2026-10-12

Horseshit

• Use yer feet and become a genius: Can Switching Hands While I Masturbate Affect My Brain?

• Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests

• Superstar podcasts are Silicon Valley's way of talking to itself

• Neuroscience Can Make Decluttering Easier

• We're unlocking the biggest mysteries of the clitoris

• The Good-Hang Economy

  The comedy-podcast boom is changing our idea of what it means to be funny.

• Tattoos You Can Turn on and Off

  • Next up: sub dermal OLED screen: be your own TV

• Don't feel sorry for millennials. They are living it up now

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Fixated on AI, the world has forgotten it is staring at nuclear annihilation

• Meta is allegedly deleting LGBTQ and plus-sized business Instagram accounts

Musk

• SpaceX brings recovered Starship home to Texas after ocean saga.

• Why hasn't SpaceX, worth $2T, paid this Bay Area chef the $70K it owes him?

• X Once Again Marks the Spot

  The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive. It is a cheerful place. That cheerfulness is another differentiator. If you believe the world is falling apart and doomed only to get worse, that our obvious and real problems cannot be surmounted, X is not the platform for you. If you think the world is full of fun and amazing people and things, that humanity’s defining feature is our collective ability to solve any problem, that the only time better to be alive than today is tomorrow, it might be.

  If you have stayed away, or even just mostly away, from X for years and then come back, people just say things like “Hey, glad you’re back!” On the other networks, especially Mastodon, they tell you you’re “feeding Nazis” — by going to the platform where Tim Cook posts Pikachu videos. These people have either lost their minds or refuse to check their prior assumptions. (Most of the ones who chime in about it publicly are the lost-their-minds types.)

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Stellantis bets on small affordable EVs for European comeback

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• "Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Three friends on their student debt: paid off, chipping away and one creeping up

• Alternatives Won't Replace College, but They Must Adapt

• The Controversial Class That MIT Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Gaming consoles are more expensive than ever, and fewer people are buying them

• Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production in favor of AI data center and professional GPUs

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Video Cameras Are Everywhere–and Now They Are Being Hacked for War

• YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit

• A college tried to cancel its Flock Safety contract and it refused

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• AI's leaders (probably) aren't faking their fear

  • Europe confident its rules can thwart rogue AI

  • Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised'

  • AI is less regulated than milk, says Microsoft president

  • Microsoft CEO Nadella Calls for 'Emergency Brake' on Advanced AI

  • Ex-Anthropic's Jacob Coxon says he's 90% certain PRC has spies in US AI giants

  • A global, hardwired pause of frontier AI training is feasible, says new report

  • Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, Lancet say

• Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case

  • Anthropic's Claude submits false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide case

• OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

  • Artex AI, Claude agents used in cyberattacks on South Korean banks

• 'Pure insanity': Mathematicians react to OpenAI's math results drop

• Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

• AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people

• Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute

• Anthropic opens its most powerful AI models to more security teams

• What if AI prefers CVS written by AI?

• Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions

• AI Can Cut Film Budgets by Up to 40%, Says 'The Outlaws' Director Kang Yoon-Sung

• Vogue, Esquire publishers plead with Congress to ban AI theft of their content

• Nvidia-backed data centre firm scraps IPO as AI valuation concerns deepen

• Data Centers Could Swallow Acres of Land Across 3 States

• Developer of AI driving instructor is spending $1k/month to keep demo running

• OpenAI fired its own auditor before its revenue story shrank by $20B

• Amazon in talks to buy AI startup Decart for around $7B, WSJ reports

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Sleepy Insurance Product That Came to Power Private Credit's Ascent

• Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Supreme Court weighs 401(k) case about private funds, underperformance

  Many plan sponsors are in limbo, awaiting the Supreme Court decision and finalized Labor Department rules covering alternative investments before changing their 401(k) menu, even as the asset management industry is gearing up with new products.

• US Agency to Rewrite Rules to Address Vehicle Headlight Glare

Trump

• Trump approves tiny 'cars of the near future'

Democrats

• Bombshell Audio CONFIRMS Talarico's Stay at Mental Health Facility

  An Ohio mental health facility discharged Texas State Rep. James Talarico (D-50th District), the Democrat Party's nominee for U.S. Senate, earlier this week, according to bombshell audio that independent journalist Nick Sortor released on Sunday.

Left Angst

• Tech firms pledge $2.4B in computing power to Trump's Genesis Mission

• US Justice Department investigates TV networks for boycotting Trump press pool

  • DOJ investigating whether media outlets violated antitrust law after refusing pool coverage

  Emily Covington, a Justice Department spokesperson, confirmed the investigation is underway. She said the department’s Antitrust Division is investigating whether the news organizations involved violated any antitrust rules.The investigation follows a move last month by the five broadcasters in the White House television pool to stop pool coverage of Trump after the administration restricted CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s access to the White House.

