2025-11-14
Horseshit
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Scientists Have Trained Bumblebees to Understand a Form of Morse Code
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How Embryo Corp Took the First Step Toward Creating Real Unicorns
Across all of history, fewer than 15 mammals have ever had their embryos directly gene edited. Never a horse. Not once. As far as what is publicly available. Despite centuries of selective breeding and billion dollar equine genetics industries, no one had crossed that frontier. It’s a strange thing to live in an age where we can grow meat in tanks and print DNA on demand, but lots of biotech is still running like its the 1980s.
- People have surgically implanted goat horn buds on a horse's forehead and called it a "unicorn"; too.
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A Man Powers His Home for 8 Years Using 1k Recycled Laptop Batteries
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'The best rock band in the world' comes to SF and plays none of its hits
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New Yorkers Fill Gun Classes as Concealed Carry Applications Surge
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Rising Cognitive Disability as a Public Health Concern Among US Adults
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Drones could cut travel delays and reduce spoilage of donated blood, study shows
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The Tyranny of the Female-Orgasm Industrial Complex - The Atlantic
I am a 39-year-old woman, and I have never, to my knowledge, had an orgasm. I include the caveat because I’m often asked—by the men I’ve slept with, by my closest friends, even by my gynecologist—if I am sure. The question can feel vaguely patronizing, but it also fills me, and others like me (studies tend to put the share of nonorgasmic women at 5 to 10 percent), with a creeping sense of self-doubt. “Do you think we actually have and just don’t know it?” my friend Lizzie—not her real name—wondered aloud the other day. “Like maybe orgasms simply aren’t that great?”
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Hitler had hidden genetic sexual disorder, DNA analysis reveals
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Prolly don't even work anymore: Titanic passenger's pocket watch expected to fetch $2.3M at auction
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Spiraling Housing Costs Behind Plummeting Birth Rate: Study
- Having a baby in a house that ain't yours is an enormous imposition and many people are reluctant to burden housemates that way. or to share the intimate embarrassing joys of raising a toddler with the "extended family".
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Bug in Springer Nature may be causing 'significant, systemic' citation inflation
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A Sad Collapse in Student Preparation at UC San Diego Was Inevitable
Between 2020 and 2025, the number of UCSD students whose math skills fall below middle-school level increased nearly thirtyfold—from under 1 percent to roughly one in eight. The university has been forced to redesign remedial math to cover elementary-school material and create an entirely new course to reteach high-school algebra and geometry. Not to put too fine a point on it, but…what did you expect?
Every force in American education has been working toward this moment. Covid was catastrophic, but the rot began long before. The UCSD report attributes the collapse to “the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on education, the elimination of standardized testing, grade inflation, and the expansion of admissions from under-resourced high schools.” That last phrase is a euphemism for low-income, minority youths whose interest K–12 education’s love affair with “equity” is intended to serve. But the report exposes how intellectually bankrupt that impulse has become—as if we can get students to and through an elite university by force of will and noble sentiment rather than the hard, cumulative work of academic preparation. The University of California’s “test-blind” experiment has been a disaster. When UC’s Board of Regents eliminated the SAT and ACT in 2020, it left admissions officers relying almost entirely on high-school grades, which were functionally meaningless. Among students placed into Math 2, UCSD’s most remedial course, one in four had earned a perfect 4.0 in high-school math. Grades told admissions officers next to nothing about whether an applicant could actually do the work.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Google lawsuit accuses China-based cybercriminals of text-message phishing scams
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Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive
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they were a religion with fiercer hold than Apple among their users for a while: How Strava Traded User Goodwill for Nothing
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to Be Painful and Healthy
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Big Tech's Soaring Profits Have an Ugly Underside: OpenAI's Losses
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Google will let users call stores, browse products, and check out using AI
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Has Ed Zitron Found the Fatal Flaw with OpenAI and Its Flagship ChatGPT?
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Intel CEO to oversee its AI efforts after executive departs for OpenAI
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as the company’s website advertises: “Gamble while you code. Watch TikToks. Swipe on Tinder. Play minigames. This isn’t a joke — it’s Chad IDE, and it’s solving the biggest productivity problem in AI-powered development that nobody’s talking about.” The founders say their IDE increases productivity by helping with “context switching.” Their argument is, by doing your brainrot activities within the IDE itself, as soon as the AI is done with the task, you’ll get right back to work rather than be focused on your phone or browser.
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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Loeb's 3I/Atlas "Anomalies" Explained
Loeb has apparently repudiated his original argument about the Duck Test for 3I/ATLAS. He first argued that if it acted like a comet as it approached the sun by growing a coma and tail and exhibiting cometary features that that would mean it’s a comet. When evidence for a coma emerged he first dismissed it as being poor observational technique, and then when the same conclusion was reached with Hubble Space Telescope data he called it “model dependent.” Then once the coma (and tail) became inarguable he switched gears and said that a spacecraft should have those things after all! He has now explicitly written that no matter how much it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck, he will find ways to insist it’s at least 20% likely to be an alien spacecraft.
of Loeb’s 10 anomalies, only 4 really have planetary scientists interested: the high nickel abundance, the extreme polarization, the strange water abundance, and the rapid brightening. All of these are the sorts of anomalies one expects from a new kind of comet. They weren’t exactly predicted ahead of time as far as I know, but neither did Avi predict (or even “post-dict”!) that there was some reason that an alien spacecraft would show them.
