2026-05-23

Horseshit

• Cruise ships are sailing to a phantom destination that doesn't appear on any map

• English Heritage unveils recreation of 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall

• Can Monasteries Be a Model for Reclaiming Tech Culture for Good?

• The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

• For some exercisers, a healthy habit spins out of control

• The SF gathering that summed up the ruthless class war billionaires are waging

• Fusion energy poised for simpler U.S. review

• Why is it so hard to find affordable child care?

• Bears reiterate Chicago stadium options are ‘exhausted.’

celebrity gossip

• Despite a $500M net worth, Shaq just finished his fourth degree

Obit

• Kyle Busch, two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, dies at age 41

  • 2-time NASCAR champ Kyle Busch dies at 41 after a 'severe illness'

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart

Musk

• SpaceX tries to launch a bigger Starship, hits a series of last-minute problems

• SpaceX is heavily reliant on Starlink for growth and profit

  • SpaceX's Ambitions Are Intergalactic. Its Business Is Selling You Internet

  • SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought

  • Who will benefit most from SpaceX IPO? Mostly Elon – and his inner circle

  • SpaceX Is Spending $2.8B to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers

• SpaceX Fuels More Than 3k% Return for Washington University

• SpaceX Taps Crypto Billionaire to Lead First Crewed Mission to Mars

• Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Waymo's autonomous taxis remain drawn to floodwater

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• The Internet can't stop watching Figure AI's humanoid robots handling packages

• Are Humanoid Robots the End of Human Work?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• University Endowments Reap Windfalls from SpaceX, OpenAI, LinkedIn IPOs

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Apple seeks Supreme Court review for Epic Games case

  • Will Ever David Defeat Goliath? Epic vs. Apple

• Riot Games celebrates bricking cheat devices

• Consumer groups file complaint against Meta, TikTok and Google running scam ads

• Nvidia on track to be leading CPU supplier too, says CFO

• Microsoft is letting Office users remove an annoying Copilot button

• Ex-Samsung: memory crisis could be over thanks to a 'surge' in Chinese capacity

• Riot's Vanguard update reportedly disables DMA cheat hardware via IOMMU

• A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale

• Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware

• The $58,000 TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy

• CBS Radio signs off after nearly 100 years of broadcasting

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Flipper One — we need your help

  Flipper One isn't an upgrade to Flipper Zero — it's a completely different project with its own goals. Flipper One is an open Linux platform you can build almost anything on: from a 5G-enabled IP network analyzer to an SDR-powered radio signal analyzer with local AI. We focused a lot on the hardware expansion system. You can connect high-speed modules to Flipper One over PCI Express, USB 3.0, and SATA interfaces. Add an SDR, a fast SSD, or a cellular modem — just plug in the right module.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Rocket Lab announces five-launch Neutron deal as it aims for late 2026 debut

• Second tranch of UFO files declassified

  • Pentagon releases second batch of UFO videos and first-hand testimony

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Microsoft reportedly cancelling Claude internally due to cost

• Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence

• Cisco used AI to write security incident reports, with mixed results

• Report Alleges Chinese Influence Behind AI Data Center Pushback in the U.S.

• AI may be inflationary before it becomes productive

• First ever AI feature film premieres at the Cannes Film Festival

  • Cannes Film Cost $500k to Make. $400k Was AI Compute Costs

• DeepSeek Founder Declares AGI Goal as $10B Round Advances

• A top K-drama star faces explosive backlash over AI-manipulated voice evidence

• Ban for Authors Submitting AI Content 'Welcome but Unenforceable'

• Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting

• The IPO wave will enshrine the AI gods' control over the future

• Americans overwhelmingly oppose data centers. Women most of all

• Another California tech company lays off thousands, citing AI

• Cursor hits $3B in revenue and now has 3K+ customers paying at least $100K each

• Google plans to win the AI war

• The AI Superstars Who Say a 'Vibe Slop' Crisis Is Coming

• Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool across North America

• Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan will hire more AI brainiacs, fewer bankers.

