2026-09-28
Horseshit
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Scientists Detect Radio Signals from an Exoplanet for the First Time in History
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Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon's ocean
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Classy or classist? How bare nails became a hot issue
he suggestion that bare nails are now a sign of high status could stigmatise bold manicures, they say. "That trend really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities," beauty journalist Kristina Rodulfo tells the BBC. "They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty."
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Texas defensive star flagged for pretending to urinate on field after sack in ‘idiotic move.’
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Investors Are Betting on Devices That Connect the Brain to Computers
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Ford's Latest Employee of the Month Is a Hawk Named 'El Charro'
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Boeing flags 737 MAX software glitch affecting some automated approach functions
Obit
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Missing American, 46, found dead abroad in padlocked room with limbs bound
American Tamir Nadav, 46, had not been seen for more than two weeks before cops made the horrific discovery at his home in Maringá, Brazil. Tamir, originally from New York, moved to Brazil for work in 2021. He worked in online game development and had previously worked for companies in San Francisco, Montreal, Rio de Janeiro and Maringá.
Musk
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SpaceX launches classified mystery mission for US Space Force from California.
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Will SpaceX’s Starship finally make it to orbit? We’re about to find out.
Liftoff on Sept. 28 is scheduled during a 75-minute window that opens at 8:15 a.m. EDT (1215 GMT). With orbit as the goal, the mission is expected to last much longer than previous Starship launches — about 10 hours from liftoff to splashdown of the rocket’s Ship upper stage, compared to past suborbital flights that have each only lasted about an hour.
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YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept 'Musk' Trailer Ad
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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Trump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting
at the supernova center of Loeb’s mission radiates a persistent doubt about whether the government will actually release the data it has been holding on to. It’s been months already with little to show. Will Trump force reluctant intelligence agencies to relinquish what nearly everybody across academia involved in the scientific inquiry into extraterrestrial life believes is meaningful raw data? Will that material be made public? How will any revelations be communicated to the public? Loeb doesn’t have the answer to any of these questions. Yet. “There is the possibility that they are baffled by the data,” Loeb told me. “Or,” he added, his voice trailing off, “it could be they are using me.”
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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An open letter to Scott Alexander
you write as if you are defending your honour after a series of intolerable affronts. So let me begin by apologising for any inadvertent offence and by emphasising that my admiration for you is immense. I think your brilliance is enviable and your integrity inspiring. We agree on almost everything, including your commitment to rationality and effective altruism (at least in their original, lower-case versions). I’ve never criticised or publicly disagreed with you, let alone called you names like “paranoid” or “weird moron.” You are taking my criticisms of AI-existential-risk claims personally. I stand by my claim that most of the doomer scenarios are preposterous (beginning with the AI paperclip maximiser that consumes our bodies as raw materials). But as rationalists we should agree that attacking an idea should not be confused with attacking a person.
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'Things will never be chill again': The doomers who shaped AI safety freakout
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The Surprising Reasons China Is Skeptical of A.I. Safety Calls
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Bill Gates says unchecked AI could 'cause billion deaths' in call for regulation
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Bill Gates Says Trump Is Wrong to Hold Out Against AI Safeguards
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China and U.S. to open AI 'communication channel' after summit
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Anthropic/OpenAI sound alarm on AI safety and seek to shape how to control it
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As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
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Australia's Deputy PM Defends Data Security After OpenAI Hack
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OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US Government sites
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OpenAI Freezes Development of Top Models After Rogue Agents Leak User Images
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Using language deflecting responsibility is driving how the major AI companies are treating significantly dangerous leaks and agent activity. In this post from OpenAI on Friday, the company claims that “AI agents in our research environment sent training and evaluation data to third-party services when they shouldn’t have.”
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Meta's Muse agent is attacking one of the economy's most profitable weak spots
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Anthropic's Secretive AI-Powered Wet Lab Breaks Cover and Makes First Discovery
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
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Despite canning the Copilot+ brand, "most people love" its AI assistant
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His Novel Had a Shot at a Top Book Prize. Then Someone Ran an A.I. Test.
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Claude Opus 5.5 uses 95% fewer em dashes, but its answers are getting longer
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Job Titles Are Out. Now We're All 'Members of the Technical Staff.'
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AI messaging scam costs Italy's top bank Intesa millions, sources say
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Debt-hungry AI companies face increased risk as bond yields spike
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
Left Angst
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Donald Trump Loses Ann Selzer Election Poll Case, Wins in His Heart
It remains a supreme irony that the president most pursued by his enemies via “lawfare” after his first term (Bill Clinton? Forget Clinton, kid — I lived through that as one of the enthusiastic persecutors) has become historically infamous as its most enthusiastic practitioner during his second term: a man who has explicitly weaponized his Justice Department to pursue his enemies and extract financial concessions from all who might wish to be his friends.
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ICE launches tip line to report CDL fraud as crackdown widens.
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How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump's culture war
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Briefly: Meta Blocks President Lula’s Facebook Page and Campaign Ads
- Also note that Lula requires social media services to censor his opponents in order to operate in his country; so its not a question of the principle of Free Speech...
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Unusual earthquake activity detected at site of former N. Korea nuclear facility
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EU urges UK to raise tariffs on Chinese cars to avoid 'made in Europe' barriers
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US push to flood Balkans with American gas sparks concerns in Brussels
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Judge orders release of records on Nazi war criminals who settled in Canada