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• A Mathematician Is Chasing Eclipses with Algorithms and Cameras

• Tea In, Tea Out

  It's amazing how all these compounds originate in such diverse locations across the globe and ultimately end up in our homes, in our food and in our bodies. We barely notice where it comes from, we never stop to think, and yet an enormous supply chain operation is required to bring these things to us and every day it does, such is humanity's economic excellence. Of course not everyone is so fortunate as those of us with a supermarket around the corner, but hurrah for global logistics and its impressive ability to bring nourishment from across the planet. Every mug of tea is a freight distribution triumph, at least so long as fragile international systems permit, and how we'd miss them if disruption ever intervened. We are all made of where we live, but also half a world away.

Horseshit

• And anything else available: Ancient warriors got high on cannabis, burial mound reveals

• Why tradwives are fleeing the movement: I can't undo my past

• Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

• Canadian hybrid-electric aircraft could reduce northern Ontario medevac times

• After 3 Months Lost at Sea, Five Survivors Are Rescued on Remote Island

• The Telephone's Tangled History of Intimacy and Control

• Personality traits are less stable than people think

• Castration extends life span in mice

  • Mice drag their enormous goolies around; reducing the number of nut shots gotta be good for a 10% bump in well being by itself.

• Earliest evidence of cannabis use found in ancient Siberian tomb

  • Ancient warriors got high on cannabis, burial mound reveals

• The Adult Children Cleaning Up Their Parents' Feeds

• Knives manufactured from human feces do not work

celebrity gossip

• Rejection led Sylvester Stallone to create film's ultimate underdog Rocky

• Meghan Markle's estranged father arrested in child sexual abuse materials case, AP sources say

  • Meghan Markle's Estranged Dad Thomas Arrested in Florida for Possession of Child Porn

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Salon, Pioneer of Digital Journalism Founded in 1995, Shuts Down

• Apple's predictive text restrictions include 'Dictator Trump' and 'Sleepy Joe'

• Crunchy Moms became 'the most dangerous' group on Facebook

  Meta says it removes content that could cause imminent physical harm – but nearly half a million members have joined a group that regularly promotes misinformation

Musk

• The election and now this have the online Left orgasmic:

  • Tesla Winding Down Production of Cybertruck, Musk Says

  • Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales in few markets

  • Tesla to axe Cybertruck as Musk shifts focus to robotics and AI

  • Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production as Elon Musk focuses on robotics and AI

  • Elon Musk appears to signal the end of the road for Cybertruck

  • The Tesla Cybertruck Is Dead

  • Tesla to pull the plug on Cybertruck after years of poor sales

  • RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly Absurd

  • Tesla to Wind Down Cybertruck Production in Texas Next Year, Elon Musk Says

  • Tesla Ends Cybertruck Production

  • Elon Musk admits defeat as Tesla ends production of recall-plagued Cybertruck

  • Tesla's Cybertruck heads for an exit after years of hype and division

  • Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production | Hacker News

• Tesla wants its sworn Cybercab answers to NHTSA kept secret

• Republicans Learn X Is the Echo Chamber

• Democrats Prepare Musk Probe over Satellite Cuts

• Elon Musk is about to learn how much America hates him

• SpaceX plans to build more datacenter capacity over the next 18 months than Google.

• SpaceX launched Google AI chips to orbit with Planet Labs satellites

• Musk's Starlink Mobile plans to challenge AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile

• Musk's Starlink Embraces 'Dynamic Pricing,' Further Jacking Up Costs

• US proposes space launch rule changes in potential boost for SpaceX.

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West than ever

• I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. Like a taste of the future

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Fatwa issued against Nike for ‘promoting polytheism’

  Libya's top religious authority has declared a fatwa against Nike for promoting symbols associated "with polytheism". The Dar al-Ifta has issued a ruling that bans Muslims from buying, selling or wearing clothing bearing the sportswear brand. It said that wearing clothing displaying the logo amounted to the worship of more than one god, because Nike is named after a Greek goddess. The religious authority also accused Nike of supporting Israel, and called for a boycott of pro-Israel countries.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Public schools nationwide are facing a massive drop in student enrollment

• Mediocrity on the march: A poster on kindness isn’t ‘critical thinking.’

