This will go great with a bowl full of bugs first thing in the morning.
Psy.org- Scientists release the recipe for lab-grown coffee to accelerate creation of new coffee ecosystem
Safe and Effective®
Sun- Jeep urges 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUV owners to stop charging and park outdoors due to fire risk
Jeep is recalling more than 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs worldwide because they can catch fire with the ignition turned off. In addition, Jeep is urging owners not to charge the SUVs and to park them outdoors and away from structures until they are repaired.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
According to a Tier 2 technician at Verizon, there has been a deliberate and unauthorized shutdown of the U.S. electrical grid that specifically targeted cell towers, starting locally and expanding nationwide.
Verizon has experienced the most significant impact, with other… pic.twitter.com/88FwWEtxKf
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) September 30, 2024
The World Is In The Very Best Of Hands
Oh, shit.
US Capitol Hit by Massive Dark Web Cyber Attack: Reports.
The personal information of more than 3,000 congressional staffers has been leaked across the dark web in a wide-ranging cyberattack on the Capitol.
"Many of these leaks likely occurred because staffers used…
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) September 24, 2024
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
It’s a Luxury Item
Quiet You
Let That Sink In
BREAKING: X/Twitter’s San Francisco office has officially closed its doors today, the company will be relocating to its new headquarters in Austin, Texas
Should we keep the sign? (parody)
Dust In The Wind
Public- Wind Industry Is Killing Sea Life On East Coast, Fishermen Say
Over the last three years, we have been documenting the ecological catastrophe quietly unfolding on the East Coast. With the support of the US government, the wind industry is killing whales and other sea life. If nothing changes, the wind industry will make the North Atlantic right whale go extinct.
Article is paywalled but there’s enough here to get the point
Commercial fishermen all around Block Island are telling similar stories. Ever since the wind farms came to the ocean, lobsters are hard to find. Formerly productive scallop beds are dead. Cod have disappeared.
Google Commemorative Logos You’ll Never See
Google “growth strategist” Dakota Leazer got confronted by James O’Keefe after telling an undercover reporter that his company had been “definitely coordinating” with the Kamala Harris campaign. He had told the woman, who had set up Leazer on a date, that his platform and other Big Tech companies were promoting Harris in an attempt to “get her to win.” […]
Be sure to watch the whole video, which dropped on Wednesday, the day after the debate. Reasonable people may think Leazer looks a bit too low-level to reach a definitive conclusion about Google’s intentions, and maybe he just was trying to impress his date. Perhaps, but … Google’s actions at higher levels raise exactly the same suspicion.
For instance, did you know that Google’s attorney in their DoJ anti-trust case helped Kamala Harris prep for the debate that took place the night before O’Keefe released this video?
An Amazon Sabotage Goes Horribly Wrong
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Time snubbed tech titan and artificial intelligence backer Elon Musk from its annual list of the “100 Most Influential People in AI” – but slapped actress Scarlett Johansson on this year’s cover.
The magazine created a composite image for its 2024 cover showing the photos of 18 AI leaders, topped by Nvidia boss Jensen Huang that also prominently featured the “Black Widow” star.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
This is insane.
Can more people replicate this? pic.twitter.com/gz7KH95LVg
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 3, 2024
Yes, they could replicate it.
Bavarian Manure Wagon
Let That Sink In
Show Me The Man
Telegram is not just a popular text messaging app; it is an ecosystem that also includes news and expert channels, photo and video sharing, and online communities of all kinds—from local to professional to hobbyist. The app offers encrypted communication that is impossible to crack. The feature seems to be attractive to criminals and terrorists. But regular people—almost 1 billion of them around the world—also enjoy Telegram. To compare: X/Twitter has about 340 million monthly users. Telegram is used by 45% of online users in India, almost 40% in Brazil, 34% in Mexico, and so on.
There is one more specific category of users that particularly values encrypted messaging: political dissidents and protesters. Telegram played a significant role in the 2017-2018 Iranian protests, as more than half of the population there uses the app. The 2020-2021 anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus were even labeled the “Telegram Revolution,” mirroring the “Twitter revolutions” of 2009-2011.
But there is also another big player in the field: the state. The state wants to know what criminals and terrorists are doing, but also what protesters and regular folks are up to. And so do corporations. As the latest memes go, “Mark Zuckerberg sells people’s personal information, and he is a free man. Pavel Durov doesn’t, and he is in the jail.”
Tonight on Fight Night
I’m Out
Telegraph- Boss of ‘Europe’s answer to Tesla’ quits after sales slump
His resignation comes after sales of the Swedish company’s upmarket electric cars slumped. Global volumes fell 40pc in the first quarter of 2024 to 7,221, down from 12,076 the previous year.
The carmaker, headquartered in Gothenburg in Sweden, lost close to $1.5bn over the course of 2023.
(And That NYPost Laptop Story, Too)
JUST IN – Zuckerberg regrets working with the Biden-Harris administration to censor Covid era information online.
Pavel Durov Arrested In France
Pavel Durov, billionaire co-founder and chief executive of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV said, citing an unnamed source.
Durov was travelling aboard his private jet, TF1 said on its website, adding he had been targeted by an arrest warrant in France.
The 39-year-old is understood to have been travelling from Azerbaijan and was arrested at about 8pm local time (6pm GMT).
Durov was expected to appear in court on Sunday.
The Russia-born entrepreneur lives in Dubai, where Telegram is based, and holds dual citizenship of France and the United Arab Emirates.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov recently revealed to Tucker Carlson that the FBI approached a Telegram engineer, attempting to secretly hire him to install a backdoor that would allow U.S. intelligence agencies to spy on users.
The FBI also hired agents to infiltrate ‘anti-vaxx’ Telegram groups, with FBI contractors creating multiple fake online identities to join chatrooms run by groups opposing vaccine mandates.
Mike Benz provides background.