2026-06-12
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Horseshit
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David Sinclair plans to test whole-body rejuvenation drugs in xPrize competition
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American capitalism is run by millionaires, not billionaires
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The first-ever reverse-aging drug was just injected into a human
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The "steroid Olympics" were a circus–and a window into our culture
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Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins
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Bona fide T. rex leather purse is going up for auction - and it could fetch $500K
offers on the first-ever handbag made with collagen from lab-grown Tyrannosaurus rex fossils, which were reportedly exhumed in the US...
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Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition
biological evolution uses a very similar trick to Arthur’s circuit simulation. By leveraging modularity at the genetic level, populations of organisms can increase the rate that useful genetic variants spread through the population, effectively increasing their rate of information acquisition. Sexual reproduction, along with other ways of sharing genetic material like horizontal gene transfer, is essentially a mechanism for doing this. We can show this with some simple simulations.
- Using illustrative simulations to increase understanding is fine; but they do not tell you anything that you dint put into them in the first place...
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Mapping Every Flock License Plate Reader Near US World Cup Stadiums
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Honeybees Repair Broken Pottery in Kintsugi-Inspired Sculptures
Roth’s substitution of honeycomb for gold feels especially resonant. Where traditional kintsugi depends on deliberate human repair, Kintsu-Bee relies on living architecture—structures that are functional, mathematical, and completely unpredictable. Honeycomb carries its own kind of value: it requires immense collective labor, biological precision, and time. What makes the work especially compelling is Roth’s surrender of control. The bees decide how much to build, where to build, and whether the repair succeeds at all.
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New York City Leaders Propose Building More Homes on Top of Libraries
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Humans prefer to walk anticlockwise, scientists find – but reason is unclear
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Sasquatch 'sightings' reignite fervour and scepticism about ape-like beast
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Man survives five days on deserted island eating two lemons and charcoal
Musk
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Tesla robotaxis stall as Musk's self-driving hype hits real-world traffic
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Musk Looks to an Army of Loyalists to Help Make Him a Trillionaire
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SpaceX IPO demand is approaching four times oversubscribed, source says
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SpaceX soon-to-be millionaires spend big on luxury homes, watches, private jets
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Elon Musk Is About to Make Saving for Retirement Even Harder
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on the eve of SpaceX's monster IPO, its CEO was hunkered down in his digital fiefdom stoking far-right culture wars with an impunity unmatched in modern corporate history.
- You'd think they'd recall all the hate they spewed against David Koch more fondly.
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Elon Musk under fire for stoking anti-immigrant riots in Belfast
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You Have No Idea What a Trillion Dollars Is–and We Have Proof
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Canadian Privacy Commissioner Findings on X.ai/Grok CSAM Deepfake Violations
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Microsoft's worst 'Nightmare' unleashes BitLocker bypass 0-day
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Microsoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis theyre causing
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"This cannot continue": Xbox leaders lay out "hard truths" behind sagging brand
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Passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
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Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day
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Valve will stop selling Steam gift cards at retailers over scam concerns
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Ooo the purity wars should be fun: Bluesky will launch Reddit style communities
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Right to Repair activist sues Samsung for not honouring warranty on a 4TB SSD
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
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Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Sabotage AI Researchers Using Claude
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Anthropic makes Fable 5's invisible safeguards visible after backlash
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AI researcher claims he's bypassed Anthropic's Fable 5 guardrails
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It blocked us at 'hello ' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts
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Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have 'Sabotaged' Researchers Using Claude
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OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating War for Users with Anthropic
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China-linked operatives used ChatGPT to influence data centers debate
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Palantir cofounder says CEOs are pretending layoffs are about 'AI productivity'
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Visa adds payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users
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AI Boom Stokes Inflation with Memory Chips at 'Insane' Prices
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Memory and personalization make AI more likely to tell you what you want to hear
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OpenAI says Chinese accounts tried to turn Americans against data centres
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Knowledge Collapse: AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics
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Have a Thorny Medical Question? Your Doctor May Be Using A.I. For That
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They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I
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Seattle has enacted one year moratorium on new AI datacenters.
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Once again players are right to suspect AI was used in a game
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I Was a V.C. Partner. We Can't Let Silicon Valley Buy Democracy
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Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500
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Satya Nadella is trying to rein in the tokenmaxxers at Microsoft
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Google DeepMind is worried about when agents start to interact
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Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
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Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
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Mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT encouraged daughter's suicide
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Anthropic vs. OpenAI: Behind the bitter battle for the future of AI
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Dealership revoked offer to buy back customer's BMW, blaming wayward AI chatbot
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Coinbase launches AI agent accounts that can trade and spend on your behalf
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OpenAI could go from AI pioneer to AI's BlackBerry, says Forrester
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Anthropic launches $150M Claude Corps nonprofit fellowship program
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AI Learned How the Universe Works and Created Unexpected Problems for Physicists
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Microsoft says Gen Z's AI backlash should be a wake-up call for Big Tech
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Fidelity Bets People Want Their 401(k)s to Look More Like Pensions
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Oracle's AI spending blows past estimates, raising worries over growing debt
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Kraft, McDonald's, Whirlpool CEOs all issue same dire warning about US consumers
"They're literally running out of money at the end of the month," Cahillane said in a recent interview. "We're seeing negative cash flows in the lower-income brackets where they're dipping into savings." The company behind brands like Heinz, Kraft and Philadelphia is now cutting prices on some products that had grown too expensive, increasing promotions and rolling out smaller package sizes at lower price points.
