2026-08-29

Horseshit

• Neanderthal Men Were Banging Human Women for Hundreds of Thousands of Years.

  • Today we can't go 4 hours without a pill, heart attack, or both. Seriously tho: more than 2 hours per session requires training and dedication few creatures have.

• A Sex Tape Won't Make You Famous Anymore

• How does football cause brain disease

• A startup claims it's found a drug to make your blood young

• To Silicon Valley, anything could be a 'psyop'

• A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World

• The Masonic Murder That Inspired the First Third Party in American Politics

• For ancient Romans, pooping was a group activity

• Man builds supersonic trebuchet in his backyard

• Chicken Conquered the World

• Low property taxes freeze the youth out of the economy

• Couples who share awe-inspiring moments report greater relationship flourishing

• Webb Telescope Rules Out Two New Dyson Sphere Candidates

• What’s more effective: washing your hands or using hand sanitizer? Medical experts weigh in.

• Tree climbing is better: What Hanging from a Bar for 30 Seconds Can Do for Your Body

Obit

• Norway's King Harald dies aged 89

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• X Safety Team: We Have Uncovered 200,000 Bots and Fake Accounts Created by Chinese Intelligence to Propagandize Against Data Farms

  • X found 200k fake Chinese accounts for influence operations, how many here?

  • X reveals foreign adversary behind fake accounts disseminating anti-data center

Musk

• Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

• Musk's AI company sues its users as victim lawsuits over Grok deepfakes mount

• Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch "Twitter," says Musk abandoned the name

• The world’s busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now.

• SpaceX Considered as a Leasing Company

• Starship is coming home SpaceX loads floating spacecraft onto ship in the

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Toyota to roll out near autonomous cars from 2028

• Waymo imported over 3,200 Zeekr robotaxis in the US despite 102.5% tariffs

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Overcooked? Why robotic pizza makers are failing

• US Military funding propelled China's robot dogs

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Amish threaten mass exodus from New York over vaccine fight —which is heading to the Supreme Court.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Daycare Pseudoscience

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Survey shows Americans have turned against license plate tracking cameras

  • How An Atlanta Suburb Shares Flock Data with More Than 2k Organizations

  • Pa state senator planning bill to ban on Flock, ALPR cameras

  • Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock over 2k times

  • Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes

• Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'

• Harvard and the Cloudflare Governance Fight

• MicroSD card torture test reveal SanDisk as the outlier: 6 fails of the 7 tested

• In response to Polish government, Meta admits the scale of scam ads

• Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

  • Two Alleged 'TeamPCP' Hackers Arrested in Australia

• Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages

• CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago

• Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election

• Apple's rare Bay Area layoffs hit Vision Pro and Siri teams amid AI shakeup

• How the Anvil Was Nearly Dropped on 'Coyote vs. Acme'

• Cloudflare frees 100TB of RAM by shrinking DNS cache entries

• Tim Cook's biggest hits and misses as Apple CEO

• Pine64 hits pause on Linux devices due to RAM and eMMC shortage and high prices

• People Are Saving Up Their Vacation Days to Binge 'Grand Theft Auto VI'

• Nvidia's DLSS 5 has leaked, and modders are creating uncanny nightmares

• Hardware-level firmware extraction and malware analysis of a $25 Android TV box

  This project confirmed, first-hand and at the firmware level, something that's been documented at scale by Human Security, Kaspersky, Bitsight, and the EFF, and warned about publicly by the FBI: cheap, uncertified Android streaming boxes sold through major consumer marketplaces are a live, ongoing supply-chain security problem, not a historical one. A $25 purchase, no special access, and a pogo pin clamp were enough to find four co-existing malware families and a working root backdoor baked into the read-only system partition.

  What I'd take away from this, plainly: + Never trust a cheap, unbranded IoT device on a home network, full stop. The economics of a $25 box with hardware, shipping, and reseller margin already baked in only work if something else is being monetized on the back end. + Getting infected doesn't require any user error. This device shipped pre-infected, and there was no "don't click that" moment to avoid.

• Apple announces price increase for Apple TV and Apple One subscriptions

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA's Roman telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble

  • Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches this Sunday

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules

  • Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules

  • Judge rules Trump administration illegally punished AI firm Anthropic

  • Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk

  • Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal

• Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will never see

• Anthropic Is Quietly Cutting Google Out of the Equation

• A.I. Brings Big Gains to Hurricane Forecasts, Google Researchers Say

• South Korea's 'AI for All' Push Gives Free Access to Every Citizen

• One of east coast's largest datacenters accused of 'violating federal law'

• AI writing has begun to appear on the opinion pages

• Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

  • Anthropic pushes into physical world with standard to help agents run machines

  • Anthropic proposes plumbing spec to link AI agents to lab kit and robots

• In a divided America, left and right unite to oppose AI data centers

• ChatGPT may be changing how you're writing

• Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, report says

• Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck

  • Hugging Face has announced a new robot duck.

