August 29, 2026 12:29 PM
August 29, 2026
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
When the United States ratified the 13th amendment in 1865, federal lawmakers very nearly outlawed slavery for good…
FTC Concerned About Meta Surveillance of Users of Erectile Dysfunction Apps
If you’re among the 2.6 million active users of the popular telehealth apps Hims and Hers to obtain…
Major Publisher Cans $2.4 Million Book Deal After Author Was Accused of Using AI, for a Very Cynical Reason
Book publisher Minotaur, which is owned by leading publishing company Macmillan US, has walked away from a $2.4…
Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map
There’s data center activism, fought with Facebook groups and petitions, and then there’s data center annihilation, fought with…
Kalshi Sued for Running Illegal Gambling Operation
After years of facilitating a surge in gambling addiction by allowing users to make dubious bets on anything…
Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks
Google Earth is the de facto record of our entire planet. But today, the company undermined its own…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly
Despite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling…
Amazon Insiders Horrified at “Catastrophically Expensive” Internal AI Usage
Even the gazillion-dollar empire that is Amazon is reeling from the costs of letting its employees run loose…
US Government Displays AI-Mangled Map of Africa That Gets Every Single Country Wrong
This government sure loves its AI slop, doesn’t it? While presenting at the global AIDS 2026 conference in…
Wild Footage Shows Man Blocking Flock Camera With Comically Gigantic Protest Sign
There’s been plenty of buzz lately around vandalism of Flock Safety’s automatic license plate readers, which are AI-integrated…
Almost the Entire Country Is Drowning in Cases of Explosive Diarrhea
Just over a week ago, Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr declared that the ongoing…
Shell Is Profiting Massively Off the War in Iran
Don’t worry about the death toll and economic devastation. There’s money to be made! As the United States…
“Televised Nervous Breakdown”: CEO of Palantir Suffers a Bit of a Meltdown During Live Interview
Everyone has had a bad day at work, but most of us are lucky enough that ours weren’t…
Is Your Air Conditioning Killing People Thousands of Miles Away?
When horrible things happen to people you care about, it’s only natural to seek someone to blame. If…
CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about bosses who have embraced AI so much that they’ve become loose…
SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day
In the weeks following its dramatic IPO, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has yet to find stable ground. After shooting…
Scientists Just Found Something Very Disturbing About the AMOC Current Deep Below the Ocean: Evidence That Its Weakening Isn’t Just a Fluke, and If It Collapses, the World Could Be Plunged Into Climate Catastrophe
Chilling news: a mysterious patch of cold water at the bottom of the north Atlantic is caused by…
Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat and Reproduce
Scientists claim that for the first time in history, they have constructed a synthetic cell that feeds, grows,…
Thieves Are Absolutely Loving All of These New Data Center Projects
An enormous amount of resources and money go into the construction of a data center. The enormous facilities…
Factories Attach Cameras to Workers, in Hopes of Replacing Them With Robots
Today, sweatshop workers across the Global South are being made to pull double duty: both stitching clothes together,…
Boys Are So Unprepared by the Education System That They’re Hitting High School Unable to Read Anything More Challenging That a Children’s Book
Fewer teens than ever are reading books, and boys especially. And the ones who do read are either…
Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever
US and Chinese AI researchers are calling for global cooperation on the tech, fearing that its unchecked development…
Brown University Professor Horrified to Discover Largest AI Cheating Scandal in Ivy League History
Award winning economist and Brown University professor Roberto Serrano says he has detected what appears to be the…
Venture Capitalists Disgusted by Solar Power Because It’s Generating Too Much Clean Electricity to Be Grossly Profitable
As the Trump administration continues to debilitate the United States’ path to green power, other parts of the…