2026-06-08
Horseshit
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The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA
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Lego launches 12,060-piece Sagrada Família – its biggest ever set
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(Feb 2026) How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time
This crowd-curated digital movement is one of the most pertinent and explicit reactions to our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism.
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Birth rates are declining in most of the world—here's why it really matters
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Manhole mystery grips New York – just what are city's 'mole people' up to?
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Most people are not going to be as economically viable as they are now as producers of goods or services, and many, if not most, are going to be economically viable only to the extent that they generate demand, and here I think specifically demand for pleasure. Drugs are important in this social equation. People will use many more drugs of increasing variety and quality. This train has left the station, or, rather, these trains have left their stations. You will not call them back.
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Anticonsumer Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it
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You Can and Should Blame Young People When They Act Like Lazy Cheaters, Actually
The deal is that much of Gen Z (and “Gen Alpha,” which is the dumbest generational name ever devised) uses “point of view,” or “POV,” to mean simply “look at this,” rather than “this image or video is shown from the point of view of X,” the traditional usage. Apparently it’s all over TikTok in particular - a video will be labeled “POV: an elephant,” and what you see is an elephant and not something seen from the perspective of an elephant. “POV: you rollerskated for the first time” but it’s just video of the TikTok user rollerskating rather than rollerskating from the perspective of the rollerskater. You get the idea. This usage is unhelpful and impractical, if you ask me, whether or not we want to call it incorrect! As is so often the case with imprecision in language, this behavior gets rid of a very useful construction and puts in its place something we already could say in many different ways. As with turning “literally” into an empty intensifier often applied to metaphorical use, the mass meta-sanctimony of the anti-grammarian set on this issue has left the English language weaker than it was and called it progressive. And now here the NYT trots out a linguist to tell you that you’re a reactionary for maybe preferring the more useful version.
The whole world of anti-grammar cop cops is its own thing and, like so much else of what passes for progressive these days, is vastly larger and more influential and more powerful than the target it mislabels hegemonic. (“I don’t care who knows it or what it costs me… language pedantry is irritating!” Truly, profile in courage.) The Times piece suggest that people insisting on a correct usage of language may be engaged in an effort to enforce “social power,” despite the fact that the anti-grammarians won in an absolute rout decades ago and obviously have more social power. It’s not hard to find a linguist who comes down forcefully on the side of “everything goes” in language; indeed, almost all of them do, and the NYT employs one of them as a columnist. That this attitude amounts to telling other people how to use language by saying that you can’t tell other people how to use language is a simple point that remains undiscussed. (Remember friends: every descriptivism is meta-linguistically prescriptivist.) It’s remarkable how there’s no right way to use language, but the people who want to use it the traditional way are inevitably wrong! It’s all a will to power, all of it.
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Tiny community of English master thatchers: fight unfolding over dying tradition
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers
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clown robot brutally kicks little boy in the stomach
- and retains its balance and regains stance
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Lexar says that RAM prices are expected to double by the end of the year
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The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
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The Wearable Showdown: OURA Ring 5 vs. Fitbit Air vs. Whoop MG vs. Apple Watch
- For people willing to pay even more to be monitored by large corporations. Those who feel their cellphone leaves them too much privacy.
TechSuck / Geek Bait
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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UFO files nod to growing belief in aliens and mistrust in institutions
UFO belief is not a religion in the traditional sense. There are no centralized leaders: no popes, no universally recognized doctrines, no sacred text and no institution capable of enforcing orthodoxy. Yet it increasingly performs many of the functions historically attributed to religion. It organizes communities of belief, creates narratives of revelation, offers cosmological meaning and establishes interpretive frameworks through which people understand mysterious experiences and humanity’s place in the universe.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Taste is you, alone, marking your own bloody homework. Which is exactly why it has never once stopped anyone doing the thing it is now being sold as the cure for. I have sat in the meeting where everyone round the table can see that the campaign is beneath us, can say out loud why it is cheap, and we ship it regardless, because the boss is carrying an AI mandate from upstairs, and stopping it was never taste's job. Taste tells you the slop is slop. It has not, in the entire history of the species, stopped a single person pressing send. The faculty that did the governing was shame, which is awkward, because shame is the emotion we have spent the last couple of decades training ourselves to disown.
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I'm a Philosophy Professor. Here's Why I'm Training AI to Replace Me
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Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
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School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm failed to spot weapon
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Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts
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Soulless summer fairs and cute puppies: AI poster slop taking over pubs near you
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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New York village to vote for mayor with a blank ballot
Christopher Vivona, the village's deputy clerk-treasurer, confirmed no one else registered to run. Vivona said June 16 will mark the first time he knows of that the village of approximately 7,000 people will go to the polls to vote for mayor with a blank ballot. Officials said the election will be decided by write-in votes.
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Ernst wants GAO to dig into four aspects of what appears to be a government-wide problem, including the extent to which “fraudsters share and learn fraud tactics on the internet or other electronic forums, such as mobile apps, including the extent to which the tips work to receive fraudulent funding.” In addition, Ernst wants GAO to determine “what advice is typically provided on these web forums, and how does this system of criminal information sharing work, generally,” and “to what extent do SBA or other relevant agencies monitor the dissemination of fraud-promoting information, such as websites or messaging groups.”
