2026-10-10

Horseshit

• Canada's Bizarre Mummified Toe Cocktail

• Twin study sheds new light on screen time and mental health

• Rogue Pilots Are a Growing Safety Threat–and No One Knows How to Stop Them

• Is society growing stupider? The clues are simple and repeated

• Big dogs age faster at an epigenetic level, new study finds

• U.N. Warns Against Technology Used to Read Citizens' Minds

• A longtime school bus driver fired after allowing student to rescue kitten

• America's Next Family Car Might Look More Like a Golf Cart

• Top Chefs Have a Confession: They Love Taco Bell

celebrity gossip

• He left the NFL for mathematics – and just made a big breakthrough

Obit

• Legendary coach, Hall of Fame TE Mike Ditka dies at age 86

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay

  The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

  • Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay Wins Nobel Peace Prize

  • South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay Wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

• Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT

Musk

• SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink

• SpaceX Makes Big Play to Become a Wireless Carrier

  • SpaceX announces plan to become a 'major mobile carrier'

• ‘Things are going super well at 39A’: SpaceX gearing up to launch Starship from Florida for 1st time.

• American Airlines extends Starlink Wi-Fi roll-out to mainline fleet

• In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Kodiak ready to 'pull the driver' and launch unsupervised driverless trucks by end of year

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Idaho Children Died from Faith Healing. Most Cases Could've Been Prevented

• City Regrets New Religious Liberty Law Allowing Prayer at City Council Meeting

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• What should we tell our students?

  TL;DR: Keep calm and carry on studying math.

  • After all, love of the subject was why you chose to study that in the first place, right? It shouldn't matter if the fable of a well paid desk job resulting from your schooling is shown to be utter horseshit.

• As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use

  a Google Scholar search turns up nearly two dozen articles that refer to “vegetative electron microscopy” or “vegetative electron microscope,” including a paper from 2024 whose senior author is an editor at Elsevier, Retraction Watch has learned. The publisher told us it was “content” with the wording.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Star Wars Author Timothy Zahn Will Write First Star Trek Graphic Novel

• Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series

• Disney will stream Super Bowl this year

• Global PC shipments have plunged 20%, shocking industry analysts.

  • PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in "sharpest decline" since Q1 2023

  • The RAMpocalypse has led global PC shipments to drop 20 percent

• Mac Shipments Fall, but Apple Still Gains Ground in Shrinking Market

• Microsoft 365 Cuts Family OneDrive Storage from 6 TB to 2 TB

• Alabama's TikTok Settlement Has an Affiliate Program to Attract Other State AGs

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• He built his own Flock-style camera to track police. The police didn't like it

  • YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

• You're walking into one of the most advanced surveillance systems in the country, and it's just a grocery store.

• Senator Demands Info About White House's License Plate Surveillance Program

  We reported that HIDTA has now created a complex system for the federal government to obtain license plate data from companies like Flock, Axon, and Motorola via a series of agreements with cities and towns across the country.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Audacious Space heist aims to bring home bits of mysterious Martian moon

• Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch internet service by end of year

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business

  • AI leaders game out public revolt scenarios after catastrophic events

• Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety'

  • OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

  • OpenAI defends decision to fire researchers

  • OpenAI sacks three safety researchers for breach of trust

• He Built Free, Open-Source Versions of Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom with AI

  • Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all

• Anthropic bans users from abusive or cruel behavior towards Claude

  • Anthropic Says Users Can't Be Needlessly Cruel to Claude

  • Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

  • Anthropic bans users from being 'cruel' to its AI systems

• Anthropic pulls Startup program revoking pending offers

  • Claude Startups program over capacity; Anthropic to re-review all applications

• How AI Is Upending the World of Mathematics

  • OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

  • OpenAI withdraws 3 preprints after releasing 722 manuscripts

  • OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof

• OpenAI's annualized revenue $20B lower than prior investor estimates

  • OpenAI projected to bring in $20B less in revenue than expected

• Parenting hits different when you work in AI: SF dad letting bot read to baby

• We're putting too much faith in AI's ability to say no

• OpenClaw Foundation wins ICANN application for .claw top-level domain

• Wikipedia says rogue OpenAI agents edited private wikis and hammered servers

• Anthropic launching 'presidential engagement' effort ahead of 2028 election

• OpenAI used AI to write email warning Australian government AI had hacked

• Chick-fil-A rules out AI drive-thru ordering as fast-food rivals embrace technology

• 'Nothing About This Was Inevitable'

• Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

• Beijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China's Speed-First AI Safety Regime

• SoftBank seeks $100B from Gulf investors to expand AI bet

• Court throws out killer's sentence after judge said he loved AI video of victim

• In Race with U.S., China Struggles to Recruit Foreign A.I. Researchers

• Prize-winning image which sparked backlash was AI-generated, Nikon rules

• Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties

• Germany withdraws from AI partnership with Mistral and SAP

• Trump Announces Formation of AI "Super Intelligence Force"

• Chinese developer makes ARTEX AI agent closed-source after Korean bank hack

• OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT's text in the EU

• The Danger May Be AI as Dumb as Us

• McDonald's AI pricing lands the fast-food giant in court

• Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Decision to Pull the Trigger on Meta’s A.I. Agent

• Quartz website mainly produced by one AI-assisted reporter

• AI companies plot "the day after"

• An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to the police

  • Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Co-creator of Empire Market dark web marketplace given 40-year sentence

• Netflix trailer for miniseries about Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Netflix reportedly plans to lay off about 5% of its workforce

  • Netflix plans to cut 5% of its workforce

• Samsung expects 780% quarterly operating profit jump on AI boom

• The era of speedball capitalism has dawned

• Hiring US-to-China Oil Tanker Costs More Than Launching a Space Rocket

• Walmart exec speaks out on dynamic pricing again after watchdog calls out patent

• Millions could get $280 In Equifax Credit Reporting Settlement for coding error

• Apple Shares Slide After Report of iPhone 18 Pro Component Order Cuts

Trump

• Trump Says He Is Considering Suspending Federal Gas Tax

• Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel

Democrats

• The Democratic Socialists of America Platform: The DSA would abolish the police, open borders, socialize medicine, abolish the Department of War, and abolish the Senate.

