.7M of fake vinyl on "industrial scale"

  A man has been jailed for selling £2.7million worth of fake vinyl by the likes of The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran.

• Apple Excludes Older iPhones from New Camera Feature

• Apple's first live music venue is opening beneath its UK headquarters

• Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

• Activision is taking over Halo as part of a Xbox shake-up

  • Call of Duty's Activision to make next Halo game as Xbox cuts more jobs

  • Xbox continues its “reset” with dramatic restructuring

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight

• Smart Ring Maker Oura, Backers Seek $2.2B in US IPO

• Flock's Gunfire Alerts Raise a New Fourth Amendment Question

• 'Turn the cameras off:' London's growing privacy pushback against smart glasses

• Apple's new watches are always listening

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Raspberry Pi is intentionally blocking RAM capacity upgrades

  • Raspberry Pi Locks Down RAM Upgrades

  • Raspberry Pi RAM Restrictions No Big Deal, Frankly

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• U.S. Government seizes 54-pound Martian meteorite sold at auction last year

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side

  • Nvidia boss says there is '0% chance' AI destroys the world by 2030

  • AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat to society

  • OpenAI flags 6 new incidents of 'concerning' behavior, unveils plan to track it

  • Manufactured AI Panic Hits the Streets, Complete With T-Shirts, Marching Robots.

  • NY Lawmaker Launches $30 Million Effort To Coordinate Democrat Control Of AI

  • Banning self-recursive improvement in AI models?

  • A framework for frontier AI and the dawning of a new age

  • 20 countries propose global oversight body to manage AI dangers

  • Joint statement by international leaders on control of frontier AI models

  • AI Leaders Are Standing on a Liability Landmine

  • 'Same sense of urgency': UN chief compares AI risk to nuclear weapons

• Trump admin won't give AI leaders a 'liability shield,' Bessent tells CNBC

  • Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says OpenAI bears ‘responsibility’ for Hugging Face hack.

  • Trump says US is officially renaming AI 'super intelligence'

  • Trump Orders US to Rename AI to SI – "Super Intelligence"

  • Trump says AI will be renamed 'super intelligence' in all US documents

  • Trump rejects global entity for AI oversight

  • Trump orders AI rebrand as "super intelligence"

  • Trump Renames Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence

• Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI assistant

  • Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me

  • A zero-day has been released for Meta's Muse

  • I Gave My Life over to Meta's A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away

  • PayPal partners with Muse for agentic checkout

  • I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB

  • Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day

  • Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Made by Humans in a Call Center

  • Meta testing a 'human concierge' for its new personal AI agent, Muse

  • Meta's Muse Drags Down Stocks That Depend on 'Consumer Inertia'

  • Meta's New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To

• Wikipedia's Plan to Survive the Answer Engine Apocalypse

• Texas Halts All Data Center Permitting Pending Audit

• FAA debuts its AI-powered tool for managing flight traffic

• Police hugging AI so tight, soon we'll all be pre-crime suspects

• A Summer of AI Optimization

• Why AI resembles a charismatic religious leader

• JP Morgan CEO says hyperscaler AI spending could hit $1T in 2027

• Nearly half of young people trust AI over a human for fact-checking, report says

• OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems

• Tiny Startups Are Getting Even Smaller with Help from AI

• iPhone owners can now submit claims in Apple's $250M Siri AI settlement

• Australia's giant data-centre boom

• Data center developer sues city for requiring to supply renewable energy on-site

• The Rise of A.I. Is Raising Threats from Drones, Police Group Warns

• China's AI Realism Is Not Conspiracy

• Ottawa to build sovereign AI ecosystem for Canadian defence operations

• Before and After Photos Show Data Centers Furiously Popping Up Across America

• A U.S. Strategy to Secure Geopolitical Advantage on an Path to Superintelligence

• Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame'

• America is getting its AI race with China wrong

• Hedge-fund manager built his firm to be powered by AI agents

• British Columbia Sues OpenAI, Alleging ChatGPT Aided Mass School Shooting

• AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

• People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

• AI-controlled robot arms attempted harmful tasks 97% of the time

• Benchmarks are more broken than we could have imagined

• Where're All The AI Chips?

  Microsoft is directly misleading reporters, investors and the general public about its capacity. It has claimed again and again that it has brought gigawatts of capacity online for the best part of a year, all, in my opinion, with the intent of misrepresenting the scale of an AI data center buildout where I believe most of the GPUs, to quote Satya Nadella, are now “sitting in inventory that [they] can’t plug in.”

