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Qantas hero pilot questions Airbus explanation for A320 software flaw
- Airbus faces new quality problem on A320 jets, sources say

Horseshit

Epstein

Epstein email exchanges planned Wikipedia strategy, edits and reported progress

This article shows in detail, in the words of Epstein and his employees, how their planning affected the articles and how other Wikipedians resisted their efforts. Epstein's email exchanges with several practitioners of online reputation management (ORM) begin in 2010. Their strategies offered to Epstein were not limited to Wikipedia, but aimed at censoring the entire internet. Most of these strategies were as simple as they were brutal.

celebrity gossip

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' prison sentence keeps getting shorter

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

Forensic linguistics: dark web criminals give themselves away with language

Musk

Electric / Self Driving cars

Waymo Has a Charging Problem

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

A $100K Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing – and Raising Ethical Alarms

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

Men 'portrayed as either frightening or pathetic in film and TV'

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

Teacher with 8-week-old baby pleads guilty to having sex with her student, 15.
The Penicillin Myth

penicillin only works if it’s present before the staphylococci. Fleming did not know it at the time, but penicillin interferes with bacterial cell wall synthesis, which only happens when bacteria are actively growing. Visible colonies, however, are composed mostly of mature or dead cells. By the time a colony can be seen, it is often too late for penicillin to have any effect. In fact, the Penicillium mold typically won’t even grow on a plate already filled with staphylococcus colonies. For years, scientists have attempted to replicate Fleming’s original discovery. All have met with failure.
Americans are rightly waking up — much of higher education is now a scam.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

HN Jobs:
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
Stopping evil and open source: my thoughts

I don't think open source developers should use licenses to combat bad guys doing evil things. I think doing so will harm the ecosystem, but not prevent actual evil from happening. It is becoming increasingly common for open source developers to be concerned what other people do with their software. The blog post I linked to above is an example. Many developers object to their software being used by fossil fuel companies, oppressive law enforcement, or others. Some of the developers are trying to change their open source licenses to prevent those groups from using the software. I concur with the goal: the modern day Gestapo in the US should be stopped, and so should companies who destroy the global ecosystem. Genocide should be stopped and prevented. All of these need to happen, but using licenses as a weapon for this is a bad idea. It doesn't actually work, but it poisons the open source ecosystem.
Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language | WIRED

You may wonder why people are still using Ruby in 2025. It survives because of its parasitic relationship with Ruby on Rails, the web framework that enabled Ruby’s widespread adoption and continues to anchor its relevance. When Danish developer David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH, released Rails in 2004, Ruby ceased to be the province of nice Japanese programmers. DHH is a kind of photographic negative of Matz, a handsome firebrand with equal parts charisma and dogma—so much for MINASWAN—who likes to win public Twitter feuds and race car championships in his spare time.
- And of course he became persona non grata after saying "Shooting people over politics sucks," which poisons his entire life's work and associations with the sin of heresy.
- Response to Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language
As an atheist, it feels oddly appropriate to mention my lack of religion here… mostly because it mirrors how strangely irrelevant it was for the article to bring up Matz’s religion at all. It didn’t add context. It didn’t deepen the argument. It was just… there. A detail reaching for meaning that wasn’t actually connected to the point.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

15 Years Ago, UFO Sightings Rocked a Small Texas Town. The Mystery Remains

Crypto con games

Police takes down Cryptomixer cryptocurrency mixing service

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

California Spent $450M on a New 911 System, Now Plans to Scrap It
A teenager redrew the Alabama voting map – and it's now state law
Congress Must Save Social Security From Insolvency - Bloomberg

What’s needed is a combination of short-term action to stave off insolvency and technical fixes to bolster the system’s finances over the long haul. The most obvious longer-term reform would be to gradually raise the full retirement age (from 67 to 69, say) and then link it to changes in life expectancy. This would close about a third of the shortfall over 75 years. Another valuable change — discussed for years but never implemented — would be to use a different measure of prices when updating benefits for inflation.
A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress
For 'No Tax on Tips,' the IRS Gets Intimate
TSA Introduces New $45 Fee Option for Travelers Without Real ID
- US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee

Trump

Trump told Maduro he and his family would be allowed safe passage from Venezuela -- but gave an ultimatum | New York Post
Trump says he'll release MRI results but doesn't know what part was scanned
Trump's push for more Al data centers faces backlash from his own voters
- But we were assured that all Trump voters were mindless zombies with no will or understanding of their own...

