2026-11-01

Horseshit

• The Peptide Rush Has Begun.

• We're looking at a 30-year run: UK pair aim to complete most complex game

• Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust

  • As representative as the rocks Tonga threw up are of Earth.

• Cursed cruise: how the dream of never-ending luxury at sea became a nightmare

• Halloween is a crass American import – I'll never indulge it

• I love the NYC Marathon. It's the runner pooping on my lawn that bugs me

  • The Marathon Is as Popular as Ever. It Remains Inaccessible to Many

• Tolkien's legends are truer than our own

• A Link Between Childhood Imaginary Friend and an Uncanny Feeling Later in Life

• The dangerous science behind the Queen of Crime

• Rejoice, leap seconds are dead

• 'Picasso of Pumpkin Carvers' brings artistry to a Halloween tradition

• The Parents Who Are Letting Their Kids Drink

• 2.5 hrs of makeup: Japan teen struggles with social media beauty standards

• An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

Musk

• SpaceX’s Starfall capsule delivers cargo for US Air Force in landmark ‘point to point’ space mission.

• "People don't understand SpaceX"

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Wanted: Robot-Dog Walkers. $20/Hour. No pooper scooper required.

• Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Report of the Summit on Math Research in the Age of AI

• Harvard Clones Its Faculty

• Computer Science Programs Lose Students as AI Replaces Jobs

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Intel leaker reveals Moon Lake chip as a likely replacement for N-series SoCs

• The Beleaguered Chip Sellers Getting Their Revenge on Apple

  • Apple's Flash Storage Suppliers Are Finally 'Getting Their Revenge'

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Flock camera searches fell 95% after a dispatcher's misconduct was caught

• GM to pay $220M to settle allegations it violated drivers' privacy

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Beating the compiler at signed 32-bit division

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Analysts find looming launch crisis is "more severe" than anticipated

• Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO

  • OpenAI slashes funding target by $10B as tech anxieties mount

  • OpenAI slashes funding target by $10B amid tech rout, FT reports

  • OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target

  • Anthropic's path to the Nasdaq just got a lot bumpier

• Anthropic orders AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games

  • Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering

  • Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games

• Google's first datacenter in space is operational after launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 earlier this month.

  • Google's AI satellite sends a expensive haiku to Earth

• OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization

  “From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time,” Altman said. “You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment. And somehow many people’s intuition is the opposite of that.”

• Entire Insurance industry could be overwhelmed by catastrophic AI event

• The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping

• The New Hot Job in Law Doesn't Require a J.D

• An AI Agent Injected Drugs into a Live Mouse's Brain

• Goldman says AI layoffs are leaving 'long-lasting' scar, like the last 40 years

• Nearly 2 out of 3 teens and tweens use AI chatbots, new research shows

• Photo Studios Are Closing as the Fashion Industry Embraces Generative AI

• Hans Moravec was right about AI. Is he right about the fate of humanity?

• Anthropic hacked by AI startup in less than 12hrs

• AI-Run Companies Are Coming. Delaware Wants to Get Ahead of Them

• Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use

• The Smartest People in AI Believe This Is the World's Most Important Chart

• The Limits of AI as an Economic Weapon

• Writing was flagged as AI. What does that mean?

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• How Binance's $6.3B Hack Went Down

  • Crypto firm Binance covers 90% of losses after $6.3B hack

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Tech Stocks Plunge as Wall Street Enters ‘Show Me’ Phase

  • Google's $500B bloodbath reflects the danger it faces from AI

  • Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks

• How Aldi is pushing down grocery prices

Democrats

• Daniel J. Sullivan left his Alaska hometown before Senate election, sources say

  • The Dan Sullivan scheme: Another ‘conspiracy theory’ turns out to be true

Left Angst

• How Trump Is Dismantling America's Scientific Research Machine

• Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally?

  • remember "make yer own platform?"

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Mexico urges respect for treaties after Texas seizes nine islands on Rio Grande

World

• Looks Like Poland Might Be in the Middle of a Tusk-Orchestrated Coup

  Varying reports say Tusk had police storm or surround (give or take) the Constitutional Tribunal building and declared he had removed the sitting president and vice president from office. Tusk's police are claiming the crowd started it as the reason they entered the court building, which doesn't hold up to reason at all, but there it is.

  • Karol Nawrocki interrupted his trip to Senegal after police entered the headquarters of the Constitutional Tribunal

  • Polish president turns back from Senegal trip after top court chief suspended

  • Police secure Poland's Constitutional Tribunal as protests erupt

  • Anti-government protesters gather outside Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal for a second night

• Polish opposition leader floats EU exit talks to force reforms

• Mark Carney says Canada is set to become associate member of EU

  • EU and Canada forge 'alliance for the future' at Montreal summit

• Spanish minister refuses to resign over second major train crash on his watch

• French youth protests spread to Germany

• Hackers broke into four of Canada's top law firms

• London police arrest 139 as hundreds protest Palestine Action ban

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Doctors in Ukraine Try Treating Infections Like Biological Warfare Attacks

China

• Look up! China’s mysterious space plane is visible over the US this week.

Health / Medicine

• France confirms first Shamonda virus infection in a human

• The FDA Wants to Pull Its Approval of a Drug. It's Not So Easy

• Scientists think our recent ancestors may have run hotter

  the average individual today has also now been shown to be cooler than their counterpart 150 years ago, with American men running about 0.59C lower than in the early 19th-Century.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Cold showers benefit the environment and your health

• The Ocean 'Was the Color of Chocolate.' Mexico Declares War on Seaweed.

• UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

• How the U.N. Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy