2026-09-05

Horseshit

• An 'Exercise Pill' Just Cleared Its First Human Test

• Burning Man has become a wrinkled sausage fest of aging millennial men

• The Missing Ingredient of Modern Life

• Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior

• Don't do that, then: The Aesthetics Safety Crisis: The Role of Classism & Sexism

  anybody can inject filler. No formal qualifications or insurance are legally required, nor the medical training needed to manage the situation if and when things go wrong—and injecting filler in even slightly the wrong place can be catastrophic. In 2024, a woman died after receiving a liquid BBL—a highly dangerous procedure whereby filler is injected into the buttocks.

• Legal standard used to be "under 1%": Non-alcoholic beer may actually contain alcohol

• How the Early Dreams of the Internet Changed

• Have We Destroyed Childhood?

• Health warnings could reduce young people's social media use

• What Tech Titans Don't Understand About Sci-Fi

Epstein

• Fake Republican Midterm Convention Website Redirects Visitors to Epstein Files

celebrity gossip

• Inside Gabe Newell’s 111m superyacht Leviathan

Musk

• Cybercab motor uses no rare earth metals

• Tesla launches steering-wheel-free Cybercab robotaxi in Austin

• Tesla opens search for Cybercab fleet sales, but FSD owners are still left out

• Tesla Begins Offering Rides in a Car Without a Steering Wheel

• Tesla is asking people if they want to buy and run Cybercab fleets

• Tesla Cybercabs Hit Austin Streets in Expansion of Robotaxi Service

• Trump administration opens probe into Tesla's self-driving Cybercab

• X Corp blocks social media startup from using 'Twitter' name

• OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk

• Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary

• Musk's Boring Co. Pushes Investors for Recruiting, Business Help

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Mom is working for Moloch

  Managerial liberalism is defined by its rejection of illegible human bonds. Everything must have a price, so that anyone is free to buy it, and the state can judge the transaction to be transparent and fair. What we would call “loyalty” or “honor” or “covenant” can only exist in a managerial society as meaningless ideals — the kind of thing that you are free to daydream about at church. The moment these ideals enter the “real world” of money and power, they can only be understood as “prejudice” or “corruption”: not only a bad thing, but the bad thing — the enemy that the system exists to eradicate. But the family is an inherently covenantal relationship, and it inherently involves the real world. Human beings will not raise families as a transaction — so a society that cannot honor covenants cannot have families, and very rapidly will cease to be a society at all.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Is It Even Possible to Understand Quantum Mechanics?

• Why I am so against volunteering in academia (ecology-edition)

  I find volunteering in ecology in my world to be an exclusionary practice practiced by those who talk endlessly about inclusion. And, as is often the case in my life, this sort of hypocrisy drives me nuts and I can just never get over it.

• Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes

• Seattle public schools shuts down gifted and talented program

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Authentication is now sometimes required to clone public GitHub repositories

• Apple Is Testing a Four-HomePod Surround System, Code Suggests

• Colorado Sees First Lawsuit Under 'Right to Repair' Law

• Google engineer unplugged fiber and took down a chunk of the G-Cloud

• Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

  That company turns out to be IDScan.net, based in Louisiana, which has contracts with thousands of dispensaries, not to mention Hertz, FedEx, and Target.

• Signal Beta adds support registrations without a phone number

• Oura's IPO Reveals High Growth for Smart-Ring Maker

• Wikimedia Workers Overwhelmingly Win Union with 93% Yes Vote

• Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows to entice developers

• Microsoft to impose time limits on Xbox cloud gaming as costs continue to climb

• Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive

• Motherboard Prices May Rise Again as PCB Costs Climb Up to 50%

• Microsoft says Windows 11 age checks will limit features, starting with Teams

• CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Man Rolls Up to Police Station With Pickup Truck Full of Torn Up Flock Cameras

• Flock cameras must be pulled from Florida state roads within 30 days, DeSantis orders

• Fed Up With Flock.

• Vigilantism Comes for Flock

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Corners Lifting On 3D Prints? Guide Gives Prevention Tips

• AI engineer breaks part of RSA encryption protocol by hand

• Charles Petzold: Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication?

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• The sextant as backup navigation tool for astronauts

• 2 Spacecraft will soon reach Mercury after 8 years

  • ‘A new mission starting today’: 8 years after launch, BepiColombo begins Mercury arrival.

