2025-10-13

Horseshit

• Why Can't Fashion See What It Does to Women?

• The Tyrrany of Literacy. On oral tradition and what is lost

• Quintessentially American, drive-in cinemas are going dark

• The Secret to Better Airplane Navigation Could Be Inside the Earth's Crust

• How ‘TBPN’ Became Silicon Valley’s Newest Obsession

• Must you chew so loud? The trials of suffering from 'misophonia'

• Odd ideas welcome: VC wants to make science fiction fact

• Wrangler 4xe OTA Update (10.10.2025) | Jeep Wrangler 4xe Forum

  • An update to the entertainment system leads to:

  • I go out immediately and take mine for a drive around the block. All seemed fine and then the Jeep shut off and flashed to put it in Park to start it and CEL came in. I coasted to a stop, shifted to park, restarted it and CEL has remained on. I made it back home but everyone take caution

  • I just had to have my 2024 4XE towed to the dealer because it was having problems recognizing the gears, the CEL came on and it wouldn't drive. The dealer called me and said 4 others came in this hour.

  • Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models

  • HN comments

• Nobel peace prize officials investigate surge in bets for winner

celebrity gossip

• Katy Perry Caught in Steamy Moment with Justin Trudeau on Her Yacht

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The fashion for the young: turn to the radical right

  In poll after poll on both sides of the Atlantic, young people are aligning themselves with — and casting their votes for — parties, movements and ideas on the right. And not just moderately or traditionally rightwing ones either, but populist, anti-immigrant and reactionary forces. These movements question liberal-democratic norms, disdain institutions like independent media and universities and despise the political establishment

• Both sides favor censorship when children's books conflict

Musk

• Ed Davey urges regulator to go after Musk over X 'crimes'

• Elon Musk's xAI joins race to build 'world models' to power video games

• Money Talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

Electric / Self Driving cars

• EV owners are using their trucks' giant batteries to prevent blackouts

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• "Research" or dogma? Major IQ differences in twins due to schooling, challenging decades of research

• Is Mississippi Cooking the Books?

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Israeli Spyware Vendor NSO Group Reportedly Sells to U.S. Company

  • Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors

• The next era of social media is coming. And it's messy so far

• The New Tron Movie Is Pro-A.I. Propaganda

• Why Cards Against Humanity does not print its game in the US

• Bride surprises new husband with an RTX 5090 on wedding day

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• OpenAI will stop saving most ChatGPT users' deleted chats in NYT case

• Forget vibe coding; "vibe working" is Microsoft's next big plan

• 'I realised I'd been ChatGPT-ed into bed'

• Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Andrew Tulloch Heads to Meta

• Is AI a bubble? Maybe, maybe not. Who cares

  Conventional wisdom–that AI has to be a bubble that will pop soon and will make everyone poorer as a result–is almost never correct, at least going by my own experience following consumer technology over the past 15 or so years. For every correct prediction of a bubble or crisis (e.g. Theranos or WeWork), there are many other successes that defied the doomsayers, those being Facebook, Uber, Amazon, Tesla and many others.

• Our Faces No Longer Belong to Us

• America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints

• Oracle roared into AI gold rush, but its taking on huge amounts of debt to do so

Crypto con games

• SBF and the Multibillion-Dollar Drama over FTX's Ruins

• Crypto anger as speculators claim insider trading in Trump crash

• Crypto Investor Known as 'Bitcoin Jesus' Reaches Deal with Prosecutors

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Amazon's Prime Day sales are mostly a lie, with prices averaging just 0.6% lower during the company's largest sale of the year.

• To Find Workers, Hospitals Are Training Teenagers

• Will more lending be freed up by relaxing bank capital rules?

• World Economy Faces Triple Risk of Tariffs, AI Bubble and Soaring Debt

• From Tricolor to Saks, Bonds Are Now Crashing at Breakneck Speed

• Wall Street is worried the private credit bubble will burst

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Long Beach mandates staffing ratios at self-checkout lanes

• Record-High 62% Say U.S. Government Has Too Much Power

  • I'd love to see the same people asked if they would have felt safe answering the same way 4 years ago.

