2025-10-08

Horseshit

• The Longevity Trap: We're Building Cyberpunk Economics Without Trying

  Your grandparents received their inheritance around 40. Your parents got theirs around 47. You'll get yours around 60. Your children will inherit around 70. This isn't a bug. This is compound interest meeting increased lifespan, and the result is systematic wealth lock-up. People living 25% longer means wealth compounds in elderly hands for an extra decade while the young can't access capital during their wealth-building years. Someone dying at the old average lifespan held accumulated wealth for roughly 40 years. Living an extra decade extends that to 50 years. Their inheritors receive assets 15-20 years later than the previous generation did. By the time wealth transfers, the recipients are planning retirement, not building businesses or buying first homes. Capital arrives when it can no longer multiply through entrepreneurship, home purchases, or educational investment. The mechanism driving inequality is pure timing mismatch.

• The Most Reviled Tech CEO in New York Confronts His Haters

• Roman grave marker stolen from Italy found in New Orleans

• Pilots Demand India Ground Boeing 787s to Investigate Use of Emergency System

• Human Ancestors Nearly Went Extinct 900k Years Ago

• One Pennsylvania Town's Quest to Find a Loving Home for Its Atom Smasher

• The 'One Piece' pirate flag became the global emblem of Gen Z resistance

  • Neat how these things are always trademarked, copyrighted, protected intellectual property before they're "generational icons"... the "V for Vendetta' Guy Fawkes mask made Warner Bros a lot of money too.

• Earth has a space tornado problem

• Turkey's flying car starts to fly off the shelves

• Jeff Bezos Has a Plan to Send Data Centers to Space

• West Coast's two monster faults could trigger back-to-back earthquakes

• I’m 44 and have more sex than my 20-year-old daughter — prudish Gen Z needs to get laid.

celebrity gossip

• Dan Brown releases his most ambitious book yet

Obit

• Edward T. Blake, 80, Dies; Forensic Expert Sparked Innocence Movement

• John Gurdon, Nobel laureate who laid groundwork for cloning, dies at 92

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Getting news from social media videos spurs stronger conspiracy thinking

  The survey also measured how strong respondents' conspiracy-theory-oriented thinking was by asking them whether they agreed to certain statements. The statement eliciting the highest level of agreement (to which respondents answered "I agree" or "I somewhat agree) was, "There are many very important things happening in the world that are never disclosed to ordinary people," cited by 87%. The statement with the least agreement was, "Government authorities are strictly monitoring all citizens," at 22%. When cross-referencing these results with other responses, it was found that over 40% of those identified as having conspiracy-theory-oriented thinking also expressed dissatisfaction with their lives, which was more than 9 percentage points higher than those not inclined toward such thinking. The proportions of those acknowledging the existence of conflicts between certain groups also tended to be higher among those with conspiracy-theory-oriented thinking.

• Anti-establishment sentiment on TikTok influencers and expertise on social media

• Can Revolution Survive in the 21st Century? | The Nation

  The concept that mass access to information at our fingertips would democratize power has collapsed under the weight of a far more dystopian reality. Over a decade ago, the crushing of the Arab Spring proved how the tools of the digital age, from smartphones to social media, could be weaponized against the very people many hoped they would uplift. Today, Israel’s ability to livestream genocide for the world to see without facing any serious repercussions is showing us how easy it is for us to be collectively lulled into complacency, deterred by disinformation, and neutralized by surveillance. So much for “never again.” And what of revolution?

  • What i this is your "revolution", and the fact is that greater access to information has enabled people to see and reject the socialist horseshit sooner than ever before.

• Research shows there are no easy fixes to political hatred

  • "We can agree to disagree, and live as neighbors anyway" is not an option?

Musk

• How Elon Musk Is Bringing Sexy A.I. Chatbots to the Mainstream

• Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth's atmosphere

• Tesla's 'affordable' EVs are just stripped down versions of the Model 3 and Y

  • Tesla unveils cheaper versions of its Model 3 and Model Y

  • Tesla releases new more affordable Model 3/Y that cost $2k+ more than last week

Electric / Self Driving cars

• The future for EVs in America looks grim. But the auto industry isn't giving up

• Mobile EV Chargers Are the Gas Cans of the Future

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• AI-Powered Robots Install Solar Panels Faster Than Any Humans

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Is South Korea's 'Buddhistcore' Aesthetic a Fad or a Spiritual Awakening?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 – macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling

• Winning a Nobel Prize Interrupted His Off-the-Grid Vacation

• How to Get Your Kids into Stem Even When Its Future Is Uncertain

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

• Fedora 43 Landing Change to Increase /Boot Due to Nvidia GPU Firmware Bloat

• I Won a Class Action Lawsuit Against a Parking App. They Gave Me a $1 Credit

• Young People Are Falling in Love with Old Technology

• RIAA: Telegram and Discord Are Notorious Hubs for Pre-Release Music Piracy

• AppLovin Probed by SEC over Its Data-Collection Practices

• California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes

• Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

• U.S. vs. Google: What Each Side Argued For

• T-Mobile may be the first carrier to phase out 4G

• Apple turned the CrowdStrike BSOD issue into an anti-PC ad

  • Can we discuss how the politics worked to make their product a requirement for most businesses to get insured?