- This is a far better "debunking" than most; only 60% of it is focused on Loeb's personal faults and heretic ways. It admits there is room for "we don't know". The "Science" folks will burn this person before Avi Loeb; he's just courting heresy for headlines; here we have an attempt at open reasoning.
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What would a "simplified" Starship plan for the Moon look like?
- An enormously expensive death trap and demonstration of the terminal stages of burrocratic malaise. NASA prolly has more "compliance" officers now, than the number of engineers who than worked on Apollo in the first place. The purpose of the agency has changed, "do things" has not been possible to them since the mid 1970s. "Simplified" for them means a bigger bonfire to shovel cash into.
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Intense solar storm delays Blue Origin launch of NASA Mars probes
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Wall Street Speeds Up India Expansion After Trump's Visa Curbs
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Boeing ordered to pay more than $28M to 737 MAX crash victim's family
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Seasonal hiring weakest since the Great Recession, reports show
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Oracle's credit default swaps surge as Barclays downgrades its debt rating
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Michael Burry of 'Big Short' Fame Deregisters Scion Asset Management
The Securities and Exchange Commission's database showed Scion's registration status as "terminated" as of November 10. Deregistering would imply the fund is not required to file reports with the regulator or any state.
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Burn it all the way down, y'all: Disney warns of potentially long dispute with YouTube TV, shares fall
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Ubisoft delays half-year results, requests trading suspension
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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“After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed. Now that we’ve exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked,” said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy. “This is just the tip of the iceberg. My team will continue to force California to prove they have removed every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semitrucks and school buses.” Notices have been issued to the 17,000 non-domiciled CDL holders that their license no longer meets federal requirements and will expire in 60 days.
California plans to revoke 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses given to immigrants after discovering the expiration dates went past when the drivers were legally allowed to be in the U.S., state officials said Wednesday. The announcement follows harsh criticism from the Trump administration about California and other states granting licenses to people in the country illegally. The issue was thrust into the public’s consciousness in August, when a tractor-trailer driver not authorized to be in the U.S. made an illegal U-turn and caused a crash in Florida that killed three people.
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But of course: Court pauses DOT rule that pushes 200k non-domiciled CDL drivers out of work
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The U.S. just produced its last penny after a more than 200-year run
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Hemp Ban Hidden Inside Government Shutdown Bill
The hemp language appears in the Agriculture–FDA spending bill, which is bundled into the shutdown deal. It would:
- Redefine hemp to include total THC, not just delta-9 THC
- Count any cannabinoids with “similar effects” toward that THC total
- Prohibit synthesized cannabinoids or converted CBD intermediates
- Cap finished hemp products at 0.4 milligrams total THC per container.
Not 0.4 mg per gummy. Per entire bottle, bag, vape, beverage. That wipes out full-spectrum tinctures, hemp seltzers, delta-8 anything and even most CBD oils.
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Congress tightens THC restrictions on hemp, closing farm bill loophole
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In other words; most of the "hemp-like" chemicals. The "delta-8" stuff wiped out the local hemp farmers i worked with; they tried buying it from China and putting their labels on it but the big brands undersold them at the gas stations. It opened up the world of "research chemicals" to that retail channel too.
Trump
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Read Jeffrey Epstein's newly released emails about Trump
just after the U.S. House of Representatives convenes to reopen the government, it should pass the legislation asking the Trump administration to release all of its Epstein files. The time for being coy is over.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) tried to cut through the political theater Wednesday by bringing a unanimous consent request to the House floor. His goal was simple: release all remaining Epstein files immediately. Democrats blocked it. In a video message after leaving the chamber Wednesday afternoon, Burchett explained how his goal was “to get the Epstein files, get it straight to the floor, just to cut out all this nonsense,” but the Democrats weren't having it. "They blocked it, oddly enough,” he said. “Now here, they’ve had it for four years, and… obviously, if there’s something there about Trump, they would have released it.”
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Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
Left Angst
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US House approves bill to end longest government shutdown in history
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'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
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Al Gore wonders if 'bullying' Trump prompted Bill Gates to backtrack on climate
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Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist - The Atlantic
a “pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine” permeated the era in which The Hobbit, and the Lord of the Rings series that followed it, were written, an era in which many Westerners believed that “races” shared particular natures, characteristics, and capabilities. That genetic determinism seeped into the books. Although uncountable readers were inspired by the tales of its diminutive heroes defying stereotypes to save the world, some drew other conclusions. The books, and the ideas embedded in them, would go on to have a magnetic appeal to the political forces Tolkien had rejected. Today, we can see their influence on right-wing populists in business and politics all over the world.