  • DOJ investigating 5 major TV networks over response to White House press ban

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• 9 dead after mass shooting at Pennsylvania home

  Nine people, including the suspected shooter, were killed. Authorities had not publicly released the victims' names as of the afternoon of Oct. 10, nor the gunman's identity. Lorah identified the two women found outside the home only as a 51-year-old woman and a 37-year-old woman. Inside, officers found a 5-year-old boy and a 1-year-old girl who were on the first floor. Four more victims were found in a stairwell on the second floor: a 24-year-old woman, a 44-year-old woman, a 19-year-old man and a 21-year-old man. The suspected shooter was a 45-year-old man, Lorah said. He was found dead on the second floor with a firearm, which police said was registered to him. Lorah said the victims found inside the home lived there, while the two women found outside did not. He said one of the women outside was a family friend, and the other was a sister-in-law of one of the victims.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Russia, China targeting underwater cables that could send us to the Dark Ages

  • Undersea cables: the battle for the ocean floor

World

• South Korea completes Arctic-Europe commercial voyage, eyes regular service

• Something is rotten in the state of Germany

  Hanning, now 80, allegedly intended to use the information to prepare briefing documents for Azerbaijan. Some of the information is believed to have covered Iran’s nuclear programme. Hanning also reportedly had repeated contact with Wang Jianzheng, who had been stationed in Berlin as a military attaché. He has denied treason and investigations continue. But no one is seriously denying that this is a vastly damaging moment for the BND.

• Canada's employment surprisingly shrinks in September, jobless rate inches up

• Tokyo Underground Club Turns Its Dancefloor into a "Reading Rave"

• France’s insane student protests are really about a growing radical Muslim population that wants to get rid of democracy

• British PM says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit vote

• The islands on the front line of England's age-old rivalry with France

• Air Canada's woeful security at cargo warehouse

Iran / Houthi

• Twelve killed and 300 injured in attack on airport in Saudi capital Riyadh

  At least 12 people have been killed and 309 injured in an attack on the international airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, local authorities say. The deaths included four Saudis, two people from Bangladesh and one person each from the US, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan and Egypt, the Saudi civil aviation authority confirmed. Operations at King Khalid International Airport have been suspended after the attack, which was the deadliest in the kingdom since May 2015. A Saudi-led military coalition later vowed to respond to the attack, which it called a "war crime" and blamed on Yemen's Houthis. The Houthis have not commented on Saturday's attack but did say they were behind strikes on the same airport on Thursday that killed three people and damaged a plane. Another three people were killed in separate Houthi attacks on two different Saudi airports on 6 and 7 October.

• The Houthis' threats to Saudi aviation have a government web address

Israel

• Air France Israel flights: crews from 31 nationalities reportedly barred

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

• Ukraine hits second major tech site, expanding range of targets inside Russia

• Ukrainian drones blew up the largest datacenter in Russia, or at least unspecified parts thereof.

• Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes

• Drones Hit Third Yandex Data Center Disrupting over 80 Services

• Ukrainian Drones Strike Russia's Lukoil Refinery 1,700 Km Away

• Yandex: Ukraine strikes data centre in third attack on Russian tech giant

Health / Medicine

• Why Ketamine Immobilizes Some Users

• We're still figuring out the side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs

• Ongoing lawsuits allege GLP-1s can cause serious harm; we don't know how often

• Can Wearables Track Blood Pressure Without the Cuff? I Tested Them

• ‘Ozempic babies’ are real — here’s what doctors want you to know about fertility and GLP-1 drugs.

  The usual explanation is that GLP-1 drugs boost fertility, and for some people, they do help ovulation return. But fertility doctors point to a second factor that gets far less attention: tirzepatide, the drug in Mounjaro and Zepbound, can make birth control pills less effective, especially in the first weeks of treatment.

• Why demand for the shingles vaccine is soaring

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Russian Anti-Plague Laboratory Death Raises Questions On Biosafety And Public Health.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Fish Farming Industry's Dirty Secrets

• Vegetables are half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s

• Climbing Everest is hard. Recovering body from near its summit will be harder

• The 'black box' wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies

• Building Houses with Rice Waste

• In 1960, Mathematicians Said Earth's Population Would Reach Infinity Next Friday

• Millions face ‘winter storm battleground’ as new models predict heavy snow blasts in 19 US states