Democrats

How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch - The New York Times

At first, many in the state saw the case as a one-off abuse during a health emergency. But as new schemes targeting the state’s generous safety net programs came to light, state and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality. Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided. Federal prosecutors say that 59 people have been convicted in those schemes so far, and that more than $1 billion in taxpayers’ money has been stolen in three plots they are investigating. That is more than Minnesota spends annually to run its Department of Corrections. Minnesota’s fraud scandal stood out even in the context of rampant theft during the pandemic, when Americans stole tens of billions through unemployment benefits, business loans and other forms of aid, according to federal auditors.
Congresswoman Who Texted With Epstein Was A Victim Of Revenge Porn

Democrat Delegate Stacey Plaskett, the Virgin Islands’ non-voting member of Congress, garnered headlines recently when it came to light that she took direction from sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing. Her relationship with Epstein is especially notable because Plaskett herself had “private nude images” of her stolen by her own ex-staffers, who used them to attempt to sabotage her re-election campaign. The husband of one of the culprits was, like Epstein, later found dead.

Left Angst

Top Gun Traders: Stock Bets and Crypto Culture Take over the Military
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America with Cocaine
Inside NY Time's Hoax Factory

Five months ago, five New York Times reporters were dispatched to create a story about my supposed conflicts of interest working as the White House AI & Crypto Czar. As it became clear that NYT wasn’t interested in writing a fair story, I hired the law firm Clare Locke, which specializes in defamation law. I’m attaching Clare Locke’s letter to NYT so readers have full context on our interactions with NYT’s reporters over the past several months.
42% of young liberals say Kirk’s views ‘brought violence upon himself’
- Failure to agree with them often means you have justified violence too.
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as Well as Immigrants
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime - The New York Times

A top Republican and Democrats in Congress suggested on Sunday that American military officials might have committed a war crime in President Trump’s offensive against boats in the Caribbean after a news report said that during one such attack, a follow-up strike was ordered to kill survivors. The remarks came in response to a Washington Post report on Friday that said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given a verbal order to kill everyone aboard boats suspected of smuggling drugs, and that this led a military commander to carry out a second strike to kill those who had initially survived an attack in early September. “Obviously if that occurred, that would be very serious, and I agree that that would be an illegal act,” Representative Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio and a former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said on “Face the Nation” on CBS.
- Big "IF": Others report that the same video does not show what Democrats have alleged it does... And we've good reason to double check any assertions made, they have demonstrated that Truth is much less important than "Get Trump".
The Democrat/Regime Media Plot Against Pete Hegseth Is a Joke

you wouldn’t know it from the coordinated regime media/ Democrat narrative tsunami, but, Pete Hegseth denies what the Washington Post claims were two anonymous sources saying that his instructions were to kill all the drug dealers in some unspecified illegal manner. Putting aside that it’s both legal and good to kill drug dealers hauling poison to our shores to kill our people, the hearsay claims of individuals who don’t have the courage of their convictions to come out and say it, or to report this allegedly illegal conduct officially, and also who don’t exist, the regime media/Democrat complex instantly accepted these anonymous slanders as gospel truth. Anonymous claims are the best claims because you can’t defend against them other than to deny them, which is exactly what the liars want. It’s all part of the okey-doke. Suddenly, overnight, all the Democrats and all the regime media were on exactly the same message. I wonder how that happened. Well, that’s a key component of the scam. It’s an operation, albeit an ineptly executed one, and one which was disrupted by a subject of a different operation to undermine America, so it had to be accelerated to take the dead Guard soldier out of the news.
The Trouble with Trump's Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project
Lilly Wachowski on Right-Wing Misinterpretations of The Matrix: ‘You Have to Let Go of Your Work.’

“The Matrix,” specifically the iconic “blue pill or red pill” scene, is the most famous example of the film being appropriated by the right. In the scene, Keanu Reeves’ Neo must take the red pill in order to be freed from the Matrix. In the political context, “red pilled” is a term for someone who has “woken up” to the truth about society and often aligns with radical far-right ideology. Wachowski has previously explained that the “original intention” of “The Matrix” was to be a transgender allegory. Even so, she said she’s unsurprised the right has latched on to the film since “right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything.” She added, “They appropriate left-wing points of view and they mutate them for their own propaganda, for their own to obfuscate what the real message is. This is what fascism does. And so, of course, that’s going to happen.”
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
- Are we having the FBI go seize records of incestuous statutory rape yet? No? Boring!

