2025-10-19
Horseshit
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A Handyman's Wife Helped an Hermès Heir Discover He'd Lost $15B
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At the inaugural SlutCon, 'flirt girls' teach tech guys how to woo women
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A Tech Conference skipped San Francisco this year, and it paid off
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A Solution to the CIA's Kryptos Code Is Found After 35 Years
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Testosterone Administration Induces a Red Shift in Democrats
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Men are losing their Y chromosomes – and it's accelerating the ageing process
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What babies' cries tell us – and why maternal instinct is a myth
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The Average New Car Price Is Now Over $50k In The US, And EVs Are To Blame.
- why can't we have Toyota's $10k basic kit truck here?
celebrity gossip
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Prince Andrew gives up royal titles after 'discussion with King'
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The Rise and Fall of Hunter S. Thompson (Part 3 of 3)
It’s ironic that Thompson was actually drinking at the bar in the Watergate the night the historic break-in occurred. In a way, that symbolizes the growing futility of his reportage methods. From this point onward, Thompson was frequently on hand when news stories were about to break, but somehow failed to seize the opportunity. He traveled to Zaire to cover the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing matchup between Ali and Foreman, but didn’t show up for the actual fight. He journeyed to South Vietnam to report on the end of the war, but left to visit Hong Kong and thus missed the fall of Saigon. He tried covering the 1976 campaign, but gave up after two days in New Hampshire and fled to the comfort of his Colorado farm—although he had known Jimmy Carter for several years, and could have been the perfect chronicler of the election.
- IMO, At that point he'd become everything he hated; and saw that he was inspiring others to follow.
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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The struggle to protect the young from conspiracy theorist parents
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Let the Mainstream Die - by Michael Gallagher
However the past is a different country, and we no longer have the privilege of simply enjoying things. The multibillion dollar companies that now own our once-favorite games are unlimitedly funded to spite loyal customer bases. Last year, a social media furor was ignited when the official Warhammer 40K X account published a post saying that female Custodes have always existed. Despite a firestorm of fan backlash, the company issued a statement all but explicitly telling fans to eff off, and recently released a female Custodes hero in their mobile game Tacticus.
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What a nifty idea: Civil Discourse - Doug Krugman
Musk
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Latvia Paganism: The return of the strong gods?
an unusual law passed by Latvia’s Saeima (parliament) on 9 October deserves some consideration. It represents the first time a European nation has enshrined a special place for a pagan religion in the state. On the face of it, the Dievturi Community Law is no different from a number of laws that have been passed in several different countries extending legal recognition to neopagan groups — which usually includes the right to register their places of worship, operate as charities, and receive state recognition for marriages solemnised according to their rites. But Latvia’s Dievturi Community Law goes further by praising Dievturība (Latvia’s form of revived paganism) and commending it to the Latvian people: “Dievturība, as a traditional religion in Latvia, and the Sadraudze [community] representing it have maintained a longstanding tradition in Latvia; it is faithful to spiritual and moral values, nurtures the Latvian language and traditions, and preserves the nation’s spiritual heritage.”
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Samsung Reportedly Gives Up on Super Thin Smartphones Amid Low Sales
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Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"
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Amazon's Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock
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AT&T is raising home internet prices for the second year in a row
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Apple Said to Cut iPhone Air Production Amid Underwhelming Sales
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Facebook's new button lets its AI look at photos you haven't uploaded yet
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The platform exposing how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools
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AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water
- For puzzling definitions of "use" that would not be much affected by the deletion of the data center.
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Blackstone says Wall Street is complacent about AI disruption
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Oracle Isn't Answering the Hardest Questions About Its AI Plans
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Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster
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The AI boom has pushed SF's residential rents up by the most in the US
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WhatsApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Nvidia unveils first Blackwell chip wafer made with TSMC in US
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If past predictions were only marginally better than simple extrapolations it’s hard to believe that future predictions will perform much better. At least, that is my prediction.
Trump
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Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence
Former Representative George Santos of New York, the disgraced Republican fabulist whose lies made him an object of national scorn, was released from a federal prison on Friday night after President Trump commuted his seven-year sentence for fraud.
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‘Huge Win’: Trump Admin Delivers Blow To UN Climate Agenda, Derails ‘Ideological’ Global Carbon Tax.
Left Angst
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Little do these white boomers know, the "No Kings" movement, supposedly against "kings and billionaires", is, in reality, funded by leftist billionaire kings themselves. In truth, No Kings is bankrolled by far-left foundations backed by the same billionaire class that has been waging a political war against President Trump since his first term. Essentially, one faction of billionaires hates another, so their woke non-profit soldiers create a front group, brand it "No Kings," and bankroll an army of paid protesters and unhinged left-wing activists. This is America in 2025: the permanent protest-industrial complex of hate and chaos, financed by the left.
