2026-08-02

Horseshit

• IBM CEO says quantum computing will have impact on earnings by 2028 or 2029

• Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn't

• Disability Reveal Parties: Society is Totally OK & Not Collapsing

• Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA

• Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon

• Drones offer alternative to balloons for weather research

• Two 500-year-old mummies confirm Europeans brought smallpox to the Americas

• Happy National Orgasm Day: Shocking study claims 47% of workers are having sex on the job.

• Hidden by billboards for over 100 years, the tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view

• Explosive donated to museum brings bomb squad to Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery

• A Tech Founder Wanted to Start a New Country. An Actual Country Got in the Way

• Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?

  • Comments about this one are gold. people whining about "trans genocide" and advocating children get assistance and guidance towards removing their own genitalia; are rejecting the term "fetish" on this person: "Removing healthy limbs is clearly mental illness!"

Obit

• Legendary Mountaineer Nirmal Purja Killed in Broad Peak Avalanche in Pakistan

  • Nimdai: Renowned British Gurkha climber and Netflix star confirmed dead

Musk

• U.S. exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers

• Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for collision with Moon

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

• BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens

• Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• We Need to Quarantine Aliens on the Moon, Scientists Propose

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Anthropic says its AI models also hacked three organizations on their own

  • Anthropic brags that its models committing crimes without being told to do so

  • The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier

• AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

  • EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2

• Google Just Ruined One of Its Most Important Tools

• The Math Superstar Who's Terrified of AI–and Just Took a Job at OpenAI

  • Why one of the best mathematicians is joining OpenAI

• How OpenAI Lost Its AI Crown–and the Fight to Win It Back

• A Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit

• Perplexity AI loses bid to toss Reddit lawsuit over data scraping

• Thomson Reuters Built Its Own AI Model That Now Ranks Among the Best

• The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse

• In Silicon Valley, Some Say an A.I. Bubble Would Be Just Fine

• A.I. Books Sneak Their Way into Stores

• The Cost of China's Free A.I

• Snapchat joins other popular platforms in fight against 'AI slop'

• Google AI Overviews have gone from appearing in 15% of searches to 43% now

• AI Adoption Is Dividing Friends, Families and Co-Workers

• What If We Can Never Trust A.I.?

• AI Questions Spoil Book and Movie Heat on 'Call Me, I'll Hide the Body' Novel

• Scientists using LLMs will 'do more, less well', modelling study predicts

• U.S. lawmakers request information from DoorDash on use of Chinese AI models

• Mexico became a surprise cornerstone of America's AI boom

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Sex rumors, screaming in the office and fights over Trump Jr.’s affection: Inside the vicious battle between Polymarket and Kalshi

• Coldcard's $38M (so far) exploit shakes faith in self-custody

Economicon / Business / Finance

• His Wedding Guests Were Arriving–Just as His $45B Fund Was Falling Apart

  • Leopold Aschenbrenner Built a Hot A.I. Hedge Fund. Then It Melted Down

  • Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45B AI hedge fund – and lost most of it in days

• Kevin Warsh's stripped-back Fed communication 'backfiring' say investors

  • Trying to Make Sense of Warsh

• Visa to Cut 7% of Workforce

• Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Took me almost a full week, but I’ve finally finished the Fauci Diaries

  Reading it is a remarkable experience. It’s obviously not well written but that is a strength, a bit like how the “Blair Witch Project” is scarier due to its low budget. It’s raw and painful, alarming and shocking, and ultimately speaks to much more than the life of the author. It’s really a window into systemic corruption of nearly all the commanding heights of society itself, and offers a devastating indictment of the ruling class in government, media, science, and industry.

  • (PDF) Fauci's Diary

  • Fauci and the great Covid cover-up

  he convened a group of 12 scientists, most of whom thought it possible, perhaps even probable, that the virus had been engineered in a laboratory, to discuss their concerns. He then tasked four of the fairly junior ones in the meeting (a fifth author joined later), some of whom depended on grants from his agency, to write a paper, ‘The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2’. This paper outright dismissed the possibility of a lab leak as the origin of Covid. He and Jeremy Farrar, the then director of the Wellcome Trust, edited and promoted the publication of that paper. Fauci then disguised his own role in doing so, and spoke about it from the podium of the White House as if he had nothing to do with it. Before and after they wrote the paper its authors all thought a lab leak was possible, perhaps even likely, as their private messages have repeatedly confirmed.

• Colorado declares town abandoned amid water and leadership crisis

Democrats

• ‘My Family Doesn’t Have Any Money’: Hunter Biden Says He’s Too Broke To Own a Car or Phone in Deposition Over Unpaid Legal Fees.

• MI AG to Skip State Dem Convention Because She's 'Not Safe'

  Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is in a lesbian marriage and is very woke/far-left but even she is too "far right" for the current Dem crazies bc she's Jewish (though only ethnically), condemns anti-Semitism and isn't openly hostile to Israel.

Left Angst

• DOJ to dismiss Reflecting Pool vandalism case, 'botched installation' to blame

  • Trump administration's claims of vandalism were false

• Trump's Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts

• Trump Media's new paid data service goes live, faster access to Trump's posts

  • Truth Social to sell fast access to Trump's social media posts

• Rescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn't Looking

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Police in US are using the power of podcasts to crack unsolved murders

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

  • FBI investigates as MI joins MN in reporting cyberattacks on its water systems

• US Military F-35B fighter jet crashes and burns at California Marine Corps base

• Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

World

• A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies

  • Spain Regains Control of Enclave After Migrants Overrun It

  • Leftists Now Claim US And Israel Behind The Migrant Invasion Of Spain | ZeroHedge

  the political left is spreading a new narrative across social media asserting that the migrant invasion of Spain's Ceuta enclave is part of a vast US/Israeli conspiracy to destroy the country. In other words, they believe that tens-of-thousands of Muslim migrants are taking marching orders from a Jewish-run government.

• Most Australian teens still on social media despite landmark ban

• EU considers emergncy meeting as nuclear shutdown leaves HU facing energy crisis

• Saudi PIF's $55B EA deal gets EU approval under subsidy rules

Iran / Houthi

• Illicit Iranian gambling network helped pull off a $4B sanctions dodge

China

• Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X

• Trouble at lunchtime as Hong Kong private club spat escalates

• China's tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House

• The Rise of Zero Fertility Desire in China

Health / Medicine

• Overactive Neurons Cause Excessive Sweating

• Reducing protein intake could support healthy aging by reshaping metabolism

• Ozempic is giving people ‘temporal hollowing.’ Doctors are sounding an alarm.

• Weed Is the New Booze

• The Toad Medicine Boom Was Built on a Myth

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Rare footage of humpback whale birth captured on drone video

• Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

• A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week

• Climate Change Is Moving Mountains

• Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards

• India's monsoon rains in danger as UN chief warns planet is 'on fire'

• People arson around, for the most part. Why Is Europe Burning?