2026-03-31

Horseshit

• Why Marriage, for So Many, Is Less Appealing

• The case for a universal basic income in the era of A.I

• Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options?

• 'I thought, what the hell have I done?': the people who moved abroad for love

• Want an Eames house? You'll soon be able to order your own

• How to Keep the Suburbs Tenant-Free

• Craig Newmark: Billionaires, Stop Whining About the Giving Pledge

• Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse paintings stolen from Italian museum

• Airlines surprise passengers with 'flights' that are buses

• An Irish village with phone-free children

• Hannah Fry talks about the physics of Mosh Pits

• The Camps Promising to Turn You – Or Your Son – Into an Alpha Male

• Was there a great Philadelphia cheese steak stagnation?

• The weird physics of plant-based milks is only just coming to light

• How Working in America Became So Joyless

Epstein

• White House Renamed 'Epstein Island' on Google Pixel Phones

celebrity gossip

• Arnold Schwarzenegger Honoured at Ulster University in Belfast

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run BBC

• Al Jazeera Media Institute: The Tip of the Iceberg of Qatar's Trojan Horse

  Qatar has found a way to expand its narrative reach not by winning trust in its own brand, but by ensuring its worldview is echoed throughout the global press—by thousands of reporters, editors, and producers who now unconsciously speak in Al Jazeera’s voice, even if they work for entirely different organizations.

Musk

• Tesla officially begins sunset of Model S and Model X.

• Tesla carelessly promotes 'Full Self-Driving' for driver losing his eyesight

• SpaceX's monster IPO is unlike anything we've seen

• A second Starlink satellite exploded in orbit

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Escaping the Ogallala trap

  Autonomous vehicles are the centrifugal water pump of the roads. Just like the Ogalalla Aquifer, most roads are currently free at the point of use. And just like the Ogalalla Aquifer, they will be overused if we do not charge for the privilege of drawing on them. Anyone who needs to get where they’re going quickly will be stuck in traffic with all the people enjoying a beer, working from a mobile office, or having a nap. There will be total gridlock.

• Maybe you should have bought an electric car

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• Humanoid robot spreads joy in New York City as children chase it through park

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Putting the 'lord' in 'landlord': US churches step up to build housing

• The Turin Shroud bears DNA from many people, plants and animals

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Startup wants to change how mathematicians do math

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• L.A. social media addiction verdict set to unleash more lawsuits, force changes

  • Social Media Addiction Trial Should Lead to Platform Redesigns

  • Meta's court losses spell potential trouble for AI research, consumer safety

• Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

• Apple scales back its AI ambitions and sticks to selling hardware

• Everyone Hates iPhone Autocorrect. An Update Fixes One of the Biggest Problems

• Epic Lays Off Employee with Terminal Brain Cancer Who Cant Get LifeInsurance Now

• Reality TV is going away

• The loss of OnePlus in the US will sting but, sadly, won't matter

• "Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot"

• The FCC's Router Crackdown Shouldn't Surprise Anyone in Cybersecurity

• FTC Action Against Match and OkCupid for Deceiving Users, Sharing Personal Data

• I Regret the Blood Pact I Have Made with iCloud Photos

  The kindest and least cynical interpretation of the state of iCloud Photos is that Apple does not care nearly enough about this “absolutely priceless” data. (A more cynical explanation is, of course, that services revenue has compromised Apple’s standards.) Many of these photos are, in fact, priceless to me, which is why I am questioning whether I want iCloud involved at all. I certainly have no reason to give Apple more money each month to keep wrecking my library.

• Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Memory Card Business Due to Flash Shortage

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• A woman who alerts the world when an asteroid could hit

• NASA plans to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars in 2028

• Why the lack of water on Mars is so mysterious

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Anthropic still in trouble despite court win, lawyers and lobbyists say

• Vibe coding could mark the end of the App Store review process as we know it

• Stanford study reveals AI vision models invent images they never see

• Tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass job cuts. Why?

