2026-05-22

Horseshit

• Necropolis in Spain is forcing rethink of who built Europe's first great tombs

• The Surprising Divide over What Counts as True

  To probe how ordinary people think about what is true, the researchers first created conceptual maps of 200 participants asking how similar they think truth is to other related concepts. For example, correspondence related to "reality" and "fact"; coherence to "justification" and "reason"; and authenticity to "honesty" and "transparency." While many participants endorsed notions relating to all three conceptions of truth, in a "winner-takes-all" summary of the judgements, 55 percent aligned most strongly with correspondence. In other words, just a bare majority believes that truth is defined by factual reality.

• Déjà moo: cows can recognise the faces of people they know

  • Cows can recognize familiar human faces and match them to voices

• 81yo Grandma Streaming Minecraft to Pay for Grandson's Cancer Swatted

• Researchers in Ireland uncover medieval book in Rome with oldest English poem

• India's 'Cockroach' group gains mass online following, spotlights Gen Z worries

• Quantum stocks soar as U.S. plans $2B award, taking equity stakes

  • U.S. to Award Nine Quantum-Computing Firms $2B and Take Equity Stakes

• Active beam headlights are finally coming to America

• Children's reading should prioritise pleasure over learning, says laureate

• Record 274 climbers summit Everest from Nepalese side in single day

• Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah

  • Schlitz beer ending production after 177 years

• Children in Australia tell UK kids how a social media ban has affected them

• 2027 Ram Rumble Bee Shocks Truck World as Stellantis Unleashes 777-HP Muscle Truck Beast With Hemi V-8 Power, SRT Hellcat Speed and Aggressive Performance Design.

celebrity gossip

• The lesson from John Travolta's dramatic new look: dress for the job you want

• Jeff Bezos says bottom half of earners should pay zero in income taxes

Obit

• Michael Keating 1947–2026

  best known to generations of science fiction fans as the roguish and irrepressible Vila Restal in Blake's 7, has died at the age of 79.

• Kyle Busch Has Died

  • Nascar champion Kyle Busch dies, 41 after hospitalization with 'severe illness'

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Bluesky says the Kremlin is hacking their platform

Musk

• Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B/month and other things hidden in the S-1

  • SpaceX pitches itself as integrated interplanetary proto-monopolist – IPO filing

  • SpaceX's historic IPO plans: Billions in losses and Musk's ownership

  • Musk's SpaceX Reveals Its Finances for the First Time

  • The Secrets Revealed in SpaceX's IPO Filing

  • SpaceX Filing Reveals $4.28B Loss, Musk's Tight Grip

  • SpaceX IPO filing lays bare losses and Musk control as it stakes future on AI

  • SpaceX's IPO paperwork has landed

  • SpaceX IPO filing filled with AI bets, Starship dreams, and Musk at the center

  • Anthropic is paying $15B a year for access to Elon Musk's data centers

  • SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought

  • SpaceX files for stock market debut that could make Elon Musk a trillionaire

  • Inside SpaceX's IPO Plan

  • SpaceX is heavily reliant on Starlink for growth and profit for IPO

  • Musk's SpaceX discloses massive losses ahead of expected record-breaking IPO

• Grok falls flat in Washington, undercutting SpaceX's AI growth story

• The US space enterprise is desperately waiting for Starship–will it deliver?

• Tesla Cybertruck driver arrested after driving into lake to use 'wade mode'

• Ted Turner Was Elon Musk Before Elon Musk Was Elon Musk

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Amazon E-Bikes Take Root in Manhattan and Brooklyn

• Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Pope Leo launches an AI commission days before he releases a papal letter

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Harvard faculty votes to make it more difficult for undergrads to earn A's

  • 70% of Faculty Vote to Overhaul Harvard Grading with a Cap

• Kansas City Public Schools goes all-in on Apple with 30k devices

• ACLU Secures $485,000 Settlement for FWC Biologist Fired over Charlie Kirk Post

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

  GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension. The company has since removed the unnamed trojanized extension from the VS Code marketplace and has secured the compromised device. While GitHub has yet to attribute the breach, the TeamPCP hacker group claimed access to GitHub source code and "~4,000 repos of private code" on the Breached cybercrime forum on Tuesday, asking for at least $50,000 for the stolen data.

• Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results

• Nvidia raises video encoder limit to 12 on consumer GPUs

• Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

• 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

  It all started when Paweł Jarczak received a private message from the company on Reddit asking him to delete his code. Now the 3D printing community is lining up behind Jarczak to fund a war against Bambu — and the future of 3D printers could be at stake.

• Meta Settles School Suit over Social Media, Averting Trial

  • Social-Media Companies Settle Youth-Harm Case Ahead of Wave of Trials

  • Meta settles social media case brought by rural Kentucky school district

• GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft

• AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Tech In Plain Sight: The Mechanics Of String Trimmers

  once the line wears down — which it does constantly — you need a way to expose fresh line. That turns out to be harder than it sounds.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA veterans raise safety concerns as agency ousts former astronaut, advisers

• "I'll buy 10 of those"–NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites

• Europe-China spacecraft launches to study Earth's 'invisible armour'

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• White House briefs AI firms on plans for model review

• AI Can Seem More Human Than Real Humans in a Classic Turing Test

• Anthropic on track for first profitable quarter

• CAISI states open models lag behind the American frontier, with the gap widening

• A Booming Shadow Market of Sketchy A.I. Investments

• Google is dethroning OpenAI as the king of consumer AI

• OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday

• Did AI Game the Commonwealth Prize?

• Anthropic's New Consulting Venture Makes Its First Acquisition

• The Amish Are Falling in Love with AI

• I Spent Months with an AI Companion. It Was Worse Than Being Alone

• Township Leader Resigns in Tears over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats

• Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool across North America

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Bitcoin's Price Relies on Strategy's Record Buying Under Michael Saylor

• FBI faked a cryptocurrency to catch fraudulent market makers

  The FBI built an actual ERC-20 token on Ethereum called NexFundAI.. 100 billion token supply.. A professional website.. Whitepapers promising "passive income through AI-powered investing".. It looked exactly like every other crypto project.. Because that was the point.. Undercover agents posed as the founding team.. Then reached out to professional market-making firms and said "we need you to fake our trading volume"..

  Every single firm said yes..

  Then in 2026.. The FBI did it again.. New token called Lexobit.. 10 more arrests.. Including operators extradited from Singapore.. IRS forensics showed that in one firm's trading.. 1,209 out of 1,221 consecutive transactions went straight back to wallets the firm controlled.. 99% circular.. The FBI proved what everyone in crypto suspected

  • (2024) DOJ press release

• Brazil bans stablecoin and crypto settlement in cross-border payments

• Minnesota Becomes First State to Ban Prediction Markets

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Meta Begins Laying Off Employees as It Transforms Around AI

  • Meta Lays Off 8k Employees, as A.I. Casualties Mount

• Intuit CEO says company's 17% workforce cut had 'nothing to do with AI'

  • Intuit to cut 17% of global jobs to streamline operations

• Microsoft's LinkedIn Is Cutting Jobs in Latest Industry Cull

• Standard Charter CEO Replaces 8000 "Lower Value Humans" with AI

• Investors fear another surge in inflation

• Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter

  • Nvidia's revenue blows past Wall Street expectations as AI boom accelerates

  • Even at $5T, Nvidia Is Underappreciated

  • Kissing ass is one thing, but this is unseemly gargling

• Economics Lessons from Home Depot

• Merlin to Bring Military Autonomy Platform to Commercial Air Cargo

• America Needs to Build More Housing

• Housekeeping Wages to Top $110K Year in New York City by Early 2030s

• Samsung has avoided a disastrous strike by memory workers at the last minute.

• Seagate's CEO sparked a selloff of memory stocks when he said that, basically, building new factories is for losers.

• US manufacturing activity rises to four-year high in May, S&P flash PMI shows

• Oura, Maker of Popular Smart Rings, Files Confidentially for IPO

• Big Tech's AI Debt Binge Tests High-Grade Market, Barclays Says

• Zillow loses listings in fight over "hidden" homes

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• House Passes Housing Bill, Uniting on a Measure to Bring Down Costs

• TSA Gold+ program for privatizing airport security screening

Trump

• IRS barred from probing Trump's tax returns filed before settlement

  • If they ain't found shit yet; they ain't gonna.

