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Drudge-style front page · November 12, 2026
- Six More Places to Post a 30-Minute Video Outside YouTube — and the Ones That Pay Mostly Pay You for an Audience You Brought Yourself
- College Basketball Analytics in the NIL/Transfer Portal Era: Roster Math Rates the Players First, Then Adds Them Up
- Four More Places to Park a 30-Minute Video After YouTube, Rumble, and Odysee — One Cut Off UK Viewers, One Isn’t a Single Website at All, and One Lets Creators Keep 95% (If They Stream)
- Odysee’s Parent Company Shut Down in 2023 — and the Site Just Kept Running (and Then Changed How It Pays Creators Twice)
- Google Has a Data Center in Orbit — It Runs One Chip at a Time, Gets About 20 Minutes a Pass to Talk to Earth, and the First Thing It Did Was Write a Haiku
Rumble Nearly Doubled to ~80 Million Monthly Users — and the Real Money There Isn’t Ads at All
The LIV Is Dead: A Golf League Backed by More Than $5 Billion in Saudi Money Is Liquidating, and Its Stars Are Still Owed Millions
Data Centers: The New Textile Mills? North Carolina Watched Trade and Automation Empty Its Mills — Could AI Compute Follow? Not Yet, but There Are Early Signs
Voters Just Told the AI Industry No at the Ballot Box — Who, If Anyone, Benefits? A Backyard-GPU Startup Called Span Is the Long Shot
Was the AI Bubble Just Waiting for One Pin? It May Have Been the Trigger the Bubble-Watchers Expected — but One Bad Week Isn’t a Popped Bubble
Why Did the Post-Midterm Market Drop Take Two Days? It Was Less a Delay Than Two Different Markets — and Nobody Can Show Who Sold When
The Race Isn’t Close, the Calendar Is: Why Some Winners Are Called by Bedtime and Others Take Weeks
I Predicted a Post-Midterm Selloff — Wednesday Blew Up My Call, Thursday’s 5.5% Nasdaq Plunge Half-Rescued It, and Here’s My 3-Day Scorecard
A Pirate Radio Station Broadcasting Illegally From a Silver Lake Apartment Closet Became a Launchpad for LA’s ’90s Indie Scene — It Ran Three Years Before the FCC Caught Up, and Jack Black Just Exec-Produced the Documentary
I’m Finally on Board with Permanent Daylight Saving Time (the Sleep Scientists Would Like a Word)- I’m Inside America’s $1.26 Trillion Credit Card Debt Number — and I Pay My Card Off Every Month
- Anyone Old Enough to Remember Clint Longley? A Thanksgiving 1974 Story for Everyone Betting on the Ravens-Jaguars Game
- He Helped Draw His Own “Safe” Congressional Seat. Then He Lost It. — Meet the Dummymander, the Gerrymander That Backfires
- Physicists Filmed Tiny Magnetic Whirlpools Melting Out of a Crystal for the First Time — and It Could Lead to Computers That Work More Like Your Brain
- An AI Tool Spotted Pancreatic Cancer on CT Scans a Median of 475 Days Before Doctors Diagnosed It — and Nearly Doubled the Radiologists' Hit Rate at the Earliest, Most Curable Stage
- Real American Elections Have Been Decided by a Coin Flip, a Deck of Cards, and a Name Pulled Out of a Bowl — and Not That Long Ago
- There’s a Real, Long-Running Historical Pattern for How Badly a President’s Party Does in Their First Midterm — and Tonight’s Results Will Either Match It or Break It
- Early Voting Is Barely 50 Years Old as a National Thing — and Three States Still Don’t Have It at All
- Election Day Is Always a Tuesday in November Because of One 1845 Law Written for Farmers on Horseback
- A Moonshine Still Just Exploded in Wilkes County, NC — the Same County Where Bootleggers Outrunning Revenue Agents Gave Us NASCAR
- AI Models Used to Train With Live Internet Access — And Why the Industry Just Started Locking That Down
- The Top 10 Weird Halloween Traditions and Town-Takeover Events — a Pumpkin That Flew 5,545 Feet, a Detroit Night With More Than 800 Fires, and 50,000 Costumes Marching Through Greenwich Village
- I Asked Whether a Stock Market Correction Is Coming — So I Put My Own Hunch on Trial, and One Plank Didn’t Survive
- MIT Built a Robot the Size of a Stick of Gum That Swims Using Real, Living Muscle Cells — Steered by Nothing but Flashes of Light
- I Was Today Days Old When I Learned the UK Government Just Told Every Household to Stockpile Three Days of Food and Water — and Tinned Food Sales Jumped 40% in Days
- I Was Today Days Old When I Realized the $99 Talker App I Built Years Ago and Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Are Chasing the Same Goal — One With a Keyboard, One With 1,024 Electrodes
- Astronomers May Have Found the First Moon Ever Detected Outside Our Solar System — and It’s Orbiting Something That Isn’t Even a Star
- Anthropic Got Stock Warrants in the Same Vendor It's Paying $13.7 Billion for AI Compute — and That the Last Time Companies Ran Deals Like This, It Ended in Fraud Charges and Prison Time
- Anthropic Just Filed to Go Public at Up to a $2 Trillion Valuation — So I Ran the Math on What My Own $200 Claude Max Plan Actually Costs Them
- Instagram Just Took Its Own Shot at YouTube — Too Bad It Won’t Save the Channel I Already Lost
- And Then There Were Two — Of Star Trek’s Original 8 Main Cast, Only William Shatner and George Takei Are Still Alive
- Donnie Iris, the Voice Behind Pittsburgh’s “Ah! Leah!,” Just Died at 83 — Before That Anthem, He Already Had a #2 Hit With a Totally Different Band
- YouTube Is a “Bully Monopoly” — One Content Strike Can Now Get Every Channel You’ve Ever Touched Erased for Life
- A Texas Town Has Hosted the World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup Every Year Since 1958
- Nolan County, Texas Has More Wind Turbines Than Anywhere Else in North America — And Once Out-Generated the Entire State of California
- What Happened to the New Forza Motorsport — Turns Out It Was Quietly Done Getting Content Barely 2 Years After Its Own Relaunch
- Why Does Explaining My Code to AI Feel So Satisfying? — Turns Out I’ve Been Doing This Since Before AI Existed
- When Will My AI Start Advertising to Me? — Turns Out It Already Did
- How to Play Video Poker: Jacks or Better vs. Bonus Poker — Nearly Identical Strategy, and the Four-of-a-Kind Payout Quirk That Makes the Flashier Game Return Less
- How to Play Baccarat at a Casino Table — James Bond’s Original Card Game Wasn’t Poker, a Disputed 1480s Italian Origin, and the Hidden 5% Catch on the Better Bet
- How to Play Blackjack at a Casino Table — A Disputed Gold Rush Origin, the Only Game in This Series a Real Strategy Can Beat, and the Full Basic-Strategy Table Down to 0.5%
- How to Play Roulette at a Casino Table — A Failed Perpetual-Motion Machine, the Rule That Nearly Halves the House Edge, and Why No Betting System Beats It
- How to Play Craps at a Casino Table — A New Orleans Playboy Named a Street After the Game in 1805, the One Bet With a 0% House Edge, and the Rule That Gets You to 0.374%
- How to Play Ultimate Texas Hold’em — You’re Up Against the Dealer, Not Other Players, One 4X-Raise Rule to Memorize, and a 2.185% House Edge
- How to Play Three Card Poker — Designed in 1994 to Move at Blackjack Speed, Two Separate Bets, and the One Strategy Rule That Brings the House Edge to 3.37%