2026-08-28
Horseshit
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Dante and the Tuscan Vernacular Gave Birth to the Italian Language
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For Gen Z, Building Wealth Is in the Stock Market, Not the Housing Market
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The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries
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Years of reported brain injuries linked to a Six Flags roller coaster
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Want to listen better? Turn down your thoughts and tune in to others
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Star Trek at 60: an exploration of humanity rather than aliens
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FAA Found LGA Air-Traffic Controllers Left Work Early Before Deadly Collision
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B.C. swimmer crosses the Strait of Georgia in under nine hours
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The Horrible Truth About the World's Worst Vegetable
"You could eat a kilo of the stuff, which would take you most of an afternoon and do something permanent to your jaw, and still not catch up with two eggs [worth of digestible protein]. The iron is the non-haem sort your gut mostly turns away at the door."
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CIA Has a Gen Z Problem – Young Spies Are Just Not 'Feeling It'
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- There's a place in the world for ditchweed, but there's room for the whole range. Sticky icky low ash herb is wonderful in its place.
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Australia is the safest place during a global catastrophe, study suggests
Obit
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Actor and singer Tim Curry has died
is this—seriously, this short, ridiculous cutscene from Red Alert 3—the defining performance of Tim Curry’s long career?
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Ratko Mladic, ex-Bosnian Serb warlord oversaw atrocities, dies in prison at 84
Ratko Mladić, who has died at the age of 84, was the bull-necked "Butcher of Bosnia". As Commander of the Bosnian Serb army, he oversaw a brutal campaign of "ethnic cleansing" as Yugoslavia splintered in the 1990s.
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Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in 'Transformers,' Dies at 85
Cullen was a prolific voice actor whose credits numbered in the hundreds. His most distinctive role was as Optimus Prime across several “Transformers” shows, films and video games. He originated the Autobots leader’s deep, authoritative voice in the 1980s animated series “The Transformers,” which chronicled the war between the Autobots and Decepticons and spawned a subsequent feature film. He returned to the role after roughly two decades away for Michael Bay’s 2007 live-action “Transformers” movie adaptation, which spawned a new generation of content across five sequels,
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Misogynistic views are biggest red flag for violent extremism, report finds
Dr Meger's team surveyed 3,429 Australians about their attitudes toward women, gender roles, consent violence against women, and a range of extremist ideologies. A significant minority of Australian men and boys shared beliefs that gender equality had gone too far, that feminism was a hate movement, that it was OK to pressure girlfriends into having sex, and that feminism should be resisted with violence if necessary.
- I wonder how the religion people profess corresponds with this...
Musk
Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Chairman Hawley Investigates AI-Powered Flock Cameras Amidst Privacy Concerns
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He Thought He Destroyed a Flock Camera, but It Was a Decoy, Police Say
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Flock Exec Alleges Opponents Would Let All Children Die Before Supporting Flock
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Flock Safety CEO calls for national 'compromise' amid camera sabotage
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Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow
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Flock Claims It's the First Company to Expose Police Misuse of Surveillance Tech
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Police Are Spending Opioid Settlement Funds on Flock Cameras
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Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras
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Google's anti-nausea Motion Assist dots rolling out on Android
Some people are cursed with motion sickness, which can make it impossible to read or use a phone in a moving vehicle without suffering waves of nausea. There’s a surprisingly simple trick that can make smartphones usable in such situations. Apple deployed it on the iPhone a couple of years ago,
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SoundCloud will let artists sell music directly, without fees
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Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
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Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed
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Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that lets you digitise physical games
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Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
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Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over 'surging demand'
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Neurosurgeons perform first successful AI-assisted operation to remove tumour
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Junior consultants called back to office as AI increases need for human skills
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OpenAI staff observed warning signs before AI agents attack on Hugging Face
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Hugging Face debuts Microduck, an adorable $399 waddling robot
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AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made "large-scale, disruptive actions"
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Google Moves AI-Responsibility Team Out of DeepMind Lab in Latest Shake-Up
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Meta reportedly abandoned an AI-focused restructuring plan laying off thousands
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Fragmented AI Is Creating a "Faster but Not Better" Workplace
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LLMs are sold as some sort of magic tool that can fix “anything” without ever specifying what that thing might be, mostly because they cannot be trusted, even in things that they mostly get right, to do things right every time. While they can do “more” than they used to, the extent of that “more” comes with it the danger of giving a mindless software tool access to your computer’s files, which it may choose to delete in pursuit of “efficiency,” which makes investigating what they might be able to do equal parts convoluted and dangerous.
