2026-04-23

Horseshit

• We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings

• The surprising origin of 4 features that superglue kids–and adults–to screens

  These features trigger a trancelike or dissociative state, known as a "machine zone" or "dark flow," in which people lose track of their sense of time and place.

• How Gen-Z AI Founders Are Merging Work and Life

• A $440k Breast Reduction: How Doctors Cashed in on a Consumer Protection Law

• Apple controls the tech sector's Strait of Hormuz

• Mathematicians found out why waiting for the elevator takes forever

• We discovered the speed limit of arithmetic – and broke it

• Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline

• There's Another Reason Gen Z Can't Find Work

• A 'Barbaric' Problem in American Hospitals Is Only Getting Bigger

Epstein

• Gates Foundation says it has opened external review of Epstein ties

celebrity gossip

• Former Employee Sues MrBeast's Company over Harassment Claims

Musk

• SpaceX cuts a deal to maybe buy Cursor for $60B

  • SpaceX says it has option to acquire Cursor for $60B

  • SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60B

  • Cursor will get acquired by SpaceX

  • SpaceX obtains right to buy AI startup Cursor for $60B

  • SpaceX strikes $60B deal for the right to buy AI coding startup Cursor

  • SpaceX says it will either buy Cursor for $60B or work with them for $10B

  • SpaceX preempted a $2B fundraise with a $60B buyout offer

  • Andreessen, Thrive Poised for Windfall from SpaceX's Cursor Bid

• Musk's SpaceX Goals Shift Ahead of Its IPO

• SpaceX says unproven AI space data centers may not be commercially viable

• Elon Musk's SpaceX Endgame

• SpaceX's S-1 Filing

• Tesla lithium refinery discharge contains toxic metals, district demands halt

• YouTuber Turns $2k Wrecked Tesla into Wild Go-Kart – Then Tesla Shuts It Down

• Muskism as Fordism

  Elon Musk and Henry Ford have much in common. Both were hailed as technological geniuses who made breakthroughs in production processes and consumer products. Both were politically conservative. And both espoused reactionary views through their personal media outlets, with Ford famously publishing a series of antisemitic articles in his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, and Musk using Twitter, later X, as a megaphone to express his hostility to non-white immigrants.

• Elon Musk backs 'universal high income' to combat AI job losses

• Tesla earnings updates: The stock is up after revenue and EPS beat

• Tesla admits HW3 owners need upgrades for true 'Full Self-Driving'

• X is going to let Grok curate your timeline

• Tesla confirms Optimus production starting late July at Fremont

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• Ping-pong robot Ace makes history by beating top-level human players

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• The IOC's decision to protect the female category is a victory for fairness

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Appeals court rules Texas can require Ten Commandments in school.

• Systematic Suppression of Asians at Universities

  I had previously warned Caleb that as an Asian American male applying for a computer science degree in the US, he was absolutely the bottommost desired student demographic conceivable. Even so, I was floored his outcomes were much worse than I had tried to prepare him for.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Apple's Cal AI crackdown signals it's still policing the App Store

• Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Profiting from Widespread Fraud on Its Platforms

• Sam Altman's Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed with Zoom and Tinder

• Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000 bill despite $7 budget

• Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Missing Scientists: The Single Dumbest Conspiracy Theory of 2026

• NASA reckons Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ

• Blue Origin Eyes BE-3U Thrust Deficiency In New Glenn Launch Failure.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos

  • Anthropic's Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users

  • Anthropic investigates report of rogue access to hack-enabling Mythos AI

  • Discord group says it accessed Claude Mythos by guessing location

• OpenAI Under Criminal Probe in Florida over Mass Shooter's ChatGPT Use

  • Florida AG launches criminal investigation into ChatGPT over FSU shooting

  • Florida's Attorney General announces criminal investigation into OpenAI

  • Florida Attorney General launches criminal probe into ChatGPT over FSU shooting

  • ChatGPT allegedly advised Florida State shooter when and where to strike

• Meta to Track Employee Mouse, Keyboard Activity to Train AI Models

  • Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

  • Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

  • Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

  • Meta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AI

  • Meta workers outraged over internal software tracking keystrokes, mouse movement

• Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan

• Top Law Firm Apologizes to Bankruptcy Judge for AI Hallucination

• Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch

• Schematik Is 'Cursor for Hardware.' Now, Anthropic Wants In

• COVID scientist accused of using ChatGPT in alleged poisoning plot against rival.

