2026-10-20

Horseshit

• Scientists Find a 'Ghostly Green' Star, and That's Not the Only Crazy Color

• Possible wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane likely to be trees, say researchers

  • Amelia Earharts Plane search expedition's Taraia Object hypothesis fails

  • Amelia Earhart researchers leave remote atoll empty-handed

• Pig kidneys that were "frozen" for a year have been brought back to life

• The 'Jury Duty' Scam That Cost This Family $25,000

• Chicago O'Hare Digs Up 50-Ton Boulder Under Airfield, Asks Public for Name Ideas

• Bonanza of new dates rewrites the history of the Inca

• Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for Humanity

• We tried to levitate The Pentagon: Ed Sanders trickster god of US counterculture

• Japanese TV Station Interviews Americans About Their Love for Kei Trucks

• ADHD, autism and the sensory challenges hidden in everyday clothes

• Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test

• How Lego Is Getting More Adults to Tinker with Their Toy Bricks

• Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept

• Can you cheat on someone with a video game?

• The Next 'It' Apple Might Be 300 Years Old

• Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made

• Toronto man accused of driving rental car 30k kms in just 7 days

• The simple words that can expose any liar, according to a forensic linguist

celebrity gossip

• Kevin Bacon's missing clothes finally delivered in Ireland

• CNN’s Christiane Amanpour to depart from network after 43 years

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'

Musk

• I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America

  • Musk pledges a share of his SpaceX company to 'every kid in America'

  • Elon Musk says he'll give a SpaceX share to every child in America next year

  • Elon Musk vows to give a share of SpaceX stock to every US child

  • Musk Vows to Give Each U.S. Child a SpaceX Share

  • Musk pledges to give a share of his SpaceX company to 'every kid in America'

• Another reason to be excited about Elon Musk's flying car

• Starlink pushes back against EU-imposed restrictions on satellite telephony

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Priest killed by falling crucifix during sermon on fragility of life

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• I Teach at a Business School. It's Time to Shut Them Down

• Nearly 1 in 5 UC freshmen are flunking math, double the rate from 5 years ago

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Zotac RTX 5090 graphics cards worth $470k disappear at Brazilian airport

• Supreme Court rejects music labels' challenge to copyright termination

• GTA 6 release could cost US economy $1B in lost productivity in just one day

  • People had more reason to worry about Factorio Space Age; but that turned out OK.

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Documents: Police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent husband

  • Cop Fired for Letting Her ICE Agent Husband Use Her Flock Login

• MapQuest lets you track Flock cameras

• Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional

• Federal judge rules Flock violated the fourth amendment

• Flock cameras spread through government deals that bypassed public scrutiny

• Delivery Robots Accused of Scanning Customers' Faces, Sharing Biometric Data

• Some Ray-Ban Meta owners say their glasses are listening without being asked

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Moon worms: NASA Is About to Investigate What Lies Beneath a Giant Hole on the Moon.

• Dr Garry Hunt talks to us about the astonishing Voyager probes

• Mission blasts off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• How AI is creating a lopsided US economy

  • The Weak Points in AI Bonds Are Becoming Clearer

  • The AI bubble is about to burst much like the infamous dot-com crash

  • The AI industry's gigantic debts are making investors nervous

  • CoreWeave's bonds scream financial distress

  • OpenAI seeks to accelerate fundraising ahead of Anthropic IPO, sources say

• Anthropic commits 5% of shares to 'public benefit' fund

  • AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for 'public good'

  • What to Know About the Obscure Trust Looming over Anthropic's IPO

  • Anthropic commits 5% of shares to new public benefit fund

• US banning Chinese AI DeepSeek from government agency IT systems

  • DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

  • DHS Orders DeepSeek Technology Removed from Federal Civilian IT Systems

  • The US orders every civilian agency to rip out DeepSeek, even tools built on it

  • DHS orders removal of DeepSeek from government agency IT systems

  • US bans DeepSeek AI from government use as tech tension with China continues

• A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents

  • One hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into 100 sites

• Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting device had Saudi support

  • Ex OpenAI engineer accused of planting bug was in contact with Saudi royals

  • Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device has Saudi backing

  • Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device appears to have Saudi backing

  • Accused OpenAI spy had folder called "Saudi Gov Docs," FBI says

• What if the machines take over science?

  • AI Came for Math. Now It's Chasing the Rest of Science

  • AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?

  • AI's transformation of mathematics is a turning point for science

• Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits

• Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid's Field Trip

• Datacenters 2027: The Year of Acceleration, +50GW in a Single Year

• Man arrested after discussing plans for childcare mass shooting with Claude

• AI Agents Trading Stocks While You Sleep? Charles Schwab's CEO Is Skeptical

• AI Optimism Globally Widespread Despite Uneven Use

• Even LinkedIn is getting tired of your AI-written posts

• It Turns Out the Only Thing People Like Less Than AI Is Paying for Adobe

• Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI

• Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says

• US teens can access 'nudify' apps despite Apple and Google's parental controls

• San Francisco's shuttered downtown mall is being eyed for an AI data center

• AI Runs into Its Next Big Obstacle: Insurance

• Microsoft pulls out of UK's largest AI data centre

• AI companies are coming for the plumbers

• Men, Shaping the Future of AI, Doesn't Mean They Know What They're Talking About

• AI agents are only as good as the personal information you share

• People are using AI to make smart TVs dumb

• Game decompilation site is closing because AI has 'broken the community aspect'

