2026-10-03

Horseshit

• Women Don't Want Us in a Room That's Why the Manosphere Exists

  All the spaces that were once male exclusive have been either destroyed by women or forced open to them. They change the rules, and then the men are chased away. Men still try to go to the gym, to bars, or to workshops, but they must constantly navigate a minefield. One wrong move can lead to accusations of sexual harassment or sexual assault.

• After Decades of Rising IQ Scores, a Puzzling Decline Is Emerging

• Scientists explain how a 300 TeV photon could reach Earth

• Buc-ee’s and Ohio gas station chain settle trademark infringement lawsuit

  The filing said that like Buc-ee’s logo, Mickey’s logo incorporates “a cartoon animal facing right with wide eyes and a smile, overlaying a round background.” It argued that the similarities between the two logos would likely cause confusion among customers.

  • one is a beaver and one is a moose; only a lawyer could confuse the two.

• A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth

• The 12th-century military disaster that forever changed global finance

• Venus' mysterious haze is cosmic dust

• Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business

• FAA Says 737 MAX Software Glitch Doesn't Pose Safety Issue

• Bloodshed? NHL's 'Hot for Hockey' Campaign Misses What Women Fans Want

celebrity gossip

• Mike Tomlin former NFL player and coach made a giant city in Minecraft

  • Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

• Cormac McCarthy's Marriage Was Ending When an Editor Changed His Life

Musk

• Tesla launches capability to drive away while plugged in after deadly shooting

• SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission

• Grok reportedly encouraged the capture of Venezuela's president

• Elon Musk to advise Pentagon on future of war

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis?

• Americans are rushing to buy hybrid cars. They're turning to Asian brands

• Driverless Cab Is Spying on You

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• A Robust Robot Hand Engineered for Mass Production

  • Boston Dynamics Robot Hands

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• DESI Collaboration instrument results challenge the cosmological constant

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl

• Used CPU leads to game ban

• Woman loses 20 years of 'digital memories' after Meta deletes her accounts

• Apple Says iPhone Duo Has Replaceable 'Cover Layer'

• Xbox is not for sale, says Xbox.

• Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP

• Reddit to sunset RSS access because of AI bots

• Buying an RTX 5090? You Need to Promise You Won't Export It First

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Cars Are Sharing Data with Big Tech Companies, Study Finds

• USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’

• Dutch women, girls filmed with Meta glasses on creep sites

• Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner

  • Florida County Finds 11 Unpermitted Flock Cameras with Unidentified Owners

• Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley Are Introducing the Ban Flock Act

• Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was Unconstitutional

• San Francisco's car crime has plunged. How much credit does Flock deserve?

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• A rocket shortage gives SpaceX's competitors an opportunity

  • A lack of rockets is creating a crisis for space technology companies

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• I'm Calling for a Pause in the Development of the Universal Bone Dissolver

  • Senate Hearings to examine rogue AI

  • AI godfather Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO deluded, doesn't understand cybersecurity

  • Anthropic and OpenAI keep saying their products will kill all life in the galaxy. The FTC decided to take a look at that.

  • They're Known as Swarm Chasers–and They Spring into Action When AI Goes Rogue

  • Eric Sadin: 'AI reeks of death'

• Trump renaming AI to SI is making his wife's home country a little richer

  • 'President of the Unites States': White House's AI accord includes spellingerror

  • Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names

• OpenAI hacks 2nd Australian Government Department

  • "We're not going to shoot ourselves in the foot" over hack fallout, says OpenAI

  • OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers

  • OpenAI fires three workers over mishandling 'sensitive information'

  • OpenAI Fires Researchers for Allegedly Sharing Information with AI Safety Group

  • OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena

  • OpenAI notifies 100 orgs about its AI agents bypassing their security controls

  • OpenAI alerts 100 orgs that its 'misaligned models' attempted to break in

• Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping

  • Mathematicians and Muse Spark collaborate on 6 research papers

  • Meta stumbled onto a winning AI strategy

• Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors

  • Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors

• Amazon pledges $1B to towns hosting its data centers

  • Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B into quashing datacenter dissent

• Tokyo court grants legal protection to human voices in AI clone case

• Turning to AI for health answers may signal anxiety, depression in young adults

• AI-Generated Victim Statement Leads to Sentence Being Vacated

• The AI data center e-waste problem is huge

• AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

• AI upscaling is coming to PS5

• Can AI Run in Space? Google Is About to Find Out

• AI datacentres pose growing threat to electricity systems worldwide

• Canadian-German AI lab eyes building sovereign AI for Europe

• Someone Torturing LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI

• Who's Ahead in the Global AI Talent Race?

• TSMC Mulls Multibillion-Dollar Texas Campus for More AI Chips

• Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter

• Nikon 'Re-Reviewing' Winner of Small World in Motion Contest After AI Accusation

• AI Agents Are Vulnerable to Radicalization

• If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it?

• We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI

• Will A.I. Still Take Our Jobs?

• Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search

• The Looming Closure of China's AI Frontier

• Religious Scholars Met with Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them

• AI data centers: How much are ratepayers on the hook for?

