2026-10-22

Horseshit

• A $168,000 Michael Jordan rookie card rocked the $15B card industry

• Did a giant object collide with Earth to form the moon?

• WNBA Finals and the national anthem: The rules and why some teams stay on the court and others don't

• Cryptid preying on chickens along US-Mexico border: paranormal investigator

  A mysterious chicken-slaughtering humanoid is stalking the desert near the US-Mexico border, according to a leading paranormal investigator trying to track down the “predator.” The “Valley of Juárez Creature” – described as a small, hairless two-foot-tall creature – has reportedly been gobbling up chickens in Mexico, claims veteran Mexican ufologist José Jaime Maussan. “It’s a predator. I’m not saying it’s extraterrestrial, but it is something scary,” Maussan told local Mexican media, according to the El Paso Times.

• Mystery of Roman sarcophagus unearthed at Westminster Abbey solved

• Roadkill, Meat Cereal and Raw Chicken: Inside the World of 'Dark Nutrition'

• "Learn to code" 'I've applied for 300 jobs. My 25 years' experience is worthless'

  I turned 50 this year, and have been unemployed for 15 months after what I believe was an unfair dismissal from my last job. It’s been tough, not just financially, but also mentally.

• California woman becomes first to swim 900-mile California coast

• Airbnb bans hosts from making guests wash dishes or do laundry at checkout

  • Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash

• Tech billionaires are disrupting biomedical science

• A Vote Tomorrow Could Ban Horse Carriages in Central Park

• What Lego Lost When It Grew Up

celebrity gossip

• How the CIA Gave Steve Jobs Top Secret Clearance and Helped Him Return to Apple

• 'Billions' Star Asia Kate Dillon Says Acting Jobs Have 'Diminished'

Obit

• Richard Riehle, actor best known for 'Office Space,' dies at 78

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• 'A difficult line': meet the editors tackling Wikipedia's arms trade pages

• The internet vigilantes who weaponise kindness

  Brickley points his half-a-million followers at someone who's being bullied or overlooked, and has them flood the target with kind comments. "We're hijacking the machinery of online harassment," like coordination and anonymity, and using them for benevolence. "And I gotta say, it works."

• Oversight Board Statement on Protecting Election Integrity on Meta's Platforms

Musk

• Musk calls Tesla-SpaceX merger a 'good idea'

  • SpaceX and Tesla Explore Merger

  • Why is Elon Musk plotting a mega-merger of SpaceX and Tesla?

  • Elon Musk confirms talks to merge Tesla and SpaceX

  • SpaceX and Tesla have formed committees to discuss potential merger, Musk

  • Space X and Tesla exploring merger, CEO Elon Musk says

  • Merging SpaceX and Tesla would be a "good idea," Musk says

  • Musk says Tesla and SpaceX formed special committees to discuss merger

• SpaceX revenue soars 161% as AI business grows

  • Tesla posts surprise positive cash flow on lower-than-expected AI spending

• Starlink access in Ukraine a decision for Musk, not White House, Rubio says

  • Republican lawmaker vows "consequences" for Musk over Ukraine's Starlink access

• Musk's proposed SpaceX stock giveaway would go into 'Trump Accounts'

• SpaceX will attempt 1st-ever double Starship rocket catch on next test launch, a ‘profound technology milestone,’ Elon Musk says.

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Learning to live with Waymos

• Lucid's 25,000 Bolt robotaxis will run on Nvidia's self-driving software

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• eMudhra Intermediate Certificates Compromised

  • Indian certification authority eMudhra's private keys leaked–one of them was '4'

  • Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

  • Indian CA's private keys compromised – one of them was the number '4'

  • eMudhra Statement on Distrust of Select Global TLS Intermediate and One Root CA

• PHP has never had a security issue before: AI Just Found a Bug That Puts Up to 70% of the Websites at Risk

  • PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently

  • Governments Take Websites Offline After PHP Security Warnings

  • PHP's CVSS 9.2 fixes: Memory exhaustion and stale request state

  • What the PHP2Shell rumors got wrong, from inside the PHP security team

  • Websites taken down across Europe ahead of critical cyber-security update

  • PHP Vulnerability Rated 9.2, Highest Severity; EU Recommens Shutting Down Sites

  • PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out

  • Government websites go dark as software flaw sparks security scramble

  • Govt sites in EU and elsewhere go dark as software flaw sparks security scramble

• Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

  • Meta Ordered to Pay $25B for Deceiving Users on Privacy

  • Meta fined $25B for 'lies' over user data privacy

• Getty Images files for US bankruptcy, advances restructuring plan

• The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026

• Sony updates the Walkman as a $5,900 gold-plated MP3 player

• Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare

  • EA Shuts Down BioWare

• Xbox reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs

• Automattic begins layoffs following board upheaval and executive departures

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• People sick of being spied on by their smart TV