• Politico agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Crypto and AI-Funded Super PACs Are Metastasizing

• Largest North American Bitcoin ATM operator, Bitcoin Depot, files for bankruptcy

Economicon / Business / Finance

• JPMorgan Fights over Comic Books Locked in a Mississippi Warehouse

• Acrisure layoffs to number 2,250, attributed to AI advancements

• Samsung to distribute up to $26.6B to staff in AI-driven bonuses

  • Samsung Chip Workers to Get Average $340k Bonus in AI Boom

  • Samsung's deal with union hailed as a victory

  • Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar

  • Samsung's memory chip employees negotiated $340k bonuses this year

• Big Tech software era is over, says top investor James Anderson

• Americans beware: markets can be out of sync with reality

• Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FCC Extends Update Deadline for Foreign-Made Routers, Drones Until 2029

• Woman files lawsuit after arrest for Facebook post concerning Trinidad water

  A Facebook post about problems with the city of Trinidad's water quality led to the arrest of a resident, who now says she's filed a lawsuit against the city for what she calls a "political retaliation" arrest.

• NTSB docket system offline after UPS 2976 CVR reconstructed from spectrogram

  The NTSB is aware that advances in image recognition and computational methods have enabled individuals to reconstruct approximations of cockpit voice recorder audio from sound spectrum imagery released as part of NTSB investigations, including the ongoing investigation of the crash last year of UPS flight 2976 in Louisville, Kentucky. The NTSB does not release cockpit audio recordings. Federal law prohibits such public release due to the highly sensitive nature of verbal communications inside the cockpit. The NTSB takes these privacy restrictions seriously. The NTSB docket system is temporarily unavailable as we examine the scope of the issue and evaluate solutions. We hope to restore access to the docket system as soon as possible.

  • A PDF let the internet hear the final words in the cockpit of UPS plane

  New technology allowing audio of plane crashes to be extracted from still images has prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to take a rare step of pausing the public release of nearly all information related to its investigations.

• New York State passes bill requiring disclosure of food additives

• Trump said he'd 'remember' companies forgoing tariff refunds. Many still applied

• Stunning number of illegal migrants who have been deported from US or left voluntarily is revealed by DHS

  More than 3 million illegal aliens have left the US or been deported since President Trump took office, the Department of Homeland Security has revealed. Of those 3 million, 2.2 million have opted to self-deport through a program that allows migrants to turn themselves in via a DHS app in return for a cash stipend and free flight home. Another 900,000 have been deported since Jan. 20, 2025, and as of this month, DHS has arrested 900,000 illegal aliens, according to agency figures.

Trump

• Trump pulls back AI order over fears it could slow US technology

  • Pressure from Silicon Valley helped block Trump's expected order on AI

  • White House yanked AI order after David Sacks raised industry concerns

  • Trump's unsigned AI executive order

  • Anti-"doomer" feedback derails Trump's AI executive order

• Tulsi Gabbard resigns from Trump Cabinet

  Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her post as Director of National Intelligence to support her husband through his battle with "an extremely rare form of bone cancer," Fox News Digital learned. Gabbard notified President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office Friday. Her last day at ODNI is expected to be June 30.

  • Tulsi Gabbard resigns as US director of national intelligence

Democrats

• Newsom intervenes amid historic tech layoffs

  • Governor Newsom signs order to prepare workers for potential AI disruption

  • 'The whole system has to be reimagined' – Newsom calls for rethinking economy

• Dem Who Claimed Bondi Beach Massacre was ‘Zionist False Flag’ Wins House Primary.

Left Angst

• The Trump phone looks suspiciously like an HTC u24 Pro

• Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data

• Series finale of Stephen Colberts Late show

• Trump's Endgame Is Surrender

• 'Broadview Six' defendants have all remaining charges dismissed

  The charges had stemmed from a confrontation between protesters and ICE agents at a Broadview facility last September

• U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators

• Trump administration issues directive green card applicants to apply outside US

  • Immigrants waiting for a Green Card must return to their home country to apply

• Kash Patel merch site hacked to trick users into installing malware

• The aftermath of Trump-Xi summit: comparing U.S. and China announcements

• The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• What the San Diego Mosque Shooters Believed

  According to the 75-page unfinished manifesto left behind by Caleb Vazquez, 18, and Cain Clark, 17, the pair hated Muslims, Jews, blacks, legal migrants, illegal migrants, Latinos, Asians, industrial society, gays, trans people, Donald Trump, “MAGAtard boomers,” liberals, conservatives, moderates, and women. Oh boy, did they hate women. “After the Jew the most evil creature in this world is the woman,” wrote Vazquez, in his contribution to the two-part document. He identifies himself as a short man on the autism spectrum. This, he believed, is why women ignored him.

