2025-10-16

Horseshit

• The male gaze: It’s back, and it’s coming for everyone | CNN

• Gravestone recipes provide unique way for Midwesterners to be remembered

• New York City could face power reliability issues beginning next year

• Lost Jack Kerouac story found among assassinated mafia boss' belongings

• A Haunted Power Plant Becomes a Park. Is This the Future?

• America's Favorite Apple Is a Farmer's Nightmare

• Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes

• The Human Mind Isn't Meant to Be Awake Past Midnight, Scientists Warn

Obit

• D'Angelo, Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, dead at 51

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Believing misinformation is a "win" for some people, even when proven false

Musk

• SpaceX's Second-Gen Starship Signs Off with a Near-Perfect Test Flight

• SpaceX's 11th Starship flight a resounding success

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Waymo's Robotaxis Are Coming to London

  • Waymo to launch autonomous ride-hailing service in London next year

• Electric Truck Charging Is Here, and Governments Want More

• Blocked bays and failed handshakes: many 'online' EV chargers are unusable

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Bishop Forced to Resign After Being Accused of Having 17 Secret Lovers

• Pope Leo's 3 A.M. Duolingo Habit Surprises Fans – and Inspires Them

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Hundreds of colleges could lose federal student loans due to default rates, economist says.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says 'much of the internet is now dead'

• Bose will brick SoundTouch speakers in 2026

• FSF announces Librephone project

• Businesses that rely on Google for customers see dramatic drop in traffic

• Customer Service Firm 5CA Denies Responsibility for Discord Data Breach

• F5 Networks reports nation-state cyberattack on product systems

• Apple M5 chip

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects

  • "erupts" is an instersting way to put it; someone said "Shooting Charlie Kirk Sucked" and the whole geek world must be roused to hate upon them.

• Reverse Engineering a 27MHz RC Toy communication using RTL SDR – jacob's Web

• Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve

  The 2013 data looks the closest to a true bathtub curve, while the 2021 data shows fewer early failures and a lower failure rate for more years. We also see the average longevity of drives goes up by about two years before spiking into the failure zone.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• OpenAI's ChatGPT will soon allow 'erotica' for adults in major policy shift

  • OpenAI will allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content

  • ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults

  • Some like it bot ChatGPT promises AI-rotica is coming for verified adults

  • ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says

  • Sam Altman says OpenAI isn't 'moral police of the world'

• An AI became a crypto millionaire. Now it's fighting to become a person

• Who owns OpenAI? Blockbuster deals complicate investor payouts

• Japanese Government Calls on OpenAI to Refrain from Copyright Infringement

• OpenAI has five years to turn $13B into $1T

  • OpenAI's new 5-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending; current ARR $13B

• Soon You'll Be Able to Shop Walmart in ChatGPT

• Cloudflare Collaborates with Payment Companies to Secure Agentic Commerce

• OpenAI's internal Slack messages could cost it billions in copyright suit

• ChatGPT 'upgrade' giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find

• Even fund managers say the AI stock boom is a bubble, BofA survey says

• Sam Altman: Lord Forgive Me, It's Time to Go Back to the Old ChatGPT

• ASML shrugs off China slump with faith in AI-fueled chip demand

• BlackRock, Nvidia-backed group strikes $40B AI data center deal

• You are the scariest monster in the woods | Jamie’s blog

  We (humans) are the scariest animal in the woods. We’re the scariest animal anywhere. At any time, in any location, under any circumstances, if there’s a human present then that’s the scariest motherfucker in the woods. We’re a danger to every living thing, ourselves included. Our collective ability to survive, adapt, control, kill, or wipe out any other species is unmatched. Anyone trying to tell you otherwise is trying to distract you. AI is not the monster to be afraid of; we are.

• Can AI replace junior workers?

• Ohio Lawmaker Wants to Ban Marriage Between Humans and AI Chatbots

• How People Around the World View AI

• "Stop ripping off manga and anime," Japan's government warns OpenAI

• Canadian man fined for submitting AI hallucinations as part of legal defense

• Anthropic aims to nearly triple annualized revenue in 2026, sources say

• Amazon says its AI will let NBA fans track brand-new stats

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Common yeast can survive Martian conditions

Crypto con games

• DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia

• US charges Cambodian executive in crypto scam and seizes $14B BTC

• $15B seized by US originates from Iran/China Bitcoin miner "theft"

• Feds seize $15B in crypto from 'pig butchering' scheme

• Feds Seize Record-Breaking $15B in Bitcoin from Alleged Scam Empire

Economicon / Business / Finance

• An inflation pattern that has overtones of the dreaded 1970s is forming

• Auto sector bankruptcies spark fresh scrutiny of Wall Street credit risks

• Banks that identify fraudsters increase loyalty, retain more customers

• Americans Need to Be Richer Than Ever to Buy Their First Home

• The price of gold is skyrocketing. Why is this, and will it continue

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Supreme Court ruling on voting could boost Republicans' redistricting efforts

• They've been trying for 4 decades, that I've watched: The United Nations Is About to Tax You

Trump

• Public Health Destroyed Its Own Credibility Long Before RFK Jr. Arrived.

