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• Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport after it overshoots runway

  The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) confirmed the crash in a statement to the Guardian, saying: “21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 pm local time on Sunday, September 6. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The FAA will investigate.” The plane overran the airport’s diagonal runway and was disabled at the north-west end of the airport, a spokesperson for Miami international airport said.

  • Plane With Amazon Logo Crashes in Miami; 'Multiple Patients' Reported

  Five are confirmed dead, and five are confirmed injured.

  • Five dead after Amazon-branded cargo plane overruns runway at Miami airport

Horseshit

• Not Everything Digital Is Good: Tech Isn't Always an Example of Genius

• The Latest Wealth Flex: Big Trees

• Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium

• 34 arrests made for drug trafficking at Burning Man as of Friday

• 80k-year-old "arrowheads" rewrite human history

• The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry

• Older People Surpass the Young in the World for the First Time in History

• These Cyborg Cockroaches Could Save Your Life

• How algorithms are making our environments bland

• Coffee with capsicum? How data is changing the food on your plate

celebrity gossip

• Dolly Parton's Sister Slams "Endless Garbage": AI, Social Media Misinformation

• Kiyosaki, Rich-Dad-Poor-Dad author, is 1.2B in debt

Musk

• New Twitter rebrands to Tweet.app after court's double-edged ruling

  the judge said that using the "Twitter" name would cause confusion for consumers and infringe trademarks, meaning Operation Bluebird can't use the original name. However, the court also ruled that X likely abandoned the word "tweet" and its bird logo, meaning that these two were available to use without any trademark infringement claims.

  • Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows 'Tweet' for now

• Musk's Inner Circle Is Pouring Cash into Making Psychedelics Mainstream

• Federal judge again rules against Musk's xAI, allowing Minnesota 'nudification' ban to continue

  “If xAI genuinely feared irreparable harm, the Court does not doubt it would have acted more quickly to file this action and move for injunctive relief. The fact that it did not do so strongly suggests a lack of irreparable harm,” Frank wrote.

• First Responders May Have to Push Tesla's Cybercabs, Turn Front Wheels by Hand

• Scott Galloway issues grim SpaceX stock price forecast

• Tesla's Cybercab has been deployed, and it's under investigation

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Saudi Arabia bets on driverless trucks

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• States reach agreement at autonomous weapons talks in Geneva

• There Gonna be a Shortage of Everything

  Given how fast progress is, it seems to me that mass-production of humanoid robots is now inevitable in the next five years (probably less), so I think it's possible that the shortage will broaden-out to almost all complex machines. I'm making a prediction that in the next decade, the price of almost anything manufactured will sky-rocket. From cars to microwave ovens to washing-machines. The vast cash flow that the 1% reap from the rest of us is being re-allocated towards AI. And so AI will become almost like a consumer class in it's own right, with insatiable demand. And robots will likely be replaced every few years like mobile phones, so the demand will likely never abate.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• 21 Knox County students hospitalized for heat illness, 3 critical, after bomb threat evacuation: Rural Metro

  KCSO confirmed the students were outside for about an hour, and Superintendent Jon Rysewyk said students were provided water and shade while outside. Rysewyk avoided speaking specifically about where the students were able to access shade, saying security protocol keeps him from revealing too much about how schools react during emergencies. He did say school nurses were on the field helping evaluate and treat students who became sick.

• Want a super power? Ask more questions

  For the last six months or so, we have been failing something like 50% of the students who take our introductory programming course because they use AI to do their preparation, but can't show any understanding when faced with a human being asking simple questions. Some of them even appeal formally, insisting that they do understand the material and only failed due to technicalities. They are not lying. They think that they know. But they do not.

• Big Brother is going to college: The federal plan to track students for life

• Kenyans Did College Students' Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Etsy seller's 'bruh' T-shirts were removed over a trademark complaint

• Online bookies accused of UK privacy breaches with use of cookie banners

• Archive.org in need of large hard drives

• iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number between two phones

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Why NASA keeps sending astronauts to a gas station town in Utah

• German startup sends first commercial rocket into space from Europe

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I

• Nvidia is the central bank of AI

• We Spoke to an Amazon Worker Destroying Books for AI

• Court Filings in A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports

• Trump administration officials wrestling with the spiritual consequences of AI

• Anthropic IPO launch shifts toward mid-October

• LA District Bans Most A.I. For Students

• "I'm a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence"

• Yes, We're Entering the Era of Artificial General Intelligence

• Tumbler Ridge Shooting Survivors File 30 Lawsuits Against OpenAI

• 'Model fatigue' sets in as AI labs race to roll out new versions

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Prediction markets have become America's new national pastime

• Bitcoin mining data center condemned after leaking 3M gallons of water

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Low Interest Rates Ruined the Economy

• Nike To Leave the S&P 100 on September 21

  The sportswear company joins Honeywell Aerospace, Simon Property Group and Colgate-Palmolive on the list of S&P 100 departures. Dell Technologies, Palo Alto Networks, Arista Networks and Sandisk will enter the index.

• Chinese banks purchasing Treasuries after wooing dollar deposits

• Was Huawei's rise built on crime? A Brooklyn jury will decide

• The repo market is the 'dark matter' of finance: powerful and perilous

• Chainsaw maker STIHL's chief calls for longer hours without extra pay

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Armed man attacks Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton, several injured

  An armed man attacked Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton on Sept. 6 injuring multiple people at the Canfield Fair near Youngstown, according to a statement from the Acton campaign. "Dr. Acton and Eric are grateful for the swift and decisive action of law enforcement and are praying for the recovery of those injured," according to a statement from Addie Bullock, communications director for the Acton campaign. Acton, a Democrat, is running in a tight race against Republican Vivek Ramaswamy to replace Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.