• Google employees new AI tool Agent Smith got so popular that it was restricted

• The Sudden Fall of OpenAI's Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT

• Senior European journalist suspended for publishing AI-generated quotes

• Innovation Council Action to Push Trump's A.I. Agenda in Midterms

• Sergey Brin at town hall: This year a big role will be played by agents

• AI giants tried to storm the last human stronghold: the math olympiads

• ChatGPT as cognitive crutch: Evidence from random trial on knowledge retention

• The Pentagon's culture war tactic against Anthropic has backfired

• Code red at OpenAI as it 'pours money down a black hole'

• Mistral raises $830M to build Nvidia-powered AI centres in Europe

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Event Wagers Face $143M Insider Problem as War Bets Boom

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Private Credit's Exposure to Ailing Software Industry Is Bigger Than Advertised

• Dow Doubles Plastics Price Hike as Iran War Blocks Supply Route

• See How Hollywood's Job Market Is Collapsing

• DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding

• New Nasdaq rules to include 'fast entry' for new listings on benchmark index

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Uber Backs Bills to Make It Harder to Sue Them for Crashes

• 4 more states will add restrictions on SNAP purchases in April.

• Why millions of seniors have suddenly lost health care coverage

• New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements

• Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption

Trump

• Secretary Hegseth broker looked to buy defense fund before Iran attack

Democrats

• FBI director pushes to release investigative files on Rep. Eric Swalwell.

• Gavin Newsom signs executive order to strengthen AI protections, responsible use

Left Angst

• US judge orders Trump administration to reopen Voice of America

• A Border Wall Plan Unites Republicans and Democrats in Texas: 'This Is Insane'

• JD Vance says aliens are 'demons' and details obsession with UFOs

  JD Vance, the vice-president of the United States, said this weekend that he considers aliens to be “demons”. As the war in Iran continues, petrol and grocery prices soar and chaos continues at US airports as a partial government shutdown endures, Vance appeared on the conservative Benny Show podcast, released Saturday, to promise that he would spend time looking into what he called his “obsession” with UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors.

• America Is Now a Rogue Superpower

• Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect

  The bullet that killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk did not match the rifle used by suspected killer Tyler Robinson, a bombshell new court filing states. Robinson, 22, is facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence for Kirk's murder at Utah Valley University on September 10. But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 'was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.'

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Return of the Energy Weapon

• The Trump-Class Battleship: Spectacle Wins Out over Combat Power

• Spain closes airspace to aircraft involved in Iran war

  • Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war

• America Downs Cheap Drones with Million-Dollar Missiles. A Fix Is in the Works

• After 16 years and $8B, the military's new GPS software still doesn't work

• US Army paratroopers arrive in Middle East as buildup intensifies

World

• European Commission admits attackers broke into public web systems

• Apple subsidiary fined by UK government over Moscow sanctions breach

• Stiff penalties for workplace deaths are doing their job

• 2 Australian States Waive Transit Fares as Fuel Prices Soar

• Nearly three-quarters of England's woods inaccessible to public, study finds

Iran / Houthi

• He Helped Stop Iran from Getting the Bomb

• New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

• How Iran is making a mint from the current war

Israel

• Israel targets Iran's leaders with lethal expertise using new AI platform

• Israel passes death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Zelensky says allies asked him to scale back attacks on Russian energy

China

• As OpenClaw enthusiasm grips China, schoolkids and retirees raise 'lobsters'

• China's DeepSeek AI chatbot suffers longest outage

Health / Medicine

• How the Navajo Nation is tackling diabetes with a return to its ancestral diet

• Corn tortillas in California now must contain folic acid

• Boosting good gut bacteria population may slow cognitive decline

• Woman who had sex with identical twins told it is 'not possible' to identify dad

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• New 'Cicada' Covid variant is spreading in the U.S.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• SF just broke an 'out of the ordinary' weather record. Now a big shift is coming

• On Discovering the chestnut mining bee in New York after a gap of 119 yrs

• How to build a pipeline in Canada's frozen, shifting North

• Drought spurs rise in antibiotic-resistant soil microbes

• Can seaweed solve our plastic problem?

• Dust storm: Health warning issued for thousands threatening toxins flood multiple US states

• Cotton facilitates seed dispersal by functioning as nest material for birds

• Scientists have found an alarming environmental impact of data centers