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Prepare for Dieselgeddon. Shell CEO Wael Sawan just warned there's not enough diesel to go around for much longer. And refineries are being pushed beyond 100% capacity (seriously) by delaying critical maintenance. This raises the risk of explosions. Those are sometimes fatal,… — HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) August 3, 2026 Ukraine has started implementing a 50–100 liter … Read more

YouTube just terminated 130,000 AI slop channels. Google used a model to identify 50,000 clusters of channels that were all acting in similar ways, and this led to a massive wave of terminations across the platform. So how did YouTube actually catch all of these AI slop channels? Find out here!!!

Burlington, Vermont, is one of the most beautiful small cities in the country, and the place where I was born. In recent years things have deteriorated dramatically. Find out what’s happened and how to prevent this from happening to where you’re from. h/t Rob

Lolol apparently the owners of coldcard used weak entropy of 10^40 seed phrases aka 1 trillion guesses compared to bitcoin 10^120. Millions of dollars have been stolen. Entire bitcoin Reddit is in depression and some are contemplating suicide. https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/08/01/how-bitcoin-cold-wallets-lost-usd70-million-in-an-attack-that-never-touched-the-devices h/t drax-o-logic

The latest details in the heroic rescue of eight American passengers and two crew members from a seaplane that crashed in the Bahamas.

Protect Your Microsoft Login: Hotel Wi-Fi Phishing Attacks Explained Learn about the latest phishing campaign targeting business travelers. Hackers are compromising hotel Wi-Fi gateways, redirecting users to fake Microsoft 365 login pages. Discover how they gain access, the risks involved, and crucial steps to safeguard your sensitive work accounts while on the move. From DNS … Read more

• Lancet paper from 2025 said USAID stopped nearly 92 million deaths over 20 years. • It also projected more than 14 million extra deaths by 2030 if funding stayed cut, including 4.5 million children. • NPR BBC AP NBC New Yorker Washington Post all ran with the numbers. • Ro Khanna cited the 4.5 … Read more

by David Haggith (Just keeping with presidential-level English here because I want to make sure the president can read it.) It’s all mouth, so stuff a TACO in it. There are three parts to this important story. The first is that I wrote in great depth in my Deeper Dive about how close Trump was to actually taking … Read more

by Michael The map above is so crazy that I don’t even have the words to adequately describe it. It is a real map that comes from WatchDuty.org, and it shows wildfires that are actively burning in this country right now. As you can see, enormous wildfires are raging throughout the western third of the nation. … Read more