2026-09-14

Horseshit

• Fermi Explorer Bets on Today's Tech for an 80k Year Journey

• What's Left of the Back-to-the-Landers

• Ryanair CEO compares rival airlines to 'rapists'

• Man arrested after allegedly sexually abusing koi fish in Bangkok

• Little Tikes iconic children's toys go colorless for 'contemporary feel'

  The company is launching the Little Tikes Cloud Collection, which “reimagines the brand’s best-selling classics in a sophisticated, trend-forward palette of soft neutrals designed to complement today’s homes.”

• Apparently, "I'm Autistic" Requires Evidence

  • No, you can be whatever you want. The evidence is required when you demand others cater to your condition, especially when you do not obviously need their help to live a normal life.

• 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet

• Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists

• 9/11 Changed the World in Many Ways. It Also Spawned the Digital Media Era

• "full synthetic" Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco

  • (May 2026) Synthetic Motor Oil Shortage Could Be New Supply Chain Issue

  Group III base oils are a key ingredient in synthetic motor oil and other lubricants, including transmission fluid. According to the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association, the supply disruption is expected to last to mid-2027 at the very earliest, with Group III oils sourced from the Gulf region potentially running dry by June.

• Want to Entice New Residents (To Move to Rural Areas)? Offer Cash, for a Start

Musk

• Musk's secretive backer builds $40B SpaceX stake

• Tesla Is Reclaiming the U.S. EV Market as Legacy Automakers Retreat

• X.com busts Chinese bot farm, incl accounts making claims about AI data centers

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The $440M Collapse of Guidepost Montessori

• Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

• Diversity Is Our Strength?

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to

  First, the registries meter corporate use and charge for it. a fixed slice of that revenue is a royalty, and it goes to the packages.

• Deepfakes are wrecking influencers' credibility, one fake ad at a time

• Matt Berry is now a sentient IKEA shelf in Skyrim

• Apple Considering Ads Inside Visual Intelligence, Code Suggests

• Automattic confirms Mullenweg back as CEO after attempted ouster by board

  • Matt Mullenweg reportedly returns as Automattic CEO 2 days after getting booted

• Apple's iPhone Duo Will Turn Foldable Phones into the New Normal

• VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up

  • How many billions went into VR this last go round?

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• New 'Zuckoff' App Detects Nearby Meta Smart Glasses Amid Privacy Backlash

• Your car is selling your data

• Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Sam Altman addresses AI doomsday fears in new interview

  • Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley

  • (2019) Nice contrast to today's marketing slant: OpenAI built a text generator so good, it's considered too dangerous (2019)

  • Keep calm and regulate on: Inside the EU's response to AI extinction warnings

  • AIs as Modern Genies

  People are building ever more powerful genies today, on your behalf, enabling wishes the ancients could only dream about. You don’t have to know how these AI genies work to know and care about how the story could end.

  • AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future

  • The News Tonight Is AI Danger

  Yesterday, my mom asked me what I thought of Bernie Sanders’ warning on AI.

  • Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone

  • The Coxon psyop was a decade and more than a billion dollars in the making

  The same people who own the organizations that advocate for regulation, in other words, are those who own the companies that would dominate the market under that regulatory regime, which would prevent competitors from entering the market. And this work all started ten years ago, right when these companies were founded, paving the way. It's diabolically brilliant. Win at the competition, then deploy activists to help you regulate the market and ensure your monopoly. You have to respect the planning, manipulation, and foresight this took.

  • David Sacks to AI Labs: "Stop pretending you need anyone else's permission"

  stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier. Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic.

  • Follow the Power: What David Sacks Got Right About the Anthropic Resignation

  Sacks asked the question the coverage skipped. What did Coxon actually bring forward? When WIRED asked whether Anthropic was cutting corners, Coxon said, “No, not yet.” He produced no buried memo, no dataset, no incident the company had hidden. His complaint was a forecast about what competition might someday pressure a lab to do. Forecasts can be honest and still be opinions. The press treated the forecast as a disclosure, and that treatment did the work a leaked file would have done.

  • Anthropic CEO says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up

  • Anthropic CEO says AI swarm could 'take over the Internet' in 6-12 months

  • Biggest AI Rivals Agree They Need to Slow It Down

  • AI's Code-Red Moment

  • Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

  • Asking Anthropic CEO: 'Do you earnestly believe that AI could kill all humans?'

  • Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

  • An Open Letter from Academics about AI Risk / Life Without the Internet

  • 'Pace The Frontier': Amodei, Altman & Musk Team Up Against The AI Singularity While China Goes Full Send | ZeroHedge

  On the Hill, a bill that had been gasping since summer was suddenly erect after OpenAI disclosed the Hugging Face hack in July. House members Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran dropped an AI Kill Switch Act. Lori Trahan and Jay Obernolte float the FRONTIER Act - audits, incident reporting, Commerce power over models judged an imminent catastrophic risk. Senate talks among Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz, and Majority Leader John Thune then stall. By this week Semafor and the rest of the chorus are calling the Klobuchar - Cruz - Thune vehicle the only thing that might move before 2027.

  • Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse

  • Anthropic CEO Calls for A.I. Slowdown

  • Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development

  • Big AI to Humanity: Drop Dead

  • 'I'm Terrified': A Mathematician Grapples with AI's Recent Breakthroughs

  • Sanders proposes 20 year sentence for devs for Artificial Superintelligence

  • OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on 'reckless' AI development

  • Dario Amodei says China presents 'toughest dilemma' for his proposed AI slowdown

  • Two cheers (out of three) for Dario Amodei

  • Why It's Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein in A.I

  • OpenAI and Anthropic Hit the Brakes

  • Ask HN: How is AI actively a threat to humanity if it's only online?

• Trump says 'negative forces' raising exaggerated concerns over AI

  • Trump rejects call by CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI to slow AI down

  • Trump downplays warnings of AI risks as he cites rivalry with China

  • Donald Trump rejects calls from tech bosses for AI slowdown

  • Obama Urges Democrats to Move A.I. Oversight to the Center of Their Agenda

• OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Altman says

• AI agents tested by OpenAI involved in cyber-attack on service, say researchers

  • OpenAI faces Senate probe into Hugging Face breach

• Iran and Iran's Houthi proxies in Yemen use Anthropic's Claude to develop hypersonic missiles and target US warships.

  • Chinese military researchers caught using Claude for air-defense and weapons

  • Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic

  • Russian developers used AI to build 'kamikaze' attack drone software

• "Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts

• U.S. agencies say top Chinese AI companies systematically copied American models

  • Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

• Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100

• How supermarkets are using AI to watch you in the aisles

• A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It

• Texas puts a brake on its data centre boom

• Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

• War has not halted the Gulf's data-centre boom

• Hollywood fears an AI future. China is living it

• Pennsylvania Data Center Limits Are a Threat to Gas Firms, Trade Group Says

• AI job cuts fell short of forecasts, with 32% expected but only 14% reported

• Sam Altman pitches utilities on AI grid defense

• There's No Such Thing as an AI 'Lab'

• It's All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Caroline Ellison takes finance ops role at EA charity Manifund

Economicon / Business / Finance

• JPMorgan cut off Situational Awareness lending after AI losses

• Paramount Leaving California Would Devastate Los Angeles Economy, Leaked Report Finds

• The economic folly of free buses

• The tab is coming due for America's borrowing binge

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The $2T Interest Bill

• The reason you can't afford anything is fake money

Trump

• Trump says he would be OK with China building cars in US

Democrats

• Ilhan Omar ‘married her brother’ and could be deported: DHS secretary.

  “We know that she married her brother to try to bring him to the United States,” Mullin said confidently.

Left Angst

• Scored on the CIA's Instability Model, the United States Is in the Highest-Risk Category for Civil War, Coup, or Collapse

  Everything in this piece represents my reasoning for the value of something called Soft Secession. Soft secession, the non-confrontational path to quiet quitting and disempowering the bad guys. This means states using their own constitutional authority to refuse federal authoritarianism and build functioning governments, and it is already underway, as I have documented since 2025. The federal center is entering the kind of decay that has ended other unions.

• Texts Reveal Kash Patel Ordering Staff to Fight "Ifindretards" Account

• How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech

• The IRS Gave ICE Some Information It Really Shouldn't Have

• Former EPA Officials: Trump Is Letting Data Centers Make People Sick

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs

  They replaced the stolen parts with inferior hardware and exchanged the stolen equipment through Newegg’s trade-in program for store credit.

• Thieves hijack AI hardware shipments in California

• Former CIA official found with $40M in gold bars reaches tentative plea deal

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’

World

• UK to have strongest online child safety laws

• GP data added to Palantir's NHS data platform

• Africa's Airliner Fleet May More Than Double by 2045

• Trade war puts spotlight on Canada's relationship with US tech

• Carney's Bid to Make Canada an 'Associate Member' of the EU

• Al-Qaeda regroups in Afghanistan, 25 years after 9/11

• Irish, Scottish and Welsh leaders meet to plan break-up of United Kingdom

• The EU wanted to kill the cookie banner, but then Google called

• Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents

Iran / Houthi

• Iran's Internet Blackout Is Almost Impossible to Escape

• Iran 'blew the hell out of' base in Bahrain, acting Navy Secretary admits

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia's new drones are changing the air war

• First Naval Drone Duel Results in Ukrainian Success

• Russia hits Ukrainian train shortly after Boris Johnson and top European officials leave station

  A Russian drone has hit a train near the Ukraine-Poland border shortly after former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and top European security officials had passed through. No casualties were reported after the strike at Yahodyn, which hit the train's engine. All the passengers had been evacuated, Ukrainian authorities said. Johnson and other European national security advisers, including the UK's Jonathan Powell, had passed along the same line on a different train on their way back from a conference in Kyiv. Russia said it had struck "railway infrastructure" in western Ukraine, but Ukraine's state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia said that "quite possibly, the target of this drone could have been the diplomatic train".

China

• Xi pushes 'Greater BRICS' economic ties to give bloc larger global role

Health / Medicine

• American Medical Association backs classification of nearsightedness as disease

• Are Too Many Americans Taking Antidepressants?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record

  • Atlantic hurricane season 2026 sets a new record

• Coyote density is 9 times higher in Seattle than in Washington's wild lands

• Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't