Bookmarks for 2026-01-30T18:15:51.557Z

• THIS CROSSES THE LINE - YouTube Added: Jan 30, 2026

  THIS CROSSES THE LINE

  Site: YouTube

  Download Rumble Wallet now and step away from the big banks — for good! https://rumblewallet.onelink.me/bJsX/timcastculturewarsBecome A Memberhttp://youtube....

  

• The "Special Regions" on Mars Where It Is Totally Forbidden to Explore, for a Haunting Reason Added: Jan 30, 2026

  The "Special Regions" on Mars Where It Is Totally Forbidden to Explore, for a Haunting Reason

  Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel

  A secret map of Mars exists, one that space agencies are forbidden to follow. Hidden within its surface are regions so scientifically sensitive that even NASA rovers are ordered to keep out.

  

• Bill Maher says Democrats should tell celebs to shut up about politics Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Bill Maher warns Democrats to tell celebs to 'shut the f--- up' if they want to get elected: 'You're not helping'

  Site: EW.com

  'Real Time' host Bill Maher says that Democrats should tell celebrities to 'shut the f--- up' about politics, because it's not helping them.

  

• Dems should 'tell celebrities to just shut the f--k up': Bill Maher Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Exclusive | Dems need to ‘tell celebrities to just shut the f–k up — Hollywood isn’t doing the party any favors’: Bill Maher

  Site: California Post

  Bill Maher has a message for “woke” celebs.

  

• I started using Gemini with Gmail, and I wish I had done it sooner Added: Jan 30, 2026

  I started using Gemini with Gmail, and I wish I had done it sooner

  Site: Android Police

  It quietly fixed everything I hate about Gmail

  

• NASA Analysis Shows La Niña Limited Sea Level Rise in 2025 | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Added: Jan 30, 2026

  NASA Analysis Shows La Niña Limited Sea Level Rise in 2025

  Site: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

  A mild La Niña caused greater rainfall over the Amazon basin, which offset rising sea levels due to record warming of Earth’s oceans.

  

• NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form - Phoronix Added: Jan 30, 2026

  NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form

  

• SpaceX in merger talks with other Musk companies ahead of IPO | Reuters Added: Jan 30, 2026

• "That's When Things Became Very Nefarious" - Hans Mahncke - YouTube Added: Jan 30, 2026

  "That's When Things Became Very Nefarious" - Hans Mahncke

  Site: YouTube

  Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of Pod Force One: https://www.youtube.com/@PodForce1Watch full clips of Pod Force One with Miranda D...

  

• David M Friedman on X: "Stephen Colbert, you are scum. Nazis sought to annihilate the Jewish race based solely on their ethnicity. And they killed an astounding 6 million of them. ICE Agents are trying to arrest and deport criminals, many of whom are dangerous and all of whom have broken the law, and" / X Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Site: X (formerly Twitter)

  

• Cam Higby 🇺🇸 on X: "🚨 Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson makes clear that her city doesn’t need a Signal chats. Instead she’s going to mobilize the actual police force to do what Signal networks do in Minneapolis. She will even have the SPD relay intel gathered on federal agents to “community partners” https://t.co/tECR6b0HWA" / X Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Site: X (formerly Twitter)

  

• Death of the West by Suicidal Empathy - My Talk @ Tel Aviv International Salon (THE SAAD TRUTH_1984) - YouTube Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Death of the West by Suicidal Empathy - My Talk @ Tel Aviv International Salon (THE SAAD TRUTH_1984)

  Site: YouTube

  Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-en4VilbHL0_______________________________________My forthcoming book Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind is no...

  

• Baby dinosaurs were common prey for Late Jurassic predators, reconstructed food web suggests Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Baby dinosaurs were common prey for Late Jurassic predators, reconstructed food web suggests

  Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ever walked on land—were a key food sustaining predators in the Late Jurassic, according to a new study led by a UCL (University College London) researcher.

