2025-11-03

Horseshit

• How to Watch a Baby

• Physicists Create a Thermometer for Measuring 'Quantumness'

• Art Rats in New York City

• A New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos

• "Overpopulation is everybody's baby" folks did a quick 180: The declining population will make it even harder to care for elders

• LA Dodgers retain World Series after thrilling Game 7 win over Toronto Blue Jays

• Monsters Went from Menacing to Misunderstood

  For most of human history, monsters were repugnant aberrations, breaches of the natural and moral order. What’s behind our relentless urge to humanize them?

• Childhood Relationships Affect Your Adult Attachment Style

• She Was Ready to Have Her 15th Child. Then Came the Felony Charges

• Aliens Might Not Do Physics Like We Do–and That's a Problem

• Porn is degrading society: A saturated market means ever more extreme content

• Girl boss or tradwife? How a workforce built for men has failed women

• Women folk healers branded witches, but their treatments may be medically sound

• You struggle to get back to your normal diet after a holiday

• The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins

• The foods that make you smell more attractive

• 'MTV Was a Lot Like Kabul': Tom Freston on MTV's Wild Heyday

celebrity gossip

• Paul McCartney: The world said I was dead, in so many ways I was

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Why Education Predicts Decreased Belief in Conspiracy Theories

• Anger, not fear, drives shifts in political attitudes after threats, study finds

Musk

• Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: "SpaceX will be doing this"

• Las Vegas Police Debut Cybertruck Patrol Fleet

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Amazon Rivian Electric Delivery Vans Arrive in Canada

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Why do we allow child marriage in America?

• How a Colorado psychologist proved being gay isn't a mental illness

• Can a Painting Make a Skeptic Believe?

• The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet

• How to Get Your Smart TV to Stop Spying on You

• Meta's new display-less smart glasses are quite good, but the vibes are off

• Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark

• Nascar drivers are racing against streamers on Twitch

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• The Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

• YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials

• Defining and evaluating political bias in LLMs

• 'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud

• Is OpenAI becoming too big to fail?

• Sam Altman says 'enough' to questions about OpenAI's revenue

• Big Tech Is Spending More Than Ever on AI and It's Still Not Enough

• George R.R. Martin Wins First Battle in Game of Thrones Copyright Lawsuit

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• We sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off

• Big Tech's market dominance is becoming ever more extreme

• Nvidia to supply more than 260k Blackwell AI chips to South Korea

• The Magnificent Seven made up 37% of the S&P 500's value in October 2025

• Netflix Announces Ten-for-One Stock Split

• Where the Nexperia auto chip crisis stands now

• London Becomes 'Quant' Powerhouse as Traders Rake in Revenues

• Apple to Kick Off 50th Anniversary with Nearly $140B Quarter

• GM's top software leader leaves company, prompting tech dept overhaul

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• 80% of NYC-area air traffic controllers absent amid 'surge' in callouts: FAA

Trump

• Trump administration's Intel stake is up 5.6B dollars

Democrats

• Mamdani Has a Point About Rent Control

Left Angst

• FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes over Attention to Agency Jet Use

  The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform, said three people familiar with the situation.

• SNAP benefits cut off during shutdown, driving long lines at food pantries

  • Uncertainty Persists for Americans Waiting for Monthly Food Stamps

• ‘We’re coming after you’ — how the left found peace through hate

  This week, Bravo star and liberal podcast host Jennifer Welch praised footage of a “No Kings” protester celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, holding her up as an example for all liberals. In the clip, the elderly woman said, “Charlie Kirk is horrible. Yes. I’m glad he’s not here.” When pressed if she was actually happy that the husband and father of two had been murdered, the woman said “Yes…because he was horrible on the campuses. Horrible person.” After playing the clip, Welch laughed with joy and declared, “So listen up, Democratic establishment. You can either jump on board with this s—, or we’re coming after you in the same way that we come after MAGA. Period.”

  Democratic strategist James Carville went on a hate-filled rant, to the delight of his podcast audience. He declared that anyone supporting Trump and the Republicans will be treated like collaborators in World War II who were publicly abused and paraded by mobs. “You know what we do with collaborators?” he said. “I think these corporations [funding White House renovations] — my fantasy dream is that this nightmare ends in 2029 and I think we ought to have radical things. I think they all ought to have their heads shaven, they should be put in orange pajamas and they should be marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and the public should be invited to spit on them.”

  • Remember how the Biden administration began, with much talk of a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission"... These people are planning for unrestrained excess when they're allowed the opportunity.

• ICE plans cash rewards for private bounty hunters to locate and track immigrants

• A flood of Chinese graduate students in STEM was a boon to U.S. students

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• 'Gamer chat,' not terror plot, prompted FBI raid on Dearborn man, attorney said

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• How the US is preparing a Caribbean staging ground near Venezuela

• Trump threatens to go into Nigeria 'guns-a-blazing' over attacks on Christians

• CIA chief meets EU officials to soothe US Intel-sharing fears

World

• AWS emerges as 'sole bidder' for HMRC's £500M datacentre migration project

• Louvre thieves tried to negotiate with Israeli firm to sell jewels on Darknet

• Nine people with life-threatening injuries after mass stabbing on train in UK

• Working Past 100? In Japan, Some People Never Quit.

• New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms

• Welcome to Johannesburg. This Is What It Looks Like When a City Gives Up

Israel

• US Drone Observes Aid Truck Looted by Hamas in Gaza

China

• Xi Jinping Joked About Espionage

Health / Medicine

• Crown jewel of dental restoration technology may be in sight with 3D printing

• Diverticulitis among people younger than 50 surges in U.S., study says.

• Poor Screen, Sleep Hygiene Drying Out Kids' Eyes

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Stringent climate policies could offer major health and economic gains by 2030

• When does beaver reintroduction make sense?

• Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa 4 Times More Likely, Study Suggests

• Los Angeles without palm trees? A debate grips California

• Federal Plan to Massacre Nearly 500k Owls to Save Other Owls Is Back on Track

• The mystery of why leaves change colour in the autumn

• Weathering of the Southern Andes plays critical role in balancing CO₂ emissions