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• Five dead after Amazon-branded cargo plane overruns runway at Miami airport, striking multiple vehicles

  The plane overran Runway 30, struck multiple vehicles and came to rest at a field next to the airport, Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said. A search-and-rescue operation was launched to retrieve the pilot and the co-pilot, who were trapped in the plane, and a technical rescue team conducted a “complex extrication” for people who were stuck inside the vehicles the plane hit, he said.

  • Videos appear to show a landing gear problem as it touched down, one set of rear wheels not contacting the ground.

  • Amazon cargo plane crash stops right before Tesla Cybercab fleet Miami airport

  • Miami firefighters seen climbing into Amazon cargo jet after shouting on dispatch 'The plane is on fire'

  • Five dead after Amazon cargo plane overruns runway at Miami Airport

Horseshit

• Lloyd Kahn, the Counterculture Publisher Who Is Skateboarding at 91

• 25 years ago, two strangers met in the twin towers and escaped on 9/11

• Why 'sleepmaxxing' could be making your sleep worse

• British Museum faces question over Peter Thiel's private Bayeux Tapestry viewing

• Mom charged after 5-year-old walks to pond alone, stirring parenting debate

• P&G goes wide with a waterless, plastic-free Tide

  Branded as Tide evo, the detergent is concentrated into 3.5-inch square white tiles that dissolve in cold water in the washing machine.

• Could life exist on Venus? Peptides survive harsh acid

• Children Tracking Parents

• How work makes families more equal

• The Last Thing Teenagers Will Let You Teach Them

• Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales

• San Francisco institution 'heartbroken and furious' after erasure of public art

celebrity gossip

• 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Sanctioned ICC head calls court the last bastion of rule of law

• “Mass Female TikTok Psychosis”: The Lindsay Clancy Cult

Musk

• If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one

• Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses

• Tesla's Cybercab has been deployed, and it's already under investigation

• Tesla touts European supervised self-driving safety data ahead of EU vote

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• From dance floor to war: China readies humanoid robots for combat

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Plastics Companies Are Writing Lesson Plans. What Could Go Wrong?

• A makeover for college: No gym, no meal plan and two years of work

• Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame

• It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta

• TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings

• 'RAMageddon' hits consumer electronics as AI drains chip supply

• Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets

  to celebrate its upcoming 50th birthday. As such, nearly 250 items from almost all of its productions are for grabs.

• After six decades (of filming), the seminal series bows out with 70 Up

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Man gets 'Flocked' by sheriff's dept. after filing complaint against deputy

• US Republicans revolt against Flock AI surveillance as backlash intensifies

• Flock taught cops how to surveil "No Kings" protesters.

• "Why now? Why do you care about surveillance now but didn't care as much about it before?"

  AI has changed everything. Imagine Flock cameras without AI. They could put cameras everywhere they wanted, and it would be essentially meaningless because they would never have the manpower to watch all the footage. So, in effect, the surveillance of those cameras was never actually there. Before AI, they only called upon footage if an actual crime was committed and the footage was believed to be relevant to that crime. Now, with AI, they can effectively watch all the footage, pull all the data they want from it, and compile a record of where every person has been for as far back as the data goes.

• LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on

  • OpenAI and the Wiki Incident

• French burglar used artificial intelligence to locate Canberra target in heist

• Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging

• Astra has beat all 48 levels of Neal.fun's "I'm Not a Robot" game

• We Can't Know Our A.I. Future If We Don't Study It

• Who Cares If AI Is Conscious–It's Basically Alive

• Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI

• Will anybody use AI as much as coders do?

• I refused to train the AI that could replace me

• He's Letting AI Agents Invest His Money. They Even Have Names

• Anthropic Has Committed More Than $100B to AWS

• AI Is Already Making Us Less Human

• more creators are coming forward with AI Doom payment offers they received.

• Google's Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

• AI Backlash Comes to the Classroom

• Designers should not fear being replaced by AI, industry leaders say

• ChatGPT Was Built on Concealed 'Mass Piracy', Authors Tell Court

• Capping bug bounty submissions is the wrong response in the AI era

• Can AI Replace a Nevada Brothel Sex Worker?

• Sen. Kennedy rails against AI developers as 'high IQ stupid people'

• UN rights chief calls for international red lines on AI

• A look at Anthropic's Labs team

• AI may soon allow humans to talk with animals — but some say it could violate their right to privacy.