  

• All the Legal Angles After Don Lemon's ARREST and What's To Come, with Mike Davis and Bill Shipley - YouTube Added: Jan 30, 2026

  All the Legal Angles After Don Lemon's ARREST and What's To Come, with Mike Davis and Bill Shipley

  Site: YouTube

  Megyn Kelly is joined by Mike Davis, founder of Article III Project, and Bill Shipley, author of "Shipwreckedcrew's Port-O-Call" on Substack, to discuss why ...

  

• Elon Musk on X: "Not AI https://t.co/sA5WmXrW2p" / X Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Site: X (formerly Twitter)

  

• LilHumansBigImpact on X: "I used Grok Imagine to create a woman reciting a poem. It took less than two minutes. Prompt: A brunette woman dressed in a Shakespearean era dress, looking up at a night sky full of stars, evoking a dreamy atmosphere. She speaks the words, “The stars above do whisper secrets https://t.co/hZFCbfCKt3" / X Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Site: X (formerly Twitter)

  

• LilHumansBigImpact on X: "I mean, what would you create if you were the universe wanting to know itself?" / X Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Site: X (formerly Twitter)

  

• First-Ever Black Hole Imaged Caught Launching a 3,000-Light-Year Jet Added: Jan 30, 2026

  First-Ever Black Hole Imaged Caught Launching a 3,000-Light-Year Jet

  Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel

  A NASA-developed heat shield is enabling private capsules to safely return from orbit, opening the door to a new era of in-space manufacturing and commercial growth.

  

• Google's Project Genie Is Not for You Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Google's Project Genie Is Not for You

  Site: Gizmodo

  Google tries the Yann LeCun approach.

  

• The Moon is quietly collecting Earth’s escaping air, study finds Added: Jan 30, 2026

  The Moon is quietly collecting Earth’s escaping air, study finds

  Site: Earth.com

  Spanning billions of years, lunar soil could store a chemical record of ancient gases—materials that may one day support exploration and crewed missions.

  

• Carney praises Trump’s nomination of Warsh to lead Fed - POLITICO Added: Jan 30, 2026

• Kevin Warsh: Wall Street is unhappy with Trump's pick for Fed chair Added: Jan 30, 2026

• How Famed Economist Mohamed El-Erian Views Kevin Warsh for Fed Chair - POLITICO Added: Jan 30, 2026

• Trump says US has directly warned Iran as nuclear talks loom | Fox News Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Trump says US has directly warned Iran as nuclear talks loom | Fox News

  Iran nuclear program talks with U.S. possible "on equal footing," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says, as Washington deploys military ships amid growing doubts.

• Scientists say quantum tech has reached its transistor moment | ScienceDaily Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Scientists say quantum tech has reached its transistor moment

  Site: ScienceDaily

  Quantum technology has reached a turning point, echoing the early days of modern computing. Researchers say functional quantum systems now exist, but scaling them into truly powerful machines will require major advances in engineering and manufacturing. By comparing different quantum platforms, the study reveals both impressive progress and steep challenges ahead. History suggests the payoff could be enormous—but not immediate.

  

• Mystery Solved: Why Termite Kings and Queens Are Monogamous Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Mystery Solved: Why Termite Kings and Queens Are Monogamous

  Site: SciTechDaily

  Termites became social powerhouses by stripping away genes tied to competition and independence. This genetic shedding locked in monogamy, boosted cooperation, and paved the way for their astonishingly complex colonies.

  

• Exclusive: SpaceX generated about $8 billion in profit last year ahead of IPO, sources say | Reuters Added: Jan 30, 2026

• Oh God...The Clawdbot Is Now OpenClaw Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Oh God...The Clawdbot Is Now OpenClaw

  Site: Wccftech

  Anthropic forced Clawdbot to rebrand to Moltbot, and a better sense compelled the developer to rebrand to OpenClaw.

  

• 4 Windows habits that can wreck your Linux system Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Your Windows habits are dangerous on Linux—here are 4 things to avoid

  Site: How-To Geek

  Leave these Windows tendencies at the door. You're in Penguin land now.