• DeepSeek injects 50% more bugs when prompted with Chinese political triggers

• Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity

• Tiny Startups Are Getting Even Smaller with Help from AI

• Prominent art therapist quoted by Vice, Forbes and others is AI-generated

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything

• Kalshi asks CFTC to allow margin trading on its platform

Economicon / Business / Finance

• AMD briefly joins the $1T club

• FTC Action Against MLM Operator Amway for Unfair and Deceptive Business Practice

• Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros Discovery

  • CNN Mood 'Like a Funeral' as Paramount Acquires Warner Bros

• GameStop shares up 30% since earnings; CEO, other board members disclose buys

• It's Raining Boxes: Amazon Drones Overwhelm a Texas Suburb

• ASML Executive Says It Has No Sales in Europe

• Porsche CEO assures staff no further job cuts planned, according to memo

• DoorDash reaches $131.5M settlement with NYC for failing to pay workers

Trump

• White House launches Trump TV following press bans

• Trump Addresses the UN General Assembly

Democrats

• House GOP vows to continue ActBlue probe over foreign donation claims

• Newsom Donors Scrutinized Over China Contacts.

Left Angst

• OpenAI president and MAGA Inc. donor to attend Trump-Xi state dinner

• It's Trump's world, and he's accelerating its chaos

• FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins Until Trump Got in the Way

• Poll: 59% of Dems support military coup against Trump, 32% support assassination

• Diesel prices could crush Republicans in the heartland

• The strange death of libertarianism

  Libertarians have disappeared, just as the national debt has blown past $40 trillion. Arguably the most libertarian member of the US House of Representatives, Thomas Massie, lost his primary in May after investing all his political capital in anti-Zionism and the Epstein files. The most libertarian senator, Rand Paul, has not succumbed to the same obsessions but finds himself marginalized in Donald Trump’s second term. He and Rubio were first elected to the Senate the same year; their divergent fortunes tell a tale.

• Donald Trump posted a video about it. It can kill you.

  The first thing to know about medbeds is that they aren’t real. Instead, they are the subject of an imagined plotline in which the military or some group of elites has access to extraordinarily advanced technology that can quickly and painlessly cure the human body of anything. In this fiction, peddled by right-wing conspiracy-theory influencers, the end to all disease and disability will arrive when Trump defeats his enemies and releases medbeds to the public—one of the many rapturous delights promised for that day. This conspiracy theory operates on a doomsday preacher’s ever-shifting timeline: The medbeds are always on the horizon, or being released imminently, or secretly already out there. There’s no good gauge of how many people believe in medbeds or Trump’s ability to deliver them. But a critical mass keeps the theory alive and rocketing around the internet. Trump’s post, I realized, had marked its entry into mainstream politics.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• 'We Hacked the FBI:' Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees

  • Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents' data

  • ShinyHunters hackers say they breached FBI

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Pentagon asked industry how fast it could make more weapons. The numbers remain private.

• US to build two military bases in Greenland under new deal with Denmark

• Fishing charter catches Air Force attack drone off Florida coast.

World

• EU and Philippines agree free trade deal

• Pakistan Orders Hospital Beds Clear for Mass Casualty Ahead of Protest

• Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station

• Google fined more than €400M by Irish regulator over its use of location data

• Travel disruption around UK after second air traffic control issue in two weeks

• Chinese hackers targeted shipping in at least seven EU countries

• The UK Government Faces a Reckoning over Palantir

• German court rules Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook and Instagram

Iran / Houthi

• US threatens to ground Iranian airlines worldwide from Wednesday

• State Department clamps down on size of Iran’s UN delegation and ability to splurge on ‘shopping sprees.’

• US Military Modifies AI and Lethal Targeting Process After Iran School Strike

  • Pentagon: Palantir AI Overreliance Led to Strike Killing 123 Iranian Children

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• The Armored Sarcophagus Saving Ukrainian Soldiers

• Putin's party would have won only 34% without ballot stuffing, analysis suggests

• Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9B through global banks

China

• China launches 4 different rockets to orbit in 45 hours.

• In Trump, Xi Sees 'Rare Window' to Convince Taiwan That Resistance Is Futile

• Up to 100k in Taiwan spying for China: expert

Health / Medicine

• The first mRNA flu shot is now available. Here's who can get it

• People Hooked on Vapes Try a New Way to Quit: Cigarettes

• ADHD is over-diagnosed, say doctors

• Newborn girls and boys show different attention patterns within hours of birth

• Alzheimer's Is No Longer an Untreatable Disease

  • We can't do anything to help; but there's shit we can sell now!

• How Healthy Are Sardines?

• Betel nuts are a top mind-affecting substance. There's evidence of ancient use

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Robot bunnies deployed in Florida to fight invasive pythons

• Virus-Like 'Jumping Genes' Became Our Partners in Evolution

• Prenatal exposure to the plasticizer DEHP increases autism and ADHD

• What California Is Learning from Solar Panels Built over Irrigation Canals

• Working-Class Taxpayers Subsidize Billionaires' Climate-Killing Private Jets

• Tons of Radioactive Waste Was Dumped in the Atlantic. Decades Later It's Leaking

• The Climate May Have Some Surprises in Store

• The Sheep That Stop Wildfires