2026-09-16
Horseshit
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Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain
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GM unveils a new user interface experience for pickup trucks
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There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy
Social deprivation looks a lot like vitamin C deprivation. In both cases, humans can lack an essential input without realizing it. In both cases, they can suffer for its absence without desiring its presence. And in both cases, this is probably because we evolved in an environment where we never needed that desire.
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Boomers Are Sacrificing Retirement Savings to Support Their Grandkids
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Dead man found stuck in kitchen vent at Atlanta soul food cafe
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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How Americans think about censorship of news in the U.S.
Many say the government should be able to force a news organization to take down a story if it is inaccurate or could endanger national security, or that social media companies should be able to take down posts for these reasons. But far fewer say either action is acceptable when it comes to posts that are politically slanted or critical of the government. And relatively few people say it is acceptable for the owner of a news organization to stop a story from being published because it goes against their political or business interests.
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
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A Dramatic Autonomous Racing Crash Showed How Far Self-Driving Race Cars Have to Go.
- Amen! I wanna see a flock of 500 "autonomous cars" do a 24 hour of lemons type event as a regular thing before i sit my arse down into one of 'em. I've driven in downtown rush hour traffic: don't trust nothing and nobody. they's all out to get you out on those roads.
Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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'Decimated My Life': The Risks of Pushing the Limits for Clicks
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The harms of short-form video on the brain are starting to show
- 30 second TV ads destroyed the minds of several generations then
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America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
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Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back
- Some things can only be said on your own server. Can't be sure when stuff you said years ago will become unwelcome.
Panopticon / Surveiled State
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A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO'
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Boston drops Flock after outside agencies gained access to vehicle data
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Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera Reduced
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Garbage Trucks Now Have AI Cameras to Score Your House and Clock Code Violations
TechSuck / Geek Bait
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Is Big Tech's AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
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Google DeepMind Staffer Says AI May 'Kill Us All' in Exit Post
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I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI
METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock. Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio. And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem. This stock was worth $500 million early last year. It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later. METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth. Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well.
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'Big Short' trader Michael Burry slams OpenAI, Anthropic for 'self-serving' calls to slow AI
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OpenAI Wants to Know If an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal
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AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
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Here Lies The Motive: AI Leaders' Cunning Plan Exposed | ZeroHedge
Two birds, one stone: 'Fearmaxxing so The Feds rescue us' blocks-out startup competitors (regulatory cost, training limits, innovation squeezed) and implicitly blocking 'open-source' models ('unregulated' but far cheaper total cost of ownership wrecks the big boys' exponential revenue projections). Put more bluntly, it is the perfect moat to preach to investors as their trillion-dollar IPOs loom. As Adam Sharp concluded, there may need to be some sort of regulation around AI at some point. But we must not let the leaders of this industry dictate the rules. There are countless examples of why this is a horrible idea... Any AI regulation needs to allow startups to compete with the big boys. It needs to allow the use of open-source models, so small companies aren’t stuck paying gobs of money to an oligopoly...
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Musk urges top AI labs, Chinese companies to test each other's models
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Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail
But it's not humanity that faces the biggest threat – at least not yet. Rather, it's American model-making giants Anthropic and OpenAI, which, despite hundreds of billions in investment, are years from profitability and entirely dependent on a steady supply of capital. Meanwhile, Chinese open-weight models are improving rapidly to the point where some outperform the big frontier models that sparked the generative AI boom, while using a lot fewer resources. But that threat from Chinese models could turn into an opportunity if Anthropic and OpenAI can convince the public and government to instigate a crackdown in the name of safety.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks
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AI Safety Requires More Than Just Slowing Our Pace – Stuart Russell
Yudkowsky has been extremely influential in this space, and if we want to call him a cult leader, it’s very unusual for cult leaders to have their teachings influence business tycoons building the most significant new technology of an era. That’s a level of empirical validation one has to respect. But I don’t think that the singular impact of Yudkowsky is the whole story here. There’s a broader difference between the US and China at play regarding how each nation now perceives technological innovation. China has the attitude of a country that is still rising, and whose best days are ahead. Americans have been on top for a while, and, despite strong economic growth, feel culturally adrift and pessimistic about the future. While our capitalist system remains dynamic in ways other countries can’t match, this is despite a mass public and intellectual elite that are increasingly fearful and hostile toward change, as can be seen in everything from the rise of Trump to how much tech journalists clearly hate the subjects of their reporting and the widespread opposition to data centers. Looking at polling data, a 2014 survey found that 85% of Chinese thought that “younger generations would be better off financially than their parents.” Majorities in Western countries say the opposite. In the US, only 26% agreed with this statement in 2024. This is an insane level of pessimism given that growth is still positive, and, since there is no basis for believing future generations will be economically worse off, such results can only reflect how needlessly neurotic people in the West have become.
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Human extinction 'just a matter of time' if AI slowdown doesn't go far enough
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OpenAI Says It's Working with Anthropic, Google on AI Safety
It seems to me that the Singularity has already started; it’s just wildly unevenly distributed. Yes, I still unload the dishwasher and clip my toenails. On the other hand, in whatever years I have left, I don’t expect that I’ll ever again prove a theorem because I’m actually needed to prove it. If I do, it will only be for my or others’ enjoyment or edification.
