2026-04-08

Horseshit

• How Plausible Is 'Project Hail Mary'? Astrophysicists Have Thoughts

• Can a country get too rich?

• The brain might not create consciousness after all

• Is It Possible That the Oldest Stone Tools on Earth Were Not Made by Humans?

• Bill Phillips used flowing water to model the economy

• What is 'muscle memory' and can I improve mine?

• My Blissful Week as a 'Do Not Disturb' Maximalist

• First look at the evolution of early complex animals

• How a blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build Lego sets

• Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left

• LED bulbs can damage paintings

  The researchers are keen to stress that not only Van Gogh’s paintings, but also paintings by the French master Paul Cézanne contained both stable and unstable types of chrome-yellow paint.

• Global democracy is in better shape than you think

celebrity gossip

• Wireless Festival cancelled after government stops Kanye West entering UK

  We're now hearing reaction from the prime minister, who says rapper Kanye West "should never have been invited" to headline Wireless Festival. He says in a post on X that the government "stands firmly" with the Jewish community, adding that it would not stop in its fight to defeat "the poison of antisemitism".

  • Kanye West banned from Britain

  • Wireless festival cancelled after Kanye West banned from entering UK

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Kiwi Farms challenges DMCA subpoenas as tools to unmask anonymous speech

Musk

• Tesla won't build its own chip fab – Intel is going to do it

  • Intel says it's joining Elon Musk's 'Terafab' project

• Music Publishers Ask Court to Dismiss X's 'Weaponized DMCA' Antitrust Suit

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Australia EV sales surge in March amid fuel fears and higher petrol prices

• Waymo ride, now arriving in Nashville

• US Senator Calls Chinese Cars a 'Cancer,' Vowing Stricter Ban

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Poison Ivey: Chicago Bulls Release Forward After He Speaks Out Against Pride Month

  Many of us were offended by social media postings by Ivey in referring to Catholicism as a “false religion.” He also drew the ire of many by telling a fan that “God does not hear your prayer if you are a sinner.” However, it appears that it was his criticism of the LGBTQ community and Pride Month that ended the matter with the NBA. Ivey objected to the advocacy required by the NBA, objecting “they proclaim it. They show it to the world. They say, ‘Come join us for Pride Month,’ to celebrate unrighteousness.”

• A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Grad Students Face Costly Private Loans After Federal Cuts

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Wisconsin governor says 'no' to age checks for porn

• Netflix Launches Free Kids Gaming App to Compete with Apple Arcade

• Deere Settles Class Action Right-to-Repair Lawsuit

  Reuters reported on Monday that “U.S. agriculture equipment maker Deere on ​Monday agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund for ‌farms and farmers that are part of a class action over costs and access to repairs. The case is part of broader scrutiny in the U.S. over so-called ​right-to-repair practices, with regulators and plaintiffs arguing that some ​manufacturers limit competition by controlling access to repair tools and ⁠software.” “The settlement fund covers eligible plaintiffs who paid Deere’s authorized ​dealers for repairs to large agricultural equipment from January 2018, according to a ​document filed on Monday in the federal court in Chicago, Illinois,” Reuters reported. “In the settlement, Deere also agreed to make available to farmers for 10 years ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of large agricultural equipment, ​including tractors, combines, and sugarcane harvesters, the filing showed.”

  • Deere and Co agrees to pay $99M to settle 'right to repair' lawsuit

• Say no to a 'camera on your face', says Meta smart glasses rival

• Apple approves drivers that let AMD and Nvidia eGPUs run on Mac

• Mass. lawmakers looking to usher in 'most restrictive' social media ban in USA

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Astronauts set distance record, revealing the Moon as a place to be explored

• Astronauts honor Artemis commander's deceased wife in emotional moon moment

  • Astronauts Dedicate Moon Crater to Carroll Wiseman, Wife of NASA Commander

• The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the moon

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart

• Sam Altman Is Ignoring a Secret Weapon for His IPO

• The Workers Opting to Retire Instead of Taking on AI

• Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying

• AI is changing how small online sellers decide what to make

• China is winning one AI race, the US another – but either might pull ahead

• As Meta Flounders, It Reportedly Plans to Open Source Its New AI Models

• Businesses scramble to get noticed by AI search

• Mark Zuckerberg's turbulent bet on AI

• OpenAI, Anthropic, Google unite to combat model copying in China

• A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity

• The Cult Of Vibe Coding Is Insane - by Bram Cohen

  You’re still building the infrastructure of things like plan files (That’s fancy talk for ‘todo lists’), skills, and rules. The machine works very poorly without being given a framework. So pure vibe coding is a myth. But they’re still trying to do it, and this leads to some very ridiculous outcomes. For example, a human actually looked and saw a lot of duplication between them. Now, you might ask: why didn’t any of the developers just go look for themselves? Again, it’s vibe coding. Looking under the hood is cheating. You’re only supposed to have vague conversations with the machine about what it’s doing.

