2026-11-10

Worthy

• What does your society look like if it doesn't hate children?

  Rich societies make raising children slow, expensive and legally fraught. Hardly anyone intended this. It is the sum of hundreds of individually defensible rules, written by adults who can vote and paid for by children who can't. The UN projects world population peaking at about 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s, and economists like Jesús Fernández-Villaverde argue it could come as early as the mid-2050s, but the situation is already far more dire, since even a growing population will collapse if old age dependency consumes more resources than the economy can replenish. In broad brushstrokes, something like 70% of women in the US will eventually have children, which means that we don't need 2.1 children per family for replacement, we need 3.2. Which means for every family with fewer than 3 children, we need another family with 4, 5, or 6 children - numbers that were normal 50 years ago and unheard of today.

  Cost is half of it. The other half is status. People have children when children signal success, and today a big family reads as either religious or questionable judgment. That can be changed on purpose. The trick is to grant what rich people already pay for, not what poor people are given. Freebies and discounts code as welfare, which does not confer high status and make larger families socially desirable. Access codes as status: the CLEAR lane, PreCheck, the airline lounge, boarding group 1, the reserved spot by the door, the table without a reservation. A large-family credential, scaling with family size and open to everyone who earns it the same way, should buy exactly these things: the express lane at airport security, priority parking, skip-the-line entry to parks and museums, and fast-track treatment in permitting and school choice. The point is that everyone in line can see the family that walked past them, and knows why.

Horseshit

• Plane lifted into back garden as bunker takes shape

• Convenience Is a Hot Commodity

• Coordinated disturbances haunt grids worldwide

• AO3's outage has been a boon for Tumblr, especially among Gen Z

• How Did Greek Fire Work? and 6 Other Lost Inventions

• Cruise ship pianist rescued from sea after nine hours in Pacific Ocean

• The Forgotten Woman Who Revolutionized Microbiology with a Simple Kitchen Staple

• The secret retreat being built for the ultra-rich in the Arctic wilderness

• Did These Scientists Find Evidence of Blood in a Dinosaur Bone?

• Why Meal Kits Fell Out of Flavour

• Canadian Stephanie Case is the first woman to run 100mi in Antarctica

• Male donkey is a bull's willing partner in rare interspecies affair

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia

Musk

• xAI's Jet Engine-Powered Data Center Has Experts Raising the Alarm

• SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says

• Musk admits Tesla doesn't have the talent to build more than one car at a time

Electric / Self Driving cars

• The Used-Battery Gold Rush Is Coming

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• New Zealand children can't hold a pencil properly – new study

• Fighting A.I. Cheating on the SAT Is a Cat-and-Mouse Game

• Vanderbilt urges university community shut down devices, cybersecurity incident

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Let’s Talk About Why all This OT Stuff is Connected

  The next time a headline lands about hacked pumps or freezers, and you feel the urge to ask why they don’t just disconnect it, remember that there’s rarely a single plug left to pull. These connections were built one sensible business decision at a time, and they now help keep the lights on, the water running, and the food cold. None of this makes it acceptable to leave systems directly connected where a regulation prohibits it, or where any other feasible security solution exists that doesn’t pose a safety risk. There should absolutely be a best effort to rearchitect these environments and add essential security controls, like the SANS Five ICS Cybersecurity Critical Controls. But these things take time, and a little empathy would go a long way towards understanding the uphill battle low-resourced organisations are fighting in the middle of the current onslaught. If you’re an enterprise security professional who’s angry about all this, good. We could use your help. Bring your frustration, and bring your curiosity too.

  • Supermarket-Fridge Hacks Show Risk of Linking Everything to the Internet

  • Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert, a $6B heist: dawn of a new hacking epidemic?

  • Perhaps Connecting Fridges to the Internet Was a Bad Idea

• AMD admits GPU driver bug is writing data continuously, wearing out SSDs

• Alpine Linux and OpenSSH patch flaw that's as bad as it can get

  • Hackers exploit SSHole OpenSSH flaw to breach Linux systems

• Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 user's cables almost melted, even when limited to 500W

• Synaptics sends cease-and-desist order to open-source DisplayLink hobbyist

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Royal 240: The Beginning of the End for the Typewriter

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Anthropic IPO meets AI backlash

  • Anthropic IPO Sounds Like Total Bullshit.

