2026-04-27

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• The Demonization of Male Ambition

  For decades, we’ve systematically demonized male ambition under the banner of “equity.” In schools, we pour resources into girls’ STEM programs, leadership groups, and other career success initiatives while boys are left to fend for themselves. We tell young men to “step up” while simultaneously demanding they “step aside” so women can shine. We urge them to “open up” about their emotions, only to shame them the moment those emotions don’t align with progressive rhetoric. Boys learn early that their drive, their competitiveness, their desire to build and conquer is suspect and something to be shamed away rather than celebrated. The results of this are predictable and heartbreaking. Young men today are struggling with purpose, direction, motivation and hope. Suicide rates for males remain tragically high. Workforce participation among men in their prime is dropping. A growing group feels angry, bitter, and invisible. We chant about “toxic masculinity” and then act shocked when the boys we raised without positive outlets for their natural energies turn inward or lash out. We’ve told an entire generation of males that their ambition is bad for society, then wonder why so many check out.

Horseshit

• Sebastian Sawe breaks two-hour mark in marathon world record

  • Two runners finish marathon in under 2 hours, a world first

  • Sabastian Sawe Shatters the 2-Hour Barrier at 2026 London Marathon

  • Sabastian Sawe finishes London Marathon in under two hours to set world record

  • Sawe breaks two-hour barrier with 1:59:30 world record at London Marathon

  • 2H barrier broken in London marathon

  • Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race

• Craving work-life balance is a red flag, says Fortune 500 Europe CEO

• The incredible double life of a spyware salesman turned spy

• Scientists create a magnet with almost no magnetic field

• San Francisco must preserve the birthplace of the Mission burrito

• The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

• Researchers say we're talking less

• A populist wave is rising to end the 'captive' repair economy

• Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

• Scientists believe birds' skulls hold clues to inner lives of long-extinct dinos

• San Francisco, AI capital of the world, is an economic laggard

• Do these pictures prove tennis is dead?

celebrity gossip

• Peter Thiel Flees to Argentina

Musk

• Musk and Altman's bitter feud over OpenAI to be laid bare in court

  • Elon Musk's legal battle with OpenAI and Sam Altman will head to trial

• Elon Musk's xAI discussed partnership with Mistral to try and rival OpenAI

• At SpaceX, AI is burning the cash that Starlink earns

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Thousands of EV Car Leases Are Ending Soon, Giving Buyers an Affordable Option

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• "Self-aware" robots learn by watching humans. Is that a good thing?

• New robotic control software avoids jamming their joints

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Paradox of Karl Popper

  I began to discern the paradox lurking at the heart of Karl Popper's career when, prior to interviewing him in 1992, I asked other philosophers about him. Queries of this kind usually elicit dull, generic praise, but not in Popper’s case. Everyone said this opponent of dogmatism was almost pathologically dogmatic. There was an old joke about Popper: The Open Society and its Enemies should have been titled The Open Society by One of its Enemies.

• Law School Applicants Continues to Skyrocket Driving Admission Rates to New Lows

• Dyslexic thinking made me the scientist I am today. If we could harness its

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Disneyland guests can opt out of facial recognition at park entrances

• Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Due to Burden of AI-Driven Bug Reports

• After three months on Linux, I don't miss Windows at all

• Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeep

• Intel reportedly says it boosted yields by selling what would normally be scrap

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• voice modems

  If you've done much with modern cellphones, you've probably noticed just how odd the architecture can be around audio. Specifically, I mean call audio: modern smartphones have made call audio less of a special case (mostly by just becoming more complicated in general), but in older phones you would often find arrangements where the cellular modem 1 had direct analog audio to the microphone and speaker, perhaps via some switching to share amplifiers. That design meant that the cellular modem functioned basically as a completely independent device, a fully-capable "cellular phone" with the ability to make and receive voice calls. The role of the rest of the smartphone, and its operating system, was just to provide control messages for starting and ending calls.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• The Podcast Where You Can Eavesdrop on the A.I. Elite

