2026-11-02

Horseshit

• A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income

• Earliest spoken audio of endangered U.S. language discovered

• Simulations Show Building Blocks of Life Didn't Arrive on Prehistoric Comets

• When a wedding fell apart, 11 strangers helped create something unforgettable

• Newly Discovered Trail of Cosmic Debris – How End of the Solar System Could Look

• Life with Down Syndrome

• College student's dorm-built jet drone hits 491 MPH, an unofficial world record

• Why are car keys so expensive to replace?

• It's the world's largest passenger plane. But he fit some of it inside his home

• Woman put a potato in bowl of Halloween candy and became famous

celebrity gossip

• Brian May, Queen guitarist and astrophysicist: ‘To be a complete human being, you need art and science’

• Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• How the pandemic changed trust in science – in four charts

Musk

• The staggering $446M Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Sadiq Khan calls for cap on numbers of robotaxis on London streets

• Trucks That Haul 90 Tons of Coal on Battery Power–and Drive Themselves

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• IEEE Wipes Out 1,417 Papers over Sold Authorship

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Amazon made the AUX input on older Alexa devices less useful

• Developer makes Windows 11 26H2 work on insanely low 128MB RAM

• Microsoft confirms Windows 11 won't let you move the Taskbar like on Windows 10

• Canon says camera prices could rise in 2027 if memory costs stay high

• Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case

  The fingerprint only switched the USB connection on; nothing on the card was encrypted.

  • Apparently this was only sold in China, and the "flaw" fraud was found over a year ago.

• A playable version of Portal prequel F-Stop leaked

  • Valve's Cancelled Portal Prequel F-Stop Has Leaked

• Why I Still Own a DVD Player – and You Should, Too

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Police chief unplugs Flock cameras after company ignores contract cancellation

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Did Anthropic value itself at $1.2T in August?

• Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not personal computers

• Wikimedia Foundation Tries to Save Itself by Brokering AI Copyright Deal

• Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers

• Terence Tao: The Year Math Changed Forever

• DeepSeek launches advanced coding agent to rival Claude Code

• Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural

• Computerized clairvoyance: psychics push back against AI-generated readings

• Who pays for the AI power boom?

• The AI boom spawns job market for data-center liaisons

• Hermantown approves controversial Google Data Center during late night meeting

• The question we should all be asking about AI

• The Currency of the Journal Article Is Collapsing

• Anthropic Removes Daily Usage Limits

• Is this the first clear evidence of AI's impact on the labour market?

• Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face

• Brazilian lawyers fined $16K for hiding a prompt injection in a court filing

• The AI bubble could expose your deepest secrets

• Google, Anthropic and others to support new AI crawling opt-out standard

  • Google joins OpenAI and Anthropic in promising new scraping controls

• Behind the Curtain: OpenAI's post-election power play

• Proposed data centre will release 23 Hiroshima atomic bomb worth of energy a day

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Binance restarts customer withdrawals after $6.3B heist

  • North Korea Responsible for $6B+ Binance Attack

  • Binance resumes customer withdrawals after record $6.3B hack

• Its Investors Say Kalshi Is Worth $40B. Is an IPO Next?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• We're Living in the Age of the Imperial CEO

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• If CA matched TX on property taxes, it would raise more than the billionaire tax

• $2B from 20 Top Donors Fuels an Expensive Midterms

• US Jobs Pickup May Keep Fed on Track to Hike Rates Again

• Oil majors resist pressure to invest in new refineries, fuel prices keep rising

Left Angst

• What a mother's 1834 letter about measles tells us about MAHA

• DOJ list of alleged noncitizens on voter rolls rife with errors, analysis finds

  More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California cannot be found on voter rolls

• Pesticide lobby touts MAHA report rollback as its biggest win of 2025

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Air Force Plans Autonomous Fighter and ISR Drones by 2032

World

• Shops looted as German cost of living protests turn violent

  • Gen Z protests turn violent in Germany

• Brazil's President Faces Down the Online Right

• France approves $11B tax based on content delivered to French subscribers

  • France plans internet tax of 5.5 cents per gigabyte

• Stuck on an island for years, can't get transit visa to fly home

• Map Shows Nations Urging People to Stockpile Food as France Issues Warning

• Everyone sleeping rough to be given route off streets by Christmas, Burnham vows

• Parts of Northwestern Ontario Moving to Permanent Daylight Saving Time

• More than 300 arrests at Palestine Action support protest outside US embassy

• Afghan musicians play in secret to keep traditions alive despite ban

• Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions

• 'Painful' years ahead, think tanks warn, as living standards set to fall

  Typical working-age households would see their disposable income fall by £1,050, or 3%, between now and 2029, according to the Resolution Foundation, while the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the current decade would be the worst for household income growth on record.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• 'We came back from hell', say Ukrainians after years in Russia-occupied city

China

• Chinese markets lose trillions as race for AI supremacy with US takes its toll

Health / Medicine

• Treatments for age-related infertility are being developed at last

• Psychedelic nasal spray reduced treatment-resistant depression for 8 weeks

• Drug dealers are not noted for civic virtue generally: 'No industry has been as criminal as the pharmaceutical industry'

• Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare

• Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Europe's Fossil-Fuel Problem Has an Electric Solution

• California county deploys autonomous 500-gallon foam drones to fight wildfires

• Flooding in Parts of Arizona and Colorado Prompts Evacuation Orders