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• Bright daytime meteor triggers sonic boom over Cleveland

Horseshit

• Wife who wrote book on grief after husband's death found guilty of murdering him

  A Utah woman was convicted on Monday of aggravated murder after poisoning her husband with fentanyl and then self-publishing a children’s book about coping with grief. Prosecutors said Kouri Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail that her husband Eric Richins drank in March 2022. Prosecutors said she was $4.5m in debt and falsely believed that when her husband died, she would inherit his estate worth more than $4m. They also said she was planning a future with another man she was seeing on the side.

  • Utah bereavement author Kouri Richins found guilty of fatally poisoning husband

• Why people in L.A. are strapping cameras on their bodies to do chores?

• Over 1/3 of Americans unable to distinguish healthy and unhealthy processed food

• The Billionaire Backlash Against a Philanthropic Dream

• NYC's new apartment buildings that are falling apart

• An engineering thesis disguised as a coupe: A history of the Honda Prelude

• English racehorse killed and served in soup kitchen after breaking leg in race

  Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry ran tests after a ‘foreign object’ found in a stew served at a soup kitchen in Mersin last month and discovered that it was an electronic identification chip belonging to Smart Latch, a four-year-old English mare. Smart Latch had won three races during her career and earned £19,200 in prize money but had not raced since last October after suffering from a minor leg fracture. he horse’s owner, Suat Topcu, has claimed that he decided to donate Smart Latch to a farm in Turkey where children can learn to ride as she could no longer race and was unable to breed.

• The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere

• US adults are skipping parenting, having fewer kids, forcing schools to close

• Invisalign Became the Biggest User of 3D Printers

  When people ask him where he works, he responds with “Align Technology,” which inevitably prompts the follow up, “What’s that?” It’s the $12 billion company behind Invisalign, the hellish and expensive pieces of clear plastic worn about 22 hours a day that brute force teeth into better alignment.

• Deaf Woman Removed from Frontier Flight for 'Not Listening'

• Toronto considers micro-shelter communities to tackle homelessness

• The Reckless Women Who Changed Journalism

• Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails

Epstein

• Project Vaccine and the Epstein connection

celebrity gossip

• Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures in Rome spark questions in Italian parliament

  • Peter Thiel is actively convincing billionaires to abandon The Giving Pledge

• Yet another Banksy identification theory

Obit

• Len Deighton, spy novelist and author of The Ipcress File, dies aged 97

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Do political social media ads influence the outcome of elections?

• We Study Mass Shooters. Something Terrifying Is Happening Online

• Overseas 'content farms' creating political deepfakes uncovered

Musk

• Elon Musk's xAI sued for turning three girls' real photos into AI CSAM

  • Teens sue xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them

  • Tennessee Teens Sue Elon Musk's xAI over Child Sexual Abuse Images

• How Elon Musk tried to gamify government

• My Self-Driving Car Crash – The Tesla was driving perfectly–until it wasn't

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Trapped Inside a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack

• China Has Five-Minute EV Charging. America Is Trying to Catch Up

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• When Humanoid Robots Come to a Small Town Factory in South Carolina

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Olympia becomes first Washington city to pass polyamory protections

• Judge VanDyke: "This is a case about swinging dicks."

  This is a case about swinging dicks. The Christian owners of Olympus Spa—a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa—understandably don't want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don't want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit. You may think that swinging dicks shouldn't appear in a judicial opinion. You're not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa— some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing. Sometimes, it feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds. Woke regulators and complicit judges seem entirely willing, even eager, to ignore the consequences that their Frankenstein social experiments impose on real women and young girls.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Heavier Proton Discovered at LHC

• In Deep-Red Idaho, a Republican Rift over Schools and 'Parental Choice'

• University of St. Andrews Overrun by American Students

• As student enrollment declines, a look at public school closures

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Samsung to Discontinue Galaxy Z TriFold After Just Three Months

  • Samsung to Stop Selling $2,899 TriFold Phone After Three Months

  • Samsung discontinues its Galaxy Z TriFold after just three months

  • After three months, Samsung is ending sales of the $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold

• Researchers expose critical security vulnerability in autonomous drones

• How America learned to love Barnes and Noble again

• COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

• Pixar Knows It's Running Out of Ideas, and That's Okay

• Apple can delist apps "with or without cause," judge says in loss for Musi app

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Spaceflight Started 100 Years Ago in a Massachusetts Cabbage Patch

• Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks

• 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar comet has water unlike any in our solar system

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Bill Gurley on AI bubble: A bunch of people got rich quick and a reset is coming

• Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training

• AI CEOs are scaring America

• AI usage among doctors doubles as confidence in technology grows

• New Nvidia DLSS Tech Gives Characters AI Slop Faces

• OpenAI to Cut Back on Side Projects in Push to 'Nail' Core Business

  • OpenAI to cut back on side projects to focus on core business

  • OpenAI Reportedly Pivoting to a Focus on Business and Productivity Only

• Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

• The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers

• AI still doesn't work well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

• AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in Fargo fraud case

• "Illusion of competence": Almost 80% of university students in Australia use AI

• AI firm Anthropic seeks weapons expert to stop users from 'misuse'

• Nvidia making AI module for outer space

• OpenAI’s adult mode will reportedly be smutty, not pornographic.

