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• A Fond Farewell from Farmers' Almanac

  It is with a great appreciation and heartfelt emotions that we write to share some sad news. After more than 200 years of sharing a unique blend of weather, wit and wisdom, we’ve made the very difficult decision to write the final chapter of this historical publication. The 2026 Farmers’ Almanac will be our last edition. You will be able to access our website until December 2025.

Horseshit

• Gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile

• How to avoid seasonal depression, according to the expert who discovered it

• Polymarket Volume Inflated by 'Artificial' Activity, Study Finds

  • Study Finds Around a Quarter of Polymarket Trades Are Fake

• Apple Pie-Flavored Mac And Cheese Is Here To Ruin Your Thanksgiving And Mine

• You can't leave unless you buy something

• The first new subsea habitat in 40 years is about to launch

• Americans Are Increasingly Alone, but Are They Lonely?

• Her Research Could Improve Training for Service Dogs

• Dating trends reached new lows this year. ‘throning,’ ‘Shrekking,’ 'Banksying’?

• 40,000+ US troops have been lost at sea, tracking invisible clues to find them

• Deep Beneath Helsinki, the Playgrounds Are Bomb Shelters

• Peter Thiel: Capitalism Isn't Working for Young People

celebrity gossip

• World's Biggest YouTuber MrBeast Unveils Theme Park in Saudi Arabia

  • MrBeast Is Opening a Theme Park in Saudi Arabia This Month

Obit

• James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97

  • James Watson, who co-discovered DNA's double helix shape, dies at age 97

  • DNA pioneer James Watson dies at 97

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Majority of teens hold negative views of news media, says report

Musk

• Elon Musk's $1T pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders

• Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk's $1T pay package

• X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers

• Tesla delays 'flying' Roadster demo to April Fools' Day, production to 2027/28

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Kia Delays EV3 and Freezes EV4 Launch as EV Market Goes Cold.

• A Tiny 29-Pound Electric Motor Just Beat Everyone in Power Density

• Ford Considers Scrapping Electric Version of F-150 Truck

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Why women land top jobs in struggling orgs – they may just be better in a crisis

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Debunking "When Prophecy Fails" - PubMed

  In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased. But When Prophecy Fails (1956), the now-canonical account of the event, claimed the opposite: that the group doubled down on its beliefs and began recruiting-evidence, the authors argued, of a new psychological mechanism, cognitive dissonance. Drawing on newly unsealed archival material, this article demonstrates that the book's central claims are false, and that the authors knew they were false. The documents reveal that the group actively proselytized well before the prophecy failed and quickly abandoned their beliefs afterward. They also expose serious ethical violations by the researchers, including fabricated psychic messages, covert manipulation, and interference in a child welfare investigation. One coauthor, Henry Riecken, posed as a spiritual authority and later admitted he had "precipitated" the climactic events of the study.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google-Epic Judge Raises Doubts About App Antitrust Deal

• Texas sues Roblox for 'putting paedophiles and profits' over safety

• Grand Theft Auto VI Is Now Set to Launch November 19, 2026

• How GitHub Won Software Development

• How to trade your $214,000 cybersecurity job for a jail cell

• Apple puts App Store on the web – accidentally leaks code

• Big YouTube channels are being banned. YouTubers are blaming AI

• 'We're sick of the OnlyFans model': Porn site lets Gen Z sex workers have a life

• Phison CEO claims NAND memory shortage could last a staggering 10 years

• Video Games hottest new platform is an old one: Websites

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Understanding the PSF’s Current Financial Outlook

  We made it far along in one large U.S. Government grant process, but ultimately decided to withdraw our application because it conflicted with our values and mission. The community's supportive response to that decision has been heartening and brought in an unexpected surge of material support totaling $135K+ USD from 1400+ donors, which includes 270+ new PSF members! The PSF is astounded and deeply appreciative at the outpouring of solidarity in both words and actions. This remarkable show of support reminds the us of the community’s strength, and reinforces our resolve in the decision to withdraw from the grant process, even as the $1.5M gap from the grant remains.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Don't blame AI for your job woes