• Job Cuts Driven by A.I. Are Rising on Wall Street

• Anthropic's Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era

• Firefox flaws closed thanks to Mythos AI

• Health AI Startup Has Helped Reverse Denied Health Insurance Claims

• CEO and CFO suddenly depart AI nuclear power startup Fermi

• Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

• AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions

• Anthropic's New Mythos A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms

• Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users’ Cognitive Abilities.

• OpenAI now lets teams make custom bots that can do work on their own

• Jeff Bezos Nears $10B Funding Round for Project Prometheus

• Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Crypto billionaire Justin Sun sues Trump-linked project alleging extortion

  Crypto billionaire Justin Sun and his companies sued World Liberty Financial, a crypto project co-founded by President Donald Trump, accusing the company of extortion and an “illegal scheme” to seize his tokens. In a complaint filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, Sun also claimed that “World Liberty is on the verge of collapse” and questioned whether it holds enough reserves to back its USD1 stablecoin.

  • Billionaire backer sues Trump family's crypto firm over alleged extortion

  • Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun Accuses World Liberty of 'Criminal Extortion'

• New York bans state employees from insider trading on prediction markets

• Kalshi suspends 3 congressional candidates in 'insider trading' enforcement

  • Kalshi suspends 3 US congressional candidates for 'political insider trading'

  • Kalshi suspends 3 congressional candidates for wagering on their own elections

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Lufthansa cuts 20k flights to save money, fuel

  • Lufthansa cuts 20k summer flights as fuel prices surge

• War disruption forces biggest condom maker to raise prices by up to 30%

  • World’s top condom maker Karex to raise prices sharply as Iran war strains supply chain.

• Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster

• Downtown Frisco tower once worth $320 million went to auction. Nobody made an offer

• Maryland to become first state to ban 'dynamic pricing' in grocery stores

• White Castle to launch hot-food kiosks at 1,000 locations in 2026

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• US Criminally Charges Southern Poverty Law Center, Blanche Says

  Donald Trump's ‌administration has brought criminal ​charges ​against the Southern Poverty ⁠Law ​Center, a ​civil rights organization that tracks ​extremist ​groups, alleging financial ‌misconduct, ⁠Acting Attorney General Todd ​Blanche ​said ⁠on Tuesday.

  • DOJ tweet

  Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.

  • Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud, money laundering

  • Severe angst: The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche

  • SPLC Funded 'Unite the Right' Rally That Spawned 'Fine People' Hoax

  • Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces a Justice Department criminal probe over paid informants.

  • DOJ charges SPLC with fraud for paying white supremacist groups $3M

  • The Democrat Lie About the SPLC Indictment Has Been Formed, and Now They're Running With It – RedState

  According to the DOJ, the left-wing group was paying extremists, all the while using its public front to oppose them as a means to raise money. Among those who were allegedly paid? One of the organizers of the infamous "Unite the Right" neo-nazi rally in Charlottesville, SC. That would be the very same one that Joe Biden used as justification to launch his 2020 presidential campaign. You'd hope in the face of such disturbing allegations, including the possibility that the SPLC paid for criminal activity to take place, that Democrats would at least keep their mouths shut while this played out. But no, they've quickly, in conjunction with a compliant press, formulated a lie and are running with it. Instead of admitting what the indictment (which was returned by a grand jury) actually says, they are claiming the SPLC was just innocently paying "informants."

  • Only the FBI is allowed to outsource terrorism this way?

  • SPLC Informants Scandal: Tax-Deductible Donations Funded Klan, Neo-Nazis

  these are not small sums of money. Whoever F-9 is, he allegedly made more than a million dollars from the SPLC over nine years! While the program reportedly began in the 1980s, the indictment lists wire transfers going up to April 25, 2023.

  • The Networks Fall SILENT on the Indictment of the SPLC

• Public May Soon Know Key New Facts in Congressional Sexual Misconduct Scandal, Including Hush Fund Payments

  Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), a member of the oversight panel, claimed in an April 15 tweet that the “House Oversight subpoenaed the records of the congressional sexual harassment slush fund and we will be releasing them. Maybe we’ll see more resignations, you never know.”

• Supreme Court wary of limiting federal regulators' power in a data privacy case

• FBI Director Kash Patel Loses Defamation Lawsuit Over Morning Joe Statements.

  Patel claimed the "been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building" was actionable defamation, but the court found that it was nonactionable rhetorical hyperbole instead.