Left Angst

• You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules

• Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke

  "Can't handle a pool, but wants our lake?" The Lake Ontario/Lake America spat is part of Trump's trade negotiations with Canada. Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded with his own sign stating "Lake Ontario: Now and Always."

• Make infectious disease data boring again

  Erica Schwartz, the newly confirmed director, has withheld Pennsylvania’s reported deaths from the national dashboard. The Atlantic reported that the child’s parents themselves believe their child died from measles. It remains unclear what additional evidence the CDC director believes she needs or why she would attempt to adjudicate the cause of death without working collaboratively with the state if she or her staff have questions or concerns.

  We need CDC to return to what has long made it effective: reporting data consistently, working collaboratively with states, and encouraging vaccination and treatment grounded in evidence. Public health data should not be manipulated for political advantage or treated differently depending on where they come from. They should be reliable, transparent, and, yes, boring.

  • Last I heard the county coroner still said "no measles" and was still the actual responsible reporting official...

• U.S. Cuts Off Antifa’s Global Leftist Lifeline

• And Yet It Warms: Federal Judges and Climate Change

• US has access to more than half of Australia's military bases

• Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Frankfort mom texted about Clancy hours before son’s killing

  A mother accused of killing her 2-year-old son before trying to harm herself had been "invested" in the Lindsay Clancy trial and was texting friends about it just hours before a horrific scene unfolded inside her home, court documents showed. Citing witnesses, prosecutors said Corie A. Walsh had "recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial," which involved a mother killing her three children before trying to kill herself.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• How Marine Rifle Squads Plan to Fight Future Wars Dominated by Drones

• US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why

• Why Laser Beams Are the Hottest New Tech in Defense

World

• Volcanic ash cloud halts flights at five Indonesian airports

  • Volcano eruption leaves 150k passengers stranded in Indonesia

• South Korea exports surpass full-year record, hit $709.4B YTD

• The Norwegian gas plant that could safeguard Europe from Trump

• Greenland forces Trump's US oil firm to delay drilling

• Europe would not be able to sustain war of attrition with Russia

• B.C. man lost for 5 nights in mountains near Squamish shares survival story

• Social media platforms to be forced to offer algorithm opt-out

• More than 60,000 arrested for 'communications offences' as trivial as 'viewing TikTok videos'

  The report, by campaign group Big Brother Watch, also highlights the unbalanced implementation of rules on "malicious" messaging, with some forces making 14 times more arrests under the power than others. At least 62,199 people in Britain have been arrested for such offences in just the past five years - 18,150 were later charged and 12,292 convicted.

• The new Arctic route is redrawing the economic and geopolitical map

• London's approach to knife crime is working

• Germany's far-right AfD projected to win

  The far-right Alternative for Germany surged into first place in state elections in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday but it was unclear whether it would be able to form a government on its own, according to exit polls after voting closed. The AfD won 44.5% of the vote, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives on 18.5%, with the center-left Social Democrats and environmental Greens both clearing the minimum threshold to enter parliament, an exit poll on the ARD broadcaster showed.

  • Nazi, deportation and remigration party wins in Germany

  • Far-right AfD wins historic victory in German state election

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Majority Russian-speaking city in Ukraine considers language ban in the arts

China

• A Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying Nvidia's Best A.I. Chips

Health / Medicine

• 'Old Person Smell'

• Scientists map key protein interactions linked with profound autism

• FDA Recalls IV Fluids over Possible Fiberglass, Stainless Steel Contaminants

• I brushed off my sore throat as a hangover, but it turned into sepsis.

• The Hero’s Journey Is Holding Back GLP-1s

  GLP-1s are regularly framed as cheating. People who lose weight without suffering in the gym or abstaining from food through willpower alone are sometimes discussed like dopers, like tricksters, like narcissists who aren’t only cheating themselves, but are also cheating the rest of society. To many, the rapid rise of GLP-1s are to weight loss what LLMs have become to college assignments. In 2024 3% of Americans were taking GLP-1s, by 2025 the number is closer to 11%. But there is a crucial difference here. Cheating on exams really does have detrimental effects on the rest of society. In the zero-sum game of an increasingly tight graduate job market, someone cheating to get a better grade really could affect someone who did not cheat. Obesity is not a zero-sum game, and the method by which someone loses weight is irrelevant. A healthier population is one that lives longer, is happier, works more productively, and requires less state support. It is one that doesn’t lose millions of lives and trillions of dollars to obesity every year. When your nation, your town, your family, has one less obese person in it, everyone wins. So why are GLP-1s viewed with such negativity?

• Why can't human care be more like a vet visit?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Netherlands Will Never Be Rid of Louisiana Crawfish

• Changing the world one vegetable at a time: UK first carbon-negative greengrocer

• Agriculture relies on fossil fuels. It's costing us

• Celebrating Kazakhstan's first wild-born Przewalski's horse in 200 years

• Is your favorite plant-based milk good for the planet

• The Great Barrier Reef refuses to die on schedule - best years record

• Tiny backpack on a warbler reveals epic migration

• The American West's water is increasingly fought over