2026-03-30

Horseshit

• Meet The 'Corporate Bro' Making Millions Satirizing Tech Sales

• There's a Reason That Movie Scene Looks Familiar. Meet the Recap Flashback

• Millions Are Hooked on This Show Where Sexy Fruits Cheat

• A 'Zoomer-to-Boomer' Pay Phone Hotline Gets Two Generations Chatting

• A Secret History of Psychosis

• Comparison of $4,000 boutique audio cable to $7 Amazon Basics cable shows audiophiles waste a lot of money

• Where should we send a real 'Hail Mary' spacecraft? A new study has the answers

• Eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice

• What is the 'boy kibble' trend? And is it healthy? A nutrition expert explains

• They bought an SF laundromat for passive income. Then problems

• Smaller Is Better in Silicon Valley's 'Tiny Team' Moment

celebrity gossip

• Disgraced fraudster Elizabeth Holmes caught a break; prosecutors aren't happy

• The Texas Lawyer and Part-Time Pastor Who Beat Meta and Google

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change

Musk

• Elon Musk's last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI

• Ahead of Its Mega-IPO, SpaceX Reminds Investors Disruption Is Coming

• The Playbook That Elon Musk Relies on to Make His Wild Ideas Work

Electric / Self Driving cars

• A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Narcissistic grandiosity predicts greater involvement in LGBTQ activism

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Multibillion-Dollar Foundation That Controls the Humanities

• The end of economics?

  Tyler Cowen can be viewed as a philosopher, as his interests are too broad to be confined to a single intellectual framework. His new (free online) book entitled The Marginal Revolution: Rise and Decline, and the Pending AI Revolution is economic philosophy, a look at the field of economics from the outside by someone who understands it from the inside.

  this book will set the agenda for future debate over the direction of economics. But it also has interesting implications for a wide range of fields that are generally viewed as “science” and yet face many of the same problems as economics (widely viewed as a non-science by natural scientists), including botany, geology, meteorology and evolutionary biology.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important

• Meta's victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in social media addiction trial

• RAM crisis shows (slight) signs of easing as DDR5 prices drop

• The Tyranny of the Oura Ring

• First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales

• Apple Preparing 'Most Significant Overhaul in the iPhone's History'

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history

  Introduced around 1967, the System/4 Pi family was a line of compact, powerful computers designed for avionics roles. The military used these computers in everything from the F-4 fighter and B-52 bomber to submarine sonar systems and the Harpoon anti-ship missile. Other computers in the System/4 Pi family played more peaceful roles in the development of GPS and fly-by-wire flight controls. In space, System/4 Pi computers controlled Skylab, the first American space station, as well as Spacelab, the reusable laboratory flown by the Space Shuttle.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Artemis 2 astronauts arrive at Kennedy Space Center ahead of NASA’s historic launch around the moon.

• Krispy Kreme to launch limited-edition doughnut for Artemis II moon mission

• Astronaut's Condition That Led to Space Station Evacuation Remains a Mystery

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• While one partner sleeps, another vibe codes

• Wikipedia officially bans AI-generated content

• Anthropic Wins Injunction in Court Battle with Trump Administration

• Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?

  • When a bunch of people get together and promise to give each other billions that never existed, it is not a "boom", the economy has not benefited. When those same people are revealed to be lying and the money doesn't magically appear; it is not a "bust"; the economy is not any worse off than it was before the scam began.

• OpenAI investor says AI requires an income tax overhaul

• At 50, Apple confronts its next big challenge: AI

• What if AI doesn’t need more RAM but better math?

• Researchers examine how AI chatbots are shaping government operations

• Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession

• I Saw Something New in San Francisco

• Fraudulent church data revealed AI's threat to polling

• 'Publishers won't stand a chance': literary world in struggle to detect AI

• Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND

• AI Is Not About to Become Sentient

• AI Isn't Lightening Workloads. It's Making Them More Intense

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Coinbase brings token-backed down payments to housing market

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Greatest Deal Google Ever Made: Buying DeepMind

• Invisible Bottleneck: Helium Shortage Threatens the Chip Industry

• JP Morgan map shows crude oil ticking time bomb hits oil supply in April

• Toyota CEO Warns Top Suppliers: 'Unless Things Change, We Will Not Survive'

• Is Another Financial Crisis Lurking in Private Credit?

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• USPS seeks a 8% charge on Priority Mail to offset transportation costs

• Why a 98-year-old federal judge is asking the Supreme Court for her job back

Trump

• Donald Trump says 'Cuba is next' in speech touting US Military successes

Left Angst

• Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk to offer help with DOGE

• TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters

• No Kings protests fill streets at over 3,300 rallies in all 50 states

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel's Email–But Not the FBI's

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• WTO reforms talks stalled amid U.S.-India digital services taxation deadlock

• Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran

• How Autonomous Drone Warfare Is Emerging in Ukraine

• Patriot Crisis: US Embezzles Switzerland's Fighter Jet Funds

  Switzerland has raised concerns after reports revealed that the United States redirected funds originally allocated for F-35 fighter jet purchases to finance delayed Patriot air-defence systems, despite a Swiss payment freeze over delivery setbacks.

• Rare US "Eye in the Sky" Command Plane Destroyed in Iran Strike on Saudi AirBase

• US will reportedly allow Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba amid blockade

World

• South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots

• Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland

• Indonesia Starts First Southeast Asia Social Media Ban for Kids

  • Indonesia's social media curbs for under 16s take set to start

• UK joins global push to rein in children's screen use with national guidance

  • Starmer says UK will 'have to act' to curb addictive features of social media

• Karachi leverages Iran war, wins a year's worth of transshipment in 24 days

Iran / Houthi

• Iran's propaganda machine trolls Trump

  War propaganda is as old as conflict itself, but in 2026, it's moving faster, reaching further and hitting harder than ever. Since the war began, Iran's messaging apparatus has rapidly zeroed in on Trump, turning him into a central target in a sprawling, modern information campaign. In one video, Iran depicts an animated Lego-style multiverse with Iranian soldiers avenging attacks by miniature Lego versions of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

• Iran establishes 'safe' shipping corridor for approved transits who pay $2M

• The Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock Is Now Heading West

Israel

• Israeli soldiers echo settler ideology after detaining CNN crew

  • Israeli military suspends battalion involved in assaulting, detaining CNN crew in West Bank | CNN

• IDF Air Crew Member Suspected of Betting on Iran War in Polymarket

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine's military brings exoskeletons to the front line

• Finland to audit whether US is delivering NATO-bought weapons to Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

• Autism study is my life's work. The spectrum has lost all meaning

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Overestimation of microplastics potentially caused by scientists' gloves

• Solar is winning the energy race

• Tiny Kit Carson County has grown into a green energy giant

• Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze

• Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment

• Changing flight paths could slash aviation's climate impact