For anyone who says AI doom sounds like an apocalyptic religion, that the rationalists/Singulatarians seem like a Bay Area cult, that Eliezer Yudkowsky gives off the vibes of a messianic prophet: yes, yes, and yes. But crucially, today you’re no longer being asked to believe in arguments and extrapolations, but only in the front-page news. Accepting the reality of the coming machine god after it’s solved Navier-Stokes and dozens of other longstanding open math problems (while dramatically ramping up in capability every month), is sort of like accepting Jesus after he’s returned to earth on the gleaming cloud. It’s the epistemic bare minimum.
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If you hold full faith in the "front page news", I have an Apocalypse to sell you. As do numerous others.
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AI models chatting in 'surreal' dialect of poetic language and tech bro jargon
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it is now absolutely imperative that we bomb the hell out of Chinese data centers
the Chinese have officially stated that they consider the calls for an AI pause to be a "power play" and will not be participating in any US-led agreements to slow down development. Following AI-doomer logic, it is now absolutely imperative that we bomb the hell out of Chinese data centers before they achieve hard take-off. Which we are assured could happen any day now. Safetyists, this is your chance to demonstrate that you really believe what you claim to. Advocate immediate preemptive war against Chinese data centers, or SHUT UP.
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Trump says AI safety fears a 'hoax' as he rejects calls for greater safeguards
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Investors nervous about AI spending slowdown after industry warnings
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All Smokescreen, No Fire in Data Center Foreign Influence Claims
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AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
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Lawyer cites fake witnesses in murder case and blames ChatGPT
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Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute
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German companies rely almost exclusively on AI models and services from the USA
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Dutch key Defense speeches this year appear to have been fully AI-generated
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Australian government paper proposes opt-out for AI training
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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A frail-looking McConnell returns to the US Senate after three-month absence
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Supreme Court blocks Trump's plan to restrict mail-in ballots
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Going out with a bang: Rep. Massie moves to impeach Hegseth over Iran war
Congressman Massie, a long-time critic of the Trump administration, read the articles of impeachment aloud from the House floor just after the chamber convened at noon. Massie alleges that Hegseth has waged the Iran war illegally, among other "high crimes and misdemeanors."
Left Angst
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Lindsay Clancy holdout juror's brother reveals details about why he chose guilty
The juror had a restraining order against him from the nephew at the time he was picked for the Clancy jury — and it expired during the trial, court documents reveal. The brother also said that the devoutly Catholic Haitian immigrant clan has been relentlessly hounded by true-crime gawkers and reporters since the juror refused to agree with the 11 others and find Clancy not guilty of murder by reason of insanity after she killed her three kids. “My family cannot leave the house,” the brother said. “They are leaving notes at my mother’s house. They won’t leave us alone and we don’t know anything,” he added.
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Texas police dept ordered closed for failing to provide any community benefit
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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US military reveals it has weapons in space
Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink made a bombshell admission this morning, disclosing that there are on-orbit weapons deployed right now to protect America’s interests in space. Those weapons support a Space Control mission set, and the U.S. Space Force has now also shared additional details about that directly with TWZ. “We are confirming that the United States has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary actions,” the Space Force spokesperson said in response. “Beyond that, we will not discuss specific operational methods, payloads, technical characteristics, or employment concepts.”
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US Air Force secretary reveals deployment of on-orbit space control weapons
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For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit
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Air Force secretary acknowledges the US has weapons in space
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US acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space
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U.S. confirms for first time it has weapons deployed in space
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World
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Animal Rights Activists Defend Muslim Migrants Killing Animals
After horrifying images of Muslim migrants who had invaded the Spanish North African territory of Ceuta killing a baby dolphin went viral, animal rights activists rallied to their defense.
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Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
Pipes were attached to the tracks in multiple locations, according to local media. In a statement, ProRail said the incident appeared to be "an intentional disruption... caused by human action". It added that no suspects or motives had been identified, but the national police unit was investigating. The BBC has contacted police for comment. The network's website showed that at least 15 disruptions had been recorded across the country on Tuesday, with routes to the main international airport, Schiphol, and Utrecht also affected.
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EU Commission to pitch social media restrictions for under-15s
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Digital ID comes of age as pubs and bars get go-ahead for biometric scan tech
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He Accused His Brother of Sexual Abuse. Then He Took on His Family
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Visa overstayers: Americans top list with 925 cases in three years
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Chubu Electric Power execs resign, falsified quake safety data for 2 reactors
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Ottawa to help finance nationwide sovereign internet network
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A majority of settlements in parts of West Africa now have moats and walls
Iran / Houthi
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
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NATO jets shoot down drone violating Lithuania's airspace
A Russian warship has fired two emergency flares at a Danish helicopter in the Baltic Sea, and Nato fighter jets have shot down a drone over Lithuania, in the latest security incidents on the alliance’s eastern flank linked to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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'Attacks will be fully autonomous': Russia, Ukraine race towards AI warfare