• Dominion, voting firm targeted by false 2020 election claims, sold to new owner

• How a City Awash in Garbage Is Trying to Take Out the Trash

Trump

• Marc Benioff says he wants Trump to send National Guard to San Francisco

  • 'Slap in the Face': Marc Benioff's Trump Turn Stuns San Francisco

Democrats

• Newsom signs major bills on slavery reparations, firearms, AI

Left Angst

• Trump Administration Lays Off CDC Officials

  • More than 1000 CDC staff laid off

• Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown rolling out at airports

  In an extraordinary effort to inject politics into millions of Americans’ travel experiences, the Trump administration plans to roll out a video at airports across the United States that will blame Democrats for lapses in Transportation Security Administration workers’ pay because of the government shutdown. People waiting in airport security lines will now be met with a new video of the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem addressing the shutdown.

• Homeland Security reassigns 'hundreds' of CISA cyber staffers

• The App Store was always authoritarian

  And now we see it clear, like a Cupertino sunrise bathing Mt. Bielawski in amber: Apple will censor its App Store at the behest of the Trump administration without putting up a fight.

• Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid

• Trump Disgraces American Justice

• CISA Personnel Forcibly Reassigned to Deportation Force

• Barron Trump tipped for top job at TikTok after dad tells users they 'owe' him

World

• Africa's oldest leader isn't ready to retire; he's not the only one defying age

• Qatari diplomats killed in car crash while heading to Sharm el-Sheikh

• Brazil's Bolsonaro was convicted but the military appetite for a coup lingers

• Risk-averse parents are fueling Britain's ambition crisis, VCs say

• Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them

• Arson in Nepal Looked Like Spontaneous Rage. Evidence Suggests Otherwise

• Business management visa requirements to be tightened from next week

• Afghanistan says it has killed 58 Pakistani soldiers

• The Rising Force of Japan's Ultra-Nationalist, Anti-Immigration Sanseito Party

• An identity crisis is haunting Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party

• Madagascar's president says a coup is underway after soldiers joined protestors

• 'My brother was murdered by greed': Inside Brazil's methanol poisoning crisis

• Parisians Protest Shein's First Physical Store

Israel

• A Memo in a Bunker, Intercepted Communications and Hamas's Oct. 7 Plans

• Team of 200 US Troops to 'Oversee' Gaza Truce

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers' trap

• Indian student captured by Ukraine joined Russian army to avoid drug charges

• Putin OKs plan to turn Russian spacecraft into flying billboards

China

• China understands negative emotional contagion

  If you are spreading negative emotional contagion, there is a very good chance that, no matter what you are saying, that you are part of the problem. A more fundamental division these days than Left vs. Right.

• China 'not afraid' of trade war on US rare earths 'double standard' retaliation

• Dutch govt accused of freezing operations of Chinese chipmaker Nexperia

• Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified

Health / Medicine

• Women athletes losing their periods was long considered normal. Not anymore.

• High youth death rates are an 'emerging crisis', global health study warns

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Orcas sink yet another boat off coast of Portugal

• Australia's March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

• Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June

  The first half of 2025 logged the most damaging extreme weather on record in terms of cost, even after accounting for inflation, data shows. This is partly because of a handful of extraordinary events, such as the Los Angeles wildfires. But the number of natural disasters that struck this winter was also "exceptional," Paul Ullrich, a professor of regional climate modeling at the University of California, Davis, told Live Science.

• Bringing Vietnam's Bile Bear Industry to an End

• Billions of bacteria lurk in your shower – should you be worried?

• Unusual rainfall brings vibrant wildflowers to Chile's Atacama

• Scientists Confirm Widespread Microplastics in Milk and Cheese

• Tests Show That a Pennsylvania Town's Water Was Contaminated by Fracking