2026-11-15

Horseshit

• Once considered macabre, the consumption of roadkill is having a culinary moment

  Once broadly considered the déclassé kink of backwoods oddballs, salvage becomes ever more mainstream each year; today, it’s permitted in roughly thirty states. According to its practitioners, who run the sociopolitical gamut, its virtues are many: It is a near-constant source of free and free-range meat, no factory farm required. It’s also a way of making sense of senseless animal sacrifice, of extracting salubrious calories from wanton waste.

• Stonehenge’s Mysterious Six-Ton Stone Has Scientists Searching Across Britain.

Musk

• SpaceX launches Starship on ambitious 22-hour Flight 15 test, but aborts booster 'chopsticks' catch

  SpaceX originally planned to catch Super Heavy with the Starbase launch tower's giant mechanical "chopstick" arms. But it wasn't to be: The company called off the catch attempt and brought the booster down for a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about 6.5 minutes after launch, for reasons that were not immediately clear.

  • SpaceX catches part of Starship rocket on its return to Earth

• SpaceX's giant rocket may leave NASA in the dust

• Tesla Cybercab orders open at $29,990 and $299/mo, only in Robotaxi zones

  • $299 Monthly Subscription Fee for Tesla's Cybercab (+$29,990 purchase price)

Electric / Self Driving cars

• NHTSA proposes cyan lights for robotaxis, following Mercedes/China

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Robot startup cant pay staff after founder takes $4.6M from company to buy home

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Microsoft says services restored after global outage

  • Businesses suffering a loss from Microsoft outage could make insurance claim

  • Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage

  • Microsoft’s global outage may be worse than Amazon's or CrowdStrike's, expert says

  • UK grinds to a halt in Microsoft blackout

  • EU institutions survive Microsoft outage unscathed

• Microsoft Patent Tips Using Idle Gaming PCs to Train AI in Exchange for Rewards

• Brave strips hidden Meta identifiers from Facebook and Instagram photos

• Apple Files Patent for a Phone Camera Hidden Behind the Screen

• Does the Crichton Estate Have a Case?

  Crichton’s 1994 deal transferred rights in ER to Warner Bros. but froze sequels, remakes, spinoffs, and other derivative works unless Crichton, Spielberg’s Amblin, and Warner Bros. mutually agreed to proceed. Crichton died in 2008. Roadrunner JMTC LLC, controlled by his widow, Sherri Crichton, now holds his contractual rights.

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Security Agencies Worldwide Found to Use Ad-Based Surveillance System

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Silicon Valley Is Used to Scandal. This One Upped the Ante

  • How the Jensen Huang scandal created a headache for business-friendly Singapore

  • Jensen Huang Ouster at Nvidia:Bigger Governance and Coming Financial Train Wreck

  • Before His Ouster, Jensen Huang Belittled the Executive Replacing Him

  • Nvidia director sold nearly $1B in stock weeks before the Jensen Huang scandal

  • Jensen Huang's exit from Nvidia impacts China's AI supply chain

  • Jensen Huang commemorative plaque gone from Denny's where he founded Nvidia

  • Behind Jensen Huang’s spy scandal, a shadow war for Trump’s ear on China

  • US intel isn’t sure if businesswoman spied on Nvidia for China, doesn’t mean she wasn’t a risk, sources say

  • Jensen Huang's departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding

  • Nvidia board urged to consider 'return of Jensen Huang' by two major investors

  • Elon Musk, other tech execs sign petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate Jensen

  • A petition to reinstate Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO has over 100k signatures

  • The Nvidia Sex Scandal Isn’t a Sex Scandal — It’s a Chinese Psyop

  Right now, Nvidia — an American company — has a quasi-monopoly on high-end AI chips. By some estimates, it has an 85% market share. Destabilizing Nvidia would destabilize the entire U.S. AI industry. This would give Chinese AI companies the time they need to catch up. (According to Huang, China’s frontier AI development is only “nanoseconds” behind America’s.) Destabilization is necessary because China can’t catch up unless America slows down.

  • The media push certainly marks it as suspicious... when the entire chorus lights up in harmony there must have been someone passing out the sheet music beforehand.

• Ex-OpenAI researcher finds Blackwell signatures in open-weight models

  • Nvidia chips banned from export to China by the US - and banned from import into China by China - were used to train China's leading AI models.

• Nvidia deliberately kept GPU prices high through circular financing deals

• AI has become a utility bill for Gen Z

• Nvidia allegedly engineered scarcity by funding AI startups to buy its GPUs

• Amazon's plan to own the product data and fight AI shopping agents

  • Amazon has a plan to index the online shopping data

• Will We Put Data Centers in Space?

