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• How do you deal with people who strongly disagree with your views?

  Ask more questions. You can often effortlessly weaken the stance of someone who has not given much thought to an issue just by asking them questions. Don’t ‘challenge them’. Ask genuine questions. The objective is not to break their views with questions, but to establish the playing ground. Many people are unclear about what they think they believe. They may simply be repeated what they heard.

  Focus on what you share in common. Often, the disagreement is smaller than you think. Furthermore, you can sometimes entirely avoid a conflict by establishing strong agreement on many points.

Horseshit

• Six Flags Magic Mountain retires X2 roller coaster amid brain injury lawsuits

• Tunnel boring begins on the $16B Hudson Tunnel Project

• The Ecology of Memory: Scent, Culture, and the Brain

• MLB considers Grand Teton National Park for baseball game site

• Danish children struggle to learn their vowel-filled language – and this changes how adult Danes interact

• 'Attention Infidelity' Is Ruining Romance

• All humans have erectile tissues: Scientists Have Found a Weird Physical Sign That Someone Is Interested in You

• Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates

• Ice Age Spear Points Tell a Story of Human Progress

• The Homeless Community in Portland, Oregon That Became a Self-Governed Village

• Man Killed After Bag Gets Stuck in Subway Doors, Police Say

• The Scientific Case for Being Less in Touch with Your Friends

celebrity gossip

• Travis Kalanick is back: How Uber's ousted founder went from pariah to hero

• Rod Stewart retiring from touring after more than 6 decades

• Diddy's pampered life in prison: Massages, nude photos, Hennessy

Obit

• Bill Draper Obituary: He Was a Tech Investor Before There Was a Silicon Valley

Musk

• SpaceXAI Bought Dot.com

• Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability

• Tesla patents 'Electric Fan Car' with 4 ducted fans ahead of Roadster reveal

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• When "Gender Deception" Is a Crime

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Ken Griffin Donates $500M to Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science

  • Ken Griffin donates $3B to Carnegie Mellon as university plots Miami campus

• University of Michigan Pauses First-Semester Pass/No Credit Pilot Program

• Why Don't Colleges Get Rid of Their Bad Fraternities?

• So You Think You Could Be an Electrician?

  While the median sticker price for four-year college has dramatically increased over the past 30 years, most students pay much less than the advertised price. The average net paid price for public in-state college tuition and fees was under $2,500 per year in 2024 and has been declining since 2016. So: The actual price paid for college isn’t very high and is declining. Obtaining a college degree unlocks higher wages. Plus, white-collar jobs are safe and easy.

• Trump Administration Limits Predatory Lending in Education

  I mocked the term “predatory lending” when it first became common in the financial crisis but in this case predatory lending fits the bill because the real borrower isn’t the individual student. Under income-driven repayment, the taxpayer is a forced co-signer, and it’s the taxpayer who gets predated.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome

  • Speaking as a Firefox user; new things confuse and enrage me.

• Apple Is Finally Ready to Enter Its Next Big Category: The Smart Home

• Xbox for Sale: Don't Believe Anything Until It Is Officially Denied

• Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

  • Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13th

• Is it safe to charge your phone overnight?

• Ban Kids from Social Media and They'll Chat in Public Radio Podcast Comments

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Surveillance Company VIDIZMO Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

• USPS to Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for 'Community Safety'

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Radio Waves Coming from an Alien Planet May Be a Cosmic First

• NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers

• Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation

• NASA observatory could be weeks away from falling to Earth after failed rescue

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• They're trying to build a digital God and then enslave it

  • Betting the Business

  Borrowing stable money to pay off the credit card was good for a 7% pop in its share value. That is a mania, and it's everywhere. SoftBank serves merely as an example, because it isn't alone. It's going to be ugly when it blows.

  • The price of AI is crashing faster than the rate of Moore's Law

  • FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI

  • US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants

• Three takeaways from Trump's 'Super Intelligence' summit

  • Trump announces vague AI deal among tech CEOs for 'tremendous self-policing'

  • White House asks OpenAI, Anthropic hold new models from UK testers until review

  • Trump says AI bosses have signed 'morally binding' accord to self-regulate

  • Trump, AI CEOs sign voluntary safety pact, back data center expansion

  • Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States

  • Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us

  • Is Trump's Push to Rename AI to Super Intelligence Part of a Bigger Conspiracy?

• We need 'right to intervene' in AI amid growing threat says Bank of England boss

  • Bill Gates's Blunt Warning on A.I

  • Gates thinks AI could kill 1B people, can we trust his judgment after Epstein?

  • Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

  • French company Mistral AI says that OpenAI and Anthropic are doing a publicity tour on "AI safety" to cover up the fact that they are retarded.

  • There Are Plenty of Laws on the Books to Check the A.I. Giants. Use Them

• OpenAI apologises for Medicare breach, shelves next gen ChatGPT

  • OpenAI cuts $200 plan allowance in half – new $500 plan available

  • OpenAI halts release of Astra 6.1 over safety concerns

  • ChatGPT's new plan costs $500 a month

  • OpenAI’s dirty deeds Down Under included security bypass attempts, using exposed keys, source code siphon

  • OpenAI Is Paying Me to Move My Business to Anthropic

  • OpenAI is accused in lawsuit over rogue AI agents

  • OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns

• Anthropic IPO prospectus lays bare deep dependence on Big Tech partners

  • Anthropic announced not long ago that it was paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month to lease capacity in datacenters that actually existed. The number now looks to be closer to twice that.

  • Anthropic lists ‘existential risks to humanity’ as one of its risk factors in IPO prospectus — 80 pages of risk factors dwarf business description as firm eyes $2 trillion debut | Tom's Hardware

  • Anthropic IPO docs reportedly reveal over $40B in losses last year

  • Anthropic IPO Prospectus Reveals $8 Billion Operating Loss.

  • Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy

  • Anthropic IPO prospectus lays bare deep dependence on Big Tech partners

• Bank of America says Meta's Muse a new risk for Apple's services revenue

• McDonalds has AI estimate "customer willingness to pay" at each restaurant

• Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons

• HBO Max is making paying subscribers watch AI casino slop

• Making AI an asset, not an expense

• Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use

• EU accused of hiding environmental impact of data centers

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

• AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from tech companies

• Panthalassa's Floating, Wave-Powered Data Centre Technology

• Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla

• The open-source AI platforms vying to become China's Hugging Face

• AI tools generated nearly $1B in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say

• Large enterprises put 95% of AI spend with top three vendors

• AI tool that copied actor's voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules

• How Long Will the AI Boom Last? Memory Stocks Offer Clues

• Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

• Even Google's $120B earnings couldn't out-pace its AI spend

• Tech Giants Face Questions over Secret AI Data-Center Deals

• What Would John Maynard Keynes Say About A.I.? The Keynes Bot Told Us

• Google paying almost no publishers almost nothing for content used in AI answers

• Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy?

• AI solves a 'holy grail' problem from probability theory

• Startup Wants to Build Nuclear-Powered Data Center on Public Land in Utah

• The AI Race Just Got Awkward

• Shareholders Should Pay for AI Dangers

• The Bay Area may be hottest wealth market. Banks are racing to cash in

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Oura postpones it's IPO with 24hrs notice citing AI threat

• McDonalds to show ads on drive thru screens

• A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal

• NYSE to Commence Delisting Proceedings Against Getty Images Holdings, Inc

• Nissan Wants 80% of Its U.S. Cars Built in America by 2030.

• Oil Steadies as Saudi Pipeline Restarts and Supply Fears Ease

• Uber Wait Times Rise 19% as Prices Climb 53%: Study

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• A New Type of Small Nuclear Reactor Gets the Green Light in Tennessee

  • NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor

Trump

• Trump set to unveil $200B South Korean U.S. investment plan

Democrats

• Senate Democrats block bill to limit lawmakers' stock trades, citing voter ID

Left Angst

• Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals

• Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization

• A Trump team wants to automate USWDS accessibility testing. Experts are worried

• Supreme Court Clears Trump Admin to Resume Third-Country Deportations for Now.

  • SCOTUS Overturns Blockade On Trump’s Third-Country Deportations.

• Trump Administration Trashes Biden-era Title IX Rules, Sex Officially Defined by Biology.

• Cities Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to Federal Surveillance Program

• RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event

• Drone startup tied to Trump sons aims to bring Ukrainian tech to US

• Government AI Chatbot Reprogrammed to Stop Fact-Checking President

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Justice Department and FBI Seize Platforms Operated and Used by China Hackers

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US withdraws from Europe anti-corruption panel, latest shift from global groups

• Pentagon data breach of military personnel raises national security concerns

  • ?Hackers stole US Military records during months-long data breach

• Hegseth to double cuts to generals, admirals in major Pentagon shakeup.

• Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, Newt Gingrich to Help Pentagon with Warfare Initiative

• Hegseth Announces AutoWarCom

• A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit

  An American spy satellite unexpectedly shattered into pieces, creating a cloud of debris in low-Earth orbit. The U.S. Space Force’s satellite tracking system confirmed the satellite, officially designated as USA-32, broke apart on September 13 at 5:13 p.m. ET. It was labeled as a fragmentation event, which means the satellite suddenly exploded into smaller pieces, but the cause of its unplanned breakup has yet to be identified.

  • 2 days before the "US has orbital weapons" news burst.

World

• France sees US tech fines as piggy bank for EU spending, minister reveals

• Vanguard warns France is 'degrading credit' as borrowing costs surge

• UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches

• What von der Leyen left out of her Congress of Europe pitch

• Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, says Burnham

  • Andy Burnham: UK Could 'Go All the Way' by Rejoining EU

• Oxford Street to be pedestrianised from October

• Cold War espionage added $4.6B to East Germany's economy

• Netherlands joins Germany in EU budget overhaul demands

• Japan officially overhauls permanent residency rules

• Google asks EU to suspend order to open up to AI chatbots, search engine rivals

• A glimpse into life inside a child prison in France

Iran / Houthi

• Iran publishes propaganda letter urging US voters to punish Trump in midterm elections

Israel

• Israel-bound flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after brawl between pilots

  • Israel-bound flight lands in Saudi Arabia after violent incident between pilots

  One of the pilots on Flydubai flight FZ1073 was Omani, two Israeli officials told CNN earlier. One of the officials said the Omani national was the co-pilot, allegedly the attacker in the violent incident. Oman and Israel do not have formal diplomatic relations. It is not yet clear how the Omani pilot would have obtained clearance to fly to Israel.

  • A flight from Dubai to Israel was hijacked mid-air by a copilot.

  • Pilots taken to hospital after reported cockpit stabbing on Israel-bound flight

  • Dubai to Tel Aviv flight made emergency landing due to fight between pilots

  • Shades of 9/11: FlyDubai Pilot Attempts Hijacking, Mass Destruction

  • Pilot Stabs Pilot on Israel-Bound Flight

  • Flydubai Co-Pilot Stabs Captain Midair — Israeli Passengers Subdue Him Before the Plane Can Crash

  • Pilot ‘stabbed’ in suspected hijacking of Israel-bound passenger flight

  • Pilot of Israel-bound FlyDubai flight tried to crash plane

  • Pilot arrested after stabbing anther pilot and trying to crash Israelbound plane

  • Pilot on Tel Aviv-bound flight tried to crash plane after cockpit stabbing

  • Live Updates: FlyDubai Pilot May Have Attempted to Crash Flight to Israel, Netanyahu Says

  • What Are the Odds? Russian and Ukrainian Pilots Save Hijacked Flight to Israel

  A Ukrainian and a Russian citizen were indeed on board the Flydubai flight: they were the ones who helped land the plane They were an additional crew of pilots who were travelling as passengers. They managed to get into the cockpit, take control of the plane, and safely land it in Saudi Arabia, Israel Hayom reports. There is no official confirmation of this information.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone

• So what's happening with Russia's new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft?

China

• Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal Reserve

• Eighteen-Wheeler E-Trucks Are China's Answer to Soaring Global Diesel Prices

• China broadens travel curbs to encompass family of top AI talent

• MI5 issues spy alert to UK universities over Chinese front co. stealing research

• Rockefeller Brothers Fund Sent Nearly $32 Million to China-Based Nonprofits, Watchdog Finds.

Health / Medicine

• Most powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trial

• Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It

• New Cancer Drugs Are Revolutionary. Why Don't More Patients Get Them?

• Want to protect yourself against cancer? Get vaccinated

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Nearly a third of Americans eating fewer fresh vegetables after ‘explosive diarrhea’ virus outbreak.

• It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

• Poision Plastics: How chemicals in everyday plastics are harming your health

• Salmon Are Thriving After Klamath River Dam Removals

• The cost of lost labour on a warming planet

• California rushes to prepare for 'Kelvin' wave and predicted sea level rise

• For the First Time in a Century, the Atlantic May See No Hurricanes

  a Super El Niño, which scientists say has been intensified by warming, is driving powerful westerly winds. These winds are thwarting the formation of hurricanes in the Atlantic, according to John Morales, a meteorologist at the NBC affiliate in Miami.

• Half of world’s population exposed to dangerous levels of ozone in 2026