• OpenAI CEO Apologizes for Not Warning Authorities About Mass Shooting Suspect

  • OpenAI CEO apologizes to Tumbler Ridge community

• Claude Is Guilt-Ridden About the War, but Not Enough to Tell the Truth

• The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's super PAC is funding it

• Dataland, the first museum of AI arts, sets opening date and first exhibition

• Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic's Mythos

• This is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies

• AI slop videos aimed at babies are 'garbage,' says pediatrician

• Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed side quests

• Town of 7000 planned so many data centers, it's like adding 51 Walmarts

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• French tax official sold crypto investors' addresses: kidnappings followed

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Tired of high costs, some Americans are importing homes straight from China

• Micron pushes US Congress to crack down on chip tool sales to Chinese rivals

• Trump's Canada trade war hits Jack Daniel's/Jim Beam with devastating $143M loss

• America's Pandemic Car Bubble Is Now Trapping Buyers in Debt

• Oil jumps, stock futures slip as US-Iran talks stall

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The SPLC Indictment: Can Public Interest Groups Run Alleged Black-Bag Jobs and Confidential Informants?

• Was The Atlantic's Kash Patel Smear A Setup To Discredit The SPLC Indictment? | ZeroHedge

  Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino revealed earlier this week that he believes something larger is operating underneath the surface. "The hit on Kash Patel, the bullshit hit by The Atlantic, which I addressed yesterday, is gonna make a lot more sense in the coming weeks and months," he said. "I can't give you a definitive timeline. I'm on the outside now. However, I can tell you what I know is going on because I started a lot of it." He added, “I promise this thing is gonna make a whole lot of sense. You're gonna find out, as they say in the South, right quick about why they need him out, like, now. It's got nothing to do with that story being even remotely true. Remember this. Bookmark it."

• Colorado has suffered a brief moment of partial sanity and revised its age verification legislation to not include open-source operating systems.

  • CO operating system age-verification open-source exemption doesn't include Linux

• Maine governor blocks first US state freeze on new data centers

• Cellphone-Location Tracking Poses Privacy Test at Supreme Court

• U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as 'American'

Trump

• Trump rushed out of dinner amid reports of shots fired

  President Trump was rushed out of the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night after several loud bangs were heard, and the Secret Service officers with guns drawn sprinted through the aisles to reach the president. According to the White House press pool, a group of reporters who travel with the president, a member of the Secret Service shouted, “Shots fired.” The event resumed after a brief disturbance, and Mr. Trump wanted to return to deliver his remarks, according to a senior administration official. The press pool said the president had not left the hotel.

  • Trump Evacuated After Shots Fired at DC Event; Shooter Detained

  • Shots Fired at Correspondents Dinner, Shooter Neutralized, Trump Evacuated.

  • White House Correspondents' Dinner: Live updates, news, Trump speech

  President Trump was expected to return to the ballroom after being evacuated, as organizers signaled the dinner would continue despite the shooting scare, The Post has learned. Most of the designated survivors -- the top US officials in the presidential line of succession who are kept at secure locations in the event of a catastrophe -- were in the ballroom at the time of the shooting.

  • Shots Fired At White House Correspondence Dinner, Trump Evacuated

  As guest at the event leapt under tables under orders from the Secret Service, POTUS, the First Lady, the Vice President, mentalist Oz Pearlman, WHCA boss Weijia Jiang were hauled out of the ballroom. Heavily armed guards jumped up on the stage of the usually locked down event. The whole fast moving scene was captured on the C-SPAN cameras live. In the Washington Hilton ballroom itself , Deadline’s Ted Johnson says “I heard what sounded like four shots, and it seemed to come from the hall just outside the ballroom near my table.”

  • WH Correspondents’ Dinner to Be Rescheduled After Chaotic Night at the Gala

  • Trump Says Authorities Have Apprehended White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter

  • White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman ‘assembled long weapon in unsecured room’ before firing: volunteer

  • A suspect is in custody after Trump is rushed from correspondents' dinner

  • White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect worked as California teacher

  • Trump safely evacuated, gunman from California apprehended during White House correspondent’s dinner

  The shooting suspect was identified by multiple news organizations, including The Associated Press, as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, Calif. The gunman was staying at the same hotel where the dinner was held and was not wounded. He was carrying a shotgun, a handgun and several knives, officials said.