  BepiColombo is scheduled to begin science operations on April 6, 2027, with MPO and Mio studying Mercury simultaneously from complementary orbits. MPO will focus on Mercury’s surface composition, geology and planetary interior, while Mio will investigate the planet’s magnetic field and its interaction with the solar wind.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Nvidia will buy Hugging Face for $13B

  • Nvidia's $12,930,300,000 acquisition of Hugging Face contains an easter egg

  • Nvidia Acquiring HuggingFace

  • Nvidia Agrees to Buy AI Platform Hugging Face for $13B

• OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout

  • After OpenAI's Bots Went Rogue, Watchdogs Were Kept on a Short Leash

  • Bernie Sanders, Greg Casar call for artificial superintelligence ban amid rogue AI hackings

  • Lots of wiki takeovers apparently: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board | Hacker News

  • OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims

• Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?

• Google to speed up chip rollout to stay ahead in AI, technology chief says

• Amazon and Meta AI bots account for most website visits

• OpenAI commits $1B to critical-infrastructure AI initiative

• Open-weight AI agents can use 10k× more energy than simple queries

• Power-hungry data centers are expanding in Europe

• America must learn AI lessons from Astro Boy

• How Much of the Internet Is Written with AI?

• Jensen Huang Became AI'S Taylor Swift

• I'd watch it: Titty Killer 6: Tits of Mars

• Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, to run 30B+ parameters locally

• NYC's AI ban through grade 8 sets stage for rest of US, experts say

• An Interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman About Astra and Alignment

• Microsoft challenges data centre costs after pledging to protect ratepayers

• 'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres

• Climbers rescued on Mount Shasta after using AI chatbot to plan trip

  • Three hiking novices asked Gemini how to climb 14,179-ft Mount Shasta

• Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I

• Lords call for AI 'kill switch' powers in UK

• The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop

• US urged to consider military strikes to stop China achieving AGI first

• Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages

• Data Centers Are 'Awesome for Blue-Collar Americans'

• The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here

• Anthropic close to awarding Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs top roles in IPO

• Los Angeles District Bans Most A.I. For Students

Economicon / Business / Finance

• PayPal plans to lay off workers at its South Bay headquarters

• US diesel prices hit record high as conflicts intensify supply crunch

  • US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average

• Volkswagen board approves plan to cut another 50k jobs

  • Volkswagen flags 50k job cuts across group as board approves turnaround plan

  • Volkswagen says it is cutting 100k jobs by the end of the decade

  • Volkswagen confirms cutting 50k jobs as part of its survival plan

• Average wages no longer buy a standard-size home in most of Europe

• Private equity faces existential crisis in US as unsold companies pile up

• Biggest sovereign wealth fund plans to cut U.S. Treasury holdings

  • Norway's Oil Fund Proposes Selling Roughly $80B in U.S. Treasurys

  • Norway's $2T sovereign fund proposes deep cuts to US Treasury holdings

• Are the 2 tallest buildings in Colorado Springs in foreclosure?

• Payroll employment increases by 162k in August; unemployment unchanged at 4.1%

  • US nonfarm payrolls surge in August; unemployment rate steady at 4.1%

  • U.S. Adds a Whopping 162,000 Jobs in a Bright Spot for the Economy

  • The U.S. unexpectedly added 162,000 jobs last month

• Australian property developer collapse ripples into private credit markets

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Congress Is Trying (Again) to Ban Boycotting Israel

• Missouri's top court blocks new House map favoring Republicans until voters can weigh in

  Missouri Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway indicated Thursday night that her office will appeal to the Supreme Court, writing on X: "We are confident that the federal courts will not allow every Missouri voter to be disenfranchised—which is what today's decision does." Missouri's new districts were used in the August primaries. But the state Supreme Court said they cannot be used in the November general election — or ever again, unless voters first uphold the new districts passed by the Republican-led legislature.

  • Missouri Supreme Court Delivers Win for Democrats in Redistricting Case - The New York Times

• The Sealed Document TikTok Doesn't Want Two Senators to See

Democrats

• What happens when a blue state votes on trans sports?

