2025-11-10
Horseshit
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Women are hiding their boyfriends online and there's more than one reason why
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Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One
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Has social media engineered the collapse of the human mind? The answer is yes, if we believe the results of a measurable scientific research of this catastrophe, which was recently published in the journal Neurology. The paper, by Ka-Ho Wong and colleagues, is a data-rich examination of 4.5 million survey responses. Its finding is that “serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions” is no longer a fringe complaint, but a surging public health crisis.
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Blended wings: The sci-fi aircraft concept could appear at an airport near you
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Why do so many people think the Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia?
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A San Francisco Clinic Shows Promise in Treating Drug-Fueled Public Breakdowns
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Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies?
- How many hopeful, positive SciFi movies are there? Where human effort and ingenuity results in progress that improves the lives of many? .. wonder why they dont tell those stories no more...
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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In recent years, many people experienced a jarring awakening. Experts presented through mainstream media as unquestionable authorities delivered guidance that later proved contradictory, incomplete, or demonstrably wrong. What shattered public trust wasn’t merely the errors—experts are human, and science evolves. What broke something fundamental was the mechanism by which certainty had been manufactured in the first place. Legitimate scientific debate was compressed into confident public messaging. Dissenting expert voices weren’t refuted through evidence but marginalized through credentialing attacks—dismissed as “fringe” or “discredited” without substantive engagement. Complex questions involving genuine uncertainty were presented as settled matters. When predictions failed or guidance reversed, it was framed as “the science evolving” rather than acknowledgment that initial certainty had been vastly overstated. The troubling realization: that same machinery didn’t dismantle when people noticed the contradictions. It adapted, evolved, and continues operating today across every domain of public policy.
Fantasy politics and populism appear similar to casual observers—both critique existing systems, both energize supporters, both claim to represent suppressed voices. But they function completely differently. Real populism—whether you agree with it or not—threatens actual institutional arrangements. It says “these institutions serve themselves, not you” and proposes dismantling or fundamentally restructuring them. The establishment fights it, smears it, works systematically to marginalize it. Fantasy politics says “these institutions aren’t doing enough of what I want” and proposes making them do more. It’s reformism cosplaying as revolution—and the establishment doesn’t just tolerate it, it amplifies it.
- random Internet folks are noticing this and saying it sucks which is the worst disaster the managerial class fears.
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Research challenges the vicious cycle between distress and conspiracy beliefs
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Why tech giants are offering premium AI tools to Indians for free
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Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
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AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study
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Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings
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California's Aggressive Regulations Put Burgeoning AI Industry at Risk
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US House lawmakers probe Delta Air Lines on use of AI in ticket pricing
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Sora 2 Floods Social Media with Videos of Women Being Strangled
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Microsoft forms superintelligence team under AI head Mustafa Suleyman
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS
- True "make it work" hacking tradition there. With lives at stake. many grey hairs.
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Visa and Mastercard near deal with merchants that would change rewards landscape
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Minimum wage is not low skill, but less identified skills
- "Life skills" like "how to pick up shit and stack it" is something that used to be assumed but is now "skilled labor" requiring training and probably OSHA certifications
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DOJ Antitrust Review Clears Google's $32B Acquisition of Wiz
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
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Grand jury subpoenas Brennan, Strzok, Page in Trump-Russia probe | Fox News
Law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital that up to 30 subpoenas will be issued in the coming days relating to the investigation. The grand jury is out of the Southern District of Florida. U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Reding Quiñones is supervising the probe.
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BBC director general and CEO resign over Trump documentary edit
Democrats
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Mamdani’s victory speech previews class warfare in New York - The Washington Post
Mamdani ran an upbeat campaign, with a nice-guy demeanor and perpetual smile papering over a long history of divisive and demagogic statements. New Yorkers periodically checking in on politics could understandably believe that he simply wanted to bring the city together and make it more affordable. That interpretation became much harder after his victory speech. Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment, Mamdani abandoned his cool disposition and made clear that his view of politics isn’t about unity. It isn’t about letting people build better lives for themselves. It is about identifying class enemies — from landlords who take advantage of tenants to “the bosses” who exploit workers — and then crushing them. His goal is not to increase wealth but to dole it out to favored groups. The word “growth” didn’t appear in the speech, but President Donald Trump garnered eight mentions. People’s lives, in Mamdani’s world, can be improved only by government: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.” The crowd cheered, of course, but a thinking person might wonder whether it’s good for the institution that has a monopoly on violence to insist that nothing is beyond its purview.
Left Angst
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Boat crews accused of being narco-terrorists have a more nuanced truth
In dozens of interviews in villages on Venezuela’s breathtaking northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had indeed been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists or leaders of a cartel or gang. Most of the nine men were crewing such craft for the first or second time, making at least $500 per trip, residents and relatives said. They were laborers, a fisherman, a motorcycle taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a well-known local crime boss who contracted out his smuggling services to traffickers.
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Trump Administration Demands States 'Undo' Work to Send Full Food Stamps