August 4, 2026 6:04 PM
August 4, 2026
Trump Hires Orbital Towing Company to Build Space Interceptors
When the goal is to construct a multi-tiered orbital missile-defense platform, there aren’t a lot of contractors to…
Psychologists Found Something Horrible About the Kind of Men Seeking Trad Wives
The tradwife aesthetic, as it’s sold to women, is easy enough to understand. In our world of social…
Man Punished for Breaking Into Moo Deng’s Zoo Enclosure
The maniac who broke into Moo Deng’s crib finally got his due. The BBC reports that a Thai…
To Get Swole, Teens Are Pumping Themselves Full of Drugs Meant for Fattening Cows for the Slaughterhouse
In previous years, looks-conscious teens might have splurged on glamour shots at the mall, or fine-tuned their selfies…
Foolish Pollsters Are Now Just Asking AI What Voters Would Say in Response to Questions and Publishing It at Face Value
Last month, Axios was forced to issue a bizarre correction for a blog post about a growing maternal…
OpenAI Says Not to Worry About UBI, Because It Has Another Idea
As AI companies warn of mass automation and the end of work as we know it, ChatGPT maker…
Police Officer Helplessly Waves Arms at Waymo That Careened Wrong Way Through Whataburger Drive-Thru
Thousands of Waymo self-driving taxis have flooded the street of major urban centers across the country, where critics…
Someone Just Threw a Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s House
San Francisco police say they’ve arrested a suspect who allegedly attacked the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…
New York Times Makes Substantial Changes to Article That Glazed a Sleazy AI Startup: “Our Piece Should Have Included That Information”
Last week, the New York Times published a laudatory profile of a startup called Medvi, which is basically…
Space Scientists Wince as Astronauts’ Lives Depend on Artemis 2’s Controversial Heat Shield During Plunge Back to Earth
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission has successfully journeyed around the far side of the Moon and is currently making…
The Moon Astronauts Have Been Working Out With a NASA Rowing Machine in Space
NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which is expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean later today after careening around…
First AI Model From Zuckerberg’s Wildly Expensive Superintelligence Lab Flops Compared to Virtually All Rivals
Late last year, news emerged that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta would be shedding its open source roots to instead…