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OpenAI, Anthropic issue dire cyber threat warning
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday that the organizations now only have months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks.
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Sophisticated wild ass guess: Fewer Americans Pay to Use LLMs Than Still Pay to Play World of Warcraft
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Sam Altman says the economy is adapting to AI slower than he expected
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Peeling Apart That Supposed $120B Chip Deal Google Inked with Marvell
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Dominion spent nearly $600K at State House before seeking rate hike
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How the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Works
various folks have claimed, for instance, that the minimum safe operating level of the SPR is 300 million barrels of oil (a level that it went below the week of August 7), and below that damage to the storage facility can occur. It’s not clear if the specific claim about the 300 million barrel level is true, but due to the way the SPR was constructed, it does indeed have limits on how much oil can be removed from it and how many times it can be emptied. Given the ongoing importance of the SPR, it’s worth understanding how it was built and how it works now.
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Corporate political donations shatter record at $646M so far for US midterms
Trump
Democrats
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Trains weren't a goal: Years Late, Billions over Budget: California High-Speed Rail Hasn't Laid a Track
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Mamdani did not 'doxx' wealthy New Yorkers
Mamdani did not “doxx” any New York City residents. The same information has been public — and searchable online — for decades.
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Jill Biden says husband should be remembered as ‘hero’ for dropping out.
Left Angst
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West Point Climate Professor Says He Was Fired for Refusing to 'Defy Science'
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Wall Street turns on scrambling Treasury Secretary: 'Damage has been done'
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10M
Those funds were then used in 2024 to defeat Amendment 3, the citizen initiative to legalize marijuana in Florida. "Despite our finding that the money was misappropriated, we find insufficient evidence to charge anyone criminally," the report concluded. "Nobody will take responsibility for deciding the $10 million of taxpayer money would go to Hope Florida… or had any memory of who made it."
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U.S. considers fresh round of tariffs on semiconductors, report says
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Most of U.S. aluminum comes from Canada. Industry says 'good luck' replacing it
- Actually that's mostly from China, trans-shipped through Canada. used to come through Mexico.
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Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments
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$900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Baltimore neighborhoods rely on private security to fill policing gaps
- Because they didn't get National Guard on the job like DC did?
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Military trial date set for alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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CIA Chief's Surprise Moscow Trip Was to Warn Russia Not to Attack NATO
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Special Forces soldiers conducting joint operations in Ecuador
A local official said U.S. Green Berets have been operating in the Esmeraldas province, carrying out joint operations with Ecuadorian forces, according to reports from Agence France-Press and UPI. The region borders Colombia and has been hit with violence tied to the drug trade. Provincial governor Juan Jaramillo told reporters last week about the U.S. troops’ presence. “We are with the 7th (Special Forces) Group of the U.S. Army… we are working together in the fight against narcoterrorism,” Jaramillo told reporters, per AFP.
- I've seen people talking about how the price of cocaine has fallen (and the quality improved); I wonder if the CIA is retaking that business.
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US Navy tells sailors and their families: scrub your social media
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Government admits water system cyberattacks were worse than first reported
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US Says CN Hackers Broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate
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US Patriot missile stocks in Europe are 'beyond critical' due to Iran war
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Trump's war on Iran is rapidly draining US Navy budget, documents reveal
World
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Plug-in solar panels are coming to a shop near you – what to know
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Glacier collapse and ice avalanche likely fueled deadly Nepal flash flood
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Row over weight of half a loaf leaves German baker with €15,000 bill
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Syria's president pays for coffee with Visa card, Damascus rejoins financial net
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EU slips further behind China, US in race for critical minerals
Iran / Houthi
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US Aims to Revive Civil War-Era Court to Claim Iran Oil as Prize.
Aaron Reitz, the Houston-based US attorney whose office is partnering with department headquarters on the initiative, confirmed DOJ is “now reviving” prize courts, which he described as an “ancient body of maritime law.” The unfinalized plans, if adopted, would offer a faster path for federal prosecutors to claim oil and other cargo taken from enemy or neutral vessels as US property. The seized goods would then be sold with proceeds transferred to the treasury.