• Red Hat breach escalates as criminals collaborate on 'multi-TB' extortion plot

• Cable TV Company Will Shut Down, Says YouTube TV $40 Cheaper

• Jaguar Land Rover Bailout Shows Rising Cost of Cybercrime

• Microsoft clamping down on Windows 11 local account setup

  • Microsoft removes more Microsoft account workarounds from Windows 11 build

• The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem

• Google's Requirement for Developers to Be Verified Threatens App Store F-Droid

• Italian families target Facebook, Instagram and TikTok over child safety

• PayPal Launches Ad Networks for Small Businesses

  PayPal is rolling out a tool called PayPal Ads Manager that allows small and midsize businesses to set up advertising on their ecommerce websites.

• Never too early for profitable panic: The Y2K38 Bug Is a Vulnerability, Not Just a Date Problem, Researchers Warn

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Python 3.14: Free threaded Python is here

• Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers

  One other aspect of the Arduino that's attraced me and many others is the open source nature of the product. The board schematics will be open source, and they have new high speed connectors on the bottom for HDMI, Ethernet, and other standard I/O. But can someone design their own version of the Uno Q and get a Dragonwing chip to install on it? Hopefully. I was told by my Qualcomm contact this should happen, but no word on when. Currently, you'd have to be a Qualcomm partner and likely order in the hundreds (if not thousands) if you wanted to pick up bare Dragonwing SoCs. The price of the Uno has gone up over the years, and with the Uno Q, we're hitting the same price point as a base model Raspberry Pi 5, but with performance that's a couple years behind.

  • Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI | Qualcomm

  • Arduino "retains its brand and mission" following acquisition by Qualcomm

  • Qualcomm acquires Italian hardware company Arduino

  • Qualcomm Buys Arduino, Will Bring AI Tools to Your DIY Tech Projects

  • Qualcomm buys open-source electronics firm Arduino

  • I think "Arduino" was wrecked several years ago, and Qualcomm picking up the remnants to wear as a skinsuit can't do any more damage. The FOSS face for micro control hardware has already flowered; this root dying won't kill the idea.

  • Classic: The Untold History of Arduino

  To this day, I do not know exactly why the Arduino Team forked the code from Wiring. It was also puzzling why we didn’t work together. So, to answer the question, I was never asked to become a member of the Arduino Team.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• The AI boom's reliance on circular deals is raising fears of a bubble

• Robin Williams' Daughter Tells Fans to 'Stop Sending Me AI Videos of Dad'

• My boss loves AI. I want nothing to do with it

• The AI industry's 'happy few'

• AMD Came from Behind to Mount a Challenge in the AI Chip Wars

• Australian teachers are among highest users of AI in classrooms around the world

• What Would Happen If an AI Bubble Burst?

• We should all be worried about the great AI bubble

• EU pushes new AI strategy to reduce tech reliance on US and China

• Jony Ive Says He Wants His OpenAI Devices to 'Make Us Happy

• There Are Two Economies: A.I. and Everything Else

• Stargate is nowhere near enough to make OpenAI's AMD and Nvidia tie-ups work

• AMD stock skyrockets 23% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker

• OpenAI "Needs to Take Immediate and Decisive Action" to Prevent IP Infringement

• OpenAI's Sora 2 must stop allowing copyright infringement

• AI Is Testing America's Power Grid–and Uprooting Rural Families

• OpenAI Sneezes, and Software Firms Catch a Cold

• Anthropic and IBM announce strategic partnership

• xAI Nears $20B Capital Raise Tied to Nvidia Chips

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA's Juno probe orbiting Jupiter may have come to an end, no one can confirm

• New Organic Molecules Found in Old Cassini Data

• FCC kicks off 'Space Month' with vow to fast-track satellite licensing

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Everything Is Becoming a Bank

• Texas stock exchange gets federal approval

• Ford CEO Says There Aren't Enough Mechanics. Then a Mechanic Responds

  “You’ll have to do this oil pan gasket on this F-250,” Ivanovko says, mimicking a Ford dealership manager. “You’ll have to pull the cab off of the frame to do it. And it’s under warranty, so it pays like .6 [hours]. Why don’t you want to work for me?” Estimates vary, but online consensus is that it will take at least a few hours to remove the cab of a truck, and upwards of an entire day. But if the warranty pays a flat rate of just 40 minutes for a repair that requires removing the cab first, the mechanic is essentially losing time and money. Many self-identified mechanics who commented on Ivanovko’s post blamed the engineers who design vehicles for making them difficult to work on.