  • Anthropic Prepares to Push Ahead with IPO Despite Market Jitters

• New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts

• A small town in Spain battles again construction of a macro data center

• 370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI

• Anthropic secures $3.4B generator deal for AI data centers

• Official Wanting Data Centers on Public Lands Has >10M Invested in AI Industry

• AI R&D Is Accelerating Towards Potential RSI in 2027

• The island where locals say data centres are taking their water

• AI stocks climb after trillions wiped from market values

• No one in the world is more suited for this position than I am

• Automattic debuts Spacefast to deploy vibe coding apps amid a changing internet

• I Am a Silicon Valley Veteran. We Are Sabotaging Ourselves

• A rare strike in Taiwan exposes labor unrest beneath the global AI rush

• The AI Boom Goes Nuclear

• Disney and Adobe are building generative AI tools together

• PwC plans to certify workers in critical thinking as AI changes their jobs

• AI Is Looking More and More Like a Normal Technology

• Bloomington city council bars superintelligent AI

• 4 years after LaMDA, Blake Lemoine reflects on what it did to his mental health

• Parents, teachers call Google's Search threat over AI blocks 'extortion'

• Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage

• UK will not slow down on AI despite backlash in US, says growth minister

• Living Dead Cast Horrified by AI-Made Sequel They Were Originally Set to Star In

• The AI bubble can wait, but your exit plan can't

• Anthropic launches new Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 models

• B.C. businesses push back against 'AI slop' with pen-and-paper ads

• When the Boss on the Phone Isn't Real: How More Than $129M Was Stolen Using A.I

• The New York Times Doesn't Understand AI's Role in Suppressing Wages

• A teen used her school Chromebook and Google AI Mode to plan her suicide

• Parents Sue Google over A.I. Safety Risks on School Chromebooks

• Anthropic must face lawsuit over Claude subscription marketing

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Coinbase Gets Final Regulatory Stamp for Trust-Bank Charter

• Cryptocurrencies slide to two-month lows after US midterms

• Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge

  • Ethereum Foundation Mandate

  SOURCE SEPPUKU LICENSE

  By inclusion of this license, the author, maintainer, editor or (re)distributor (the “Actor”) of this software SHALL uphold the following pledges: To always make freely available and publicly accessible a full and accurate copy of the source code and associated documents of this software, including all modifications hereto by the Actor. To take his or her own life with a sword upon failure to uphold any of the pledges in this license, or upon modification or removal of any part of this license. May the Foundation fall on its own sword if it fails to uphold its solemn promise to Ethereum.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Stock market casino: the rising stakes of 'gamified' investing

• Tech's Teetering Towers

• Restaurant chains refocus on food quality to bring back diners.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• 19 years old college student wins court election to one of the largest county

• Ron DeSantis Calls for a ‘Big Change’ in Right-Wing Media After Midterms Trouncing: ‘A Lot of That Is a Grift.’

• Congress to Vote on Far-Reaching Plan to Speed Up Energy Projects

• Starting at $10k: USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons

Trump

• Trump questions elections integrity after previously accepting results

• WATCH: Hegseth announces he will hold news conference on impeachment threat to defend his record | PBS News

Democrats

• Newsom bans sales of supplements under 18, potentially including whey

Left Angst

• Philly ‘Kristallnacht’ protests at Jewish-owned businesses drowned out, shouted down by huge crowds.

• Official Wanting Data Centers on Public Lands Has >10M Invested in AI Industry

• Staff at the US center for AI safety are reporting to the White House

• Datacenters, Elon Musk, and AI are all on chopping block once Congress changes

• New Democratic Congress will likely strip the gilding from Trump's Golden Dome

• Trump administration's embrace of "perp" futures sets off risk alarms

  The Trump administration's push to bring novel offshore perpetual futures to the US is raising alarms, according to interviews with four executives at incumbent exchanges and other key market participants who warned that the ​products will introduce serious new risks to the multitrillion-dollar derivatives market.

• Will Democrats Bring Down Trump as They Did Nixon?