• OpenAI's own mental health experts unanimously opposed "naughty" ChatGPT launch

• The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI?

• Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit over Its AI 'Expert Review' Feature

• Morgan Stanley projects nearly $3T in AI infrastructure investment by 2028

• The Former Academic Guiding OpenAI's Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout

• Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul

• A.I. Writes Buggy Code. A Silicon Valley Startup Wants to Fix It

• OpenAI courts private equity to join enterprise AI venture

• Finance Bros to Tech Bros: Don't Mess with My Bloomberg Terminal

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Arizona Attorney General sues Kalshi on illegal gambling charges

  • Arizona Files Criminal Charges Against Kalshi, the Prediction Site

  • Arizona Becomes First State to Criminally Charge Kalshi

  • Kalshi criminally charged in Arizona for operating illegal gambling business

Economicon / Business / Finance

• US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement

  • SEC Prepares Proposal to Eliminate Quarterly Reporting Requirement

• FTC Warns 97 Auto Dealership Groups About Deceptive Pricing

• Close Brothers banking group to cut 600 jobs and roll out AI 'at pace'

• Just when you thought the chip shortage was ending wafers until 2030

• Technical Issues

  When silver crashed 30% on January 30th - the circuit breakers didn’t trigger. No halts. No “technical issues”. The machine handled a 30% collapse in a single session without breaking a sweat. It’s apparently only upward price discovery that stresses the infrastructure. Five years without a single outage. Then two in six months. Coinciding both times with silver squeezing toward levels that would cause serious institutional pain. You’d almost think there was a pattern.

  Now, “halted” is such an interesting word. It implies nothing is happening. A pause. A quiet 90 minutes while the engineers figure out which wire came loose. Except 31,828 contracts changed hands at exactly 12:45 PM. During the halt. One candle. $90.988. One hundred and fifty-nine million ounces of silver, in fifteen minutes, at a single price, traded on an exchange supposedly down by “technical issues"

  what this looks like is a lot of longs who were planning to stand for delivery suddenly decided - sometime during a 90-minute window when the exchange was technically dark but millions of ounces were changing hands - that rolling their contracts forward was actually a very attractive option. Handsomely attractive, one can imagine. People don’t abandon delivery positions in a physically tight market out of the goodness of their hearts. Someone got paid to go away. The question is only how much.

• Amazon rolls out 1-hour, 3-hour delivery as ultrafast shipping trend grows

• PayPal ends Google Wallet integration

• Global chip supply chain under threat as US-Iran conflict enters third week

• Dell workforce drops 10% in fiscal 2026

• AI Drone Software Stock Jumps 520% in Best IPO Since Newsmax

• Treasuries and other government bonds will keep selling off, BlackRock says

• JPMorgan Morgan halts $5.3B Qualtrics debt deal as AI fears chill demand

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Judge blocks US Government from slimming down vaccine recommendations

  • Federal judge halts RFK Jr.'s changes to children's vaccine policies

• California's plastic bill faces challenges from federal court

• Some small US airports may have to shut due to TSA absences, official says

• Roberts says personal hostility aimed at judges has 'got to stop'

Trump

• Trump says he thinks he will have the ‘honor’ of taking Cuba.

• Mueller probe cut corners, broke rules to ‘get Trump,’ whistleblower claims.

Left Angst

• What If California Is the Most Regressive State in America?

  California doesn’t just have a housing policy failure. It has a democracy failure, and the two are the same failure.

• No accountability: Bills would ban liability lawsuits for climate change

• Congress can restore the independence of US science

  Members must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.

  • "We don't just want the money back; we want promises that it won't be threatened again!"

• National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info

• 'Trump is aiming for dictatorship' – verdict of democracy watchdog

• Jerry O’Connell claims wife, daughters ‘became physical’ after his comments about Harris losing to Trump

  “I said something along the lines of ‘there was no planning. This is what they get. There should have been a primary.’ I said something along those lines, you know, like I was just spit-balling ideas. It was a shock. My wife and daughters, without saying anything, became physical with me. They were filled with rage,” O’Connell said. He continued, “So if I am being careful with you in how I say things, yes, I live in California. I live with not one, not two, but three people who, if I made any kind of joke, they’d become very angry with me.”