• Police sue Trump as Jan. 6 rioters gloat over 'weaponization' fund

• Trump Plans to Sign Executive Order Granting Oversight of A.I. Models

  • Trump calls off AI executive order over concern it could weaken US tech edge

  • White House postpones AI executive order signing ceremony

  • Trump Postpones AI Executive Order Due to Concerns About Overregulation

  • Donald Trump abruptly postpones AI order after White House infighting

Democrats

• Read the DNC's 2024 autopsy obtained by CNN

Left Angst

• Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety | MIT Technology Review

• Trump admin didn't want Ebola-exposed Americans, sent them to Berlin, Prague

• Trump Executive Order Expands Bank Secrecy Act

• FCC Uses False Claims of Immigrant Fraud to Drive Up Broadband Cost for Everyone

• Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats

• Soros Redirects $300 Million to US, Targeting Trump Policies.

• Democrats Protect SPLC By Trying To Censor Truth About ‘Very Fine People’ Hoax From Congressional Record.

• MAGA Star Candidate Spencer Pratt Has Wild Meltdown After Being Mocked

  Marlow Stern, chief correspondent at Variety and a former senior editor at the Daily Beast, pointed out that Pratt currently “lives in Santa Barbara,” which is about 90 miles north of L.A. In response, Pratt, who lost his home in the Palisades Fire, had a full meltdown at Stern while also ranting about the state of the media and politics.

  “My house burned down. I lost everything. I can’t rebuild. As a 42-year-old man with two kids, I’ve had to move into my parents’ house, and I’m getting attacked for that? This is journalism? This is why no decent people ever get into politics. This is why you only have goblins running everything,” Pratt posted on X.

• Inside the unraveling of U.S. diplomacy under Trump

• Tobacco Giant Donated $5M to MAGA Inc. Shortly Before Vaping Decision

• Trump to roll back Biden-era refrigerant rules in push to lower grocery costs.

• Companies join a deep-sea mining rush, as regulators fast-track permits

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants data in near real time

World

• MPs call out Rockstar Games over alleged union-busting

• Edu-committee wants social media ban to save mental health

• BoE Governor says Plans to limit food prices 'not sustainable'

• UK radio station apologises for accidentally announcing death of King Charles

• Meloni's push to revive nuclear power runs into Italy's old ghosts

• Air France and Airbus guilty of corporate manslaughter for 2009 plane crash

  • Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash

• Sadiq Khan blocks £50M Met police deal with Palantir

• Billionaire Brexit backers pledge to fight to keep Britain out of EU

• French NATO commander: Europe has no alternative to Palantir's warfare tech

• Malaysia orders TikTok explain 'grossly offensive' fake content targeting king

• Ontario looks to ban reselling tickets for more than original price

• Fender wins legal battle over Stratocaster shape in Germany

• Drones reshape war in Colombia as deaths and injuries mount

• Finland's bomb shelters draw world to Helsinki in quest for security

Iran / Houthi

• Iran is consolidating control of Hormuz with checkpoints, deals, and 'fees'

• US–Iran deal reportedly finalised, announcement expected within hours

Israel

• Apple's new iPhone comes with Israeli chips

  two of the phone’s connectivity chips; the C1X modem and N1 wireless chip were developed with help from Apple’s R&D center in Israel. Considering Israel’s cyber rap sheet, who can blame social media for viral comments like: “Can I get the iphone without the exploding back door" (a nod to the 2024 Israeli Operation Grim Beeper pager attacks in Lebanon “Israel will now be able to monitor ALL iPhone users in real time” Amid claims that Apple secretly struck a deal with the Israeli government and warnings the phone could double as a surveillance tool, the panic is rooted in Israel’s Apple's notoriously deep ties to Israel.

• Palestine Chronicle editor-in-chief admits cousin was top Hamas commander who carried out suicide attack.

• Israel's High-Tech Campaign to Kill or Capture Every Oct. 7 Attacker

China

• Nvidia says it has 'largely conceded' China's AI chip market to Huawei

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Denmark's wind and solar investments shield it from global energy turmoil

• Earth's supervolcanoes are waking up. Here's what that means for the planet

• Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

  • Colossal Biosciences is growing chickens in a 3D-printed artificial eggshell

• Timmy the Whale Got Stranded Off the German Coast. Then Things Got Weird

• Bees May Be Killing the Plants They Feed From

• 4.4 Magnitude Earthquake in Naples

• Friend or foul? Exploring the ancient bond between pigeons and people

• Dakota Dust Storms Expose a $150B Economic Nightmare