Trump
Left Angst
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‘It’s Not a Joke’: A ‘Simpsons’ Writer Holds His First Presidential Campaign Rally
At a small kickoff event in Los Angeles, Dan Greaney explained why he could no longer stand by and watch the demolition of American democracy.
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Bill Maher says artists quitting America 250 concert makes it look like Dems ‘don’t love America.’
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at '60 Minutes'
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Trump doesn't rule out giving Jan. 6 rioters who attacked police payouts
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Pete Hegseth's D-Day speech on immigration condemned as 'grotesque stupidity'
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Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by DOGE
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David Lammy told JD Vance ‘you’re wrong’ after Henry Nowak case intervention
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight
The alleged perpetrator — Paul Crisp of Catlettsburg, according to WSAZ(TV)’s reporting — had severed the main transmission line leading up to the broadcast tower of 93.7 WDGG(FM), a 100,000-watt country-formatted FM station licensed to Ashland, Ky., which goes by the moniker “The Dawg.” Kirtner isn’t sure how the suspect is still alive.
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FBI fires several analysts tied to disputed ‘Catholic ideology’ memo.
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Fake Degrees Put H-1B Fraud Claims Back In Spotlight
The Fox segment said nearly 7 million H-1B-related filings have been processed since 2015, with about 70% tied to India and 12% tied to China. It also highlighted Newsweek’s report on former U.S. diplomat Mahvash Siddiqui, who alleged that 80% to 90% of H-1B applications from India she reviewed involved fraudulent documentation or unqualified applicants. That fraud claim reflects Siddiqui’s account of consular work from 2005 to 2007, not a current official finding covering all Indian H-1B applications. The segment also revived scrutiny of fake-degree scandals in India, including Manav Bharti University, which has been linked in prior reporting to the alleged sale of more than 36,000 fake degrees.
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Navy sailor, 25, is arrested for twisted ISIS plot to wreak mass havoc
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Why Nigeria's stock market is falling – and when analysts expect a rebound
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Europe raised me to fail and here is why
our environment sets the size of what you think is possible. Grow up somewhere cautious and you inherit a small ceiling without choosing it. A few weeks in the US, around people who think bigger and move faster, changed what I believed I was allowed to want. If you're young and serious about building something, go to the US, even for a month. Reading about this mindset does nothing. Standing in it changes you.
None of this means the US is paradise or that Europe isn't worth loving. Europe is beautiful, and in a lot of ways a better place to actually live. I'm talking strictly about business and mindset here, the environment for building something young and ambitious. Those are two different questions, and it's worth keeping them separate.
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Government to buy AI chips to stop tech companies fleeing Britain
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Finland Tests Early-Warning System Detecting Threats to Subsea Cables
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The dark side of Japanese convenience stores
What’s not to like? Quite a lot, actually. Full disclosure: I hate konbini; they are soulless, “non-places” (to reference Marc Auge’s theory of locations devoid of any identity or cultural resonance). Yes, you can buy sea urchin-flavoured potato chips and pay your water and sewage bill but no joy, pleasure, or anything resembling a genuine human emotion appears capable of survival inside a konbini. This was brought home to me on one of my very first days in Japan, when I foolishly attempted to practice my Japanese with a woman stacking shelves. She looked up in alarm and fled to the stockroom. Chatting to shop staff in Japan is tricky at the best of times, but in a konbini, unthinkable.
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French billionaire seeks law change to leave fortune to charity
Pierre-Edouard Sterin, founder of Smartbox and worth about €1.4 billion, told French senators he wants to disinherit his five children and donate everything to charity. French law, under the Napoleonic Code, mandates that with five children, three-quarters of his estate must go to them, leaving only one quarter freely disposable. Sterin argued for complete freedom to decide the fate of one’s assets, saying it is ‘a real freedom to start with nothing in life’.
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India told millions to get degrees. Now even peon jobs are out of reach
Iran / Houthi
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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The Grad Student Who Broke Microplastics Research
Just as she was about to call it quits, she had a eureka moment. Everyone wears nitrile or latex gloves while handling samples. Including herself. Standard lab practice. Nobody had checked whether the gloves themselves were shedding microplastics into the samples. The contaminant from the gloves turned out to be stearate — a slippery coating manufacturers use so the gloves don't stick to the molds during production. Stearate has a fingerprint similar enough to polyethylene — the most common plastic — that the vibrational spectroscopy was confidently calling it polyethylene by mistake. It turns out we should have caught this earlier. Six years before Madeline's paper, in 2020, a group at the German Federal Institute of Hydrology published essentially the same warning
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Scientists Discover Hidden Symmetry on Earth That Nobody Can Explain
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Toxic pollutant from car tires reaching San Francisco Bay, scientists say
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Desalinated ocean water gets one step closer to helping Arizona with drought
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A newly discovered organelle could help reduce cow methane emissions