3 September 2026

5 popular wearable devices that are sharing your private data. No surprises here: the companies are Meta, Samsung, Huawei, and Xiaomi. Of course, they want your personal data to share.

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We kinda knew this already, didn't we? Genetics Help Shape Personality And Life Path. Anyone who's owned pets knows this to be true. Same with watching kids at a playground. You know which kids are the shy ones and stay with their mommies, and which ones are the bold ones who aren't afraid of meeting strangers. It's not politically correct to discuss this, but that's reality. 

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Rich Dad Poor Dad author shocks fans with $1.2 billion debt. The goal is cashflow, and sometimes you have to acquire debt to get it. But I bet the kind of debt Kiyosaki has is the kind that puts money in his pocket. Like mortgages and business debt. Because cashflow is what really matters. And it takes a shift in mentality to get comfortable with this. The ultra-rich don't pay taxes on the money they borrow to finance their lifestyle, because it's tax free. And they pay off the debt from cashflow from their businesses. Don't worry about Kiyosaki – he'll be fine. 

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A lot of people are talking about OpenAI's new Astra model. They are saying it's better than any of Anthropic's models, and that it is signaling AGI. It has a new reasoning process called "recurrent depth" which is more difficult to audit. And who knows more about AI? Bernie Sanders or Dwarkesh Patel? But if you're worried, here's an in-depth discussion about how it thinks.

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Here are 2026's IgNobel Prize winners. Watch the ceremony here.

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Some mountain climbers used Google's Gemini to help them plan their hike up Mt Shasta. Boy was it wrong! Maybe they should have waited and used Astra.

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Caption and Cut helps with video editing for influencers. It removes all the uhs and the hurr-durr and lets you sound intelligent. Plus, it puts captions on your video so people can understand you. How nice!

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THC Edibles Can Affect Driving For Hours, New Research Shows. The NYT must really be worried about cannabis. This is the second warning article it's put out recently. Yeah, today's cannabis ain't safe like Maui Wowee of yore was. This ain't Cheech and Chong funny anymore. It's like we're going to have to pay more taxes to pay for people's homeless shelters and safe houses, because their brains are so fried. Zombie fuel.

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Language skills stay strong in older adults, even while other cognitive abilities decline. I keep being amazed at how much better John Fetterman talks from the time he was campaigning and debating Dr. Oz. Thank goodness for that, I suppose.

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Mullvad is telling their customers to use Quad9 DNS servers instead of their own, which they are shutting down. Better than using Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS server.

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What do you do with a web domain you don't want anymore? These guys have some ideas.

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SkyMap2000 is a great online star atlas. Easy to use. 

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