• Mayor Mamdani's Friendly Influencers and Funding of Public Messaging in New York

Left Angst

• Trump's White House releases deportation video games

  • Trump White House Launches Arcade with Games to Build Wall, Deport Migrants

  • White House website debuts 5 retro arcade video games promoting Trump's agenda

  • White House debuts video games

  • White House Launches Arcade.Gov

• Green Card wait for most Indian immigrants is now 179 years

• Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Minerals Deal

• ‘These Tech Workers Are Just Nazi Train Operators:’ Sober Reactions to Google Relabeling a Lake

• Maria Bartiromo out at Fox News after more than a decade at cable giant

  • The Maria Bartiromo backstory

  Maria Bartiromo wanted to pursue a story related to China and 2020 election voting conspiracies... a major sensitivity for the network given its Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits. A Fox Business executive sent a text to Fox Business producers informing them that that story could not go to air. Bartiromo took a screen shot of the guidance and sent it to senior White House officials. Fox News leadership learned about that after receiving a call from the White House, which they viewed as a fireable offense.

  • Statement From Maria Bartiromo’s Lawyer Contradicts Reports of Her Parting Ways With Fox

  • Maria Bartiromo Denies Fox Firing, Retains Bryan Freedman As Attorney

• ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie from REI

• Testosterone shifts political preferences in weakly affiliated Democratic men

  • Testosterone Administration Induces a Red Shift in Democrats

• USPS Plays a 'Puzzle Game' with the Right to Vote

• The President Can't Handle the Truth

• EPA Moves to Drop Protections for More Wetlands

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy murder trial

  • The Lindsay Clancy Child Killing Legal Circus Collapses.

  • Mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case after jury deadlocks | AP News

  Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, never disputed that she killed the children but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she had postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Military personnel are being targeted using location data

  • US Military turns off ad trackers on devices amid Middle East targeting reports

  • US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones

• Suspected Spy Drone Caught Over Sensitive U.S. Missile Base

• U.S. Navy Spent $3.4B on Idled Submarines, Could Spend Another $3.1B More

World

• German Government abandons plan for BSI constitutional amendment

  surprisingly refraining from expanding the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) into a true central authority through a constitutional amendment.

• Tunisia swelters as power cuts disrupt water supplies

• UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa's true scale

  • UN votes to adopt new map that makes our world look different

  • UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows true size of all countries

  • France adopts fairer world map ahead of UN vote

  • UN approves resolution in support of map that shows Africa's true size

• How Delhi built a world-class metro for a bargain

• British police try to track down theft of 70k pints worth of Guinness stout

• Estonian defense minister resigns after procurement scandal

• Uber ceases operations in Nigeria, catching drivers and riders by surprise

  • 'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda

• New Zealand drugs regulator approves use of MDMA to treat PTSD

Israel

• Microalgae bloom knocks out most of Israel's desalination plants

  • Israel water authority dumped toxins into Mediterranean to kill algae bloom

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace

China

• High Oil Prices Speed Up China's Shift Away from Crude

• Chinese businesses giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, dumplings

• DeepSeek to use 160K+ of Huawei's Ascend 950DT chips at a Mongolia data center

• Why can't a tech-savvy China make its food safe?

Health / Medicine

• A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas

• Transplanted pig kidney works in US man's body for record 271 days

  • Genetically modified pig kidney keeps man alive for record nine months

• The Biggest Obstacle to New Cancer Cures

• Scientists map key protein interactions linked with profound autism

• Regular coffee beats decaf in protecting the brain from chronic stress: study

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A Texas rancher grazes more than 8k sheep across solar farms

• Individual Consequences of a Global Crisis

• Canadians should prepare for a 5 C hotter future, report warns

• Scientists Find Worms in Almost Every Fish in a Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected

• Satellite Images of Penguin Droppings Reveal Impact of Antarctic Warming

• Rare Half-Male, Half-Female Bird Took Up Residence Outside of Chicago

• UK residents warned to stock up on food due to El Niño

  Dame Angela said: "We're about to experience probably the largest El Niño that has ever been seen, and that will lead to drier summers, wetter winters, with more extreme storms in this country. "It will do a lot more damage in Asia with flooding, and therefore I think that we need to take it seriously. "If you've got a store of a bit of food that can keep you going for a while before the emergency services can get to you, you're going to be a lot better off than if you haven't.