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News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – Record Labels Drop Piracy Lawsuits Against Altice and Verizon in Wake of Cox Ruling https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-drop-piracy-lawsuits-against-altice-and-verizon-in-wake-of-cox-ruling/
• 4:37 – Former Disney Engineer Goes Viral Confirming DEI Has Been Dying Since 2020 https://www.fandompulse.com/p/former-disney-engineer-goes-viral
  • Josh Daws on X https://x.com/JoshDaws/status/2044554724557365741
• 8:11 – The Next Europe: Why Europe Produces Nobel Prize Winners but Not Elon Musks https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6584098

16:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The SPLC

• Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-southern-poverty-law-center-wire-fraud-false-statements-and

21:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Congress

• Protecting U.S. Leadership in Codes Development and Enhancing Public Access https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/protecting-us-leadership-codes-development-and-enhancing-public-access

This Week’s Quote: “Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers, and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists.'” —Thomas Sowell

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:43 – Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA https://itsfoss.com/news/os-level-age-verification-across-us/
• 5:57 – The Internet’s Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/
• 11:05 – A note from Re:Create: Think Before Reshuffling Copyright Agencies https://recreatecoalition.org/a-note-from-recreate-think-before-reshuffling-copyright-agencies/

15:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Maine

• Maine to pause big bit barns as local opposition spreads https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/maine_pulls_bit_barn_brake/
• Sanford Data Center Plan Draws Concerns Despite Self-Generated Power Proposal https://www.themainewire.com/2026/02/sanford-data-center-plan-draws-concerns-despite-self-generated-power-proposal/

19:52 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Eric Swalwell

• Eric Swalwell ends California gubernatorial bid after accusations of sexual assault https://reason.com/2026/04/13/see-ya-swalwell/
• Eric Swalwell misconduct claims: Katie Porter under scrutiny, too https://thehill.com/opinion/robbys-radar/5829026-swalwell-porter-controversy-california/

This Week’s Quote: “When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental—men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand.” —H.L. Mencken

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• 0:43 – Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996–2019: A Register Study – Ruuska – Acta Paediatrica https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apa.70533
• 6:12 – Shots fired at Indianapolis politician’s home after data center vote https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/08/indianapolis-shots-fired-councilmember-home/89509399007/
• 11:23 – Supreme Court Wipes Piracy Liability Verdict Against Grande Communications https://torrentfreak.com/supreme-court-wipes-piracy-liability-verdict-against-grande-communications/
  • Order List: Monday, April 6, 2026 https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/040626zor_5iek.pdf

15:35 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Microsoft

• Microsoft locks out top open source devs, blames process https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/microsoft_dev_account_deactivations/
• Pavan Davuluri on X https://x.com/pavandavuluri/status/2042018254680682625

21:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Massachusetts Supreme Court

• Claim Against Meta for Alleged Addiction of Children Can Go Forward Notwithstanding § 230 https://www.mass.gov/doc/commonwealth-v-meta-platforms-inc-sjc-m13747/download
• Brief of Profs. Jane Bambauer and Eugene Volokh in Support of Defendants-Appellants https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025.11.14-Volokh-Amicus-Brief.pdf

This Week’s Quote: “Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we’ve not seen before.” —Lawrence Lessig

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:43 – X Asks Court to Dismiss Music Piracy Lawsuit After Supreme Court’s Cox Ruling https://torrentfreak.com/x-asks-court-to-dismiss-music-piracy-lawsuit-after-supreme-courts-cox-ruling/
• 4:40 – Satanic Temple wins legal fight over Ten Commandments monument in Arkansas
  https://reason.com/2026/04/02/satanic-temple-wins-legal-fight-over-10-commandments-monument-in-arkansas/
• 7:58 – SCOTUS Hears Arguments in Birthright Citizenship Case – Trump v. Barbara https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2025/25-365

23:03 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Gavin Newsom

• Newsom Can Only Blame Himself for California’s High Gas Prices https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/30/newsom-blames-trump-for-high-gas-prices-but-california-created-its-own-energy-nightmare/
• Michael Shellenberger on X https://x.com/shellenberger/status/2037983181006336033

29:18 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Donald Trump

• Iran’s nuclear program: Cornered and wounded, will Tehran now race for a bomb? https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/middleeast/iran-nuclear-bomb-analysis-intl

This Week’s Quote: “At all these conferences, lurking in the background but all-powerful, just the same, are the sinister agents of those who profit by war. They see to it that these conferences do not disarm or seriously limit armaments.” —Smedley Butler

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:48 – AI Mistake Throws Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Nearly Six Months https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-grandmother-jail-mistake
  • 18 U.S. Code § 3182 – Fugitives from State or Territory to State, District, or Territory https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3182
• 7:14 – New “vibe coded” AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/new-vibe-coded-ai-translation-tool-splits-the-video-game-preservation-community/?comments-page=1#comments
• 14:45 – Copyright Bullying vs. Religious Freedom | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/copyright-bullying-vs-religious-freedom-0

19:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Musi

• Court Dismisses Musi’s Apple Lawsuit, Sanctions Law Firm for “Baseless” Claims https://torrentfreak.com/court-dismisses-musis-apple-lawsuit-sanctions-law-firm-for-baseless-claims/

29:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Guardian

• Miliband reveals plans that could mean nuclear power plants built near homes https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/13/nuclear-power-generation-uk-deregulation-plans-ed-miliband

This Week’s Quote: “The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.” —James Lovelock