• AI School Bus Cameras Cash in on Drivers Who Fail to Stop

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried would have made nearly $40B in Anthropic IPO

• Polymarket and Kalshi now host bets on measles and other US health crises

• Bitcoin Just Crashed Toward $64,000. History Says the Worst May Not Be Over

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Home Sales in October Plummet to 16-Year Low

• Israel's VCs see opportunity for challengers in Nvidia's turmoil

• San Francisco weighs limits on self-checkout stations

• Upwork to Cut \~37% of Total Workforce in Expanded Layoffs

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Minnesota mayoral race was a dead-even tie; they drew the winner from a bag

• FAA lifts ground stop at U.S. airports

  • Microsoft on FAA Ground Stop: It Wasn't Me

  • Every Flight Is Grounded on Day Trump Admin Installed AI Controls

  • The FAA Rolled Out AI Air Traffic Tool a Few Days Ago?

  • FAA Rolled Out New AI Traffic Tool Right Before Nationwide Ground Stop

  • Old tech blamed for the ground stop that caused flight chaos: It got overloaded

  • Of Course Americans Blamed the Ground Stop on AI

  • Get Ready for More Chaos

  • FBI Probing FAA Software Update

  • Duffy Blames Outdated System After Nationwide Flight Ground Stop.

  • Legacy tech issue led to FAA's nationwide ground stop

  • Copper wire upgrade caused nationwide flight suspension

  A nationwide US ground stop that caused thousands of flight cancellations was caused by an issue following a copper wire upgrade, Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said. Maintenance was being carried out to switch from copper wire to fibre by a contractor called L3Harris, a technology provider company, Duffy said. The US has "an incredibly old telecommunications system", he added. "It was such an old wire that it was being discontinued," he said.

  The transport secretary explained that a router that was being worked on had started flooding other air traffic control systems and created communication issues with planes which led the government to shut down the airspace for safety reasons. Bryan Bedford, who heads the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), told the same news conference: "We see zero evidence of anything nefarious, and zero evidence of anything AI related."

  • FAA blames ground stop on equipment issue during telecoms network upgrade

  • Johnson says 'we don't need any investigation' on FAA ground stop

  • Duffy Probing Possible L3Harris 'Incompetence' in FAA Meltdown

  • L3Harris Statement on the Nov. 13 Ground Stop

  • US aviation shutdown blamed on L3 Harris installed router

Left Angst

• Son of ex-CIA chief Brennan charged

  The son of former CIA Director John Brennan was charged on Friday with "transportation of child pornography," according to court documents and a US law enforcement official. Kyle Brennan, of Warrenton, Virginia, was ​charged after an FBI review of his cellphone found 88 images that appeared to ​depict minor girls engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to a criminal ⁠complaint filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. John Brennan is a ​longtime antagonist of President Donald Trump, and the Justice Department has been investigating the former CIA ​director for more than a year.

• The 'europoors' rants reflect an American insecurity

• Silicon Valley claims to know the future. So why'd it get the midterms so wrong?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Organized crime steals millions through an Apple gift card scam

World

• Tiny London quant fund emerges as one of the UK's biggest corporate taxpayers

• Nearly $20M found in Hungary's forests, buildings amid corruption probe

• Sky sues household dodgy-box users in first case of its kind

• Indian Air Force Commander leaked war plans to Pakistan honeytrap spy for nudes

• OnlyFans livestreaming must be banned say MPs in 'e-pimps' warning

• Italy fines Meta $887M over Android users' data access

  • Italy fines Meta €805M over accessing users' photos

• The Japanese region where "eight-testicle women" outdo men

• Amazon Forced into First North American Union Pact in Canada

• Thousands turn out in Edinburgh to protest against AI data centres

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• US has floated Ukraine ceding Donbas for NATO membership, Zelensky says

  • US floated idea of Ukraine swapping land for NATO membership, Zelensky says

• Ukraine's Starshield Access Is Being Restricted Again

China

• Could China's battery-swapping e-trucks be the answer to EV range anxiety

Health / Medicine

• US to fund new research into psychedelic drug ibogaine for veterans with PTSD

• Cancer society issues updated prostate cancer screening guidelines

• GLP-1 Drugs May Work Differently in Women

• An organ transplant controversy tests 'the dead donor rule'

  The rule says transplant surgeons can only take organs from patients after they are dead because of brain death or circulatory death. But because NRP restarts circulation, critics say the procedure reverses the very condition upon which the person has just been declared dead.

• CVS says GLP-1s save money when priced below $350 per month

• Scientists Identified a Biological Signature of Tinnitus, and It's in Your Blood

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• After 26 years, the US has lost its measles elimination status

  • US loses measles-free status after continued spread of the disease

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• British salmon loses its organic status

• Historic S.S. United States Sinks to Become an Artificial Reef

• Save the Parasites

  The world is full of tiny things that live off more charismatic hosts. Parasite ecologists say that these critters, too, are finally starting to get the conservation attention they deserve.

• Elephants found to be increasingly isolated leading to fractured social networks