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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups.
The percentage of younger women wanting to move to another country first rose decisively in 2016, the final year of President Barack Obama's second term. That year, Gallup surveyed the U.S. in June and July, after both parties’ presumptive nominees were set for the November election, which Donald Trump went on to win. Desire to migrate continued to climb afterward, hitting 44% in President Joe Biden’s last year in office and remaining near that level in 2025. This suggests a broader shift in opinion among younger women, rather than a solely partisan one. The sharp rise in younger women wanting to leave the U.S. has created a large gender gap between them and their male counterparts. Today’s 21-percentage-point gap between younger men (19%) and women (40%) wanting to leave the U.S. is the widest Gallup has recorded on this trend.
What has not changed is where these younger women would like to go. Canada remains the top preferred destination for younger American women looking to leave, with 11% of those in the years since 2022 mentioning Canada as their top destination, ahead of New Zealand, Italy and Japan (all 5%).
- Surely Canadia will welcome them with open arms and minimal paperwork. After all, immigrants are the best thing for any nation, right? So these people are assaulting Canada by remaining here and refusing to share the wonders of their abilities and attitudes with their new northern neighbors. We must get these folks moved ASAP and end the NeoCanuk Genocide!
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White House says October jobs and inflation data may never be released
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State Department says visas can be denied over diabetes, obesity: reports
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NYU prof warns middle-aged mothers shifting to GOP as Dems fail young men | Fox News
NYU professor Scott Galloway argued that one of the most notable shifts in the 2024 election came down to mothers trying to help their sons.
"the reality is there’s still a lot of women who will vote for who they perceive as best for their husbands and sons," Galloway said. He noted that the three groups who shifted most prominently from blue to red between the 2020 and 2024 elections were Hispanics, voters under age 30 and women ages 45 to 64.
He explained that, from a young man’s perspective, "Everything I need to get ahead — all the keys to dating, savings, pride, owning a home, being successful — are getting harder and more expensive," he said. As a result, he said many people just want to shake up the system. "As you referenced, I thought the most interesting shift was that women ages 45 to 64 pivoted hardest toward red, and my thesis is that’s their mothers — because if your son is in the basement, ‘vaping and playing video games,’ you don’t give a s--- about territorial sovereignty in Ukraine or transgender rights," he continued.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Marion County agrees to pay $3M and apologize over raid on small-town newspaper
A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom. “They intentionally wanted to harass us for reporting the news, and you’re not supposed to do that in a democracy,” the editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, said Tuesday. He added he hoped the payment was large enough to discourage similar actions against other news organizations in the future. The raid prompted five federal lawsuits against the county, the city of Marion and local officials. Meyer’s 98-year-old mother Joan, the paper’s co-owner, died of a heart attack the next day, something he blames on the stress of the raid.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales
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ASIO chief says Chinese hackers probing telecoms, key facilities
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Danish man given suspended sentence for sharing film scenes on Reddit
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Apple-funded study on EU DMA: Devs didn't pass AppStore fee savings to EU users
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Man steals city bus for perfectly civil joyride, picking up, dropping off people
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Unmasking the men who attended a Neo-Nazi protest outside NSW parliament
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Japan's Leader Started a Meeting at 3 A.M. Then Came the Backlash
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Fixing Britain's worklessness crisis will cost employers £6B a year
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European Nations Decide Against Acquiring Boeing E-7 Awacs Aircraft
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Google hit with EU antitrust investigation into its spam policy
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
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Our health care system has become utterly insane
The U.S. health care system is uniquely dysfunctional. A different approach is entirely possible—if we have the will to boldly govern the health care system in the interests of patients, clinicians, and taxpayers. That means directly tackling prices, eliminating middlemen, and breaking up behemoths. It also means returning ownership of care delivery to clinicians and communities and pursuing a strategy that builds the workforce and capacity to meet Americans’ needs.
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Epstein-Barr virus appears to be trigger of lupus disease, say scientists
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Socialism solves everything! For-profit healthcare is the problem
- Hedge witch medicine is the future
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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Spy Agencies Cozied Up To Wuhan Virologist Before Lying About Pandemic
New documents show that intelligence risked implicating ODNI’s own bioengineering advisor — University of North Carolina professor Ralph Baric. Baric, who engineered novel coronaviruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), advised ODNI four times a year on biological threats, according to documents released Oct. 30 by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. Baric did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment. The professor’s ties to American intelligence may run even deeper, the documents reveal, as ODNI facilitated a meeting between the CIA and Baric about a project on coronaviruses in September 2015. The email exchange with the subject line “Request for Your Expertise” shows an unnamed government official with a CIA-affiliated email address pitching a “possible project” to Baric relating to “[c]oronavirus evolution and possible natural human adaptation.”