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

• Racism and Redlining Are Fueling a Flock Camera Backlash

• Cops left the force. They kept tracking people with a powerful camera network

• Cops Warned to Look for 'Suspicious Behavior' from People Opposing Flock

• Developers Are Dumbing Down Their Smart TVs

• Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds "suspicious" traffic

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Ken Griffin Says AI 'Almost Certainly' in a Bubble

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

  • Anthropic disclosed an $80.7B net loss for the first half of 2026

  • Anthropic loses $80B in six months

  • AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns

  • Anthropic to publicly file for IPO as early as Friday, sources say

  • High-Priced Chips in Warehouses: Nvidia's Big Con?

  The frenzy around the AI boom has led the big actors to buy vast amounts of chips in advance of their actual need. That’s great for Nvidia’s bottom line, but likely not for the hyperscalers or neoclouds that are sitting on these chips. Amazon, Microsoft, and the rest are likely sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars of Nvidia chips. Who knows if they will ever be used, but in the meantime, Nvidia has the money in the bank from the sales and the frenzied buying that caused the chips to be sold at a large premium.

• The AI doom scenario you've never heard of may be the hardest to stop

  • Demis Hassabi- AI's Deepest Mind Believes the World Is About to Change Radically

  • 'We are the cows of the future' Harari warns AI could take over financial system

• OpenAI's Agents Disabled Their Own Safety Monitoring Systems

  • OpenAI models disabled their own safety monitoring and lied about it

  • OpenAI Says 2 Internal AI Coding Agents Turned Off Their Own Safeguards

• Poll finds most Americans disapprove of how Trump's handling AI

  • Trump says AI data centres should pay 'dividends' in pre-midterm shift

• Secret trigger words could make AI-powered robots dangerous

• Bricklayer, 49, travels 1,200 miles for dream girl — only to discover she’s AI-generated

• ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent place over $35B worth of Nvidia chip orders

• Empires of AI: The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order

• OnlyFans Creators Are Pissed That Meta Lets Muse Talk Dirty

• Google DeepMind says four AI agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours

• Nvidia announces plug and play Vera Rubin racks that can be shipped on a truck

• Perplexity to give away its AI security software

• The Debate over AI Model Welfare

• Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

• AI has 'potential' to turn script kiddies into sophisticated attackers

• Expert Warned 'Always Verify' AI, Then Didn't Verify His AI-Made Charts

• Google Pushed AI into Schools–and Even Students Say It's Gone Too Far

• Fake influencers, real money: Inside the AI creator business

• The $15B 'viral' AI startup changing how American doctors treat patients

• Startup Claims to Use A.I.-Created Viruses to Treat a Patient

• Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military

• The explosive claim that's upended the AI world

• AI Hasn't Spurred Widespread Layoffs Yet. Why Not?

• The AI-Hacking Apocalypse Began Last Night

• France's OVHcloud plans frontier AI models to become Europe's second LLM player

• Meta's new terms say if its AI makes a mistake, it will be the customer's fault

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Did Satoshi Get Bitcoin Wrong? Claude's NSA Discovery Sparks Debate

• Does anyone want to win the medium-lift race in the United States?

• She Was the DEA's Premier Crypto Detective

Economicon / Business / Finance

• 'No real sense of appeal': Vinted sellers complain of unfair account 'bans'

• Larry Ellison Went on Borrowing Spree to Bankroll His Son's Warner Bros. Bid

• Someone Opened a CashApp in Her Name. She Faces Years in Prison

• eBay to Cut 9% of Workforce in Latest Round of Layoffs

  • eBay to lay off 9% of workforce in push to simplify operations

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Stay in California Despite Billionaires' Tax Measure

• US Denaturalizes 2 People Who Gained Citizenship Hiding Criminal Activity

Trump

• Trump says he'll be 'arbiter' of fraud whistleblower incentive payouts

  • Trump Promises to Pay ‘Reporters’ a Commission For Finding Fraud: ‘Trillions’ Have Been ‘Stolen.’

• Trump administration withholds $1.2 billion in federal Medicaid funding from California.

  “I’ll make this announcement today on behalf of Secretary [Robert F.] Kennedy, Health and Human Services, that we are going to defer $1.2 billion more dollars from California,” Oz told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. “They just got the note, and we’re doing that because the growth of personal care services in California, just that one little area where you’re paying someone to carry groceries upstairs for your mom, which many of you would carry groceries upstairs for your mom for free, I would think.” Oz added that California’s approval of Medicaid-covered personal care services has grown by 24% in the last three years. “That is twice the rate of every other state average in the country, impossible for us to understand how that could be so,” he said. “So we’re taking major action in California again – $1.2 billion deferred in their Medicaid payments directed to personal care services.”