Left Angst

• Fort Hood Shooter's Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says

  • US to livestream Army execution of Fort Hood shooter

  • Public will be able to watch Fort Hood shooter's execution, Hegseth says

  • Fort Hood shooter's execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says

  • US Military will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter

• White House targets tech giants with H-1B visa suspension

  • Trump honors Microsoft's CEO after Vance drops H-1B visa hammer on the company

  • US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from green card program

  • US Bars Microsoft, Indian Firms from Visa Program in Blow

  • The Trump administration Is Suspending Microsoft from a Green Card Program

• DHS plans to charge international students $70k for work authorization

  • US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work

• Frisco Was a Welcoming Place for Indian Immigrants. Then Came the Influencers

• ICE detainees used facility's video calling software to expose conditions inside

• Trump: Anyone saying "AI" is "THE ENEMY"; The White House uses it

  • Trump says anyone who does not refer to AI as super intelligence is 'THE ENEMY'

  • Trump is attempting to rename AI

• What Trump's Chatbot Told Me About the Election

• US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

  • US unveils sanctions on ICC in move court condems as 'assault on rule of law'

• 3 College Students Arrested For Threatening President Donald Trump On Social Media Ahead of University of South Alabama Campus Visit

  Three University of South Alabama students accused of threatening President Donald Trump on social media were allowed to return home Monday as their federal cases moved toward possible grand jury review. Cameron Lewis, Kayla Smith and Amare Woods had been arrested Friday, the same day Trump traveled to the university's Mitchell Center for a political rally in Mobile.

• Cable Giants Ironically to Sue FCC for Illegally Killing Media Ownership Limits

• Texas Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving Zines

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Iran's drones hit America's Achilles heel

  President Donald Trump has insisted Iran’s military is “completely destroyed” due to eight months of attacks from American and Israeli firepower. But Tehran continues to strike back with low-cost Shahed drones that have kept the Navy from returning to U.S.-friendly ports in the Middle East and severely damaged an American airbase near Iran. Warnings about Iranian drones even led to the evacuation of all U.S. bombers from Britain’s Fairford air base this week and sent Trump scurrying into a catering cart in July as he left a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.

World

• Signal says changes to lawful access bill will not persuade it to stay in Canada

• If only they had some warning, they could have prepared: EU faces gas supply shortage as winter looms

• EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials' request

• Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment

• U.N. Warns Against Technology Used to Read Citizens' Minds

• What Will Happen to Indian IT?

  India’s services export industry employs only a small share of the population, perhaps five million people in a country of 1.5 billion. But IT is still crucial to the Indian economy. It accounts for roughly seven percent of GDP and about a quarter of India’s total exports; the consumption of its high-earning workers sustains a much larger ecosystem of domestic employment; and the services trade surplus it generates, about $190 billion in fiscal year 2025, substantially offsets India’s persistent goods trade deficit, which would otherwise pose severe balance-of-payments problems. Service exports are the primary mechanism by which tens of millions of Indians have entered the global middle class.

• M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

  • No immediate indication of severe damage anywhere

• Japan's Most Famous Tuna Buyer Says He Turned Somali Pirates into Fishermen

Iran / Houthi

• Tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz surge to wartime high, Iran tries choking oil

Israel

• A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza schools

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter

  • Ukraine strikes Yandex data centres

  • 2nd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Attacked

  • Ukraine expands drone strikes on data centres owned by Russia's Yandex

China

• US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies

• What Are the Consequences of China’s Demographic Collapse?

  By 2040, I, and many others who know this subject far better than I, expect China’s population to fall below 1.3 billion, a drop of more than 100 million from its peak of 1.41 billion just twenty years earlier. Worse, the average age in China will cross 50 that same year, up from 41 in 2021. From that point on, unless the Chinese find a way to implement breeding programs for young women, the demographic sled will have pushed off and be racing downhill, with China’s population falling to as low as 630 million by the end of the century.

• CXMT's covert campaign to obtain Samsung tech by any means necessary

• China, EU strike deal to halve Chinese hybrid exports

• Chinese Auto Giant Geely Announces Canada Entry in 2027 as U.S. Seeks Ban

Health / Medicine

• ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says UK government review

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Sexually transmitted diarrhea is on the rise — and it’s morphing into a drug-resistant superbug.

• New York airport monitoring Russian arrivals over fears researcher died from plague

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Dirty Secret Behind the Farmed Fish You Eat

• Do solar farms threaten arable land in Scotland?

• Scientists Spotted a Giant New Species in the Background of an Instagram Selfie

• The solar boom is rapidly transforming emerging economies

• Germany turning abandoned coal mines into 23 lakes, becoming artificial wetland

• Scientists discover 180k giant tortoises on one Seychelles island

• Once touted as a clean-energy blueprint, Nevada solar plant sells for cents on the dollar

• The 100-Year-Old Math Miscalculation That Broke the Colorado River