• Centerview Partners to face trial over junior banker's long hours past midnight

• Company bids less than a penny per ton in biggest US coal sale in over a decade

• Citadel's Griffin Calls Rush to Gold as Safer Asset 'Concerning'

• Tech Things: Financing my Klarna Doritos Locos Taco

  Klarna is specifically targeting people who cannot get past the stricter underwriting requirements of the normal credit system, which, besides being predatory, seems…obviously bad for Klarna? The only people who are going to be financing a Doritos Locos Taco are the people who couldn’t get good credit lines to begin with! Klarna is self-selecting into giving loans to exactly the people who cannot pay back those loans. And as more people realize that they can abuse Klarna for free stuff — because, again, there does not seem to be a downside — more people will sign up, juicing Klarna’s growth numbers and further hurting its bottom line.

  All of this reminds me of MoviePass. For those who forgot, MoviePass was the greatest startup ever created. The premise was that you would get to watch unlimited movies in theaters for $20 per month. MoviePass didn’t have any deals with the theaters or anything like that. It was just paying the theaters full price. In NYC, the price of a single movie ticket is about $20. So if you saw a single movie in NYC using MoviePass, the company would break even, and any movie after that would be free for you and pure loss for MoviePass. For a brief 3 month period, MoviePass shoveled VC money directly into the NYC cinephile community, and it was glorious.

  MoviePass eventually shut down because you can’t sell a dollar for 75c and expect to stay in business for very long. I think the same is true of Klarna. Frankly it’s a miracle that they made it to IPO. Now that they are here, I expect they will clamp down on their loose reporting rules and start treating things more like an actual credit card company.

• Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time

  • Gold hits $4,000 an ounce for the first time

• Google lays off dozens of workers in Sunnyvale

• NYSE Owner to Invest Up to $2B in Polymarket

  • NYSE parent firm ICE to invest $2B in Polymarket's prediction platform

  • NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange rises after it takes $2 billion stake in Polymarket.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• US Supreme Court allows order forcing Google to make app store reforms

• The Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy in a case from Colorado

  • Conservative justices signal openness to allowing conversion therapy

• Am Radio Is Essential. Now It's Under Threat

• No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576

Democrats

• Jack Smith Tracked GOP Senators' Private Comms in J6/Election Probe Per the FBI

Left Angst

• Flight Delays Begin as Air Traffic Staffing Shortages Worsen

  • FAA reports staffing issues at airports as government shutdown continues

  • Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening

• How Bari Weiss of The Free Press Won the Top Job at CBS News - The New York Times

  She achieved this without climbing the typical journalistic career ladder, and with no experience directing television coverage. She is richer in social clout than in Emmys or Pulitzers. And she is known more for wanting to rid the world of so-called wokeness than for promoting journalistic traditions. While newsroom leaders do not traditionally trumpet their personal beliefs, Ms. Weiss has described herself as a “left-leaning centrist,” a “radical centrist,” “a gay woman who is moderately pro-choice” — she is married to Nellie Bowles, a former Times reporter who now works at The Free Press — and a proud recipient of the label “Zionist fanatic.”

  • New CBS owner David Ellison met top Israeli general to spy on Americans

  • Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You're Doomed

  • Appointment of Bari Weiss confirms shift to the right of mainstream media

• The left's deep-rooted violence is what insurrection looks like

  as we see in the Roske case, in Chicago, and elsewhere around the country, Democratic governors, judges, prosecutors and others are doing all they can to interfere with federal law-enforcement efforts. They’re denying the sort of routine protections that local police and the justice system are supposed to provide, while nonprofits wage “lawfare” via litigation and provide defense for those who are arrested. Put it together and you have an army of crazies and far-left “activists,” a propaganda wing and a legal- and financial-support system, all acting in resistance against the duly elected government of the United States. Dare we call it an insurrection? If not, what is it? It’s certainly not politics as usual.

• Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

• CIA Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency's Top Legal Official with Himself

• The NIH ordered me to stop my 'dangerous' gain-of-function research

• Are You a 'Heritage American'?

• Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

• Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.'