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta, Google, and TikTok sue California AG over teen social media law

  • Google, Meta, TikTok sue to block California youth social media law

• Cessna Paints GTA6 Promo on FlightRadars

• Silver Lake, PIF have held recent talks to buy gaming software provider Unity

• World of Warcraft Forever's Launch Was Running on over 200k Gigabytes of RAM

• Just what the standard needs, more complexity: Groundbreaking Upgrade to SVG Is Approaching: Linked Parameters Are Almost Here

• With a long list of "in this case" requirements: OpenSSH flaw lets attackers log into password-disabled Linux accounts

• Letterboxd in Negotiations to Be Acquired by New York Times Company

  • The New York Times reportedly in talks to buy Letterboxd for $330M

  • New York Times in talks to buy Letterboxd for around $330M

• Warby Parker spilled the beans on Google's Android XR smart glasses launch

• Sony revives the original Walkman headphones, adds USB-C

  • Sony Debuts Wired Headphones with '80s-Inspired Design

• Fox Corp. Closes $22B Acquisition of Roku

  • Developer ends lucrative screensaver deal with Roku because Fox bought it

• Steam gets restored games after EA producer stumbles across old tapes

• Google Is in Trouble, Deep

• "Does Meta think we can't read?" Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update

• TSMC considers making advanced memory chips

  • TSMC is considering getting into the RAM business at the request of Nvidia

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Astronauts arrive at International Space Station just 8 hours after launching

• Blue Origin says it is building a higher-performing engine at 1/4 the cost

• The launch market is tough as satellite companies start building rockets

• NASA's Artemis II moon launch tore a hole in Earth's upper atmosphere so huge it disrupted GPS signals | Space

  The measurements found that the ionospheric disturbances resulting from the sheer power of the Artemis II launch were more significant than any caused by other rocket launches to date and up to ten times more intense than those observed following the test launches of SpaceX's Starship, which is twice as powerful as the SLS based on liftoff thrust.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation

  • Nvidia Crashed 9.3%. Is the AI Data-Center Boom Starting to Crack?

  • AI Companies Scramble to Navigate a World Hostile to Data Centers

  • About That Anthropic IPO

  • Musk: SoftBank is defaulting on their turbine orders

  • Anthropic IPO Buyers See Valuation as Low as $1.1T

  • Anthropic IPO Valuation Talks Drop to $1.3T as Major Investors Balk

  • OpenAI will keep investing in AI data centers despite election results

  • Microsoft is winding down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity

  • Microsoft plans to use fewer neoclouds as AI buildout shows signs of strain

  • Anthropic to press ahead with November IPO targeting $1.5T valuation

• ING puts $500 million of data-center loans up for sale

  • ING Said to Be Seller of $500M Data Center Loan Portfolio

  • ING reportedly seeks buyers for $500M of data center loans

• Anthropic is rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls

  • Anthropic warns that it's close to RSI capability, a.k.a. self-building AI

  • Anthropic RSI is here? METR reports ANT likely hits 2x RSP acceleration limit

• A.I. Just Blew Up a Key Tenet of Computer Science

• AI Needed to Produce More Gas to Power More AI, Tech Firm Cohere Says

• Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar

• OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers 'compute campuses'

• OpenAI Just Found Nearly 1k Ways to Gain Root Access in Linux

• AI is changing mathematics – but not how you think

• Hugging Face's CEO Says His P(Doom) Is 'Close to Zero'

• How accurately did science fiction stories predict AI?

• Claude has been tuned to be less obstreperous when tasked with helping to create a game that resembles another game in some respects.

• University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk

• $11.4M of Nvidia Chips Vanished in Oakland

• An Anthropic engineer warns about 'cognitive surrender'

• Nvidia Tightens Tracking of AI GPUs in Southeast Asia

• "Communion of Saints" on reaching new spiritual echelons via LLMs

• AMD CEO saying it's a "data center first" company and PC sales will plummet

• OpenAI bugging suspect Alfozan pleads not guilty

• AI Text Watermarking May Not Be Able to Meet the E.U.'S New Rules

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Hollywood Banning Prediction Market Betting on Movie Release Dates

• How Accurate Were Prediction Markets at Picking Midterm Winners?

• Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws

• Chainalysis says hackers stole credentials and tokens for all of its customers

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Investors wipe $2.5T off Nasdaq as blue tsunami prompts AI fears

  • Global stocks tumble as AI panic grips markets after Democrats' midterm success

  • Taiwan stocks in steepest-ever fall, South Korea halts trading amid AI rout

  • Japan's Nikkei Poised to Enter Bear Market as AI Selloff Deepens

  • Taiwan Activates Market-Stabilization Measures to Stem AI Bleeding

  • The AI sell-off compared to other S&P 500 stock market crashes

• Microsoft's Buyout Offer Sets Its Workforce on Edge

• Agility Robotics lists on Nasdaq as first pure-play humanoid robot company

• Hiring Defied Expectations With 165,000 Jobs Added in October

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• TWU Opposes Amtrak Passengers Bringing Guns on Trains Starting Next Year

• The FAA Is Finally Phasing Out Floppy Disks from Air Traffic Control

  • US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028

Trump

• Trump Names Stephen Miller His Chief of Staff, Replacing Susie Wiles

• Key lawmaker suggests GOP go big in lame-duck Congress to foil Democrat defunding, spending plans

  • I would be shocked to see the GOP congress do anything in the time they have left. Why would they start now?

