2026-04-15

Horseshit

• The man with the most dangerous job on Earth

• Global imbalances are back with no clear path to resolution

• AT&T's iconic phone

• A New Computer Chip Could Withstand the Hellscape of Venus

  • Great. now do the rest of the machine

• In the brain, objects seen and imagined follow the same neural path

• I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America

• The AI School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets

• When Scientific Debate Steps into Custody Cases

• Always in crisis mode? You might be catastrophizing

• The problem with thinking you're part Neanderthal

• Can Michigan Become the U.S. Drone Capital?

• Mississippi is running out of liquor, and it's the state's fault

• Man wins €1M Picasso painting in €100 charity raffle

celebrity gossip

• Sam Altman: Man charged with attempting to murder OpenAI boss

  • Man suspected of Molotov attack Sam Altmans home charged with attempted murder

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying "Antifa"

Musk

• Key evidence disappears from Tesla involved in crash

• Court rules X must give privacy researcher access to personal data

• SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Autonomous robo-taxis now driving themselves on British streets

• Rivian's Illinois Factory Will Run on Recycled EV Batteries

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• Robot Police Dogs Powered by AI Take Over Atlanta’s Streets

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Millions in the US never finished college

• Los Angeles schools avoid a strike as a last-minute deal is reached with staff

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Roblox devs now need a subscription to share their games freely

• Hackers Reveal Rockstar Earns over $1M a Day from GTA Online

  • Stolen Rockstar Games analytics data leaked by extortion gang

• Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'

• Linux 7.0 is here.

• Microsoft Raises the Prices of All Surface Devices Due to Memory Costs

• Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out

• Advertisers demand billions of dollars from Google in escalating monopoly battle

• Valve has just made it easier to run games on Linux with 8 GB cards

• The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Was a Psyop

• Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking starting in June

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• OpenAI investors question $852B valuation as strategy shifts

• OpenAI's oddly socialist hypocritical new economic agenda

• How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews?

• Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy licenses, just like employees

• Over 4,732 Messages, He Fell in Love with an AI Chatbot. Now He's Dead

• A Stanford report highlights a growing disconnect between AI insiders and humans.

• I Feel So Sorry for My A.I. Sunglasses

• The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What devs need to know

• To teach in the era of ChatGPT is to know pain

• Anthropic faces user backlash over reported performance issues

• Goldman Sachs chief 'hyper-aware' of risks from Anthropic's Mythos AI

• US Treasury Seeking Access to Anthropic's Mythos to Find Flaws

• OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft

• Should We Praise Kids for Their AI Slop Art?

• People are pretending to be AI chatbots – for fun

• Anthropic Hires Lobbying Firm Ballard Partners

• Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed

• European regulators sidelined on Anthropic superhacking model

• Is Anthropic 'nerfing' Claude? Users increasingly report performance degradation

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• 'This is a Witch Hunt': Poker World Rallies Behind the Lodge After $2M Seizure

Economicon / Business / Finance

• United CEO Has Pitched Possible Tie-Up with Rival American

• An Amazon warehouse worker died on the job at Oregon facility

• Google Faces Billions in Mass Arbitration over Illegal Monopoly Rulings

• Amazon rolls out 1-hour, 3-hour delivery

• Amazon signs $11.57B deal for satellite firm Globalstar

  • Apple and Amazon Ink Satellite Deal Amid Globalstar Takeover

  • Amazon to Buy Satellite Operator Globalstar

  • Why Amazon Is Buying Starlink Rival Globalstar in $11B Deal

  • Amazon to acquire Globalstar in $11.6B satellite bet

• PwC plans overhaul of global consulting business

• Oracle accused of targeting employees with stock options in recent layoffs

• IMF warns global economy at risk of recession if Iran war persists

• Diamond Prices at Record-Low Levels

• New Accounts Let Teens Trade Stocks Without a Parent's Approval

• Banks Tally $100B of Private-Credit Loans as Calm Urged

• UPS Seeks to Replace Manual Scans with RFID Tracking Tech

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Rep. Tony Gonzales quits Congress after affair, lewd texting scandal with

  Disgraced Rep. Tony Gonzales — who dropped his re-election bid after revelations of his sexual advances on a subordinate who later fatally set herself on fire — plans to retire from Congress Tuesday. “There is a season for everything and God has a plan for us all,” the Texas Republican wrote on X Monday evening.

  The announcement came moments after Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) announced his resignation from Congress after multiple women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct, with one former subordinate claiming she had been raped by the longtime lawmaker. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) announced plans to introduce a resolution later this week to expel Gonzales from Congress. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) similarly planned to put forward a measure to boot Swalwell from the House. “As I’ve said, Gonzales and Swalwell are not fit to serve in Congress given their sexual transgressions against women who work for them,” Fernández wrote on X. “They should resign or be expelled.”

• Think Tanks Have Defeated Democracy

• Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own

• Congress is fighting over a central tool of American surveillance

Democrats

• NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027

  • Mamdani Plans to Open City-Owned Grocery Store in East Harlem

Left Angst

• Think the Iran war is a disaster? Blame these DC think tanks first

• Shock from Iran war has Trump's vision for US energy dominance flailing

  • Everyone is buying American oil now...

• IBM folds to Trump anti-DEI push, admits no misconduct but pays $17M penalty

  • Refusing to hire people because of their race / sex / etc is wrong... Even when they're White or Asian.

• The 'Coin Hangover'

• Chinese Electrotech Is the Big Winner in the Iran War

• French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart

• TN's Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• U.S. Says Wiretap Program Thwarted Attack on 2024 Taylor Swift Concert

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US officials underwhelmed by French far-right's plans for economy

• The Iran war took a toll on the Air Force's Reaper fleet

• Europe Is Accelerating a NATO Fallback Plan in Case Trump Pulls Out

• If it starts, a nuclear arms race will be unstoppable

World

• Brazil's top labor inspector fired for adding China's BYD to 'dirty list'

• 137-Year-Old Piece of Eiffel Tower Original Staircase to Be Auctioned in Paris

• EU-backed manufacturing body goes bust – and no one will say why

• OpenAI snub shows UK's energy costs are killing industry

• Can Germany restart its nuclear power program?

• Mark Carney secures majority government in Canada after special election win

• Social media platforms need to stop never-ending scrolling, UK's Starmer says

• Germany's New Baby-Nazis

• Japan's Toto suspends pre-fab bath orders as Iran war hits glue supply

• Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

Iran / Houthi

• YouTube removes pro-Iran channel producing anti-Trump videos

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• What Happened After Denmark Adopted a Ruined City in Ukraine

China

• China's government both drives and constrains the rise of AI

• China Imposes New Rules to Block Foreign Companies from 'Decoupling'

• V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer

Health / Medicine

• New toothpaste stops gum disease without killing good bacteria

• CRISPR takes a bold leap toward silencing Down syndrome's extra chromosome

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Measles takes a plane to Idaho, which has worst vaccination rate in US

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Gray whales are dying in San Francisco Bay at an alarming rate

• How the corpse flower came to be so weird

• Computational 'time machine' shows solar and wind power on track for 2°C target

• Some Texas neighborhoods are seeing feral hogs for the first time

• Beavers can turn streams into carbon stores. We measured how much