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Daily Grail@dailygrail.com · 6h ago

The Friday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Magic mushroom tradition discovered in Africa, two new Loch Ness Monster sightings, your personality might be written into your DNA more than we realized, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/09/news...

News Briefs 11-09-2026

PSA: If you’re time traveling this weekend, please avoid 1752. Thank you for your attention – now, here’s the Friday Grail news briefs! Quote of the Day Every item of the physical world has at bottom ...

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Daily Grail@dailygrail.com · yesterday

The Thursday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Scientists say the Tasmanian Tiger might walk the world again, the ancient civilization that built with seashells instead of stones, Jacques Vallee's lessons from a lifetime investigating UFOs, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/09/news...

News Briefs 10-09-2026

He’s now lying more than ever about 9/11, because he knows he probably was visiting Jeff’s island that day. Thanks to Fringe Quest. Quote of the Day: We are part of nature and therefore part of the my...

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Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fabulous Ice Age spear thrower handle carved in the form of an animal. Known as the ‘Creeping Hyena’ it was carved from mammoth ivory around 15,000 years ago. The shaft is missing, but the hook to propel the spear is still visible. From La Madeleine rock shelter, France. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows an Upper Paleolithic spear-thrower (also known as an atlatl) carved in the form of a crouching animal, viewed in profile with head to left. Its head and neck are extended forward, low to the ground, and its legs are tucked beneath its body. It has a long downward curved tail, the pointed lower end of which ends beneath the body at lower right, forming the hook against which the tail end of the spear rests. The shaft of the spear thrower is missing. The ivory is a warm beige colour and is cracked with age in places. The sculpture is mounted on a thin metal support in a museum display case. It was found in La Madeleine rock shelter, Tursac, Dordogne, France. I saw this spear thrower on display at the Pompidou Centre, on loan from the National Prehistory Museum in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac.
Daily Grail@dailygrail.com · 2d ago

In this whole 'AI solves 90-year-old maths problem in days, but who did it first?' controversy, I feel like this particular detail is not getting as much attention as it should.

Text from mathematician's letter that gives credit to humans for providing the idea for how to solve it: "The program this fits into was not started by us nor was it proposed by a Large Language Model. The credit for the basic idea of this program goes to Diego C´ordoba and Luis Mart´ınez-Zoroa, who for several years have been exploring the construction of forced blow ups. We took their work as a starting point, using Large Language Models to push their program to completion. Concretely, what Levent and I did was to take the C´ordoba and Mart´ınezZoroa program, which achieved blowup results with rough forcing, and, with a great deal of help from LLMs, push it to smooth forcing and to the incompressible Euler equations. The ideas making this line of attack possible are due to C´ordoba and Mart´ınez-Zoroa. Let me make plain what I have said to colleagues in private: in view of this body of work, I believe Luis Mart´ınez-Zoroa deserves a Fields Medal."
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3d ago

In case this wasn’t obvious, a core reason I talk about USAID and Elon Musk’s historically-hideous mass murdering actions all the time is because he must not be allowed to get away with it.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3d ago

The neat thing for Elon Musk about mass-murdering the global poor he’s convinced are out to get him: Since he’s doing it via the mechanism of killing USAID and not by personally shoving them into death camps, it’s thus just abstract enough that he’s bargaining he’ll be allowed to get away with it.

Daily Grail@dailygrail.com · 3d ago

Every time someone says something like "AI will change what it's like to be human" I just know that they've never sat in nature by a campfire because that is what it's like to be human and an LLM ain't gonna change shit on that front.

Daily Grail@dailygrail.com · 3d ago

The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! 'Monster web' of ocean currents set to collapse, the Pentagon seeks access to private UFO records, tomb of pharaoh's 'keeper of secrets' unearthed, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/09/news...

News Briefs 08-09-2026

Let’s go on a journey through the Solar System to start today’s Grail news briefs… Quote of the Day Every literary work is a collaboration between author and reader… The piece is fulfilled only at the...

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e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 3d ago

Good morning from Venice, where Alex Gibney's documentary film "MUSK" is premiering this afternoon! Select media has already seen the film under embargo, which lifts shortly after the screening begins, around 2 pm CET. Keep an eye out for those reviews, and I'll share more from the premiere.

Venice yesterday evening, with the fading evening sun illuminating spectacular buildings (it looks like it could be morning though)
amoeba@amoebadesign.bsky.social · 4d ago

All the elephant graveyard docs are pure Gold. Outstanding kicks to the balls for the cunting rogansphere stormtroopers and its bootlicking weasle tactics and his lichspittal trump ball gargling foot soldiers. I hope every trip is a bad one for them all for eternity x infinity squared.

Daily Grail@dailygrail.com · 4d ago

The Monday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! JD Vance is okay with starting the End Times, Maine Bigfoot turns out to be just a man in a costume, ancient sanctuary tracked the Sun and Moon before Stonehenge, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/09/news...

News Briefs 07-09-2026

Please click on all the relevant images to prove you’re human… Quote of the Day The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris

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Daily Grail@dailygrail.com · last wk.

The Friday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Harvard professor says we're not prepared for alien contact, solar storm caused a GPS glitch bad enough to crash self-driving cars, Bigfoot photo might just be an old man skinny-dipping, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/09/news...

News Briefs 04-09-2026

Crawling out of my sick bed to post the Friday news briefs – hope I didn’t hallucinate any of them… Quote of the Day When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses. Gloria Steinem

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Daily Grail@dailygrail.com · last wk.

The Thursday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Possible Jesus tomb matching Bible account found, scientists may have found first hint of dark matter, a small island in Canada disappears and reappears, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/09/news...

News Briefs 03-09-2026

Oh Lord, is it time for this song already?? Quote of the Day People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about A.I. Peter Thiel

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