• Volunteer scientists work 'nights and weekends' to guide vaccine advice in US

• Trump’s GOP seizes on violent rhetoric from Virginia AG candidate as high-stakes elections loom.

  Republicans are seizing on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a push to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally — less than a month before Election Day.

  • Stephen Green at Instapundit: "How dare Republicans notice that the Democrats’ candidate for attorney general wants to murder their children."

• Why Silicon Valley might start sweating the shutdown soon

• Consequence culture is making martyrs

  It’s fair to say that Kirk was not over-mourned in the liberal enclave of Bluesky. Elsewhere, though, he was very rapidly attaining a kind of MAGA sainthood — aided by the fact that his killer appeared to be motivated by animosity to Kirk’s anti-trans views. Anyone demurring from the public performance of mourning risked becoming a target of Right-wing rage. Within hours, Felker-Martin received a call from the comics publisher DC, cancelling the series Felker-Martin had been working on and terminating their relationship. That made Felker-Martin one of the many Americans to have been fired or disciplined for being insufficiently respectful towards Kirk. High-profile examples include late-night host Jimmy Kimmel (whose show was temporarily pulled) and the columnist Karen Attiah (who was sacked by The Washington Post). More concerning are the rank-and-file Americans, from hospital workers to restaurant managers, who either lost their jobs or faced formal sanctions: over 145 by The New York Times’ count in late September, and presumably more since then.

  • This is different than the people who were fired and shunned for being "insufficiently respectful" towards George Floyd ... how?

• Panicked Curtis Yarvin Plans to Flee USA

  Curtis Yarvin, the anti-American “Dark Enlightenment” guru credited as “the philosopher behind JD Vance,” believes the Trump administration is doomed to fail. Fearing retribution from a future Democratic administration, a terrified Yarvin declared on October 5 that he is already planning to flee the country. While most people see Trump violating the Constitution in unprecedented ways and trying to seize dictatorial power, Yarvin sees only weakness and failure. On Twitter—where Vice President Vance follows him—he has criticized the Trump administration for not going far enough to wrest control of the nation and permanently dislodge Democrats from power. Back in March, Yarvin wrote that the Trump regime would “wither and eventually dissipate” unless he went full authoritarian.

• US visa no longer a passport to love for Indians after Trump H-1B squeeze

• ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones

• Federal shutdown deals blow to hobbled cybersecurity agency

• Six surgeons general: It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr

World

• Calls to regulate commercial drones at Dublin meeting

• Contrary to what you might have heard, Europe is a 21st-century success story

• Turkey Eyes US Rare Earths Deal After China, Russia Talks Slow

• Rescuers recover more bodies of victims after school collapse in Indonesia

• Von Der Leyen Dodges Signal Transparency Amid Chat Control 2.0

• The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

• Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones

• Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant

• Palantir's UK boss rules out contract bids for digital ID – "undemocratic"

• Reform defector left Tory staffer 'humiliated' after bullying and harassing her

• Citizen protest halts Chat Control

Iran / Houthi

• Iran reports bird flu outbreak in poultry

Israel

• The ruin of Gaza: how Israel's two-year assault has devastated the territory

• IDF downs four Houthi drones over Eilat within an hour

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Europe is at war with Russia, whether it likes it or not

China

• Chinese EV giant BYD sees UK sales soar by 880%

• The 'typhoon-proof' wind farms powering China's coast

• Suspected Chinese operatives used ChatGPT to shape mass surveillance proposals

• China Wants to Attract More Young Foreign Talent. Nationalists Don't

Health / Medicine

• 'Harmless' Pegivirus Found in Brains of Parkinson's Patients

• He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer's 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn't He?

• Study of 500K Medical Records Linked viral encephalitis with Alzheimer's

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Global fight on death, infections from drug-resistant bacteria not going to plan

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Pacific Ocean is overheated, making fall feel like summer

• EF5 tornado in North Dakota the country's first in over a decade

• Wildfires are now four times more frequent due to climate change

• Study finds US asthma inhalers produce same emissions as 500k cars

• Advocates raise alarm over PFAS pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

• "Is now?" Solar energy is now the world's cheapest source of power, study finds

• Renewables overtake coal as biggest source of electricity

• In a Toxic World, Pets Could Be Vital Health Watchdogs

• Three CNN reporters on three continents wore chemical-tracking wristbands

• 3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy

• Fast-fashion recycling is making Indian factory workers sick

• Birds all over the world use the same sound to warn of threats

• As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

• Climate change could drastically reduce aquifer recharge in Brazil

• Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says

• Astronomers Are Sounding the Alarm over Dangerous Space Weather

• Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap

• Did UAE's Rain-Boosting Project Affect the Deadly Dubai Flood?