• Tinder's AI can find better matches by scanning your camera roll

• AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle book piracy lawsuit

• Gemini Deep Research comes to Google Finance, backed by prediction market data

• Chaos and lies: Why Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI according to new testimony

• Apple begins shipping AI servers from Houston factory

• OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions

• Google Maps taps Gemini AI to transform into an 'all-knowing copilot'

• Sam Altman says he doesn't want the government to bail out OpenAI if it fails | TechCrunch

• Humans Only Why Amazon doesn't want AI shoppers

• The cottage industry manipulating chatbots' replies

• Cloudflare extends robots.txt to separate AI input and AI training use cases

• White House rules out bailout for AI as bubble fears grow

• Sora app's hyperreal AI videos ignite online trust crisis as downloads surge

• Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions

• Fake or the real thing? How AI can make it harder to trust the pictures we see

• Israel is attempting to influence ChatGPT and Claude responses

• A.I. Abuse Is Reinventing the Law

• OpenAI Races to Quell Concerns Over Its Finances.

• Sam Altman's pants are on fire

• Jensen Huang Gets It Wrong, Claude Gets It Right – O’Reilly

• The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You're Fired

• How AI Companies Are Keeping Debt Off Their Balance Sheets

• Sam Altman served with subpoena during live talk with Steve Kerr

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• China reached out to NASA to avoid a potential satellite collision

• China's Shenzhou-20 return mission delayed due to space debris impact

• 3 Chinese astronauts stranded in space station, debris strikes return capsule

Crypto con games

• Samourai Wallet Developer Sentenced to 5 Years for Unlicensed Money Transmitting

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Arc Orbital Capsule Aims to Put Military Supplies Anywhere on Earth in an Hour

• Blackstone Is Offloading a Flopped $1.8B Investment in Senior Housing

• Nasdaq 100 set for worst week since April

• CEO of Southeast Asia's largest bank warns investors: 'Buckle up'

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Completes $1B Share Sale

• EIA: North America's LNG Export Capacity Could More Than Double by 2029

• Yellow's $137M-plus lawsuit against Teamsters revived

• Can the Global Economy Be Healed?

• Job cuts surge in worst October layoffs in 22 years

• Nations seek extension of e-commerce tariff moratorium at WTO

• Micron chip factories in Upstate NY will be delayed by 2-3 years, company says

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Trump IRS has decided to end Direct File

• SCOTUS weighs whether to hear appeal seeking to overturn marriage equality

• Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States

• FAA restricts commercial rocket launches indefinitely due to air traffic risks

Trump

• Did Trump's Supreme Court Tariffs Brief Include a Strategic Blunder?

• Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People from Now On

Democrats

• Mamdani's win helps New York City's food scene

• The Private Governments Who Will Resist Zohran Mamdani and Populism

Left Angst

• U.S. Flights Are Canceled as Shutdown Hits Air Travel

• Beware of the Leftist man - Write sober, edit sober

  the self-proclaimed progressive who thinks that because he’s a communist, paints his nails, and is bisexual, he gets to call women bitches and make off-colour remarks about women’s vaginas smelling like fish. These men are harder to identify because they mask their misogyny behind obfuscation, word salad, and performative wokeness. It’s sexism dressed up as progressivism, misogyny cloaked in “critique” of white feminism or disguised as criticism of “pick-mes.” It’s insidious, especially because many well-meaning left-wing feminists see these men as allies and don’t always recognise the manipulation. This is particularly true when it comes from non-white men. As I said in my previous piece, we often position non-white men, such as Black men, as more oppressed than white men. While that may be true, women remain the most oppressed class, regardless of race, sexuality, or circumstance. When we ascribe victimhood and benevolence to non-white leftist men, it becomes difficult to recognise their sexism.

