And Now… “Israeli Intelligence Tells U.S. That Iran Could Use Chemical Weapons”
November 4th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
In something that sounds straight out of the Babylong Bee, the Israeli government has shared intelligence with the United States asserting that Iran is readying chemical weapons to use against adversaries.
Midterms: Democrats Take Control of Senate and House
November 4th, 2026Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises.
All Republicans had to do was:
1. put Americans First
2. not start another war
3. prosecute sex traffickers— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 4, 2026
Via: USA Today:
Democrats won back control of Congress decisively as voters in a stunning wave flipped dozens of seats from red to blue in a rebuke to President Donald Trump over what pollsters found was widespread anger over the cost of living and the Iran war.
In the Senate, Democrats flipped at least seven seats to gain a 54-seat majority in traditionally Republican states such as Texas, Kansas and South Carolina.
Adam Hamilton broke the longest Democratic drought in the country by becoming the first Democrat to win Kansas since 1932. James Talarico became the first Democrat to win a Texas Senate seat since 1988. Chris Pappas in New Hampshire became the first openly gay senator. In Michigan, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed beat his GOP opponent, becoming the nation’s first Muslim U.S. senator.
U.S. Gulf Allies Prepare for Heavy U.S. Bombardment of Iran and Iranian Retaliation
November 3rd, 2026Via: Antiwar:
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the US’s Gulf Arab allies are preparing for heavy US strikes against Iran that they expect to provoke major Iranian retaliation against their infrastructure.
The report said that the Gulf states believe that the US attacks could come as early as this week. President Trump has made clear that he’s considering restarting the bombing campaign after Tuesday’s midterm elections.
The Journal report said that governments in the region, including the UAE and Qatar, have been running security drills at airports and other facilities to prepare for the potential major escalation.
Trump Claims $4 Billion Annual Aid to Israel Will End This Year
November 3rd, 2026Tell us another one, Don.
Via: ZeroHedge:
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will end its nearly $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel by the end of the year, saying he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to the cutoff months ago. Trump argued Israel no longer needs the assistance and that the annual payment had become an easy political target for critics on the left.
“Bibi Netanyahu and I have made a deal,” Trump said. “We give Israel $4 billion a year, and we made a deal months ago that we’re stopping – and they’re fine with it.”
Arguing that the longtime U.S. ally has outgrown the need for direct taxpayer subsidies, Trump added: “They’ve become a very successful country. They don’t need it. And we won’t be paying anymore.”
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While the proposed cutoff would halt direct financial grants, it would not restrict Israel’s access to the American defense industry. “They can buy whatever they want,” Trump said, while noting that Washington would still step in with emergency aid if Israel genuinely needed it.
U.S. Attacks Targets in Iran
November 2nd, 2026Via: Al Jazeera:
Several explosions have been heard on Iran’s Qeshm Island, as media outlets in the United States reported that the US military carried out what officials called “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz.
The blasts came in rapid succession late on Monday, according to Iran’s state-owned IRNA news agency. Witnesses told the agency they saw two planes flying over the island, located off Iran’s southern coast near the Strait of Hormuz.
The semi-official Fars news agency said explosions were also heard in the port city of Bandar Lengeh, coming from the direction of the sea.
The Wall Street Journal, citing US officials, reported that the US military carried out the strikes.
Sam Altman: “It’s Quite Terrible” That People Have DRAM In Their Own Computers for Local Inference
November 2nd, 2026Eventually, Sam Altman schadenfreude will be the best schadenfreude.
Sam Altman says its bad that everyone’s personal computers are using the world’s limited supply of memory chips.
"It’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAMs sitting in their own computer, and being used 5% of the time. Like, you want maximum utilization."
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) October 30, 2026
@elonmusk https://t.co/FDp2aeL4Jt
— german gamer (@GermanGame3422) November 1, 2026
Via: PC Magazine:
It’s not exactly a surprise, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn’t a fan of people running AI models locally because it can pull precious memory supplies away from data centers.
“You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment. And somehow, many people’s intuition is the opposite of that,” Altman said in a new interview on the Cheeky Pint podcast.
In contrast, OpenAI partners, including Nvidia and Microsoft, have been touting the benefits of running AI models on new PC hardware with high memory capacity. Local AI offers better privacy, but it also means consumers and enterprises can ditch cloud-based AI without paying, making the business model a direct threat to OpenAI and other top providers.
“A lot of people want local inference. And somehow, they assume that the problem is solved now because we are going to have open-source models,” Altman said. “We’re going to be able to run them on our computers. And so we’re not going to need all the stuff in the data center. But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer. And be used 5% of the time.”
