2026-10-25

Horseshit

• 2k Boeing 737s Must Get Tail Inspections After Jets Pitched Up&Down Mid-Flight

• Rental car company accuses man of driving 18,000 miles in 7 days

• World-first basic income trial boosts Indigenous life and rainforest protection

• The Human Brain Owes Its Existence to a Prehistoric Pandemic

  • An Ancient Virus Explains Why the Human Brain Is Special

• Last known sword maker hopes to pass craft on

• Forget Live Aid, Africa is only a broken continent in the minds of the West

• Why Gen Z teens are in no rush to get their driver's licenses

• My mother donated her body to science. I wasn't prepared for what came next

• What Really Keeps Couples From Having Sex.

celebrity gossip

• The Secret Playbook That Made the Elizabeth Holmes Movie a Smash Hit

Musk

• SpaceX in Talks to Access 80k Cell Sites for Wireless Network

• US has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine, Middle East

  • Musk says he was behind Starlink speed limit after service in Ukraine restored

  • Ukraine says Starlink is back to normal after limits hobbled its drones

  • Musk says he was behind Starlink speed restriction in Ukraine

• Elon Musk Invests $1B in Skydance

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Inside Meta’s Efforts to Prevent School Shootings

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Crafted Brotli-compressed data can corrupt memory and execute code remotely

• Politico reconstructs the global scramble after the PHP2Shell leak

  • PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says

• Nonfiction Is Struggling. Publishers Are Making It Worse

• Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback

• Google changes privacy policy so Gmail, Photos could fuel targeted ads

  • Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising

• Users of Apple's new $2K iPhone Duo are complaining of cracked devices

  • iPhone Duo Preorders Face Months-Long Waits, Walk-Ins Get Phones on Launch Day

  • iPhone Duo: Crackgate

• I'm Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Proton hosts Flock map revealing over 300k cameras, defying cease-and-desist

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• SCAMPI Mission Launches to the ISS

• NASA is planning to land astronauts on the Moon within two years.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Texas Attorney General Sues OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman over ChatGPT Safety

• Super Mario creator breaks down the problem with AI perfectly

• Mace AI founders warn of AI double agents amid banks detecting unauthorized AI

• UK to invest £100M in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab

• Few Americans Say They Are Asking AI Chatbots for 2026 Election Information

• Advertisers Pull Meta Ads That Had Unwanted AI Glow-Ups

• Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'

• Meta says if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer's fault

• OpenAI disables internet access during model training

  • OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet

• Anthropic employee tells students their careers may not exist by graduation

• The anti-AI writing police are everywhere. What are they looking for?

• US Air Force wants AI to assist aerial refueling

• AI gets more diagnoses right than generalist doctors in medical challenge

• Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center

• Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom

• The AI Trade Is Shifting from Chip Stocks to Cybersecurity

• The Hackening

• FBI Explores Espionage Case Against Saudi OpenAI Suspect

• Data center spend will double to $2.1T by 2028

• Altman issues self-serving warning they've created a monster they can't control

• An explosion of AI-powered hacks will reshape life online

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Fed Faces Its Most Confusing Economy Yet

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California's Proposed Wealth Tax

• New York's fracking ban leaves community to crumble while Pa. neighbors boom

• California has more revenue than expected thanks to AI. Should it save it?

• Why RealClearPolitics Didn’t Fall for the Fake Polls

  • From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread

Democrats

• Mamdani Makes a Splash with His Bidets

Left Angst

• The Fall of Scientific American

  In March of 2026, in a nondescript, 46th-floor office overlooking lower Manhattan, about two dozen members of Scientific American’s editorial staff had gathered in person and online to talk openly about their approach to political coverage. David Ewalt, the editor in chief, wanted them all to understand something: The magazine was not “kowtowing” to the Trump administration. In fact, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by The Nation, he asked staff present to “raise your hand if you’ve ever heard me say not to cover a political story.”

• 'Smart Wall' of AI Cameras Is Watching the Border and More Than a Million People

• The Immigration Crackdown Is Making It Much Harder to Build Houses

  Home building suffers labor shortage that is freezing projects and raising costs

  • Americans won't haul shingles up a broken ladder to a 3rd floor roof without safety equipment, as well as wanting real wages... to say nothing of the "extra" expenses of taxes and insurance.

• What the U.S. Is Doing in Venezuela

• Treasury traces SPLC to debanking of Christians after group dismissed it as conspiracy.

• The Trump administration is weaponizing sanctions to silence its critics

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Startup raises $200M to create genetically engineered military dogs

  • The Plan to Put Genetically Modified "Super Dogs" on Battlefield of the Future

• US executives quit $25B gas venture over claims of secret Russian control

• US executives quit $25B gas venture over claims of secret Russian control

World

• France to deploy 70,000 police amid unrest fears amid suspected terror attack

  a suspected terrorist attack occurred in the city of Trappes, west of Paris. A 39-year-old man was arrested by police after one person was killed and four others, including a 12-year-old girl, were wounded in what was originally said to be a "relatively random" shooting. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has since told local media, "The motive may be racist. The investigation is ongoing, but this is clearly a terrorist crime." The AFP reported the suspect appeared to fire randomly from a vehicle, and the mayor told reporters the dead victim and at least one of the wounded were "of African origin."

  • How nervous are bond markets about France?

  • France is looking ungovernable. And it's going to get worse

  • Jack Dorsey's Bitchat Becomes France's Top Social App Amid Mobile Network Outage

  • Riots break out across France as protesters pack streets, attack police

• Europe's Energy Policy Is Economic Suicide

  we see schizophrenic behavior: aggression towards Russia now, when the EU cannot hope to stand alone, in the hope that a more direct conflict will pull the US back to support NATO, along with wildly unrealistic talk about building big forces very soon.

• Who is London's Masked 'saviour' giving thousands to strangers?

• Fire Engulfs Hitler's 'Eagles Nest'

  German police said they had detained a suspect after fire broke out at a historic mountain guest house known as the “Eagle’s Nest,” used as a retreat by Nazi officials, including the dictator Adolf Hitler. Police are investigating whether the suspect, who was detained close to the scene, was connected to the fire, they said in a statement.

  • Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat 'completely ablaze'

  • Suspect arrested over fire at Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ retreat in Bavaria

• Unspoken rules of Japanese body language

• Burnham suggests stocking up on tinned food and bottled water

• Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office

• Former mayor appeals car masturbation conviction for 2nd time to Supreme Court

Iran / Houthi

• Iran has detailed plans to hit Gulf undersea cables if war resumes

  • Tehran has detailed plans to hit Gulf undersea cables if war resumes

• US discreetly moves diplomats and families from multiple Middle Eastern countries as intel warns of Iranian plots

Israel

• Israeli soldiers raze neighbourhood in Hebron, driving families from homes

• Israeli central bank rejects Netanyahu's plan to use crypto to evade sanctions

China

• Chinese EVs found back door into Western car markets – at 40% off MSRP

Health / Medicine

• Is your Medicare Advantage plan ending next year? Here's what to know

• Doctors' offices are charging patients 10 times more by claiming to be hospitals

• Why Drug Companies Are Rushing to Market Ketamine Medicines

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The animals you can't outrun – and the ones you can

• Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest

• Scientists Are Making Concrete with Human Poop – and It Gets 42% Stronger

• Will a macaque eat a grape sitting on a pile of poo? A study on germophobia

• Ice sheet expansion may have started 2k years ago, but we canceled that

• Unbearable Summer Heat Linked to More than 50,000 European Deaths