2026-04-05

Horseshit

• Hitler's Edifice Complex

• Four things we'd need to put data centers in space

• Archaeologists discover wreck of Danish warship sunk by Nelson 225 years ago

• Native Americans had dice 12,000 years ago

  • Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability

• Some victims of deadly Tahoe avalanche wore airbags that never inflated

• The science behind Japan's perfectly crafted vending machine drinks

• Six Flags Was a Summer Destination. Can It Win Families Back?

• Detroit tries new approach to attract residents: free cash ($15K)

• Young Men Without Work: Why Breadwinning Still Matters to Male Flourishing

• Teenager makes groundbreaking invention on quest for unlimited energy

• Camels, sailboats and poultry trucks: One man's no-fly journey around the world

celebrity gossip

• Sam Altman's sister amends lawsuit accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse

Obit

• Heisuke Hironaka, Groundbreaking Mathematician and Fields Medalist, Is Dead at 94

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• CDC and health groups spent millions in ads on sites flagged for misinformation

  In their joint report, NewsGuard and Comscore write that, “the data underscore the scale at which online misinformation and disinformation is unintentionally bought and paid for by major advertisers, who place their ads on thousands of websites using programmatic advertising, a byzantine, computerized process—leaving brands with little idea where their ads are appearing and what messages they are financing.”

Musk

• Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX's IPO Must Subscribe to Elon Musk's Grok

  • Musk asks SpaceX IPO banks to buy Grok AI subscriptions, NYT reports

• Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• Under the Skin of America's Humanoid Robots: Chinese Technology

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• What an Ivy League Education Gets You

• Across the social sciences, half of research doesn't replicate

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Power-washing and mowing: Why millions are playing games about mundane jobs

• Meta and Google Trial Loss Suggests Product Design Is Big Tech's Achilles' Heel

• Apple's Fitness Chief, Who Was Accused of Harassment, Is Retiring

• High-end OLED gaming monitors from Asus are arriving broken thanks to shoddy environmentally friendly packaging.

• Senators Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them to Domestic Surveillance

• Acer and Asus shut down support website in wake of patent dispute ruling

• Got an awkward or embarrassing Gmail address? Google is letting users change it

• GTA 6 publisher Take-Two lay off their head of AI and several of team members

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Should you change your life decisions if we're being watched by alien drones?

  The most plausible decision however is to slightly lower your level of ambition. Consider a few of the core scenarios. If the aliens go rogue on us and end it all, the efforts you might be making now will have been for naught. If the aliens are here to cap the level of human achievement, for instance to keep us on Earth and prevent us from exploring the galaxy, yet without harm, you also can scale back your ambition a bit. You do not need to invest so much capital in supporting the space program. Most of your more local ambitions however should remain untouched. You might even become more ambitious in keeping the Earth a safe place, since escape hatches are now less likely. Alternatively, you might think the aliens are our “saviors of last resort,” but that too probably makes you less ambitious.

• Rep. Tim Burchett chose NOT to refute Matt Gaetz's comment about a military alien-human breeding program, then said "the people that know are dying"

• What are Artemis II astronauts eating? Tortillas, coffee, lots of hot sauce

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• MIT study challenges AI job apocalypse narrative

• OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security

• Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession

• Silicon Valley Is in a Frenzy over Bots That Build Themselves

• Caltech Researchers Claim Compression of High-Fidelity AI Models

• Block's Dorsey Outlines AI-Powered Vision to Cut Middle Managers

• Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings

• AI Whiz Kids Dropped Out of College and Got Investors to Pay Their Bills

• Yes, Therapy Sessions Are Being Used to Train AI

• OpenAI executive shuffle includes new role for COO

• Has there been any significant progress on using AI to talk to animals?

• Should you upload blood test results to AI?

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Ten Foreign Nationals Charged in an International Op Targeting Crypto Market

• When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems

• Polymarket apologizes for allowing wagers on fate of U.S. pilots downed in Iran

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The global oil crisis is turning into an everything crisis

• What the heck is going on with Microsoft lately?

• Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset

• Meta lays off hundreds as tech giant pushes forward with AI investment

• Nursing Is the Surefire New Path to Prosperity

• Amazon in Talks to Buy Globalstar

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FTC Formalizes Aggressive Health Care Enforcement with New Task Force

• FAA prohibits SFO's parallel approaches

Trump

• Trump fires Pam Bondi as US Attorney General

Left Angst

• Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon

• No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

• Budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

• Trump wants to slash $707M from CISA's budget

• Trump's ballroom fight sheds new light on an underground White House bunker

• The ICEBlock App Has Helped People Avoid Immigration Agents. Is It Legal?

• EU ready to cave to Trump on tech

• America is heading for a recession – and it may be the worst yet

  Niall Ferguson has been mapping the terrain: geopolitical shocks, energy disruption, inflation that won’t be reasoned with. History, he notes, does not reward economies caught in that particular combination. It never has. But this one carries something extra, something structural.

• Feds Seek Access to Three Texas State Parks for Border Wall

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Former US Air Force master sergeant pleads guilty to defrauding military by $37M

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• UN Agencies Are Stonewalling a Probe Into Their Employees’ Ties to Hamas, US Investigators Say in Report to Congress.

• US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war

• Rescue team in Iran face 'harrowing and dangerous' search for US crew member

• Secretary Rubio Revokes Green Cards of Foreign Nationals with Ties to Iranian Terror Regime

World

• Excess mortality attributable to the 2025 Iberian Peninsula blackout

• Chester Zoo leads national call for weather app changes

• Were our Grandparents Nazis? Nat Archives makes NSDAP records available online

• Japan to require language proficiency proof for engineer, specialist visa

• Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer to energy shocks

• NHS staff resist using Palantir software

• France, Russia and China block UN vote on Iran war

• German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months

• Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules

Iran / Houthi

• Iran Threatens to Bomb 1GW Stargate AI Datacenter in Abu Dhabi

• A visual guide to the Gulf fertiliser blockade

• A visual guide to Iran's coastline and strategic islands

• Iran's Network of Cameras Bolsters Air Defenses, Expert Says

• Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai

• How Iran Should End the War

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• 'The frontline is like Terminator': fighting robots give Ukraine hope in war

Health / Medicine

• Yaks may hold the key to treating multiple sclerosis sufferers, study says

• Scientists mapped all the nerves of the clitoris for the first time

• Mystifying Auto-Brewery Syndrome Makes People Spontaneously Drunk

• Loss of animal insulin in Canada highlights how patients can be left behind

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Scientists are working on "everything vaccines"

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Reconciling Earth's growing energy imbalance with ocean warming

• As drought deepens, Yuma area embraces new technology to save water