  Whatever the merits of such criticisms of RFK, its alarmism is undermined by decades of the medical establishment wantonly kowtowing to harmful policies promoted by leftist ideologues. It would be easier to countenance such admonitions if this isn’t precisely what the American medicine and scientific establishment has done when it comes to abortion, transgenderism, or the Covid pandemic.

• Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

Left Angst

• 'I love Hitler': Young Republicans' offensive Telegram chats leaked

  • 'I love Hitler': Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat

  • More Young Republican chat members out of jobs as condemnation intensifies

• Teens who jumped ex-DOGE staffer Edward 'Big Balls' Coristine avoid jail, sentenced to probation

• Trump threatens vulnerable countries before key shipping emissions vote

• Trump Targets Democratic Districts by Halting Billions During Shutdown

• Facebook suspends Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration's request

  • Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents

• America Needs a Mass Movement—Now - The Atlantic

  For the United States, the question of the decade is: Why hasn’t a resistance movement materialized here? The second Trump administration has flouted court decisions in a third of all rulings against it, according to The Washington Post. It operates as a national extortion racket, using federal power to control the inner workings of universities, law firms, and corporations. It has thoroughly politicized the Justice Department, launching a series of partisan investigations against its political foes. It has turned ICE into a massive paramilitary organization with apparently unconstrained powers. It has treated the Constitution with disdain, assaulted democratic norms and diminished democratic freedoms, and put military vehicles and soldiers on the streets of the capital. It embraces the optics of fascism, and flaunts its autocratic aspirations.

  • Y'all got people shooting the cops and multiple cities who officially will not obey Federal directives... what more you want, organized battalions on parade?

  • With uniforms no less: U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’ - oregonlive.com

• Data darkness in US spreads a global shadow

  The U.S. government shutdown that has turned off the official flow of data could begin clouding the view for policymakers in Japan and other countries where insight into the fortunes of the world's biggest economy informs the outlook for their own currencies, trade performance and inflation. What happens in America, in other words, doesn't stay in America, and global officials say being left data-blind by the shutdown over time could complicate their own policymaking and boost the risk of a mistake at a moment when countries are already adjusting to the Trump administration's efforts to remake global trade.

• Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone

• Furious MAGA Customers Say They Got 'Scammed' by Trump Watches

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. Army General in Europe Admits "We're Behind" on Drones

• U.S. to Take Control of More Companies to Counter China

• Pentagon journalists vacate workspace as new restrictions take effect

  • The Pentagon Press Corps Is Gone

World

• Spain's grid operator warns country could be heading for another blackout

• Rumble is restored in France after court rejects government's censorship demand

• Italy's Piracy Shield Is Just as Big a Disaster as Everyone Predicted

• London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why

• Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent

• India secures strategic entry in Chagos, close to key US base Diego Garcia

• Student's alleged torture death by Cambodia scammers sparks turmoil in S. Korea

• Cocaine trafficking in Colombia moves as much money as the construction industry

• Afghanistan And Pakistan Agree Cease-Fire After Deadly Air Strikes And Ground Fighting

• EU to propose short-term rental rules to tackle social crisis in housing

• British social media star 'Big John' detained in Australia over visa

Israel

• Hamas wants to rule Gaza - public executions are happening

• Pro-Hamas messages broadcast at two N.American airports following cyber breaches

  • Airport screens, PA system hacked with pro-Hamas, anti-Trump messages

• Google runs Israel's ads: 'There is food in Gaza'

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Hundreds call for Putin to be overthrown in gathering at St Petersburg

China

• Chinese Criminals Made More Than $1B from Those Annoying Texts

• EU Considers Forced Tech Transfers for Chinese Investments

• China Goes All in on U.S. Trade Battle, with Qualcomm in the Crosshairs

• China's Sicarrier unit unveils new chip design software to improve self reliance

• China seizes 60k maps over 'mislabelled' Taiwan

Health / Medicine

• What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on

• Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist

• Student ate over 700 eggs in a month – and his cholesterol levels dropped

• A rethink of what makes your diet healthy or bad for you

• My personal observations at the DMV yesterday suggest 85%: Nearly 70% of US adults meet new definition of obesity

• Is Fecal Transplantation Effective for Depression?

• Scientists identify key reason people may use or get addicted to cannabis

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Covid-19 restrictions linked to decline in immunity to childhood infections

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• UK government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

  • Climate advisers warn UK to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

• Return of the Blob: Heat Wave Spans Pacific Ocean

• New England's last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners

• Photos show polar bears chilling at home in abandoned Russian research station