Today’s news briefs are either free speech or will get us put in jail, depending on your oligarchal ruler…
- Italian ‘mystic’ may face trial for fraud after DNA match with blood on ‘bleeding Virgin Mary’ statue that drew pilgrims to a town near Rome.
- “From the high desert in the great American southwest…”: Paul Giamatti to star as Art Bell in upcoming feature film.
- Aliens could be all around us – but we’re totally unprepared for ‘first contact’.
- How pack rats solved a Chaco Canyon mystery.
- “Astronomy is facing an existential crisis“, says research who solved radio telescope mystery.
- How Elon Musk’s DOGE logo is not just a dogwhistle – it’s a Nazi slap in the face.
- Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds that we’re not alone.
- ‘City-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the Moon instead of us, scientists say.
- World sea ice has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded. This is fine.
- AI news summaries contain significant errors more than half the time, study finds.
- The powerlessness of positive thinking. (Archive link)
- JWST catches star vaporizing the hottest rocky exoplanets.
Quote of the Day:
An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
Albert Einstein