2025-10-04

Horseshit

• Men charged with conspiracy for allegedly rigging casino poker games

• Video Games Have Become the Main Way Boys Socialize. Is That Bad?

• In their own words: What young people wish they'd known about social media

• Jeff Bezos claims there will be gigawatt data centers in space in 10 years

celebrity gossip

• Reminder that Peter Thiel is, to put it mildly, not a cypherpunk

• Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to more than 4 years in prison after salacious trial exposed mogul’s reign of terror

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Media trust hits new low across the political spectrum

Musk

• Rescuer at Fatal Tesla Cybertruck Crash Says Car Doors Wouldn't Open

• Tesla sued by family of California teenager killed in fiery Cybertruck crash

• Parents of college student killed in Tesla crash allege design flaw in car

• Tesla Cybertruck Isn't Allowed in Germany, Not Even the US Army Can Change That

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Illinois utility tries using electric school buses for bidirectional charging

• Europe is saying no to electric scooters. The data says not so fast

• Toyota sold a mere 18 EVs in its home market last month

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• First Woman Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

  • Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury

• How Simone de Beauvoir got me cancelled - UnHerd

  Beauvoir is controversial today because she was the ultimate sex realist; she refused to separate body from identity, and believed that it was only through understanding women’s embodied reality that we could combat patriarchal cultural norms. Her essential position can be summed up simply: sex is the material ground of women’s lives, gender the cultural elaboration of that ground, and liberation comes not from denying the body, but by transforming the meaning imposed upon it. She began The Second Sex with research on biology, spending long hours in France’s National Library, sifting through centuries of the science on reproduction. Biology is not everything, she argued. It does not condemn us to lesser lives — but nor is it nothing: nature commandeers a woman’s body, from puberty onward, for the service of the species. These facts don’t make us unequal, but social structures and norms turn reproductive realities into inequality.

• Divorce Plunged in Kentucky. Equal Custody for Fathers Is a Big Reason Why

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Rise and Unraveling of America's Science Pact

• UW students chase self-professed Nazi sympathizer after lecture interruption

  University of Washington officials say a man who disrupted a lecture in Kane Hall with Nazi salutes and slurs on Wednesday is not affiliated with the school and has been banned from campus. According to UW, the man entered the classroom during a lecture, interrupted the session by making Nazi salutes, and shouted insults at both the instructor and students. Video posted online shows several dozen students and the instructor following him out of the lecture hall and chase him toward Drumheller fountain. The group huddled around the man until University of Washington Police officers arrived and took him into custody. KIRO 7 News spoke with the suspect Thursday who said he’s a “Nazi sympathizer” and was trying to “troll” the class.

  • Seems like only yesterday there was folks saying that disrupting classes to shout "Death to jews!" and so on was not just "free speech" but failing to do so was proof that one was a tool of the Global jewish conspiracy to boot... aka "pro-Palestine".

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Sony's New Global Shutter Sensor Captures 105 Megapixels at 100FPS

• L.A.'S Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

• Paramount Skydance to name Bari Weiss editor in chief of CBS News: sources

  Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned. Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

• TikTok 'directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks'

• Google working on high blood pressure screening with Pixel Watch

• Oracle Apps Exploited by Hackers in New Extortion Campaign

• Almost 1B Salesforce records stolen, hacker group claims

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Linus Torvalds Vents over "Completely Crazy Rust Format Checking"

• Fp8 runs 100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it | Hacker News

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• How much of the AI boom is underpinned by Nvidia's balance sheet? Investors ask