“Asking My AI Teacher How to Spell Seventeen”
November 1st, 2026Asking my AI teacher how to spell seventeen https://t.co/CL306DMdaI
— Husk (@huskirl) November 1, 2026
Private Jet Crash in Greenacres, Palm Beach County
November 1st, 2026Update: Adam Robinson on Not Building His Company in Israel: “I Guess I’m Dead”
@obviceo I guess I’m dead.
— Adam Robinson (@RetentionAdam) July 19, 2023
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Update: Jet Changed Course to Fly Northeast and Directly Into Storm Core
??DEVELOPING: RADAR SHOWS JET FLEW INTO A STORM CORE AT 35,000 FEET
Analysis of Miami NEXRAD radar shows the Learjet 60 (N722BD) entered a thunderstorm core near Wellington at about 12:48 PM ET, just before it crashed in Palm Beach County.
At 35,000 feet, radar echoes around the jet jumped to 34 dBZ, with a 52 dBZ core below it and storm tops near 47,000 feet. Tracking data shows the jet climbed about 450 feet inside the core, then went into a spiraling dive and crashed 76 seconds later.
Minutes earlier, the crew told Miami Center they were in moderate turbulence and “managing the ice” at ?53°F, and asked to climb out of the precipitation. Moments later they declared a Mayday, reported an overspeed, and said they were banking 60 degrees.
All 9 people on board did not make it. The NTSB is investigating, and the cause has not been determined.
— Live Storm Chasers (@LiveStormChaser) November 1, 2026
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Update: Icing?
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Update: Who was Adam Robinson? Tech entrepreneur killed in Florida plane crash
Via: Newsweek:
Tech entrepreneur Adam Robinson, his wife, their two young children and five other people were killed Sunday when a private jet crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida.
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Robinson, 45, was a technology entrepreneur and the founder/CEO of Retention.com and RB2B, two companies focused on helping businesses identify and connect with website visitors.
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According to his LinkedIn profile, he founded Retention.com in January 2020 and said he grew the company to $20 million in annual recurring revenue within 3 1/2 years, without outside funding.
He also co-founded Robly, an email marketing company, in 2012. Robinson served as its CEO until February 2020 and later as president.
Before entering the technology industry, Robinson worked as a credit trader at Lehman Brothers from 2003 to 2008 and Barclays Capital from 2008 to 2011.
In June 2026, he launched another venture, MoltSets, which focused on providing contact data application programming interfaces for artificial intelligence agents.
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The names of the passengers have not been officially released.
Why did the jet (N722BD) change course and head North East in the final minutes?
Hmm…
Via: Daily Mail:
A private jet carrying nine people has crashed just eight miles from Mar-a-Lago in Florida, erupting into a colossal fire and sending a boom echoing for miles.
The $2 million Learjet 60 plummeted from the air, falling 32,000ft in a minute, causing a roaring amber blaze and plumes of smoke to billow from the scorched roadside in Greenacres, Palm Beach County, the FAA confirmed.
A massive crater marked the impact site, ringed by a wide field of scattered wreckage.
Haunting final audio from inside the cockpit has revealed the panic as the plane started to descend at rapid speeds. All nine people on board died on impact.
The twin-engine business jet nosedived near South Military Trail and Marilyn Drive around 12.50pm. It remains unclear who was on board.
The flight had set off from Austin, Texas, bound for North Eleuthera in the Bahamas before its path abruptly ended just near West Palm Beach, according to flight data.
President Donald Trump had been at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night hosting a Halloween party, but it’s understood he had already departed for Iowa by the time the explosion occurred.
U.S. Army Practices for “Mass Temporary Interment”
November 1st, 2026Via: ArmyTimes:
The Army is preparing for the grim possibility of burying fallen soldiers on the battlefield, testing how fast it can dig temporary graves while preserving remains for eventual identification and return to families after the end of a conflict.
During an exercise in North Carolina, engineers, preventative medicine teams, chaplains and fatality management specialists prepared for mass temporary interment not used on a large scale since the Korean War, the Army announced in a release last week.
For more than twenty years during wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. air superiority allowed the quick evacuation of remains back to the United States through mortuary affairs channels. Future conflicts — especially those with large-scale combat operations, or LSCO — may not have the same capabilities.
Phase II of Operation Dragon Covenant challenged troops to test and validate temporary burial operations and remains preservation at a large scale. Engineer soldiers involved had to use their equipment to excavate and then fill burial trenches without damaging mock remains, made of skeletal models and water containers, so that hypothetical future forensic teams could unearth and repatriate them after the end of a conflict.
Nissan Automobile Technical College: Nissan’s Mechanic School in Japan
November 1st, 2026Via: Paolo fromTOKYO:
