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An average visit lasted 87 seconds last month. Our crap was shared on Facebook 31 times. Our most popular pages were applications and our Horizon Forbidden West table. Windows led the list of operating systems followed by macOS and Linux. Chrome remained the most popular browser.
| Metric | Current Rate |
|---|---|
| Unemployment Rate: | 4.1% (down 0.1%) |
| Core Inflation Rate: | 2.4% (down 0.1%) (reported next on October 14th) |
| Monthly Inflation Rate: | 3.4% (unchanged) (reported next on October 14th) |
| Annual Global Birth Rate | 16.97 per 1000 people (a welcome 0.96% decline from 2025) |
| Annual Global Death Rate | 7.85 per 1000 people (a welcome 0.58% increase from 2025) |
Current U.S. Inflation Rates (2000-2026)
Argentina's inflation rate for August 2026 was 33.5% (down 0.05%). Unemployment in the third quarter of 2026 is expected to be 7.8% (unchanged).
'A slap in the face': Ranchers feel betrayed by Trump's plan to buy Argentine beef Restrictions on US farmers' illegal labor pool were met with the same reaction
Argentina’s Milei escalates Falklands dispute, seizing on Trump comments and oil tensions Milei is up for reelection. Trump needs to be in a nursing home.
World Cup 2026: FBI launches investigation into Argentina for alleged fraud and money laundering
Milei’s top aide and Cabinet chief resigns over spiraling corruption scandal
LIBRA Probe Corners Binance, Bybit, OKX: Whose Names are Behind the Frozen Wallets?
Math
Astronomy
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
How to find Uranus this week, the hardest planet I've ever tried to see Two full-length mirrors facing one another and a daring pose by the observer standing between them should suffice
Physics
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? More complicated than I thought
Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?
Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?
Gaming!
Star Citizen has a disastrously laggy stream with horrendous vibes, which isn't a great look when you're past $1 billion in funding A spectacle for simpletons! Fanfare for the intellectually downtrodden! A farce! Tea and crumpets? Certainly!
Bethesda confirms Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, makes Obsidian collaboration official, and says Fallout 5 is in 'pre-production' Moira Brown, Megaton's tech goddess, remastered at last
Xbox's Red Ring of Death still haunts gamers as Steam Machine owners report a "Red Line of Death" after GPU failures The article reveals one owner portrayed as an isolated incident, but its title suggests multiple owners. Which is it?
'Meh': Ex-PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida weighs in on Valve's Steam Machine after a few hours with it Since the Steam Machine is once again a flop, Sony might consider releasing first-party content on the PC again. Thanks Valve and Linux!
Dating Coach Blaine Anderson Needs A Real Job
Good News!
AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots Marketing to speculators is easy. Improving fundamentals is hard.
A Prominent AI Investor Is Now Crumbling, in What Could Be a Sign of Things to Come Shocked? Why? They are speculators.
The clock is ticking on Wall Street's $1.5 trillion powder keg, and history says time is almost up
Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is 'working for the Chinese Communists' A welcome descent into madness for a wayward oligarch
“Televised Nervous Breakdown”: CEO of Palantir Suffers a Bit of a Meltdown During Live Interview Claims: “American enterprises are run by the shrewdest, most widely intelligent people on the planet.” Explain Trump, Musk, and Sam Bankman-Fried then.
AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
Artificial Intelligence Stupidity
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt $3 trillion in the hole collectively
SoftBank CEO Says You’re Too Stupid to Understand What’s Going on If You Believe the AI Bubble Is Real Reality has other plans...
SoftBank tumbles 11% as global AI sell-off triggers 'another wipeout' for tech momentum winners
Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows The tech industry's horrible AI sales pitch to the public comes back to haunt the C-Suite
Artificial Stupidity News Archive
Crypto
Coinbase shares fall after crypto exchange posts disappointing second-quarter results
Binance to compensate users after technical snag during $19B market crash
LIBRA Probe Corners Binance, Bybit, OKX: Whose Names are Behind the Frozen Wallets?
Weekly Wrap: Crypto Struggles as Technology Stocks Fall
Trump earned over $1 billion from crypto ventures, new filings show And earned only a combined $182 million from his real estate, licensing agreements, and legal settlements
SBF Files Trump Pardon Application: Long-Shot Bid for Freedom? All the cool kids are doing it, the sentiment goes...