• The Shutdown of USAID Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

• Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine

  Plus there is more: it is not just a floor wax but also a dessert topping! Rapid recovery and expansionary fiscal pressure caused a successful wheel in the economy’s employment-productive structure toward a more prosperous future. The labor market quickly became stressed in a good way: churn, quits, and elevated vacancies were features of a healthy reallocation process as workers upgraded matches, low‑wage sectors repriced labor, and firms adapted to new demand and technology patterns.

• Anti-Drug Unit Officially Shut Down by DOJ

• Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls his company the first to be 'completely anti-woke'

• DHS 'erroneously' told watchdog group it had no Noem text messages

• Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke

• The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump

  Let’s accept that someone at the BBC made a clumsy error in editing some clips of Donald Trump addressing the crowd on January 6th 2021. And let’s acknowledge that the BBC has known for some time that there have been problems with aspects of its Arabic service. Worst-kept secret in the world: all media organisations occasionally screw up. But the venom spat at the BBC on a near-daily basis by its ideological and commercial enemies is out of all proportion to its occasional lapses. The latest squall has arisen over a “dossier” apparently compiled by one Michael Prescott, a former journalist working for Rupert Murdoch, who had something of a ringside seat at the BBC for three years. He has questioned the editing of a Panorama programme on Donald Trump—which elides separate quotes to make it look like Trump said he would march on the Capitol and “fight like hell” alongside his supporters. Prescott also has concerns about what he regards as an anti-Israeli bias within the corporation, as well as its coverage of certain trans issues.

  • The problem is not that the BBC was blatantly lying in furtherance of favored causes; it is that people dared to call them on it!

• Judge Berates Justice Dept. In Its Prosecution of Comey

• Cornell reaches $60M deal with Trump administration to restore funding

• Following The Late Show’s Cancellation Drama, Stephen Colbert Weighs In On Why Late-Night Talk Shows Should Continue To Exist

  Well, we are like your friend who at the end of the day paid attention to what happened today more than you did. And then we curate that back to you at the end of the day. But it’s really more about how we feel about—or I, as the person who is the vehicle for that—how we felt about today.

• Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders with Little Explanation

• Coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the 'working man'

• Data scientists perform last rites for 'dearly departed datasets' in 2nd Trump

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• People at Joint Base Andrews fall ill after package delivered with white powder

World

• Multiple EU airports disrupted in wave of suspected Russian drone sightings

• Japan deploys its military to stop bears

• German nurse convicted of murdering 10 patients to reduce his workload

• Lloyds profits plunge 36% as it feels impact of UK car finance scandal

• Lose weight or lose your jobs, offshore workers told

• Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15

• Why even a US tech giant is launching 'sovereign support' for Europe now

• Apple's fight with Europe continues as it removes iPhone feature in EU

• Bolivia's new president rekindles cautious hope for long-stalled lithium dreams

• Dutch Ready to Drop Nexperia Control If Chip Supply Resumes

• Australia's social media age restrictions are already working

• Blame game over Air India Flight 171 crash goes on

Israel

• Qatar-linked intelligence operation targeted ICC prosecutor's alleged victim

• An NPR reporter's journey into Gaza, since the war began

• Wikipedia co-founder joins editing conflict over the Gaza genocide page

• Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Wipers from Russia's most cut-throat hackers rain destruction on Ukraine

• 'My skin was peeling' – the African women tricked into making Russian drones

• German general says Russia could launch limited attack on NATO any time

China

• China is dramatically expanding missile production sites

• China launches 18 day Arctic shipping route

• The 900-page book that China watchers count on

Health / Medicine

• What a baby's first poo can tell you about their future health

• Obesity Drugs May Drop to as Little as $149 a Month

• What happens to your body after you drink a can of Coke

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• How bird flu has decimated elephant seal populations

  • No one thought to slaughter whole populations of them to "save them"?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• We created an 'unsexy' moth that could be the key to greener pest control

• A startup’s quest to store electricity in the ocean

• Wolves have returned to Denmark, and not everyone is happy about it

• Companies seeking new ways to grow cocoa to keep up with demand

• Defunct Pennsylvania oil and gas wells may leak methane and metals into water

• As CO2 Levels Rise, Old Amazon Trees Are Getting Bigger