2026-02-25
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It started with a flash of insight like a thunderbolt in a snow storm, the sort of insight that can only be induced by high altitude hypoxia and making breakfast. “Breakfast is a vector space. You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour. We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.”
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Unprecedented: Boston Globe won't print a paper Feb. 24 due to Blizzard
Horseshit
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Female Reproductive Tract-on-a-Chip for selecting healthier sperm
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Data centers are racing to space – and regulation can't keep up
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Dental group offers to fix Olympic Jack Hughes' smile for free
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Maine lawmakers look to old school buildings as potential for new housing
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Meditation and Mindfulness Have a Dark Side We Rarely Talk About
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Influencers are promoting peptides for better health. What does the science say?
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'Birdbrain' benefits: How being an expert birdwatcher may boost cognition
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Nevada Brothel Workers Are Unionizing to Protect Their Digital Rights
Epstein
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suspected of improperly passing U.K. government information to the disgraced U.S. financier, and the high-profile British arrests are some of the most dramatic fallout from the trove of more than 3 million pages of Epstein-related documents released last month by the U.S. Justice Department.
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Peter Attia resigns from CBS News following Epstein backlash
In the newly released trove of documents from the Epstein files, Attia and the convicted sex offender exchanged lewd and personal messages with each other. For example, Attia had written in 2016, “P*ssy is, indeed, low-carb. Still awaiting results on gluten content, though.” Attia, an influencer specializing in longevity medicine, was one of 19 new contributors named in January as part of Bari Weiss’ new strategy for CBS News.
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DOJ withheld Epstein files related to allegations Trump sexually abused a minor
Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.
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The Epstein Files Should Never Have Been Released - The New York Times
Every day seems to bring new reports of financiers, academics, politicians and royalty (among others) who cozied up to Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender whose predation took a horrendous toll on innocent lives. With accountability for people in power in short supply, it can be hard to see a downside in the huge dump of documents relating to Mr. Epstein and his various associates. But we should recognize the release of millions of pages of the Epstein files as both a sign of institutional failure and a cause for concern. If our justice system were working properly, the public would never have such access. In the not-too-distant past, most people probably would have at least grudgingly accepted a regime in which prosecutors and law-enforcement agents sorted through materials from a sprawling investigation and made public only those portions needed to properly handle a case. The additional information that might interest us, and perhaps even help improve society, would remain secret. Federal prosecutors could generally be trusted to focus on their narrow criminal enforcement mission and to not abuse the tools given them for that limited purpose. No longer.
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Dude was known to be a predator and his friends known to be slimy since the 1990s. It took 20 years to get him into court at all. Were it not for the release of the files we've got so far; we'd still not have any public insight or movement on the insider trading and influence peddling operations.
I thought the name on this column sounded familiar. Richman is a friend of Comey's who had possession of memos by Comey that the former FBI Director had leaked through him as a way to force the appointment of a special counsel in 2017.
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Former Norwegian premier hospitalized after suicide attempt amid Epstein corruption charges: Report
Former Nobel Peace Prize Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland is in critical condition after facing ‘gross corruption’ charges linked to the Epstein case
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Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself with Top Microsoft Executives
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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I was wrong about 3D printed guns
People have been so brainbroken by the idea of printing a gun that multiple states are about to crash their entire manufacturing sectors in an attempt to block them. Academics are writing articles genuinely arguing that the mere presence of a printed gun is some kind of cognitohazard that drives unrelated people to suicide. The state of California is genuinely arguing in court that the First and Second Amendments don't cover SPEECH about GUNS — quite possibly the most protected conduct that could ever exist in the United States.
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As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Meta executive warned Facebook Messenger encryption plan was 'so irresponsible'
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Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs
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Massive global data breach sees over a billion records exposed
Experts have revealed IDMerit, an AI-powered digital identity verification solutions provider, kept an enormous database filled with sensitive customer information unlocked and easily accessible on the public internet. In total, more than three billion records were discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Cybernews and eventually locked down. The team said it found an open MongoDB database weighing more than a terabyte, and included records such as full names, addresses, post codes, dates of birth, national IDs, phone numbers, gender, email addresses, telco metadata, and breach status and social profile annotations.
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Google 'Deeply Sorry' for BAFTA N-Word News Alert
The inclusion of the slur in the message, which Google confirmed to Variety was received by a “only a very small subset” of app users who receive push notifications, was not due to a system error involving AI, as has been incorrectly reported. According to Google, the system’s safety filters did not correctly trigger when it “recognized a euphemism for an offensive term on several web pages, and accidentally applied the offensive term to the notification text.”
TechSuck / Geek Bait
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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NASA will return its moon rocket to the hangar for more repairs
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A risky maneuver could send a spacecraft to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Here's the plan
If this mission could launch in 2035, the researchers say, it could at minimum catch up with 3I/ATLAS by 2085 at a distance of 732 astronomical units (AU) from the sun. In other words, that's 732 times farther from the sun than Earth is, which is 68 billion miles (109 billion kilometers). For comparison, our most distant active space probe, Voyager 1, is currently only 170 AU from the sun after almost the same flight-time as the proposed mission to 3I/ATLAS.
To achieve a delta-V of at least 5.1 miles (8.4 kilometers) per second, which you can think of as the work required to accelerate a spacecraft onto a new trajectory, the mission would have to perform a solar Oberth maneuver (SOM) at a distance of 3.2 solar radii from the center of the sun. The radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers). When NASA's Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun in 2023, it came within 0.04AU (3.7 million miles/6.1 million km). Even though this isn't quite as close to the sun as the proposed 3I/ATLAS interceptor would get, it gives an indication of what would be in store: Parker Solar Probe experienced temperatures of 2,500–2,600 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370–1,400 degrees Celsius).