Democrats

• Newsom Moves to Empty California's Death Row by Commuting 548 Sentences

• Can Democrats effectively abolish Electoral College after midterm wins?

  they have enough electors to join and enact an existing agreement between 18 states and Washington, D.C. — a "compact" — to bypass the Electoral College. However, the compact would not abolish the Electoral College altogether. In addition, as we outline below, some experts say the move would require congressional approval.

  • Democrats have the votes to make the Electoral College obsolete

  • Democrats Are About to Throw Out the Electoral College Without Touching the Constitution

  Under the Constitution, states have the authority to determine how they appoint their presidential electors. Nearly every state currently awards its electoral votes to the candidate who wins that state's popular vote. The compact would change that. States joining the agreement promise to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote, regardless of which candidate wins their own state.

• Democrats launching congressional investigations into SpaceXAI, META and Apple

Left Angst

• Tech leaders need an urgent rethink of their political strategy

  • America turns on Donald Trump's tech cheerleaders

  • Silicon Valley's Bad Night

  • Meta Warns Midterm Backlash Threatens AI Data Centers

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Nvidia CEO called in by lawmakers over ties to alleged Chinese spy

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Summoned by Congress over Chinese Espionage Concerns

  • China’s Top Spy Agency Recruited Woman Who Targeted Jensen Huang

• US warns China it must 'immediately' meet terms of Busan trade deal

• Drone warfare in space: Autonomous laser cubesat swarms could defend satellites

World

• First known cyberattack on Swiss food refrigeration system

  • Cyberattack hits French blood banks but no samples compromised

• Pro-Palestine protestors enter Microsoft datacenter site

  • Activists break through fences at Microsoft's data center site in Amsterdam

  • Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam

  • Amsterdam deploys riot police to clear out Microsoft data center

  • Activists break into building site of Microsoft datacentre in Amsterdam

  • Protesters break into Microsoft AI data centre site in Amsterdam

• Irish national broadcaster RTÉ, other media groups evacuated after bomb threat

  • Bomb threats disrupt at least 25 flights across Europe, raising hybrid war fears

• Interior ministry says 575,000 protest across France as unions claim 'close to 1.6 million'

• Ueno Bank Collapse, Paraguay President Peña Under Investigation

  • Paraguay Freezes millions of bank Accounts

• Firms told to publish salaries in job adverts ahead of new law

• Denmark to rule on 'parallel societies' after 'non-western' people evicted

• EIC receives just nine applications for €100M defence scale-up call

• Tarantulas smuggled in socks Peru by polish and German

• Budget offers $50B jolt to help Canada double its electricity grid

• NHS patients to get blood tests designed to detect several cancers at once

• EU charges TikTok over harmful algorithmic 'rabbit hole' effects

Iran / Houthi

• To Cross the Red Sea, Shippers Email Houthi Rebels.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Palantir harvests battlefield data that Ukraine pays for 'with blood'

China

• China expanding laser arsenal to blind and destroy US satellites.

Health / Medicine

• Study of Nearly 27,000 Men Is The Largest Yet on Tight Underwear And Sperm Quality.

  wearing tight underwear really is linked to poorer sperm quality. For years now, men have been warned that close-fitting underpants may increase the temperature of their groin and possibly impact the health of their sperm. Compared with looser undergarments, for instance, tighter options were linked to 18 percent higher odds of producing less semen. Tight undies were also linked to 12 percent higher odds of having fewer motile sperm, 48 percent higher odds of having fewer normally shaped sperm, and 108 percent higher odds of having more sperm with DNA fragmentation or damage.

• Quaaludes Might Be Back.

• Researchers fail to replicate many reported effects of psilocybin

• Revolution Medicines' pancreatic cancer drug has stunning commercial debut

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Analysis: China's quarterly CO2 falls 3% in largest drop since Covid

• They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Worse Than You Think

• As the Japanese Countryside Empties Out, Wildlife Is Disappearing

• Anthrax outbreak in Africa's oldest national park kills hippos

• Noise pollution changes biology or behavior in 80% of animal species studied