• Mega AI deals enable exits for private equity – but fuel 'frothy' bubble fears

• The AI capex endgame is approaching

• AI Has Already Run Out of Training Data, Goldman's Data Chief Says

• America's AI Action Plan Is Pretty Good

• No more slop: Perplexity makes its $200 AI browser free

• Delays to Trump's UAE Chips Deal Frustrate Nvidia's Jensen Huang

• Large Language Muddle

• Why Tech Workers Don't Trust AI

• AI startup valuations raise bubble fears as funding surges

• AI Shopping Is About to Upend E-Commerce

• OpenAI's Sora Makes Disinformation Easy and Real

• The biggest sign of an AI bubble is starting to appear – debt

• AI will trigger financial calamity. It'll also remake world

• The AI Application Spending Report: Where Startup Dollars Really Go

• Bezos says AI is in an industrial bubble

• Meta hits back at Joseph Gordon-Levitt op-ed re: AI, noting wife was behind coup

  Meta hit back at the New York Times over an op-ed it published by Joseph Gordon-Levitt that attacks Mark Zuckerberg over the tech giant’s controversial AI chatbots — noting that the Hollywood star’s wife is a prominent tech executive who has worked in artificial intelligence. In the video op-ed, the “Inception” vents his outrage over reports that the company’s AI chatbots were allowed to have “sensual” conversations with minors — and accused Zuckerberg of chasing “lots and lots of money” while ignoring safety. “It’s hard to describe how angry this makes me,” the “3rd Rock from the Sun” star said in a New York Times video op-ed, noting he’s a father to an 8-year-old. It’s not clear how many kids have already been exposed to “synthetic intimacy,” Gordon-Levitt warned.

• Everything is fake on Silicon Valley's hottest new social network

• The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

• The War Between Silicon Valley and Hollywood Is Officially Over

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Arc by Inversion: Global space-based cargo delivery in under 1 hour

• Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night

• Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford conference screens all display "FUCK RTO" and the CEO's face

  • Tricolor Trustee Says Initial Probes Suggest 'Pervasive' Fraud

• First Brands and Tricolor Are Signs of What's to Come in Credit Markets

  • The rest have been indulging in high volume fraud too?

• Public Bonds Are Booming. Why Is Private Credit Flashing Distress?

• Credit markets look increasingly dangerous

• SEC Probes Scientology Connections at Startup Stock Exchange

  • Why can't Scientologists have a stock exchange?

• The Jobs Report That Wasn't Leaves Economists Guessing

  • They were gonna say the numbers meant disaster, whatever they were; so are they really needed?

• Investors betting on disasters are helping make insurance affordable

• The Housing Shortage Is over (Sort Of)

• Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to close NY offices over AG Letitia James’ ‘corrupt and dangerous business practices.’

• U.S. Services-Sector Activity Unexpectedly Stagnates

• SEC Approves Texas Stock Exchange Trading

Democrats

• Leftist civil war: BLM sues Soros-backed Tides Foundation over missing $33M

  The dispute dates back to BLM’s early days. When the group was founded in 2013, it lacked tax-exempt status and relied on Tides to serve as its fiscal sponsor, channeling millions in anonymous donations to local BLM chapters. That arrangement worked—until the 2020 surge in donations after George Floyd’s death, when BLM raked in nearly $90 million in two years. Suddenly, its partnership with Tides turned from convenience to chaos. According to BLM’s attorney Lawrence Segal, Tides not only froze BLM’s money but actively spent it. “My client now has to pay money just to get their own money back, after my client raised 100% of it,” Segal told The Post. He further alleged that “more than $1 million has been spent by Tides out of my client’s money just on attorney’s fees — possibly to pay their own lawyers.” The lawsuit claims Tides lumps all donor money into a $1.4 billion pool, making it impossible for groups like BLM to track their funds. “TIDES does not segregate monies. All of my client’s money is apparently commingled in one giant account,” Segal said.

• Zohran Mamdani to phase out Gifted & Talented program in NYC elementary schools

Left Angst

• Apple Pulls ICEBlock from the App Store

  • Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store

  • ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: 'We Are Determined to Fight This'

  • Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps Amid Trump Pressure Campaign

  • Tech Giant Bows to MAGA Demands on ICE Goon Tracker Apps

  • Apple removes ICE tracking apps after Trump AG pressure

  • Apple removes ICEBlock, won't allow apps that report locations of ICE agents

• A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

• Education Department employees' email messages changed to blame Democrats

  Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.

• Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America | The Verge

• When Trump Rages, Silicon Valley Stays Silent - The New York Times

  The pain of watching Russia lose its briefly held freedoms has made me particularly attuned to what is happening at the intersection of tech and the Trump administration. That history is why I got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when I saw the photo of tech chieftains — people who control the social media outlets that so many Americans use to form their political views — paying homage to Donald Trump at a White House dinner. Or when I realized that Mr. Trump is reportedly handing TikTok, which 20 percent of Americans rely on for their news, to a consortium of investors that includes companies owned by his billionaire allies. Or when my teenage son saw a TikTok about the suspension of comedian Jimmy Kimmel and told me how it reminded him of tales I have told about life in the Soviet Union.

• The Force Field - Freddie deBoer

  The Times has once again parachuted into a conversation that has been going on for decades, planted its flag, and declared itself the discoverer of new territory. Yesterday they published a piece on autism, neurodiversity, RFK Jr., and whether the autism spectrum should be split up - split back up, that is, to reflect on the massive differences between those with profound autism and those for whom “neurodiversity” is mostly a social badge, a tidbit to be displayed on a Bumble profile. (The answer is yes, of course the spectrum should be split up again, for reasons I’ve written about at great length.) That issue, unusually raw, will bubble on, as it sits at a genuinely uncomfortable intersection of liberal identity norms, online culture, and the genuinely debilitating reality of severe autism. In terms of progressive discourse rules, the plight of the severely autistic and their loved ones is truly a problem from hell: those rules insist that you can’t ever question someone’s diagnosis, no matter how dubious; they demand that you acquiesce to claims made from a position of disability, no matter if they cut directly against the claims made by others from their own position of disability; they have long ago lost sight of any distinction between identity and disorder; and they’re governed by a selective and incoherent vision of standpoint theory that insists that only the autistic can speak out about autism - which perversely empowers the least-afflicted and silences the interests of the most-afflicted, as the most-afflicted literally cannot speak for themselves. You know my rap on all this.

  • Man bit by religion fails to see what is biting him. Or maybe he does, but you can't call it "religion", because there's no God and the dogma is written on the wind: now this, now that.

• White House posts "enemies list" of Democrats critical of ICE

• 'Trump has dementia?': Google accused of blocking search on POTUS' mental health

• Why young men are losing faith in science

• ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

• Pentagon decrees warfighters don't need 'frequent' cybersecurity training

• Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his agenda for better access to federal money

• Fired Prosecutor Assails Justice Dept.'S Pursuit of Trump's Enemies

• Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Returns to National Mall

• Groups File Suit over Trump's $100k H-1B Visa Fee

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Timeline issues could hurt case against Charlie Kirk's accused assassin: lawyer | Fox News

  Text messages between Tyler Robinson and partner lack timestamps while crime scene return timing disputed

• Plot to cripple cell service in NY was bigger than first thought

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Anduril and Palantir battlefield comms system has deep flaws: Army

• NATO Wants 'Walmart' of Cheap Answers to Russian Drones

• Ukraine Deep in Talks to Sell U.S. Drones

World

• UK Government responds to digital ID petition after three million signatures

  the government has now responded to the petition on the official petitions website, as it is obliged to. The displayed statement read: “We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies. We will consult on details soon.” : “We will launch a public consultation in the coming weeks and work closely with employers, trade unions, civil society groups and other stakeholders, to co-design the scheme and ensure it is as secure and inclusive as possible. “Following consultation, we will seek to bring forward legislation to underpin this system.” The full, entire and very long statement can be read here.

