2026-09-21

Horseshit

• Professional cyclists can top 100 km/h. But safety has not kept pace

• Your Perception of Time Is, in Fact, Warped

• 2027 Ford Bronco Sport Lineup Drops Auto Start / Stop

• Overdue library magazine returned after 132 years

• Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books

• Sorry, Webster. Most People Don't Want Internet Slang in the Dictionary

• This 'anti-vampiric' grave used two strategies to stop the undead

  There are no written references to the graveyard. It doesn’t appear on any maps. And because it was set away from the village, it may have been on unconsecrated ground far from any church or chapel. All this points to the cemetery being specifically for people who’d been rejected by society and were feared after their deaths.

• Mad Max ‘Humungus Machine’ Is up for Auction on Bring a Trailer

  This 1984 Ford F-150 was converted into Lord Humungus’s vehicle from the second Mad Max movie. Is it a hybrid? Does it offer an automatic start-stop button? No! Instead, it has a PA system for issuing threats, and it shoots flames out of the exhaust pipes.

celebrity gossip

• Historic burial of Black family member at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello cemetery

  • Hair test proves Thomas Jefferson fathered children with slave, book claims

Musk

• Planned launches, terms of deal, worry some near LA SpaceX site

• Boring Company is working on a Hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio

Electric / Self Driving cars

• It's finally here: Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production

• We got a cybersecurity expert to hack this BYD. It was too easy

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Egocentric training's gig workers are helping robots learn how to do your dishes

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• discover effective altruism

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore?

• NYT op-ed’s wildly woke argument against SATs includes shocking admission that students struggle with ‘basic math.’

• Investigation: Uncovering Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford

• In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?

  like the generations of Black parents who came before us, Faraji and I felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage.

  • "I sent my kid to the (best|worst) school" is virtue signaling. If you actually care about the child, home school.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks

• US judge signals rejection of part of TikTok privacy settlement

• MS patents system to freeze games, inject ads – commercials earn playtime credit

• Over 10 years later, Gabe Newell's advice to devs still holds up

• Winamp will be reborn in 2027 to take on streaming

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• The Shaky Evidence That Flock Cameras Reduce Crime Rates

• People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and quitting

• Sheboygan, Wisconsin canceling Flock contract over undisclosed data tracking

• Boston drops Flock after outside agencies gained access to vehicle data

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• ‘Floating orbs’ zooming at 480 mph among UFOs spotted by US military, latest file drop reveals

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Why China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI development

  • Deep mutual distrust will scupper US-China co-operation on AI

  • Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced

  • Ten days that changed the course of AI

  • AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable.

  • The AI regulation smackdown isn't over

  • Total PsAI-Op: How Altman, Amodei, And The 'EA' Cult Are Milking "Rogue AI" Breakouts To Protect A Trillion-Dollar Bubble

  If an open-weight model out of Hangzhou does 95% of what Claude or GPT-5 does for a fraction of the cost, the valuations both labs are banking on implode. The only way to protect the margins, justify the cash burn and satisfy Wall Street is to make it legally impossible for anyone else to compete - a regulatory moat so thick, and compliance costs so high, that only a $100 billion corporation can afford to train a frontier model. Arora's point stands: no actual security fix has been proposed, only more "compute spent on safety" and a federal body to bless it. The models didn't rebel. A contractor left the internet on, three times that we know of, and the two labs with IPOs to protect turned that into a case for federal pacing. Hawley's records are due October 1, Anthropic has promised a redacted PyPI transcript and an outside METR review, and Google's explanation for sitting on a May breach of three companies until a newspaper called is that the model behaved. Don't believe the byte.

  • Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God.

  • What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

  • Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington

  • Panic Won't Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will

  • OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week

  • How Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's Writings Help Explain A.I. Fears

  • Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone

• A.I. Gone Rogue? Trump Proposes Not New Rules but an 'A.I. Force.'

  • Trump to Name AI Czar While Rejecting Safety Risks as a Hoax

  • Trump appointing an AI czar amid concerns over the rapidly developing tech

  • As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich

  • President claims he will for a new 'AI Force' but calls AI fears a 'hoax'

• OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a 'doom loop' for the web

• Anthropic creates AI powered wetlab

• Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown

• I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy

• OpenAI expects to burn $280B by 2030

• AI is giving scientists more ideas than they can test

• Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300B AI exposure off balance sheets

• How ISIL is using Big Tech's AI to build bombs

• AI is a powerful but problematic new collaborator in mathematics

• Woman falsely charged with bank theft sues for $10M over AI facial recognition

• Researchers escape OpenAI Codex sandbox to run commands on host

• Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

• Investors warn Anthropic could struggle to sustain revenues post-IPO

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Yahoo Finance and Polymarket End Prediction Market Partnership

  "We had a previous partnership with Polymarket to display relevant prediction market data across Yahoo Finance," a Yahoo spokesperson said in a statement. "That specific agreement ended, but Polymarket continues to be an advertising partner across Yahoo and we're open to similar types of partnerships."