• Nvidia introduces 64GB DGX Spark to throw local AI fans a lifeline

• The AI telling farmers when to harvest

• Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I

• An AI radio DJ has shot to stardom in L.A. Human hosts aren't happy about it

• Apple to Tighten Mac Data Controls in Guard Against AI Agents

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• There's a spike in Bitcoin activity around the time foreign aid money goes out

  Somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into crypto wallets:

  • Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid

  We develop a disbursement-timed forensic measure of cryptocurrency activity, combining on-chain Bitcoin transactions and wallet creation, off-chain exchange records, and IP-linked web traffic, and apply it to World Bank aid disbursements covering $238 billion across the 93 recipient countries in our estimation sample during 2018-2024. Exploiting the administrative timing of aid tranche arrivals, we find sharp, short-lived surges of crypto activity at the disbursement month, driven mainly by anonymous and newly created wallets on both tax-haven and mainstream exchanges. Blockchain forensics reveal patterns consistent with the placement, layering, and integration sequence of conventional money laundering. We estimate an implied leakage of 2 to 6 cents per aid dollar, which amounts to roughly 1.7 to 4.4 billion dollars of aid diversion across the tranche arrivals we study. Capture carries no funding penalty: the four sectors where we detect it, Transport, Water and Sanitation, Social Protection, and Governance, still absorb half of subsequent World Bank funding.

• Crypto thieves attack man in home and threaten to kill pregnant wife's baby

• Prediction Markets a Destination for Gambling Addicts

Economicon / Business / Finance

• VCs are funding a concert business as a hedge against AI

• US Adds Just 29,000 Jobs as Unemployment Rate Rises

  • US job growth slows sharply in September; unemployment rate rises to 4.2%

• Diesel prices fall as EU considers releasing 50M barrels under Trump pressure

• David Ellison on Paramount and Warner Bros. rename: "Together, we are Skydance."

  • Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to Become Skydance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• DPS knew of issues with Texas online voter registration portal as early as March

• Media Law: How One Firm’s Lawsuits Echo Investigative Journalism

Trump

• What Trump Has Built

  At one of the lowest points of his presidency, he is absorbed with the physical details of a world he can remake to his liking. There is something revealing in the contrast. Here, he can still point to a wall and say how thick it should be, decide where the grass ends and the stone begins, make demands and have them fulfilled. With his presidency seemingly spinning off course, Trump has busied himself with things he can control.

Democrats

• Buttigieg Surges to 1 Percent With Black Voters.

• San Francisco’s Frat Houses for Pedophiles.

• Abdul El-Sayed Billed County Taxpayers $9,000 a Month in ‘Consulting’ Fees While Running for Senate.

  Michigan’s left-wing Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed billed county taxpayers $9,000 per month in consulting fees while running for Senate, according to public records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The Wayne County Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services approved a contract to hire El-Sayed for “consulting services” on April 23, 2025, six days after El-Sayed announced he was running for Senate.

Left Angst

• Alarm Grows over 'Clearly Illegal' US Election Meddling in Brazil

• Inside Larry Ellison's Wide Web of Power, Money and Politics

• How Trump’s obsession with ‘rigged’ voting machines spread across US government

• Trump consulted Musk's chatbot Grok before abducting Venezuela's president

• ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos into a Palantir Database

• NSF Diverted $1.4B in Science Funds Mandated by Congress

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• US death row inmate survives execution attempt after two lethal injections

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

• Pentagon Creates 'Autowarcom' to Expand AI and Drone Capabilities

  • U.S. creates Autonomous Warfare Command to fuse and enhance military drone ops

• Pentagon launches Office of Religious Affairs, will report directly to Hegseth

• ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

• CA tech executive arrested for allegedly smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips to CN

World

• Dozens hurt and hundreds arrested in wave of French school protests

  • French Secondary Schools Burn

  • Crisis meeting told France's hardleft party behind school protests, says source | Reuters

  France's intelligence agencies briefed a government crisis meeting on Thursday that a wave ​of student protests, sometimes violent, that has swept across the country was initiated by hard-left politicians, a person close to the prime minister ‌said.

  • ‘Student’ riots rock France as masked men torch schools and douse teachers in petrol.

  • Fires lit on streets across France as student force schools to close

• As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry

• Ireland: Under-18s banned from using e-scooters from today

  Up to now, the minimum age for e-scooter use was 16, but as of today, that has been increased to 18, making the use of an e-scooter by a child illegal.

• Absolute s–t: EU's Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials

• Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

• Salvage Work Begins on WWII 'Time Bomb' Wreck in Thames Estuary

Iran / Houthi

• 9,000 More US Troops Head To Middle East As Trump Mulls Resuming Iran Strikes.

Israel

• I opened cockpit door while being attacked, says pilot of Dubai-Israel flight

China

• China's rise as a health tech superpower is important

• Researchers Drove a Chinese EV into an Underground Mine. It Kept Calling China

• On social reality in China

  Dark World thinking is typified by Peter Thiel’s recent viral quote: “If you’re evil, at least you’re not bad.” Dark World thinking is everywhere, but in my experience there’s a particularly brazen strain in China. Key tenets of the Dark World:

  • No good deed goes unpunished.
  • It is better to be strong than good.
  • It is better to be evil than weak.
  • It is better to be honest than kind.
  • A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
  • That which can be destroyed should be.
  • Kindness to others is cruelty to oneself.

Health / Medicine

• Ozempic-Like Drugs Could Have a Surprising Effect on Alcohol Cravings.

• 11% of Americans Are Currently Taking a GLP-1 Weight Loss Drug

• Creatine may help build muscle even without exercise, researchers find

• Exhaling may speed up reaction times

• Prozac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trial

• Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Scientists Invent Underwater Umbrellas to Protect Coral Reefs–and It's Working

• Why Lake Powell Keeps Dropping Through The Fall

• America's Largest Producer of Coal Is Operating Under an Expired Permit

• Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How to Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence

• 'Explosion of melt rates': 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

• 46,000-Year-Old Worm Possibly Revived from Siberian Permafrost