2026-11-13

Horseshit

• The TikTok to OnlyFans Pipeline: how TikTok is selling the sex industry to girls

• Does It Matter If Men Pee Sitting or Standing? A Randomized Test Has an Answer

• Despite human sacrifice after El Niño, ancient societies generally peaceful

• 'Cruise for life' ship seized in Singapore

  A round-the-world cruise that left passengers stranded in Cambodia after its US-based operator ran out of money has been seized in Singapore.

• Are children really more creative than adults?

• People Wouldn't Rather Have Higher Relative Income in a Poorer Society

• The Real-Estate Billionaire Spending a Fortune to Slow Down Aging

• Study Shows a Single Nuclear Blast Could Disable 99% of Satellites in a Matter of Days.

Obit

• Richard Posner, influential and iconoclastic federal judge, dies at 87

  • Judge Richard Posner, RIP

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Silicon Valley Podcast Hosts Try to Understand Why Regular People Are Mad

Musk

• Elon Musk says it would be an 'honor' to hire Nvidia's Jensen Huang

  • Elon Musk says it would be an honor to hire Jensen Huang

  • Elon Musk says he would hire Jensen Huang

• SpaceX Loses Appeal to Force Sexual Harassment Lawsuit into Private Arbitration

• Elon Musk meanwhile wants to build a $24 billion data center in Starbase, Texas, with 10 gigawatts of gas turbine power plants.

• Finland grants Tesla permission to drive "hands free"

• SpaceX and Tesla Talks on Record Merger Are Said to Progress

  • SpaceX and Tesla could announce merger deal as soon as December

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Waymo Tailgates, Tries to Pass CHP Blockade; Another Drives Around with Ticket

• Could China's battery-swapping e-trucks be the answer to EV range anxiety?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Survey: Over 80 percent of Students Expect Lower Grades If They Don’t Say They Hate Western Culture.

• The Year Math Changed Forever

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Oura to acquire AI-native primary care startup Counsel Health for $625M

• Dell's 157 PB all-flash object storage rack

• Swap files: AMD shares how it can retain 95% of server performance with just half the DRAM

• T-Mobile illegally imposed 50GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says

• Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding

• Apple is shuttering its 28-year-old online community forum

• The Confidential Payments Meta and TikTok Made to Addicted Teens

• Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep

• Why I'm sticking with AOL in a Gmail world

• mass issues reported with Outlook, 365

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Ring launches a home security drone and an enterprise security robot

  • Ring confirms camera drone won't have manual controls after crashing on CBS News

  • Amazon's Ring debuts security robots, including a drone

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Were there ‘lost cosmonauts’ in the early Soviet space program?

• NASA's secret weapon in the lunar space race may be procurement reform?

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Jensen Huang Resigns as Nvidia CEO After Affairs

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns in the wake of multiple controversies

  • Jensen Huang Resigns

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns, Colette Kress named interim chief

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of extramarital relationships

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of second affair deepened scandal

  • Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO immediately

  • Jensen Huang Resigns as CEO, Colette Kress Named Interim

  • Jensen Huang resigns as chief executive after affair allegations

  • NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition

  • Mystery Businessman Introduced Jensen Huang to His Paramour. It Was Her Husband

  • Jensen's (Nvidia) Adventure

  • China's Spy Machine Isn't as Clever as You Think

  Chinese sources give us some clues. A former journalist at CCTV in Beijing, China’s most-watched state broadcaster, posted on her verified Weibo account that Alice had once worked in the same office as her, and, as you’d expect, her account was banned soon afterwards. That points to Alice’s early link to the state machine.

  • Chinese university bought Nvidia H200 chips despite US blacklist

  • Nvidia board considering ousting Jensen after alleged second affair

  • Jensen Huang Was the Face of the A.I. Boom Powering the U.S. Economy

  • Top Intel Dem unsure if Alice Huang is a Chinese spy

  • Nvidia's Disappearing Singapore Sales Deepen Mystery Around Megaspeed

  • Elon Musk, Bill Ackman and online bots defend Jensen Huang online

  • Who Is Colette Kress? Meet Nvidia's New Interim CEO

  • Nvidia Shareholders Won't Miss Jensen Huang for Long

  • The Nvidia Machine Was Already Facing a Tougher Future

  • Nvidia and the World Without Jensen

  • Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia – who is Colette Kress, his interim replacement?

  • Singapore Says Alice Huang Has Been Barred from Returning to the Country

  • The Scandal Is Bigger Than Jensen Huang

  • Washing dishes at Denny's to rockstar of AI, the rise and fall of Jensen Huang

  • Singapore Says U.S. Not Helpful on Investigation into Suspected Spy's Company

  • Sources say Huang had affair with second Nvidia employee

  • Alice Huang tied to Nvidia's biggest Chinese competitor

  • Nvidia Can Replace Its CEO. It Cannot Replace Jensen Huang's Vision

  • Jensen Huang Fucked Everybody

  • Nvidia Faced Pressure to Boost Its AI Backstop Before Huang Exit

  • US Intel isn't sure if Alice Huang spied on Nvidia for China

• Can the AI boom make enough money to sustain itself?

  • Banks turn to credit insurance as they hit limits on lending to AI boom

  • What happens to the AI industry if Nvidia falters

  • The Comprehensive Guide to the Bank of Nvidia

• What happens to Texas data centers now?

• AI makes it 'close to impossible' to assess university coursework,regulator says

• Swatting calls using AI means fake 911 calls are harder to detect

• Key Facts About U.S. Data Centers

• United Airlines Is Banning AI Bots from Booking Flights

• Softbank loses $3.7 billion on canceled AI data center gas turbine orders days after denying Elon Musk’s claim it was defaulting

• Chicago schools tell Google they'd rather lose Search than be forced to use AI

• Tear Down Those Guardrails: Renegades Freeing Chatbots from Corporate Enslavers

• OpenAI and Georgia county leaders hit with Mafia-style RICO racketeering lawsuit

• Anthropic's Model Taught Itself to Run on AMD in "Three Days."

• Google Search gets a major upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen

• Why Is It So Hard to Teach A.I. Agents to Behave? Researchers Have a Theory

• The internet won't necessarily go dark. It could simply stop working

• OpenAI, Google, Anthropic hit with lawsuit to stop AI development

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Kalshi ends Donald Trump Jr's advisory contract over Polymarket conflict

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Big Pharma subsidizes biotech investors

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Boomers still hold half the Senate after the 2026 midterms

• NRC Issues First Construction Permit in Nearly 60 Years for Gas-Cooled Reactor

Trump

• Despite Denial, Trump Was Told on Trip to China About Spying on Nvidia Leader

• Hawley calls for Senate to pass data center moratorium

• Microsoft presses Trump to scuttle ban on Chinese data center tech

• Trump says Apple's Tim Cook should take over Nvidia

  • Trump backed Nvidia chip controls aimed at China 3 times as Lutnick stalled

  On Thursday, as the spy scandal rocked the administration, Lutnick met in the Situation Room with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. During the meeting, Bessent confronted Lutnick about why his department has resisted implementing the export controls, particularly on Megaspeed, the company at the center of the spy scandal. The group sided with Bessent. Lutnick appeared to agree, but then muttered under his breath, "I need to check with the president." Lutnick's seemingly innocuous comment raised concerns, the sources said, because officials have repeatedly believed the Commerce Department would impose the export controls, only to have nothing happen.

  • White House discussing Lutnick's future as commerce secretary, sources say

Left Angst

• After Democrats' midterm wins, Palantir CEO Alex Karp says he's a 'progressive'

  • Palantir's Karp says he and the company's products are actually 'progressive'

• ‘Screwed twice’: The CFPB says it’s looking out for consumers. Its own data tells a different story

  Complaints about banks and other financial players keep rising as Trump officials squelch enforcement actions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

• Trump proposed a 'secret weapon' to police colleges. It will soon become reality

• Top Democrats Target Trump administration's Nvidia-China Records

  Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Chris Coons ask for documents to be preserved, often initial step before formal congressional probes

• Billions lost and markets roiled. Isn't it now clear tech bros are too powerful?

• JD Vance and the VP Curse

• Architect of National Popular Vote Compact Regards NPV as a "Doomsday Machine"

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Apple employee charged with murder following fatal accident near Apple Park

World

• Why Did Palantir CEO Alex Karp Buy a Swedish Forest?

• How a $1 scarf seller became Seoul's biggest attraction

• Spain grinds to a halt in first general strike in 14 years

• Reuters Ravaged After Labeling Poland's Independence Celebration A "Far-Right March"

• Brussels puts a price on Big Tech digital trickery

• Australian companies face 'AI washing' claims after wave of job cuts, offshoring

• Mercedes-Benz halts German investments as plant closures loom

• We moved to Sweden for my husbands job 4y ago. Now we may lose the life we built

Iran / Houthi

• Shahid Kaveh: Iran cybercriminal gang blamed for France supermarket fridge hack

Israel

• Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital kills 6 people, health authorities say

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Speed Restrictions are being imposed on Starshield in Ukraine again

  • Starshield speed restriced again, hampering efforts to intercept Russian drones

  • Ukraine says Starshield disrupted as US envoys reach Moscow for Putin talks

  • Amid US-Russia Talks, Ukraine Says Its Starlink Access Is Restricted Again

• They're in Ukraine. Why Do Their Phones Say They're in Peru?

China

• China Covered Desert Land with Solar Panels,Found 126% More Carbon in the Soil

• Bureaucratic incentives shaped effectiveness of the one-child policy in China

Health / Medicine

• Mothers' poor sleep in late pregnancy linked to higher obesity risk in children

• New Study Rewrites the Rules of the Blood-Brain Barrier

• Prostate Cancer Screening Now Broadly Recommended, Reversing Past Guidance

  • American Cancer Society calls for prostate cancer screening in guideline change

• Scientists Discover That Male and Female Hearts Age in Surprisingly Different Ways.

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Not the cases of measles, which never went away: Upcoming meeting could determine if US loses its measles elimination status

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• SS United States deliberately sunk off Florida coast to become a reef

• World heading for 'irrevocable overshoot' of global temperature thresholds

• We're finding new animals faster than science can name them

• Cameras in space could help spot invasive plants on Earth

• Guidelines on attempts to manipulate the ocean put spotlight on geoengineering

• Climate Change Has Pushed World's Ice Out of Its Safe Zone