• Time is running out for cyber security, warn top tech firms

  • ‘We have a limited window’: 116 companies, entities sign on to major AI cyber defense push.

  • Tech giants urge global response to AI cybersecurity threats

• Tech Companies Lobbied Away Stricter Rules on Gas-Powered Data Centers

• They confided in ChatGPT. Their secrets ended up in court.

• Data center boom sparks lobbying surge

• NDAs are hiding data center deals, drawing ire from locals

• TIME100 List of the Most Influential People in AI

• Inside Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers

• AI data center boom drives demand for skilled trades workers in US

• Blue-Collar Jobs Are the New Flashpoint in Data-Center Fight

• Nvidia Insists It Can Keep Printing Money to Fund the AI Boom

• Songs created by AI banned from Australia's music charts

• Disturbed loners probably pose an exponentially increasing threat to society

  Dario worries about how a malicious loner may want to cause mass harm and can now engineer a dangerous biological agent. But this totally neglects the deluded loner who doesn't intend to hurt anyone at all, has just spent five months developing some completely wrong theory of biology, become absolutely certain that the scientific establishment is too captured or stupid to understand it, and now suddenly possess the tools to test it themselves and accidentally releases the same agent.

• The Uninvited Guest Who Crashed Our Family Vacation: My Mom's AI Chatbot

• The data center backlash is here – and Big Tech is spending big to combat it

• NSA wants access to 'all' AI models, top official says

• An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling

• AI Finds Critical Flaw in Bitcoin Lightning, Devs Issue Emergency Warning

• 'We are broken': One family's fight against gambling addiction

• States can regulate prediction markets as gambling, federal appeals court rules

  • 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight

• Young adults under 21 traded $5B on Kalshi this year

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Private Credit Investors Prefer to Be Trapped Than Take 26% Loss

• A Looming Rare Earth Shortage Threatens Critical Tech

• Global central bankers gather in Jackson Hole

• Alphabet stock sheds $700B as AI bills climb

• Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal

• America's Top Venture Capital Firms of 2025

• Brightline Chapter 11 Backed by Assured Guaranty

  Brightline, the private passenger rail operator whose Florida route includes Miami, is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company has entered into a restructuring support agreement with Assured Guaranty, a bond insurer, which will provide at least $350 million in debtor-in-possession financing. This financial lifeline is intended to keep the railroad running while it reorganizes its balance sheet. The insurer will likely have priority claim over existing bondholders, meaning that if the company's assets are liquidated or restructured, Assured Guaranty stands to recover its investment before other creditors. This has already caused turbulence in the secondary market for Brightline's debt, with many bonds now trading at a fraction of their face value.

• Timber Was Gold in the South–Until a Market Collapse Crushed the Forest Economy

• The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska

• Corporate profits hit highest share since WWII, as worker payouts wilt

Trump

• Trump Takes A Cleaver To "Big Meat" Monopoly, Moves To Let Mom-And-Pop Ranchers Process Own Meat

  in order to break this powerful monopoly, with much of its ownership based outside of the U.S., I am authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow Farmers and Ranchers to be given the right to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD."

  • Trump suggests cattle ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected meat plants

Democrats

• Immigrant businesses who spoke out against Mamdani supermarkets say they’re getting hit with NYC sanitation fines.

Left Angst

• 9/11 wasn't a 'terrorist attack,' according to the CBC

• Corporate America Cut Big Checks to Trump. Now CEOs Fear Subpoenas Are Coming

• Semiconductor tariffs could cost U.S. $90B a year and 243,000 jobs

• The Unwelcoming States of America

• Rubio Uses Terrorism Law to Ban Secure Email Service

• West Point Professor Fired for Refusing to Lie About Climate Change

• Recording shows Alabama Power lobbyist discussing bill to appoint utility regulators

  In the recording Alabama Power’s lobbyist discusses potential support, messaging coordination and keeping the company publicly neutral

• The New Student Visa Policy Doesn't Add Up

• Felony charges dropped against Golden Gate Bridge protesters

• The Attorney General of Washington State has been planning lawsuits against President Trump…since before he was even elected in 2024!!