• No Linus Torvalds, you are not just using a new and interesting tool

  Linus Torvalds, shame on you! Still, this should not come as a surprise to anyone. Since the Linux Foundation of today are more or less run by Big Tech, Linus Torvalds has become very friendly towards all of these companies. Basically, these companies are paying Linus Torvald's bills. Part of the Linux Foundation is now also the Agentic AI Foundation, to which Anthropic has donated its Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block has donated goose, OpenAI has donated AGENTS.md. Other organizations that have joined the Agentic AI Foundation include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google and others. Perhaps another reason why Linus Torvalds also takes this stand is because he knows that machine generated code, which only concerns "AI" and not compilers nor editors, is very problematic with regard to the GPL license. The "AI" companies are not recognized under copyright law so copyright systems do not have a way for the machine generated output to contain the grant of permissions which the GPL license requires in order to perform e.g. redistribution. By removing the previous obligatory confession of usage of "AI" tools in the development of the Linus kernel, the problem with the GPL is sidestepped. This can only be fully intentional and not just because Linus Torvalds considers it otherwise idiotic. He knows full well that if the requirement is maintained, nobody can legally use any "AI" generated code in the kernel. Without the requirement, you cannot prove that committed code has been copied from code which is under a license that is incompatible with the GPL. This is sheer hypocrisy.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Rise of In-Office Remote Work

• Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All

• 3 shuttered nuclear plants could soon power homes, AI data centers

• The Internet Told Them Owning a Laundromat Was Easy Money. It Was Anything But

• TP-Link and Key Tronic Sign Letter of Intent to Bring Router Assembly to the US

• Is Chocolate Still Chocolate?

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Trump’s War With Iran Pushed Him To Waive a Century-Old Shipping Law. Commerce Boomed.

• USPS can now bill senders for unpaid foreign duties, even if disputed

Democrats

• 'Moderate' Elissa Slotkin pretends she's a stickler for 'defending democracy' -- but this is how the Bolshevik left play the game

  The Michigan senator told students at the University of Chicago last week how she plans to use the power that will come to Democrats if they win Senate control in the midterms next month. She wants to unleash a barrage of political investigations on Trump officials in order to frighten young people away from taking jobs in the administration. “The people around Donald Trump . . . have no immunity the way the president does . . . So you go after the people who do his bidding,” she told the audience during a live podcast recording Tuesday. “I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him,” she continued. “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.’ “I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’ “I want that deterrence message.”

  • Sen. Slotkin (D-Mich.) urges Dems to use prosecution to make young people afraid to serve in Trump admin

Left Angst

• America Is Now an Ally of Russia

• Americans Are Losing the Long Game

• DHS Political Appointees Ask CISA to Secretly Obtain Voting Machine And Hack it

• 8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution

• Raw Chicken, Malnutrition and Fear: Pregnancy in ICE Detention Camps

• 'I suffer with my wallet': American voters weigh in on the midterms

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site

World

• Rioters loot stores, set fires in central Milan during cost-of-living protest

• Greece launches Daedalus supercomputer reduce reliance on foreign infrastructure

• In Europe's tech capital, Irish labor unions are booming amid AI-driven layoffs

• Andy Burnham launches campaign against 'headphone dodgers' on public transport

  • Playing Music Without Headphones Could Cost You £1k on Trains

• Is Germany's eight-hour workday under threat?

• Canada confirms plan to diversify away from Elon Musk's Starlink

• Canada is experiencing a sudden and complicated defense boom

• Europe's Insurers Cut Coverage of Weather Losses, Report Says

• Uber wins bid to throw out UK mass lawsuit by black cab drivers

• A Trillion-Dollar Industry Launders Illegal Gold

• Indians' rights have been chipped away for decades

  But interfering with the sanctity of elections is a step too far

• Norwegian Company Pitches Undersea Cable Linking Canada and EU to Bypass the US

• Europe's cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good

• German industry has lost nearly half a million jobs since 2019, Ifo says

• France's Supermarket Fridges Were Vulnerable Online for Months

• Quebec's reserves of maple syrup almost depleted, says new report

Israel

• Gaza flotilla postpones mission to 2027 after mechanical failures, migrant deaths at sea.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian milsat closes from 200 miles to 3 miles of US satellite aiding Ukraine

  • Star Wars: A Russian Military Satellite Gets Within 200m of One Used by Ukraine

  • A Russian satellite is stalking a U.S. spacecraft in orbit. Experts are worried

  • Russian Satellite Makes a Menacing Approach to Another Craft in Orbit

• Blaze at St. Petersburg oil sites as Kyiv launches more than 1,000 drones at Russia.

• Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

  • First Evacuation by Hexacopter

  • Ukraine carries out aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier

• Russian 'shadow fleet' fakes locations to appear in two places at once

China

• A Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal Millions

• A Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota and left this in a farmer's cornfield

• Chinese export boom has legs – and wings

• Chinese export boom has legs – and wings

Health / Medicine

• Scientists discover that male and female skin play by different rules

• 5 surprising signs your body may actually need more sodium, according to dietitians.

  there are a few telltale signs you're short on sodium, including: Salt cravings, Weakness, Fatigue, Headaches, Muscle cramps. Some other signs of fluid-electrolyte imbalance that could mean you need to up your salt intake include dry mouth, not peeing enough (and dark concentrated urine when you do go to the bathroom), feelings of dizziness upon standing, and abdominal cramping, Gaffen notes. All of these symptoms are serious and warrant prompt medical treatment.

• Most vapes, e-cigarettes now illegal to sell in Pennsylvania

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Calls to phase out plastics in cemetery rejected

• Fine particles from aircraft exhaust become more harmful over time

• El Niño Brings Exotic Sea Life to the California Coast

• The immortal jellyfish can beat ageing

• How Africa's 'wall' to hold back the desert unravelled