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Controversial oil lease sale in Alaska wildlife refuge draws limited interest
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Democrats
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ActBlue CEO Pleads the Fifth During House Panel Hearing
The House asked Wallace-Jones to testify after a recent New York Times report included memos from Covington & Burling, a law firm that worked for ActBlue, warning that she may have misled Congress about the process for screening overseas donations. Surrounded by attorneys, Wallace-Jones did not answer any questions posed during the hearing, citing the “attorney-client privilege and my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.” Wallace-Jones wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post that appeared on the day of her hearing, saying she would invoke her Fifth Amendment “rights against self-incrimination.” This is a proceeding designed to build an illegitimate criminal case against us. I cannot and will not let my words be misused in that way,” she opined.
Administrative Committee ranking member Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) said Republicans are ignoring alleged problems with WinRed. He accused the platform of victimizing elderly Americans.
- Where did Kamala's billions come from, where did they go?
Left Angst
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Feds will abruptly dismantle system monitoring climate change, oceans
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Experts struggle to understand new list of political jobs at science agencies
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All the "diversity and inclusion" stuff was totally apolitical, then? Or was that OK because it was unwritten rules?
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Teardown Confirms the Trump Phone Is a Gold-Painted HTC U24 Pro
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Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
- The time to object was 10 years ago
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War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now
On the evening of June 9, the USA, with what seems to be intent, attacked two reservoirs and a water treatment facility in southern Iran. Almost immediately afterwards, water was cut off to about 20,000 Iranian civilians who live around the southern Iranian town of Sirik. Why was this most likely a deliberate attack? Well, there seems to have been nothing nearby of military value and the destruction was precise.
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Canada and America Are Drifting Apart. The Pentagon Just Made It Official
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Scott Pelley Shows How Legacy Media Got It Wrong – and Bari Weiss Made It Worse
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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US Military Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clone Getting Hivemind Swarming Capability
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Multiple Pentagon floors locked down, evacuated due to 'hazmat incident'
Multiple floors and corridors inside the Pentagon have been locked down and others are being evacuated due to a “hazardous materials incident,” three sources familiar and the local fire department said. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed Thursday that systems within the Pentagon “have detected an air quality issue necessitating precautionary measures until we determine its significance.” “The Department is executing standard protection protocols, including a shelter-in-place order for the affected area,” Parnell said. “Response teams are in place and ready to support building occupants.” Floors two through five in corridors four through seven of the sprawling Pentagon complex have been locked down, two of the sources said. The third source told CNN that police in the building are wearing gas masks and full chemical protective gear.
World
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Canada introduces legislation to ban social media for children under 16
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Australia's Social Media Ban Is Floundering. Can It Still Help Younger Kids?
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Long-term fertiliser solutions needed to avoid EU food shortages
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South Korea fines e-commerce giant Coupang $400M over data breach
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Dutch government retracts plan to host VAT administration in US cloud
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Poland to jail online streamers of violent crimes and cruelty for up to 5 years
Iran / Houthi
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Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance
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US launches new strikes on 'multiple targets' in Iran, CENTCOM says
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‘Secret Mission’: Trump reveals 100M barrels of oil have cleared Strait of Hormuz.
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Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility
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Iran threatens Elon Musk's companies in Middle East: Iranian state media
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
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FDA OKs first new sunscreen ingredient in more than 25 years
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Why You Should Say ‘No’ to Being an Organ-Donor. From a priest and ex-paramedic.
In lay terms, Cardiac muscle goes so badly so quickly after the heart stops beating that transplant surgeons must find a way to anesthetize the patient so as to cut the heart out of that living body. It should be obvious that a dead body would not need anesthesia! But this sounds too creepy to exist without a cover. Harvard Medical invented the cover, “Brain Death” precisely so as to justify the harvesting of hearts from living people. The New England Journal of Medicine recently removed an article formerly found here where they admitted that transplant surgeons were cutting the hearts out of live patients. Their bioethical justification read word-for-word: “Many will object that transplantation surgeons cannot legally or ethically remove vital organs from patients before death, since doing so will cause their death. However, if the critiques of the current methods of diagnosing death are correct, then such actions are already taking place on a routine basis.” Let me translate that into lay terms: “Some people may think it’s wrong to cut organs out of living people, and they might be correct, but it’s irrelevant because they’re simply too late to protest, since we’ve already been doing it for quite a while.”
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RFK Jr. Pledges Research Into Epidemic of Tick-Borne Red Meat Allergies
Last week, I went to New Hampshire… to address this explosion of alpha-gal, and we take it very seriously. One of the epicenters is Martha’s Vineyard, where 50% of the adult population is now affected. It is really a devastating disease. You can’t eat red meat for the rest of your life. We are looking at medications that can serve as both prophylactics and also potentially cures for it.
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One died, one hospitalized from leptospirosis, Berkeley officials say
An outbreak of leptospirosis centered around a large encampment in North Berkeley has spread to at least two humans, killing one and hospitalizing the other, city officials announced Wednesday. The patients, who lived together in an RV about a mile from the homeless encampment at the intersection of Eighth and Harrison streets, represent the first known human cases of the disease in Berkeley in over a decade. The outbreak also seems to have spread far beyond the one-third-mile radius where health officials first warned Berkeleyans to take precautions in January following detection of the disease in rats and dogs in late 2025. The two people who are known to have contracted the illness were using their RV to trap, feed and breed wild rats, City Manager Paul Buddenhagen wrote in a memo to the City Council. Buddenhagen did not say where the two people lived or when one of them died. The city has not publicly identified the patients. Public health officials said the cases were confirmed in May. Leptospirosis infects about 1 million people a year globally, about 60,000 of whom die from it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, though human cases are rare in developed countries.
- "were using their RV to trap, feed and breed wild rats" ... why? I can't (legally) adopt a fawn if i find one; does CA allow people to farm wild game?
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Some US employers drop coverage of GLP-1 obesity drugs in 2027 as use increases
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First tablet version of weight-loss jabs to be available in UK in weeks