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Liquid Network Pauses After $320M Bitcoin Withdrawal

  • Hackers drain $320M in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, claim they're the good guys

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Told to pass over qualified Americans for less-qualified H-1B

• Women account for nearly all new US jobs in August

  Because women tend to earn less than men and are likelier to hold multiple jobs, the figure suggests hiring is clustered in low-paying, contingent roles, meaning it’s not “necessarily a positive story for women overall,” Indeed Hiring Lab said. It also belies a trend of American mothers exiting the workforce.

• Volkswagen to cut 50k more jobs, hitting 100k total layoffs

  • Volkswagen to cut 100,000 jobs by end of decade

• Jaguar Land Rover to cut 4,000 jobs over next two years

• Americans Without Degrees Are Having One of the Best Job Markets in Years

• Aging U.S. demographics jolt labor market data

• Tim Cook's CEO-Like Pay Package Shows He Isn't Going Anywhere

• Why Labor's Share of Wealth Is Shrinking

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Can the U.S. afford a major war? Not with this deficit

• America's debt binge is starting to matter

• Senate Considers Letting Contractors Hack Computers for Military

• A Microsoft engineer found that a smart thermostat in a tabulation room in the Georgia 2020 election was talking to a tabulation server, reporting the votes back to China.

Democrats

• California Forever meets further setbacks

Left Angst

• Trump homeland security chief says ICE agents could be sent to polling places

• Trump unveils Space Force uniform inspired by Nazi-aesthetic film

• Meta blocks accounts protesting Kushner-linked Albanian resort project

• Trump Floats Renaming New Mexico as 'New America,' Prompting Pushback

• No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran 'because it isn't a war'

  • I personally know people whose injuries in Grenada got them pushed out of the service as "unfit" rather than "disabled" because the narrative didn't have room for anyone to have been injured by enemy action. This shit ain't new.

• Humble exoskeletons work better than combat supersuits

• Army to spend $465M on 'Group 3 killer' anti-drone laser

• US Military disabled ad tracking on troops' devices after targeted attacks

World

• Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

• Taiwan eyes silicon photonics as next big tech leap

• Grindr pays £26M to settle UK lawsuit over allegedly sharing users' HIV status

• The new frontier of Japan's rearmament is cyberspace

• Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms

• India's alternative-fuel car sales top petrol on cost, E20 concerns

• Indonesia's Anak Krakatau eruption halts flights, schools, fishing

• Europe's biggest mobile operators in talks for satellite-to-mobile venture

• Germany Power Grid Sabotage: Launch Devices Found Near Weisweiler Plant

• Tech explores Argentina's Patagonia for mega data centers

• Australian government to chart course away from 'American war machine'

• National security risk: Berlin data leak causes major repercussions

• Why the AfD Wins

  If the AfD really is the extremist party that Der Spiegel implies it is, then something has gone terribly wrong with Germany’s fortified democracy. For the AfD is now—by far—the most popular party in the country; 28 percent of voters nationwide say they would vote for it in the next national election, ahead of the 21 percent who would vote for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, which has (in coalition) ruled Germany almost continuously since Angela Merkel first won in 2005. In Sachsen-Anhalt, the old parties, even assuming they gain the votes, will be able to thwart the AfD only by, in effect, conspiring against it with what, to many Germans’ eyes, is an even more radical party: the Left Party, descended from the old Socialist Unity Party of the communist era, which increasingly focuses its wrath on Israel.

Iran / Houthi

• Iran's Hormuz leverage wanes as US economic squeeze bites

Israel

• Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans, why are they ignored

• Volkswagen to convert German car plant to produce Israeli defense equipment

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia opens first road bridge with North Korea

China

• Patients Are Flying to China for the Latest Cancer Treatment

• China Prepares for Space Warfare

• What did she see? The intelligence scramble to retrace an accused spys footsteps

• More damaging than the 'tractor spy' narrative is the witch-hunt mentality

• Why India Baffles China

• Patients Are Flying to China for Cancer Treatment

Health / Medicine

• Long-term melatonin use linked to 90% higher heart failure risk

• Novartis cholesterol setback tests hopes for emerging heart disease drugs

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Great Barrier Reef refuses to die on schedule

• The volunteers risking their lives to defuse Indonesia's wildfire 'carbon bombs'

• Marine heatwaves a growing threat to physical, mental health of humans

• Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue different species

• Michigan Scientist Buried Seeds in Glass Bottles in 1879, 142 Yr Later Some Grew