• DOGE Didn't Cut Government Waste. It Was Government Waste

• Trump's plan to shut down weather and climate center triggers lawsuit

• Everyone but Trump Understands What He's Done

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Cheap drones are reshaping the war in the sky

• 'This Is Not Our War': Europe and U.K. Push Back Against Trump

• Trump asking for China's warships to help in opening of Strait of Hormuz

• No imminent threat: U.S. Counterterrorism Center head resigns over Iran war

  • Top counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns over Trump's Iran war

  Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, citing his concerns about the justification for military strikes in Iran and saying he “cannot in good conscience” back the Trump administration’s war. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent said in a statement posted on social media, making claims President Donald Trump has denied.

• Aircraft carrier Nimitz service life extended until 2027.

World

• Women burned at the stake in modern-day witch trial 'epidemic'

• Young Cubans turn to church and state as cheap, synthetic drugs flood streets

• Cuba's power system suffers total collapse

• UAE temporarily closes airspace as Middle East war forces flight disruptions

• Woman not shortlisted for job as 'car is too old'

  Alanah Thompson French, from Burton Joyce in Nottinghamshire, said she applied for a job as a trainee lettings negotiator at haart in Nottingham in December 2025. She said she was told her application could not be progressed as her vehicle, a 2014 Citroen C1, was not under 10 years old.

• MI5 to pay compensation to woman abused by neo-Nazi agent

  Her legal claim followed a BBC investigation four years ago, which showed that the man, known publicly as Agent X, was a neo-Nazi misogynist who used his security service role as a tool of abuse. The BBC found he used his status to abuse his partner, known by the alias Beth, before he moved abroad, while under police investigation, to continue intelligence work. After subsequently failing in court to discredit Beth, MI5 recently offered to pay compensation to settle her claim. She has now accepted the offer.

• Pakistan air strike kills at least 100 at Kabul drug rehab centre

  • Pakistan Airstrikes on Kabul Hit Drug Rehab Clinic, Killing Civilians

• Sri Lanka declares Wednesdays off as Asian countries try to conserve fuel

• BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops

• MPs asks Lloyds Bank for more information about 'alarming' breach

• Italy warns stricken Russian tanker could explode in Med at any time

Iran / Houthi

• UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach

  Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, attended the final talks between the US and Iran and judged that the offer made by Tehran on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent a rush to war, the Guardian can reveal. Powell thought that progress had been made in Geneva and that the deal proposed by Iran was “surprising”, according to sources. Two days after the talks ended, and after a date had been agreed for a further round of technical talks in Vienna, Donald Trump and Israel launched the attack on Iran.

• We destroyed Iran’s base for attacking satellites to keep space supremacy.

• Hormuz Bypass Infrastructure Was Sized for a Short Disruption. This Is Not That.

• Fujairah loadings plummet: drone attacks rock UAE port prompting tanker rethink

• A photo of Iran's bombed schoolgirl graveyard. Was it real, or AI?

  • The Fake Images of a Real Strike on a School

• A Maoist survival guide to the Iranian energy crisis

• How the Strait of Hormuz closure affects global oil supply

Israel

• Netanyahu Posts 'Proof of Life' Video as A.I. Sows Doubts About What's Real

China

• China Is Embracing OpenClaw, a New A.I. Agent, and the Government Is Wary

• Who ate all the Chinese stock market returns?

Health / Medicine

• Lancet paper released on medicinal cannabis effectiveness | Australian Medical Association

  A Lancet Psychiatry paper published this week — the largest-ever review of the safety and efficacy of cannabinoids across a range of mental health conditions — found no evidence that medicinal cannabis is effective in treating anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

  • The efficacy and safety of cannabinoids for the treatment of mental disorders

  • Cannabis is not an effective treatment for common mental health conditions

  • The idea that there can be treatment without Official Medicine could destroy their scam.

• She Hoped Ketamine Would Rewire Her Brain. She Didn't Live to See It Work

• A Brazilian scientist's experimental paralysis therapy is fueling hope–and hype

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Cell phone radio frequencies make mice & rats live longer

• Mystery orcas from afar thrill Seattle-area whale watchers

• Revealed: The worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

• Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line

• The science of how fireflies stay in sync

• Political polarization can spur CO₂ emissions and stymie climate action

• Third GE Vernova blade break at wind farm powering Google

• Firefighting Drones Head to Aspen

• Plants moved from sea to land and changed Earth forever

• Oil Regulators Found Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules, Then Ignored Their Findings

• Why Insect Farming Startups Are Going Bankrupt

• El Niño Set to Return in 2026, Bringing Erratic Global Weather Shifts