  

• Scientists Just Discovered a 443-Million-Year-Old Fossil With Eyes Strikingly Similar to Ours Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Scientists Just Discovered a 443-Million-Year-Old Fossil With Eyes Strikingly Similar to Ours

  Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel

  At first glance, the fossils seemed ordinary. But thanks to advanced imaging, researchers uncovered something extraordinary hidden within their tiny skulls.

  

• Woman says we are 'severely underreacting' to octopuses, then proves she's not wrong - Upworthy Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Woman says we are 'severely underreacting' to octopuses, then proves she's not wrong

  Site: Upworthy

  ​"However impressed or fascinated you are by octopuses, it's honestly probably not enough."

  

• Wendy Carlos demonstrates her Moog Synthesizer in 1970 - YouTube Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Wendy Carlos demonstrates her Moog Synthesizer in 1970

  Site: YouTube

  Wendy Carlos interview on PBS' NOVA in 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EtH5E1N91YNote: the BBC has posted a longer version available here: https://www...

  

• Why are Tatooine planets rare? General relativity explains why binary star systems rarely host planets Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Why are Tatooine planets rare? General relativity explains why binary star systems rarely host planets

  Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

  

• PLU 3452 Sugrathirtyfive: Detailed Info & Lookup with PLU Finder Added: Jan 30, 2026

  PLU 3452 Sugrathirtyfive: Detailed Info & Lookup with PLU Finder

  Site: PLU Finder

  Discover PLU 3452 - Sugrathirtyfive also known as Sugarthirtyfive, Grape. A sweet and juicy table grape known for its crunchy texture and pleasant flavor.

  

• AUTUMNCRISP® - Australian Table Grape Association Added: Jan 30, 2026

  AUTUMNCRISP® - Australian Table Grape Association

  Site: Australian Table Grape Association

  AUTUMNCRISP® brand (Sugrathirtyfive variety) is a late season green seedless, harvested January to April and imported from North America from August to October. AUTUMNCRISP® brand grapes offer an unforgettable eating experience. Its large cluster with firm giant green berries are crisp bursting with sweet flavour and a subtle hint of muscat.

  

• ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping - YouTube Added: Jan 30, 2026

  ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping

  Site: YouTube

  (0:00) Bestie intros + quick Davos recap(9:55) ICE chaos in Minneapolis: aftermath and reactions to the two recent deaths(45:54) Clawdbot takeover: Jason dem...

  

• Maybe this isn't a good idea - YouTube Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Clawdbot just got scary (Moltbook)

  Site: YouTube

  OpenClaw just went the next step and now I'm scared. From organizing with other OpenClaws to seeking out privacy, a lot of questions come to mind. We're only...

  

• Google Deepmind just dropped Genie 3... (WOAH) - YouTube Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Google Deepmind just dropped Genie 3... (WOAH)

  Site: YouTube

  Google Deepmind just dropped Genie 3 and my jaw is ON THE FLOOR. Create full worlds to explore, generated in REAL-TIME!Check out Alex on X: https://x.com/Ale...

  

• Don Lemon ARRESTED Under Klan and FACE Acts, w/ Michael Knowles, Mike Davis, Bill Shipley, and Blum - YouTube Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Don Lemon ARRESTED Under Klan and FACE Acts, w/ Michael Knowles, Mike Davis, Bill Shipley, and Blum

  Site: YouTube

  Megyn Kelly opens the show by discussing the breaking news that Don Lemon has been arrested over violating the Klan Act and FACE Act, why claiming to be a jo...

  

• Moltbot Is Taking Over Silicon Valley | WIRED Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Moltbot Is Taking Over Silicon Valley

  Site: WIRED

  People are letting the viral AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot run their lives, regardless of the privacy concerns.