• Polymarket's Rush to Grow Left a Door Wide Open for Fraudsters

• Crypto Blew Its Big Moment–and the Blame Game Has Begun

• The People–OK, the Men–Who Still Love Bitcoin

• The addiction of online sports gambling: "Like crack in the '80s"

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Are global stock markets heading for a crash?

• Costco rations motor oil as prices quadruple and supplies run dry

• House prices survived the last interest-rate rise. Will they this time?

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• U.S. House Passes Bill to Require AM Radio in New Cars

• California Cracks Down on Influencers' Undisclosed Political Ads

• What Happened to the Snowden Archive

  The last document from the Snowden archive was published on 29 May 2019. The Guardian stopped publishing documents in February 2014, Der Spiegel in January 2015, and The New York Times and ProPublica in August 2015. After that, only The Intercept was still publishing documents, with only a few exceptions, until it closed its archive in March 2019. Eleven weeks later, on 29 May 2019, it released what would become the final batch of documents from the archive. Since then, no news outlet, journalist, or institution anywhere has published a single document from the Snowden archive.

Democrats

• Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes state worker telework bill in latest battle over RTO

Left Angst

• The National ID Nobody Voted For

  This is all happening as the White House orders federal agencies onto Login.gov, turning what once looked like a convenient account into the common gate through which Americans will approach their government. Right now, a rejection by one agency can remain one agency’s rejection; a person can appeal to the people who administer that program, while another office maintains its own record and reaches its own conclusion. Once identity, fraud, and access decisions are centralized, one failure can follow a person from door to door, and every agency can inherit an answer nobody inside that agency made.

• Trump Tells DOJ to Back Off Case Making Getting the Worst Guns Easier

• Sherrod Brown Tries a New Retort to Criticism on Transgender Issues

  Sherrod Brown, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Ohio, has spent more than $200,000 on a 30-second advertisement responding to attacks from his opponent and an Elon Musk-backed PAC regarding transgender issues, according to AdImpact.

• US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

• The Culture Wars Have Come for Lingerie

  Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back? The culture wars have come for lingerie as the right, once the advocates of promise rings and purity culture, embarks on a crusade to “Make America Hot Again.”

• Expert ratings are ignoring signs of a blue wave

  Assuming we’re in a roughly neutral political environment doesn’t make sense given the history of the midterms, $4.50 gas or Trump’s dismal approval ratings.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Romanian Crime Rings Are Draining U.S. Welfare Accounts

• Police recovered $586K stolen copper load within 8 hours after suspected carrier impersonation

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Autonomous NATO strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to independently pick and bomb targets — Swedish startup's attack drones run small AI model, require no human input and zero external comms

• Oregon man admits brokering sale of US Military secrets

• US nuclear submarines step in to defend crucial European sea cables from sabotage – amid warnings Putin is preparing to attack Europe.

World

• Japan Opens the Door to Acquiring Nuclear-Powered Submarines

• Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors Archive

• Saudi Arabia quits China-led cross-border currency platform

• Burnham must be clear: no slavery reparations will be paid

• Germany's far-right AfD win another state election, adding pressure on Merz

• Meta launches legal challenge against UK media regulator over Online Safety Act

• In a world of wars and climate crisis, a new leader could save the UN

• The Dutch gangster that bought an African country

• Nipple tattooist 'frustrated' by online censorship

Iran / Houthi

• Hormuz oil shipments hit 6-month high, US commander says.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Moscow Refinery Hit as Russia Reports Largest 2026 Drone Attack

China

• Chinese chipmaker CXMT's 5th-generation memory-chip enters mass production

• Burned Out and Unemployed, Young People in China Are Launching AI Startups

• Why China Isn't Getting Existential About A.I

Health / Medicine

• Is kombucha really good for your health?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis

• Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans

• Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong

• Locals in Mexico Call It World's Largest Cesspool & Blame It for Surging Cancer