  • San Diego mosque shooter Caleb Vazquez’s family breaks silence on terror attack, say autistic son was brainwashed online

• Judge dismisses human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

  A federal judge on Friday dismissed a human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, finding that the Justice Department’s pursuit of criminal charges was designed to punish him for challenging his mistaken deportation to El Salvador last year. The ruling amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of a Justice Department that under President Donald Trump has repeatedly been accused of targeting defendants for political purposes. “The evidence before this court sadly reflects an abuse of prosecuting power,” U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, in Nashville, Tenn., said in his ruling granting Abrego Garcia’s motion to dismiss for “selective or vindictive prosecution.” Without Abrego Garcia’s “successful lawsuit challenging his removal to El Salvador, the government would not have brought this prosecution.”

World

• UK supermarket using GPS trackers on £3.90 sausages to crackdown on thefts

• Europe regulated itself into American vassalage

• Frustrated Indian youth flock to a political party led by a cockroach

• Suicide tops causes of death among Korean youth for 14th straight year

• Canada's early-stage angel investing falls to five-year low

• Merkel Urges EU to Keep Regulating Social Media Speech

• How the Iran energy panic supercharged Europe's climate debate

• Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada

• Housing squeeze in Swiss boom region fuels support for population cap

• Hollywood Secures Broad "Omnibus" Pirate Site Blocking Order in UK High Court

• Microsoft accused of leaking Dutch civil servants' names to U.S. government

• Turkey court removes leader of opposition as Erdoğan tightens grip

• India has food safety laws. So why can't it guarantee safe food?

• Canada's shortwave radio time standard station CHU to go dark June 22nd

Iran / Houthi

• Iran Moved Billions Through Binance to Fund Regime–Continuing into This Month

Israel

• U.S. bears brunt of Israel's missile defense, Pentagon assessments show

• The humiliation of finding secret Israeli bases in Iraq

• Israel's arrogance is becoming the evidence in the case against it

• Israel's operation to turn Hezbollah's beepers into bombs

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Four Russian satellites are now within striking distance of an ICEYE radarsat

China

• China overtakes US to become top foreign investor in Germany

• Chinese authorities destroy villager's 10-storey Studio Ghibli-esque home

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Nicotine Patches to Treat Long Covid

• No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says

• Residents burn Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak

  • Crowd Sets Ebola Treatment Center Ablaze in Congo Amid Dispute Over Dead Body

  People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on May 21 after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, witnesses and police said. “The police intervened to try to calm the situation, but unfortunately they were unsuccessful,” Alexis Burata, a local student who said he was in the area, told The Associated Press. “The young people ended up setting fire to the center. That’s the situation.”

  Munongo had played for several local teams and was a well-known figure in his neighborhood. He had been admitted to the hospital days earlier. A doctor said he was a suspected Ebola case, and the hospital had taken samples to run tests. His mother told Reuters she believes her son had died of typhoid fever, not Ebola.

  ALIMA condemned in a May 21 statement what it called “the endangerment of human lives and the destruction of medical equipment essential for the safe care of patients, in the context of a particularly critical epidemic.” It also warned against “the spread of incorrect or unconfirmed information on social media and the internet, which is likely to fuel fear, misinformation and mistrust towards health facilities and the teams involved in the Ebola response.”

• Ebola outbreak spirals out of control: how might it have started?

• UK scientists developing new Ebola vaccine that could be ready in months

• Suspected Ebola cases triple in a week as WHO warns of rapid spread in DRC

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Human Urine Becomes Option for Farmers in Fertilizer Supply Crunch

• Snuffleupagus, a newly described species, is an adorable little predator