World

Land and Spatial Board to make publicly available map data less detailed
Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life

“Within the power structures there are, for example, parties such as the [far-right] Sweden Democrats, who to some extent promote traditional values rooted in parts of a historically male-dominated culture. They are also largely represented by men,” she said. She added that while not all female politicians were targeted, “every single woman who is threatened represents a democratic deficit and an obstacle to the gender equality Sweden has fought for over many years”.
India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app to ensure cyber safety
- India orders Apple to pre-install an undeletable state security app on iPhones
- India is ordering Apple and other phone makers to preinstall a state-owned app
WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests

The BBC World Service has spoken to chemical weapons experts, whistleblowers from Georgia's riot police, and doctors, and found the evidence points to the use of an agent that the French military named "camite". The Georgian authorities said our investigation findings were "absurd" and the police had acted legally in response to the "illegal actions of brutal criminals". Camite was deployed by France against Germany during World War One. There is little documentation of its subsequent use, but it is believed to have been taken out of circulation at some point in the 1930s, because of concerns about its long-lasting effects. CS gas - often referred to as "tear gas" - was used as a replacement.
The 'Free' World Is Coming for Your Private Messages

Nobody expects China or Iran to protect privacy. But as seen in the European debate over chat control, even nominally free countries are becoming intrusive when it comes to the digital world.
UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'
Zipcar proposes to cease its UK operations
Unfinished infrastructure, wasted funds: Colombia's 'white elephants' exposed
UK Schools urged to trial four-day week to ease pressure on teachers
Swiss voters reject proposed tax on super rich
British IT consultant arrested after posing with gun in United States on LinkedIn

A British IT consultant was arrested by West Yorkshire Police after posting pictures of himself posing with guns during an American holiday on LinkedIn. Jon Richelieu-Booth, 50, shared the photograph taken at a Florida homestead on August 13. Despite Mr Richelieu-Booth’s offer to demonstrate the photograph's American origin, authorities chose to arrest him on August 24. Despite all charges against him being withdrawn, police returned to his property after 10pm that evening and detained him.
- IT consultant arrested after posing with shotgun on LinkedIn
UAE Shifts Space Focus to Economy and Security
Police consider corporate manslaughter charges in Post Office scandal
Canada clinches deal to join Europe's €150B defense scheme
Canadian Court: OVHcloud from France must hand over user data
Meta's new EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings
EU investigates Google over 'demoting' commercial content from news media

Israel

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

A German Court May Have Just Shattered One of the Biden Era’s Biggest Lies – JONATHAN TURLEY

This week, a German court issued an arrest warrant for Ukrainian Serhii Kuznietsov, which may finally confirm what was long suspected: that Ukraine was responsible for the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in the waters near Denmark and Sweden. The Biden administration may have been given prior warning. It was allegedly told years ago by a Ukrainian whistleblower that a six-person team of Ukrainian special forces was planning to rent a boat, dive to the sea floor and blow up the Nord Stream project. The operation was reportedly led by Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces. Nevertheless, after the attack, the Biden administration and many in the media fueled speculation that Russia had destroyed its own pipeline, despite evidence and logic to the contrary. It was another convenient claim of a Russian false-flag operation that allowed the Biden administration to ignore the possibility that Ukraine had not only engaged in environmental crimes but had also knowingly lied to its allies.

China

Health / Medicine

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

The Bird-Flu Vaccine Trial for Monk Seals

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

The BBC Climate Challenge video game
I have high levels of forever chemicals in my blood – what can I do about it?
Just ten species make up almost half the weight of all wild mammals
- Just think of the negative impacts these have on the rest! such inequity cannot stand.
Carbon costs of different pathways for reducing fire hazard in the Sierra Nevada
Scientists call on better regulation for chemical cocktails in Europe
The Oceans Are Going to Rise–But When?
- bating .000 on predictions of Doom for the last 50 years
COP30 climate pledges favor unrealistic land-based carbon removal over cuts
Australia’s New Asbestos Scare In Schools | Hackaday

authorities have thus far stated the health risks of the colored sand are low. “The danger from asbestos comes when there are very, very fine fibres that are released and inhaled by humans,” stated ACCC deputy chair, Catriona Lowe. “We understand from expert advice that the risk of that in relation to these products is low because the asbestos is in effect naturally occurring and hasn’t been ground down as such to release those fibres.”
- Education Minister’s urgent plea after asbestos-laced sand forces 450 schools to shut