• OpenAI Calls for Robot Taxes, Wealth Fund, and 4-Day Workweek As AI Disrupts Jobs

  • OpenAI encourages firms to trial four-day weeks to adapt to AI era

  • OpenAI's Sam Altman tells companies to try four-day working week

• Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is not guaranteed

• AI Company Clones Musician's Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs

• Telegram's AI Silently Rewrites Your Political Opinions. I Extracted the Proof

• LLM may be standardizing human expression – and subtly influencing how we think

• Startup Bets AI Can Replace Wall Street Analysts, Too

• Anyone can code with AI. But it might come with a hidden cost

• Why AI Systems Fail Quietly

• Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects pay off, survey finds

• "The problem is Sam Altman": OpenAI Insiders don't trust CEO

• Skilled older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat

• Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’

  • Anthropic withholds Mythos Preview model because its hacking is too powerful

  • Anthropic latest AI model too powerful for public release and broke containment

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• What is the real cost of betting on weather catastrophes?

• New Jersey cannot regulate Kalshi's prediction market, US appeals court rules

• FDIC Lays Out Guidelines for Institutions Issuing Stablecoins

• Fox to Integrate Kalshi Forecasts Across Fox News Media and Fox One Platforms

• Sports bets on prediction markets ruled to be "swaps," exempt from state laws

Economicon / Business / Finance

• A New Oil Shock Accelerates a Return to Nuclear Power

• Delve Scandal Just Keeps Getting Worse

  A Y Combinator-backed compliance startup that raised $32 million at a $300 million valuation has imploded amid explosive allegations of “fake compliance as a service.” Delve (delve.co), which promised AI-powered SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR certifications in days instead of months, now faces accusations of pre-generating auditor conclusions, using copy-paste templates for nearly identical reports, routing clients through Indian “certification mills” disguised as U.S. firms, and fabricating evidence of controls that never existed.

• Global Fuel Shortage Pushes Governments Toward Demand Controls

• Goodbye, middle managers. Hello, 'player-coaches' and 'org leads'

• A Fire Sale Has U.S. Office Buildings Going for 90% Off

• The upper middle class is now the largest income group in the U.S.

• Exploring the impacts of California's minimum wage for fast food workers

  “Based on what we’ve found, I think this legislation is a classic case of ‘no good deed goes unpunished,’” Owen said. “There are unintended consequences and knock-on effects, and overall, I think the results have definitely not been as positive as policymakers had been expecting.”

• SEC Awards Whistleblower over $50M for Enforcement Tip

• Oracle hires new CFO with $950K salary as thousands face layoffs

• Sony Pictures Entertainment Layoffs Underway as Studio Refocuses

• Tech companies are axing roles. They're hiring some back as contractors

• The Wealthy Investors That Powered Private Credit Are Rushing for the Exits

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Maine Supreme Court Shoots Down Dems’ ‘Unconstitutional’ Ranked-Choice Voting Scheme.

• 'Definitely a Sham': As Tariffs Climb, Fraud Proliferates

Trump

• Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal

  • Trump says a 'whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran deal isn't reached

  • Trump: 'a whole civilisation will die tonight'

  • Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' ahead of deadline for Iran

  In recent days, the president has made a series of escalatory threats against Tehran, threatening to bomb the country into the “the Stone Ages,” and calling the Iranian government "crazy bastards" while demanding it open up the key shipping route.

• Trump agrees to suspend 'bombing and attack of Iran' for 2 weeks

  • US, Iran say they have agreed to a two-week ceasefire

  • Trump agrees to 2-week ceasefire if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz

  • Trump suspends Iran attack for two weeks, subject to Hormuz Strait opening

  • US, Iran to pause war, agree to 2-week ceasefire

  • Trump Announces a Ceasefire

  Donald Trump has announced, via his Truth Social account, that there will be a two-week ceasefire with Iran, subject to "complete, immediate, and safe" opening of the Strait of Hormuz. He said that Iran has proposed a 10-point peace plan — he called the plan significant but "not good enough" on Monday — and he now believes it's "a workable basis on which to negotiate." The two-week ceasefire period will allow an agreement to be finalized.

  • And the cries of "TACO!" are already loud... It wasn't about bombing Iran or not, it was about seeing Trump lose; so it has to be pitched as "he lost" regardless.