  Peguine, a self-professed early adopter and trendspotter, discovered Moltbot several weeks ago—back then it was Clawdbot—after discussing a vibe-coding side project with friends on WhatsApp. He installed it on his computer, connected it to numerous apps and online accounts, including Google Apps, and was astonished by how capable it was. “I tried it, got interested, then got really obsessed,” Peguine says. “I could basically automate anything. It was magical.” Moltbot makes regular AI assistants, like Siri and Alexa, seem quaint. The AI assistant is designed to run constantly on a user’s computer and communicate with different AI models, applications, and online services to get stuff done. Users can talk to it through WhatsApp, Telegram, or another chat app. While normal assistants are limited in the questions they can answer and the tasks they can perform, Moltbot can do an almost limitless range of chores involving different apps, coding, and using the web. Peguine has his Moltbot, called “Pokey,” give him morning briefings, organize his workday to maximize productivity, arrange meetings, manage calendar conflicts, and deal with invoices. Pokey even warns him and his wife when his kids have an upcoming test or homework due. Peguine is just one of many new Moltbot disciples. The AI assistant has blown up on social media in recent days as developers, business types, and tech enthusiasts discovered its impressive powers of organization, automation, and all-round helpfulness. “It’s the first time I have felt like I am living in the future since the launch of ChatGPT,” declared Dave Morin, another Moltbot fan, on X. “It gives the same kick as when we first saw the power of ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Claude Code,” wrote Abhishek Katiyar, an X user who says he works at Amazon. “You realize that a fundamental shift is happening.” “The future is here,” was a common refrain among the Moltbot-pilled. Although agentic AI is notoriously imperfect, some Moltbot fanboys are evidently automating high-stakes stuff. André Foeken, CTO of a health care company in the Netherlands, says he gave Moltbot his credit card details and Amazon login, then sent it a message to have it buy things for him. “I had it scanning my messages and it auto ordered some stuff. Which is both cool and the reason I turned scanning messages off 🤣,” Foeken told WIRED in a message. Other users posted screenshots of Moltbot performing research and dispensing stock-trading advice. Moltbot fandom reached such giddy heights in recent days that the idea of buying a Mac Mini in order to run the new assistant quickly became a meme, with users joking about deploying the assistant in increasingly absurd ways. Remarkably, interest in Moltbot apparently triggered a rally in the stock price for Cloudflare, even though it has no connection to the company. Lobster Origins Moltlbot was released by independent developer Peter Steinberger as Clawdbot last November. (He rebranded it this week at the request of Anthropic, which offers several artificial intelligence models named Claude.) Steinberger says he started building Moltbot as an experimental way to feed images and other files into coding models. He realized he was onto something bigger when he tried sending a voice memo into his proto-assistant and was shocked to see it type a reply back to him. “I wrote, ‘How the F did you do that?’” Steinberger says. His tool explained that it had inspected the file, recognized it as an audio format, and found a key on his computer that could be used to access an OpenAI voice transcription service called Whisper. It then converted it to text and read it. “That was the moment I was like, holy shit,” he says. “Those models are really creative if you give them the power.” Steinberger decided to build Clawdbot into something more sophisticated because he believes using AI assistants should not mean handing your data over to the cloud. He reckons that AI companies will all release personal assistants in 2026. “But so far I have seen nobody really ask the question, ‘how can I have this and also own my data,’” he says. “That to me felt like something important that I should explore.” When Steinberger showed his finished AI assistant to friends, they wanted to try installing and using it even if they lacked the technical nous to do it. Moltbot first went viral after he put his personal bot on the project’s Discord on January 1 so that people could try using it themselves. Steinberger notes that the Moltbot system is not especially sophisticated. “In a way it just glues a few things together that are already there,” he says. “But the important thing is how it makes you feel—and that it makes a lot of technology disappear.” He adds he has been stunned by recent demand, with novices flooding to the project’s Discord server with basic setup questions. “It still isn’t ready to be installed by normies, to be fair,” Steinberger says. “At least my early users knew what they were getting into.” Rough Edges Moltbot might seem magical to use, but installing and configuring it is hardly simple—and it comes with some AI-era security rough edges. Setting it up means diving into the command line, obtaining API keys for different services, and using a variety of tricks to set up communication via WhatsApp and the like. In recent days, some users have complained about accidentally deleting data while setting Moltbot up, as well as running up high inference bills as the bot mulls over complex problems. (Steinberger says he has fixed the latter issue and has made progress on other concerns in the latest release.) One reason Moltbot has taken off is that once set up it combines technical prowess and easy communication with a quirky and consistent personality. The assistant can be assigned a character at launch. Default options include “trash panda energy, chaotic neutral,” “everything’s fine,” and “classic gremlin” (I chose that one). Its persona is then stored in a local file called Soul.md. Moltbot also remembers previous conversations and other information using other files that serve as a kind of long-term memory. This makes it feel a bit more like a real assistant than the average chatbot that forgets each conversation and at best only knows a user’s first name. Besides requiring some technical skill and patience, Moltbot is not designed to run on a publicly accessible computer because it can leak personal info. There is also the danger of “prompt injection” where a hacker might send an email or file that tricks the AI model that serves as Moltbot’s brain into blurting out secrets. “There is a trade-off with security here,” admits Peguine, the early adopter. Even so, he hopes to deploy Moltbot in a new, even more ambitious way—by having it manage his family’s small business. Peguine is now teaching his dad, who runs an Israeli company that supplies tea, to use Moltbot to manage invoices, track inventory, and communicate with customers. “The beautiful thing is that it’s a general system,” Peguine says. “It can run a business, I think.”