• Canada recruits foreign scientists, researchers poaching many from U.S.

• ICE grants $16.7 Million no-bid contract to buy 6000 electric shock gloves

• Trump's Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

• DHS Proposal to eliminate 60 day grace period for H1B

• ICE Plans to Spend Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots

• Former Trump supporter Milo Yiannopoulos has been arrested and detained by ICE

  • Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE in Louisiana

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• A Student Said He Was a Hobby Plane Spotter-He Was Taking Photos for the Chinese

• U.S. In Talks To Take Direct Ownership Of Venezuelan Oil Fields.

• Army Awards $2.2B for 'Microreactors' On U.S. Bases

• Ratcliffe told the head of the FSB that Russia must not attack NATO.

World

• Unique Bronze Age "Treasures of Villena" Stolen in Spain

• More Japan hotels offer sleep tourism experiences to promote better sleep

• Sanjeev Gupta’s family takes out £24mn mortgage on Belgravia mansion

• Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge

• £50k needed to purchase church with Maxwell's grave

• ‘Ceuta Doesn’t Surrender’: Locals Rise Up, Fight State-Sanctioned Muslim Invasion.

  • (Video) Fed-up Ceuta residents torch migrant camp on beach after accusing government of inaction

• Chinese carmakers grow market share in Europe with hybrid surge

• Lake formed after ice-rock avalanche remains at a high level and is overflowing

  • Nepal–Tibet floods in maps, photos and videos

• Capacity of lifts not kept up with UK obesity levels, study shows

• Chinese imports plunge 30% to 40% after EU tax on small parcels

• South Korea leans toward military conscription for women

• The cheapest accommodation in Paris is disappearing: Here's why

• France opens door to fighter jet cooperation with Sweden

• Why Germany's military is betting on gamers

• BBC chief proposes 'public service algorithm' with YouTube-style content

• Six people injured after sign falls at Christian festival

  Six people have been injured by a falling sign at a Christian festival in West Sussex. Emergency services were called to reports of multiple people in need of medical attention at Big Church Festival, near Steyning, shortly after 15:30 BST on Friday.

• CBC reverses restriction on labelling 9/11 as 'terrorism'

Iran / Houthi

• The Islamic Republic’s massive Hormuz minefield was largely a bluff built on decoys

  reporting citing U.S. officials said more than 200 mine-like objects were cleared from the main shipping lane, but only around 11 were actual mines, with few properly deployed.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine's Most Potent Weapon: The Software Orchestrating Its Drone Army

• Russia says it could strike UK military targets in response to Kyiv's use of British missiles

• Russian speed cameras with fake software and backdoors in Slovakia

China

• China's Oil Demand 'Likely' Peaked Last Year, Sinopec Says

• Gong Zizheng, who led China's planetary defence project, dies at 61

• Long March 6C rocket stage fragments in orbit, creating cloud of debris

Health / Medicine

• 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online

• Sweetener used in chewing gum and jam linked to strokes and heart attacks

  High blood levels of xylitol associated with higher risk of major cardiovascular events, in largest study of its kind

• BioNTech halts mRNA colorectal cancer vaccine trial after review

• Juul gets OK to sell vaping device with age-gating technology

• 25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA

• USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

  “This is where we get political, 24-48 hours about the administration approving meat coming from Argentina at a time that there’s a major recall of some 30000 pounds of meat because of failure to inspect it,” he said.

  • (Aug 11) Nearly 30,000 pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas, Florida recalled by Miami-area company

  recalled nearly 30,000 pounds of raw beef products produced in May that have use or freeze-by dates between Sept. 15, 2026, and Sept. 20, 2026. The FSIS said the products were imported without the benefit of import reinspection into the United States. The service said the issue was discovered during routine inspection activities.

  While no illnesses or injuries have been reported as a result of eating the beef, the FSIS urges anyone with concerns to contact a healthcare provider.

• Marijuana Legalization Didn't Fill Emergency Rooms with Stoned Drivers

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• FDA approves updated Covid-19 vaccines for dominant XFG variant

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest

• The cause of most wildfires? People

• Study captures how smog begins

• Earth's mysterious 'hum' points to the sound of waves crashing across the world

• Africa's Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent

• China's CO2 fell 1.6% for the first time, as clean power outpaced demand growth

• Electric rain can eat through metal

• Laying solar panels between the rails in Switzerland

• Engineered bacteria offer a way to accelerate rock weathering for carbon removal