Exclusive - Binance set to lose permission to operate in EU, sources say
Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s Efforts to Cut Spending in the Government Were So Incompetent That It’s Shocking, Internal Analysis Finds From $2 trillion proposed dollars in spending cuts to just $1.2 billion in actual cuts
Elon Musk Is Having One of His All-Time Meltdowns
Elon Musk Launches New Service Where You Can Send Him All Your Money and Hope for the Best
Suddenly, as His Empire Crumbles, Elon Musk Admits He Made a Huge Mistake With DOGE
This May Be the Most Damning Single Fact in Tesla’s Quarterly Earnings Report
It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History
SpaceX’s Shares Tank After Starship Fails to Launch
Taking a Musk right now? The Musk Archive!
Meta
Meta can’t stop states’ $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial Meanwhile, Zuckerberg waxes poetic...
FTC Concerned About Meta Surveillance of Users of Erectile Dysfunction Apps
Meta’s Attempted Crackdown on AI Glasses Perverts Is Already Failing
Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly Speculators unhappy? Oh, well.
Meta Is Letting Fake AI-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms
Is Mark Zuckerberg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta?
Meta is reportedly considering a multibillion-dollar data center deal with Anthropic While Anthropic struggles to compete with cheap state-subsidized Chinese AI services
Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated
Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For
Tiny Tim Sweeney
Tim Sweeney on the future of games, AI, and whether Valve will ever join forces with Epic: 'It's now clear that nobody's going to end up with an absolute monopoly' Unwisely opens huge mouth again. Like that other time...
Too Stupid For Words But Here Are Some Anyway
Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable A male bimbo posing as an economist? Who would think it?
Larry Summers Resigns From Harvard Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take
Yuck!
A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into
And the first person who would likely sign up for this is...
AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
Guys, I know this is exciting for some of you, but let’s slow down a bit before we throw a party. Remember the reception for Andrew Wiles’s proof for Fermat’s Last Theorem? The proof was found to have a significant flaw after it was announced. Remember Michael Atiyah’s 2018 “Proof” of the Riemann Hypothesis that went nowhere? He was a Field Medalist and claimed the fine structure constant was vital to his proof. That episode quietly disappeared. The Navier-Stokes Equations proof must still be verified by humans. No Clay Mathematics Millennium Prize has been awarded. Until the proof is verified, no one is getting a Fields Medal.
The proof resulted from the work of several people, Anthropic, and OpenAI. OpenAI researchers; Tristan Buckmaster at NYU working with Levent Alpöge with Anthropic; Diego Cordoba with the Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Madrid; and Luis Martínez-Zoroa of CUNEF University were collectively responsible for the work. The work of Cordoba and Martínez-Zoroa was especially important. So, forget about any claims that OpenAI achieved the much-hyped AI singularity or that its software produced the proof unassisted by humans. The capstone effort for the proof was provided by specialized AI (a swarm of AI agents), not a generalized LLM risen to genius-level intelligence. The title of the linked article above is misleading. It was written to grab attention.
In the end, we have a huge mess whether humans can verify LEAN correctly described the proof as it was intended for the prize or not. This proof, like the last Millennium Prize problem tackled by Grigori Perlman and Richard S. Hamilton, was solved in part by a computer program. Both were team efforts and the thorny issue of correctly establishing proper credit has plagued both aftermaths.
The lesson is that if you use OpenAI or Anthropic tools to get the job done, the AI companies will swoop in there to ruin everything. Chatbox conversations and AI tools are exposed to the public. Anthropic and OpenAI are notoriously unethical, greedy, untrustworthy, and craven. So, maybe do your work out of the sight of the Silicon Valley swine next time.
Study this pattern for 10 seconds.

Did you find the image dazzling and a bit disorienting? If so, you are clearly too intelligent to be wasting your time here.
That picture of Orchid Radowski is strangely mesmerizing and hypnotic. It isn't of Elizabeth Holmes, unless she did modeling work for Adobe Stock before heading up Theranos. It's surprising what you can end up with when you just screw around with photo stock.
The one of Feline Cordoba is even stranger to us. It's like experiencing wincing pain and pleasure all at once.

















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