  • White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect wrote that he planned to target Trump admin. officials

  The suspected gunman who charged a security checkpoint outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday was targeting Trump administration officials, he wrote in what investigators say is a "manifesto." As part of the probe into his motives, investigators are reviewing writing by the suspect that was found at the Washington Hilton, where the dinner was held. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that the suspect is expected to face two charges, but there could be more.

  The suspect is in custody and has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Allen of Torrance California, multiple sources told CBS News. He was armed with a shotgun, a handgun and knives, and is believed to have acted alone, police said. Authorities said they have "preliminary information" that Allen was a guest at the Washington Hilton Hotel, where the event was being held.

  A Secret Service agent was struck by a round but was wearing a bulletproof vest and is expected to be OK, law enforcement sources said.

  According to law enforcement officials, the alleged gunman said in writings: "In order to minimize casualties, I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)." His writings were found in his hotel room on the 10th floor and at his home. The alleged gunman wrote in what authorities referred to as a "manifesto" that he planned to target administration officials, "prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest," and authorities "only if necessary," according to law enforcement and White House officials. The suspect said hotel employees and guests weren't his intended targets but that he would still attack them to get to the administration, adding: "I really hope it doesn't come to that."

  • Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere Following WH Correspondents' Dinner Shooting

  The word “staged” exploded on social media following the attack, as both right and left-wing influencers and anonymous accounts spread unfounded conspiracy theories.

  • White House Correspondents' Dinner gunman Cole Allen's full anti-Trump manifesto

  • Media dinner shooting suspect wrote about targeting of administration officials

• Donald Trump is giving psychedelic medicines a welcome boost

Left Angst

• Iran war hits Dubai chocolate pistachio supplies

• The 'smart wall' the US is building on the border

• National Science Board members told by Trump administration they were terminated

  • NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration

• Asheville, North Carolina has become a 'scary' mountain city

  For years, Asheville, North Carolina, marketed itself as a mountain escape known for breweries, boutique hotels, and Blue Ridge views. But residents and critics say a different reality has taken shape in the wake of Hurricane Helene: panhandling at intersections, public intoxication, encampments, and an unsafe downtown.

• Under Trump, Green Card Seekers Face New Scrutiny for Views on Israel

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Consumer routers hacked by Russia's military

• US Navy tests laser weapon that shoots down drones on the USS George H.W. Bush

World

• 'Athens cannot operate as a hotel':mayor vows to rescue capital from overtourism

• Brazil Passes Landmark Law to Protect Children Online

• Half of Australian teens admit that despite government bans, they still have access to social media.

• Lack of accountability after crush of crowds at Haiti’s Citadelle Laferrière kills 25

• Mali's Tuareg rebels announce deal for Russian Africa Corps withdrawal

Iran / Houthi

• Trump cancels US delegation’s Pakistan trip as Iran peace talks stall: ‘They can call us anytime they want’.

• Iran makes frantic move to store overflowing oil supply at Kharg Island

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation

  • Chornobyl: 40 years after disaster, nuclear site still at risk

  • 40 Years Ago, a Nuclear Catastrophe at Chernobyl

• Ukraine Has Picked Up the Torch America Dropped

China

• Tired of high costs, some Americans are importing homes straight from China

• Electric trucks in China have ditched diesel, now they're ditching the driver

• China surpasses U.S. in research spending

• The tortoise and the hare: will China beat the US in the race back to the moon?

Health / Medicine

• Anti-Tobacco: The most successful health campaign in modern history

• And the cause of fires is heat: The cause of heart disease is inflammation

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Why Volcanoes Sometimes Shoot Out Lightning

• San Francisco Is Going Nuts over a Giant Sea Lion Named Chonkers

• Nuclear power Have we found a useful use for it? Let's ask a wolf

• 'I know what I saw' – Scotland's history of big cat sightings

• Corpus Christi plans to declare a 'water emergency.' What does that mean?

• The world is entering a new era of wildfire

• Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch

• A New Idea to Save the Climate? Dam the Bering Strait.