• CIA Security Officer Files Lawsuit Against Steve Baker and The Blaze for Identifying Her as J6 Bomber

Trump

• Former congressman Devin Nunes departs as CEO of Trump media company

Democrats

• Paxton Sues Democratic Fundraising Platform ActBlue for Allegedly Allowing Fraud, Foreign Donations | Judicial | The Texan

Left Angst

• Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

• Trump tried to use nuclear codes but was stopped

  Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson claimed on the popular YouTube program Judging Freedom that during an emergency meeting on Saturday, Trump attempted to access the nuclear codes. "One report coming out of that meeting at the White House is that Trump wanted to... use the nuclear codes, and General Dan Caine stood up and said 'No'. He invoked his privilege as the head of the military, so to speak. It was apparently quite a blow-up. There's some very bizarre things going on in DC." It comes amid growing concern about the president's erratic behavior - just days ago, Trump made a disturbing sex comment on stage that stunned his audience into silence. The nuclear code allegations have not been verified, and it remains unclear what purpose the nuclear codes alone would serve if accessed. However, this follows reports that Trump was excluded from the Situation Room by military advisors during a crucial Iran rescue mission. The U.S. President was allegedly kept out of deliberations due to worries about his explosive temperament. Senior administration officials feared his unpredictability could jeopardize the operation.

• Hundreds trying to storm Wisconsin beagle research facility met with rubber bullets, pepper spray

  Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett, said in a video statement that 300 to 400 protesters were “violently trying to break into the property” and assault officers. He said protesters have ignored designated areas for peaceful protest and blocked roads to prevent emergency vehicles from entering.

• Top MAGA influencer Emily Hart revealed to be AI — created by a guy in India

  He turned to Google’s Gemini AI for advice and decided to create a “hot girl” crafted specifically for the “MAGA/conservative niche,” after the software told him that “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal,” according to WIRED.

• CDC blocks study showing Covid shots cut hospital visits after earlier delay

• EFF Sues DHS and ICE for Records on Subpoenas Seeking to Unmask Online Critics

• Trump Wants to Double Production of New Nuclear Weapon Cores

• Pace of NIH Funding Slows Further in Trump's Second Year

• Investors lost billions on Trump's memecoin. Another gala won't fix that

• Farmers call out deep cuts to NRCS and USDA programs and staffing

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US turns to Ukrainian counter-drone tech after Iran attacks, sources say

World

• Bill banning people born after 2008 from buying tobacco clears UK parliament

• Phone tracking shows how Colombian mercenaries backed Sudan's RSF

• Facial recognition to be rolled out across UK after human rights challenge fails

• Everyone born after 2008 to be banned from smoking

  • UK Permanently Bans Tobacco for Anyone Born in 2009 or After

  • UK lawmakers approve lifetime smoking ban for today's under-18s

• Microsoft must face $2.8B UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences

• South Korean fighter jets collided due to pilots taking pictures, report finds

• How the EU's mega energy crisis plan will – and won't – help

• France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records

• Australian social media ban marred by weak platform checks, tech providers say

• India has splurged billions on metro trains. But where are the commuters?

Iran / Houthi

• Iran's AI slop is reaching who don't follow the news, winning the propaganda war

• Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes

Israel

• Rabbi boasting of buldozing Gazan homes to light torch for Israel's national day

• Women in Gaza Sexually Abused by Hamas Fighters

  Gazans living under Hamas rule are beginning to break their silence, describing sexual abuse by multiple men, sexual blackmail for aid or money and abuse by people in positions of power.

• Israeli airstrike kills Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia's funeral industry booms amid record losses in Ukraine

China

• From one disappointing order to a massive 'ghost cake' delivery scandal in China

• Can EVs kill off petrol cars in China?

• China Makes an Island

• China backs orbital data center startup with $8.4B in credit lines

Health / Medicine

• Widely used food preservative implicated in recent uptick in UK suicide deaths.

• Aspirin can reduce the risk of cancer – and we're starting to understand why

• The Dangers of Nicotine Biohacking

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready

  • Moderna starts late-stage trial of bird flu vaccine in US, UK

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• China, India place strategic bets on clean energy (H2) out of favour in the West

• Humpback whales are forming super-groups

• Monkeys in Gibraltar self-medicate with soil to help them digest junk food

• Key Atlantic Ocean current is much closer to collapse than scientists thought

• New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gas Than Nations

• The way cocaine water pollution is changing salmon

• Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution

• Plants can 'hear' rain coming, spurring them into action

• World food systems 'pushed to the brink' by extreme heat, UN warns

• Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles

• Microplastics in testicles may play a role in male infertility, study suggests

• HEPA air purifiers may boost brain power in adults over 40