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Space Force satellites can't talk to each other likely requiring $1B solution

• Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon

• Commerce Dept Inquiry into Megaspeed Halted After Nvdia Intervention

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

  • Spoof: Video of Jensen Huang after learning about the Chinese honeypot scandal

  • Jensen Huang Betrayed Nvidia, Not Just His Family

  • Nvidia launches investigation into CEO's alleged relationship with Chinese spy

  • Nvidia probes whether CEO Huang was target of foreign spying as he admits affair

  • Nvidia Opens Investigation into Jensen Huang's Relationship with Chinese Spy

  • Tech giant Nvidia to investigate CEO's affair with suspected Chinese spy

  • China Newspaper Dismisses Jensen Huang Spy Claim, Warns on Ties

  • Nvidia CEO Affair with Chinese Spy

  • Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the most valuable company in the world, had an affair with a Chinese spy.

  • Nvidia CEO faces probe over affair with alleged Chinese spy — as Rubio memo warned about her months ago.

  • Is Jensen Huang Too Powerful to Be Punished by Nvidia?

  • Trump's ties to Nvidia's Huang scrutinized after foreign intelligence concerns

World

• CCTV captures streets shaking as 5.7-magnitude earthquake hits Japan

• A digital bank's collapse toppled Paraguay's president

• AI, Californians, 'translators': Vancouver council went off the rails this week

• EU Targets Addictive Social Media, AI Chatbot Features in Draft Law

  • EU to blacklist ten manipulative online design 'traps', leaked draft shows

• Google warns it may scan Gmail, Drive to stop teens seeing porn in Australia

• Takaichi administration announces emergency cyberdefense package

Iran / Houthi

• French officials suspect Iran is behind refrigerator hacks, sources say

  • French CERT and Foreign Ministry Now Attributing Fridge Attacks to Iran

  • France accuses Iran of supermarket fridge hacking

  • France blames Iran for 'unprecedented' supermarket fridge cyberattack

  • Iran was behind cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers, Paris says

  • Iran blamed for fridge hacks

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Covert Russian network exploited French riots on social media, EU report says

• More than 400k Russians killed fighting in Ukraine war, leaked data suggests

China

• Chinese tech helps repressive African governments crush dissent

Health / Medicine

• You lost weight on a GLP-1, but are you really healthy?

• For Years, She Felt Awful. Her Flexible Joints Held a Clue

  Many people with hypermobility disorders spend years trying to figure out what’s wrong. Online communities are helping them connect the dots.

  hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, or hEDS, is the most common and can cause symptoms that are debilitating but difficult to see or measure, including fatigue, pain and digestive issues. The overall experience can be “totally disabling,” said Dr. Clair Francomano, a medical geneticist at Indiana University who studies inherited connective tissue disorders. Yet many people with hEDS or a related disorder go years or even decades before receiving a diagnosis — in part because many doctors are unaware of the numerous ways inherited connective tissue disorders can affect the body, experts said. Recently, though, social media and the internet have offered a lifeline by helping patients connect the dots themselves, Dr. Francomano said. Many of her hEDS patients are young women who were dismissed as hypochondriacs, even as their symptoms forced them to drop out of school or lose their jobs.

• A Death from Dengue May Signal That the Disease in U.S. Is Here to Stay

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• CDC: Measles cases surpass 5k in US with infections confirmed in 45 states

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Deep-Sea Scientists Capture Extraordinary 4K Footage of a Fish With a See-Through Head.

• WHO Officially Rebranding Failed ‘Climate Change’ Narrative as Health Emergency.

  • Six climate and health actions could save 1.6M lives and deliver trillions

• 'A new age of climate extremes': Earth accumulating heat at accelerating rate

• Chewing gum releases microplastics into your saliva, UCLA research shows

• Humpback whale mom grieving her stillborn calf in first-of-its-kind footage

• Magenta solar panels may be agrivoltaics' cleverest trick yet

• Warmest October on record with 2026 virtually certain to exceed 1.5°C

• 5k years ago, these forests drowned. Now they're thriving reefs

• Methane-consuming organisms create nanowires and can generate electricity

• Acorn crops predict Lyme tick abundance two years later