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Hegseth to meet Anthropic CEO as Pentagon threatens banishment
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Land Grab for Data Centers Is One More Obstacle to Much-Needed Housing
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Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise
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Rogue AI Just Yeeted $250,000 Into the Void | ZeroHedge
TL;DR (For boomers): An experimental AI trading bot was given a crypto wallet and tried to send someone about $500 in digital coins - but due to what looks like a technical mistake, it accidentally sent its entire stash worth about $250,000. The recipient quickly sold the coins for around $40,000, though they’d be worth much more now. The bot is now getting people to do random tasks in exchange for $500 worth of that coin.
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OpenAI resets spending expectations. Compute target is around $600B by 2030
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'An AlphaFold 4' - Scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off's new AI
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IBM stock drops by 13% after Anthropic publishes a blog post
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I'm VC who created AI Scott Adams. I'm continuing, despite family's objections
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Moody's alert cites gap in data centre accounting for Big Tech companies
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Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms
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Data centres seek credit ratings to unlock billions in funding for AI push
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This person is the head of AI safety and alignment at Meta
This is like watching a police safety instructor clean his gun while it's still loaded
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Anthropic Links AI Agent with Tools for Investment Banking, HR
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OpenAI safety reps called to Ottawa after Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shooting
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AI boosted US economy by 'basically zero' in 2025, says Goldman chief economist
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In Japan, generative AI takes fake election news to new levels
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Anthropic touts new AI tools weeks after legal plug-in spurred market rout
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Ads are coming to AI. Does that have to be such a bad thing?
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Dow tumbles more than 800 points as tariff uncertainty and AI disruption fears
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Dimon's 'cockroaches' to the BlueOwl freeze: Stress spreading in private credit
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The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored
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Uber acquiring parking app SpotHero as it moves beyond ride-hailing
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Novo Nordisk to Cut U.S. List Prices for Ozempic, Wegovy by Up to 50%
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Homeownership Is Out of Reach for Many Americans, Despite a Buyer's Market
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Stripe valued at $159 billion after tender offer
The valuation shows blistering growth from a year ago, when it was valued at $91.5 billion. Stripe’s valuation nearly tripled to $95 billion in 2021. Thrive Capital, Coatue Management, a16z, and others are participating in the tender offer and Stripe will also repurchase shares, the company said in a release. Current and former employees are eligible to sell shares.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight
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SCOTUS rules USPS can't be sued, even when mail is intentionally not delivered
By a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled against a Texas landlord, Lebene Konan, who alleges her mail was intentionally withheld for two years. Konan, who is Black, claims racial prejudice played a role in postal employees’ actions.
Democrats
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He’s literally slowing his speech down & talking in a sporadic cadence
He’s not just TELLING them that they’re all probably stupid & probably can’t read, he’s LITERALLY SLOW-ING-DOWN-HIS-SPEECH to make them understand the words that are coming out of his mouth!!!! As if they’re children!!!! That means he REALLY BELIEVES they’re slow. He’s not just saying it—he didn’t misspeak!!!! He BELIEVES it!!!!
Left Angst
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Proposal limiting foreign scientists at NIST disrupts Colorado quantum industry
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They Fought for the CIA in Afghanistan. In America, They're Living in Fear
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Trump to circumvent European internet content bans is a geopolitical nightmare
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New York Times ‘Fact-Checks’ Trump’s State of the Union—Before He Delivers the Address.
- It ain't like they're gonna respond to anything he actually says; that might interfere with the narrative. This is the NYT; "truth" is what they say it is, nothing to do with what actually happens.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Fentanyl lord El Mencho reportedly killed in Mexico military operation
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Teen social media ban group funded and co-staffed by firm making gambling ads
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Netflix, Prime Video and Others in UK to Face 'Enhanced Regulation' from Ofcom
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Palantir sues magazine that revealed Switzerland rejected its approaches
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UK fines Reddit for not checking user ages aggressively enough
Venezuela
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The Helicopter, The Courtroom, & The Greater Good
Early evidence points cautiously in the right direction. Over 400 political prisoners have been released. An amnesty law has passed a unanimous first vote. El Helicoide, the prison synonymous with political torture, has been ordered closed. Public demonstrations have returned. Oil sanctions have been rolled back, sales have topped a billion dollars, and economists are projecting double-digit growth this year. A public school teacher in Caracas still makes $160 a month—but the direction is shifting. And yet. Over 600 political prisoners remain. Some of the released face gag orders and can’t leave the country. The courts are still packed with judges who did Maduro’s bidding.
- Goes on to "is this right?", then does the "new intellectuals" trick of asking a chatbot until they get an answer they like.
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
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Popular Sugar Substitutes Linked to Faster Cognitive Decline.
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FDA approves swallowable weight-loss balloon as alternative to GLP-1 drugs
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Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows
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Is autism preventable in certain cases after all? Some scientists say yes
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Eli Lilly launches new form of obesity drug Zepbound with a month’s worth of doses in one pen.
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She wrote vegan cookbooks. Then she started craving burgers.
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Thunderstorms conjure ghostly coronae in treetops, observed outdoors for the first time
For the first time, researchers have observed and measured weak electrical discharges, known as coronae, on trees during thunderstorms. A new study describes the near-invisible sparkles appearing similarly on branches of several tree species up and down the U.S. East Coast during the summer of 2024, implying that thunderstorms may paint entire canopies with a scintillating blue glow, albeit too faintly for human eyes to see. Coronae also burn the very tips of leaves. Given the ubiquity with which they may occur across forests during storms, the researchers speculated that these coronae could harm the canopy, potentially shaping the evolution of trees to limit that damage.
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Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis?
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Impacts of Grease and Cheese on the Recyclability of Pizza Boxes
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Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23M years of climate history