  Last week, a spokesperson said that there will be no requirement for digital IDs to be carried or shown. The spokesperson said: “There will be no requirement for individuals to carry their ID or be asked to produce it – but digital ID will be mandatory as a means of proving your Right to Work.”

• UK Cops Killed One Of The Manchester Synagogue Victims, Injured Another | ZeroHedge

  The suspect, Jihad al-Shamie, rammed a vehicle into a crowd of people gathered outside the synagogue, striking several individuals. He then exited the car and stabbed at least one person before attempting to enter the building. Worshippers and security staff managed to block his entry - when armed cops showed up within 7 minutes and shot al-Shamie. Al-Shamie killed one of the victims and sent two to the hospital with injuries, while the cops accidentally killed another victim and shot a 3rd person who was also sent to the hospital.

  "Overnight, we have taken advice from the Home Office pathologist ahead of full postmortem examinations scheduled for later today. The Home Office pathologist has advised that he has provisionally determined that one of the deceased victims would appear to have suffered a wound consistent with a gunshot injury," said Greater Manchester police chief constable, Sir Stephen Watson. "It is currently believed that the suspect, Jihad al-Shamie, was not in possession of a firearm and the only shots fired were from GMP’s authorised firearms officers as they worked to prevent the offender from entering the synagogue and causing further harm to our Jewish community.

  Jihad, 35, moved to the UK from Syria as a child and became a naturalized British citizen while he was a minor in 2006. Home secretary Shabana Mahmood (!) said on Friday that Jihad was not known to counterterrorism police, however in 2012, MP John Howell received threatening emails from 'Jihad Alshamie' according to a report by the Jerusalem Post. It's unclear if it's the same Jihad.

  • Father of Manchester synagogue terrorist Jihad al-Shamie praised Hamas for Oct. 7 slaughter

• Offline: Tonga was cut off from the internet by a volcano

• Drone sightings disrupt Munich airport

  • Flights Halted at Munich Airport After Drone Sightings

• Japan's ruling party is in crisis as voters swing to right-wing rivals

• Japan faces Asahi beer shortage after cyber-attack

  • Japan days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry after cyber attack

• As the Taliban erases Afghan women, the world looks away

• No more scribbles: Indian court tells doctors to fix their handwriting

Iran / Houthi

• Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens

Israel

• The Israeli right's 'time of miracles' is over. Palestinians are going nowhere

• Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio for Fealty to Israel, Hacked Emails Reveal

• USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

• Flotilla to Gaza had no humanitarian supplies

  None of the 40 vessels participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Israel intercepted on Yom Kippur, was carrying humanitarian aid, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. The ministry also released a video by the Israeli Police featuring spokesperson Dean Elsdunne showing the empty interior of one of the flotilla’s largest vessels. The spokesperson points out that the complete lack of aid explains why the organizers refused Israel’s and multiple countries’ offers to hand over the aid and avoid entering an active war zone and breaking the law.

• The Intifada Comes to Britain

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• I was kidnapped by Russia at 16 – like so many Ukrainian kids

• Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It's Under Russian Attack

China

• China sentences Ming crime family group members in relation to scam compounds

• How America fell behind China in the lunar space race–and how it can catch up

• Russia preparing China for war: report

• AI is reshaping childhood in China

• China Pushes Trump to Drop Curbs as It Dangles Investment Pledge

Health / Medicine

• No more scribbles: Indian court tells doctors to fix their handwriting

• People on Ozempic who eat to regulate emotions less likely to lose weight

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Big Bad Wolf Is Afraid of You

• Solar powered irrigation is digging Pakistani farmers into water shortage

• Trees emit a compound that may have underestimated impact on global atmosphere

• Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants

• A bold new blueprint for economically viable solar hydrogen

• Big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed

• Climate advocacy should focus more on the hard problems

• Vaccine breakthrough for deadly elephant virus

• Orcas are bringing humans gifts

  • Some are also overturning boats. This is an apology from the pacifist faction.