“No Kings” protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests of illegal immigrants are also planned for Saturday in Dallas, Houston, and other locations across Texas and the United States.
It's a "No Kings" rally in countries that don't actually have a King, and a "No Tyrants" rally when being held in a monarchy. They could have avoided all the confusion by just calling it "No Trump" because that's what this global tantrum all about.
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ICE Buying Millions in Spyware – Reportedly to Use on Americans
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Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco
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Armed man wearing 'non-offending pedophile' sign storms stage at Wikipedia con
The man wore a multicolored sign around his neck that read “anti-contact non-offending pedophile,” according to law enforcement sources familiar with the matter. The sign bore the colors of a flag that has been used in recent years by people who identify as “MAPs,” or “minor-attracted persons.” He also allegedly had the flag representing “MAPs” draped on his back bearing the same message. According to John Hopkins University, nonoffending pedophiles “are a unique population of individuals who experience sexual interest in children, but despite common misperceptions, have neither had sexual contact with a child nor have accessed illegal child sexual exploitation material.” The incident, and a possible motive, remain under investigation.
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Government shutdown could be longest ever – running until Thanksgiving
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The EFF and Three Labor Unions Sue Trump Admin over Social Media Surveillance
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It's my 61st birthday this weekend and I have to say, I never expected to get to be this old—or this weirded-out by the world I'm living in, which increasingly resembles the backstory from a dystopian 1970s SF novel in which two-fisted billionaires colonize space in order to get away from the degenerate second-hander rabble downstairs who want to survive their John W. Campbell-allocated banquet of natural disasters. (Here's looking at you, Ben Bova.) Notwithstanding the world being on fire, an ongoing global pandemic vascular disease that is being systematically ignored by governments, Nazis popping out of the woodwork everywhere, actual no-shit fractional trillionaires trying to colonize space in order to secede from the rest of the human species, an ongoing European war that keeps threatening to drag NATO into conflict with the rotting zombie core of the former USSR, and an impending bubble collapse that's going to make 2000 and 2008 look like storms in a teacup ... I'm calling this the pivotal year of our times, just as 1968 was the pivotal year of the post-1945 system, for a number of reasons.
If we can just get through the rest of this decade without widespread agricultural collapses, a nuclear war, a global fascist international dictatorship taking hold, and a complete collapse of the international financial system caused by black gold suddenly turning out to be worthless, we might be pretty well set to handle the challenges of the 2030s. But this year, 2025, is the pivot. This can't go on. So it's going to stop.
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US falls out of 10 most powerful passports list for first time in 20 yrs
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Documentary argues George Orwell's greatest fears are materializing
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Marine colonel quits after 24 years citing concern for future of US under Trump
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ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations said to be form of torture
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Salesforce told ICE it could help speed up hiring of immigration officers
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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US Masses 10,000 Troops Near Venezuela, A Top Admiral Resigns | ZeroHedge
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that we are announcing “covert” operations? A covert operation is a secret military or political activity where the identity of the sponsoring government is concealed or publicly denied. Unlike a clandestine operation, which emphasizes concealing the action itself, a covert operation primarily aims to obscure its source.
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Oh noes they've got to sell stuff to Iran direct: Dutch intelligence services now share less information with US
World
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Macron wanders alone by the Seine as grip on his future slips away
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Jewish man arrested after his Star of David ‘antagonized’ protesters
Police interview footage obtained by The Telegraph shows a detective accusing the Jewish man of openly wearing a Star of David that could cause “offence”. The suspect, who was handcuffed and detained by police for almost ten hours, told The Telegraph his arrest appeared to be an attempt by the Metropolitan Police to “criminalise the wearing of a Star of David”. He was displaying the Jewish symbol on a silver chain around his neck. The six-pointed star, measured just 2cm – less than an inch – across.
Israel
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
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Polish judge refuses to extradite Nord Stream blasts suspect over 'just act'
A Polish judge has refused to extradite a Ukrainian citizen – suspected by Germany of sabotaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022 – arguing that if Ukraine was responsible for the attack, then it was a "just" act. Volodymyr Zhuravlyov, who was brought to Warsaw District Court in handcuffs, was detained in Poland last month on a European arrest warrant. Judge Dariusz Lubowski ordered his release, after a ruling that was met with a ripple of surprise from the crowd in court and a smile from the man in the dock. Mr Zhuravlyov, along with others, is suspected of planting explosives deep beneath the Baltic Sea on the pipelines leading from Russia to Germany.
Judge Dariusz Lubowski said as he announced his ruling that the attack on the pipelines should be understood as a military action in a “just war,” and therefore not subject to criminal responsibility on the part of an individual. He also questioned German jurisdiction for various reasons, including the fact that the explosions occurred in international waters. Poland, whose successive governments have been staunchly anti-Russian, has a history of opposition to the pipelines.