2026-03-08

Horseshit

• Tree Rings Reveal Origins of Some of the World's Best Violins

• The salary cap debate has Major League Baseball gearing up for war

• An ugly year for the Louvre: where does the biggest museum go from here?

• Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease?

• Surfers in Munich (Yes, Munich) Just Want Their Wave Back

• My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world

• What it's like being an airline pilot when missiles start crossing flight path

• A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions exist

• Why Gen Z Is Unprepared for the Workplace

• A Disturbing Clue Suggests Amelia Earhart Survived Her Crash. And Then She Was Eaten by Crabs.

• Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Manifesto for Restorative Justice and Human Rights

Musk

• xAI loses bid to halt California AI data disclosure law

• Tesla back on top as Norway's EV market surges to 98% share in February

Electric / Self Driving cars

• SK lays off nearly 1k workers at Georgia plant amid cooling automaker EV plan

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• DJI will pay $30K to the man who accidentally hacked 7k Romo robovacs

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• A Schools Chief So Charming That Los Angeles Overlooked His Red Flags

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances

• We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened

• Apple Blocks US Users from Downloading ByteDance's Chinese Apps

• Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

• Valve says it still plans to ship the Steam Machine in 2026

  • Memory and storage shortages may lead to shipping Steam Machines in 2027

• Calif. lawsuit accuses Meta of sending nude video from AI glasses to workers

• Nvidia dominates gaming GPU market with 95 percent share

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Rocket Lab launches mystery satellite for ‘confidential commercial customer.’

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Claude AI Helped Bomb Iran. But How Exactly?

  • Is The Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?

  • US draws up strict new AI guidelines amid Anthropic clash

  • Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Bomb Elementary School

• Americans' electricity bills are up. Don't blame AI

• Grammarly is using our identities without permission

• Anthropic Unveils Amazon Inspired Marketplace

• AI Use at Work Is Causing Brain Fry, Researchers Find, Esp Among High Performers

• AI Liability Insurance Arrives

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Kuwait Shuts Production, Qatar Warns Oil Could Hit $150 in Weeks

  • Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports 'within days'

• US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide

• VW Dealers Revolt over Plan to Sell a New Brand of SUV Directly to Consumers

• Private credit defends software bets as Blue Owl cratered

• Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008

• China warns of global chip shortages as Nexperia dispute escalates again

• Palmer Luckey's $1B pitch to reboot 1990s video game consoles

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Trump administration can't process tariff refunds because of computer problems

Trump

• Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran

• Trump tells CNN he's not insisting Iran needs to be a democratic state

Left Angst

• MN state employee who keyed Teslas, causing $20K damage, punished with 1-day suspension

• January 6 commemorative plaque appears in Capitol after years of delay

• Footage shows US citizen shot dead by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop

• When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the National Endowment for the Humanities

• Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Man stabbed in back in SF’s Chinatown, suspect arrested

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Cancellation of Army exercise fuels speculation about Mideast troop deployments

• GPS jamming is emerging as an increasingly prevalent, troubling, weapon of war

• Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims

World

• German police probe student poster slur against Merz | dpa international

  The suspect reportedly touted a poster with the slogan "Merz leck Eier" (Lick my balls Merz) during the demonstration on Thursday afternoon. Police officers confiscated the poster and launched an investigation on suspicion of slander and libel against persons in political life, a police spokesman said on Friday. Following a recent visit by Merz to the southern city of Heilbronn, police investigated several people for possible insults expressed in a Facebook post. This terms concerned included "Pinocchio" or "Lackaffe" (which roughly translates as "fop" or "dandy") that users posted under a police post about Merz's visit.

• Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s

• 'Mainly, you fast fooded': Monzo UK bank under fire over 'shaming' year reviews

• The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

• Indonesia to ban social media and other online platforms for under 16s

• Everybody Loves to Hate Dubai. Here's Why They're Wrong

• Troops Mass as Landlocked Ethiopia Chases Access to the Sea

• After Iraq, Kuwait and UAE may be next to cut oil output on Iran crisis

• British Columbia makes daylight saving time permanent

Iran / Houthi

• Drone strikes raises doubts over Gulf as AI superpower

• Amazon Data Centers Became a Casualty of Iran War

• Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases

• Ships in Gulf declare themselves Chinese to dodge attack

• Iran's Guards challenges Trump to have US Navy escort oil tankers

• China Sold Iran Fancy CM-302 Missiles—Turns Out They’re Temu Trash: 100% Failure Rate in Real War

• Iranian Shadow Fleet and Greek Affiliated Ships Lead Strait of Hormuz Transits

Israel

• Humanitarian crisis looming: 300k displaced as Israeli army pounds Lebanon

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Armed robots take to the battlefield in Ukraine war

China

• China ramps up 'high stakes' tech race with US as economic imbalances deepen

• China's Parents Are Outsourcing the Homework Grind to A.I

Health / Medicine

• Our Hospice System Subverts the Point of Hospice Care

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• What We Forget About Covid Will Shape the Next Pandemic

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• This iceberg was once the biggest in the world

• Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

• Salt may have pushed us further into Snowball Earth 700M years ago