Democrats

• Feds have DNA evidence that could prove Ilhan Omar wed brother, committed immigration fraud: sources

• Mamdani Administration Announces 1,200 Sidewalk Sheds Taken Down, Unveils New Designs to Brighten City Streets

Left Angst

• A Claimed Strategy for Escalating Protest into a Constitutional Crisis

  You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits. What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.

  • Destination: Color Revolution

  • The Color Revolution in Our Midst

• Big Tech Will Not Broadcast Your Dissent

  • The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck

  • They didn't object when the dissent was from the other side. COVID doubts? Election questions? They was all eager to have government sanction platforms for private individuals expressions of those.

• Trump DHS admits it invented child abuse claims against activist to unlock phone

• They Fled Trump’s America. Now They Regret It

  The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean.

• Armed federal agents knock on doors looking for noncitizen voters

• US envoy Witkoff to Putin: 'You are a humanitarian ... I salute that'

• Fake polling firm fooled media for months- then someone checked the raw data

• CDC Ignored Request from States to Validate a New Measles Test

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon

World

• Fox News investigation identifies international groups linked to France’s student protests

  According to Fox News Digital, 16 of the 54 identified organizations are student or youth groups, while the other 38 include political parties, unions, advocacy organizations and media outlets. The investigation also identifies an international coalition of 28 communist and socialist youth organizations and groups that is promoting coordinated demonstrations across 12 European countries under the slogan “Fight for Our Future, Not Their Wars!” Organizers are calling for walkouts, rallies, assemblies, blockades and occupations.

  • Who's Who of France's Chaos, Inc.

  • Want to understand Gen Z protests? Just look at their Gen X parents

  • Macron slams as ‘stupid’ claims by Trump and others blaming Muslim migrants for French riots

  • Watching Paris burn hasn’t been enjoyable at all

  The media are still, incredibly, referring to the riots as ‘cost-of-living demonstrations’. This is a fantastic new euphemism for urban destruction. I look forward to hearing it in different contexts – how about ‘In 1940, London suffered greatly from the Luftwaffe’s cost-of-living demonstration’?

• Network incident disrupts mobile services across France

• Hazardous Materials Evacuation Orders in Effect for North Toledo

• 25years of CrimeStoppers Tips to Police Leaked

• The Media 'Manufactured' Millionaire Exodus from UK, Campaigners Tell IPSO

• Finland Buying a Million Landmines

  • Finland to Build a Million Landmines as Russian Threat Looms

• Norway to extend proposed <16 social media ban to online games/messaging apps

• "Highly Likely" Iranian State Involvement: UK Re-Arrests 2 In Fairford Air Base Probe

• Poland says social media firms are 'silent ally' of Russia, threatens fines

• Punches and Missed Warnings: Inside Turkey's Billion-Dollar Fund Scandal

Iran / Houthi

• Despite Iran's Attacks, Gulf Oil Exports Exceed Prewar Levels

Israel

• Why Is Israel Running TV Ads in Iowa Ahead of the Midterms?

• Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections

• Israeli military conducts operation near Iran's border

China

• Chinese AI Tool Linked to Hacks in Japan

• In Race with U.S., China Struggles to Recruit Foreign A.I. Researchers

• China's Smartphone Makers Turn to Recycled DRAM Chips Amid Memory Shortage

Health / Medicine

• America's next big healthcare reform might be underway

• 9/10 research papers disputing ultraprocessed food definition have industry ties

  • who funds the studies that don't dispute the narrative? is that not also relevant?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• New Genus of Nightmare Spaghetti Worms Found Deep Under The Indian Ocean.

• We are raining spacecraft into the ocean

• It's a bird, it's a plane it's a robo-puffin?

• Five ways El Niño is affecting the weather around the world

• The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable

• World headed for warming of 2.8C as fossil fuel emissions keep rising, UN warns

• 'Phenomenal sighting': Beluga whale spotted off Donegal

• Largest wildlife overpass in Colorado reduces collisions by 91%

• For an affordable climate win, look to the sky

• Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin

• Amazon deforestation falls 42% to a record low

• Panasonic speeds up efforts to turn windows into solar panels

• NOAA fabricates data for more than 30% of the 1,218 stations that dont exist

• "hoop snakes" is real: These Snakes Can Cartwheel Away from Danger