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:43 – AI Detection Pushed My Students to Use AI https://www.chronicle.com/article/ai-detection-pushed-my-students-to-use-ai
• 10:46 – Wyden Calls on Senate to Reform Mass Surveillance, Protect Americans’ Rights and Reject Rudd to lead NSA https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-calls-on-senate-to-reform-mass-surveillance-protect-americans-rights-and-reject-rudd-to-lead-nsa
  • S.55: Read the Bills Act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s55/text

21:51 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Trump Administration

• The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Unlawful Tariffs. Now It Says It Can’t. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/09/the-government-told-courts-it-could-easily-refund-unlawful-tariffs-now-it-says-it-cant/

27:40 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Josh Hawley

• Don’t Ban Kids From Using Chatbots https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/12/dont-ban-kids-from-using-chatbots/

This Week’s Quote: “The more children learn about sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.” —Benjamin Spock

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:43 – On the unfortunate need for an “age verification” API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-March/043510.html
  • On the unfortunate need for an “age verification” API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-March/043525.html
  • MidnightBSD Excludes California from Desktop Use Due to Digital Age Assurance Act https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-excludes-california-digital-age-assurance-act/
• 10:46 – Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/anthropic-ai-tool-claude-central-113547604.html
  • Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
  • Sam Altman on X https://x.com/sama/status/2028640354912923739
  • Altman said no to military AI – then signed Pentagon deal https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/openai_dod_deal/
• 17:30 – Jireh Lim pokes fun at copyright notice he received for singing own song ‘Buko’ https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/other/jireh-lim-pokes-fun-at-copyright-notice-he-received-for-singing-own-song-buko/ar-AA1WXbs6

21:25 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Anti-AI activists

• ToonHive on X https://x.com/ToonHive/status/2028902702332203243

26:28 – Idiot Extraordinaire: US Postal Service

• The Postal Service Is Running Out of Money Again. Imagine That. https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/03/05/the-postal-service-is-running-out-of-money-again-imagine-that-n4950307

This Week’s Quote: “The present expensive, dilatory and exclusive system of mails is a great national nuisance—commercially, morally, and socially. Its immense patronage and power, used, as they always will be, corruptly, make it also a very great political evil.” —Lysander Spooner

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:43 – Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides for National Security https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ensures-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides-for-national-security/
  • Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/promoting-the-national-defense-by-ensuring-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides/
• 4:56 – Reply to Response to Motion – #44 in Pitts v. United States (N.D. Ga., 1:26-cv-00809) https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72267501/44/pitts-v-united-states/
• 12:51 – Google Invokes First Amendment to Shield Gmail Users from Piracy Subpoena https://torrentfreak.com/google-invokes-first-amendment-to-shield-gmail-users-from-piracy-subpoena/

18:07 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: RFK Jr./Anti-Vaccers

• As Measles Cases Pass 1,000 for the Year, Experts Urge Vaccination https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/generalpediatrics/120027
• Measles Cases and Outbreaks | Measles (Rubeola) | CDC https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

23:20 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Persona

• Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/

This Week’s Quote: “Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.” —H.L. Mencken

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:43 – Before We Blame AI For Suicide, We Should Admit How Little We Know About Suicide https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/before-we-blame-ai-for-suicide-we-should-admit-how-little-we-know-about-suicide/
• Prediction of suicidal behavior in high risk psychiatric patients using an assessment of acute suicidal state: The suicide crisis inventory https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27712028/
• Predictive validity and symptom configuration of proposed diagnostic criteria for the Suicide Crisis Syndrome: A replication study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395622005702
• 7:12 – Trump said tariffs would reduce the trade deficit. It hit a record high in 2025. https://reason.com/2026/02/19/trump-said-tariffs-would-reduce-the-trade-deficit-instead-it-hit-a-record-high-in-2025/
• 11:14 – NSA and IETF, part 5: One battle after another. #pqcrypto #hybrids #nsa #ietf #lastcall https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260219-obaa.html

20:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: California

• Tesla Takes Corrective Action to Avoid DMV Suspension – California DMV https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-and-media/tesla-takes-corrective-action-to-avoid-dmv-suspension/
• Now We Know Why Tesla Killed Autopilot https://insideevs.com/news/787656/tesla-autopilot-california-dmv-marketing/

25:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Democrats

• Democrats revive a once-taboo idea: Capping grocery prices https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrats-revive-once-taboo-idea-145715732.html

This Week’s Quote: “Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices—that’s not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.” —Walter E. Williams

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:43 – Study: Domestic sows sped Fukushima hybrid spread https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/amorous_radioactive_hybrid_terror_pig_mums/
• 6:05 – Anna’s Archive Quietly ‘Releases’ Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-quietly-releases-millions-of-spotify-tracks-despite-legal-pushback/
• 8:55 – Where did Luna 9 land on the moon? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-did-luna-9-land-on-the-moon/

13:15 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Discord

• Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally
• So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now? https://www.eff.org/pages/use-guide-navigating-age-assurance

19:35 – Idiot Extraordinaire: OpenAI

• OpenAI introduces ads…for the people! https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/10/openai_ads/
• Sam Altman on X https://x.com/sama/status/2019139174339928189
• Claude is a space to think https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-is-a-space-to-think

This Week’s Quote: “From any cross-section of ads, the general advertiser’s attitude would seem to be: if you are a lousy, smelly, idle, underprivileged and oversexed status-seeking neurotic moron, give me your money.” —Kenneth Bromfield

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