• The J6 Pipe Bomb Update You Don't Want to Miss

  You may recall a story published by The Blaze last December that accused a former Capitol police officer, now an employee of the CIA, of dropping the two pipe bombs found in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. The Blaze retracted the story when the aforementioned suspect, Shauni Kerkoff, lawyered up with a law firm, Clare Locke, which allegedly charges $1,800 per hour, and began to threaten a lawsuit, even though she failed a polygraph test. The two journalists who wrote the article, Joe Hanneman and Steve Baker, remained working for The Blaze, but that fell apart this weekend after The Blaze allegedly fired them over "censorship" issues. Baker took to the internet to declare that he and Hanneman, now "free of corporate media censorship," are able to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as they have found it to be regarding the person who placed the bombs near the Democratic Party and GOP headquarters.

Left Angst

• Trump dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes

  Donald Trump’s threats to carry out mass bombing of civilian infrastructure in Iran present US military officers with a dilemma: disobey orders or help commit war crimes. It is an urgent matter for the US chain of command. In an expletive-laden threat, Trump set a Tuesday 8pm Washington time deadline for the Iranian government to open the strait of Hormuz or face “Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one”.

• When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality

  President Trump has repeatedly threatened to obliterate such infrastructure without regard to the law’s high demands. His comments are blatant expressions that he is willing to turn the United States into a rogue State like Iran and Russia, one that rejects the fundamental legal restraints that protect innocent non-combatants like children, and the Iranian civilian population itself.

• Trump is 'calling for a nuclear strike,' former White House comms director says

  "Wake up: he is calling for A NUCLEAR STRIKE. Seek his removal immediately," Anthony Scaramucci wrote on X. Scaramucci served as the White House communications director for 11 days back in his first term.

• (PDF) Impeaching Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors

• Bipartisan calls to remove Trump from office grow over Iranian 'genocide' threat

• (Video) Artemis astronauts refuse to talk to Trump

  • If that didn't give the NASA budget a kick in the balls, nothing will.

• Trump's next budget once again calls for cuts to science

• ICE arrested more than 800 people after tips from US airport security agency

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Shots Fired at Indianapolis Councilman's Home, After Vote Backing Data Center

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• JD Vance arrives in Hungary to back Orbán's re-election bid

• Trump confirms U.S. sent guns to Iranian people, but says intermediary kept them.

  President Donald Trump on Monday indicated that the U.S. had attempted to send guns to the Iranian people to help them fight the Islamic Republic's armed forces, but that the intermediary that was supposed to distribute the weapons merely kept them instead. "We sent some guns," he said. "They were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back against these thugs. You know what happened? The people that we sent them to kept them." "So, I am very upset with a certain group of people and they're gonna pay a big price for that," he added. Trump previously told Fox News's Trey Yingst that he believed Kurdish groups had kept the guns intended for the Iranian people. Kurdish militia forces had been the subject of speculation over a possible role in a ground operation against Iran.

• Sorry kid, drones are for war now

• Iran attempting cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure

  • Pro-Iran hackers have disrupted some industrial-control systems, US says

World

• Australia's most decorated soldier charged with committing war crime murders

  • Australia's most-decorated living soldier arrested over alleged war crimes

• Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge

• Millions Across Europe Urged to Work from Home

• Brazil puts BYD on list of shame for workers' past slavery-like conditions

• Majority of Canadians open to joining EU, new poll suggests

• Europe's rearmament meets reality: the story of a failed frigate project

• Why Japan has such good railways

• Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa

Iran / Houthi

• IDF admits Iran can keep firing missiles as long as war continues

• Iran's supreme leader 'unconscious and receiving treatment in Qom'

• Iran threatens OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi

• Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable

• Europe should secure the Strait.

• Iran hangs another young man as regime steps up executions of protesters under cover of war.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia blocks messengers and VPNs – and its banks too

• Russia's Fancy Bear still attacking routers to boost fake sites

• Russian military hackers reroute British internet users' traffic

China

• Chinese pigs fed new menu as Beijing weans farmers off US soy

• China Orders Bitchat Pulled from Apple App Store

• China to help Cuba with solar energy amid US oil blockade

• China restricts airspace for 40 days in signal of intense military activity

Health / Medicine

• Men's heart risk rises by age 35, 7 years earlier than women

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud and the institutionalization of anti-science: An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak - World Socialist Web Site

  • The Science has settled all the way to the bottom of the barrel.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Global human population has surpassed Earth's sustainable carrying capacity

• Brazil, India and Russia hold large reserves of rare earth but don't mine them

• Health benefits of Paris climate goals could save lives by 2040

• What Happened to the Ancient Bug Giants of 300M Years Ago?

• One of Earth's Most Explosive Volcanoes Is Quietly Refilling with Magma

• Bahamian Sharks Test Positive for Cocaine & Painkillers in New Study.