2026-05-25

Horseshit

• Expanding the human proteome with microproteins and peptideins

  • 1,700 new protein found in the "dark proteome" of previously overlooked DNA

• The Enhanced Games: Like the Olympics, but steroids are allowed

  • Enhanced Games CEO insists 'Doping Olympics' is safer than traditional sport

• Learn what it is, to begin with: How should economists treat morality?

• Please stop talking about Gen Z in the office

• Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth

• Paid to Save Them, Accused of Killing Them: The Investigation of Miranda’s Rescue

  According to posts on a community tracking group, Shannon Miranda charged the family $3,500 to take both dogs. The family paid it. Peter and Tinkerbell — listed as entries 315 and 316 in the group’s growing database — were surrendered on April 8, 2025. They were never posted on Miranda’s Rescue social media as available for adoption. They were never listed as having been adopted out.

• Can't they get the small science stuff right?

• West Coast Cities Turn to Vacancy Taxes to Grapple with Housing Crisis

• Berkeley toddler who inspired 'Go the Fuck to Sleep' is now off to college

• The power imbalance between parent and child leaves a trace

celebrity gossip

• Game of Thrones' Hannah Murray found a wellness cult – and lost her mind

• I Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett

• Dr. Demento, the DJ Who Brought America Weird Al, Tom Lehrer, and Cows with Guns

  After 55 years, Dr. Demento has finally retired from the airwaves.

Musk

• SpaceX's IPO Is a Bet Gravity Doesn't Apply to Elon Musk

• Elon Musk is going all-in on an unproven technology

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• A Cattle Ranch Is Doing What the Ivy League Can't

• The Booing Will Continue Until Commencement Speeches Improve

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google Discover's headline rewrites strike again

• Reddit stock drops almost 6%, Meta launches standalone app for online forums

• Chinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair kit

• Mozilla finally relented and brought Web Serial to Firefox

• Star Citizen game has reached $1B in funding

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• First ever Cray T3D Supercomputer goes up for auction with $81,000 reserve

  • I had a chance at one of these for $2k; but I couldn't have powered it even if I could have got it home.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Blue Origin completes investigation into New Glenn launch failure

• The Leader of NASA's Artemis II Mission Is Still Moonstruck

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• To A.I. Executives, We're All Just 'Meat Computers'

• AI Stock Is the Ultimate Set-It-and-Forget-It Buy for Long-Term Investors

• South Korea's deputy PM says AI wealth must benefit the public

• Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI

• Newsom signs order aimed at tackling AI job displacement

• SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs set to test limits of AI boom

• Anthropic Says Mythos Has Found More Than 10k Vulnerabilities

• AI Proves Mathematicians Wrong

• DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model

• 'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused

• White House Approves $9B for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I

  • The foundation patents for LLMs were revealed in 1998 by the NSA, granted in 1993 as I recall.

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Bitcoin Depot files for bankruptcy, takes 9000 Bitcoin ATMs offline

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Delivery Hero confirms takeover offer from Uber

• Samsung's $400,000 payout for memory workers sparks revolt as other divisions get only $4,000, fueling intentional production slowdowns

Left Angst

• Suspect killed after opening fire on Secret Service agents near White House

  • White House on lockdown after dozens of shots fired

  A crazed gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ pulled out a revolver and opened fire outside the White House Saturday night, before he was quickly taken down by a barrage of shots from the Secret Service, sources said. Nasire Best, 21, fired at a checkpoint at about 6:10 p.m. after being seen pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th St. Northwest, sources told The Post. He only got off a few shots before he was shot and killed in a hail of bullets from federal officers. At least one bystander was hit and seriously wounded in the fusillade, the sources said. While a motive for the attack hasn’t been confirmed, sources said Best is a mentally troubled individual who was well-known to the Secret Service for repeatedly loitering around various entry posts and who has violated a previous court order to stay away from the White House.

• Trump Post Shows Him Gazing at Greenland After Local 'No Means No' Protests

• Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants

• The Cruelty Is the Point: President Trump and His Supporters

• USAID: Catastrophe Is Emerging in the Most Vulnerable Places

• Trump Mobile Leaks Customers' Data and the Phone Isn't Even Out Yet

• DHS says ICE has 'no relationship' with spyware maker Paragon Solutions

• San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges

• Why Trump Lost to Iran

World

• Dark trades' risk destroying London's stock markets

• In India, You Can Get Milk Delivered Faster Than It Takes to Make Coffee

Iran / Houthi

• Egypt deploys jets to UAE as Iran war strains Arab alliances

Israel

• New Blow to New York Times Gaza Rape Report: Key Source Gets Caught Quietly Removing Terrorists’ Names from List of Slain ‘Palestinian Journalists’

  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)—whose claims about detained Palestinian journalists being sexually assaulted by Israeli troops were a linchpin of a lurid New York Times report—has been caught quietly removing terrorists’ names from its widely cited list of journalists killed in Gaza. This latest blow to the CPJ’s credibility further undermines the Times piece, which at its most salacious featured two male "Gaza journalists" who claimed they were raped—one by a carrot and the other by a dog—while in Israeli custody. HonestReporting, an Israeli media watchdog, reports that in the weeks leading up to the publication of the Times piece on May 11, CPJ surreptitiously removed six names from its running list of "Journalist casualties" in the Gaza War.

• Cheap attack drones break through Israel's Iron Dome

Health / Medicine

• Garbage in, Garbage out: We Were Wrong About Fasting Study Finds

  Based on an analysis of 63 scientific articles representing 71 independent studies, and covering a total of 3,484 participants, the review found that there was no meaningful difference in cognitive performance between people who were fasting and people who were having regular meals.

• Move Over, Ozempic. There’s A New Weight Loss Shot Everyone Is Freaking Out About.

• You probably don't need extra electrolytes

• Scientists Warn: America’s Most Popular Cooking Oil May Be Harming Your Intestines.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Robotic beehives in Florida claim 70% reduction in colony collapse

• Climate tech companies are pivoting to critical minerals

• Brain-eating amoeba found in hot springs at 3 National Parks

• 'Corpse Point' in the Arctic Is Melting, Disturbing Centuries-Old Bodies

• The fourth independent assessment of UK climate risk

• A decades-old forest planting practice from Japan is gaining traction in the US

• Seagulls in sharp decline because they can't cope with modern life