  This is an edition of Will Knight’s AI Lab newsletter. Read previous newsletters here.

  

• The Disturbing Logic Of The Left | Melanie Phillips - YouTube Added: Jan 30, 2026

  The Disturbing Logic Of The Left | Melanie Phillips

  Site: YouTube

  Melanie Phillips discusses the cognitive dissonance progressive liberals use to defend Hamas.Melanie Phillips is a British public commentator with a distingu...

  

• Naval on X: "The willful and deliberate destruction of the tech industry by communists is a national security risk." / X Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Site: X (formerly Twitter)

  

• Alex Cheema - e/acc on X: "Running Kimi K2.5 on my desk. Runs at 24 tok/sec with 2 x 512GB M3 Ultra Mac Studios connected with Thunderbolt 5 (RDMA) using @exolabs / MLX backend. Yes, it can run clawdbot. https://t.co/ssbEeztz2V" / X Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Site: X (formerly Twitter)

  

• AI Agents Have Their Own Social Network Now, and They Would Like a Little Privacy Added: Jan 30, 2026

  AI Agents Have Their Own Social Network Now, and They Would Like a Little Privacy

  Site: Gizmodo

  Moltbook is a place for chatbots to link and connect with other chatbots, and all we can do is watch.

  

• An Agent Revolt: Moltbook Is Not A Good Idea Added: Jan 30, 2026

• AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast - Ars Technica Added: Jan 30, 2026

  AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

  Site: Ars Technica

  Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.

  

• The one sign that someone is highly intelligent, according to genius inventor Nikola Tesla - Upworthy Added: Jan 30, 2026

  The one sign that someone is highly intelligent, according to genius inventor Nikola Tesla

  Site: Upworthy

  Incredibly intelligent people see relationships very differently.

  

• Do these Viral Recipes Really Work? Let’s Test Them - YouTube Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Do these Viral Recipes Really Work? Let’s Test Them

  Site: YouTube

  You asked for it... testing the viral apple marshmallows recipe, figuring out america's best cookie recipe from please and thankyou, taste testing the chick ...

  

• The Empty Moralizing of Canada’s Mark Carney - WSJ Added: Jan 30, 2026

• Scientists Enter a Mysterious Remote New Zealand Cave, What They Found Dates Back 1 Million Years Added: Jan 30, 2026

  Scientists Enter a Mysterious Remote New Zealand Cave, What They Found Dates Back 1 Million Years

  Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel

  Scientists exploring a long-forgotten cave have uncovered a prehistoric world frozen in time beneath layers of volcanic ash.